Aston Villa v Swansea - Pre Match Thread..."Oh, the humanity"

[Clampy]

Grealish takes a decent corner and I'm surprised Amavi hasn't taken one yet.

[Toronto Villa]

I think it will be draw, 1-1 and the last act of Sherwood. He can celebrate the equalizer, run down the touch line, slide on his knees straight into the black hole of unemployment that awaits him.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I've pinged Tom Fox an email asking westwood to be taken off corners. Let's see if it works.

Wasn't it Gil who was on corner duty against Chelsea?

Westwood and Jack took at least one each.
They were all shite.

[manic-road]

Lose 0-1 to a late goal.

[silhillvilla]

It would be nice for once if MOTD wasn't off limits this weekend.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Grealish takes a decent corner and I'm surprised Amavi hasn't taken one yet.

Amavi is used to cover any counter attack that may come from corners. I guess it's down to his speed.

[Monty]

Grealish takes a decent corner and I'm surprised Amavi hasn't taken one yet.

Amavi is used to cover any counter attack that may come from corners. I guess it's down to his speed.

And he has good timing in the tackle. I think Jack and Gil should be on corners.

[silhillvilla]

It would be nice anyone who could take the odd moody corner instead of this apologetic floaty bollocks we've had to endure for 5 years now

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Grealish takes a decent corner and I'm surprised Amavi hasn't taken one yet.

Amavi is used to cover any counter attack that may come from corners. I guess it's down to his speed.

And he has good timing in the tackle. I think Jack and Gil should be on corners.

Or Veretout.

[Tayls_7]

Alan Hutton is suggesting he doesn't mind a degraded team performance if it secures three points? I don't think that will be necessary Al.

[pauliewalnuts]

Alan Hutton is suggesting he doesn't mind a degraded team performance if it secures three points? I don't think that will be necessary Al.

Or even possible.

[Tayls_7]

Alan Hutton is suggesting he doesn't mind a degraded team performance if it secures three points? I don't think that will be necessary Al.

Or even possible.

Somebody needs to keep a tighter reign on the player brain storming sessions.

[peter w]

I may be one of the only people on here but I hope we don't go with Gil as I honestly do think he's not very good. Problem is we've got too many of them. We need to be tight in the middle of midfield and there doesn't seem to be anyone who seems up to the job. Westwood and Sanchez have both had their chances but have been largely poor. Gana has to start but would be interesting to see when Ilorin comes in if it is as a central midfielder (or just stays as Stas No 2). We barely control the centre of the park and we always give the ball away in stupid areas. So you have to put more bodies in there to stem the flow and work your team around it. Adama to try and add the flair, Grealish and Sinclair, maybe Veretout to look to start attacks, and Gestede looking to get on the end of it. Gil offers little and offers little at either end other than one great strike at Leicester.

[silhillvilla]

The Swansea midfield is not only technically good they are also all quite big and physical - see Shelvey, Sigurdson and the Asian lad. Gil, westwood and Grealish are in danger of being blown over, we need Sanchez and vertout in for this

[old man villa fan]

Is Sherwood going to ever start Sanchez, Gueye and Veretout in a 3-man midfield.  This looks to me to be a balanced line up.