Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

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

[BegbieAV]

I say stick with him, give him until xmas but who would you want to replace him with?

[ACVilla]

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*

[Nev]

The darkest hour is before the dawn.

[russon]

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*

you'll need it, I once referred to his shocker v Norwich and was shot down in flames. Can't remember why now? Either that game wasn't his debut as I had claimed  or it was his debut but wasn't as bad as I'd made out. Either way I took pelters. Good luck!

[Three Spires Villa]

I say stick with him, give him until xmas but who would you want to replace him with?

Dean Smith

[CT]

BMH would devour Dean Smith within six months.

[OzVilla]

The darkest hour is before the dawn.

It feels like we're 100kms inside the Artic Circle and it's still only December.

[berneboy]

I'm saddened, frustrated, puzzled.

But let's support our owner and our team. The best thing we can do currently is to be patient and give all we can for our team.

Let's be supporters, literally. It's easy to break, more difficult to create.

[Oscar Arce]

I'm just thawing out after watching the most turgid performance in 55 years supporting Villa.
What I'm worried about is that Bruce has completely lost the plot, his decisions have been poor, tactically and strategically.
When we needed experience between the sticks he borrowed a promising rookie, who frankly is no better than the rookie we already had. Poor decision.
He's purchased Swansea's reserve left back who for the life of me looks like he may be able to be Amavi's back up on a good day. Poor decision.
The Icelander is way too slow for English football, especially the Championship. Poor decision.
And don't start me on 3-5-2...every manager's tactic when they simply haven't a clue what to do next.
To play 3-5-2 and to stop it being 5-3-2 you have to have brave, attacking wing backs with attacking and crossing ability.
A bit like , er...Bacuna and Amavi. Bruce you lost us this game today with your failure to do what you're supposed to do, pick a system to suit the players and ice versa. Poor decision.
Plus point for me was Hourihane, worked his socks off and a last a player who can cross the ball to where it's supposed to go.
The most expensively assembled team to go into the third tier?
It's happened before.

[tricky59]

Only going occasionally but having been there today, I can only say I'm left bewildered that there seems to be a lack of cohesion in the team, with too much hopeful kicking upfield, poor passing and very little constructive attacking.  The formation and team selection with which we started certainly did not work.  As I said I'm bewildered as to what the answer may be, I'll have to leave that to those who manage to go on a regular basis.  I'm still waiting to see my first win of the 21st Century, come on lads look at my age.

[exigo]

I miss the heady days of Westwood in midfield.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Clueless!
Why does a team who are unbeaten at home all season suddenly revert to 5 at the back?
Hutton and Taylor are not wing backs!
In effect because Lansbury was playing as the holding midfielder we were playing with 6 at the back. The return of Jedi will only ensure this even more if we persist with 5 at the back, because he's been playing as an extra centre half anyway. Why do we play with a holding midfielder if we've got 3 centre backs? It's a contradictory tactic and reduces our attacking intent by 1.
On 60 minutes today, Ipswich were taking a throw-in just to the left of the Villa bench. We had 9 outfield players including Kodjia in and around our 18yard box, leaving only Hogan up front. Ridiculous!!!
What were those substitutions about? Having started the game with 5 at the back we ended up with just 2 (Chester and Baker) with Adomah and Green playing wing backs (I think?!?!)  and bacuna being bacuna. This was a shambles of a formation today and only served to neutralise our attacking intent. Little wonder we lost! Incidentally when I told my wife that we played with 5 at the back today, she said "isn't that defensive?" For someone who knows little about football she hit the nail on the head!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Incidentally when I told my wife that we played with 5 at the back today, she said "isn't that defensive?"

[QuintonVilla]

Can we just fast forward to May now? The rest of this season is going to be depressing, starting Tuesday night. After that today the crowd on Tuesday will be very very low against lesser opposition and being on Valentines Day.