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

[jwarry]

Thought Gardner played ok today.  Jack was very poor goal aside.  Nice to see RHM get 15 mins.  There that's all I can say....

[levico]

Hate to say it but Radio WM is right when they say we have no tempo. Everyone we play looks quicker and more mobile.

If Bruce is happy with that then he's not the manager who will take us up. Getting the impression we might be here for a while.

[achilles]

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.

Bloody hell, this is how far we have sunk when we don't even expect to get anything against the MIGHTY Fulham, we may as well give up then!

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Strange team selection, worry for me is that bruce looks clueless. Says all the right things after a game and then goes and does it all again next game or something bizarre like today

[auntiesledd]

Abysmal.

Quite.

[Deano's Mullet]

I thought line up and formation suspect. Game was effectively over once JK sent off even though their fella should have gone too. Overall passing very poor, application from some V poor and i can see us not winning another game this season, particularly if JK is missing as expected. I got abused on Facebook for expressing these sentiments and told we lost because we only had ten men. That guy can believe that if he wants but even before JK went we looked shit. Results have been better than performances and we now being found out a bit. I'd like to believe next season will be much better.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I thought line up and formation suspect. Game was effectively over once JK sent off even though their fella should have gone too. Overall passing very poor, application from some V poor and i can see us not winning another game this season, particularly if JK is missing as expected. I got abused on Facebook for expressing these sentiments and told we lost because we only had ten men. That guy can believe that if he wants but even before JK went we looked shit. Results have been better than performances and we now being found out a bit. I'd like to believe next season will be much better.

I had the misfortune of going on the official club page, jesus wept 

[Brend'Watkins]

Only just seen the result and the 2nd post on this thread means I don't need to see a match report to have an idea where our failings were.

[Ads]

Absolutely shocking performance.

The line up and the system were awful. The stupid red card didn't help, the dim-witted substitution of Hutton just about summed it up.

We consistently failed to stop balls coming into the box, we stood off them and gave them far too much time on the ball and we recycled it so cheaply.

Gardner is a farce, Amavi isn't good enough and Grealish, goal aside was an absolute abomination.

I'm dumbfounded by how inept everything about today was.

[SoccerHQ]

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.

Bloody hell, this is how far we have sunk when we don't even expect to get anything against the MIGHTY Fulham, we may as well give up then!

Didn't they beat us a couple of times when we were finishing 6th under MON?

They have something to play for, we don't. They also had an extra 24 hours so I thought it was one of the more obvious results of the season today.

[aj2k77]

This feels like we are going to be down in this shit heap for a while. Reading got tonked 7-1, then get themselves back on track almost immediately with back to back wins. We'd use it as an excuse, ''confidence is shattered'', to play badly for the next 3 months. There's no fucking heart, it looks like a load of random players stuck together to get through 90 minutes. We are ponderous, the running off the ball is non existent, we go through the same pattern of play over and over, almost playing to a script, it's shit, we've been shit and with the cash we've spunked been a complete embarrassment this season.

Another one I can't wait until it ends so we can kid ourselves it's going to be great next season.

On another note, does anyone know when season tickets are going to be put back up on sale?

[ktvillan]

Hate to say it but Radio WM is right when they say we have no tempo. Everyone we play looks quicker and more mobile.

If Bruce is happy with that then he's not the manager who will take us up. Getting the impression we might be here for a while.

I said the same about Saturday's game, we're slow and ponderous while whoever we are playing seem to zip the ball about and have a lot more movement off the ball.   Football is essentially pass and move.  We pass (often to the opposition) and stand still. 

[Ads]

You're not going to play at tempo when Jedinak, Grealish and Gardner are stinking the midfield out.

If you wanted to rest Adomah, then fine, 433 or 442 with RHM and Green coming in. Not fucking Gardner or the ponderous Grealish.

[Jimbo]

For more years than I care to recall, I've never known us squander an opportunity to shoot ourselves in the foot.

Kodjia's sending off might have been harsh, but if you kick out at a player that's what you can expect. It was stupid and petulant, but wasn't out of place in the annals of Villa stupidity. Now our only goal threat misses the rest of the season, plus the only game that really matters in the run in.

Talking of that game, if we go into it with such entitlement, complacency and arrogance that's become a kind of Villa trademark in recent years, we'll get precisely what we deserved today and Saturday. Don't think it can't happen, we can always find a way.

[Hopadop]

Didn't they beat us a couple of times when we were finishing 6th under MON?

We've certainly lost the last three or four times I've seen us there. If it wasn't so nice I'd hate going to Fulham.

My son's first game today. I don't think it did the cause much good.