Wolves v Aston Villa post match thread.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Attended game. Expected little (especially after Cardiff performance and no outfield incomings) and got little. Woeful performance!!
Johnstone-appears dominating, had little to do.
Hutton-poor ability, but has heart and attempts to drive forward
Amavi- awful first half except cross, not much of an improvement 2nd half
Chester-adequate today
Elphick- Did ok, but Baker is preferable
Jedinak-poor today. I think I've sussed him out. All presence and headers but no substance. Cannot direct a header or pass to a teammate.
Tishbola-Did ok. I don't understand why he was substituted in favour of bacuna pushing infield.
Adomah-adequate.Ive seen him play better, usually with Kodjia in the team.
McCormack-looked better than he did vs Cardiff. Should have scored with header. £12m championship players should be putting those chances away.

In my view we started the game with 9 players. After their poor performances and attitudes last season, both agbonlahor and bacuna should be nowhere near the 1st team this season. While we persist with last season's failures we will continue to struggle.

Big respect to both sets of fans for GT's tribute. Very moving!

[The_ads]

We've got the right man for the job but an absolute car crash of a squad

We need another 2 transfer windows to sort this shit out

[chippy]

Midfield was shocking as usual.  No skill, creativity or vision.  I can't believe we're halfway through the window without signing any midfielders. You would think it is such an obvious concern he would have had bids lined up from Jan 1st. Play-offs out of the window now. Need to start building a plan and style of play for next.

[Rudy65]

That was embarrassing, pathetic, desperately poor. Worst thing for me is it was predictable, I said we'd lose 1-0 and knew nobody would score for us. We think we can get promoted with Fat Gabby waddling about up front? Laughable.

Our away record and style of play is killing our away support. Numbers have been fantastic but so many games this season our actual support has been crap; Blues, Cardiff, today to name a few. I can understand that it's hard to sing when you're watching that garbage every week but we used to pride ourselves that we sang no matter what, now we're like an Everton or Liverpool who only sing when we're winning. Wolves fans are laughing more at how crap our fans were more than how crap our team was.

The fact anyone goes to the aways is a miracle. Strange to criticise them even if youre one yourself. The noise of the away support is the least of our problems

[Rudy65]

We've got the right man for the job but an absolute car crash of a squad

We need another 2 transfer windows to sort this shit out

If we continue like this Bruce will be gone at the end of the season

[Des Little]

Not long in from the game and not read the thread but here's my ramblings...

Firstly, every man jack and his son knew that we wouldn't score today...we managed to play with two false number 9's, which is a first.  Every forward ball was hit high and long, and neither Gabby or Ross can jump over a matchbox; end result being loss of possession and them breaking at pace (whatever that is). We've managed to make Gestede look desirable by playing like this.

Adomah seems incapable of beating his man, getting to the byline and cutting the ball back. This is how McCormack got many of his goals - pulling away from his marker in the box from the kind of passes we don't create. 

Where is the creativity in that midfield? I'll tell you - there is zero. All Wolves had to do was sit deep and we played pass after pass sideways and backwards without a single ounce of creativity or ability to play an incisive pass.

Until we overhaul that midfield, we won't improve. Teams will just employ the same tactics as Wolves did and will get the same result. I heard someone say that we are yet to score a goal in 2017 - if true then it tells you everything you need to know about the current state of our team.

Bruce has a massive fortnight ahead of him. Let's hope he can get what we so desperately need.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Depressing day all round. I had a bad feeling about today's match but still never expected anything quite that bad. Embarrassing performance.

I just can't believe that after everything that's gone on we still have Hutton, Gabby and Bacuna starting. For fucks sake.

I don't like knocking our fans but that was the quietest we've been in years. And add in the two shit-faced arseholes behind me plus Villa fans trying to fight each other at the station after the game, and you wonder why you bother.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I can't link to his comments but what Bruce has said wouldn't be out of place in this thread.
At least he see's it. Let's hope he does something about it.

He talks the talk but then does fuck all about it

compare the wolves game when he came in and compare todays wolves game and what the improvement has been

answers on the back of a stamp written in marker pen

More points per game than his predecessor? Let's face it the squad is midtable at best and that's what Bruce has achieved regardless of performances

Whoppee do

I stand by the point that we have made zero improvement under bruce

blackburn, wigan and burton at home where we huffed and puffed and were lucky to get 9 points against teams in the bottom 5

Lets see how we fare against teams in the top ten before we gush over his points per game ratio

So you'd rather we stuck with RDM or you'd have preferred someone other than Bruce? Who would that be?

Let's see how we fare when he's had chance to brung a few players in before we start calling for our 6th manager in 18 months.

Im not calling for his head, merely stating that he talks shit and needs to be questioned and held to account

[knowsleyvillain]

Another woeful performance only Chester and maybe Hutton came out with any credit,I agree its not been great under Bruce but lets give him a couple of transfer windows
to sign his own players before we start shouting to get rid.

[UK Redsox]

Good points point - Amavi's run and cross.

Funny point - watching Ross try to sprint after the ball against their fullback. Me and the bloke next to me burst out laughing

Bad points - everything else

[wittonwarrior]

Got  to say Hutton  was one of the best Villa Performers out there today. 

Disappointed  with Johnstone, 3 mistakes in the match one leading to the goal not helped  by our left back giving up the chase.

Would hate to be Steve Bruce right now, where does he start to put things right?

[PaulWinch again]

Amavi was poor, but he provided the only moment of quality we managed.

[SheffieldVillain]

Im not calling for his head, merely stating that he talks shit and needs to be questioned and held to account

When you say he 'talks shit', can you give some examples?

Because almost everything he says (bar perhaps about Gabby) is more or less what we say on here. If anything, it's the solving of the problems he talks about that is the issue, not what he says.

[olaftab]

We've got the right man for the job but an absolute car crash of a squad
We need another 2 transfer windows to sort this shit out

Gary Monk took over a fairly pathetic set up and has found a way to fix that without a transfer window.  Agree that the relegated squad was dire but since then we have spent 50 Million.

[Des Little]

Good points point - Amavi's run and cross.

Funny point - watching Ross try to sprint after the ball against their fullback. Me and the bloke next to me burst out laughing

Bad points - everything else

That McCormack 'sprint' was as embarrassing as it was comical. He moved about as fast as someone running with their pants around their ankles in a swimming pool. Which reminds me of a story...