Luton Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Tony Erdington]

Its difficult to believe how bad we can be. I'm just sick and tired of watching these f.....s go through the motions. Not one player was prepared to stand up and be counted
in that second half, against a team that we had completely dominated for 25mins. God knows if Rotherham go a goal upon Saturday.

at the moment I have to say "if Rotherham"  you think theres any doubt, most of these will play Saturday, and trust me vp will be a quiet place Saturday.

VP will be a boiling cauldron of rage, anger and disbelief when we inevitably turn out more of the same dross.

you think??

no no there will of course be an out burst, But trust me the majority of the 90 minutes we'll watch stunned by what passes as an ASTON VILLA footballer these days.

[QuintonVilla]

Disgraceful

[django]

Gestede coming on seemed to end all of our attacking intent. ?How many touches did he have? I can only remember a couple of defensive headers

[Desontheholte]

One positive 2nite. Bacuna rested for Saturday!!!! Fuck me I can't wait for the season to finish and we ain't even been to vp

[dave shelley]

What is it about Bedfordshire and the Villa?  Can't win at poxy Luton and I was there in the sixties when Bedford beat us in a pre-season friendly when we had a near full side out.

[frank]

Pathetic performance, clueless. Just what is the point of Gestede? Our support held up impressively but by the end it was all too much to take and the booing started. This doesn't augur well for the games ahead

[Clark W Griswold]

We need to start at the back and shore up the defence asap. When confidence is so brittle we need to rely on a solid backline when things get tough like that 2nd half. Unfortunately other than Elphick & Baker I wouldn't trust any of the others at the minute. Obviously Amavi needs time but I'd quite happily bin all the rest off. I bet Luton couldn't believe their luck 2nd half, they should have filled their boots.

Baker is shite, positionally he's almost as bad as Richards he just doesn't have the ego to charge up front. He needs to be replaced.

Indeed, he was at fault for the first again, the only thing missing was his white stick. Richards was then at fault for the second and Okore the 3rd. As others have pointed out, I'd be very relieved if those 3 never play for us again.

[Tuscans]

I keep hoping after every defeat that this will be the kick up the arse needed for them to show some self respect and to perform for themselves let alone the fans ... still hasn't happened.

[ozzjim]

As soon as we moved Richards at half time the inevitable defeat was coming. Everything good about Villa at the weekend stemmed from having an actual leader of men in the team. Tonight a group of very out of confidence boys were "led" by a fucking tart.

Richards is not fit to lace Elphicks boots. We need more like him. Quick.

[Jockey Randall]

We need to start at the back and shore up the defence asap. When confidence is so brittle we need to rely on a solid backline when things get tough like that 2nd half. Unfortunately other than Elphick & Baker I wouldn't trust any of the others at the minute. Obviously Amavi needs time but I'd quite happily bin all the rest off. I bet Luton couldn't believe their luck 2nd half, they should have filled their boots.

Baker is shite, positionally he's almost as bad as Richards he just doesn't have the ego to charge up front. He needs to be replaced.

Yes I'm not a massive Baker fan but we need 2 full backs more urgently imo, in both games so far we've been exposed there. I'd take Baker as a back up centre half for now.

[jwarry]

We have got far too many rubbish players. If RDM puts the same clowns out on Saturday then he's not the manager for us.

Who do you suggest he puts out?

[avfcpg]

That was fugly.

I did think Gardner was doing better than Sunday though, so surprised to see him getting singled out. Especially considering nobody mentioned how far out of position Amavi was for their equalizer. It feels like RDM surrendered at half time with those subs, probably saving them for Rotherham ?

That should also dispel the Ayew-Grealish-Green-McCormack hope.

I thought Gardner was doing ok until he arsed around with it when we were in a decent position, lost it and totally exposed the defense...he then did that all night. 

[andyh]

I said in the match thread that, in my opinion, all of our problems stem from the fact we do not have a top quality central midfielder, and haven't for many years.
As a minimum, we must, must, must resolve this before the end of this month, because the anonymous bunch of midfield clones we have now will not make us improve.

Oh for a Cowans, Taylor, Barry or Mortimer right now.

[Meanwood Villa]

One day we'll look back at this and laugh

[Hookeysmith]

We have got far too many rubbish players. If RDM puts the same clowns out on Saturday then he's not the manager for us.

i thought the starting line up was ok but then RDM made changes that defied belief. i want also to see some enthusiasm from manager and coches - they look like statue's and hardly inspire