Fulham 3-1 Aston "where do we go from here?" Villa

[Toronto Villa]

The last 1/10th of one fuck that I gave about this season has left the building. Two batterings in 48 hours against world powers Reading and Fulham. Fuck me

[CT Villan]

As soon as I saw Amavi and Elphick in defence I knew it was over...

[jwarry]

Kodjia gets the blame for that one, even if the ref had a shocker

[DB]

Players on the beach after the final nail went in for promotion after the Burton draw?

[LukeJames]

The movement of the Fulham front 3 and the willingness of their fullbacks to get forward killed us.

The red was a bit harsh, they should have either both gone or both warned.

Grealish, great goal aside, was annonimous, as was Amavi.

[old man villa fan]

I must say the 3 at the back and 2 wing backs went well.  Did Bruce study the Fulham team before making that decision.

[QuintonVilla]

Who cares?

Beat Small Heath and make sure we lose to Blackburn. Spend the summer laughing at them and rebuilding our squad again. Then build a proper promotion challenge next season.

[KRS]

The red card looked very harsh to me from the couple of angles I've seen...yes, he made movement with his leg towards the Fulham player, but there was no back lift and was in reaction to the Fulhams players arguably intentionally kicking JK during his fall. Very soft red card and was only seen by the fourth official. The club should challenge this decision, but may be declined on the basis of intent.

It was always going to be a struggle to get any kind of result against Fulham, and it became an impossible task with 10 men.

The season is over so let's just hope for a result next weekend against the Blue scum.

[jwarry]

I must say the 3 at the back and 2 wing backs went well.  Did Bruce study the Fulham team before making that decision.

I'm sure he did, they like their full backs bombing forward.  Problem is our wing back we're both shite today.  Amavi is embarrassingly easy to beat

[SoccerHQ]

Didn't see the game but not surprised at the result at all. We probably did well to get it back to 1-1 briefly considering we were down to 10 for most of the game.

Any chance we can appeal the red? Suddenly this SHA game has become a massive banana skin. We need Hogan to step up now.

[old man villa fan]

The red was a bit harsh, they should have either both gone or both warned.

Totally agree, 2 reds or 2 yellows.  When you see that late tackle on Bree go unpunished when the ref played the advantage, makes you wonder about referees these days.

[aj2k77]

Garbage, again.

I have a nasty feeling that around November next season Bruce will be looking for a new job. We just don't seem capable of putting together a decent 90 minute performance. With the money we have spent and the time Bruce has had at the club we shouldn't have to be playing ultra defensive football to try and get anything from games.

Look at Hourihane, Lansbury and Hogans records this season before joining us. We simply aren't encouraging the players to play to their natural strengths. Would anyone be surprised if between them they score less than 15 goals next season, I certainly wouldn't.

Without Kodjia, who scores goals out of the blue, we don't look like scoring, there's no build up play as such, no control, no concerted pressure. The passing is atrocious and they all lose their heads when we concede.

I'm worried.

[Legion]

Abysmal.

[old man villa fan]

I must say the 3 at the back and 2 wing backs went well.  Did Bruce study the Fulham team before making that decision.

I'm sure he did, they like their full backs bombing forward.  Problem is our wing back we're both shite today.  Amavi is embarrassingly easy to beat

With two attacking fullbacks and wide players as well, the last thing you should be doing is pushing wing backs forward and leaving big gaps behind them.  Particularly as we do not have pace at the back or in central midfield to cover.

[aj2k77]

Can we swap Amavi for anything, even a Coconut this summer too please. He's fucking crap. Gardner, Grealish and Jedinak were never going to get a grip of the midfield today, that's basically a one man, 33 year old, midfield.