QPR vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[wolfman999]

I know its early days but i am starting to have some doubts about our new manager. Why Whelan again,why not Jedinak or Lansbury ?  Whelan was dreadful the other night as usually is the case

Get a grip you bedwetter he's been in the job a week

Smith out cos all successful sides change their manager at least once a fortnight.

[Rudy65]

We don’t have one player with any real pace who can beat a man, or men and create something. Think Tony Morley

[olaftab]

From the BBC:
Villa's defending really wasn't great, for QPR's goal.

Think Miroslav Klose's opener against England at the 2010 World Cup...

A long, bouncing ball straight in between the two centre-backs. Sunday league stuff?

[AlexAlexCropley]

Time to consign this 'best squad in the league' shit in the bin

[Rudy65]

Don’t worry, Hogan will be on soon

[Mister E]

They should have had a penalty Taylor caught out again.

Nah, 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. Both were pulling each other.

[curiousorange]

I can't say I see a lot in Abraham. I thought on Saturday he didn't put a shift in and we won that.

[Legion]

We're not very good, are we?

[Sexual Ealing]

This fucking music.

[BoVillan esq]

Okay Villa, given this lot enough time, enough chances, lets dispose of them in an orderly fashion, 2-1 Villa to win.

[Mister E]

Time to consign this 'best squad in the league' shit in the bin

Agreed, it does not serve us well to maintain that myth.

[Ad@m]

Afraid that was down to Chester

I don't agree - the guy who scored was their right winger and was therefore behind Chester so he couldn't see him.

On the other hand Neil Taylor was stood next to him when the ball was played and chose to stand still watching the ball rather than track his man.

100% Taylor's fault that goal.

The ball was played straight down the middle, agree If Taylor was supposed to be marking him, i can only guess they left it to each other.
Fucking appalling defending.

Taylor stands still and points at the goalscorer as if to say "someone else's problem".  There are two issues with this:

1 - he had no one else to mark, so why's he giving his man up;
2 - a 10 year old defender knows to worry about the danger man first, and then worry about the winger after.  Given that guy was the winger and was clearly going in on goal Taylor should have tracked him.

I don't doubt Chester could've been deeper but he hasn't got eyes in the back of his head.  That was Taylor's man and Taylor's fault.

[sickbeggar]

We've got a right back and a striker playing in midfield. I think thats the problem tonight really. unfortunately i'm struggling to see how smith could have put out a different team with the personell available to him.  I don't really buy into blaming the last manager for everything, but there's no doubt this summer Bruce totally lost the plot

[ChicagoLion]

We're not very good, are we?

Some pretty average at best players out there.

[brontebilly]

Agree Taylor and Huttion offer nothing offensively and Elmo’s lack of pace or guile further exacerbates our lack of cutting edge.
The amount of times we get to the final 3rd and then stop and play it sideways or back because we are too slow to be incisive.

Elmo made our best chance of the half though...

Not a fan of Hutton and Elmo on right side but don't think either of them is having a bad game. Hutton put McGinn away with a cracking ball at one point.