Southampton vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[PeterWithesShin]

*Sigh*

[levico]

*shrug*

[Goldie.7]

[Toronto Villa]

looks at car crash, keeps moving past it.

[RussellC]

What a load of absolute shit. Absolute rubbish from K-Mac. I don’t think I would have come-up with that starting XI if you’d asked me to come-up with 100 different options. Less goal-threat than one of Lambert’s teams, no creativity and no realisation that neither Westwood or Sanchez are dynamic enough to play in anything other than a midfield 3, let alone TOGETHER in a 2. There were literally no positives from that (aside form possibly Crespo looking ok). I’m not even that bothered about the result. No game-time for Gil, Veretout, Traore or Okore. No sign of Kozak or Ilori. Absolute fucking garbage. I hope to God that we have a new manager in place by the weekend at the absolute latest and that K-Mac isn’t let within sniffing distance of the 1st team squad again.

I’m not entirely sure that wasn’t actually a wind-up tonight it was that bad.

[four fornicholl]

can anybody REALLY put their finger on it

[CJ]

Wonder if it will ever end. Seeing that montage of JPA goals at the weekend made me pine for the real Villa to come back

[villadelph]

How do people still have the energy to get upset?

[Dave]

It's a good thing that Kevin McDonald doesn't want the job by all accounts.

Ayew? Sinclair? Kozak? Traore? Grealish? Gil? Veretout?

Nah, Westwood and Bacuna on their own will be enough to support a couple of barely-strikers.

[exigo]

They say every time you shuffle a pack of cards, the resulting sequence is likely to be totally unique in all history. Kudos to MacDonald, he's managed the same with a pack half that size.

[SoccerHQ]

Only listened on WM. They said we looked organised at least, in formation. Seems Amavi was at fault for first goal and Hutton the second.

TBH I think this game sums up our season, we compete with teams but we're just not good enough at both ends of the pitch, to keep teams out and obviously score goals. And of course if you can't do either you're not going to win many games so tough task for the new manager especially with the opposition approaching.

[l_mckay]

Same shit different day,played ok at times but never really looked like scoring. Dissapointed with the line up ayew needed to start and veretout needs to start playing instead of Westwood. Need a new manaager to sort this mess out ASAP.

[Richard E]

can anybody REALLY put their finger on it

Yes. We're shite.

[Clampy]

Thought i'd put this in the right thread.

Managed to watch the second half. Amavi should have done better in the lead up to their first goal, he seemed to bottle out of the challenge and after that you knew a second goal was coming. If he'd have been a bit braver with his starting line up, then who knows.

[django]

We were ok without looking threatening.

We don't have great players, or that many good ones. But I've seen most of them do good things occasionally. I really think that a manager who manages to find the right system for the right players could keep us up but we need them to find that system pretty fucking quickly.