Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[paulcomben]

The first time I have been at consecutive home wins since 2010. Such fun! Davis is just not getting his timing right and the coaches need to help him. Better judgement and we can make comparisons to McInally and Carew. Not Heskey and Harewood.

[exigo]

I think this is the genuinely first routine win I've seen in about six seasons. Nice to come up from London, leave in injury time, be sitting back at home already, knowing that I'll have forgotten this entire game inside a year.

[Mister E]

It's almost insulting to give Grealish 5 minutes. Give him some gametime to show whether he is going to contribute or not.
The current manager does my head in.
Good result today; mediocre quality.

[pauliewalnuts]

We are now just churning out wins without too much drama.

Keep churning, keep adding to our points total, and we will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

[saunders_heroes]

It's almost insulting to give Grealish 5 minutes. Give him some gametime to show whether he is going to contribute or not.
The current manager does my head in.
Good result today; mediocre quality.

Tut.

[saunders_heroes]

We are now just churning out wins without too much drama.

Keep churning, keep adding to our points total, and we will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

Bruce at his pragmatic best. Nothing spectacular but churns Out result after result.
I’d take this over anything that went before over the last 7 years.

[Rigadon]

It's almost insulting to give Grealish 5 minutes. Give him some gametime to show whether he is going to contribute or not.
The current manager does my head in.
Good result today; mediocre quality.

Tut.

Well yes indeed tut.   Insulting to give a 21 year old who has had a liver injury (FFS!) some game time?  Bizarre comment.

[Clampy]

It's almost insulting to give Grealish 5 minutes. Give him some gametime to show whether he is going to contribute or not.
The current manager does my head in.
Good result today; mediocre quality.

Why is it insulting? He's just a player coming back from injury.

[leylandalbion]

Really enjoyed a 2nd half where we comfortable never looked like conceding and taking the piss in the last 10 mins

[Ads]

Very comfortable.

We were a bit sluggish first half but even then Davis should have scored a brace.

Second half we upped it and finished very strongly.

They looked dangerous at set pieces but nothing more. Very poor in fact.

Onomah, Adomah, Snodgrass and Whelan all played well.

In the past week we've had an excellent performance, a ground out and a comfortable stroll about. Result is the same. 6 goals scored, 2 conceded and 9 points accumulated, with each result never looking in doubt.

[Mister E]

It's almost insulting to give Grealish 5 minutes. Give him some gametime to show whether he is going to contribute or not.
The current manager does my head in.
Good result today; mediocre quality.

Why is it insulting? He's just a player coming back from injury.

I said "almost" ...
Because, like any sub, it takes a few minutes to play yourself in and Grealish is someone who - IMO - needs time to make an impact. Actually, I was surprised that the manager did not bring Angela on instead ....

[brian green]

Thanks to the incredible generosity of Wittonwarrior and the tireless support of The Malandro I had a truly memorable day at Villa Park.  I met Ken McNaught and Dennis Mortimer.  I totally disgraced myself talking to Dennis when I choked with emotion taking him yard by yard through his goal against Liverpool.  All the Holte, I tried to tell him, were convinced Liverpool were going to chop him down.  "Nah" he said "they were never going to catch me".  Great day.  Thank you Alex.  Thank you Olly.  Enjoyed the game too, despite freezing my knackers off.

[Matt Collins]

Very much routine in the end

Having said that, the first half was an absolute abomination. Terrible, terrible football

Adomah always a threat
Thought Whelan and Hutton were the picks
Onomah and Davis were in and out but both did what they do enough to show their value
Samba’s physicality was effective
Curious to see their disallowed goal as it wasn’t an obvious foul from where I was sitting

[Villa in Denmark]

Very much routine in the end

Having said that, the first half was an absolute abomination. Terrible, terrible football

Adomah always a threat
Thought Whelan and Hutton were the picks
Onomah and Davis were in and out but both did what they do enough to show their value
Samba’s physicality was effective
Curious to see their disallowed goal as it wasn’t an obvious foul from where I was sitting

I couldn't see what was wrong having seen the replay on AVTV.

[QuintonVilla]

Another good win but we still need to be a lot better against the better teams. We can't play like that at Leeds and expect to win.

Wolves have won this league but any of about 6 teams are aiming for 2nd. I think Derby will be our main challengers for it.

Wolves, Villa and Gary Rowett's Derby to get promoted while Small Heath go down. Carlsberg don't do football seasons...