West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[LukeJames]

I thought we played OK just couldn't find a cutting edge. Ayew was poor today. Need a striker. Did anyone see those Albion fans at the end throw a flare in our end? One or two of ours threw seats

Send us the bill.

[DeKuip]

Its the first league game this season when I've come away thinking the opposition are worse than us.
Full marks to all our players today for their fight and effort, I couldn't really fault any of them for that. If only we had a half decent striker or someone who can cross a ball so we could get the best out of Gestede.
Westwood has got stick on here all season but I thought he was man of the match today alongside Gana - pity neither of them can shoot.
As for Pulis - I'd rather watch Villa in the fourth division than have him as our manager.  I can't see Albion putting up with him for much longer.

[QuintonVilla]

I thought we played OK just couldn't find a cutting edge. Ayew was poor today. Need a striker. Did anyone see those Albion fans at the end throw a flare in our end? One or two of ours threw seats

Send us the bill.

Their fans, and ours, on Twitter are saying it was our fans who threw the flare and seats.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I'm sure the flare came from them. We did throw a couple of seats...not me btw

[Big Dick Edwards]

We were the better team and if anyone deserved to win a dour derby it was us. Gil looked a class above for much of the game and we were denied a blatant penalty in the first half when Ayew was brought down by Olsson. The team was solid and showed commitment from the first minute to last. However we are going down because we simply lack the quality up front to win enough games. We survived the last few years because we had Benteke. We just don't have anyone of his ability to score goals any more. Unless Remi can pull this player out of the hat next week we are gone.

[brontebilly]

Who enters a season with your main striker as Gestede but no wide men in the squad? Madness.

That's very true mate. Pre season I wanted Matt Phillips and Yanick Bolase
Quality wide players who could have been great signings for us. Surely if Gestede was on the radar anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have been lining up quality wide players. It ain't fuckin rocket science is it?

Lennon and Townsend were mentioned by tactics in the summer 

[QuintonVilla]

Anyone who can cross a ball would be a start. Bacuna is so fecking annoying.

[SheffieldVillain]

Who enters a season with your main striker as Gestede but no wide men in the squad? Madness.

That's very true mate. Pre season I wanted Matt Phillips and Yanick Bolase
Quality wide players who could have been great signings for us. Surely if Gestede was on the radar anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have been lining up quality wide players. It ain't fuckin rocket science is it?

Lennon and Townsend were mentioned by tactics in the summer 

Spurs want £14m now for Townsend after half a season of him rotting in the reserves. It would probably have been more in the summer. Not a chance.

A better idea would have been to just not buy Gestede and buy someone with more than one dimension to his play.

[saunders_heroes]

Who enters a season with your main striker as Gestede but no wide men in the squad? Madness.

That's very true mate. Pre season I wanted Matt Phillips and Yanick Bolase
Quality wide players who could have been great signings for us. Surely if Gestede was on the radar anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have been lining up quality wide players. It ain't fuckin rocket science is it?

Lennon and Townsend were mentioned by tactics in the summer 

I wouldn't mind Lennon or Townsend in the team now.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm sure the flare came from them. We did throw a couple of seats...not me btw

I believe you.

[QuintonVilla]

Who enters a season with your main striker as Gestede but no wide men in the squad? Madness.

That's very true mate. Pre season I wanted Matt Phillips and Yanick Bolase
Quality wide players who could have been great signings for us. Surely if Gestede was on the radar anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have been lining up quality wide players. It ain't fuckin rocket science is it?

Lennon and Townsend were mentioned by tactics in the summer 

I wouldn't mind Lennon or Townsend in the team now.

John and Andy? They'd still be an improvement.

[pooligan]

By all accounts the referee today has given 10 pens in 15 games this season ,the  most by any referee in the Prem this season. Yet he has denied us two blatant pens this season,the other one being against Sunderland at home .It feels like everything is against us at the moment

[BC54 VFC]

Luke James
Totally agree only one team wanted to play football today and play the right to. If your only goal is just to stay in the prem league every season playing the shite football these stripey shites played today and every day then they can have it.
Would rather go down re-group and come back up stronger and better it's happened in the late 60s and we all know what happened just over a decade later

Villa till I die
Like the flag said today " I bleed claret and blue "

That's my elder son's flag.

[citizenDJ]

Who enters a season with your main striker as Gestede but no wide men in the squad? Madness.

That's very true mate. Pre season I wanted Matt Phillips and Yanick Bolase
Quality wide players who could have been great signings for us. Surely if Gestede was on the radar anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have been lining up quality wide players. It ain't fuckin rocket science is it?

Lennon and Townsend were mentioned by tactics in the summer 

I wouldn't mind Lennon or Townsend in the team now.

John and Andy? They'd still be an improvement.

I have no idea how much of the stories about what went on transfer-wise at the club over the summer is true, but it is interesting to think that Sherwood did seem to want to bring in a couple of wingers quite urgently, which would make sense given his keenness on Adebayor and, subsequently, Gestede.

He ay well have had a plan of sorts after all. Not a great one, admittedly, but one which has some logic behind it. And if that was his (one and only, I expect) plan, then I suppose it was only to be expected that he would struggle to figure out what to do with players clearly more suited to a more technical, measured passing game.

Well, maybe not that interesting after all.

[timeoutbigbar]

Going down with a whimper.

Looked like going down in complete silence before, so an improvement of sorts.