Wigan v Villa post-match thread

[puppyfeat]

Hey Dean you weren't supposed to take this seriously you dickhead!

[auntiesledd]

Fucking hell

https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1084129031564468224?s=12

A completely laughable decision for the pen, but what were our pair of clowns doing beforehand? I've seen 5-year-olds with better technique & nous. Absolutely appalling stuff.

[CT]

I'd that there was some pretty unsavoury behaviour amongst our fans today, too.
- A punch-up just in front of me - one of the perpetrators I've seen doing it before.
- A guy at the end desperate to start something and claiming "you obviously don't go to all the games" to someone with a season ticket and a regular away-fan.

Everything is unravelling in front of our eyes ...

If there was a league for fans who fight amongst themselves, we'd be right up there.

I'd love to know if it's commonplace or if we have a serious problem. The Police and stewards don't have to worry about opposition fans, they need to segregate our own.

[wittonwarrior]

I  can fully understand and kind of accept the likes of Taylor and Elphick being totally out their class (in professional football let alone this standard) whats not  acceptable were the performances from the likes of Bolasie, Connor and Abraham.  Smith  needs to  get tough.  The honeymoon is  now a distant  memory.

[Toronto Villa]

Fucking hell

https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1084129031564468224?s=12

A completely laughable decision for the pen, but what were our pair of clowns doing beforehand? I've seen 5-year-olds with better technique & nous. Absolutely appalling stuff.

It was soft but I’m not going to put a lot of blame on Hause there. While not the best pass what followed from Whelan is criminal for an experienced professional footballer. Useless bastard.

[PaulWinch again]

I  can fully understand and kind of accept the likes of Taylor and Elphick being totally out their class (in professional football let alone this standard) whats not  acceptable were the performances from the likes of Bolasie, Connor and Abraham.  Smith  needs to  get tough.  The honeymoon is  now a distant  memory.

Abraham? The guy who has 16 goals?

[LukeJames]

Wigan looked like we did when Smith first took over, As soon as our defenders were in possession of the ball (fuck me that was scary) they were pressing us relentlessly into errors. For whatever reason we have stopped doing this.

Our midfield was so deep that they couldn't support the wingers/forwards but we still look wide open, I can't get my head around that.

[Ads]

Some prick vommed as well into the row.

[Toronto Villa]

What’s certainly happened is that Dean Smith took other managers by surprise early on and got some wins. And now other managers have since scouted us (or what is left of us post Jack and AT) and they know exactly where to hurt us. We are weak and slow and careless in so many areas of the pitch that finding weaknesses and read to expose us has become easy.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Ok ...who coined the phrase "winnable games"?
 I appreciate the squad is a mess right now, I just hope the club overall is in a better condition ...if not we are in trouble

[Risso]

I'd that there was some pretty unsavoury behaviour amongst our fans today, too.
- A punch-up just in front of me - one of the perpetrators I've seen doing it before.
- A guy at the end desperate to start something and claiming "you obviously don't go to all the games" to someone with a season ticket and a regular away-fan.

Everything is unravelling in front of our eyes ...

If there was a league for fans who fight amongst themselves, we'd be right up there.

I'd love to know if it's commonplace or if we have a serious problem. The Police and stewards don't have to worry about opposition fans, they need to segregate our own.

Their stewards today were telling people to sit where they liked, it caused no end of arguments near me. Unfortunately, I ended up near the worst kind of Stone Island clad scrotes who were causing trouble all game.

[Brend'Watkins]

Fucking hell

https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1084129031564468224?s=12

A completely laughable decision for the pen, but what were our pair of clowns doing beforehand? I've seen 5-year-olds with better technique & nous. Absolutely appalling stuff.

Whelan brought on to improve things that’s what makes this more worrying. Awful piece of football in a dangerous area of the field. He shouldn’t be anyway near the first team.

[cdward]

From the Evening Mail, just the Smith quotes.
“Rubbish,” Smith said. “It was poor today."
 

“This is the bottom of where I’ve been in my managerial career and I’ve just said to the players it should be the bottom of where they’ve been in their careers.

“Listen, I’m an Aston Villa fan so to come and lose 3-0 two weeks on the spin is very disappointing


Smith added: “I’m bitterly disappointed. I didn’t see that second half performance coming, especially after the first.

“There was nothing between the two sides in the first half, apart from the goal. Kalinic has made a good save early on, Tammy’s had a good chance from their mistake at the back, we had good possession, they had good possession, but nobody has really opened anybody up.

“I felt, second half, we just got frustrated and started playing a little bit individually rather than as a team"

“The amount of times the ball went out of play and it took (a long time) to come back into play, the amount of times the forward went down just killed any chance of us getting any fluidity in the game. We got frustrated and gave away stupid goals from there.”


“Sometimes I have to take some responsibility myself,” said Smith. “We couldn’t get any fluidity in the game in the second half so I decided to be a bit radical and make three changes to try and keep the ball in play, which shouldn’t be my job it should be the referee’s. It didn’t work.”

[Toronto Villa]

Neil Taylor ladies and gents

https://twitter.com/r_villan22/status/1084113979356704768?s=12

[Allan C]

Why are people surprised?? I thought it would take three windows before we would be competitive at the top of this division and then the Prem. with the exception of Grealish this squad ranks amongst the worst I’ve seen. Not one of the team today is worth keeping. And when I think of the money we’ve spent on them I want to weep. It’s gonna take time I’m afraid