Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Post Match Thread

[QuintonVilla]

Disappointing, Frustrating, Promising.

Negatives;

Gardner and Westwood cannot be allowed to play together again, neither were anywhere near good enough, if one was replaced with Jedi or Tish then we may have won.

Bunn should have done better with their first, wasn't far away from him at all. Weak.


The Holte End; shocking, like a morgue at times, admittedly I was in North Upper and I was louder. It should be a condition of sale of a ticket in the Holte that all fans must sing! Forest made us look like mutes! Embarrassing.

Positives;

Jack is growing into a brilliant player, he is using his skill and ball retention ability to bring others into the game more than previously.

Kodjia had a fantastic debut, his ability and pace was a pleasant surprise, the only thing missing was a goal, it will come.

Ayew is clearly a cut above this level, if RDM can get him to channel his sulks into beating the man in front of him he can be unstoppable in this division.

The front players in general are starting to acclimatise, as others have said with a bit more luck, we are going to give someone a right hiding sooner rather than later.

Fighting back from 1-0 down was very pleasing rather than the usual collapse, this in a team that is in its infancy in terms of fresh faces is very encouraging. Keep it up.

Good substitution bringing on Gestede but we sat back after going 2-1, with four strikers on the pitch we need to find that killer instinct. Or shore things up in the middle as has been said.


Bring on Brentford, where our winning streak begins!

I said the same about the atmosphere, it was dead. I know it was an early kick off but a localish team, new signings, I thought it would be decent especially as the Rotherham and Huddersfield games were rocking at times. Ticket prices were too high though imo, £37 is too much for a Championship game especially on the TV. Same prices against Newcastle and Wolves, again both on TV. We need wins between now and then to get anywhere near 35,000.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I quite enjoyed the match today, despite the late equaliser. Thought we started ok then sort of retreated into our shell before going for it again. Thought RDM made a HUGE gamble going almost 4-1-5 which saw us go ahead but with the benefit of hindsight he really should have tightened it up once we did with another substitution.

At 0-1 i'd have bit yer hand off for a draw (obviously) and 2-1 i thought we'd have got another one or two, alas we didn't.

We're learning, we're evolving and we'll get plenty more wins eventually.

But I am already getting annoyed at hearing people talk about must win games and moaning as if we've blown it already. There are FORTY games to go, and ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY points to play for.

The moaners would no doubt enjoy the season a damn sight more if they just forgot about promotion and just enjoyed the games on a game by game basis with no further thought than that. We'll go back up one day, when we deserve to, whether that's this season, next season, the season after that blah blah blah

Just try and enjoy the football, because to my eyes it's already (in the main) been a bloody darn sight better than the last five years of crap

[Phil from the upper holte]

59%. Possession shots. We're making progress under other manager we've been lucky to get 30%

[Risso]

"The moaners".  Well done.  I don't call one win in six in the second division anything at all to write home about.

[Des Little]

It's simple - until RDM learns how to close a game down, we are going throw points away left right and centre. As soon as we went 2-1 up, he should have brought Jedinak on and pulled the shutters down. Basic game management.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I quite enjoyed the match today, despite the late equaliser. Thought we started ok then sort of retreated into our shell before going for it again. Thought RDM made a HUGE gamble going almost 4-1-5 which saw us go ahead but with the benefit of hindsight he really should have tightened it up once we did with another substitution.

At 0-1 i'd have bit yer hand off for a draw (obviously) and 2-1 i thought we'd have got another one or two, alas we didn't.

We're learning, we're evolving and we'll get plenty more wins eventually.

But I am already getting annoyed at hearing people talk about must win games and moaning as if we've blown it already. There are FORTY games to go, and ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY points to play for.

The moaners would no doubt enjoy the season a damn sight more if they just forgot about promotion and just enjoyed the games on a game by game basis with no further thought than that. We'll go back up one day, when we deserve to, whether that's this season, next season, the season after that blah blah blah

Just try and enjoy the football, because to my eyes it's already (in the main) been a bloody darn sight better than the last five years of crap

Spot on

[Matt Collins]

I thought grealish was really good to begin with but less good second half - quite a few things didn't come off

But it may be that at the game his influence was more apparent

McCormack was the weakest attacking player, despite the goal

[AvFc4eVeR]

Why doesn't Grealish shoot? Not saying he should every time but it opened up a few times for him today, one time especially in the second half and he chose to pass and lost the ball.

Jack has averaged 1.3 shots per game this season and has scored two goals with one assist, that shows he will only shoot when inside the area and when he is certain he will hit the target.

I will be happy for him to continue in that mould.

[Pete3206]

Why on earth do successive managers favour Westwood? 2-1 up, bring Jedinek on and job done.

Westwood is shit.

Shit.

[Rigadon]

We absolutely fucking battered them. If we keep playing like that we will win the league by ten points. Forest were jammy as fuck.

For me too.  Most sides in this league are shite and the best of them bang average at best.  When we start to click we will be unplayable (in a championship context).

[cdbearsfan]

Harsh on McCormack. It's his job to score and that's what he did.

And that is what he should have done in the first half with ample room to do so instead of finding the post. I like having a 'sniffer' if he can sniff when the opportunity comes along. If he can't he's a passenger.

If he gets in goalscoring position twice per game, misses one and scores one, every game... I'll be happy enough.

[cdbearsfan]

Why on earth do successive managers favour Westwood? 2-1 up, bring Jedinek on and job done.

Westwood is shit.

Shit.

Jedinak was about to come on when they equalised. He probably should've been on five minutes earlier, to be fair.

[Ian.]

We'll soon get it together, I'm not worried at all. It's been a long summer of comings and goings. It will settle down and I'm confident RDM will know his best 11 a lot sooner than Tim last season.

[Matt Collins]

Harsh on McCormack. It's his job to score and that's what he did.

And that is what he should have done in the first half with ample room to do so instead of finding the post. I like having a 'sniffer' if he can sniff when the opportunity comes along. If he can't he's a passenger.

If he gets in goalscoring position twice per game, misses one and scores one, every game... I'll be happy enough.

Also, he's playing number 10 so it's his job to more than score - something he's very capable of.

Ayew isn't scoring but he's so dangerous coming inside. When adomah is fit to give us genuine width, you can't drop ayew at the moment, so either jack or McCormack will have to give way

And that's before we consider gestede. He's a bit of a donkey but he's a threat at home in particular

Really interesting to see how we line up on weds

[olaftab]

Snatching a draw from the jaws of victory.

Can't stand watching this any more.

The level of aggravation week in-week out just does my head in.

RDM really needs to learn how to make this squad successful, and fast.

A gonads loaded opener of a post!