Luton Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[preston28]

A truly magnificent performance from a team of consummate, dedicated hard working professionals.

Makes me proud to support them.

Now back to reality.............utter rubbish.

A long hard season ahead.

[Tuscans]

Roberto Di Matteo let's see how you earn your bruschetta from now on.

I think that was funny but some knob will play his racist card now.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We need a completely new midfield. There's not one player currently at the club that deserves to be in it.

[Toronto Villa]

Fucking atrocious. What else is there to say?

[PaulWinch again]

We need a completely new midfield. There's not one player currently at the club that deserves to be in it.

I'm not going to write Tshibola off after two games. He needs to become much more influential in games as he develops, he's not a regular starter yet.

[pauliewalnuts]

We need a completely new midfield. There's not one player currently at the club that deserves to be in it.

We have zero backbone. No strength in midfield, and that pairing of Okore and Richards is one of the biggest centre half clusterfucks I have ever seen.

I can't believe how much I fucking hate some of these players. I actually loathe them.

[mike]

Last season's shit team still shit. Sorry to be a stuck record.

[Ads]

If you're going to play two centrally then they both need to be athletic. Gardner is anything but.

The crux is that we cannot have half the team being as poor as they are. Richards is an absolute car crash. No shrink will fix him. He shouldn't play.

[PeterWithesShin]

I didn't see one player stand up and be counted in that second half. Far too many players at the club don't seem bothered about losing.

[footyskillz]

Today captain Richards was a downtrodden player. He was made captain and this burdened him as he felt he has to lead and instruct this further confused him in a series of poorly timed headers and decisions.

 Richards was too busy pointing to others and turning round back to the ball player and thererfor not concentrating on his job was poor and late getting to the ball with (another) poorly timed throw yourself at the ball for the okore own goal . He had previously thrown himself at the ball and came out of positions so left a gaping gap at back .

Hutton Okore and Richards are players who must go. They were damming last year. Worst is lack of leadership and clear lack of confidence.  A Luton player after said they knew to get at villa and the fragility is there too see.

I think it's good amavi got 90 minutes.  Tshiobla and gardener too - they definitely need a helping experienced hand.

I also pleased xia is at helm and will do everything to erradicate such shambolic play. It's a work in progress that is for such but even being a generous soul I feel the cull of hutton,  okore, Richards on tonight and then bacuna.  It's best to let them go as they toxic to progress and development of players and club. I do wish them well but please can they go as they don't deem worthy of what villa want to do.  Going thru games without feeling anything.

As I said xia will bite and get rid he's no mug this got to be a lesson. 

[mike]

I didn't see one player stand up and be counted in that second half. Far too many players at the club don't seem bothered about losing.

To be fair, that's a bit like saying you're not bothered about breathing. They're so used to it, they don't even notice it's happening.

[Taylor]

I was watching on sky, whilst RDM looked clueless, Steve Clark looked utterly miserable, I seriously think he was wondering what he had done in coming to Villa Park.

[Chris_Jephcott]

We'd be lost without Elphick. That's the simple point. Richards is not a leader and clearly doesn't have the respect of the team at all.

As it is, we've just effectively seen a team from last season carry on with the same crap that we were used to.

It's terrible, humiliating and nauseating at the same time, but this has surely got to be the low point here. This team needs strong leaders to stop this ridiculous rot. Our squad is paper thin and generally utterly awful, but even the worst players under a good leader can be ok.

In the meantime, I wish I hadn't seen that game.

[Villafirst]

Confidence, confidence is the key. A lot of these players are completely shot of it after last season's debacle.

[saunders_heroes]

There's been so much damage done to this club for the last 6 seasons that turning us around will be about as quick as attempting a U turn in an oil tanker. We need a complete new midfield, fullbacks, cemtebacks and a striker. That's if we want to compete in the Championship let alone go up. I feel a bit sorry for Xia. I think his heart's in the right place and I just hope he's got the guts (and the cash) to give us a team worthy of the name.
I'm just sick to death of losing.