Aston Villa 2 Sheffield United 2 Merry bloody Xmas Post Match thread.

[XXVilla]

Keinan Davis is categorically nowhere near good enough. He cannot trap nor hold nor head nor pass nor shoot a football, unless by fluke.

Should have taken the £5M from Man Uwhen we had the chance...

[curiousorange]

Like the twenty five million we could have got for Amavi etc.

[Clampy]

bottom line is he isn't a centre half. As paule mentioned, the fact we've allowed our squad to get to that position where he's stuck playing  there is the real concern.

He brought in Terry who's injured, he brought in Samba who's injured and it seems he prefers Jedinak to Elphick, a player who not many on here rate anyway.
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[ciggiesnbeer]

Davis was poor, gabby & hogan managed to make him look good when they came on though. I am still scratching my head how the two of them combined managed to look even less of a threat than davis.

[PaulWinch again]

bottom line is he isn't a centre half. As paule mentioned, the fact we've allowed our squad to get to that position where he's stuck playing  there is the real concern.

He brought in Terry who's injured, he brought in Samba who's injured and it seems he prefers Jedinak to Elphick, a player who not many on here rate anyway.
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Right and Terry is fair enough, as the gamble given his pedigree makes sense. Having Samba as the only genuine centre back replacement he’s preapared to play is the issue. Samba who has not played much football in the last 18 months to two years.

[Des Little]

Absolute bomb scare. They shouldn’t have been near the ball for 15 minutes after we scored the second, yet we leave the door wide open and thereby undo all the good work up til then. It worries me greatly that our coaching set up is 100% defensive by nature (by that I mean personnel), yet we can’t hold on to a two goal lead at home. What’s more, who the fuck coaches us going forward?

I think Bruce’s days are numbered...5 games without a win and counting...

[Villafirst]

Keinan Davis is categorically nowhere near good enough. He cannot trap nor hold nor head nor pass nor shoot a football, unless by fluke.

Should have taken the £5M from Man Uwhen we had the chance...

Davis needed to be taken out of the firing line 5/6 games ago. He's got a lot of potential but still has a lot to learn. But, SB has had no one else to turn to. Some daft comments writing him off so Early - ffs he's only 19!!

[PeterWithe]

Not too many positives against yet another limited side who seemed to simply work harder than us and be more aggresssive.

Chester was calmness personified, Johnstone was steady and Jack tried to make something happen, other than that we were crap.

We don’t work hard enough to move the opposition around to create space for a forward pass, we are too slow at moving the ball and too predictable. It was really easy for Sheffield, get into two banks of five and make us go back, we will then belt the ball forward aimlessly and they pick it up. Again, and again and again.  There is not enough hunger and determination in the team, we need some young fearless players to come in and shake things up.

[XXVilla]

Like the twenty five million we could have got for Amavi etc.

Exactly...

[PeterWithe]

Keinan Davis is categorically nowhere near good enough. He cannot trap nor hold nor head nor pass nor shoot a football, unless by fluke.

Should have taken the £5M from Man Uwhen we had the chance...

Davis needed to be taken out of the firing line 5/6 games ago. He's got a lot of potential but still has a lot to learn. But, SB has had no one else to turn to. Some daft comments writing him off so Early - ffs he's only 19!!

Davis was fine for half an hour, then tired rapidly and should have been replaced far earlier.

[Gareth]

When you have a targetman it makes sense to get crosses in that he can attack, with the wingers being on the wrong side of the pitch the quality of ball when they get near the byline is invariably weak....the best cross today came from Elmo overlapping and crossing on his correct foot.

[Dominic22]

Jedinak had a nightmare but then play a centre back at centre  back... if he does not fancy a fella who has hardly played for 8 months either reserves or any other form of football in Elphick I can hardly blame him but play one of the under 23's that plays every week. When if ever are they going to be deemed to be good enough of given a chance . They are not 16 anymore they are either good enough for an injury ravaged average team in championship or should not be here

Playing a half fit holding midfield player with no pace at centre back was always going to be trouble.

[andyh]

I had to miss the game because we we had tickets for Jersey Boys at the Alex, which was bloody brilliant, so I taped the game and watched it when I got home, without knowing the result.
Fucking hell. I’m glad I went to to see some real quality tonight, instead of the shite served up at villa park.
Yes, it was a great start, we were really good for 9 fucking minutes.
I must say, thank god for Chester, Jack and Bert. Other than those 3 there is a real paucity of quality in that team.
Snodgrass should be fucked off to wherever he came from as soon as possible.

Their goalie barely touched the ball for 80 mins after the goals, and yet we are the home team looking to push on in the promotion race.
We are incapable of putting a team under sustained pressure and dominating them. I would go as far as to say that we do not look like a team who has real and full confidence in their own abilities. I have said before, I believe we are very,very  fragile.

We play with shackles tight around us. Until those shackles are released and the team plays with freedom, I think we are destined to stay in this shit, poxy division for some time yet.

Our only hope is to bring in a manager who knows how to play the game that is suited to this century and not days of old.

Btw... I have had a few rums  whilst watching tonight’s debacle !

[andyh]

Disapointed with the result more than the performance. We shot ourselves in the foot letting them back into it as early as we did and you could see them scoring everytime they broke in that first half. Second half was better and the ref definatley bottled the second yellow but 2-0 up, you should be going on to win.

We were more stable in the 2nd half, but we created barely anything. That’s a consistent theme with us and it continues to be not good enough. I genuinely think Bruce has no idea how to build a cohesive attacking plan. Hence putting Hogan on and having the team hoof it.

What I didnt get was the De Laet sub, unless Snodgrass had took a knock. He pushed Elmo further forward and ended up taking him off anyway.

It’s probably because Snodgrass was absolutely fucking rubbish, as he has been for weeks. Surely even you can see that.

[taylorsworkrate]

Einstein said definition of insanity is doing repeatidly the same thing and expecting different results.

He keeps taking Snodgrass off as he is contributing nothing and then next game first name on the sheet.

Whelan  Hourihanne   Snodgrass

IT'S NOT FUCKING WORKING SO STOP TRYING IT

Where are the kids, at least on the bench but he decides to have 2 full backs instead. I accept that both goals the manager is not on the pitch to stop them but once in the dressing room is his time to change things and so often they are worse.
MON was always criticised for having no plan B  wish this clown had a plan A

He's got to go

There is absolutely no point in sacking a manager while we are in a play off place.

For me this is the best time to get rid of the dinosaur, rather than in 3 weeks when we are in midtable.