Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion - Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

Their keeper has had the easiest 45 he'll probably have this season.

[taylorsworkrate]

Depressing pile of shit. Albion are an abysmal team and they have been better than us. Fucking pathetic

[Monty]

We look bad in the most dangerous way - the always-lose-never-win way. We have a decent keeper (despite the recent criticism he's undoubtedly a decent keeper), a defence which, on paper, looks fine, perfectly acceptable footballers in midfield, variety and excitement in attacking midfield and a problem up front. However, despite how promising we look, the same thing happens every week - we either lose or don't win. It's very dangerous to just look like you're going to lose every game.

[villadelph]

five years of unadulterated mediocrity

I crave mediocrity

Would trade a leg to be mediocre.

[russon]

" Villa have offered nothing in front of goal against a well drilled Pulis side" was the radio 5 halftime summary. Difficult to argue with that.

[SamTheMouse]

We've had at least two decent chances that I can think of.

Still another half to play yet, and we're far from being overwhelmed here.

To be fair, my stream is absolutely dire, so I may have missed some of our better passages of play.

[QuintonVilla]

We are absolute garbage, all we've done is lamp it up to Gabby. We're so slow and pedestrian, we play with no tempo what so ever.

[Toronto Villa]

I suppose we could be Newcastle and have McLaren as manager

*clutches desperately at straws

[mrfuse]

We are thoroughly shit aren't we

Well, no. I don't think we are. This is a pretty close game I think, and we've been playing some decent stuff and have conceded a pretty unfortunate goal.

Our record is shit, but we're currently doing OK.

I agree, having to make all the changes we have its no surprise that were not quite up to scratch.

But there are signs that we can get there and football is way better than it was under Lambert, which I know isint that hard.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's nice that occasionally we can pass it around a little bit and what not, but I am sick to the tits of losing matches. It's just nowhere near good enough, and hasn't been for several years.

They're now going to park the fucking bus for 45 minutes and render the second half entirely predictable.

Sherwood needs to start producing something to back up the all the talking he does, because this is just shit week after week.

[Jimbo]

five years of unadulterated mediocrity

I crave mediocrity

Quite. This word gets bandied around quite a lot in regard to us, but it's completely inappropriate. We've been shit, not mediocre. We can only dream of mediocrity at the moment.

[citizenDJ]

Sadly this game shows why Pulis is a far better manager than Sherwood.  They look organised with a proper plan.  We look a disorganised rabble.

I don't think we look disorganised at all. Quite the opposite, really. The second half last week against Leicester was disorganised.

[oldham_villa]

I'm not so sure they will even need to park the bus. Desperately poor by Villa going forward.

Terribly unlucky deflection for the goal, but wtf is Amavi doing shitting out of a tackle?

something has to change for us up front. For me, it would have to be Gestede (who hasn't impressed me up to now) instead of Agbonlahor

[richard moore]

We are thoroughly shit aren't we

Yep, and have been for years now. Our inability to sign a proper striker will see us in the relegation zone for the rest of the season.

[Goldie.7]

Looking at the subs, I don't see anyone who can come on and change this game either.