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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #150 on: February 22, 2020, 07:01:47 PM »
It’s never his fault is it? Never

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #151 on: February 22, 2020, 07:05:49 PM »
The themes this season have been:

1. Playing well against the better teams, but losing due to poor management and naivety.

2. Playing badly against poor teams and losing because we’ve played shit.
That’s quite a good summary.   

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #153 on: February 22, 2020, 07:15:28 PM »
The themes this season have been:

1. Playing well against the better teams, but losing due to poor management and naivety.

2. Playing badly against poor teams and losing because we’ve played shit.
That’s quite a good summary.   

Yes, i think that's a perfect summation of the season.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #154 on: February 22, 2020, 07:17:05 PM »
The themes this season have been:

1. Playing well against the better teams, but losing due to poor management and naivety.

2. Playing badly against poor teams and losing because we’ve played shit.

The better teams gives us a bit more time on the ball especially Jack , we do ok against them but in the end we crumble late in the game

Other teams pressure us from the off as Soton did today , flood midfield , man mark Jack and exploit our lack of pace all other the pitch.

We want to play on the counter but have no pace to do it

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #155 on: February 22, 2020, 07:17:47 PM »
You can’t argue with his honesty there to be fair.  I think he has called it right.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #156 on: February 22, 2020, 07:18:09 PM »
Our away support does far too much beak is a conclusion I've drawn. There can't be another away support so ready to knock lumps out of each other.

It’s been going on for years and is depressing and embarrassing in equal measure.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #157 on: February 22, 2020, 07:22:54 PM »
When we are shit we dont do things by halves. We even managed to drag one of the best players in the league this season down to that level, I have never seen Jack give the ball away so regularly as he did in the 2nd half. Now obviously we all know how fucking fantastic he is and him having a bad 45 is the complete opposite of how he has been for the rest of the season. But when hes struggling we do not have a single fucking solution as to what else to do.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #158 on: February 22, 2020, 07:34:28 PM »
What I want to know is: even if Smith is sacked, who is the manager we need? And is he available? I'm definitely not in the sacking for sacking's sake group. That would be madness. And frankly, who would be better to bring us back up than Smith?

To me, the tactics and setup may be seen as naive in hindsight, but this should always be on the players. They determine their level of effort, their level of class, their level of bottle. And there's too many mentally fragile players out there, too many soft cases. Too many players bought with the championship in mind. It's no reflection on a player like Guilbert, for instance, but he was bought before promotion and we're clearly a year ahead of schedule. That means too many fringe PL players are playing major roles. That was never going to cut it.

Looking back at the transfer window buying policy, we honestly didn't do enough of a Fulham. We needed to go well past them to stand a chance of staying afloat.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #159 on: February 22, 2020, 07:36:11 PM »
Worst performance of what is a poor season. Luis, Hause dreadful. Brilliant anything but, Reina mistake after mistake

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #160 on: February 22, 2020, 07:38:00 PM »
And frankly, who would be better to bring us back up than Smith?
What makes you say that?  He's never finished higher than 5th has he?

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #161 on: February 22, 2020, 07:42:11 PM »
And frankly, who would be better to bring us back up than Smith?
What makes you say that?  He's never finished higher than 5th has he?

Well, the last 'promotion specialist' that was supposed to do the trick was Bruce. Is that the kind of manager we're going to get saddled with?

Smith is 1-1 in promotion battles with the Villa. I'll take those kinds of odds any day.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #162 on: February 22, 2020, 07:42:58 PM »
Our away support does far too much beak is a conclusion I've drawn. There can't be another away support so ready to knock lumps out of each other.

It’s been going on for years and is depressing and embarrassing in equal measure.
Today was my first away this season - and couldn’t agree more.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #163 on: February 22, 2020, 07:47:09 PM »
Well, the last 'promotion specialist' that was supposed to do the trick was Bruce. Is that the kind of manager we're going to get saddled with?

Smith is 1-1 in promotion battles with the Villa. I'll take those kinds of odds any day.
It's not a proper argument though: of course if you suggest Bruce as the alternative no-one is going to go for that but he's not the only alternative is he.

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Re: Southampton 2-0 Utterly gash Aston Villa Post Match Thread
« Reply #164 on: February 22, 2020, 07:48:20 PM »
Well, the last 'promotion specialist' that was supposed to do the trick was Bruce. Is that the kind of manager we're going to get saddled with?

Smith is 1-1 in promotion battles with the Villa. I'll take those kinds of odds any day.
It's not a proper argument though: of course if you suggest Bruce as the alternative no-one is going to go for that but he's not the only alternative is he.

Which is why I asked the question. I'd like to see some names put forth that people believe would be legitimate options, and options we could keep if we still went down.

 


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