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

[olaftab]

Having watched it live I agree that Fulham player should have had  a similar card which in my opinion at worst was yellow.

[oldham_villa]

Too many crap players.  Amavi, Gardner, Elphick, Grealish, Hogan, all hopeless. We're not getting promoted under Bruce, next season or any other.

On the money with my thoughts

[brian green]

I agree with you Aftab.  The Small Heath game brings the very worst out of the fans.  In recent times it has become a hate fest that reflects badly on both clubs.  When we play them I have to acknowledge that they exist.  I would prefer not to have to.

[CJ]

They should have had at least one, possibly two sent off - Fredericks for his deliberate kick on Kodjia, and another one who deliberately elbowed one of ours in midfield. Kodjia was stupid to react so petulantly, but if he gets a red Fredericks has to get one as well. Doesn't hide the fact that they were much better than us and their first goal had been coming for a while, and they were murdering us down their left. Seventy minutes with ten men was always going to be a struggle but bar Grealish's goal we were pretty poor again. Kodjia will be a big miss for us next Sunday - the only game I thought might restore some small consolation in a very poor season.

[class-of-82]

game after game lately we are kidding ourselves that this team is going to get us promoted next season all we are is hoofing the ball up to kodjia he does his bit and its 1-0 and that's the be all and end all of our performances.
theres no purpose no passion no movement no speed.
every team I see at vp or away games has that player that makes there team tick we don't have anyone, best player on the pitch against Norwich was Pritchard against sheff weds  was bannan players wanting the ball making there team tick ours should be grealish and he should be moulded into that role because we don't have anyone else who can do it. if not its going to be the limited no movement players that we seem to be sticking by every week.
see ya all sunday

[Steve67]

Same shit, different day. Pathetic, fast losing patience with Bruce.

[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.

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!

Unfortunately it is how far we have sunk...and I'm clearly not alone in thinking that we would lose today before a ball was even kicked. Similarly the performances, results and league table only serve to show how far we have sunk when we're sat 15 points behind Fulham occupying the last play off spot.

[Five Villa Tattoos]

Hi Brentford, It's the Villa here. We bought a very expensive Scott Hogan off you in January.
Can someone tell me what you did to make him look like a footballer. Any help would be greatly appreciated as he appears to have stopped working.
He looks fucking shite thus far, any chance of a refund?
Lots of love,
                   Aston Villa Football Club

[Ads]

What did we expect Hogan today?

How many balls into the channel did we play? None. How many cross did we out in? A handful. How close did the useless Gardner and Grealish get to him? Maybe once for the goal.

It was a chronic display and Hogan must be thinking why he bothered moving as we don't try and play to his strengths in the slightest.

[Matt C]

Bizarre team selection but can only imagine he is vetting what he's got before the summer.

We're playing with less intensity since it became certain couldn't sneak the playoffs and up against sides who are still playing with purpose, you're going to get found out. Bruce had better find a way of dragging a performance out of them next weekend.

[KRS]

Surely we have to appeal the Kodjia one, I know it's the Villa and the FA will just bend us over as usual but that's never a red for me.

Sounds like SB will be appealing the decision:

Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce:

"The fourth official asked me four times to step inside my technical area within the first 12 minutes. It was him who gave the decision for Kodjia, and he's missed the first kick at him by the full-back. And that's provoked him.

"We have 3,500 people spending their hard-earned money, it's live on the telly and you never want to see it. They want to see the players perform. It cannot be deemed as violent conduct, surely. I hope the referee looks at it, because the referee didn't give it - the fourth official did."

[LukeJames]

Hi Brentford, It's the Villa here. We bought a very expensive Scott Hogan off you in January.
Can someone tell me what you did to make him look like a footballer. Any help would be greatly appreciated as he appears to have stopped working.
He looks fucking shite thus far, any chance of a refund?
Lots of love,
                   Aston Villa Football Club

The service to him is slow, lethargic, ponderous and all other impressive words that basically mean shite in football related terms, he thrived off incisive quick balls at Brentford. We did that once today that lead to him being one on one with the keeper, albeit he was slightly off side, then we proceeded to not even attempt it again for the rest of the game. It smacks of signing him because he'd scored goals at this level with no thought on how to get the best out of him once he was here.

[Pete3206]

Lots of work to do in the summer.

[CT]

Hi Brentford, It's the Villa here. We bought a very expensive Scott Hogan off you in January.
Can someone tell me what you did to make him look like a footballer. Any help would be greatly appreciated as he appears to have stopped working.
He looks fucking shite thus far, any chance of a refund?
Lots of love,
                   Aston Villa Football Club

The service to him is slow, lethargic, ponderous and all other impressive words that basically mean shite in football related terms, he thrived off incisive quick balls at Brentford. We did that once today that lead to him being one on one with the keeper, albeit he was slightly off side, then we proceeded to not even attempt it again for the rest of the game. It smacks of signing him because he'd scored goals at this level with no thought on how to get the best out of him once he was here.

It seems most teams in the league can zip the ball around quickly and have good movement off the ball.

Our players resemble a giant oil tanker struggling to turn around. I see more pace in other players goal celebrations than our players actually during the game.

[old man villa fan]

Hi Brentford, It's the Villa here. We bought a very expensive Scott Hogan off you in January.
Can someone tell me what you did to make him look like a footballer. Any help would be greatly appreciated as he appears to have stopped working.
He looks fucking shite thus far, any chance of a refund?
Lots of love,
                   Aston Villa Football Club

The service to him is slow, lethargic, ponderous and all other impressive words that basically mean shite in football related terms, he thrived off incisive quick balls at Brentford. We did that once today that lead to him being one on one with the keeper, albeit he was slightly off side, then we proceeded to not even attempt it again for the rest of the game. It smacks of signing him because he'd scored goals at this level with no thought on how to get the best out of him once he was here.

The other thing to note is that we are trying to play him in with 30-40 yard passes, rather than 10-20m passes when defenders have far less time to react.  That comes from the midfield playing too deep.