Aston Villa vs. West Brom Post-Debacle Thread

[Legion]

As far as I know he can't sign until January as he wasn't a free agent before the summer window closed.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[pauliewalnuts]

The slow thing is a good point. That's how we looked today, didn't have any urgency anywhere.

I'm also wondering about our fitness levels. We seem to combine bad injury problems with players who never really look in their best shape.

[ChicagoLion]

We have been a backwards and sideways passing team for a long, long time.

But, over the last few weeks,  as a team, we seem to be getting slower and slower.
We take an age to get the ball forward, and seem very happy to play sideways and backwards.
So, it's piss easy to defend against as there is no pace or directness to deal with and the defenders rarely get turned.
It was a piece of piss for the Boggies to defend today, an absolute breeze.

It's all to easy to blame Wilkins influence, But I'm not so sure.

Where the fuck has our pace gone.

i think it is because there is no movement ahead of the midfield so we can not attack with any urgency

[rougegorge]

Apart from Man U we haven't played anyone of note and today's performance was reminiscent of the last 4 seasons. Different players same story. The midfield was so pedestrian. Grealish Sanchez and Westwood especially.  I reckon the only reason Bacuna came on was to take a potential free kick which he did ineffectively.
The less said about Amavi's defending the better.

[four fornicholl]

what have west ham got that we don't

[Rigadon]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

[SoccerHQ]

Don't understand why we've ditched the 4-3-2-1 from last season because Southampton and Arsenal spanked us.

I never like playing with wide players, I think unless they're amazing it's an obsolete tactic in football now as sides can just mark them out of the game and outnumber you in the centre. At least back in the MON days we had good wide players playing for us but even then it had it's limitations.

That and I'm never convinced we can control and dominate games playing just two in central midfield, we need 3 in there as a minimum so we need to get Gueye fit, Traore fit and also give Veretout some starts now and work from there.

[pauliewalnuts]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

Brains.

[Legion]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

Brains.

Tactics.

[AV82EC]

The whole thing, manager and team was a stinking pile of putrid shite today!

Someone else said earlier when is this going to end? Our appalling home form can be traced back to when the roadworks started between Cannock and Stafford on the M6 and until they finish this torture will continue. In the light of any other explanation for 20 wins in 4 seasons that's what I'm going with....

[pauliewalnuts]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

Brains.

Tactics.

A clue.

[claret and blue blood]

Got home with an air of resignation to the fact that we have lost our status as a big club.It's just embarrassing every home game ,I think we ' ve won 17 games in 4 and a bit years, interspersed with regular embarrassing home defeats to lower league clubs.If the next lower league club wins at Villa Park on Tuesday that will just about complete our humiliation.
Sherwood is NOT up to the job, and our owner has all but washed his hands of running the club so I think this out of all the last 6 seasons is where we will fall.
I really do hope I'm wrong but I think we'll be in deep shit by Christmas and they'll leave it too late to get a decent experienced manager in,other clubs are far more brutal in their appraisal of lame duck managers .

[ChicagoLion]

what have west ham got that we don't

a decent manager, a centre forward.

[kippaxvilla2]

Adebayor still cannot come in until January anyway

[CJ]

Heard an interesting factlet on the way home - we started with only 3 new players from last year's squad (Richards, Lescott, Amavi), so maybe no huge surprise that we're still heading for a relegation scrap, and worrying that with that squad we beat the Bitters