Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[villadelph]

just fucking burn it down already

[PeterWithe]

Taylor had a mare and Bjarnason has now played three different positions all badly.

Jack of no trades.

I thought Viking was easily our best player today.  Good link-up and dropped into space nicely.

Really?

I thought he was absolute garbage, no influence on the game when we had the ball and too slow to close down when we hadn't. How he stayed on the pitch all game I will never know. Hourihan much the same although his dead ball taking gave him a slight edge.

Only Lansbury had a good game, Kodja tried hard but made very bad choices in possession.

[villan from luton]

I could have accepted the 3-5-2, but not with Hutton. That decision was mystifying. As for the left, I like Amavi going forward and would have thought that system would suit him. I will say again that Kodjia needs to learn to pass to players in better positions at times. I am really worried that Bruce may be struggling, his biggest club before was Sunderland and he struggled there.

[Des Little]

Evening all. I'm just home - pissed - via a Freddie Mercury tribute act - so you can guess that it hasn't been my greatest day. I haven't read the thread so these thoughts are my own.

Elphick is an absolute bomb scare and needs dropping/selling/burning with fire

Hutton is not a wing back. Bacuna is the obvious choice at right wing back

If we persist with 3 at the back - even at home - then play Hutton in there - he really can't do worse than Elphick. He simply can't.

Lansbury is not a holding midfielder. He just isn't

Kodjia needs to understand how team play works. It's not all about him. Looking up and passing to Hogan now and then will benefit us all.

Taylor couldn't cross the road right now, but it's his first game so I'll give him time.

Bruce needs to sort this uttter shit and quick.

Night all.

[kippaxvilla2]

We've now won 11 of our last 68 first team games.  A 16.1 percent win rate.  When will it end.

[Deano's Mullet]

Just got in. First 45 mins OK, we just couldn't score, second 45 was poor, no one wanted to take responsibility, only players making through passes were the centre backs. Elphick culpable for their goal but other than that looked solid, Hogan works hard but barely had a sniff, Kodjia needs to keep it simple and taking off both full backs seemed strange.Ipswich were V V V average but once again we've lost a game we really shouldn't have. And our keeper couldn't catch a cold. We don't want to accept we could be drawn into a relegation battle but couple more bad results and we will be.

[PerthVillaWA]

I thought Elphick would be a really good player for us. A leader, knows this division, proper defender. How wrong I was, he's absolute horseshit.

Same here. I compared his performance at Sheff Wed with Olly Mellberg. A leader of men. A fearless captain.

I'm not sure who I'd compare him to now.

Titus Bramble.

Roger Johnson

Ugo Ehiogu's debut.

*Prepares hard hat*


Lol, I remember Ugo having a mare, giving the ball away every touch.

[aj2k77]

1. Elphick is shit and shouldn't start for us again, comedy defender who seems to have never recovered from a bad injury.
2. 5 at the back when the two ''wingbacks'' are 2 of the shittest players you've seen going forward, yeah fuck off.
3. Buy a new midfield, play them all in different positions to what they are used to, yeah fuck off again.
4. Kodija, ask him to start passing, dickhead.

Who's to blame now?

[PerthVillaWA]

I come home at least once year to, amongst everything else, get a few games in. I'm due back next Oct and was hoping to bring my 9 And 6 year old lads back to fulfil a father's 'right of passage' and take the boys to their first football match.  I'm now thinking why f'ing bother because, to be frank, I've f'in had enough! This is beyond a joke.  At least we remember when we were decent.  These young lads haven't got a chance.  What young lad wants to support a team that is constantly shit, week in week out.  Looks like Perth Glory is the place.......and they are even worse than us!

[Cliftonville Villain]

There was a time when a Villa defeat completely ruined my weekend. For the past five years that has graduated into not really giving a shit. Today on hearing the result, I actually smiled. Thanks Steve.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

There was a time when a Villa defeat completely ruined my weekend. For the past five years that has graduated into not really giving a shit. Today on hearing the result, I actually smiled. Thanks Steve.

You smiled? When you heard we'd lost you smiled? Why?

[Cliftonville Villain]

Total and utter exasperation.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

I felt that too. Didn't smile though.

[Cliftonville Villain]

I take your point Chinchilla. It's just relentless...

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Yes, it is. I appreciate that, fully.