SHA 1 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[avfcpg]

Was never going to be pretty and sure enough it wasn't. Never seemed much space out there for anyone, and we seemed to get deeper and deeper in midfield.
Forwards need to hold it up an awful lot better to help us get up the pitch. We need Tish in Midfield of that 3, not one is creative enough or has the drive to get forward and make things happen.
Horrible game, decent point. Didn't think they were too good at all...just seemed to want to hoof if upfield a lot. Let them have their "we deserved it more" "you've wasted money" etc etc...I can see why they have now just got 2 points from the last 4 games with Huddersfield away next up.
We'll finish well above them...we're only going to get better.....
Oh and Rowett....that interview was truly embarrassing..

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I know football is all about scoring goals, but I thought Gardner was poor today. Had he not scored, he'd be getting some usual criticism on here I think.

Regarding Kodjia, he clearly has some skills, but he needs to learn when he has to pass the ball. He can't do it all himself.

[PeterWithe]

Watching it on the box I can say 'the Jed' was immense. I called Gabby's inclusion last week to my mate on the basis that if he came on for the last 15 and scored the slate would have been wiped clean and his latest escapades forgiven, he looked hungry in my opinion, good managership from Bruce if you ask me.  I can't enjoy those matches but I'd take the point, Blackburn on sat and then back to Australia.  VTID

Really? I thought he looked a decent auxiliary centre back but still treated the ball like nuclear waste.

If we are to do something this year we need an upgrade in Jan.

[kippaxvilla2]

I've heard it all now I'm sat in a pub behind enemy lines.  I overheard a conversation between two donkeys.  On mentioning that Darren Carter was playing at the Moors last week for Forest Green, donkey two announced proudly 'I named my son after him....'Darren? No fcukin Carter.  Poor kid.

[john e]

I think man city took 8 to 9 nine thousand to old Trafford in the week, night game and all that,
I'm sure there were incidents but the local plod didn't collectively shit their pants like our lot

if Brucey somehow gets us promoted this season we are going to need about 10 new players because that team won't last 5 minutes in the prem,

[QuintonVilla]

I thought their bloke with the stupid hair played Kodjia well. He got stuck into him and didn't allow him space. Kodjia was isolated though and had very little support.

Adomah going off was a blow as they'd have struggled with his pace. McCormack has been nothing short of 'meh' since he signed, where's the player who was at Fulham?!

Still baffled as to why our support was so crap aswell. In fact only Ipswich away this season has it not really been a case of "sing when we're winning". That game was awful but we sang incessantly second half. Every other game we've been fairly quiet when we haven't been winning which is not how we used to be. Let's get back to our vocal best at Brighton.

[supertom]

A Second tier derby with two sides lacking in genuine quality was always going to be an absolute pisser to watch. That was to be expected. It was a tight game. The had home advantage but I thought we did well and limited to them to only a few chances. Chester played well. Jedinak was excellent today. Our best player, though I'd say Shotton was man of the match overall.

If we've learned anything from today, it's that we need another midfielder. We need someone with a bit of composure, a football brain and someone with some technical quality to dictate the pace of the game. Jedinak is good at what he does. Gardner was okay, and if he can score the odd goal, he brings something as a midfielder who can break into the box. Westwood is piss. We can't play 3 slow midfielders in a three. It's got to be a three for want of having decent enough players for a two, but one of the three needs to be mobile, which is why we missed Bacuna today. Westwood is a ghost. I've never known a Villa player in my 27 years of watching, who disappears as consistently as Westwood. Non-existent.

McCormack will struggle under Bruce. I don't see Bruce playing a style or system that will get the best of him. He came into a three up top system, on the right handside and looked lost. The only point during the game he looked remotely like making something happen was when Gestede had come on, and he came in field and Gabby went on the right. I don't think he could adapt to becoming a midfielder instead either as he's not fit enough.

[olaftab]

In defence of McCormack, he's definitely not a right winger

And he is definitely not light of weight!

[olaftab]

A draw was fair, though they had the better chances. Kodjia needs someone right next to him.

At last a game that kicked off on a decent time for you Nik! Anyway i am in Tokyo in November staying 4 nights including Friday and Saturday so hope to run into you?

[olaftab]

He clearly wasn't faking injury. He has a cast on his arm now, the dirty bastards. 😠

Shhhh...did we make sure it's different colour from the one he had  last week?

[olaftab]

We got up the island where Morriarty's is and eventually hundreds of us just pushed left through the escort.

They were taking us right back to Aston. Fucking morons. All those police, time and effort because there was a couple hundred Noses in a pub.

They obviously knew, with their superior knowledge of rail lines, that you can catch a train  from Duddeston back to Aston. Flipping idiots!

[olaftab]

One  more plus is that we already have more points than total of last season.

[nodge]

That was a God awful game, there was no one on the field who had the nouse to control the ball and pass it, everything was simply hoofed up the field, I can understand it from them but we should have been better, thats two points dropped.

I could use those exact words for my son's game this afternoon.  That was Cheltenham Under 13 League Division 2 though.

[wittonwarrior]

Disappointed we couldn't beat what I would call a classy pub team but we didn't lose to them which would have been a nightmare.    Bit like Wimbledon drawing at Leeds in the cup.

Under RDM we would played a more attractive game and lost that's for sure. 

I am still concerned that we don't have what I would call a goal scorer at this level.  McCormack can't see the point of him right at the moment.  As for Fat arse, apart from his very first touch looked more like a SHA player just trying to provoke and kick people. 

Another season at this level is starting to look on the cards.

[DeKuip]

We're all in a giant escort being marched fuck knows where. My cars the other way!

Disgraceful.

Going to that place is like going back in time to the 70's and how football was then. I thought the police did very well today and obviously had a plan to stop the St Andrews throwbacks causing any problems.

No the police didn't do very well today at all. When I pay to attend a match I expect to be able to leave at the end. Not kept in for a miserable hour.
Deal with those that cause trouble when they do, instead of spoiling the ocassion for those wanting to watch football.
Most of us are quite capable of walking out of a ground and ignoring any brain dead morons who want to jump up down trying to look threatening behind police lines. And have the common sense to avoid potential trouble spots if we want to.
Imagine if we all decided to stay in a ground for an hour after a game had finished - we'd soon be kicked out.