Aston Villa v Hull City Post Match Thread

[aj2k77]

Hutton, Taylor, Bjarnasson, Bolasie. All need urgently replacing.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Another weekend spoiled.

I see it as an improvement !!

It feels like a defeat due to the performance. That first half was shockingly poor. We huffed and puffed second half but overall it was an extremely disappointing display.

Very much agreed, mate.

We got the equaliser in the 64th minute.

There was no urgency to get a winner in the final 26 minutes. Really really worried about our players and their attitude towards the club.

No positives at all today.

I don't see how you can say that.  There were positives in the first ten minutes and most of the second half. The goals we conceded were very poor but if we'd played the first half with the intensity we finished the match with we'd have won it easily. Green was a positive. I thought El Ghazi looked ok when he came on. Abraham was busting a gut and he's not even our player. It was a poor result but it was better than Wigan or Swansea.

[Toronto Villa]

It’s crazy to think we were so very close to 3-1 vs Albion and the world would be so, so different. A late equalizer, a key injury followed by another one to AT and we have literally lost all belief in confidence in how we were playing. Dominating teams. People were talking like El Ghazi was our own Ronaldo having ripped them a new one along with some other super goals. Now we can barely string two passes together and our defence gets worse by the week. It’s one of those things where you swear it only happens to us.

[CJ]

Ho hum. Another frustrating afternoon. Thought we started off quite brightly but I checked the clock when we seemed to have stopped playing - 7 minutes. Shite for the rest of the first half, conceding two goals through a combination of bungling and ineptness, subdued the boos with a goal just before half time, and played better in the second half.

Again only McGinn and Tammy emerged with any credit. Kalinic should have done better for their first, although with comedy defenders in front of him it must be difficult to concentrate; Hutton, Taylor and Chester very poor; Elphick  - I genuinely didn't even notice him; Bjarnason sloppy; Hourihane incredibly sloppy and weak; Bolasie - send him back; Albert - ineffective; El Ghazi and Green - marginal upgrades; Kodjia - a brilliant cameo which illustrated perfectly why he doesn't get picked.

Jack can't come back soon enough, but we desperately need to sort that defence out.

[garyshawsknee]

It’s crazy to think we were so very close to 3-1 vs Albion and the world would be so, so different. A late equalizer, a key injury followed by another one to AT and we have literally lost all belief in confidence in how we were playing. Dominating teams. People were talking like El Ghazi was our own Ronaldo having ripped them a new one along with some other super goals. Now we can barely string two passes together and our defence gets worse by the week. It’s one of those things where you swear it only happens to us.

I think you're right TV. I'm convinced MON has a voodoo doll of VP.

[Toronto Villa]

That or I’m beginning to think the noses gypsies curse has found its way to B6

[SoccerHQ]

Automatic gone & play offs gone, here for another season

Im wondering have we settled for that at management and board level already?

The two signings already made this month certainly dont seem the types to come straight into a team.

Elphick, Steer and Green all back from loans and a bunch of players in the last few months of their contracts still involved in the first team.

Has an end of days feel to it.

Grealish's injury was obviously a huge below but Ive been distinctly unimpressed by Smith since then.

We have completely fallen apart.

Seems it was agreed at London summit that will be massive squad overhaul in summer (ties in with DS comments about getting average age of squad down) and then DS will be under massive scrutiny from day 1 of next season.

Let's hope he gets it all right as I imagine he's already feeling pressure he simply hasn't had at his previous two clubs.

[Goldie.7]

Out of a possible 84 points so far we haven't even managed to pick up half. This time last season we were 4th with 50 points.

The play-offs are over and I highly doubt we'll end the season with more than 70 points.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Out of a possible 84 points so far we haven't even managed to pick up half. This time last season we were 4th with 50 points.

The play-offs are over and I highly doubt we'll end the season with more than 70 points.

Agree. I'm looking to see performances improving .Ain't happening though.

[Pvb1968]

Hutton, Taylor, Bjarnson and hurry up, waste of space.

[aj2k77]

This window has been shite too. Another goalkeeper who isn't particularly good to add to the handful we already have and a defender who isn't fit and can't make any impact on the side yet.

In other words, no additions.

[ROBBO]

Can't underestimate the loss of Grealish, his work rate was such that he covered for some very ordinary players and always drew two defenders to him. I read a lot of frustration coming out but we need to remind ourselves that Bruce left the club with one central defender we got lucky that Axel proved himself to be a quality player in that position.
Most of this squad needs replacing too old too slow and some who are just finishing their careers, the main concern for me is that we do not have players who are capable of stepping up, looking at the ages of some of the so called youngsters if they can't get a game now they never will.

[Ads]

Hull weren’t all that. Couldn’t really see how they’ve won 6 on the bounce.

They were exactly what I expected. But we're calamitous at the back.

There's so many players have poor seasons or that are just poor defensively that no combination of them will resolve the problems.

This is what comes from Johnstone, Terry, Grealish, Snoddy and Grabban being your spine and you only owning one of them.

[Allan C]

More two twos than a ballet dancer. Point rescued but rubbish again. Defence and midfield terrible, only rescued by decent attack again. Play offs still in reach but no chance with these losers and big questions about Mr Smith.

Big questions - boy there’s some hyperbole on this thread, there really is. Here’s been here 2 mins, trying to turn round 7/8 seasons of decline - and your questioning him already.

Yeah but the questions need asking. As bad as anything in the last 5 seasons.

I’ll give you the answer, you can’t make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. This squad is average at best

[Rigadon]

No pressure Jack 😱