The Mighty BRENTFORD 3-0 Aston Villa

[Sexual Ealing]

I was lucky enough to be home within 15 minutes of leaving. My sincere sympathies to those still traveling home after that.

Brentford played very well. We were fucking embarrassing, with particular distinctions going to Adomah, BB, Hutton, Baker, Chester, Amavi, Johnstone, Kodjia and, most importantly, Steve Bruce. 100% pathetic.

Green, Landsbury and Hourihane were shite as well.

[David_Nab]

His apologies and criticism of the team are a bit rich when the players who haven't performed are his buys..

Obviously new players need time but then he should say that not the same shit as previous poor performances . It's frankly amazing that he talks about the mentaility not being right when the midfield (the area we once again look all at see at ) are his signings , is he saying them have come in with th ewrong mentaility ?

Supporting the club is draining the life out of me that's the only thing I know for sure

[QuintonVilla]

What is our style of play? Have we got one? Every away game just follows the same pattern, toothless and clueless. We never even look like scoring away never mind winning.

[Pete3206]

An off night to be sure

I'm sure the boys will be ready for Saturday

Congratulations Brentford.

[The Edge]

Trying very hard not to get angry/ weepy over this crushing disappointment. Attempting to analyse it technically, a few hopefully 'sensible' observations : 1) why was it that Dean Smith realised after 10 mins that Lansbury was running the game so they pressed him in possession and snuffed him out? (Yet we allowed Woods to boss the entire game and did sod all to stop him) 2) Why , when this happened, didn't our other midfielders exploit the space that this created and get in between the CB's and midfield? 3) Why is it, that despite changes of managers and players, we don't play like other good teams ( e.g. Brentford) and MOVE off the F**kin ball? If you had  frozen the the screen on the telly at any point when Brentford were in possession you would have seen at least 3 players in space giving the man in possession options. Do the same for us any time over the last 5 years , including tonight and you see no options. I'm convinced that's what eventually ground Westwood down - the lazy F**kers couldn't be arsed to move for him and yet somehow he always got the blame . 4) Hutton and Amavi - just , i dunno,  why ?
Getting angry again now,  sod it , I think I'll go back to Trump jokes.....

I said exactly this during play. Lansbury looked to be running the show after 10 minutes so they changed things to nullify his threat.Ryan Woods and Jota ran the show from 10 minutes in and Bruce did NOTHING about it for 83 minutes. I really want Bruce to do well but after the last 5 away performances there has to be serious doubts about his tactical knowledge.

[KRS]

I dont know much about these new signings, but were some of them playing out of position in midfield and/or not used to playing 443 433 at their old clubs?

edit: edited for factual accuracy.

[cdward]

We can safely stop all talk about the play offs now.
We need to go to back to basics again away from home, and start with a defensive mindset of not conceding. Defence and midfield need to stop the opposition running through us. We now have attacking midfielders in Hourihane and Lansbury, but they need to do the hard graft too.
 It will be ugly to watch, but so is getting torn apart by Brentford.
Our away form is that bad, that Zola hasn't won a single game in charge of Blues for 10 games, and they are still above us.

[itbrvilla]

I dont know much about these new signings, but were some of them playing out of position in midfield and/or not used to playing 443 at their old clubs?

? 443 would explain why they were better before they came here

[LukeJames]

We can safely stop all talk about the play offs now.
We need to go to back to basics again away from home, and start with a defensive mindset of not conceding.

That is the only tactic we seem to have anyway, its just that we're crap at it.

[Risso]

An off night to be sure

I'm sure the boys will be ready for Saturday

Congratulations Brentford.

All of our away games are off days/nights, in case you hadn't noticed.  Lowest away scorers in the entire league, it's Lambertesque.  Except that mumbly fucker has won two away games on the bounce.

[The Edge]

We can safely stop all talk about the play offs now.
We need to go to back to basics again away from home, and start with a defensive mindset of not conceding. Defence and midfield need to stop the opposition running through us. We now have attacking midfielders in Hourihane and Lansbury, but they need to do the hard graft too.
 It will be ugly to watch, but so is getting torn apart by Brentford.
Our away form is that bad, that Zola hasn't won a single game in charge of Blues for 10 games, and they are still above us.

Fucking hell kick us while we're down why don't you? 😉

[itbrvilla]

An off night to be sure

I'm sure the boys will be ready for Saturday

Congratulations Brentford.

All of our away games are off days/nights, in case you hadn't noticed.  Lowest away scorers in the entire league, it's Lambertesque.  Except that mumbly fucker has won two away games on the bounce.

made worse when you consider how much we've spent on goals scorers

[The Edge]

I dont know much about these new signings, but were some of them playing out of position in midfield and/or not used to playing 443 at their old clubs?

? 443 would explain why they were better before they came here

I'm not keen on this new 9-0-1 formation

[Pete3206]

An off night to be sure

I'm sure the boys will be ready for Saturday

Congratulations Brentford.

All of our away games are off days/nights, in case you hadn't noticed.  Lowest away scorers in the entire league, it's Lambertesque.  Except that mumbly fucker has won two away games on the bounce.

A disappointing result against The Bees, but I'm sure Steve will have the team ready for Saturday's mouthwatering encounter.

We go again.

[PeterWithesShin]

An off night to be sure

I'm sure the boys will be ready for Saturday

Congratulations Brentford.

All of our away games are off days/nights, in case you hadn't noticed.  Lowest away scorers in the entire league, it's Lambertesque.  Except that mumbly fucker has won two away games on the bounce.

Only Rotherham, QPR and Blackburn have scored less home & away combined in this division. I wish we'd signed some strikers in the summer.