Aston Villa v Reading Post-Match Thread

[Taylor]

Anyone know what’s wrong with Grealish?

[Loxton01]

He has a squad depth now to rival all bar possibly stoke and West Brom in the league and yet still says we need to add more quality

What player has he made better with coaching? I can name many he hasn’t

Like of Lansbury RMC, RDL on big wages cast aside for many championship teams this would send them to the wall.

It’s a joke how poor we play and how few ideas we have

[London Villan]

And we still need a left back, central defender and front man.

[pauliewalnuts]

Reading are one of the worst sides I've seen in ages yet we still fail to beat them.

Not good enough.

[QuintonVilla]

Unbeaten or not, 9 points is actually a poor return when you consider who we've played. Brentford the only team who will even trouble the top half. Ipswich currently bottom of the league and we couldn't even muster a shot against them with 10 men. Lucky against Wigan. Failed to capitalise against a decent Brentford side. Couldn't beat a dreadful Reading side.

We were sleepwalking towards the final whistle today and you always felt something was going to happen. We score and the tempo dies and we don't do anything else, just hope that the opposition don't score.

Not good enough at all and our performances are concerning for when we actually play somebody good. It's very early in the season but these are the games you look back on at the end where we drew and dropped silly points. The difference between finishing 3rd instead of 2nd or 7th instead of 6th.

[Fasth56]

I'm hoping someone is carving Bruces' name on the bullet as we speak and it's not Steve Bruce carving it

[mr underhill]

Just back. Awful result - one goal from 60% possession against a truly abysmal Reading side is beyond bad ; we never treated this game with any urgency and got what we deserved. And for the last time Steve, please start playing people in their proper position.

[jwarry]

Th Villa back office is getting worse, first AVTV and now https://twitter.com/avfcofficial/status/1033395532763459584?s=12

[frank black]

Played well, didn’t kill em off, got tired and paid the penalty.

Smash and grab from them, didn’t look like a penalty.

Encouraging signs from the team, new guy looks decent and Jedinak looked assured (but has the odd error) for the overwhelming majority of the game.

[London Villan]

Tweet deleted whatever it was!

[Risso]

Th Villa back office is getting worse, first AVTV and now https://twitter.com/avfcofficial/status/1033395532763459584?s=12

What did it say?

[PeterWithesShin]

Sky highlights

Bruce OS post match interview https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1033396639359217666

[ktvillan]

It isn't Bruce's fault that an opposition player who shouldn't have still been on the pitch equalised against us in midweek and it isn't his fault that we had an iffy penalty given against us today....

It is his fault in a way Damo, if we put games beyond the opposition by playing on the front foot with tempo and taking our chances, it wouldn't matter if we dropped a bollock at the back occasionally or get an unfortunate decision.  His approach leaves little or no margin for error, and we, and the refs,  make a lot of errors.  I mean bringing on Taylor for Kodija when 1-0 up at home against fucking Reading FFS.  Also let's not forget Kodija could have walked the other night before he got either of his goals.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Played well, didn’t kill em off, got tired and paid the penalty.

Smash and grab from them, didn’t look like a penalty.

Encouraging signs from the team, new guy looks decent and Jedinak looked assured (but has the odd error) for the overwhelming majority of the game.

Unbelievable synopsis.

[cheltenhamlion]

Just fcuk off Bruce.  Post match cliche bingo:

‘That’s the championship.’

‘Var would sort these decisions out.’

‘Every game in this division is tough.’

‘We’ve lost seven, eight maybes nine players from the play off final.’

‘ I can’t believe the boy Fredericks wasn’t sent off.’

Someone makes this joke pretty much every week.  There must be more original ways to slag off the manager.

Agreed. So how about he is a useless, negative, prick?