Aston Villa vs. West Brom Post-Debacle Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Gestede looks fucking hopeless at the moment.

[mr underhill]

alarming; are there any other sides  who have changed manager , team, formation, tactics and still ended up in the same place?

[TonyD]

I can't think of any other profession where you can make such blaring bad judgments and still get employed.  If I were Randy I would sack him purely for the subs, they are beyond belief.

[Toronto Villa]

The continued absence of Kozak will be discussed in one of those late night BBC 2 documentaries. They'll have interviews from waitresses and shopkeepers and taxi drivers and nobody will be able to explain his whereabouts.

[taylorsworkrate]

Anyone who tries to find positives in that pile of cunting ****** fucking shit can respectfully fuck the fuck off

[ChicagoLion]

There is massive cause for concern, we have no cutting edge and the "where are the goals going to come from " question can not be answered, it aint Gabby or Gestede.

[Risso]

- Westwood was terrible today. He is so lightweight, never wins the ball and the set pieces are terrible. Why not try a "normal" corner once in a while?

I really think if you put a pint in front of me, and i started drinking it when Westwood starts his run up for a corner, I could down the lot before the ball makes contact with anyone, he floats them in so fucking pointlessly.

I reckon you could put said pint in the area, and it would stand as much chance of scoring from a Westwood corner as any Villa player.

[villadelph]

What does Kozak have to do to get into this toothless team?

Be remotely any good?

That he isn't even on the bench tells you he is shit / not recoverd from a horrible injury.

Looked better than anyone else in preseason, no?

[Legion]

From the BBC: "It's actually quite impressive that Villa haven't been relegated despite being consistently awful in the last four or five years."

[Risso]

We sell Benteke, spend £40M+ and yet don't have a decent striker in the squad.  What the hell?

[villa for life]

All to do with a misallocation of resources.

When we signed Delph, we were on the verge of greatness. Instead, 8 mill of talent spent the next period on the bench. He did become a good player but it took time.... horses for courses....Had we invested in the first team, we could have progressed...onto amazing heights...champions league

Look at today, Gestede, Veretout and Ayew... so much investment, so little impact. Put that money into one player who can make a difference every week and we win the majority of matches...and push on...

but we don't...

great clubs with unlimited resources concentrate on improving the bench... we need to and should have focused on the starting 11.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I do not think we can play Gill and Grealish together in a 4-4-2 formation as it leaves us too lightweight.

Well we certainly can't play the two if we're going to hoof the ball forward to Gabby or Gestede all day. What is the point? We have two exceptionally talented players, we have Sinclair that has an eye for goal, we have Gabby that can run at defences and what do we do - hoof it.

Once again we played to the opposition's strengths and our own weaknesses. I'd love to know how Sherwood ever thought we'd would score today. We have a more than decent squad, we have some wonderfully technical players, what we don't have is a plan.

[Ian.]

We seem to have a good scouting network now but a manager who has no idea what to do with the players we bought.

[villadelph]

All to do with a misallocation of resources.

When we signed Delph, we were on the verge of greatness. Instead, 8 mill of talent spent the next period on the bench. He did become a good player but it took time.... horses for courses....Had we invested in the first team, we could have progressed...onto amazing heights...champions league

Look at today, Gestede, Veretout and Ayew... so much investment, so little impact. Put that money into one player who can make a difference every week and we win the majority of matches...and push on...

but we don't...

great clubs with unlimited resources concentrate on improving the bench... we need to and should have focused on the starting 11.

I think we did focus on the starting eleven to an extent.. it just seems like we had some bad business with Ayew and Rudy. I hope the prove me wrong but they don't exactly set the world alight do they?

[Percy McCarthy]

- Westwood was terrible today. He is so lightweight, never wins the ball and the set pieces are terrible. Why not try a "normal" corner once in a while?

I really think if you put a pint in front of me, and i started drinking it when Westwood starts his run up for a corner, I could down the lot before the ball makes contact with anyone, he floats them in so fucking pointlessly.

I reckon you could put said pint in the area, and it would stand as much chance of scoring from a Westwood corner as any Villa player.

Anyone else recall Grealish's corners against Everton last year? Tim?