Reading v Hard to Beat Aston Villa Post Match Thread.

[brian green]

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[Fred Crump]

They will all be gone in the summer

[mr underhill]

Thank goodness. i was seriously contemplating not renewing my ST for next season as I can't take any more of the usual suspects, but they will be gone and next season will be  literally quite refreshing .

[brian green]

And don't forget, if getting rid of that lot is not enough to raise our flagging spirits, we get rid the balloon chaser extraordinaire Micah  Richards. 

[mr underhill]

Amen to that.

[Ads]

We are only four points from the play off because teams above us have a game in hand. Just saying.

Oh god don't go saying things like that, saying logical things like that you have my deepest sympathy for what is about to happen to you becauae questioning Smith is not allowed on here.

You do talk some utter shit.

Plenty question the manager over all sorts; selection, substitutions, systems etc. People want him to succeed though. You plainly don't and take glee in wanting him to fail.

I cannot recall you slagging Bruce off and jumping up and down with delight everytime we lost 3 and a bit months in Bruce's reign, which was right in the middle of a shocking run. Having spent around £20m on players in the January.

Bruce is gone. He failed. He should have gone in the summer. Get over it, you support the Villa, not Steve Bruce.

[Clampy]

I only saw the second half yesterday on a stream. We had most of the possession in that half but lacked that bit of quality in the final third. I said before the game that the bench lacked an attacking midfield option, someone who could come on and create something and it was definately needed yesterday.

Still, it's a point which is better than nothing but we should be beating teams who looked a poor as they did.

[Chico Hamilton III]

turgid, hard to watch and not the way I want my Villa teams to play.

[john e]

turgid, hard to watch and not the way I want my Villa teams to play.

could sticky that and keep it up for the last 8 seasons

[LukeJames]

Just flicking through instagram and a video came up of our goals against Blues at home, 4 players in the box for the 1st, 3 players for the second, 3 players as Tammy wins the penalty.

That we have stopped getting players in the box to support Tammy is a big dissapointment. Yesterday he looked isolated.

[ktvillan]

At least we got a clean sheet, which is perhaps a sign of encouragement, especially as we've still got tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber at full back. Shame we forgot how to create and score.  It is a bit concerning that we seem to have stopped doing a lot of the things that made us look so good in Smith's first few games, like the passes threaded through into the space between the defence and midfield which created a lot of chances for us.  We seem to just pump it wide all the time now and it's too predictable.  I reckon Smith will sort it out once he has all his players back.  Hope so anyway.

[sickbeggar]

Just flicking through instagram and a video came up of our goals against Blues at home, 4 players in the box for the 1st, 3 players for the second, 3 players as Tammy wins the penalty.

That we have stopped getting players in the box to support Tammy is a big dissapointment. Yesterday he looked isolated.

Tammy was poor yesterday and it shows how much we rely on him when he's below par. Yes, the performance wasn't great but a promotion chasing team will go to places like reading, play badly and still nick it. We didn't take our chances yesterday, and we had enough to win it.

[LukeJames]

I never bet on Villa in any form, however yesterday I went against this for the first time and I had the free scoring, free conceeding, Aston Villa on my Both teams to score accumulator.

That our first 0-0 of the season followed pretty much sums up how 90% of my bets go over the course of the season.

[Toronto Villa]

They will all be gone in the summer

This squad will look very, very different in August. We will be much younger but we will also lose key players along with the dead wood

Gone or could be

Bunn
Hutton
Taylor
Richards
Elphick (although he might get a new deal)
Chester (no guarantee he’ll be here)
Whelan - thank fuck
Jedinak
BB
Adomah
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Tammy - there will be plenty of suitors for a 30 goal striker
Jack - it will be tough to keep him again especially if he does well after he gets fit but you never know

Younger, faster, technically better I hope will be the outcome

[Legion]