Aston Villa v Norwich City Post-Match Thread

[eamonn]

For me One very good performance does not make up for all the crap that's gone before. Hope we have turned the corner.

The way Bruce seems to see it is one week of bad results shouldn't be out-weighed by everything, apparently acceptable that's gone in the past "six"/ten months.

[robbo1874]

Bree for Hutton has to be a given now.

Against a fast, tricky winger, I agree. After the other week, it's obvious if you have decent winger Hutton will struggle. Bruce needs to learn from performances and adapt the team accordingly.

Terry was okay.Chester and Hutton were caught out of position for their first today. There was one point today when Norwich attacked and we had both Terry and Chester moving into exactly the same space, leaving us completely wide open.

Still plenty of work to do at Bodymoor Heath for our manager and coaches or whoever replaces them.

well to be fair, that's the main part of his job- to stop attacks down the left wing. If he can't do it,  he shouldn't be in the side as a self-picking starter in my view.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Bree for Hutton has to be a given now.

Against a fast, tricky winger, I agree. After the other week, it's obvious if you have decent winger Hutton will struggle. Bruce needs to learn from performances and adapt the team accordingly.

Terry was okay.Chester and Hutton were caught out of position for their first today. There was one point today when Norwich attacked and we had both Terry and Chester moving into exactly the same space, leaving us completely wide open.

Still plenty of work to do at Bodymoor Heath for our manager and coaches or whoever replaces them.

well to be fair, that's the main part of his job- to stop attacks down the left wing. If he can't do it,  he shouldn't be in the side as a self-picking starter in my view.

Sure but not everybody plays with pacy left wingers. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Bruce should have gone with Bree who's far faster than Hutton.

[brian green]

It is also worth adding into the equation that Richie De Laet has a huge throw.  With Davis in the penalty box it gives us another very real attacking threat.

[myf]

I can't help thinking that he would have played Gabby and Hogan if available.
Let's hope he has learnt from this and bins Hutton as well.

I know many of you think  Hutton can't play but I assume that he  is carrying an injury because he has not been as effective as previously.

A long-term injury if so. 5 yrs of being skinned by wingers and failing to mark players

[PeterWithe]

Bree for Hutton has to be a given now.

Against a fast, tricky winger, I agree. After the other week, it's obvious if you have decent winger Hutton will struggle. Bruce needs to learn from performances and adapt the team accordingly.

Terry was okay.Chester and Hutton were caught out of position for their first today. There was one point today when Norwich attacked and we had both Terry and Chester moving into exactly the same space, leaving us completely wide open.

Still plenty of work to do at Bodymoor Heath for our manager and coaches or whoever replaces them.

well to be fair, that's the main part of his job- to stop attacks down the left wing. If he can't do it,  he shouldn't be in the side as a self-picking starter in my view.

Sure but not everybody plays with pacy left wingers. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Bruce should have gone with Bree who's far faster than Hutton.

When the club were doing the FB interviews with players last year, I recall a few of them saying that Hutton was the quickest player at the club.

[brian green]

A small point from yesterday's game is how little difference Terry has made to our defence.  I thought they were two soft goals scored against us.  I had hoped that the main reason for bringing Terry in was to stop that kind of thing.

[olaftab]

Yes Brian we were caught out and like you I thought sole reason for Terry being there with his experience was to stop that sort of thing. On their second a young Terry would have had the agility to head it clear.

[AV82EC]

I'm going to disagree here and say I thought Terry had a good game. His distribution is better than Bakers which means we move the ball with better pace and accuracy from the back. All of our defensive frailty was caused by Norwich overloading there left to let Murphy give Hutton a roasting and it worked but other than the goal from the long cross field ball I thought the defence was fine with Chester and Terry mopping things up nicely when Murphy was roasting Hutton.

[olaftab]

Hutton' speed is not in doubt it's his ability to keep an eye on his foe that's without doubt very poor.

[Matt Collins]

The first Norwich goal was very poor

No pressure on the passer and Hutton completely sleeping

Agree Terry hasn't had the desired effect so far but also that his better distribution is helpful

It's just way too early to judge yet

Other than Hutton who has been getting away with it for years

[frank black]

I thought Terry played well. It was funny watching Murphy put himself close to Terry only for Terry to man handle him to the ground, whilst the ref was watching the ball. The dark arts of defense, he kept things simple and didn't  launch aimless clearances. That Murphy seems to be a very good player.

[mr underhill]

we look far more fragile defensively with him in the team - Chester's game has turned to shit since being paired with him

[London Villan]

He did play the ball out very well on a number of occassions.

[JUAN PABLO]

Great performance from the players  . Davis was excellent today MOM1  , lucky for Bruce as Gabby was injured and he had no choice and good to see Houriane MOM2 in his natural position for once , took Bruce long enough to work that one out  .   

really enjoyed today , lets hope we turned a corner but Bree for Hutton on Friday please , i cant understand how he started .