Shambolic Aston Villa vs Smethwick Post-Match Thread

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I think it's been 2 decent months and 2 Brucey months as we've had the pick of Brucey's best midfield buys.

We'll come good with Jack and a few back. Not good enough for the play offs mind.

[XXVilla]

It's not been 4 months of shit though. It's more like we interupt this Steve Bruce season to bring you some decent football.

Now back to your scheduled programming.

Very nearly 4 months of shit, & certainly feels like many months of shit

10 years of shit actually

[Five Villa Tattoos]

Thought I’d give it a bit of time before offering up my thoughts. I fucking hate the stripey filth so was probably advisable.
I’m still angry but the worrying thing is that the defeat today was in no way unexpected.
The questions that bother me are:
1) It’s going to take at least £100 million to sort out the shower currently masquerading as our squad. Will will be allowed to spend that amount?
2) Do I trust Dean Smith to spend it wisely?
The fact is I just don’t know the answers to either.

Being a Villa fan, on the whole, has never been the easiest but lately it’s horrible with no hope in sight.

The things I do know:
- We are right now a mid table Championship side at best with a rich football history. ( See also Forest)
- Not one of our current squad appears motivated in any way shape or form. They’ve given up with 3 months of the season left.
- We’re going to be stuck in the Championship for a long time unless some drastic squad changes happen in the Summer.
-I’ll be renewing my season ticket. I’m a Villa fan no matter how bad we get or how worse we become I’ll still go. No matter what division.

Up the Villa, always.

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It's really not going to take an awful lot of money at all.

[PeterWithesShin]

It was more a good 5 weeks, Bolton (Nov 2nd) to the last minute of the Bitters away(7th Dec), and since then it's been mainly crap with the odd decent spell in games.

[AVH87]

100 million and 10 years+ are two myths on here.

9 years ago we finished 6th in the prem, 8 years ago we finished 9th in the prem.

[Clampy]

I'm not sure throwing on Jacob Ramsey was too good an idea either. Don't get me wrong, he was fine and he didn't embarrass himself but I think maybe putting a kid like that on when we're 3-0 up in a game would be better rather than today. I didn't think it was the right time.

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It was more a good 5 weeks, Bolton (Nov 2nd) to the last minute of the Bitters away(7th Dec), and since then it's been mainly crap with the odd decent spell in games.

Second half at Swansea was decent. After a poor first half. Good 25 minutes against QPR. Good last 15 against Sheffield United. We need somebody whose good at stats to work it out. Stuart?

[SoccerHQ]

It was more a good 5 weeks, Bolton (Nov 2nd) to the last minute of the Bitters away(7th Dec), and since then it's been mainly crap with the odd decent spell in games.

That period was to me actually the most enjoyable I've found it down here in our three seasons. So many entertaining games and in big games we actually looked to have a swagger that we never really had last season save for Wolves at home.

Think of going up to Boro and utterly demolishing them rather than just pinching a 1-0 and also should've done the same to WBA on their ground.

Shocked by how bad things have gone since. Guess the turning point was the way we lost to Leeds. I naively thought at the time we weren't really fighting for top 2 so could quickly write that one off but clearly not with how bad our form has been since.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not sure throwing on Jacob Ramsey was too good an idea either. Don't get me wrong, he was fine and he didn't embarrass himself but I think maybe putting a kid like that on when we're 3-0 up in a game would be better rather than today. I didn't think it was the right time.

So you never want him to make his debut then?

[PeterWithesShin]

Those 5 weeks were ace.

[XXVilla]

100 million and 10 years+ are two myths on here.

9 years ago we finished 6th in the prem, 8 years ago we finished 9th in the prem.

Point taken. O’Neill’s last season was 09-10. That was when the shit began. Although it wasn’t as shit as the last eight years.

[Lastfootstamper]

100 million and 10 years+ are two myths on here.

9 years ago we finished 6th in the prem, 8 years ago we finished 9th in the prem.

I'm still not sure how that happened. I remember the eve of our last two games, praying that we didn't go down!

[stuart445]

1 win in 14, another awesome game Smith is really a hero isn't he

And here you are on cue to gloat, and you still get every stat wrong.

OK 1 win in 13 (14 if you include the FA Cup)

Is that better. Hey because 13 is sooo much better, as it's only 13 in the league how wrong I was to question Smith he is our saviour

[LukeJames]

How do you manage to get each of your posts even more cringeworthy than the last?