Shambolic Aston Villa vs Smethwick Post-Match Thread

[brian green]

Someone  related to me has subsequently met RG.  He does not have a bad word to say about Villa.  He simply repeats what he said shortly before he left us.  He arrived in a taxi and should have arrived in an ambulance.

[ozzjim]

You know I just don't care about results at the moment. Whatever happens the squad will look almost totally different next season and we have to build towards that. Smith needs the time to build a side that can cope with the way he wants to play.

Funniest thing is, I have one text from a Tesco bag tonight, who is looking forward to reading this place tonight. Says all you need to know about Albion. Pulis spent his whole time there obsessed, they sing about if every week before they support their own side and don't seem to get that actually Albion are all a bit shrug to us.

Hope they go up, it will give them something else to bleat about.

[garyfouroaks]

Has Smith taken us as far as he can?

[ChicagoLion]

Has Smith taken us as far as he can?

I think it is too early to find out.

[XXVilla]

Has Smith taken us as far as he can?

He’s taken us nowhere yet

[andyh]

It says something when the opposition barely get in our half in the second half, and yet our centre halves touched the ball more than our forwards.
If that’s not the epitome of negative football, I don’t know what is.

[KRS]

Thats because with the exception of SJM the midfield is non-existent, slow and incompetent.

[wince]

You know I just don't care about results at the moment. Whatever happens the squad will look almost totally different next season and we have to build towards that. Smith needs the time to build a side that can cope with the way he wants to play.

Funniest thing is, I have one text from a Tesco bag tonight, who is looking forward to reading this place tonight. Says all you need to know about Albion. Pulis spent his whole time there obsessed, they sing about if every week before they support their own side and don't seem to get that actually Albion are all a bit shrug to us.

Hope they go up, it will give them something else to bleat about.

Stripey mate of mine apologised for the win and genuinely embarrassed how easy it was. He decent fan however and not obsessed with villa . The Rest of the smethwick obsessive...let them have their moment as they are not that significant really and they won their cup final and enjoyed a day out.      Some days you are the pigeon, some days the statue and we will come good again. What is important is we have stability and a sound foundation. We ain't going up but we ain't going down either. Just need to grind out rest of season, cull the dead heads in the squad and start afresh as this season hasn't really been ours as we are finishing it how we started it. It's shit but we have been worse

[Three Spires Villa]

Thats because with the exception of SJM the midfield is non-existent, slow and incompetent.

So here’s a radical thought try something different! Or try and coach players to do something different? If coaches can’t change things, or players can’t be coached err, what’s the point of coaches?

[Stu]

5th season out of the top flight incoming.

The most seasons we've spent out of the top division is 7.

Having said that, if yo-yo clubs like Norwich, albion, and Middlesbrough can manage promotion, then so can we.

[Lastfootstamper]

4th, Stu.

[PeterWithesShin]

5th season out of the top flight incoming.

The most seasons we've spent out of the top division is 7.

Having said that, if yo-yo clubs like Norwich, albion, and Middlesbrough can manage promotion, then so can we.

Next season will be the 4th, the most is 8 in a row.

[Ian.]

You know I just don't care about results at the moment. Whatever happens the squad will look almost totally different next season and we have to build towards that. Smith needs the time to build a side that can cope with the way he wants to play.

Funniest thing is, I have one text from a Tesco bag tonight, who is looking forward to reading this place tonight. Says all you need to know about Albion. Pulis spent his whole time there obsessed, they sing about if every week before they support their own side and don't seem to get that actually Albion are all a bit shrug to us.

Hope they go up, it will give them something else to bleat about.

With you on this one.

[LukeJames]

I think they will go up, they remind me of us under Bruce when we were on one of our decent runs, unfortunately we look like we did under Bruce on one of our bad runs.

[Lastfootstamper]

Thats because with the exception of SJM the midfield is non-existent, slow and incompetent.

So here’s a radical thought try something different! Or try and coach players to do something different? If coaches can’t change things, or players can’t be coached err, what’s the point of coaches?

Try what, though? We're slightly hamstrung by having to play to Association Football rules, which seems to be becoming harder and harder with each passing week for many of our so-called "players". They were never that good to start with, now most of them are old, so very, very old, and they're just going to get shitter and shitter as time goes by.