Aston Villa 1 Knuckledraggers crawl back under their stones 0 Post match thread.

[Grande Pablo]

2nd hald tempo was excellent.  Blues to be fair are a decent side who could make the play offs.  Need to build on this with the right selection on Saturday.

[Archie]

Woeful first and good second half, obviously they are a small team, but in this period we can be content with this, and I am!

[four fornicholl]

stop your messing around
better think of the VILLA
time you scored us a goal
creating problems in town
RUDY a message to you RUDY

[Monty]

Just saw the replay of the Gestede header. For all his faults, and he has a few, he can definitely head the thing into the fucking goal.

[LeeS]

Love Jack's reaction to the goal. Celebrates like a proper fan

[olaftab]

Well good second half and a well deserved win. Ayew was real eye opener...now we saw what he is capable of. Good decision on subs as he took off the two most useless players and on came the two who changed the game. Clark not a midfielder but much better than Lescott at CB. Also impressed with Veretout when he made some runs but poor passing let him down.

[olaftab]

Love Jack's reaction to the goal. Celebrates like a proper fan

As he did at the end as well.

[KevinGage]

Veretout was disappointing. A bit one paced and always seems to opt for the backward pass, even if there are better options going forward.

Might be better for getting the game under his belt, but he didn't look head and shoulders above a championship team.

Most of our lot didn't in fact, save for Grealish. Who looked like just about the only footballer out there.

Credit to TS for not facking about at halftime when it clearly wasn't working. It looked all set up for another horrorshow.

[AlexAlexCropley]

You put a cross like that over and Rudy will score. No   doubt.Grealish is sublime, if he can add goals then I think we're looking at a George Best.

[silhillvilla]

Well done lads , Grealish superb as was Ayew lets hope he can kick on now.
Thought small heath played at their max and well but we weathered it and bossed the back 45 mins.

[PaulWinch again]

Veretout was disappointing. A bit one paced and always seems to opt for the backward pass, even if there are better options going forward.

Might be better for getting the game under his belt, but he didn't look head and shoulders above a championship team.

Most of our lot didn't in fact, save for Grealish. Who looked like just about the only footballer out there.

Credit to TS for not facking about at halftime when it clearly wasn't working. It looked all set up for another horrorshow.

Veretout like Ayew needs to be given a chance, he's barely played any minutes. The fact he was looking for backwards passes says it all, it doesn't sound like he was that type of player in France at all.

[letsshakehands]

We really were dreadful first half, but credit where it's due the subs were the right ones. Ayew was a gamble admittedly on form thus far, but that was exactly what Tim was looking for when he brought him on against Leicester. Jack, just a wonderful, wonderful footballer. It is still early days, but I really think the lad can truly do whatever he wants in the game. He's got no outlandish pace but the way he went past their right back twice as if he wasn't there was just great to watch. I thought Sinclair did very well too, while he clearly wants to be a forward he seemed to do the job asked of him tracking back, and finally Veretout, second half I thought he really showed Westwood how to do his job, showed for the ball, moved it quickly and kept his head when under pressure. Still a way to go, but positives to be had.

[jwarry]

Listening to Rowett got to say I quite like him. Far too good for that bunch of *#*}*}*

[silhillvilla]

Listening to Rowett got to say I quite like him. Far too good for that bunch of *#*}*}*

Agree (he is one of us remember )

[phantom limb]

I was impressed with Ayew for the first time, he was very aggressive and seemed to understand what was at stake. He showed up their bunch of cloggers for what they are and was unlucky not to score.