Aston Villa vs QPR Post-Match Thread

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

If Cardiff and/or Fulham can have one of these catastrophic off days, that would help. It happened to Wolves (they were beaten rather than ambushed, but the point remains) and surely it's got to happen to them. Maybe the international break, which when you're winning you hate, will help us and screw them. It might kill momentum while allowing us to regroup and heal.

Yep, I like that angle. Positive and possible, which is what we need to dampen the despair. Thanks CO, I'll go with that.

[brontebilly]

7 points from top 2, 10 points from 7th

think the results tonight will give Wolves the momentum to get over the line anyway

still think Cardiff will have a sticky spell but running out of time for it...

[PeterWithesShin]

Has to be as bad a home performance as we've had since relegation. I don't see the point starting Jedi at home to QPR. I certainly don't see the point starting him for the second half when 2-0 down. Bruce dropped the ball there twice imo. We were just flat, looked like strangers and failed at so many basic passes, corners etc. No one was my motm as no one deserved to be.

As for the crowd, plenty of singing in L2 considering how wank we were.

[Legion]

Very flat. No effort off the ball and on balance changes ought to have been made.

Listless and tired. You could tell with the poor delivery, the time we afforded them and our absence of intensity.

Time to use the squad. Still loads of time left.

QuintonVilla will be right if he criticises the crowd tonight. As shocking as the players with the Sunderland impression.

The crowd were shite from the off. Just beat Wolves 4-1 and the ground was dead apart from Holte Enders In The Sky on loop from about 500 people in the Holte. Everyone else sat on their hands waiting to be entertained like they support Man City. We lost thousands of fans again in the space of 3 days. Our home support is wank for a club of our size and on the run we were on.

Give it a rest for a change or post elsewhere.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

On the subject of the singing, I wasn't at the game tonight but I watched it at home and I want to confirm that I sang fucking loudly. I even got my guitar out at one point.

[Clampy]

How frustrating was that? We didn't get started, we didn't get into the game at all and credit to QPR, they didn't let us. One to take on the chin and try and put behind us. Let's hope we bounce back on Saturday.

[nick harper]

Has to be as bad a home performance as we've had since relegation. I don't see the point starting Jedi at home to QPR. I certainly don't see the point starting him for the second half when 2-0 down. Bruce dropped the ball there twice imo. We were just flat, looked like strangers and failed at so many basic passes, corners etc. No one was my motm as no one deserved to be.

As for the crowd, plenty of singing in L2 considering how wank we were.

He played him because of the giant of a centre forward QPR had - to mop up in front of him. Didn’t make much difference. He won everything all night and we never coped with their direct approach. They looked dangerous every time the ball went into our box.

It was a bad one but we do struggle at home when we concede the first goal.

Having said that Grealish missed a great chance on half time that would have livened up the second half.

[PeterWithesShin]

Realistically though Terry should be able to deal with him. And you play Jedi to ensure you don't go 2-0 down. When that fails I don't see the point in keeping him on as he's going to do little to get you back into the game.

[Deano's Mullet]

Just got back in from work. What a shit result that is. No way will we get automatic promotion. Too many results like this after good runs of form.

[David_Nab]

First loss in 4 months at home and generally you will have some off days ..the problem is Cardiff and lately Fulham have been relentless . There is still hope for an auto spot but it's fading fast and the play offs are a lottery ..first things first we need to get back to winning ways on Saturday

I see Bruce has already come out and said he should of changed things around to freshen things up so I would expect some changes for Saturday

[Axl Rose]

Very flat. No effort off the ball and on balance changes ought to have been made.

Listless and tired. You could tell with the poor delivery, the time we afforded them and our absence of intensity.

Time to use the squad. Still loads of time left.

QuintonVilla will be right if he criticises the crowd tonight. As shocking as the players with the Sunderland impression.

The crowd were shite from the off. Just beat Wolves 4-1 and the ground was dead apart from Holte Enders In The Sky on loop from about 500 people in the Holte. Everyone else sat on their hands waiting to be entertained like they support Man City. We lost thousands of fans again in the space of 3 days. Our home support is wank for a club of our size and on the run we were on.

It isn't beyond the realms of possibility that people have other things to do: for example, work, other commitments etc etc. Or don't have the money for two home games in three days. Or just can't be bothered with a Tuesday night game at home to QPR. I think in general, people like weekend home matches, and I don't think our home support is 'wank'. 30,000 would say otherwise.

[walsall villain]

No energy or drive all night. QPR had energy and desire and were winning first balls and second balls. I hoped we’d have a real go second half, but we didn’t. Why didn’t he change our leaden midfielders Hourihane and Jedinak at half time?
I don’t understand why our back line continued to play so deep when we were two down or why Grealish spent so much time playing so deep also.
I can’t think of anybody who played remotely well for us. Expected a bit of a struggle but not that!

[levico]

Where’s Lastfootstamper tonight? He’s very quiet.

He gave me a very hard time when I suggested that tonight might be tricky. Be nice of him to admit he was wrong!

[kippaxvilla2]

Bruce post match...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/973687745725034500/video/1

[tomd2103]

Disastrous night compounded by the other results.  We were second to pretty much every ball and just looked so slow.  We looked shaky at the back from the very start ANC offered very little going forward.  They fully deserved the win and thought the number 30 in midfield was excellent.