Aston Villa vs SHA: Post-Match Thread

[andyh]

John Carew tweeted...
My Villans whooped ass today!! Blue nose ass whooping!😄❤️


I love John Carew

[villan from luton]

Very poor until Adams hit the post and that seemed to jolt everyone into gear. Chester was very poor, but not sure he was fit. Whelan was dropping too deep for me although its seems that was part of the plan. I thought we looked better with Hourihane in the deeper role. Missed SJM energy. Actually thought Lansbury started well and was a shame he got his hamstring when he was fouled. He had warmed up for some time before he came on by the way, someone was asking. When we scored early in the second half I had visions of a proper beating but sloppy play for their second goal. I suppose we have to accept that errors will be made while the players get used to these new tactics. Hope Albert is not too badly injured and am excited to see Bolasie unleashed as well. Great to hear the manager after the game stating it as it was. Quite interesting to hear him say we had 5 or 6 players in the area for the first two goals. Under Bruce, it would be an offence if we had 5 or 6 in the opposition half. Also he said that SJM wanted to play but they thought it best he didn't. Again something the previous manager would not have done.

[andyh]

Would you prefer we hoof it in the general direction of Elmo, or even worse, Hogan? We play football now, time to get used to it 

No, we can play out from the back, that’s fine.
But, when you are aimlessly passing across the back line and not going forward you risk getting caught out.
And we did...a few times.

[Somniloquism]

Superb, wonderful result.
But, what was all that tippy, tappy shite at the back for large periods of the game? We got caught out too many times pissing about and a decent team might have taken advantage.

Deano better put a fucking stop to that.

Indeed: that was annoying the hell out of me too.

It was annoying Deano as well from his post match comments.

However Monks is more telling. All he can say is his team weren't tough in the last three matches. TBH their only hope is to get a load of points on the board now because their players are going to blow up at some point as they are mostly having to chase the ball most matches. We have seen ourselves what happens when you try to play fast attacks and give possession to the opposition in the majority of your matches.

[brian green]

Just been told the result.  I got my grandchildren to bury me in the sand dunes behind Sizewell nuclear power station.for the afternoon.  The radiation blocks radio and telephone signals.

Alan Hutton reminds me, in toto, of Stan Lynn.  A very flawed, slow, technically inept right back whom the fans adored.

Assured legend status.

[PeterWithesShin]

We'll fuck up at times, after all we're changing 2 years of anti-football mentality in a lot of these players. I'd prefer to fuck up playing football than fuck up anyway playing whatever that out-dated garbage Bruce served up was.

[villan from luton]

By the way, great of the less ugly Gardner brother to sit himself in the Blues dugout. I hope the fans near there gave him what for.

[PeterWithesShin]

If you ever wanted to know the difference between them and us. They gave legendary status to a RB for giving fans the wanker sign in yet another derby defeat. We'll give it to a RB that scored a goal Messi would be proud of in yet another derby victory.

[Risso]

I thought Whelan was an absolute liability today.  Slow and ponderous on the ball, and involved in a negative sense for both of their goals.  For their first, he lost his player who he was supposed to mark at the set piece, who then scored, and for their second, he dithered on the ball, had to do a silly step over, then gave Kodjia (I think) a really poor pass that lost possession and led straight to their goal.  He's not quick enough in mind or body to play Dean Smith's game.

[villan from luton]

We'll fuck up at times, after all we're changing 2 years of anti-football mentality in a lot of these players. I'd prefer to fuck up playing football than fuck up anyway playing whatever that out-dated garbage Bruce served up was.

Totally agree, it is going to take time to adjust and we have to be patient. That said, some of that passing was abysmal lol

[AlexAlexCropley]

Just to remind some on here, we beat the ass off Blues 4-2. Still not enough for some.

[Somniloquism]

In one of the twitter Cafu/ Maradona comparisons, a boggie is complaining we are using an Argentinian scoring against England in comparison and that is bad.....

[brian green]

I think McCafu's name is well in the hat for what we name the new north stand.

[Risso]

I think McCafu's name is well in the hat for what we name the new north stand.

They should rename the Doug Ellis after Hutton.  It runs the entire length of the pitch, as did he.

[dave shelley]

In one of the twitter Cafu/ Maradona comparisons, a boggie is complaining we are using an Argentinian scoring against England in comparison and that is bad.....

Maybe he would have preferred us to remind him of Jeff Astle's missed sitter against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup.