Aston Villa vs. West Brom Post-Debacle Thread

[myf]

The ultimate small time mentality.

is that actually been sent by the WBA official football club ?

Jesus. I know some of their fans are obsessed buy that takes the biscuit

[kippaxvilla2]

I've got an idea.  Why not bring Rednapp in to support Sherwood and actually show him how to manage.

[in exile]

The ultimate small time mentality.

is that actually been sent by the WBA official football club ?

Jesus. I know some of their fans are obsessed buy that takes the biscuit

Be honest, can you fucking blame them?

[kippaxvilla2]

They're going to take the piss aren't they.  Blues will bring a DVD out if they beat us.

[Villafirst]

When fit, bring in Okore for Hutton, Gana for Sanchez, even Clark for Westwood who isn't physical enough. Adama also is essential in the line-up. Surely that would make a difference?

[CT Villan]

Well at least we took the game to them like Sherwood said we would...

[TonyD]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

Brains.

Tactics.

Bubbles.

[Tayls_7]

So so much to criticise. We were utterly impotent. You can't win games when you can't score goals. Grealish is over rated. Doesn't get involved enough. He isn't good enough to swan around thinking he's Zidane - he ain't. Gil was a far more willing and effective performer. As for Gestede, Christ he's useless. Worst striker in a Villa shirt since the last time Ayew played. With his glaring lack of ability I'm expecting nothing more of Gestede than to prove a nuisance in the 18 yard box. He was awful at that. Worried now and another Saturday ruined.

[KRS]

Shit. That is all.

[Proposition Joe]

Is it too early to say BIG SAM?

I don't know.  The last few years has worn me down so much, I don't even think it is the manager or players any more.  It's the club.  We are like Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men.  We are an old, tired club in what is now a young man's game.  We've been more or less an irrelevance for the last couple of decades.  We don't have the energy or the will to even try and compete any more.

As for this season, it seems it's all going to rest on Traore, and if he's the real deal, and if he avoids getting another knock.  One month out for getting kicked?  This being the Prem, he might only 5-10 games this season.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

They're going to take the piss aren't they.  Blues will bring a DVD out if they beat us.

So they should. Their squad cost less than £1.5m.

[Percy McCarthy]

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.

Where would Traore play?

[Toronto Villa]

what have west ham got that we don't

Confidence.

Brains.

Tactics.

Bubbles.

A World Cup trophy and the finest academy in the whole wide Galaxy.

[Proposition Joe]

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

What seems to happen is whenever the ball hits a player in space, said player dithers and waits until he's marked.  Then the ball goes, to quote Bill Hicks, back and to the side; back and to the side.

That could well be down to lack of options the player has.  But we have also sorely lacked any footballing brains for a long time.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

When fit, bring in Okore for Hutton, Gana for Sanchez, even Clark for Westwood who isn't physical enough. Adama also is essential in the line-up. Surely that would make a difference?

this time next year we will be millionaires lol