Derby 2-0 Useless Aston Villa post match thread

[MillerBall]

Went to Derby yesterday; very poor from Villa; clearly we are limited up front  The error from Whelan was of schoolboy proportions and sucked the air from the lungs of Villa and energised Derby. The problem with playing Grealish is that much of his work is wasted because there is a lack of understanding from his team mates(essentially they are not sharp enough). Our attacks are very very slow and hence the opposition cannot fail to have large numbers of men behindthe ball.
Bruce has been unlucky with injuries but even if Villa were to get promoted it is abundantly clear that most of the team would not be suitable for a high  level.

[preston28]

If Dr X wants automatic promotion, Bruce should be sacked. Whenever we come up against a side in form we struggle, lacklustre, fail to create anything, same old problem.  If Dr X is happy to scrape into the play offs, then Bruce will stay.

A season that could fizzle could out in the next few weeks.

No we will win our next game.

We will be five points off autos by the new Year, and will close that gap when our injured players come back.

It's not that bad guys.

We are doing OK.

We will go up. Please believe it.

I'm with you on this! Half a season gone and were in the top 6. In previous years its often the teams who put a good run together after Xmas in the final straight go up. We will get key players back in the New Year too so keep the faith!

[simboy]

What a toothless,gutless, poor performance that was.If we didn’t have the best keeper in the league it could have been five or six. Just depressing.

Why are you reviewing the Millwall game from last week?

Possibly predicting my post after the Sheffield United game as well ...

[olaftab]

I spent the afternoon consulting  NF C 15-100, the French electricity wiring regulations. I then rewired our bedroom to add 6 plugs. I completely forgot about the game. I wasn't shocked at the result though.

I am scratching my head thinking  why does BE needs 6 more plugs in his bedroom and it has helped me to take my mind off the game.

[jwarry]

Christ we are mostly a glass half full lot. That was not a Cardiff like performance. 2-0 was not a true reflection of the game. Derby were not very good and to be honest after our stuttering start I think there is only one team better than us at the moment and having watched them somehow scrape a win on Friday night I’m not even sure about that.  We’ve been unfortunate with injuries in key areas, but we are only a Kodjia away from pissing this league now. I am nothing like as depressed as I have been by some of the defeats of the last 4 years. Rome wasn’t built in a day

[PaulWinch again]

Whether 2-0 was a reflection of the game or not, it's the score. We also failed to beat Millwall last week. We simply do not score enough goals, so to say we're one player away from pissing the league is a bit of a stretch.

[The Edge]

I spent the afternoon consulting  NF C 15-100, the French electricity wiring regulations. I then rewired our bedroom to add 6 plugs. I completely forgot about the game. I wasn't shocked at the result though.

I am scratching my head thinking  why does BE needs 6 more plugs in his bedroom and it has helped me to take my mind off the game.

Sorry but this is getting on my nerves now. It's sockets not plugs. Bruce needs to be replaced. We need a moment of inspiration from someone at the club. Someone at Wolves identified Santo, someone at Huddersfield identified Wagner  someone at Villa Park desperately needs to step up and have a similar moment of inspiration. I suggested on Friday that we could surprise Derby by going for a. Grealish /Hogan /O'hare combination and I wasn't joking. But no. Old stick in the mud Bruce reverts to type and we go there with no recognised strikers and 5 in midfield. Rowett and his players must have lit up a cigar once they saw the villa team sheet. We have a big injury list for sure but we have spent a fucking relative fortune in this league to be able to cope. It's just not fucking good enough.

[sickbeggar]

I spent the afternoon consulting  NF C 15-100, the French electricity wiring regulations. I then rewired our bedroom to add 6 plugs. I completely forgot about the game. I wasn't shocked at the result though.

I am scratching my head thinking  why does BE needs 6 more plugs in his bedroom and it has helped me to take my mind off the game.

