Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[pbavfckuwait]

Steve Bruce is showing the Alan Pardew effect. great when he gets a couple of results, but when it is going wrong has not got a clue how to turn it around.
Watched via a FB live stream so not a great feed, (but thanks for the guy who streamed it) and we are continuing to make the same mistakes, not playing square pegs in square holes, playing at a pace that is pedestrian and with a manager on the sidelines that has been drained by the famous AVFC already. Continuity is fine as long as it is working, sticking with a guy just because we have changed a number of times over a short period will see continuity, it will see us continue to plummet.
Thanks Steve but next please.

[ROBBO]

The one person not to blalme is the owner, he's given Bruce full backing, I don't blame the players either for the most part they were the best players at their previous clubs, so its down to the manager he is the one who decides who plays where and the set up of the team, I was happy with his appointment but if he cannot get the quality players to play together then he needs to go, if we lose midweek I would sack him.

[tony scott]

Yesterday's starting line included four players making their villa park debuts you should expect a lack of cohesion, we had enough of the ball
to have this game won well before the 80th minute, an individual mistake cost us against one the poorest championships teams I've seen at villa park this season, but this all ways going to happen if we don't score, yesterday we got well and truly mugged, with hindsight it would have been better to ease some of these players in. By chances created we should have walked the last two games, over to the team at bmh

[QuintonVilla]

Let's be honest even when we were winning games under him a lot of them were more by luck than judgement, and the football was still dreadful. Even the last game we won, Burton on Boxing Day, was very harsh on them and we didn't deserve to win.

[Meanwood Villa]

To an extent defeat the last two weeks has been a bit harsh but we've ended up contriving a way to lose and we are now in a horribly familiar Lambertesque spiral. Wtf we do about it I don't know but we've simply got to score more. We're so goal-shy that one goal beats us more often than not. If we scored more those late defensive lapses would lead to nervy hanging on to wins rather than defeats. This last month or so has been as bad as last season against worse teams. Utter shit.

[MillerBall]

We can all over analyse every goal that we concede and I guess if you analyse all of the goals scored in matches yesterday there will be a high percentage where it could be argued that a defending player did not do what they should have done.
For many of the goals we have shipped this season there has been an element of pantomime "behind you" faces as players fall over and there are pinball wizard (or buzzard more like) deflections and ricochet which result in a clear goal scoring opportunity for our opponents.
If this from continues we will have an even bigger problem than we have now. We are not good enough to keep clean sheets.
We did not deserve to lose but not did we deserve a win.
There are no excuses but a suspect we would all of been unhappy with a draw yesterday.
Elphick has been a liability this season.

[Ads]

We didn't play well although we still should have won. Two off the line and one off the bar.

3 at the back was not necessary against a side that barely came out of their own half. There was something horribly familiar about a side that had one shot at goal and scored from it.

There was no need for Elphick to be on the pitch. A goal from a slip. A freezing cold day. A disjointed fudge in the main. Ergh.

[Taylor]

The one person not to blalme is the owner, he's given Bruce full backing, I don't blame the players either for the most part they were the best players at their previous clubs, so its down to the manager he is the one who decides who plays where and the set up of the team, I was happy with his appointment but if he cannot get the quality players to play together then he needs to go, if we lose midweek I would sack him.

Surely we can't sack a manager after 4 games with his own team. Tony will give him this season at least. Rightly.

[Ads]

The players need to take some responsibility. Ipswich were awful, did nothing but pounce upon a mistake and had the conviction, absent in the rest of their play for 89:50 and won a game.

[PeterWithe]

Add Ipswich to a long list of Champ sides I've seen this season without a single player I'd be interested in buying. That said they looked far slicker in possession and often had midfield runners carrying the ball at our defenders. Which they then gave away.

In patches we looked good but a lack of urgency, impetus call it what you will, did for us. Again.

One thing we noticed was that after we went behind there was another break in play and our lads just stood around looking at their feet, there didn't seem to be anyone leading, anyone suggesting to the others that all was not lost.

[VillaAlways]

The players need to take some responsibility. Ipswich were awful, did nothing but pounce upon a mistake and had the conviction, absent in the rest of their play for 89:50 and won a game.

We must be the easiest team to play as the opposition don't need to try they just sit and wait for us to make a mistake.

[PeterWithe]

One slight ray of hope is that by playing Jedinak we can release Lansbury to play closer to the forwards and his eye for a pass can create chances for them. He was really excellent yesterday, everything we hoped he would be.

[Clampy]

Like someone said on the thread earlier, if you're going to play two wing backs then you need to them to have pace, get up and down the flank and be able to put a decent cross over. Bacuna and Amavi are the obvious two to play in that role. Jedinak will make a difference when he's back but it needs to improve from yesterday because it wasn't good enough.

[TonyD]

I think we a now in back in crisis mode.    Don't see where the next goal or point are coming from.  The MoN  curse is holding strong.

[mr underhill]

It's funny how results have been consistently awful since he left