Sheffield Wednesday v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[supertom]

I'd like to see Grealish and Green start wednesday, with a mind to starting saturday. Grealish is a canny player. He wins freekicks, which will be very useful in this division. We need a bit of guile. I don't think Ayew will create enough as a left winger. I'd rather he was more central to get on the end of chances of to run at defenders in more dangerous areas.

[Tony Erdington]

go get Barry.

[paul_e]

I honestly don't hold Gollini responsible (or more accurately I don't give him the bigger share of responsibility) for the mistake, Cissokho fucking about in the corner and giving it to Gollini to bail himself out was the bigger issue for me.  Yes Gollini's kick was poor but he really shouldn't have been given the ball at that point.

A few people have slated Gardner (and he was poor) but Cissokho was easily the worst player on the pitch, no idea how he's ahead of Bennett let alone Amavi.

[garyshawsknee]

Very average first half, much better second half, defensive cock up costs us again. Full backs need to change, at least one will. Gardner too slow, Gestede the same. Better striker on board, Grealish and Tshibola to start and we should do ok this season, wasn't really impressed with Wednesday and they are supposedly a dark horse. UTV.

[taylorsworkrate]

Some of the same old problems, some reasons for optimism.  You don't get over 6 years of shit in one summer.  3 or 4 signings and a bit of time to gel and we'll be fine.

I keep hearing this "we'll be fine" or a certain player will be "fine in the championship" from lots of people. But what does it actually mean?

The only "fine" i'd be happy with is promotion.

[Ads]

Thought we were poor first half thanks to the midfield with Gardner having a mare.

Much better second half, created plenty and really should have won. Sheffield Wednesday seemed to drop deeper and never looked like scoring from open play.

Typical Villa with a ridiculous error to gift the opposition three points.

I thought the standard of Wednesday was dire. There's no quality in this league.

McCormack second half offered a lot of good movement and should have buried his chance.

Should have had a stick on penalty for the most blatant of shirt pulls on Baker and they should have had their centre half; how he wasn't booked for pulling McCormack back I don't know.

Got to get the balance right. More pace and legs in the middle. Westwood actually looked decent second half. Equally we need more pace. Hutton caused a lot of problems while Green did too.

Amavi must come back in. Cissokho hindered us massively.

Really frustrating.

A note to their small time support. They were carrying on like they'd won the league the Mickey Mouse twats.

[CT Villan]

I thought the standard of Wednesday was dire. There's no quality in this league.

Yet we still lost !

[supertom]

I honestly don't hold Gollini responsible (or more accurately I don't give him the bigger share of responsibility) for the mistake, Cissokho fucking about in the corner and giving it to Gollini to bail himself out was the bigger issue for me.  Yes Gollini's kick was poor but he really shouldn't have been given the ball at that point.

A few people have slated Gardner (and he was poor) but Cissokho was easily the worst player on the pitch, no idea how he's ahead of Bennett let alone Amavi.

Oh without question. Dire. He looks like PS1 animation. Hideously ungainly and looks as bewildered by a football as it's possible to look. You could go into the deepest depths of the Amazon, find a tribe untouched by the outside world and kick a ball at one of them and they'd trap it with more ease than Aly.

[frank black]

We played reasonably well, ultimately I don't think we'll win many games with Aly cissoko and Alan Hutton as our fullbacks. They can't deliver.

[CJ]

Losing by an odd goal away to one of the apparent promotion favourites isn't the end of the world, and if we start games like we played in the second half I think we'll do OK this season. Priorities for me are a no-nonsense dominant midfielder - someone with Elphick's attitude and application - a proper number 9 striker (if we don't play to Gestede's supposed strengths there's simply no point playing him), and a right back, (with Amavi coming in at left back). If we continue to play the likes of Cissokho, Hutton, Bacuna, Westwood and Gestede we'll simply be the same shit playing in a lower league

[supertom]

If that chance McCormack had, had come in the first half, he buries it for me. By the time he got that opportunity I thought he was breathing out his ass.

[Duncan Shaw]

Gollum just said there's no one better than Hutton......!

[Richard]

If Richards could be bothered he's better than Hutton for starters.

[Jimbo]

A note to their small time support. They were carrying on like they'd won the league the Mickey Mouse twats.

As every team that beats us this season will (and there will be a few). We're a cup final home or away.

[PeterWithesShin]

Gollum hasn't been too bad post match.