Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[nick harper]

My observations having been there:-

Bakers distribution from the left side is woeful. All that midfield talent and we kept hitting it 50 yards up the pitch.

Excellent first fifteen and could/should have been two up.

Lost our way either side of half time again. Ipswich passed the ball much better than we did without really threatening.

Kodija must be very frustrating to play with - he plays looking at the grass too often. Hogan was seriously hacked off with his inability to spot his runs.

Taylor doesn't look to be an upgrade on Amavi but Hutton had a good game.

We need to stick with Bruce. There have been a lot of changes and we need to give his team time to settled down. The seasons a right off but I'm sure it will turn round.

[andyh]

We are a team without any cohesive way of of playing other than fucking whack it up field and hop Kodjia can make something happen.

Wimbledon were playing like this 20 years ago, and a damn site fucking better than we are at it.

We have assembled probably the most expensive team in second division history and we're up shit like that!

3 defeats on the spin, to teams below us when we played them.

It's not even upsetting anymore.

[Chris Jameson]

At least we know it was definitely Westwood who was the weak link and holding us back.

[levico]

Give Bruce the summer, let him sort out the defence, goalkeeper etc. and we'll be fighting for promotion.  Surely it's got to be time for patience and looking at the bigger picture?  Hiring and firing, rebuild after rebuild, that's the kind of instability that destroys clubs.

Even if we are in League 1 by then?

[kippaxvilla2]

We are going to give someone a thrashing soon.

[four fornicholl]

We are going to give someone a thrashing soon.Rafa Benitez,12/02/17.

[Lastfootstamper]

My word, that was some fucking shit, wasn't it. No width, no drive, no imagination, no penetration.

Still, I was anticipating much worse weather, so not all bad.

[KevinGage]

Chesterfield sometime in 2018 would be my bet.

[QuintonVilla]

We are going to give someone a thrashing soon.

We've been saying that since November. We have still only played well once under Bruce, at Brighton. It is worse than under RDM.

[AvFc4eVeR]

The whole club is a mess which he walked into. I think we were all a little bit deluded into thinking we'd bounce back from 6 years of sabotage overnight (me included).

Again, there's nothing wrong with the club. We have everything in place, superb facilities, good people, strong investment, the problem is the team.

Nothing wrong with the club?

We are making the same mistakes as we did under Lerner with MoN in charge, the only differences being we are shit on the pitch and in free fall a division lower than we were.

We need to stop trying to 'buy' everything!

That is what is causing our demise, we throw money at every single problem. The problem with money is it corrupts. We may well have bought the best this division had to offer, but if they were that good, they'd be being snapped up by Premier League teams...

The players we have bought and put on big contracts think they have made it, as we will most probably be the biggest club they will ever play for.

Rotten to the core.

[Fin Feds Dad]

We are going to give someone a thrashing soon.

You can file that with "we're going to piss the league" and "we're gonna smash this league next season"

[dave17]

What's Ron Saunders up to these days

[auntiesledd]

I've only just seen the result after deciding to avoid the frustration of following the match. It seems to have worked  - as I generally expect us to lose these days. God knows what Bruce was doing before to have such a successful record of getting teams promoted. I guess his latest failure is a step closer to Dr X making a decision about his (SB's) future. Or lack of one...

[Legion]

Debacle

[Toronto Villa]

The whole club is a mess which he walked into. I think we were all a little bit deluded into thinking we'd bounce back from 6 years of sabotage overnight (me included).

Again, there's nothing wrong with the club. We have everything in place, superb facilities, good people, strong investment, the problem is the team.

Nothing wrong with the club?

We are making the same mistakes as we did under Lerner with MoN in charge, the only differences being we are shit on the pitch and in free fall a division lower than we were.

We need to stop trying to 'buy' everything!

That is what is causing our demise, we throw money at every single problem. The problem with money is it corrupts. We many we'll have bought the best this division had to offer, but if they were that good, they'd be being snapped up by Premier League teams...

The players we have bought and put on big contracts think they have made it, as we will most probably be the biggest club they will ever play for.

Rotten to the core.

what does rotten to the core even mean? We've have stripped every aspect of the Lerner regime from the club unless you think we need to go as far as the canteen staff and laundry service too? The new chairman has spent a fortune, we have executives who have been around the game for a long time and a manager who has a solid track record who is simply underperforming. Everything outside of the playing and coaching staff is different and top down we are significantly better than at the end of last season. I'd understand if the investment hadn't been made but it has and faster than I ever expected it would have been done. I didn't expect us to be Barcelona this season, but with the investment and changes made certainly much, much better than we are at the moment. But not for a second am I blaming the owner for this. He's been let down badly by those he has appointed.