Aston Villa v Only Rotherham United Post-Match Thread

[walsall villain]

I haven't read the previous posts but I thought Bacuna had a fine game. If he can keep that standard up then that's a problem solved. Westwood was steady, the sort of performance that impresses managers more than fans though. Huddersfield will give us a better idea of this league's standard.

[myf]

Just seen the highlights on the awful C5 Championship highlights programme - all 1 minute 15 seconds of them. Thank goodness they had Alan Curbishley and Gary Megson to provide some insightful analysis. Not

Megson looks very miserable

[Clampy]

I liked the look of Tshibola as well, in a few years he could be very good. As for Bacuna, right back looks his best position and he's miles better than Hutton there.

[West Derby Villan]

Wow great team performance from Doctor Tone down. Gollini is settling well. Captain Tom does what it says on the tin, what a composed leader he is. Chester looked comfortable and assured, after joining the club less than 24 hours ago! Both Bacuna and Cissoko gave competent performances. Midfield were more competitive today, Tish is getting better every match and Westwood was an important cog in the wheel, imo. Jack had one of his best VP performances capped off with a cracking solo effort. Ayew scared them to death, and me, as he always seems inches away from a sending off. RossMac is a real team player, very unselfish and on a number of occasions passed the ball to colleagues in a better position than going for glory himself. Rudy, for me, MOM. He scored two good totally different goals and help Jack get his. His alround performance today was excellent. Finally, I loved seeing the Chairman enjoying the performance as much as I did. UTV

[rougegorge]

Whilst Westwood is far from ideal, I think it would be a major mistake to let him go now. For me he offers far more than Gardener. Unless we're buying someone who is a clear improvement we need to keep him.

What I struggle to understand is the clamour for Traore.

I agree on both points. If we can get an upgrade on Westwood then let him go.

I'm not sure which I'd forgotten about most: winning or playing decent football. Probably the latter.

Admittedly Rotherham offered very little, but for a change we looked positive and a better unit. Hopefully the new centre back pairing will finally give us some solidity.

[robbo1874]

No match reports on Guardian or Independent, but I did manage to see the goals on Youtube- all 1m 20s of it anyway. In that brief snippet, one thing that was apparent was for both the Gestede goals, how fluent the team looked going forward. Should really have been 5-0 if the other gilt-edged chances had been put away.

Hopefully that win will go a long way to settling the players' nerves.

Good base to start from at home this season.

A couple more out and 1 or 2 more in and we may start to see a half-decent side emerge.

[olaftab]

I enjoyed it. I can't remember the last time I posted that. And Traore will fucking murder this league if we keep him fit.

How did Adama get on?

Was only given/had the ball twice and first run barely got going and second one fizzled into nothing after about 30 yards and spent the rest of the game isolated out on the right with most of our play was down the left hand side. If we are to get the best out of him we need to plan properly on how to bring him into the game more when he is on the pitch.

[pauliewalnuts]

From a Rotherham forum

That said when you look at the Holte end. How can their players have been so gutless and w@nk last season with that kind of support.

Also, they were very very loud.

That's all mate.

[WarszaVillan]

Westwood was top quality today, his passing was superb. I very much doubt he's going anywhere

[andyh]

Westwood was anonymous today again. I'm not sure where we go with him once we sign a replacement.

I am far from being a fan of Westwood, but today I though he did really well.
He kept things ticking over, made sure we kept possession and was very disciplined in what he did.

[olaftab]

We were better, stronger than the opposition today in all departments. However we were very wasteful in and around goal. As we get better we will be more ruthless and assign teams to regular 4/5 to nil results. Lot of pleasing aspects today not least the weather. A superb day  all around.

[andyh]

We were better, stronger than the opposition today in all departments. However we were very wasteful in and around goal. As we get better we will be more ruthless and assign teams to regular 4/5 to nil results. Lot of pleasing aspects today not least the weather. A superb day  all around.

Exactly what I said, walking back to the car.
We need to be ruthless in front of goal. It is ridiculously early in the season, but goal difference could mean eveything later on.
Today, had we won 6-0 it would have been totally justified and sent out a message to the whole league.

Don't get me wrong though, I'll happily take 3-0.

[nodge]

I'd have taken 1-1 and that was when we were winning 2-0, that's how bad the last few years have been!

[dave.woodhall]

We're complaining that we only won 3-0. Never have I been so proud of you all. God bless Miserablism.

[KevinGage]

We're a team that could barely win a throw-in until today. Baby steps and all that.

Save the 6-0's for the Tatters and the Jawdies.