Luton Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[tomd2103]

So what are the RDM fan boys thinking now then?

I can't speak for all of those who supported/promoted Di Matteo's appointment, but I think use of the term "fan boys" is patronising drivel and that it is far too early to judge him, just as it would've been far too early to judge Graham Taylor after his awful start.

Agree.  How he reacts to this might be a decent indicator though, as tonight should have been a real wake up call for him. 

[sickbeggar]

RDM said "it's difficult to explain how we changed so much from the first to the second"

Really? How hard is it to watch back some of the footage from last season, this guy clearly hasn't done his homework, which makes me think... if he hasn't even done the basics right yet, it's going to be another season of agony.

End of the day you have to give some of the players who fucked up last season a chance otherwise we wouldn't be able to field a team. If they don't or can't take that chance then he'll obviously look to ship them out. .I don't know what you were expecting but getting rid of 15 plus players and getting replacements in by the 10th of August would be some sort of transfer record i reckon.

[Bad English]

I only said RDM has got to start earning a crust but replaced crust with a friendly reference to his adoptive country Italy. Anyone who wants to make something of that is welcome to but why would you?

[cdward]

And we can't even blame Westwood and Bacuna.

[russon]

The coaching staff really need to be drilling that team relentlessly from now on

Agreed,  kneecaps or eyeballs?

[Bad English]

The coaching staff really need to be drilling that team relentlessly from now on

Agreed,  kneecaps or eyeballs?

Chortle!

[Villatillidie1982]

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.

Didn't see the game but knew this was coming. No team without somebody with a brain in midfield will succeed at anything. I am sure Stan even at his age and condition is better than the cr@p that we have now. Headless chickens.

[russon]

It's a sick irony that within weeks of patting Stylian on the back but declining him a contract we find ourselves with a midfield containing Gardner as an ever present. Present! There's a double irony.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

the only good to come out of this disgusting start to the season is the fact that it's still the start of the seaon, the window is still open and surely DiMatteo can see the issues.

[Nelly]

Why the flying fuck was Richards captain of Aston Villa tonight? I find that more insulting than yet another gutless surrender to lower league clubs from this squad.

It actually erodes my trust in Matteo, because, why?!

[sickbeggar]

The coaching staff really need to be drilling that team relentlessly from now on

Agreed,  kneecaps or eyeballs?

heh, but you have to say its the same  fuck-ups as last season. We can't even say its premier players taking advantage of championship defending anymore. It's championship and  League 2 players taking advantage of diabolical defending. Do some of that in a pub league and you'll get the same result. If the opposition just take you apart that's one thing, but we just gift them goals.

[danno]

I did not understand either of the half time subs at all.
Half time you get them in and tell them to keep moving the ball quickly as that's when we looked dangerous
and not get sucked into scrappy personal battles.

Instead we remove a forward making intelligent runs for a human statue, and rearrange our already shaky backline
and manage to make it worse.

Our players are admittedly all levels of inept, but RDM didn't help them tonight.

[kippaxvilla2]

We should have expected this when the Boro game showed us that we are still a bunch of quitters.  Score against us and we surrender.

I went to the Middlesborough game and this is exactly what I saw - we literally capitulated.  People said to me 'it's only a friendly.'  I know what I saw.  This is just about the worse I've ever known or seen.  The lack of fight in adversity is simply chronic.  I honestly don't know what we will do next.

[KRS]

So just when you think it can't get any worse, this team of incompetent fuckwits manage to set yet another embarrassing record...the words "fucking shit" understate how useless the majority of this useless bunch of wankers really are.

I have to admit to being excited by the starting lineup, but whilst it's still littered with the remnants of absolute shite throughout the team then we're always going to struggle to win games...however I dont think many of us would think they could sink to these depths of shite. It's not rocket science, and the answer is really quite simple...we're shit because we have shit players.

The only solace I can take from this is that I'm hoping RDM is still testing out what he has inherited, and can only make judgement calls in competitive games for a comparison rather than what he has seen in training and in pre-season. If tonight sends RDM and Dr X the clear message that some of these "players" simply aren't good enough and more changes need to be made in the transfer window, then this result can be accepted as a means to an end...however if they turn a blind eye and give them more chances, then we're fucked.

 

[Damo70]

I did not understand either of the half time subs at all.
Half time you get them in and tell them to keep moving the ball quickly as that's when we looked dangerous
and not get sucked into scrappy personal battles.

Instead we remove a forward making intelligent runs for a human statue, and rearrange our already shaky backline
and manage to make it worse.

Our players are admittedly all levels of inept, but RDM didn't help them tonight.

'All levels of inept' is a very harsh phrase and I wish I could have a go you for using it. But sadly you are right. Maybe we should appoint Glenn Hoddle as manager and he could tell us what we have all done in a previous life to deserve this.