Rotherham United v Aston Villa match thread

[Kimaster1976]

Even before the red card, not a single player has put an ounce of effort in here, complete lazyness and luckluster to a man.

[PeterWithesShin]

How big that pen could be.

[Axl Rose]

Tuanzebe aside, we've been poor. El Ghazi and Hourihane, especially.

Fingers out Villa. It's 4:40am here and I need a bit of entertainment.

[Ads]

They're kicking us off the park. Every tackle they're leaving one in. They're pressing us and we've not been smart about our possession.

The referee is absolutely atrocious, we're getting no protection.

Time to shorten the game and increase our tempo, as pressing us as they are is tiring.

The referee doesn't see handball, yet still books him. How the fuck does that work.

[Nev]

Already playing poorly, not sure what Mings 1st booking was for but I can't complain about the pen and second yellow. Jack acting the goat is pathetic as is the ref booking Deano for nothing. We are being  mugged here.

[wolfman999]

Whelan for Hourihane to give us a bit of stability. We need to get our big players involved more. There's a reason these are in the bottom three, they're not very good and get beaten a lot.

[Rudy65]

Not sure how we turn this around. They're bang up for this, we're not.

I'm still really annoyed at Mings. He's been superb for us, but to do that, and on a yellow was just ridiculous. Then he's all smiles walking off.

..and now we're back to having Jedinak at CB. And for Saturday too.

He overplayed for his first booking as well. He has got that reckless streak about him

[CJ]

How big that pen could be.

Which one - our miss or their score?

[LeeB]

Whelan for Hourihane to give us a bit of stability. We need to get our big players involved more. There's a reason these are in the bottom three, they're not very good and get beaten a lot.

Correct. Apply pressure and watch them crumble.

[KRS]

What a proper shite first half...

Playing shit and Rotherham on top.
Tammy takes the worst penalty I've seen in a long time and is saved.
Mings booked for stupidity, then second yellow and penalty for a suspect hand ball.
1-0 down and down to 10 men.

...things can only get better second half?

[balloubaby]

Just needs to have a calm half time chat. Keep the ball down and this is in the bag second half............gulp

Agreed - and to come out of our shell and play for a win. We may even cause them to get a few bookings that may level the playing field. Step up fellas!

[john2710]

We've simply been out muscled across the entire pitch. You've got to match them for workrate & we haven't. They are absolute shite. Ref is a ****** though.

[saunders_heroes]

Well that was really poor but that ref is a fuckin joke for sending off Mings. It wasn’t a pen or a second yellow and he could cost us the game.
Let’s hope we can appeal.

[pooligan]

Sounds like the Wigan game all over .Thought all we had to do is turn up .Hope we don't play in the second half like we did at Wigan ,in big trouble if we do

[charleeco7]

Too slow in possession, jack playing too deep. Wasn’t sure it was a pen for me but could do with seeing it again. Ref is awful though. Leaves us in the shit at the back on Saturday.