Cardiff City vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[clash city rocker]

You can imagine the conversation between SB and The doctor.....how many HOW FUCKIN MUCH ??

[brontebilly]

How did Gabby play today (as in how well)? In the last Cardiff game I thought he did pretty well despite hitting their keeper in a one on one.

Decent enough, couple of good shots and added some much needed presence up there. Dribbling skills have long deserted him though, tries to turn a lad and ends up falling over quite a bit.

Still looks as if he needs to shift weight mind, McCormack too

[Chris Jameson]

The time to give Bruce any stick is when he's had a chance to bring in players, are people forgetting how abysmal we've been for years? Di Matteo was happy with the midfielders we had and for that reason alone he should never manage a club again. Hutton is one of the worst players I've ever seen in a Villa shirt but who could play right back instead?

If by February we still have Westwood and Gardner as first team regulars then I'll probably join in with those who seemingly never wanted Bruce to succeed but until that moment arrives he needs to be given the chance to sort the mess out.

[Dlp]

We were lucky to get a win against Burton and lucky to get a draw against Leeds, I did think we could at least manage a draw against a struggling side. How naive of me.

[Clampy]

Just watched the highlights. Should have been four down at half time but could have easily finished 1-1.

[The Edge]

Joey Barton.

Ideal for a few betting tips.

And just re-signed for Burnley.

Good. I wouldn't want him anywhere Villa Park.

[Villafirst]

It's still going to take time to sort the mess which started 5 years ago. The January transfer window and particularly next summer will be crucial. Steve Bruce needs time to bring in HIS own players! I'll trust him after getting 4 teams promoted previously.

[Skerra]

Chris, I'm not one to give SB any stick at this stage but, as a season ticket holder and, having watched all the home matches and quite a few of the away matches, the standard of play has still been nowhere like good enough. Also, I have been scratching my head at most of his starting line ups. I think his idea is still to hope to keep at 0-0 up to half time and then bring on some of the big guns from the bench. That to me is not the way to do it. Pick your strongest team always, put the opponents under pressure, score a couple of goals and then shut up shop in last 10/15 minutes. With his starting selections we rarely look like scoring which I think is the main problem.

[Marton]

Einstein once defined "idiocy" as doing the same thing twice expecting different results...
.....Aston Villa has now done the Westwood-thing 146 times expecting any result...
...would Einstein even have a name for that behavior?

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

didn't see the game but just watched the highlights and it looked like we had loads of chances and were a bit unlucky. Agbonlahor had a great chance which was deflected over.

We need to bring in some premiership players who are not getting games for their current clubs who will hit the ground running. Midfielders for sure. Brucie must surely know Gardner and Westwood are not what we need.

[saunders_heroes]

According to a certain 'whoscored' stat website Ashley Westwood had just 3 touches of the ball today. Surely that's not true, even for someone as appalling as him?

[QuintonVilla]

According to a certain 'whoscored' stat website Ashley Westwood had just 3 touches of the ball today. Surely that's not true, even for someone as appalling as him?

And 2 of those were in the warm up.

[Toronto Villa]

According to a certain 'whoscored' stat website Ashley Westwood had just 3 touches of the ball today. Surely that's not true, even for someone as appalling as him?

What would Gary Neville and the Sky panel have made about that?

[tomd2103]

According to a certain 'whoscored' stat website Ashley Westwood had just 3 touches of the ball today. Surely that's not true, even for someone as appalling as him?

Wasn't there an article the other week listing a number of goalkeepers who had touched the ball with their feet more than Westwood had on that day?

[saunders_heroes]

9 touches of the ball between both Westwood and Gardner. Truly abysmal if true.