Tottenham vs Aston Villa Post-match thread

[pauliewalnuts]

At least Garde knows Gil should start above Grealish. He also must be wondering why the international footballer Sanchez is totally done on 75 mins. He will probably also be wondering why Gabby is anywhere near the team sheet amongst several other things.

With Sanchez, i often think it is because he's doing Westwood's work for him, too, while he stands around doing fuck all and watching the game pass him by

[KevinEaton]

We did OK for 15 minutes. Ayew and Gil made a difference. The trouble when you pick such a shit starting line up is that 3 subs are not enough!

Ayew and Gil made a mockery of our starting line up. Gil did more on 30 seconds than Grealish did all night. He was hungry for the ball and retained possession every time.

I'm sick and tired of seeing us give the ball away so easily

[Risso]

P45 for KM in the morning.

[London Villan]

Ok theres work to do, but only 4 points from safety. Remi needs to get working quickly.

[paul_e]

Well that was as pathetic as the starting line-up suggested.  I gave kmac the benefit of the doubt on Wednesday given he'd only had a couple of days to prepare them but to go with an even worse team tonight is unforgivable.

[Desontheholte]

Guzan Clark lescott Richardson bacuna sanchez Westwood agbonlahor sinclair. The lot of these remi please fuck them off as soon as u can??

[LTA]

I'm glad Garde didn't join in Fox and Reilly's pathetic celebration after Ayew's goal.  He must see it was papering over the cracks.

[Toronto Villa]

Once we started to play we looked like we could compete just fine. You could see the team grow in confidence. There is no way we should be where we are with the squad we have.

Kevin MacDonald should be ashamed of himself for the side he put out tonight. I hope Garde goes into the dressing room tonight and has a few consoling and confidence building words with the side.

[Nastylee]

My view,

Lescott wasn't too bad
Hutton/Sinclair - decent outings
Clark woeful
Sanchez ok but does dilly dally at times
Bacuna improved
Grealish hopeless, Gil has to play instead
Gabby embarrasing, Ayew starting to make things happen
Gestede should've scored, but offers little

Problems lie in the fact we hold no retention of the ball in the last third. This equals no goal threat and puts a frail defence under pressure for long periods. If we can carry the ball and hold it up the pitch then things would improve at both ends. At least there were some encouraging signs.

[frank black]

Please someone ring 5Live that isn't a surrender-fuck telling ''Chappers'' we're down. Fuck sake...

Who phoned in was it Gabby and Grealish. They look like they've surrendered.

[Toronto Villa]

I'm glad Garde didn't join in Fox and Reilly's pathetic celebration after Ayew's goal.  He must see it was papering over the cracks.

What an odd thing to say. Why shouldn't employees of the club celebrate the goal? Should the fans not have celebrated either?

[lovejoy]

Hutton has been massively criticised on this forum but at least he has fire in his belly. There are a few players who should be bombed out now, Richardson, Clark, Agbonlahor.

[spk]

Remi will see what needs to be done from that display,who's worth keeping and who needs the bullet.Im strangely optimistic.

[1_Pablo_Angel]

Gil's been the best footballer at the club by miles since he arrived and yet has probably played in well under 50% of our matches since then. While Gabby lumbers around looking totally disinterested week after week.

It's a good illustration of our recent malaise.

[ozzjim]

Agreed Nastylee re ball retention up front. It is our big problem, because it is not the type of thing any of our forwards are naturally good at.
We need a focal point of the attack that will let the 3 behind play.