Aston Villa v Sheffield Wednesday Post-Match Thread

[Malandro]

Your attacking midfielder who had a fine game three days ago is unable to play today due to injury. Do you replace him with:

a. A talented attacking midfielder who has recently recovered from injury and is an ideal like-for-like replacement?

b. A talented young lad from the reserves who scored a hat-trick earlier this week and who knows how to link with your main striker, as he has played numerous games with him at age-limited levels?

c. A striker who has scored one goal since January and has looked something of a misfit, despite costing a very large fee?

Your name is Steve Bruce. What do you do next?

d. Eat a doughnut.

[rim gk]

Teams going up via play offs have in different results. We are aplays off team potentially, very confident we're semi finalist which is would be a big improvement on last season. It was one those days, get over it look forward to the next game.

[1_Pablo_Angel]

Incredibly disappointing after such a good performance midweek, also worried about Hogan.

But it's a long season.

[BC54 VFC]

Post-match interview https://www.facebook.com/avfcofficial/videos/1728459403864788/

Did he say 1/4 season gone? A 64 game season? Bloody Hell.

Bruce has got his digits transposed!

[Richard E]

Today’s line up never looked like it had goals in it and we were always going to be on the back foot after a start like that.

Too many players weren’t at the races today. Thought Hourihane and Adomah both struggled.

O’Hare made some clever runs and got into space well but then didn’t get the ball. Samba actually did a pretty competent job. Grealish’s cameo appearance was an encouraging one.

Not our day. You can’t win them all.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Disappointed obviously. Early goal and Terry going off affected us. Samba took a while to settle. By the time he did, we were 2 down. Snod's petulance on being subbed was unnecessary. The Bruce substitutions were bemusing. Moving Hogan to right wing in the 1st half was strange, Grealish coming on with Samba going up front and Hutton going to centre back and Adomah left back was even stranger. Adomah in playing the whole match should have been moved to right wing where he would have had some hope of crossing a ball. Instead on the left, he couldn't beat his man or cross, so the ball would go back to Hutton to cross, something he had difficulty in doing when playing on the right, never mind the left. All very strange! Still in the mix for the playoffs. Today's game was all about catch-up, which we never quite managed. I fear todays game could reflect our chances of catching up the auto promotion places.

[Three Spires Villa]

I can't stand Terry, but he's going to be a loss to the side. And if folks still don't like him they're fully entitled to say so.

Well said

[Three Spires Villa]

Not many birds in the Sheffield Wednesday crowd, the nearest to a pair of boobs was the fat bold bloke who watched the whole game with his top off.

How is the seventies? Hi

Ray Graydon running down the wing, then a good old carry on film, great.

Are you trying to be ironic or just an idiot? Are you really sure about your posts?

[ROBBO]

His team selection tells you all about Bruce. Hogan has come on in the last few games at various times and produced absolutely nothing, not all the players fault he just doesn't fit in with the way we play but Bruce in his wisdom elects to give him a start and most of the game with the obvious result absolutely nothing.
Grealish should have come on before O'Hare he livened us up, Samba in defence I hold my breath.
 

[BC54 VFC]

Why was manor road chippy closed,  disgrace.

Because the 'fat bold(sic) bloke' who watched all the game with his top off got there just before you and bought and ate all their stock!

[oldham_villa]

Trying to picture it from Bruce's perspective

The team was playing off the back of arguably their best performance of the season
Injuries meant he had a selection dilemma, and he thought that a team high on confidence could get the best out of a striker who has not got going in claret and blue since joining.

If Hogan bags, it's a great selection.
If he doesn't, and Villa lose, then it's the situation we currently see now.

When i saw the lineup i did worry we wouldn't have enough in midfield. I was kind of expecting them to sit deep and therefore we'd need someone who could shoot and score

There appears to be little cohesion with Hogan and the rest of the team: even when warming up, there's no camaraderie. It's almost like they don't like each other.

My thoughts on the game....it was one of those where nothing came off for us, the ball bounced in Wednesday's favour time and again. I found the repeated groans from the crowd a bit dispiriting also....why can't we just get behind them

We have to move on and put this behind us.

Losing Terry is a big blow, as it's not just losing an inspirational player, it also moves Chester to the left, where he appears less comfortable.

[David_Nab]

On Terrys injury we have 3 senior CBs to come in Samba / Elphick / Richards ...between them they must be on 100k a week and i don't think any of them are a viable option ...

[Villa75]

I saved money. I travelled 200+ miles. I spent my day off work away from my family to watch the Villa. I came home disappointed.

I won't comment anymore, for fear of being labeled as someone who only comes on to "celebrate a defeat".

UTV

[Malandro]

I saved money. I travelled 200+ miles. I spent my day off work away from my family to watch the Villa. I came home disappointed.

I won't comment anymore, for fear of being labeled as someone who only comes on to "celebrate a defeat".

UTV

I can't say I agree with every post but there is nothing wrong with that one.

[oldham_villa]

On Terrys injury we have 3 senior CBs to come in Samba / Elphick / Richards ...between them they must be on 100k a week and i don't think any of them are a viable option ...

watching Richards "play" at centre half should come with an age restriction warning