SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I think McCormack could be excellent in a formation that suits him. Unfortunately that formation may not suit others, so Risso could unfortunately be right. I hope not though.

With regards to this game, to echo what others have said we played poorly and got a point. Fine. We draw too many though!

[itbrvilla]

Scapegoat time, but a deserved one. Westwood, retire please, you are fucking wank, do one, he's worth about £20 a day mowing the pitch, shouldn't be anywhere near it, the ultimate useless fanny of a midfielder that I've ever seen. Crap at football, not good at a single thing.

Scrapped through that one, please potato head learn from it. Whatever midfield you pick, keep that guy out of it.

I thought we were very poor today and McCormack is wasted playing wider, not the position for him at all. It's through the centre of not at all. Gabby getting a run out, well, what to say, he's a c*** who should never play for us again. He's burnt his bridges and can fuck off the fat piss taking lazy twat.

A good point because we were so poor, on to next week, we have to up the tempo in midfield, hopefully Bacuna is back (who thought we'd ever say that again?). 6 pts from the play offs, onwards and upwards.

The rags, the usual collection of sly, rag tag, niggling c***s to match their fans who crawled out of the woodwork for their world cup every 4 years. We're crap and you still can't beat us.

Can't disagree  with you

[barrysleftfoot]

Was wondering what the consensus on Westwood would be, on the way home WM thought he had played well, but i agree with the opinions on here, i was struggling to think of anything he had done.

 Baker was MOM for me, rarely lets you down in these kind of games, Chester and Amavi played well as well, although Amavi should have done better for their goal.The midfield need to keep the ball better, and use it better.Get better passes to our better players.Jedinek was solid, but all the midfield to me was too happy to just boot the ball away, instead of having a bit more belief in their abailities.

 When they equalised, i actually thought we played better.Poor free kick from McCormack in the last minute, but a opoint at St A is about where we are atm.

[aj2k77]

McCormack looks like a very expensive mistake to me.

McCormack looks like a player bought with no thought to how he was going to fit in to the team being assembled and that's because with Di Crappeo I don't think he did have an idea, he just bought some players who have scored goals. We essentially have McCormack, Ayew and Grealish all covering the one position. Stupid planning.

[Ron Manager]

I beg to differ. He was ineffective today but will come good ,hopefully shortly. Gardner apart from his goal didn't impress which is the norm. Jedinak had an excellent game (sorry Paul) by far and away our best player. A draw was probably the fairest result for both clubs.

[aj2k77]

Hutton aside, Baker, Gollini, Chester and Amavi didn't look like they had a massive clanger in them, which is a big positive for us considering the keystone cops defending of the last few years.

It's such a shame that with all the money we spent we criminally neglected the midfield. We're one dynamic midfielder away from being able to link up the front to the back decently.

[cdbearsfan]

McCormack will come good.

And we'd have lost today of Di Matteo was in charge. There's no doubt that we are making progress.

If any of our attackers play to their potential, we could hammer Blackburn next week.

[Clark W Griswold]

Unless we're 2 divisions up on the scrotes, a draw away must always be considered OK as they are always well up for it, it's their cup final. So yes, I'm pleased enough, especially considering we didn't really play that well.
Whereas before we were shit in possession and shit without possession, we are now only shit in possession so he's halfway there. That's the most organised we've looked for months and the players willingness to chase down was impressive. Westwood was pretty crap again, McCormack is out of position there so can't really be faulted. I think it was the only real sub he could do though at that point. Gabby looked interested and a little fitter than I expected but he did only do 15 mins.
So, undefeated, 8 points from 4 games including 2 derbies, much better. If he can make them more coherent in possession and improve the midfield in January the playoffs are possible.

[Chris Smith]

Good to see that we are developing some resilience, being difficult to beat is half the battle. If you take the local derby element out of it then a point away against a team pushing for the top 6 is a decent result. They were very direct and the two centre backs plus Jedinak were solid all game in standing up to it.

[rougegorge]

Hutton aside, Baker, Gollini, Chester and Amavi didn't look like they had a massive clanger in them, which is a big positive for us considering the keystone cops defending of the last few years.

It's such a shame that with all the money we spent we criminally neglected the midfield. We're one dynamic midfielder away from being able to link up the front to the back decently.

Exactly. RDM has a lot to answer for there. Jedinak did OK at what he's supposed to do but there's little technique and creativity in there. It looks like an average championship midfield. Even if we sort that out in January it could be too late for this season.

[tomd2103]

McCormack looks like a very expensive mistake to me.

McCormack looks like a player bought with no thought to how he was going to fit in to the team being assembled and that's because with Di Crappeo I don't think he did have an idea, he just bought some players who have scored goals. We essentially have McCormack, Ayew and Grealish all covering the one position. Stupid planning.

Agree with this and I can only really see McCormack playing in the 'number 10' position, which we aren't employing at the moment. 

[john2710]

Happy to come away with a point, a complete lack of quality throughout the game. The game cried out for someone to put a foot on the ball & look up.

Gollini - had nothing to do
Hutton - a Birmingham City player if ever I saw one.
Amarvi - in the team because of his quality but was very poor with the ball
Chester - MOTM
Baker - won most things in the air
Jedinak - protected the back four well. Best display to date.
Gardener - nice goal but no quality
Westwood - I'm no fan but gets blamed, by some, for everything.
Ayew - flatters to deceive, too casual
McCormack - a luxury but wasted out wide. Could have made a difference if played in his best position.
Kodija - got no service. Knobbled twice by Shotton.

[Meanwood Villa]

Re Westwood, the only times he did get involved he fucked it up. Firstly not hitting the target when the keeper was miles out (incidentally,  surely Adomah was fouled there) and then doing a crappy floaty dink instead of playing the man in when he was gifted the ball. He's crap.

[aj2k77]

Hutton aside, Baker, Gollini, Chester and Amavi didn't look like they had a massive clanger in them, which is a big positive for us considering the keystone cops defending of the last few years.

It's such a shame that with all the money we spent we criminally neglected the midfield. We're one dynamic midfielder away from being able to link up the front to the back decently.

Exactly. RDM has a lot to answer for there. Jedinak did OK at what he's supposed to do but there's little technique and creativity in there. It looks like an average championship midfield. Even if we sort that out in January it could be too late for this season.

I think the division is so poor on quality that just by us being organised and committed we can pick up enough points to still be in contention and then can't right the wrongs of Di Matteo's brain dead reign.

[Pete3206]

I'm sure Mr Bruce has already identified the need for midfield reinforcements in January. Westwood was fucking shite as usual.