Aston Villa 2-2 QPR post match thread

[SoccerHQ]

Have to say btw if the other 10 players had the heart and ability of McGinn promotion would be a doddle.

97th minute and I'm sure he's out on his feet yet still had enough about him to chase Eze (who said he didn't do off the ball marking?) and tackled a very dangerous counter attack player when we hardly had anyone at the back.

[mr underhill]

I'd love to see Eze in our side.

[ChicagoLion]

I'd love to see Eze in our side.

Pissed all over Hourihane today.

[four fornicholl]

Don't know if it's already been mentioned, according to Paul Franks Wolves have accepted a bid from us for Wolves central defender Kortney Hause.

Would prefer someone more proven at the back.

I remember him and Iorfa were highly rated there not so long ago but both have hardly played for Wolves in recent times.

A doghead fuckoff, how low have we gone.

[Clampy]

Don't know if it's already been mentioned, according to Paul Franks Wolves have accepted a bid from us for Wolves central defender Kortney Hause.

Would prefer someone more proven at the back.

I remember him and Iorfa were highly rated there not so long ago but both have hardly played for Wolves in recent times.

A doghead fuckoff, how low have we gone.

Does it matter where he is from? How childish.

[ChicagoLion]

Just got in and haven’t read the thread.

Well,that was fucking shit.
Abject in quality, desire and application.
We are regressing and regressing very quickly. It’s not quite Bruceball but it aint far off.

I am sick to fucking death of watching Hourihane ponce around the pitch like a c***.
Barney adds mobility but absolutely no fucking quality, and all 4 wide men flatter to deceive.

We are rapidly becoming a one man team, whether that is Tammy or Jack, but we cannot rely on them game after game.

We have problems all over the pitch and a new goalie and DM is not going to fix them.

Very,very disappointed tonight.

Well summed up mate.

[tomd2103]

 Just got back home and have to say that a draw was all we deserved really.  Thought Elphick and Steer did OK on their returns, Bree did OK apart from a couple of loose cross field passes towards the end, Abraham took his goals well and El Ghazi made an impact when he came on. 

On the flip side, Hutton was exposed time and time again, and pretty much everything came down their right side.  McGinn did OK, but looks a bit jaded and in need of a rest.  Hourihane and Bjarnason were second to everything in midfield and I am becoming increasingly convinced that neither are really the answer in midfield. 

[four fornicholl]

Don't know if it's already been mentioned, according to Paul Franks Wolves have accepted a bid from us for Wolves central defender Kortney Hause.

Would prefer someone more proven at the back.

I remember him and Iorfa were highly rated there not so long ago but both have hardly played for Wolves in recent times.

A doghead fuckoff, how low have we gone.

Does it matter where he is from? How childish.

Ner, ner, ner, ner, ner. From what I've seen he's nowt special.

[Villafirst]

Fucking dreadful.  If Bruce has served up our last few performances this place would be in meltdown.

These are Bruce's players. Time to judge DS is when he gets his own players in....

[tomd2103]

Forgot to add that QPR are a very unlikeable outfit.  Persistent fouling and time wasting from the off, both of which the referee failed to get a grip of throughout the game.  Their fans are a bunch of bell ends as well.  Giving it the big one throughout despite bringing a really small following. 

[XXVilla]

Don't know if it's already been mentioned, according to Paul Franks Wolves have accepted a bid from us for Wolves central defender Kortney Hause.

Would prefer someone more proven at the back.

I remember him and Iorfa were highly rated there not so long ago but both have hardly played for Wolves in recent times.

A doghead fuckoff, how low have we gone.

Does it matter where he is from? How childish.

Your Mum..

[rougegorge]

I swapped my season ticket to sit with family in the central upper Trinity. From that perspective the poor positioning of Hutton was even more evident and he and Chester were too often too far apart. Teams can get at us by just launching the diagonal ball to their right wing.

The Grealish factor becomes more evident with each game. He preoccupies opponents and gets the ball to wingers more quickly. If we are to persist with 2 out wide, we have to get the ball to them more quickly.

QPR's time wasting was reprehensible (why do refs always wait until the last few minutes to get the card out?), but even with 13 extra minutes we rarely threatened. The shot count was high but the relative threat from them was low.

Hourihane was poor but if he's being subbed when we need to win, why bring on Whelan? The previous manager would've been pilloried for that.

Too many players underperformed but the same has been true for the last 5 matches.

The cup will give some players a rest, but then it's the form team next.

[CJ]

Flat atmosphere in spite of the pre kick-off pyrotechnics. We played OK in patches but everything predictably goes down the wings without Jack to work something through the middle. Thought our midfield was pretty weak - Hourihane and Bjarnason were just poor and SJM looked knackered. They obviously knew our weak point was Alan Hutton at LB - nearly every attack and kick by their goalie was targeted at him.

Special mention for their time wasting tactics which were nothing short  of embarrassing. I don't know how Schteve McClaren can look himself in the mirror relying on that level of gamesmanship. There again, I don't know how he can look himself in the mirror anyway

Crumb of comfort listening to Dean Smith's post-match comments on the way home - sounds like he's hopeful Tammy will stay, and also that Jack may be back by the end of January.

[joe_c]

I absolutely loathe games like that against pissant opposition who have clearly arrived with no plan in mind but to nick a point. I can even hear McLaren lauding the performance as "cracking" and the result as "thoroughly deserved". We need to be burying teams like this.

[ktvillan]

Smith was always going to do well to keep us in touch, given the unbalanced badly-coached and technically sub-par squad he inherited.  Injuries to our best midfielder, our only left back, both centre backs, and a few youth players who might have stepped in, are very unlucky and have made that task even harder.  We are still in touch and, Leeds apart, we aren't losing.   I think Smith deserves to be cut a bit of slack for that.  With a new keeper, a left back, a CB or two and a DM I think we'll improve a lot defensively.