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

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

I think we'll see Westwood and Gueye there as the "spine", which is fucking laughable as Westwood will basically stand around, not picking up runners, watching them sail past LIKE HE DOES EVERY TIME.

[OCD]

Whatever happened to Ilori? He sounded like a really good prospect and capable of playing right back, centre back or defensive midfield.

[frank black]

Just win please, then go one a nice 6 game unbeaten run and Tim can be our cheeky chappy saviour as opposed to a cockernee wideboy.

[garyshawsknee]

I have just had the tombola out,this is what it came up with, play Clark or Okore at the back. Richards at RB, Sanchez in midfield with Veretout, Ayew up front and play Gil and Traore wide.

If they score first we are fucked.

[Clampy]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

[Jimbo]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

[Clampy]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

We didn't go down and it helped us to a cup final, so yes it worked well.

[Clark W Griswold]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

We didn't go down and it helped us to a cup final, so yes it worked well.

What you mean is it worked well once Sherwood came in and implemented it, which it did. But now, Sanchez replaces Westwood, Gana replaces Delph and Veretout replaces Cleverley. And in theory we should be at least as good there if not better given time.

[Jimbo]

Personally, I wouldn't have a player that can't kick a football properly anywhere near our starting eleven. But I take the point about three men.

[postal]

Personally, I wouldn't have a player that can't kick a football properly anywhere near our starting eleven. But I take the point about three men.

Thats Gestede out then 

And yes, we need a solid 3 in the park - and we know that injuries etc will switch it around, but the suggested 3 should be match fit atm.

[UK Redsox]

Whatever happened to Ilori? He sounded like a really good prospect and capable of playing right back, centre back or defensive midfield.

I believe that he's eloped with Kozak

[UK Redsox]

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.

I think we'll see Westwood and Gueye there as the "spine", which is fucking laughable as Westwood will basically stand around, not picking up runners, watching them sail past LIKE HE DOES EVERY TIME.

The teamsheets must come with 'Westwood, A.' pre-printed on them

[saunders_heroes]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

We didn't go down and it helped us to a cup final, so yes it worked well.

Good god how our club's standards have lowered!

[Richard E]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

We didn't go down and it helped us to a cup final, so yes it worked well.

Good god how our club's standards have lowered!

I think he means it worked well compared to how things were looking previously, rather than in absolute terms. Seeing as we have reached the FA Cup Final twice in my lifetime I don't personally think it is downgrading expectations to think that is not to be sniffed at.

[Clampy]

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.

I was thinking this the other day. If you go back to last season, we had Westwood who was basically the holding midfielder, then Cleverley and Delph who were the busy two out of the three and got about the pitch. It worked really well and we need to go back to that again, with Grealish in the floating role.

Worked really well? We finished 17th.

We didn't go down and it helped us to a cup final, so yes it worked well.

What you mean is it worked well once Sherwood came in and implemented it, which it did. But now, Sanchez replaces Westwood, Gana replaces Delph and Veretout replaces Cleverley. And in theory we should be at least as good there if not better given time.

That's kind of what I was getting at, yes. Now he seems to play too many attackers or forward thinking players and it's possibly one of the reasons why we're losing games.