Shambolic Aston Villa vs Smethwick Post-Match Thread

[CJ]

Thought we played well for the first 30 minutes and had a gilt edged chance to go ahead, but once they scored it was game over. To be fair to Albion they press well and knew how to shut up shop, and without Jack we simply didn't have the creativity in the middle to break them down.

Haven't seen replays of the goals yet but thought Kalinic may have done better for the first (I stand to be corrected as I thought it had gone over the bar at the time), but another howler from horror show Hourihane gifted them a second.

Positives - Mings looks quality, Hause looked better, Mcginn (obvs), season ticket price freeze announcement
Negatives - Hourihane, the referee (obvs)
Meh - all the rest

We'll miss SJM in the next two, but at least he'll be back and rested for the Bloose game, when hopefully Jack will be back as well

Realistically that's season over. Roll on the summer clear out and Deano gets the chance to mould a squad which can play the way he wants them to

[achilles]

Can someone tell me why all our free kicks are sideways or backwards, except around the oppositions 18 yard box, never forward?

[Gido82]

After witnessing that shambles it's safe to say we have many cowards in our team who are happy with the prestige and pay they take from our club. I want to give Smith time and let him build his own side,however if performances don't improve drastically can't see him being here in the summer.Fucking grim.

[somec]

Just got home, disappointed with the result.

Until they scored I thought we were the better team but the 2 quick goals seemed to suck the life out of us.

The second half we offered nothing, there was only the long range effort from SJM that I remember.

The ref was total shit and should have booked at least 3 albion players before he finally gave one of them a yellow card.

Had totally forgot that Barry played for them.

Hope Kalinic is OK. Was it a foul on him that caused the injury or a 'coming together' type incident?

[preston28]

Just got home.  The best I can say is appalling.  Need a huge transformation and improvement.

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Second half it was eleven men behind the ball and us far too pedestrian in moving it. We could still be there now and we wouldn't have scored. Only Ramsay broke the lines in the 91st minute.

We need to stick with him. It's not good enough, not close to good enough, but a purge is coming. The fat kulaks who have been parasitic to the lifeblood of the club will meet their end this summer. Never has a club wasted so much in wages for such negligible output.

The squad won't be recognisable and I'm praying the football won't be either. It's going to require patience and perseverance and that's tough to ask for sometimes. Hopefully we see something a bit different to replenish the optimism.

[Taylor]

When the f**king hell is Jack coming back?

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May well be on the bench for Stoke.

[aj2k77]

Grealish, Lansbury and Carroll back for the next game?

How long are Chester and Tuanzebe out for?

I've hated this season, it's been abysmal.

[LukeJames]

May well be on the bench for Stoke.

I fucking hope so, even bringing him on for 15 minutes at the end will give everybody a much needed boost.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

I thought Mings and Hause did well enough, the rest were a shambles. Not convinced by our goalie and thought on first viewing that
 he should have done better for both goals. The bitters'vocal support was sh-t for a winning team in a local derby. The ref was useless as was the lino on the trinity side. The stewards too were useless again in and around L9 sorting out a problem in the boxes above. VTID. UTV!

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May well be on the bench for Stoke.

I fucking hope so, even bringing him on for 15 minutes at the end will give everybody a much needed boost.

We could put the bench itself onto the pitch and it would have more mobility that Hourihane and Whelan or fucking Elmo.

[Roysmert]

Absymal. Almost on a par with 030303. Smith isn't seeing what we're all seeing. Why isn't he changing things? Why are we worse than when he took over? Why do we persist with this constant goalie pass to centre half pass to full back with a suicide ball, he turns back, passes back to the goalie, passes to the other centre half, out to the other full back, back inside ad inifinitum! It's fucking shite. This really is the almost lowest I can recall in my lifetime, and is a total disgrace. We've just been fucked by that pile of shite from up the road, at home, and every single one of us knew it was coming.
Dean you're not winning any friends here son, and Hourihane should hang his head in shame for ambling off that pitch today, the fucking useless backpassing end of a bell.
Disgrace. Where's Suso today, ffs? What has JT brought to the table? Today and any match? What the fuck are we doing treading water in February?

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Grealish, Lansbury and Carroll back for the next game?

How long are Chester and Tuanzebe out for?

I've hated this season, it's been abysmal.

If that's right about the others two, at least it's options.

[mr underhill]

I keep hoping Kalinic will get better, much as i did with Nyland. He doesn't. His distribution makes Johnstone's last year look world class.