Wolves v Aston Villa post match thread.

[myf]

Remember when we used to have central midfielders who ran forward with the ball and took people on?

[adrenachrome]

My first game at Villa Park was just over 50 years ago. In all of those years I cannot remember wanting a game to be over after 70 minutes when we were trailing by a single goal, but I did this evening.

I never thought that we would be promoted this season, but I wasn't expecting this.

[Villafirst]

What happened to the Villa who dominated away at Brighton  a couple of months ago? We looked really good that night.

[saunders_heroes]

Remember when we used to have central midfielders who ran forward with the ball and took people on?

It's been bloody years since we had midfielders like that.

[Durham58]

Another shocking performance, but in no way do I blame Bruce. Our squad is appalling and the blame for that  lies with Lerner, Lambert,  Riley and RDM.

Given time Bruce will sort this out, I am certain of that.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

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.

He talks shit because he says the right things but them does fuck all about it

we huffed and puffed - so get the fuckers fit and have some kind of strategy

Ross is here to score goals - really? Get the twat fit then

The performance and application against norwich was poor and unacceptable - just like cardiff and wolves then

[saunders_heroes]

McCormack fucked up the one chance we made today. 90+ minutes of football and we created just the one chance. That's the root of our problems really, we just don't create enough. The midfield is beyond a joke. For the love of god sort it out for once and all, Villa.

[adrenachrome]

Remember when we used to have central midfielders who ran forward with the ball and took people on?

It's been bloody years since we had midfielders like that.

Even when we had Barry I used to bang on about not having a midfielder scoring a header in the fashion of Platt or Taylor. In fact Barry, great payer that he was, missed bagloads. At least he was there to fuck them up, though.

The driving runs of Dennis Mortimer are a distant memory.

[VillaBoy_23]

I like Bruce but there comes a time when him talking sense needs to be transitioned into performances on the pitch and at the moment we looks as bad, if not worse than we did under RDM. Dreading the rest of the season tbh.

[passport1]

We may have spent £50m but as SB says we have bought players for the sake of buying them that are no improvement on what we already have then the sum spent is an irrelevance.

All that it has done is make solving the problem harder for SB since he has to get rid of much more dross before an improvement will be seen.

Anyone expecting our problems to be solved in one mid season transfer window is going to be disappointed.

[myf]

Remember when we used to have central midfielders who ran forward with the ball and took people on?

It's been bloody years since we had midfielders like that.

Even when we had Barry I used to bang on about not having a midfielder scoring a header in the fashion of Platt or Taylor. In fact Barry, great payer that he was, missed bagloads. At least he was there to fuck them up, though.

The driving runs of Dennis Mortimer are a distant memory.

Dare I say it, Delph.

[clash city rocker]

Apart from probably 2-3 players I don't think the rest have the quality to be in a top 6 championship side.  As for the premiership. ..ha ha

[tomd2103]

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?

Needs to spend the rest of the season piecing together a side that can win matches at this level with a view to having a real go at it next season.  I want to see some of the young players given a chance and serial wasters finally shifted out. 

[curiousorange]

From a logical viewpoint Ross McCormack can't be as terrible a striker as we've seen. He's scored far too many at this level for that to happen. So while Kodjia isn't around, Bruce has to treat him as the alpha striker and find a way to make him tick. I think we're all in agreement that long ball isn't really his thing. As for his partner, I'm one hundred percent sure it should be anybody but Agbonlahor. I think Hepburn-Murphy is being badly advised but I would rather see what he's got against the crappy Championship defences we face than know for certain Agbonlahor will be losing foot races to the likes of Stearman.

[saunders_heroes]

From a logical viewpoint Ross McCormack can't be as terrible a striker as we've seen. He's scored far too many at this level for that to happen. So while Kodjia isn't around, Bruce has to treat him as the alpha striker and find a way to make him tick. I think we're all in agreement that long ball isn't really his thing. As for his partner, I'm one hundred percent sure it should be anybody but Agbonlahor. I think Hepburn-Murphy is being badly advised but I would rather see what he's got against the crappy Championship defences we face than know for certain Agbonlahor will be losing foot races to the likes of Stearman.

The thing is though is that we're creating very little in way of chances for any striker to score from.