Aston Villa v Wolves Post Match Thread.

[LukeJames]

Heard the commentator say Neil Taylor had now played 100 games for us. Sums it up really.

[Ads]

The quality isn't there. We try, we close, we run about, we put the miles in, but there just isn't that turn of pace, the quality up front or in midfield with delivery.

It's nothing to do with intangible clichéd stuff like bottle and the like. Its about a side like Wolves having the quality of organisation to make it very difficult to find space and deny opportunities. Its about Johnny making a run that isn't picked up and when the ball does fall, for realistically the only chance of the game of note, and having the quality to take it.

We are reliant on Hourihane, a player who was nicknamed Hologram last season. He lacks pace and a righf foot.
Nakamba, lacks composure and a range of passing. AEG and Tezuguet, Taylor, Elmo, Konsa, House, Samatta, Wesley, Nyland, Davis they're all not good enough for this level.

Coaching, systems, it really doesn't matter when you aren't good enough. We are a Championship squad, with a sprinkling of good players; Heaton, Mings, McGinn, Luiz, Grealish. Sadly we will likely only keep one of those for next season, Heaton and maybe Luiz.

Recruitment has been poor and now confidence is completely evaporated. But what system and selection can anybody put out and say with confidence that yes, that is a side who will dominate games in this league. I can't and to that end Smith has been left badly exposed.

I'm disappointed I won't get to see Grealish live again in a Villa shirt.

[Olof's Beard]

I was hoping with two up front, we would be loads better and at least a threat.

I was wrong on both

Smith neglected to put a single wide player out there for them!

After caving to the pressure to abandon his dreadful 4-3-3.. He literally stuck 3 slow-footed CMs behind the forwards and jack.

Dean Smith out, tonight. I’d rather have Neil Warnock lay into this bunch for the next three weeks than watch this dross and go down without a whimper.

Geez, everybody wanted both wingers out of the team and called for the diamond. I've no idea why, we already have no pace so putting four, slow central midfielders into the team was hardly likely to help. Smith has bowed to pressure to play two up front, the team won't have trained in that formation at all. Managers do start to look desperate when they start throwing reactive formations together.

Lots of nonsense about Jack not caring too - it's just easy mud to throw. He's doing loads of running but wasting energy collecting the ball off our defenders and the rest of the team just give him slow possession from a standing start. What's he meant to do?

We just aren't good enough throughout the entire side. We've been poor defensively all season but teams worked out how to nullify our attacking threat (it's not hard - just squeeze Grealish out of the game) since the turn of the year. Two goals in our last six games (both from set pieces) is the result. It needs a miracle turnaround in form now. Ain't happening is it?

[PaulWinch again]

This is the problem when you pick the system around the players rather than the players for a system.

There’s no system. There’s no planning. There’s no sense of direction, other than down obviously.

[sirlordbaltimore]

The technical ability of every player besides Grealish and Luiz was abysmal today. Heavy touches galore and poorly weighted and directed passes.

Not sure how you haven't put Jack in that very bracket today?

[myf]

the same predictable garbage that has become part of our DNA. Galling to see Nuno next to Smith.
Got to say I'm not convinced by Jack as a captain either this last fortnight

[aev]

We gambled on buying in cheaper players and hoping they hit the ground running. In the main, they haven't, which was pretty likely otherwise everyone would do it. 2 out of the 3 loan signings have been truly awful, providing neither an improvement in quality or any freshness to the squad.

We have one truly creative player, who hasn't been at his best and so we create fk all.

We have got 2 points in 4 games since the resumption. 1 of these we shouldn't have got. In all the games we have looked half arsed and lacking in intensity.

The resumption has been really disappointing, the only positive I can think of is that Luiz has been really good.

[Des Little]

It looks to me like three, maybe more, of that lot have already lined up their next move and so have thrown it in for us. It’s the only explanation I can think of as to why they look so badly off form.

[ktvillan]

Luiz is starting to look a good player.  The rest look shit and/or disinterested.  We seem content to go down without so much as a whimper.  You know you are fucked when George Weah's other cousin Trezeguet is on the pitch, with that permanent dazed and confused look on his face, as if he's not quite sure what he's doing there or how he got there.  Me neither Trez. 

[ROBBO]

No creativity no speed, it was agony watching, get to the half forward line then pass it sideways or backwards, we simply do not have a player that can take defenders on. Smith should go now he's had long enough i would just like to see another manager til the end of the season just to see if he can get improvement out of them.

[richtheholtender]

The technical ability of every player besides Grealish and Luiz was abysmal today. Heavy touches galore and poorly weighted and directed passes.

When that is added to zero pace, zero urgency, zero movement and zero creativity it is always going to be a losing formula.

I don't think Smith is the man for the job anymore, but which manager could seriously get better out of a group of very poor players at this level?

I don’t think that matters because most of them will be off. The next manager with have a plain canvas the same as Dean had. That was the beauty of the situation Dean found himself in when Whelan, Jedinak etc left he had a lot of money to sign players that fitted his system and he’s blown it.

[Villa Lew]

Never looked like scoring against a Wolves side, who never got out of 2nd gear, they didn't need to. Too slow, too predictable, set pieces awful, summed up by Nyland's free kick in the last minute.

At the moment it's difficult to see us winning another game, they make it very hard to stay positive.

[mr underhill]

what does it take for the owners to do something?

[mcgrath_85]

Just resign Dean. Fucking woeful. Limping towards the championship. Highly depressing.

[andyh]

Re: Brentford and Smith.
I am pretty sure that Smith is the one who benefited from being there and doing it the ‘Brentford way’. He has taken that reflected success and bagged himself a job at a massive club.
In the meantime, Brentford have continued with their philosophy and gone from strength to strength.

It wasn’t Smiths Brentford as has been shown since he left.