Aston Villa v Derby County post-match thread

[nodge]

I was amazed at how many people preferred to 'beat the traffic' at the end. I'd want to be there to cheer the team off, preferably with everyone else still there.

I thought that too, I know there are always people who don’t want to get stuck in a car park or whatever but yesterday it seemed like thousands were streaming out with a good five minutes plus injury time left. Maybe it’s because I can’t get to every game anymore but I like to savour a victory like that and made sure I was there until the last player left the field. 

[olaftab]

When was the last time we were 4-0 up at half time??

Liverpool at home in late 70s.

[remy]

Ok so ive watched the goals now about 27 times - anybody beat that yet?

I’ve read and re read posts, reports and articles on the game.

I’ve described the game to non plussed family (non footie fans) members with a massive grin.

All last week I pinned my hopes on jack being able to come back and rejuvenate the team and he took the club, it’s fans and players into the stratosphere.

I was surprised he was named Captain but frankly it’s a master stroke by Dean Smith.

Might be a bit late for play offs but 6 points off I’m not giving up hope and now we’ve clicked the rest of the division won’t fancy coming to VP.

As for Mordor and their orcs, can’t see past a 3-0 win for the fellowship simply because we’re unplayable right now.

Finally, finally a football weekend to saviour.

Thank you Villa Boys.

[UK Redsox]

I was amazed at how many people preferred to 'beat the traffic' at the end. I'd want to be there to cheer the team off, preferably with everyone else still there.

I normally leave bang on the final whistle (with the bonus that I hear as little of that Oasis rubbish as possible). However, this week I left on around 88 mins.

Road works on Aston Lane meant 4 way traffic lights and I could see that it was going to be chaos after the game.

Does anyone know if the lights are going to be long term ?

[robbo1874]

Grealish's goal was top drawer but I personally prefer Tammys, I love watching us break and cut through teams like that.

I enjoyed Hutton’s carve through too

[auntiesledd]

Absolutely great performance yesterday.
Not for one minute did we look under pressure which hasn’t happened in a long time.
So many positives but Mings and Hause look excellent and Whelan had his best game in a Villa shirt.
I can’t really add to anything people have said about Jack apart from how impressive was that for his first game back!?

All of the above.

Jack's return was simply sensational - and beyond anything that I was anticipating after his protracted absence. Let's hope he stays fit for the rest of the campaign and inspires the rest of the team to continue their astonishing return to individual & collective form. Bring on the sty-dwellers! 

[kipeye]

When was the last time we were 4-0 up at half time??

Liverpool at home in late 70s.

5-1 half time.

[andyh]

Surprisingly, Derby TV has the best coverage of goals from Saturday including spectacular coverage of jacks goal.

https://youtu.be/aoUKtlckrIk

[simon ward 50]

Apart from the goal the performance was far better than we have seen for a while!

[frank]

Interesting to hear Dean Smith say that they'd been practising the Whelan-Grealish corner in training and were going to abandon it because Jack wasn't hitting the target

[UK Redsox]

Interesting to hear Dean Smith say that they'd been practising the Whelan-Grealish corner in training and were going to abandon it because Jack wasn't hitting the target

Paul Scholes few similar goals I think

[Toronto Villa]

Surprisingly, Derby TV has the best coverage of goals from Saturday including spectacular coverage of jacks goal.

https://youtu.be/aoUKtlckrIk

Someone smart needs to explain to me how Derby County have got better camera angles and better picture quality than us in a game at our ground where we panned them? Can someone, anyone show this to the right people at the club and get them to fix AVTV. It's been year after year now of just naff coverage. That was better quality across the board in 3 minutes than our highlights package across 10. And especially the view behind Jack's goal.

[exigo]

Any nerd out there know the latest rules around kick-off? There was a point after Jack's stunner yesterday where all our players were in their half, including Steer.
Under the old rules, that would have meant Derby could have kicked off with our goal unguarded. But the ref seemed to wait until we were back in position.

[dave shelley]

Any nerd out there know the latest rules around kick-off? There was a point after Jack's stunner yesterday where all our players were in their half, including Steer.
Under the old rules, that would have meant Derby could have kicked off with our goal unguarded. But the ref seemed to wait until we were back in position.

Sorry you're mistaken.  The rules haven't changed regarding players' positions at kick-offs and re-starts.  All players of the team not kicking off shall be at least ten yards away from the ball and in their own half, hence the purpose of the centre circle.  The only change to this that I know to is that now the player receiving the ball at kick-off may stand within playing distance of the ball in his opponents half.  If the law has changed further then I apologise.

[Towser]

Any nerd out there know the latest rules around kick-off? There was a point after Jack's stunner yesterday where all our players were in their half, including Steer.
Under the old rules, that would have meant Derby could have kicked off with our goal unguarded. But the ref seemed to wait until we were back in position.

When I looked Glenn was in our half on his own at one stage, even the ref was up close to where our players were celebrating.