Sorry but this is getting on my nerves now. It's sockets not plugs. Bruce needs to be replaced. We need a moment of inspiration from someone at the club. Someone at Wolves identified Santo, someone at Huddersfield identified Warner, someone at Villa Park desperately needs to step up and have a similar moment of inspiration. I suggested on Friday that we could surprise Derby by going for a. Grealish /Hogan /O'hare combination and I wasn't joking. But no. Old stick in the mud Bruce reverts to type and we go there with no recognised strikers and 5 in midfield. Rowett and his players must have lit up a cigar once they saw the villa team sheet. We have a big injury list for sure but we have spent a fucking relative fortune in this league to be able to cope. It's just not fucking good enough.

yep, he's just too tactically safe to cope with this league. Everyone knows what Bruce is going to bring to the table even when he hasn't got the players to do it!

[in exile]

I'm getting tired of the Jekyl & Hyde performances with injuries or not

[The Edge]

I spent the afternoon consulting  NF C 15-100, the French electricity wiring regulations. I then rewired our bedroom to add 6 plugs. I completely forgot about the game. I wasn't shocked at the result though.

I am scratching my head thinking  why does BE needs 6 more plugs in his bedroom and it has helped me to take my mind off the game.

Sorry but this is getting on my nerves now. It's sockets not plugs. Bruce needs to be replaced. We need a moment of inspiration from someone at the club. Someone at Wolves identified Santo, someone at Huddersfield identified Warner, someone at Villa Park desperately needs to step up and have a similar moment of inspiration. I suggested on Friday that we could surprise Derby by going for a. Grealish /Hogan /O'hare combination and I wasn't joking. But no. Old stick in the mud Bruce reverts to type and we go there with no recognised strikers and 5 in midfield. Rowett and his players must have lit up a cigar once they saw the villa team sheet. We have a big injury list for sure but we have spent a fucking relative fortune in this league to be able to cope. It's just not fucking good enough.

yep, he's just too tactically safe to cope with this league. Everyone knows what Bruce is going to bring to the table even when he hasn't got the players to do it!

#Wagner. I fkn hate predictive texting!

[Mister E]

Christ we are mostly a glass half full lot. That was not a Cardiff like performance. 2-0 was not a true reflection of the game. Derby were not very good and to be honest after our stuttering start I think there is only one team better than us at the moment and having watched them somehow scrape a win on Friday night I’m not even sure about that.  We’ve been unfortunate with injuries in key areas, but we are only a Kodjia away from pissing this league now. I am nothing like as depressed as I have been by some of the defeats of the last 4 years. Rome wasn’t built in a day

Glass half full, or empty? - I'm not sure you know which is which.
I don't know whether you were at the game yesterday but one feature of our performance worried the crap out of me: our 6 midfield players (yes, there were six in the starting line-up) - with the exception of Adomah and Grealish - are not very good. Their passing is poor, they are too slow to distribute the ball, they lack energy and they are not very good at tracking back and closing down. This manager seems to have sucked the lifeblood out of Hourihane; the Whelan we saw in the pre-season games has long gone AWOL; Onomah is a liability throughout; and Snodgrass is so far up himself that no wonder he cannot see the obvious passes.
We'll be in this division for another season if it stays like this.

[Boz]

Whether 2-0 was a reflection of the game or not, it's the score. We also failed to beat Millwall last week. We simply do not score enough goals, so to say we're one player away from pissing the league is a bit of a stretch.

I think we're one decent manager away from pissing this league and staying up if we get promoted

[eamonn]

I spent the afternoon consulting  NF C 15-100, the French electricity wiring regulations. I then rewired our bedroom to add 6 plugs. I completely forgot about the game. I wasn't shocked at the result though.

I am scratching my head thinking  why does BE needs 6 more plugs in his bedroom and it has helped me to take my mind off the game.

The shock at the end of his post was brilliantly judged. When added to his back catalogue (cf. Off Topic's poo thread), he's up there with Woodhall as H&V's finest writer, for me.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Extended highlights..

[kippaxvilla2]

Turgid.