Shambolic Aston Villa vs Smethwick Post-Match Thread

[curiousorange]

In all honesty, I have no idea whether the bottom three are capable of 50 points. I can't stomach looking at the table. I don't watch highlights, I don't watch Match of the Day. Beyond the ninety plus minutes of huffing and puffing of a Villa game I'm totally out lf love with the sport in general.

Considering 4 still haven't broken the 30 point barrier it's a safe bet.

That actually makes me feel a little bit better. Good job, sir.

[PeterWithesShin]

Looking to finish in our lowest position in the football league for how many years?

13th 2 years ago, before that it was 14th in 1972. And before that it was division 3.

[TopDeck113]

Looking to finish in our lowest position in the football league for how many years?

13th 2 years ago, before that it was 14th in 1972. And before that it was division 3.

14th the Second Division in 1973 - 74,  which did for Vic Crowe. Replaced him with some bloke called Saunders.

[PeterWithesShin]

One of the very few plus points from today is the Ramsey seemed decent, I hope we see more of him.

[PeterWithesShin]

Looking to finish in our lowest position in the football league for how many years?

13th 2 years ago, before that it was 14th in 1972. And before that it was division 3.

14th the Second Division in 1973 - 74,  which did for Vic Crowe. Replaced him with some bloke called Saunders.

Ooops, typo'd the season.

[Ads]

Quite possibly the worst game of football we'll see this season. Utterly mind numbing from both sides.

The Positives

It was quite warm today.

The Negatives

Smith's persistence with a system that does not work with these players.

Smith's persistence with certain players.

Hourihane. Utterly atrocious. One of the worst excuses for a performance I've seen from a midfielder. The prick taking an age to get off our pitch. I'd love that to be the last time the useless twat plays for us, but he'll be back next week doing absolutely, fuck all.

He's so poor off the ball, so lightweight, offers nothing. A shocking player.

Whelan. Another I wish to never see playing for us again. He's so slow it's embarrassing. Everything he does takes an absolute age. He's so deep, he effects the positioning of the side, he effects the tempo of the side.

Elmo. What was Smith thinking? Another utterly slow and past it waste of space. Leeds should have been his last game. Why is this useless prick starting on the fucking wing of all places?

Can't beat a man, is an utter coward in the tackle and he didn't put a single ball of quality into the box at all today. Utter shite.

Hutton. Fucking clown. 8 fucking years nearly that shower has been here. Fuck me.

Abraham completely isolated. Our slow midfield didn't show from their deep position so the defence resorted to knocking percentage diagonal balls.

We switched off at the throw and Hourihane, fuck me, for the 2nd and were never likely to get back in it.

The Albion I thought had probably been worse than us up to that point, but we huffed and puffed all second half.

The Albion camped 11 men behind the ball and when your glacial slow as we are, it's easy to make us look clueless.

McGinn now out for 2 games. Joy.

Smith has to stop persisting with this system and these players. Get radical.

And Steve Bruce, you're a fat fucking sack of shit, you balloon headed ******. Elmo, Whelan, Hourihane and the like. Thank you very fucking much for spending all our money and nearly taking us to the wall so we could fucking fail and wave off our best players who we didn't fucking own. ******.

[djbone]

Pretty even til 0-1. Dropped off 2nd half.  They weren't as good as I expected them to be, but they didn't need to be.

Hause was better today.  So was Whelan. Mings good again. Green tried but didn't get much luck and was at fault for one of their goals. Elmo a bit anonymous.

Hourihane is an utter disgrace and shouldn't play for us again.  To see the twat jogging off at 0-2 when he was subbed... Whelan had to chivvy him on, sounded like he was getting dog's abuse? 

As others have said, that ref was a joke, particularly in the first half when several of their dirty bastards should've gone in the book.

Agree with those saying stick with Smith, but he does need to start planning for next season now, which means bomb-squadding the deadwood and playing some of the kids.  It can't be much worse than this, and surely we've done too much already to go down? 

[Smirker]

It's hard to believe we won our first two games this season. Seems a lifetime ago.

Grealish getting injured cost us.

[Ads]

The referee was shite. How do you get booked for a tackle where you win the ball, like McGinn, but the referee seems it reckless. Yet escape a booking for a foot off the ground where you kick somebody in the head.

[Nev]

Smith sounded pretty exasperated during his interview but didn't say anything you wouldn't expect him to.

[clash city rocker]

Quite possibly the worst game of football we'll see this season. Utterly mind numbing from both sides.

The Positives

It was quite warm today.

The Negatives

Smith's persistence with a system that does not work with these players.

Smith's persistence with certain players.

Hourihane. Utterly atrocious. One of the worst excuses for a performance I've seen from a midfielder. The prick taking an age to get off our pitch. I'd love that to be the last time the useless twat plays for us, but he'll be back next week doing absolutely, fuck all.

He's so poor off the ball, so lightweight, offers nothing. A shocking player.

Whelan. Another I wish to never see playing for us again. He's so slow it's embarrassing. Everything he does takes an absolute age. He's so deep, he effects the positioning of the side, he effects the tempo of the side.

Elmo. What was Smith thinking? Another utterly slow and past it waste of space. Leeds should have been his last game. Why is this useless prick starting on the fucking wing of all places?

Can't beat a man, is an utter coward in the tackle and he didn't put a single ball of quality into the box at all today. Utter shite.

Hutton. Fucking clown. 8 fucking years nearly that shower has been here. Fuck me.

Abraham completely isolated. Our slow midfield didn't show from their deep position so the defence resorted to knocking percentage diagonal balls.

We switched off at the throw and Hourihane, fuck me, for the 2nd and were never likely to get back in it.

The Albion I thought had probably been worse than us up to that point, but we huffed and puffed all second half.

The Albion camped 11 men behind the ball and when your glacial slow as we are, it's easy to make us look clueless.

McGinn now out for 2 games. Joy.

Smith has to stop persisting with this system and these players. Get radical.

And Steve Bruce, you're a fat fucking sack of shit, you balloon headed c***. Elmo, Whelan, Hourihane and the like. Thank you very fucking much for spending all our money and nearly taking us to the wall so we could fucking fail and wave off our best players who we didn't fucking own. c***.

Totally agree there Ads apart from the positives. I was asked to work  today but instead of saying bollocks I gave my ticket away and worked instead. A pleasant day in the sunshine That's what villa have done to me.

[nick harper]

Without Grealish we can’t break the lines which is why we go side to side. Not once did we get behind them so we inevitably look slow and ponderous.

He’d be better off going more direct and 4-4-2 until he gets the players to play the way he wants.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sky highlights

[PeterWithesShin]

OS post match interview https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1096825836261519363

[villa `cross the mersey]

We really are shit aren't we ? One of the worst sides I have  seen wearing the claret and blue - looks like we are potentially turning another manager into a nervous wreck
I wonder what the owners are thinking right now?