Aston Villa v Wolves Post-Match Thread

[mr underhill]

you do, for not battering us.

[ChicagoLion]

First match at VP this season. That team is no where near good enough to get any where near the top of the league. We have spent a lot of money on very ordinary players. McCormick was terrible and so off the pace. Jedinak legs have gone we have no midfield.
Bruce has his work cut out and Doctor Tony is going to need to spend a lot more money if he wants to get out of this league.

[simboy]

Well, in the Lower Holte we had our first "sort it out Bruce" after twenty minutes or so, criticism of the substitution of Jedinak ( "first sub and he brings that wanker on") and then a full on rant about bringing on Hutton and Baker... "should be trying to win this fucking game Bruce",without obviously working out Elphick and Richards were injured. ("Should've brought Ayew on")

We are all entitled to our opinions but give the manager a break! Seventy two hours and he's supposed to turn this mess around?

We got a point, we probably shouldn't have... I will live with it ... if it's still the same come the Burton game on Boxing Day then I will start to grumble.

[john e]

I think it's difficult for anyone who was dead against Bruce coming in like me to say anything which sounds reasonable and unbiased

But yesterday had nothing to do with Bruce,
 he's only been here 5 minutes and none of the players were his buys, as far as I'm concerned if we'd have won, lost or drawn it wouldn't have made any difference to what I think of him as a manager

I do think we see what we want to see though, if we had have won yesterday we would have got the ' we've started to win some games that's why we bought him in' type quotes,
on the match thread in the first half someone said they looked like a different side, when in reality they were exactly the same

I never wanted Bruce and  just because we got him doesn't mean I can pretend otherwise but I support Villa so like the rest if us I want to see us win games

we are all pissed off with the way thing are at the moment no matter who the manager is,
the only difference between me and the people who wanted Bruce is that at least you have hope that Bruce is the right man to turn it around and can look forward to better things including promotion even if it comes next season
Whereas I don't have that hope or belief so your in a better place than me right now

[Clampy]

First half, I thought we were ok and looked solid enough without doing anything spectacular. Second half was really poor though and I said in the car on the way home that they all looked absolutely knackered. Wolves players were all running round as if the game had just started towards the end of the game. It was a point we didn't really deserve.

[Ads]

The only plus point I can draw from the game is that for the first time in a long time we got a positive result we didn't deserve.

[VillaAlways]

I never wanted Bruce and  just because we got him doesn't mean I can pretend otherwise but I support Villa so like the rest if us I want to see us win games

we are all pissed off with the way thing are at the moment no matter who the manager is,
the only difference between me and the people who wanted Bruce is that at least you have hope that Bruce is the right man to turn it around and can look forward to better things including promotion even if it comes next season
Whereas I don't have that hope or belief so your in a better place than me right now

I find it difficult to fathom that you have no hope in a manager that has achieved promotion 4 times previously ? It makes no sense. I can understand you not liking him because of his style etc but to state you feel we have no chance of going up under him is just being negative for negatives sake when his record suggests otherwise

[London Villan]

Are there any decent free agents out there he could bring in.

[Taylor]

What I find totally confusing, is that at the start of the season we were playing well but not getting the points we deserved. We played well against Huddersfield, Forest and Derby for example. But since the second half against Brentford we have been woeful. What has changed? Maybe we should drop Jedinak, we seemed to play better before he arrived.

[VillaAlways]

What I find totally confusing, is that at the start of the season we were playing well but not getting the points we deserved. We played well against Huddersfield, Forest and Derby for example. But since the second half against Brentford we have been woeful. What has changed? Maybe we should drop Jedinak, we seemed to play better before he arrived.

It doesn't seem to make any difference whether we play crap, well or just ok Winning games just seems an impossibility

[Des Little]

What really worried me was how much fitter they were than us...just like Huddersfield were early on. Quite what RDM and his team were doing clearly wasn't good enough, so there's a lot of hard work needed in that department. I think we need to realise that we are miles off competing for the play offs this season after that showing.

[Tayls_7]

What I find totally confusing, is that at the start of the season we were playing well but not getting the points we deserved. We played well against Huddersfield, Forest and Derby for example. But since the second half against Brentford we have been woeful. What has changed? Maybe we should drop Jedinak, we seemed to play better before he arrived.

It's because players are effected by levels of confidence. Negativity is infectious and in our case seemingly difficult to address. Players are humans not robots. Jedinak in the grand scheme of things has eff all to do with it.

[PeterWithe]

What really worried me was how much fitter they were than us...just like Huddersfield were early on. Quite what RDM and his team were doing clearly wasn't good enough, so there's a lot of hard work needed in that department. I think we need to realise that we are miles off competing for the play offs this season after that showing.

Yup, Wolves and Hudds fans I know both said pre games that they would be fitter than us, both were correct. On the bright side it should be quite easy to correct that. Shouldn't it?

[Rudy65]

I never wanted Bruce and  just because we got him doesn't mean I can pretend otherwise but I support Villa so like the rest if us I want to see us win games

we are all pissed off with the way thing are at the moment no matter who the manager is,
the only difference between me and the people who wanted Bruce is that at least you have hope that Bruce is the right man to turn it around and can look forward to better things including promotion even if it comes next season
Whereas I don't have that hope or belief so your in a better place than me right now

I find it difficult to fathom that you have no hope in a manager that has achieved promotion 4 times previously ? It makes no sense. I can understand you not liking him because of his style etc but to state you feel we have no chance of going up under him is just being negative for negatives sake when his record suggests otherwise

And as recently as last season

[SoccerHQ]

Are there any decent free agents out there he could bring in.

Leon Osman was on 5 live the other night which reminded me he's still alive.

Don't think he's retired.