Rotherham 0-2 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[nick harper]

When was the last time we won by more than one goal away from home?

[PeterWithesShin]

When was the last time we won by more than one goal away from home?

Sunderland under Sherwood I think.

[Legion]

I think we have screwed ourselves for Tuesday by not including 'Victorious' in the Post Match Thread title.

We did. Then it got merged.

[brontebilly]

Well dove all at AVFC. Surely we won't still be last in the highlights programmes...

It will have to be a pretty shit game to be after us! Maybe they'll find one in div 6 of the AFA.
That was a woeful excuse for a football match - the ball only touched the ground a few times.
Our constant hoof-ball is doing my head in but I'll be back up the M1 again Tuesday hoping our horrible brand of football sees us get the better of a very good Huddersfield team. It goes against everything I love and feel about the beautiful game though.

Since last summer with the exception of Jedinak, we have bought technically strong players. Have seen little of the past three games mind but hoof ball with the players we have isn't sustainable.

Tuesday night will be interesting, Huddersfield were well beaten today and may be starting to feel a little pressure.

[dorsetvillian]

Great day out for the Bournemouth Lions. It's always easier on the long journey home with 3 points. Very poor first half display, much better after the goal with the midfield players getting forward more and pressing the ball high up the pitch. Let's just keep this run going and build confidence for next season.

[Risso]

It's good and very welcome to win 3 in a row, and hopefully we can take that confidence into the game against Huddersfield.  We should have beaten them earlier in the season, so would be nice to set the record straight.

[trevor fisher]

Ian Taylor is 100% villa. PLayers come and players go, but three stand out from the last half century as being pure claret and blue. Ian, Gordon Cowans and Denis Mortimer.

Then if we go back 60 years, Peter MacParland has been seen at Villa Park in the last twelve months. A hero who needs to be defended when the 1957 cup final is brought up, as it will be by the Red Mist over the BBC in Salford.

Lots of others have had villa in their blood, McGrath got it in the end. But the four I have named are special.

[AV82EC]

A bit like the Bristol City game, we just needed to be patient and the goals would come, and they did. We did the fight for our right to play football bit which was mind numbing in its awfulness with numerous bouts of head tennis, scrappy possession and squandered chances but we seem to be getting stronger as the game continues and we ran out comfortable winners in my view as Rotherham offered very little in the way of threat. Things must be on the up anyway as for the first time this season I didn't moan about Alan Hutton once during the game. Loved Hourihanes off ball running reminded me hugely of Andy Townsend. Despite Alberts misses he does seem to be playing his way back into a bit of form after a dreadful last couple of months.

Felt a bit sorry for Rotherham bottom  of the league by a mile, nice stadium but with nothing to shout about it felt like a soulless Simply Red concert. Still our support seemed to perk up a bit at the start of the second half and we sang our team home. Less said about the stewarding the better but I have to say as ever some of our support don't help themselves.

[exigo]

Another ground ticked off. Good atmosphere in the Bridge Inn before the game – it's a boozer covered in away scarves, so you can imagine what happened to a certain blue one that used to hang above the bar.

It seemed like every copper in Yorkshire was out, braced for some Brummie invasion – riot vans, horses, you name it. But not a bit of trouble.

Neat ground. The steep raking of the stands made it a perfect view for both goals, as well as every launched up and under that Rotherham tried. Easy to see why they're bottom, it's all they've got, like an uncultured 80s Wimbledon.

One thing that struck me yesterday was how many of the players have not only got a chant, but get it sung throughout the game (Hutton's got two now, Baker and Chester, Bree, Amavi, Lansbury, Hourihane, Kodjia, Grealish, Green). It's like we've got a connection back to the team after several years of, well, abject shite.

[old man villa fan]

Tuesday night will be interesting, Huddersfield were well beaten today and may be starting to feel a little pressure.

I caught the last 25 minutes of the Huddersfield match and from what I saw, the score line flattered Newcastle.  Huddersfield were playing with a high tempo and always looking to go forward.  I think we will struggle to contain them.  We need to take our chances.  Huddersfield do look a bit short up front for all of their good approach play.

[AV82EC]

How does the Lansbury one go?

And I couldn't make out the Kodjia one.

[exigo]

How does the Lansbury one go?

And I couldn't make out the Kodjia one.

Henri Lansbury baby, to the tune of

And the Kodjia one is a filthy update of the old Cuellar song, which won't win any poetry prizes.

[Villatillidie1982]

Don't want to be a killjoy but Derby outplayed us and Bristol City and Rotherham are both in the bottom four. Has anything really improved? Tuesday will tell us, especially with so many players missing.

[Ads]

Derby out played us?

[in exile]

Don't want to be a killjoy but Derby outplayed us and Bristol City and Rotherham are both in the bottom four. Has anything really improved? Tuesday will tell us, especially with so many players missing.

Killjoy