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

[Hoppo]

I was sat in c1 lower trinity. Ayew was terrorising their full back. He turned him inside out. He went past him numerous times and put some great balls across.

[Matt Collins]

We do have gifted creative players - Gil and Adama weren't even playing. We need to find a way to support them though. At the moment i think we have to play three in midfield cos we keep getting over run when we don't. That means we can only play two out of grealish, Gil, Adama and Sinclair at the moment. And someone needs to fill the no 9 role much better than they've done to date.

It was a great header from gestede and he clearly improved after the goal. But up until then it was like watching a drunk giraffe. He wasn't bad he was hopeless.

[Archie]

It was a great header from gestede and he clearly improved after the goal. But up until then it was like watching a drunk giraffe. He wasn't bad he was hopeless.

 

[martin o`who??]

Well, that shut the tossers up for a year or two - enjoy!!!.........

[martin o`who??]

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.

If we could just bring him on for corners and free-kicks and take him off again - great!!...

[frank black]

Our game management in the last 10 mins was first class. Tim and co have finally twigged.

[Damo70]

There looked more than 34k there I thought.

Only 4K Villa with 30K from Druids Heath and surroundings.

I said to my son I reckoned it was more than 34,000. I think we reopened Deadly Doug's nudge nudge wink wink, you ain't seen me turnstile again for the night. From my view in the lower North stand there seemed to be a lot of Villa songs and goal/full time celebrations from the Holte considering it was supposed to be full of noses.

[Chris Smith]

That second half gives us some cause for optimism I think. To give Sherwood the benefit of the doubt having a fresh Grealish and Ayew to torment them did the trick. They look a tidy, well organised team but once we upped it they struggled and we perhaps should have been further in front.

[ciggiesnbeer]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34332646

All a bit weird.

""I actually knew their team [on Monday] funnily enough," said Rowett, who saw his side beaten 1-0 by Rudy Gestede's second goal of the season.
"That often happens - you often get a little tip-off. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're not."
Villa manager Tim Sherwood said he was unfazed by Rowett's "strange" claim.

Utterly bizzarre. Why claim you had an unfair advantage after err, you lose?

Here is a tip Mr. Rowett. As a manager when you talk shite after a game the idea is to make yourself and your team look better not worse.

[Stu]

1-0 flattered them in the end. If we're counting missed opportunities like they are, then Villa were a couple of misplaced touches away from handing out a 3 or 4-nil hiding.

[Proposition Joe]

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

About the one-paced thing, right at the end he showed a turn of pace that I didn't know he had when he burned off their defender and took the ball into the corner on the right side.

[The Edge]

Well first half was awful, much better second half.

Veretout, Ayew, Grealish (what was he doing on the bench in the first half) all to start surely at Anfield.?

Still not convinced we'll be winning many games at premier league level with the personnel we have in key areas but maybe a point at Anfield if we defend well.

Surely Gabby is finished as a starter now. Not before time.

After the impact Jack had 2nd half(an I know it was only small heath) I'd be tempted to use him as an impact player for now.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd rather use his "impact" for the whole game.

[peter w]

Well the game's done and we've said everything that needs to be said. But more importantly did everybody get home safely? I was burning a candle in the glow of the moonlight for our fallen heroes; cut down in their prime by the vicious derring do of the mighty Bordesley Army. They showed The Holte on the TV and it looked awash with their hordes. must have been truly frightening.

[john e]

Maybe it was just me but I thought Gabby was ok first half. Not great but not as bad as he has been or some of the others were first half. I think of a combination of the yellow and the knock he took are the main reasons he was subbed.

Pheew, glad you wrote that, I thought I was going mad
The match thread is so predictable re Gabby , Guzan etc same old stuff written no matter how they play

For the record I don't reckon there is anyone on here been more critical of Gabby over the years than me, I was lukewarm when he was scoring hatricks, I have never rated him highly, ever

But last night he wasn't all that bad,
 I was on the half line in the Doug stand Lower and saw most of his work at close quarters, and boy did he putt a shift in, baring in mind we were utter shit in that half he was our only decent  player I thought

Also on the night IMO-

Gestede truly awful first half performance, no control or first touch, slow lumbering and total ineffective, obviously improved in the second and got the winner, but if we are relying on him for the goals this season we will struggle

Veretout, not impressed, slow gave the ball away, looked lightweight to me

Ayew, at last, we saw the player we thought we'd bought

Grealish, 2015s George Best , well maybe not quite but brilliant, makes everything look so easy

Lescott, not as good as Clark, good back up CH for me

Richards, proper CH great leader, shades of Laursen

Lee Hendry was in the box behind us, overlooking the Blues fans, celebrating like fuck with us when we scored and at the end of the match, top lad

Never saw one Blues fan all night only in the ground, those coaches do there work don't they