Luton Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[simon ward 50]

Move on quickly I say!

[UK Redsox]

Replace him with that Italian U21 player, Galileo Figaro or maybe Roger Milla's son Bis

[tomd2103]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

The only crumb of comfort I can take from last night is that Xia and the coaching staff have now seen the extent of how poor we are.  I'm hoping they now act accordingly. 

[cdward]

So from the Sheff Wed game we know the midfield is not good enough, and now we know the defence is not good enough.

I think they all need counselling, they turn to glass when they concede a goal.
I honestly thought we had hit rock bottom getting relegated, but now i don't.
I genuinely worry about not getting a single point against Rotherham and Huddersfield.

A total clearout is required. Until we can do that, we have to build  a defence that does not concede.

This is going to be awful to watch, Pulis ball is now our reality. Non committal, anti attacking football in the hope we get a corner or free-kick, whilst parking the bus in our own half.

I honestly don't know what else we can do. We have to stop getting beaten.

[Ads]

Erm, buy better players while the window is open?

[brian green]

We can't sign Figaro UKR.  He is working as a barber in Seville.

[Proposition Joe]

Think the penny may have dropped with RDM given his after match comments. There is a deep malaise in the squad that is not going to be resolved by setting up in a way that allows the oppostion to play aswell.

I remain convinced that the majority of these players are good enough for us to be in in and around the top six and even further with around 3 additions (centre half, holding midfield and a more mobile centre forward - the spine of the side). Confidence is such a massive part of football and to turn this around, he needs to get back to basics - defensive organisation, a much more intense pressing game (we are simply not getting around the pitch well enough) and a style that puts not conceding as the core of the gameplan.

It's not pretty, but we are not going to play free flowing football and an improve results until we take start making ourselves much harder to beat. His prority must be leaders and strong characters in the dressing room in the mould of Elphick.

Agree. I wrote on the match thread that this performance should be the end of 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 (aka 4-2-4) because we need to flood that midfield, even just by having physical bodies in there, to stop teams waltzing through us.

[aj2k77]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

Derby haven't got the worst squad in their entire History.

[dave.woodhall]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

Derby haven't got the worst squad in their entire History.

Neither have we.

[saunders_heroes]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

Derby haven't got the worst squad in their entire History.

Neither have we.

I think we did at the end of last season (in my opinion). It's been improved slightly but not by much.

[Nelly]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

Derby haven't got the worst squad in their entire History.

Neither have we.

I think we did at the end of last season (in my opinion). It's been improved slightly but not by much.

In terms of overall shoddiness, this squad must be approaching one of our worst ever footbal teams. They've consistently broken records for it after all.

It's been a sobering week for me. I'm not sure we have a strong enough squad, mentally or in terms of footballing ability, to be anywhere near Promotion.

[nick harper]

Pearson hasn't signed a single player at perennial bottles Derby. Likely because he wants to look at the squad for himself and see how they get on before deciding where needs strengthening.

Derby haven't got the worst squad in their entire History.

Neither have we.

I think we did at the end of last season (in my opinion). It's been improved slightly but not by much.

In terms of overall shoddiness, this squad must be approaching one of our worst ever footbal teams. They've consistently broken records for it after all.

It's been a sobering week for me. I'm not sure we have a strong enough squad, mentally or in terms of footballing ability, to be anywhere near Promotion.

It's not our worst in terms of footballing ability. Many of these players were bought as, or already were, Premier League players, albeit not the highest quality.

They have hit a psycological brick wall and this is now the 4th manager who has to find a way to break that down. We all know we need improvements in key areas but they are not terrible footballers. RDM and his coaching team need to eanr their corn and find a formation that makes us harder to beat. This is not going to turn round with immediate 3-0 wins.

[Nelly]

For me it doesn't matter where they came from, they might have been Premier League standard when we got them but how they've performed for us puts them in the catergory of Villa's worst ever. This current stretch of disaster is on their hands.

Coaching and management is implicit also, I think you're right, but in terms of this team versus our other dire teams, this lot are surely in the mix for one of the worst ever Villa teams.

[Brend'Watkins]

At Bodymoor Heath this morning hopefully...

[mallo]

I was hoping we might have shown some character against the mighty Luton. I was so wrong. We are broken - I see everything here to suggest we're going to wallow in our own stink of defeatism unless we replace more than half the midfield and defence immediately. Without 4 decent mentally strong leaders coming in before the window closes I think we'll see a lot more of this capitulation. I honestly think they are broken and cannot be mended.