The Mighty BRENTFORD 3-0 Aston Villa

[Grande Pablo]

Since we turned down the EUR20m bid for Amavi, he's contrived to reduce his value to almost nothing with a month full of chaotic performances.  Taylor in for the next game.

Kodjia needs a play mate up front.  Too isolated, & his head drops after missing the first chance.

[nick harper]

We lack intensity all over the pitch. No closing down higher up the pitch, forcing mistakes. We let them build up confidence and momentum by giving them time and space to play. Any team would have looked world beaters against us tonight.

And that Ryan Woods once again ran the game against us, as he did at VP.

[Nunkin1965]

I can't really offer much to what's being said here but we've managed to look even worse than we did at Wolves and that's an achievement in itself!

[Rudy65]

Bruce has been in since October. Zero progress since

[rougegorge]

If we hadn't made wholesale changes in January and had played like that I'd have despaired.
However having made all the signings it's even more dispiriting. It's totally taken away any enthusiasm and buoyancy engendered by the arrival of new players. I just hope they're better than they showed tonight.

Preston , Norwich, Cardiff , Wolves and now Brentford; each time you don't think it can get worse.

[paul_e]

Bruce has been in since October. Zero progress since

That's not true, we looked ok in October, it's ever since then that we've been getting worse and worse and the points from those games have been used to defend him.

[PeterWithesShin]

Lowlights

[UK Redsox]

Johnstone - Is he really any better than Goalkeeperini?
McCafu - did ok considering the lack of defensive support
Chester - worst game he's had for Villa
Baker - ok heading but struggles when players running at him
Amavi - he's not a defender

Thor - Surprised that he started ahead of Leo and doubt that he will again for a while
Angela - Ok until they started pressuring him
Hourihane - Very disappointed considering the rave reviews

Andre - probably the best of a bad bunch
Kod - Drifted wide too often in first hour. No use as a target man when the team went into lump it mode
Albert - started the season well but has faded badly

Hopefully this was just a bad night, when everything went wrong at once and the new setup with start to gel soon. If not Villa are in deep shit

[Simon Page]

On that television they showed the league table. The presenters spoke about how many points Brentford are above relegation and how many points Villa are from the play-offs. That's how the two clubs are viewed, one should be challenging for the title, the other should bugger off back to the lower leagues. It's pretty disrespectful though given the utter humping Brentford just handed to us. We're both in this division for a reason, but Christ that was leagues apart from the two sides.

They passed and moved because they knew, as a unit, what they were doing. We stuck an entirely new midfield out there. If all our players had been near top form that sort of shit or bust lack of tactical nous might work. Instead, the 11 strangers got pulled all over the park. Our problems go much further than the dug out, but why did he ever think it was smart to change the entire engine room in one go? Sometimes we are just shite, other times we give ourselves a helping shove.

[Steve67]

Jeez, that was crap. No intensity or pressing at all. Several really poor performers tonight. Two weak efforts on goal and easily missed our two best chances. Defensively inept too. Brentford taught how a team is supposed to play, they were excellent tonight. Yeah we need to gel, but effort all over the park is half the battle.

[Jimbo]

The only surprise is that some people are surprised. Nothing will ever surprise me again about this club. I'm so used to being shamed and humiliated, it barely registers. It certainly doesn't hurt any more.

I couldn't be arsed to watch this tonight because it was all so inevitable. But while I accept the new players will take time to gel, it sounds like it was a shambles all over the pitch. I still think the arrogant and complacent mindset at the club needs changing. Oh well, as long as we stay up, we can surely sort things out for next season.

[brian green]

If you can imagine the kind of bollocking Steve Bruce gave Ross McCormack, I think our manager could well be on the receiving end of some of the same medicine from Tony Xia.  I don't think our owner will put up with many more performances like tonight.  Tony deserves better.

[nodge]

For all the captains we've bought I didn't see one who looked like a leader for us tonight.

[nick harper]

Jeez, that was crap. No intensity or pressing at all. Several really poor performers tonight. Two weak efforts on goal and easily missed our two best chances. Defensively inept too. Brentford taught how a team is supposed to play, they were excellent tonight. Yeah we need to gel, but effort all over the park is half the battle.

Yes, that's it in a nutshell. Brentford closed us down all over the pitch and we kept lumping it back to them. We stood off them and they passed it around like it was a training session. You've got to win the battles to earn the right to play in this league and almost two thirds into the season, we still don't get it, particularly away from home.

[Allan C]

We're chucking money left, right, and centre. Newcastle chucked a truckload of cash to tempt Rafa Benetiz to the club. That's the best move they've made in the past 12 months frankly.
Why don't we do that. Not spend 15 million quid on strikers every time one of ours fucks off or fails to score goals.
Lets get a proper manager. Someone progressive to give us some footballing identity.
Bruce's selling point has never been footballing style, it's been functional and motivation. He's failing in those aspects, and doing nothing more than expected as far as a footballing style and identity, which is to say, nothing.

If we're going to blow money, lets get a top manager in who will install some sense of style. Not just hiring a manager just because "he did okay cover at Spurs" or "he won the champions league" or "he gets promoted a lot (but also relegated)."

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