Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Post Match Thread

[Phil from the upper holte]

I did too

[AvFc4eVeR]

Disappointing, Frustrating, Promising.

Negatives;


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.

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.

I agree totally, was very weird atmosphere today.

Prices far too high, I booked tickets on phone and I had to borrow booking refs as the club classes today as a derby match!?!

The club need to relax their ridiculous rules and we might of been closer to 35k today!

The Holte was pretty full however, so doesn't really explain the lack of energy?

Needs to be like Rotherham and Huddersfield every week!

An unwritten rule I have is you can usually tell how the atmosphere will be from how loud and long the 'Villa Villa...' chant is when the players come out. Today it was barely audible and it never really picked up from there, apart from the spell after the goals obviously. First half was eerily silent, as quiet as any game last season.

You're not wrong my friend.

We also need some fresh songs, this maybe part of the problem, every week it's "Holte-Enders in the Sky", "Villa, Villa, Villa...." or "On the piss my lord...."

Maybe it's just boredom?!

I must say the Forest fans were as good as our away following if not better, fair play to them.

[Matt Collins]

Not sure about Ayew though...its something about his body language doesn't strike me as the best way to build a teamspirit.
He has so much talent, it just isn't applied at  winning together with his teammates...it looks like he is trying to win despite them.

Ayew was brilliant in the 2nd half and played a big part in both of our goals.

Hopefully he'll watch the video of that spell in the second half when he ran at people, looked up and passed the ball.

In the first half he was just a glorified Zog. Running with the ball until he was tackled or blazed the ball wide.

Great player, just frustrating a lot of the time

Apart from when he crossed to kodjia for the header blocked on the line

And when he picked it up deep, ran at two, played it wide to kodjia to cross for McCormack to hit the post

Oh and when he went past two and then hit his shot wide of the near post (admittedly should have hit the shot better)

As far as I could tell, he created five brilliant chances and hit the woodwork from 20 yards, plus i think he won the ball back 9 times

Apart from THAT - yeah very frustrating

[AvFc4eVeR]

I couldn't hear Forest at all from the Upper Holte, the atmosphere seemed decent from were I was to be fair.

i am about 12 seats away from the away fans and hardly heard the holte apart from a ten min spell after we equalised. forest did make some noise

however the acoustics are a bit strange at vp, ive been in a1 in the upper trinity and have struggled to hear the holte

I was in North Upper, for both today and vs Rotherham in almost same place and it was like a library today in comparison!

[PeterWithe]

Best player in the division on that sort of form, just could do with a bit more zip and urgency.

[QuintonVilla]

What's worrying is we're playing ok and arguably should have won every game, apart from Sheffield Wednesday where a draw would have been fair. Huddersfield, Derby, today we should have been out of sight in all three games. Bristol City we missed chances to go 2-0 up. What happens when we actually have a bad patch and we're playing poorly?!

I do think though we're a bit unlucky. Today they have one pot shot and another chance that could have fallen to anyone and scored twice. Derby away we had no luck and could have scored two on another day. Hopefully our luck turns while we're still playing quite well and we'll dismantle someone!

[PeterWithe]

It does seem to point to that someone is going to get a right tattering soon.

[Matt Collins]

I really thought that day was today

In fairness, we could genuinely have had 5 very easily

[myf]

It's not about luck to me. Not over 7 matches against mediocre opposition at best.  We have serious problems taking our chances, defending a lead and concentrating in the last 5 minutes of a match.

I didn't expect all problems to be sorted out so soon but I did expect more than one win in 7. RDM needs to sort it out and fast.

[QuintonVilla]

I think it will be Brentford. 4-0. (I'm going to keep saying this until I'm right, been saying it since the Huddersfield game when I said we'd win 4-0!)

To be fair I think Brentford will actually try and play a bit more football than Forest and it will help us. Forest were only interested in breaking up the play and time wasting.

[QuintonVilla]

It's not about luck to me. Not over 7 matches against mediocre opposition at best.  We have serious problems taking our chances, defending a lead and concentrating in the last 5 minutes of a match.

I didn't expect all problems to be sorted out so soon but I did expect more than one win in 7. RDM needs to sort it out and fast.

Maybe luck is the wrong word, but McCormack off the bar at Derby, his effort off the post today, the one that hit Ayew and bounced wide. I just sit there and think 'If that was up the other end it would have bounced in'.

[aj2k77]

It's not about luck to me. Not over 7 matches against mediocre opposition at best.  We have serious problems taking our chances, defending a lead and concentrating in the last 5 minutes of a match.

I didn't expect all problems to be sorted out so soon but I did expect more than one win in 7. RDM needs to sort it out and fast.

Exactly, it's nothing to do with luck which doesn't exist. It's faults that need ironing out or we will keep repeating these results over and over again.

[Matt Collins]

Luck doesn't exist?

Ever heard of roulette?

[sickbeggar]

Best we've played for ages. Stats can lie but not in this case. Just one of those things. Chelsea hammered Swansea and only got a draw so if it happens to the likes of them......well, not ready to panic yet, especially seeing we were missing players.  Incredably frustrating for everyone but keep the faith.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's not about luck to me. Not over 7 matches against mediocre opposition at best.  We have serious problems taking our chances, defending a lead and concentrating in the last 5 minutes of a match.

I didn't expect all problems to be sorted out so soon but I did expect more than one win in 7. RDM needs to sort it out and fast.

Exactly, it's nothing to do with luck which doesn't exist. It's faults that need ironing out or we will keep repeating these results over and over again.

That depends what you're defining as "luck".