Aston Villa v Huddersfield Town Post-Match Thread

[sid1964]

Add Dean Saunders into that forward line, and it would have been fantastic

[auntiesledd]

The problem is what do we do to change it? Gardner has looked a liability so far and the other bench options were not really inspired.  We need a bit more depth to allow RDM to react more easily. 

That's precisely what I've been thinking during & after last nights game. If we don't have the players to make a real impact from the bench - then it's up to RDM & Tone to do some more recruitment biz & continue to improve the squad. I think we will just have to be patient & accept that the VP revolution will take time to bear fruit (although I can certainly understand the ongoing frustrations that many of us share). Keep the faith.

[Dazvillain]

The traffic getting out was horrific last night and I realise m6 south entry via expressway or otherwise didn't help, but does anyone know about what the incident was on expressway exit slip. Police on housing estate road adjacent , also stood on gantry etc. Then a fire engine with platform arrived plus ambulance .... Any clues !?

[Holte L2]

Does anyone know why Adama wasn't on the bench? The lack of striking options on the subs bench was worrying?  I'd have put Davis or RHM on just to give us something different.
The lads looked knackered after 70 minutes. You could see their goal coming.
On to Saturday and we really need to try an win.

[Lastfootstamper]

The problem is what do we do to change it? Gardner has looked a liability so far and the other bench options were not really inspired.  We need a bit more depth to allow RDM to react more easily. 

That's precisely what I've been thinking during & after last nights game. If we don't have the players to make a real impact from the bench - then it's up to RDM & Tone to do some more recruitment biz & continue to improve the squad. I think we will just have to be patient & accept that the VP revolution will take time to bear fruit (although I can certainly understand the ongoing frustrations that many of us share). Keep the faith.

I think he went with the same 11 because they'd done the job on Saturday, and he's still feeling his way with the squad, starting line-up, formation and style. If we'd done nothing different other than been more clinical around goal in the first hour last night, irrespective of how the midfield or defence looked, he'd have been justified.

That said, though, I really don't think the arrival of Jedinak is coincidental in its fortuitousness (assuming it's happening/happened, I've not looked today!), RDM knows we need bodies in there, decent ones at that. The impact of Wells was instant, and I don't believe RDM didn't want to react quicker, but, like ozzjim says, more that he felt he couldn't with what was sat behind him.

And I'd still like a better centre-forward.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Does anyone know why Adama wasn't on the bench? The lack of striking options on the subs bench was worrying?  I'd have put Davis or RHM on just to give us something different.
The lads looked knackered after 70 minutes. You could see their goal coming.
On to Saturday and we really need to try an win.

I was listening to the FM commentary on O/S and it showed that Traore WAS a sub??

[trevor fisher]

Its still a time for optimism, but it was again a game of two halves as has been said, and the issues around tiring late and few subs are sensible. But there is a pattern, of dropping heads when things go wrong. Best player defensively was the goal post. Saved us when Nanki Wells their best player should have scored. THeir manager decided to go for victory, ours needed to strengthen the defence and did not do so. Luck kept the shot out.

My main beef is the groundhog day at Villa. Its been going on for years how the same players can be good then dreadful. Against Liverpool under Sherwood they were world beaters. Get to Wembly against Arsenal and they do not turn up. OK in a cup final against Wenger, but in the Championship Jeckyll and Hyde should have been kicked out the dressing room. Its impossible to know how the players can go from major to minor... and inside the same game if it turns against them. Anyone else think a sports psychologist is now essential?

[Mortimer's Bear]

The traffic getting out was horrific last night and I realise m6 south entry via expressway or otherwise didn't help, but does anyone know about what the incident was on expressway exit slip. Police on housing estate road adjacent , also stood on gantry etc. Then a fire engine with platform arrived plus ambulance .... Any clues !?

Yes. There was a young man sat on top of the road sign looking somewhat precarious. It was right next to where I parked and the police were trying to coax him down as I was sat in the traffic. I don't know the outcome but I sincerely hope he was okay, it looked a horrible situation.

[not3bad]

Saved us when Nanki Wells their best player should have scored. THeir manager decided to go for victory, ours needed to strengthen the defence and did not do so. Luck kept the shot out.

To be fair luck also got them their goal. As has been pointed out, the rebound off their forward could have gone anywhere.

[Ads]

That's because it wasn't a game of two halves.

They brought Wells on at about the hour mark and he, along with Scannell pushed wide onto our full backs and Cissokho in particular looked poor as he struggled against the pace.

We should have responded with Green and going three centrally sooner, but we didn't. That said, bar the free kick, they huffed and puffed with balls into the box but created very little.

Maddening to chuck points away against a side who looked as bad as anything I've ever seen at Villa Park for an hour. 5-0 would have flattered them.

[trevor fisher]

the incident was a horrific three car pile up at the junction of the A34 and the Chester ROad, southbound, Birmingham side. All three cars seriously damaged. Two ambulances arrived while I was crawling up the northbound side and at half past ten the police had sealed the road so southbound traffic was going back on the A34 north.

Impossible to tell how three cars have a high speed collision on a two lane urban highway with no roads coming in. are there any reports in the media?

[Mortimer's Bear]

the incident was a horrific three car pile up at the junction of the A34 and the Chester ROad, southbound, Birmingham side. All three cars seriously damaged. Two ambulances arrived while I was crawling up the northbound side and at half past ten the police had sealed the road so southbound traffic was going back on the A34 north.

Impossible to tell how three cars have a high speed collision on a two lane urban highway with no roads coming in. are there any reports in the media?

That's a different incident then, I saw police trying to coax a man down from the overhead road sign.

[john e]

one of the biggest problems for us is like we have seen against Luton and Huddersfield we start of well and look in cruise mode,
 then the opposition realise we arnt really that good and remember we fold quicker than a deck chair and start to have a go normally with some success

[PeterWithe]

They certainly started to press us aggressively much higher up the pitch after an hour. In a decent performance I was a bit disappointed with our fitness levels, I suppose it was a warm night but they got stronger as we faded.

[DeKuip]

the incident was a horrific three car pile up at the junction of the A34 and the Chester ROad, southbound, Birmingham side. All three cars seriously damaged. Two ambulances arrived while I was crawling up the northbound side and at half past ten the police had sealed the road so southbound traffic was going back on the A34 north.

Impossible to tell how three cars have a high speed collision on a two lane urban highway with no roads coming in. are there any reports in the media?

That's a different incident then, I saw police trying to coax a man down from the overhead road sign.

It doesn't help that the lights at the island under Spaghetti only let a few cars through before changing again - why they can't change the timing of these after a match to help traffic get away is beyond me. Not much comes the other way but what does then gets held up by cars at the lights trying to join Lichfield Road from Cuckoo Road.
Traffic management around Villa Park is very poor for a major stadium and has been for the last 2 or 3 years.