Just my thoughts. I think with Kozak champing at the bit and Ayew nowhere to go but get better and infinitely better attacking play than last year our goalscoring looks okay to me. The curse the team as a whole is carrying is defensive dopeyness and a complete no show of the winning mentality the manager promised us.
Quote from: brian green on September 16, 2015, 05:51:17 PMJust my thoughts. I think with Kozak champing at the bit and Ayew nowhere to go but get better and infinitely better attacking play than last year our goalscoring looks okay to me. The curse the team as a whole is carrying is defensive dopeyness and a complete no show of the winning mentality the manager promised us.The answer is a nasty, irritating, snidey b****** in midfield. It has always been the answer. You only have to look at the teams outside the usual top 6 or 7 an ask yourself why are they doing well when they do not have good players. The problem with Villa is that we have never really gone down this route.
Quote from: old man villa fan on September 17, 2015, 01:48:51 PMQuote from: brian green on September 16, 2015, 05:51:17 PMJust my thoughts. I think with Kozak champing at the bit and Ayew nowhere to go but get better and infinitely better attacking play than last year our goalscoring looks okay to me. The curse the team as a whole is carrying is defensive dopeyness and a complete no show of the winning mentality the manager promised us.The answer is a nasty, irritating, snidey b****** in midfield. It has always been the answer. You only have to look at the teams outside the usual top 6 or 7 an ask yourself why are they doing well when they do not have good players. The problem with Villa is that we have never really gone down this route.Agreed - Neale Cooper springs to mind but that was 30 years ago. I can't remember fans of other teams saying that they feared player X at Villa because he was a dirty sod. Just remembered, Allan Evans had a temper on him in his earlier days too.I have been saying for a while we are a physically small team - Westwood, Delph, Cleverley, Grealish, Gil and even Gana all seem physically smaller than the majority of midfielders, Sanchez being the exception. In contrast, players like Medinak at Palace seem like giants.
Quote from: old man villa fan on September 17, 2015, 01:48:51 PMQuote from: brian green on September 16, 2015, 05:51:17 PMJust my thoughts. I think with Kozak champing at the bit and Ayew nowhere to go but get better and infinitely better attacking play than last year our goalscoring looks okay to me. The curse the team as a whole is carrying is defensive dopeyness and a complete no show of the winning mentality the manager promised us.The answer is a nasty, irritating, snidey b****** in midfield. It has always been the answer. You only have to look at the teams outside the usual top 6 or 7 an ask yourself why are they doing well when they do not have good players. The problem with Villa is that we have never really gone down this route.Not necessarily disagreeing but who would be that person in Swansea/Southampton/Palaces's teams? Them being the clubs which I think are over achieving.
The Villa squad is full of goals. The problem is staring us in the face in neon letters ten feet high. We are making too many stupid defensive mistakes and giving away too many soft goals. We need a good goalkeeper ten times more than we need Austin or Adebayor. When we have got a goalkeeper of Premiership standard we need a right back.
A new keeper and RB would certainly improve things but that's perhaps a little unfair on Hutton, who hasn't done much wrong.