Aston Villa v The Dogheads Match Thread

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

As I’m sure the management realise, another striking option is a priority in the summer.

Oh Tammy! Tammy!

[hipkiss92]

It feels like this team has reached its ceiling. That with Jack we have a little more but without him we are entirely predictable. And the same with Dean Smith. Without better players he is also limited. He’s squeezed all he can out of this group. We will still win games and we have days like this but realistically this is now a mid table team at best.

Way over the top

Agreed. TV reel it in, we are on a journey, it will be bumpy but it’s going in the right direction. We have some fantastic kids to come though and we are the youngest team in the league. It’s only going to get better

Reel what in? What in the last few weeks provides you evidence that might just have run out of steam this season. I know we are on a journey, and that journey won’t always be smooth. This is the bumpy part.

Thankfully we have enough  points on the board as I see this season petering out after so much promise ...Smith has done well to get us up and stay up but is he the man to take us to the next level ? Despite a few good results this season he is constantly out thought by other coaches

But has also done the job on Belsay, Klopp, Nuno and Rodgers. Or do managers only get out thought when they're.in our dug out?

[dave.woodhall]

It feels like this team has reached its ceiling. That with Jack we have a little more but without him we are entirely predictable. And the same with Dean Smith. Without better players he is also limited. He’s squeezed all he can out of this group. We will still win games and we have days like this but realistically this is now a mid table team at best.

100%

It's been a decade since we were mid-table. Did you really expect anything better this season?

[Nunkin1965]

It feels like this team has reached its ceiling. That with Jack we have a little more but without him we are entirely predictable. And the same with Dean Smith. Without better players he is also limited. He’s squeezed all he can out of this group. We will still win games and we have days like this but realistically this is now a mid table team at best.

100%

I agree to a point but you wouldn't be saying that if Grealish and Cash were fit.

[jcsutv]

It’s still good progress.

[Pete3206]

It feels like this team has reached its ceiling. That with Jack we have a little more but without him we are entirely predictable. And the same with Dean Smith. Without better players he is also limited. He’s squeezed all he can out of this group. We will still win games and we have days like this but realistically this is now a mid table team at best.

100%

It's been a decade since we were mid-table. Did you really expect anything better this season?

No.

Injuries and lack of striker options were always going to hamper us eventually.

[Bermuda Villa]

We are having a rough period and struggling for goals but look on the bright side in the last 8 games we have scored 5 goals but taken 11 points.

All teams have a dip in form but we are winning games despite being below our best. I would love to see Dean start to blood the youngsters and give them game time and then have a clear out of Elmo, Taylor, Davis, Trez and El Ghazi while adding a couple more quality additions.

I am happy with our progress and the great thing is the back 5 are young and will continue to get better. Keep the faith folks.

UTV

[Hockley Lion]

Seems a decent enough result to me. We nicked the first game against them with Jack and took a point off them without him. Without Jack's creativity and record for assists, not to mention his goals it was always going to be tough. 4 points from a possible 6 against them and limiting them to 1 against us is creditable I'd say.

Utv!