Aston Villa v Southampton Post Match Thread

[Legion]

[Goldie.7]

Nobody came out of today well especially our coaching staff who made themselves look like absolute fools bringing on Kodjia with 15 to go. Clueless.

Kodjia had over 30 minutes and looked lively. Mind you, he should have been on at half time.

The line-up was piss poor to begin with. Let's just leave out Jota altogether, the only player currently capable of picking a pass.

[brian green]

That performance was as bad as anything served up by McLeish, Lambert, RDM, Sherwood, Garde, Black or Bruce.  Absolute garbage from the players and the manager.

[Risso]

I agree Brian, it was desperately poor.  The ground was half empty by full time, and the boos were extremely loud and noticeable.  If Smith is still in charge for the Norwich game, then if they beat us, which they probably will, it'll be his McLeish v Wigan moment.

[Legion]

Watch and weep

[rougegorge]

Go and get Big Sam, now. It's the only chance of making us hard to beat and with it a hope of staying up.

No fuming way

If it comes to a change, and I hope it dosnt(yet) I hope the club has more ambition then “Big Sam”

Big Sam....I'd rather have Frankie goes to Hollywood in charge.

Relax! 


As for big Sam I would back him to keep us up but it wouldn't be good to watch and would be a short term fix.

I'd take a short-term fix rather than a painful relegation followed by another 3 years in the Championship.

He's met with snobbery, but went into his last job at Everton when they were bang in trouble, kept them up easily and followed it up with an 8th placed finish. He's unfashionable, it isn't great to watch, but he gets the job done.

I would share the view of a short term fix. If we go back down, who knows how many years it will be before we get back. The brand of football over the last couple of months certainly hasn't been anything special or good to watch either.

[tomd2103]

Lacking in all of the attributes needed to win a football match, beaten in most tackles slow on the ball and we looked in poor condition.

They were much better than I expected but we were so lacking in confidence and zip, we ambled around aimlessly, they looked quick and motivated.  Again, they copied Leicester and had their full backs pin us into our own third with only out ball to Wesley, who tried hard but looks lacking in basic technique and intelligence.

Jack put the effort in, even if it didn’t seem to go for him until the last few minutes.

Pretty poor all round

Teams have worked us out.  If I was managing a team against us, I would be quite happy to have only two at the back seeing as Wesley is so isolated and lacks any real threat.  This allows the full-backs to be pushed on to provide width, meaning the central area can be overloaded or attacking players can be pushed on.  Leicester did it to us and Southampton did it today. 

We also look very vulnerable when the ball is switched quickly to the wide areas and our full-backs are left one-to-one.

[LukeJames]

Jack had 2 and even 3 men on him every time, teams know if they stop him they stop us.

[Villafirst]

Jack was terrific particularly second-half. A brilliant player to watch - sadly if this carries on he'll be sold in the summer, and definitely if we get relegated.

[brian green]

If you had been in a coma and woke to be shown a recording of that game today then asked to guess who the manager of the side was you could name any of the last eight and expect to be right.  Reminded me of the K Mac game against Spurs.

[Risso]

Quite what Nakamba thought he was doing for their third goal, god only knows.  And I think the chances of Man City exercising Douglas Luiz's buy back clause are slim to non-existent.  Engels is too slow to play in this league without Mings it seems. It looked like he was running through a swamp to try to get back for their second.  What a hopeless bunch of slow carthorses we bought this summer.

[LukeJames]

Nakamba was at fault for the 2nd and 3rd, let Bertrand run passed him unnoposed for the 2nd which lead to their corner.

The 2nd coming of Kante he aint.

[hilts_coolerking]

And I think the chances of Man City exercising Douglas Luiz's buy back clause are slim to non-existent.

As I watched this afternoon I said to myself 'He's ours for as long as we want him.'

[BoVillan esq]

With hindsight I can say without doubt I haven't changed my mind one bit, that was horrendous, we are now official relegation fodder, right in the mix, something needs to be done, fast, I don't think there is any doubt we will pick up 3 points versus Norwich at home, is that enough, probably enough to keep Smith at the helm but really we should be going forward to keep the club in the Premiership, can't see anything changing as we go into the more difficult end of the season, we need to think big, stop scrutting around scraping the barrel for inexperienced managers lets get in a proven track record, if Everton can get Carlo Ancelotti surely we can approach Arsene Wenger, yes he has his demands in that he likes more than just to manage a club, he likes to completely reshape a club, it worked at Arsenal and lets face it, we need it.

[phantom limb]

With hindsight I can say without doubt I haven't changed my mind one bit, that was horrendous, we are now official relegation fodder, right in the mix, something needs to be done, fast, I don't think there is any doubt we will pick up 3 points versus Norwich at home, is that enough, probably enough to keep Smith at the helm but really we should be going forward to keep the club in the Premiership, can't see anything changing as we go into the more difficult end of the season, we need to think big, stop scrutting around scraping the barrel for inexperienced managers lets get in a proven track record, if Everton can get Carlo Ancelotti surely we can approach Arsene Wenger, yes he has his demands in that he likes more than just to manage a club, he likes to completely reshape a club, it worked at Arsenal and lets face it, we need it.

I have doubts about us picking up 3 points from Norwich at home. Crippling doubts.