Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[dave.woodhall]

We have too many players who are inconsistent.  Nakamba.  Hause. Liuz. AEG. Gilbert in particular.  It's going to go to the wire this season.

I f**king hate how we blow hot and cold. This season has been one of the most frustrating I can remember. Having a player like Jack and still looking like we are inevitably sucked into this quagmire.

We desperately need to get another 4-5 wins now. Losing to the teams below you just f**ks up the maths so bad. Draw that and the situation looks a lot more doable.

Hot and cold is how teams like ours blow. You wouldn't expect a young player to be consistent right away, so you shouldn't expect what was virtually a new team to gel immediately. Today was shite but the past month has been mostly a massive improvement on the previous one.
 

[Ads]

One thing that was noticeable was the three or four flare ups amongst our own supporters. It didn't strike me as a game where everybody was hammered like Leciester away, but one thing is for sure, we need unity.

I know it's frustrating, it drives me mad watching Hause give it away, but a real collective unity from us is needed in the stands.

[PeterWithesShin]

https://audioboom.com/posts/7493520-listen-dean-smith-post-bournemouth

[Villafirst]

Yet Nakamba and Luiz were superb against Leicester. It's frustrating but these players blow hot and cold. I notice DS left Drinkwater out completely today?

[PeterWithesShin]

Yet Nakamba and Luiz were superb against Leicester. It's frustrating but these players blow hot and cold. I notice DS left Drinkwater out completely today?

Injured, tight hamstring so didn't travel.

[SoccerHQ]

Ultimately we're poor when we concede first away from home, have we even picked up a draw this season in league or cup?

Manure and Brighton.

Oh yeah Brighton all of two weeks ago, durhhhh. Man. United we scored first in the game so at least gave us confidence to come back later in the game.

[pauliewalnuts]

I know I've referred to him as a 'non scoring striker' in the past, and, let's be honest, he doesn't score very often at all, but I do think Keinan Davis made a difference when he came on, we had more movement up front which at least made them work, and he kept the ball quite well.

It was similar when Indiana Polis Jones Vassilev came on recently, added movement up front and we had more space to play.

Although obvs helped today them being down to 10 - well, it would help any normal team anyway.

[SoccerHQ]

We have too many players who are inconsistent.  Nakamba.  Hause. Liuz. AEG. Gilbert in particular.  It's going to go to the wire this season.

I f**king hate how we blow hot and cold. This season has been one of the most frustrating I can remember. Having a player like Jack and still looking like we are inevitably sucked into this quagmire.

We desperately need to get another 4-5 wins now. Losing to the teams below you just f**ks up the maths so bad. Draw that and the situation looks a lot more doable.

It's always a consquence of a transfer strategy gambling on promising lower level players. Great win one week, clueless four days later. That's why I'm always keen on having a decent core of experienced players in 11s as generally they're more consistant in their performances even if they don't hit 8s or 9s very often.

When we were finishing 6th regularly an eternity ago that squad had a good core of experienced players, we are quite a way off that standard.

[wince]

That was a bit wank wasn’t it? Let’s not do a blues and win the cup and get the chop.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

What a load of absolute Brexit after the highs of recent weeks.

[Ads]

When we were finishing 6th we had Gareth Barry, James Milner, John Carew, Martin Laursen and Ashley Young.

To replicate that quality now, we would have had to have to have spent £150-200m. And have no squad.

[PeterWithesShin]

A big problem for us is too often we have games where a bunch of them are having an off day, today there's 5 or 6 of them that couldn't have complained if they'd been subbed. At this level even against the weaker sides it's going to kill you.

[old man villa fan]

Two things missing from too many of our players, concentration and composure.  We give so many balls away and fail to clear our lines because of this.  We should have taken a point from the game but having got a goal back the tempo was dropped rather than increased.  We play better when we have space, so why compress the game by using defenders to bring the ball up to the halfway line.  As somebody else said, we ran out of ideas in the last 15 minutes.

[MalcolmP]

Making perfect sense to me Axl,

You're too kind, mate.

Time for bed, I think. Malcom P and his noob nonsense is about to get me banned.

  ?  Anybody who said grealish was shit today is a noob  (or a blue nose) what's wrong with fact?

[LukeJames]

The only thing dafter than calling Grealish shit, is calling people noobs, aren't you 50 odd ffs.