Aston Villa v Hull City Post Match Thread

[Brend'Watkins]

We would improve massively with a below average full back and a below average midfielder to replace Taylor and Hourihane. Surely we have some in the club.
Bjarneson is frustrating but I thought he tried hard and tried to get forward a lot. Even with his failings he’s a better option than Whelan. That header he had at goal that went backwards was something else mind.

[olaftab]

As I have said other teams caught on how we play and currently our players are not good enough to deal with that. Smith than tried to change the style to keep clean sheets and that has not worked again due to lack of quality in our squad.

[Three Spires Villa]

And his ahem..shot...at Preston! Regardless of those chances, he’s not very good, like most of our midfielders actually

[David_Nab]

Both Wingers were poor however what I noticed is they rarely got one on one with the full back.Atkins had them well drilled to double up on the wingers helped by the fact we played a 4-3-1 formation ( Houriane and BB were on the pitch sure but god knows they did next to sod all)
Neither fullback has the legs to play an attacking overlapping game without leaving us exposed at the back

Chester good goal , great clearance but he seems on a mission to get our players injured with constant underhit or misplaced pass's.I'm sure the 2nd goal came about orginally from a poor pass from him

Back to CM , putting Grealish in a wheel chair and having Houriane push him around the pitch would be more effective that the dross he served up today.He can't run , he can't tackle his passing is average and my god man play to the whistle , you might well have been fouled by sitting on your ass waving your arms in the air whilst the opposition run up the pitch towards our goal is not good enough.

The Goalie ,to me looks like he should save the first one and for someone 6''7 he seems no more inspiring that Nyland with balls into the box.

McGinn/Tammy by a country mile the best 2 players for both teams on the pitch.

Smith needs to sort things out by for me today we needed to change the centre mf and he literally had nothing on the bench to work with .I hope along with a LB we bring in a CM this window

[olaftab]

Only 2 sides have scored more than us (Norwich and the bitters), only 2 have conceded more than us (Rotherham and Ipswich).

We have conceded more at home than any other team.

[LukeJames]

Ok, don’t disagree with a lot off that, but how can we have played so well up to WBA and then fell into a hole? Yes it’s nots Deans players, but he is the manager who got us playing well, and he is the manager who has seen us play badly. It can’t all be down to Jack being injured. It’s odd, really odd

The thing is when Jack is there, he draws two, three men to him, meaning our wingers cant be double marked, he opens up the pitch for us. Right now whoever is out wide are easy to mark because of our lack of threat through the middle.
Oh for a pair of energetic over lapping full backs (who can defend).

[XXVilla]

It’s been like Groundhog Day for nearly ten years

[LukeJames]

It’s been like Groundhog Day for nearly ten years

Which is exactly why its not going to be fixed in 3 months.

[walsall villain]

Only 2 sides have scored more than us (Norwich and the bitters), only 2 have conceded more than us (Rotherham and Ipswich).

We have conceded more at home than any other team.

We don’t need reminding, we know, we’ve seen it.

[Villa75]

It’s been like Groundhog Day for nearly ten years

Which is exactly why its not going to be fixed in 3 months.

Not having a go at you, but this has been said - almost word for word - about each of our previous, God knows how many managers.

I'm just waiting for the "Rome wasn't built in a day", and I can shout BINGO!

[LukeJames]

Our last manager was brought in as a quick results, promotion specialist. Nothing about that appointment was about being patient.
This time we have changed the whole set up of the club.

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[adrenachrome]

It’s been like Groundhog Day for nearly ten years

Which is exactly why its not going to be fixed in 3 months.

Not having a go at you, but this has been said - almost word for word - about each of our previous, God knows how many managers.

I'm just waiting for the "Rome wasn't built in a day", and I can shout BINGO!

This is from over 8 years ago.

Maybe we should just concentrate on supporting the club instead of picking holes in it all the time.
Good quality support on match days will always work its way onto the pitch.
Randy's not selling.
Alex McLeish is staying.
The fact is this is a transitional season for us so all the moaning in the world will not change that.
If all that effort was put into creating a positive atmosphere at Villa Park it might just be the spark that's needed.

There you go: permanent transition i.e. a state of flux, or something that rhymes with flux.

Dear oh dear

[tomd2103]

Our last manager was brought in as a quick results, promotion specialist. Nothing about that appointment was about being patient.
This time we have changed the whole set up of the club.

Was discussing this at half-time with some people sat round me at the game today.  It seems that we are in a pretty stable position financially for the foreseeable future, so failure to achieve promotion this season is not a potentially ruinous prospect. 

It will be disappointing to not go up again but the reset button needs to be hit at the end of the season (should have been done last summer) and Smith needs to be given time to put things in place. 

[LukeJames]

Dear oh dear doesn't rhyme with flux