Bought a Villa tracksuit top at Xmas, but I didn't wear it until we played Derby. We've won every game since. If only I'd worn it earlier we'd be in the automatic promotion places.
I've managed to take my boy to three matches this season. Stoke, laboured, pedestrian, lucky to get a draw. Ipswich, comfortably the worst team I've seen at Villa Park and we made hard work of beating them. Derby... 'don't expect too much, son, we aren't playing well, Jack's still out, Derby are ahead of us'... I think it's partly Dean's ideas starting to work, partly Mings/Hause compensating for Bruce's criminal failure to provide a functional back four and largely Jack 'I'm a middle aged heterosexual but I'm starting to have doubts (although I also kind of love John McGinn too)' Grealish.
Quote from: mike on April 22, 2019, 11:29:23 PMI've managed to take my boy to three matches this season. Stoke, laboured, pedestrian, lucky to get a draw. Ipswich, comfortably the worst team I've seen at Villa Park and we made hard work of beating them. Derby... 'don't expect too much, son, we aren't playing well, Jack's still out, Derby are ahead of us'... I think it's partly Dean's ideas starting to work, partly Mings/Hause compensating for Bruce's criminal failure to provide a functional back four and largely Jack 'I'm a middle aged heterosexual but I'm starting to have doubts (although I also kind of love John McGinn too)' Grealish.We have tended to struggle against the lesser sides. We were comfortable against Millwall, Ipswich and Rotherham but the score-lines wouldn't back that theory up and yet, we seem to have saved our better performances against the sides around the play offs and higher. We have started to manage games well though. There is a lot of love for the players right now.
Handing Bolaise his bicycle clips.
Dean Smith said in his interview after the match against Millwall that he also thought the turning point was at half-time against Stoke, when he 'got into the players at half-time'. Must have been some speech that!