Aston Villa v Brentford Post Match Thread

[adrenachrome]

It was ghastly. I predict sub 20000 gates before too long.

[PeterWithesShin]

No chance, that would mean virtually no away fans or game by game fans.

[adrenachrome]

I predict twelvety unless they classify everybody as school children and discount accordingly.

Seriously though, I was in K5 tonight, and looking over to where I usually go in P6, primo seats on the half way line, there were vast swaves of emptiness.

[RichardBatchelor]

You'd think that no matter how bad we are or how shite we're playing, the sheer mathematics of the law of averages would once, JUST ONCE, allow us to hold on to a lead ffs!

[jwarry]

Haven't seen the game but bizarrely I feel less frustrated than usual.  The stats suggest Brentford played better on the night so fair play to them. Don't feel I can complain if they deserved it. It's far more frustrating when we piss all over a team and don't win.  That said I didn't sit through it thankfully

[curlytailavfc]

the curse of lambert lives on oh for a real manager with a game plan

[Phil from the upper holte]

Somebody on the match thread mentioned sticking Richards in the midfield with a brief to just be there, chase the ball and then keep it. Not a bad idea at this stage I reckon. We might as well use him while we're paying him.

As ideas go that's pretty terrible

[QuintonVilla]

To play four forwards those two central midfielders behind them have to be top drawer. Ours aren't.

[LukeJames]

I didn't watch the game, apart from the goals, what gets me is the replies on here are pretty unanimous in that Brentford were the better team and running through our midfield at will, yet Tony Cottee watching the match in SSN repeatedly said Brentford offered nothing and we looked comfortable throughout, bit then again he did also say Brentford never looked like scoring, 2 minutes before they scored.

[Nelly]

Somebody on the match thread mentioned sticking Richards in the midfield with a brief to just be there, chase the ball and then keep it. Not a bad idea at this stage I reckon. We might as well use him while we're paying him.

As ideas go that's pretty terrible

That may have been me. It was just because we were getting swamped again in midfield, we could have used someone with some legs and energy to compete. We had no one on the bench who could do this, hence my desperation. I don't want Richards in the Villa squad, I just want to win for once.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

shoehorning too many attackers into the side
playing 4 2 4
conceding late goals
poor fitness levels
taking our foot off the gas second half
not being clinical in front of goal
being light in central midfield
poor in game management
lack of defensive awareness

i just wish i knew what the problem was

rdm will be gone by the end of october

[Clampy]

He's grasping around for tactics hoping to fall onto the right one like Sherwood.

He'll accidently land on his feet rather than his arse. Right now that's my only hope.

It's not how you get promoted or even close to it. Get rid before its too late to scrape the play offs.

And bring in who? I'd stick with him personally.

Some have said 'stick with the current manager' for years.
Fuck, some were still backing Lambert right up to the day he went.
If it clearly isn't working, do something about it.

I feel dirty for saying it but I'd bring in Bruce.

As disappointing a start as it's been, it's virtually a new club from the chairman down to the players so we need to stick with it. Making changes after 7 games would be such a unnecessary knee jerk reaction and totally the wrong one too.

[OzVilla]

For some reason, this result has pissed me off more than any I can recall for ages.  Today's been just a total downer. 

Thanks again Villa you tosspots.

[Bad English]

I was watching Gomorrah on DVD. The football app on my phone went 'Bing!' to tell me someone had scored. I checked my phone, and saw we were one up. Later on the phone went 'Bing!' again. I didn't even look at the screen as I could have put my house on the score being level.

[Chris Smith]

We were ok first half without ever dominating. Second half we were mostly second best save for a short spell after Amavi came on. For all that we probably had the better chances over the whole game. They deserved to get something from the game so one Villa fan went home happy at least.

The team just looked unbalanced, too early to panic but he needs to get a better balance in midfield and perhaps be slightly less gung-ho with selections.