Aston Villa v Norwich City Post-Match Thread

[cdbearsfan]

The highlights on the Sky Sports website are  better. Channel 5 is abysmal coverage.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/championship/10996360/aston-villa-4-2-norwich

[eddiemunster]

Sorry to say, but Bruce got lucky with his selection,in my opinion.You only have to look at his comments a la Aston Villa' crisis was nonsense. Most revealing was this;
Among the three changes Bruce made from the midweek defeat at Reading was to bring in 19-year-old striker Keinan Davis as one of three teenagers in his starting line-up.
Davis responded by making the first goal and several times going close himself.
"Against two big German centre-halves it was a case of 'Welcome to the Championship', "Bruce told BBC Sport. "It was a fantastic first start for a young player who was at Biggleswade a year ago.
"He was magnificent on Monday for the reserves. That made me think I could take a chance as I wasn't sure Scott Hogan was fully fit and Gabby Agbonlahor had a twinge in his back.

The comment about Hogan and Flabby make me think it will be all change when they are "fit", and our young guns will be left out again.
Oh and why does he persist in playing Hutton? The guy has no positional sense whatsoever, and he was his usual "nowhere man" when they scored.
Also I have to agree with other posters, who have said buying Terry was a mistake.Looks woefully short of pace.

[BC Villain]

Also I have to agree with other posters, who have said buying Terry was a mistake.Looks woefully short of pace.

In fairness he was never the quickest in his prime, but looks noticeably slow so far.  Its clearly unsettled Chester as well, as he looks well off the high standards he set last season.

[brontebilly]

The test will come on Friday at Bristol .......
Unchanged team expect maybe RDL or Bree for Hutton ....play in the same style
Davis could easily see Baker sent off if he plays the same as today
We need to take the game to Bristol and be positive
Play all the fringe players on Tuesday - the kids will have seen Davis and should be up to show what they can do
Having said all the above it would be no surprise if Bruce plays Gabby up front rather than Davis and tell us he is looking after him and we should not expect too much

No chance Gabby will start ahead of Davis. Baker will relish that physical battle with Davis though. Bruce seems to rate De Laet higher than Bree, I'd expect he will replace Hutton.

Will be an interesting selection mid week. Hope to see O'Hare, Lyden, RHM, Bree getting starts. Bound to be plenty of goals with the likes of Samba in the team.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Was worried when I saw the line up, but really happy with both the result and the performance.

Credit where it is due Bruce put out a team that looked motivated and had a coherent formation. Pleased with that and really pleased to see a performance from Green and Davis. With Lydon, RHM and O'Hare to come in too the Villa lads can make a real difference if given chance.

Thing is that most of the new midfielders we have are slow, so when they all play together they look rather lumpen. They all have talent but collectively can't show it as they have no movement to pass into, no outlet ball. Also with nobody to hold the ball up, we can't ever get close enough to the opposition to press.

It is amazing what a bit of pace and hold up play does to the likes of Whelan, Hourihane and Lansbury. Long may it continue.

In fairness to Bruce he is trying to buy in a target man in Gallagher, but we now may not need him!

[VILLA MOLE]

I think the point is that we need focal point up front
 where the ball sticks so that we can bring the midfield
Into it Davis is the only one who does this well.  If we get
Gallagher on board the can share the load

[olaftab]

Total nonsense Steve.

[brian green]

He has lost the plot.  He opens his mouth and out comes pure Ashen Faced Ron Knee.

[Matt Collins]

It comes to something when people are more disappointed with what he says in a press conference than pleased by four goals on the pitch

[Toronto Villa]

I don't get why he taken in this approach. He completely misses the point. Happy you got a win Steve but you got lucky with your selection. It could all go shit shaped next week. We've put up with 40 games of mainly bland, shit mediocrity and yes you have spent millions you fucking chancer. I hope you prove us all wrong but this again feels like a false dawn because we've had so many of them with you and over the last few years.

[sirlordbaltimore]

It comes to something when people are more disappointed with what he says in a press conference than pleased by four goals on the pitch

Standard mate. Some people will always be happier moaning than praising and enjoying

[PeterWithesShin]

Or maybe they can enjoy the result and performance and still think Bruce was a bit of a cock with his comments? It's possible to do both.

[tomd2103]

I forgot to add earlier that I thought there was a marked difference in how quickly we were able to break yesterday as well.  With Green, Elmohamady, Davis and Onomah in the side, we were not only able to close down quickly but also to break quickly.  That is something we haven't been able to do for some time. 

[olaftab]

It comes to something when people are more disappointed with what he says in a press conference than pleased by four goals on the pitch

Standard mate. Some people will always be happier moaning than praising and enjoying

Not standard at all mate. I and others have praised the performance in this and other threads however Bruce was pathetic and ungracious criticising fans after 1 win in 4. There was no need for his rant.

[VillaAlways]

It comes to something when people are more disappointed with what he says in a press conference than pleased by four goals on the pitch

Standard mate. Some people will always be happier moaning than praising and enjoying

Not standard at all mate. I and others have praised the performance in this and other threads however Bruce was pathetic and ungracious criticising fans after 1 win in 4. There was no need for his rant.

Im glad hes had a rant. As it puts him under pressure for Friday to be positive and get a result. Imagine how stupid he will look if we revert to tyoe. Im not sure Tony will be impressed either