Aston Villa v Brentford Post Match Thread

[Stu]

First time tonight it sounded like the crowd turned on them at the end.

Well I can't speak for every Villa fan, obviously, but I'm pretty sure every Villa fan is sick of throwing points away every single match.

Boo, boo like fuck. This is shit.

[KRS]

What a load of absolute shitey shite. Same shite, different day.

[QuintonVilla]

£51m spent and we're defending a 1-0 lead against Brentford at home? Embarrassing and nowhere near good enough.

Patience will wear thin.

[kippaxvilla2]

We need time to gel.  Look at how Newcastle are struggling.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

With 5 minutes to go, I went off for dinner thinking we can't fuck up again.

Serious questions need to be asked. Everybody knows you have to battle for every point in this league yet we seem to have decided to go against the grain and not buy a midfield. Strikers and attacking midfielders we have by the tonne but battlers we have one.

[Monty]

Why does every team have some sort of togetherness and positivity and gumption and rev, apart from us? It's so tepid and lethargic and just so boring, the way we play. Like nobody has any energy. I just don't get it.

[Le Lapin]

How is the same mindset, the same mental fragilities and the same mistakes that plagued us for the last four or five seasons, how, how has that followed us, with different players, followed us into a different league? I can't fathom how such a destructive mindset has ingrained itself at the club.

[Loxton01]

We have led in five matches this season and only won one. That is simply not good enough! Like many the forest game I had renewed hope that we were making progress and it was just down to bad luck but clearly it is not!!!!!! Tonight we were dominated for long periods.

 From listening to the commentary I barely heard the names of Westwood and jedinak and I would be really interested to understand their contribution in the game from people who went? For me you can't play both as they lack mobility retreat and cause us to drop deeper and deeper. The concern is we have little alternative. The team lacks balance. We have bought a lot of quality upfront but the midfield looks very weak and that's where you win the battle

Also RDM needs to get a grip as come November of things aren't improved he will be gone. The DR won't keep standing for this

[PaulWinch again]

Why does every team have some sort of togetherness and positivity and gumption and rev, apart from us? It's so tepid and lethargic and just so boring, the way we play. Like nobody has any energy. I just don't get it.

I'm pretty underwhelmed by our 'leaders' at the moment.

[brontebilly]

1 win in 8 (Inc Luton)
4 goals conceded after 85 mins leading to 7 dropped points
Steve Clarke on bench as a ready made replacement
RDM is bang in trouble imo, we are right back to square one. A couple of more games without a win and sustained improvement and he is dispensable.

His starting line up today displayed a level of tactical naivety that Paul Lambert would struggle to surpass, it was mildly insulting to the opposition. His game management has been a joke since day one.

The so called proven performers at this level De Laet, Elphick, Chester, Jedinak and McCormack all need a serious reality check, it might have been ok as in Mccormack's case to rock up at clubs with no ambition a stone or two overweight but that should not be tolerable at AVFC (anymore).

[Marton]

We need a manager that doesn't think his work is done by picking the team.

If the plan isn't working, stand the fuck up and coach from the sideline at least until it doesn't look so bloody obvious we are going to concede! Going hedgehog with a lone striker....it  doesn't work when that lone striker is the least mobile man on the pitch!

[kippaxvilla2]

By the way did my ears deceive me or were brentfords fans singing 'boring boring Villa' towards the end?

[walsall villain]

I've only seen the home games which up until tonight we should have won. The last 55 minutes tonight has seen my optimism evaporate, what were we doing! Brentford played with drive and at a high tempo and we just sat back and let it happen. Who was the red haired number 15 for them? We let him spray passes around all second half, never got a foot in, never got close to him. Kodjia was the only bright spot for me.

[curiousorange]

That first half against Forest, we were as good as we've been for years. I appreciate Grealish had a knock, but where did that Aston Villa disappear to? We seem to be the masters of ignoring that old chestnut about taking one game at a time, and treating them as if they are chapters in a very long, very underwhelming modern history.

[clash city rocker]

Leaving a man unmarked at the far post is unacceptable in even the Sunday leagues.