Aston Villa 0 Spuds 2 Post Match Thread

[Allan C]

The Newcastle fans are up in arms over Bruce at the moment, but lets be honest - we're no better than them at the moment.

No. Sorry to disagree but that is totally wrong. We are vastly better then Newcastle

Without Grealish were not.

Still wrong  with or without Jack

You thought we were better than them last week then? Interesting.

Which isn’t the point. You say they are better then us. That’s wrong they are not. We didn’t play well against them last week agreed but it doesn’t make them a better team

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2 assists.

He's a good defender. Very aggressive and competitive.

Doesn't say much for his delivery, does it? He attacks a lot but delivers little.

Great, he is competitive. By diving in nearly every time on an opponent. Gives away countless free kicks, two penalties (and should have been a third at Soton), six yellows. His throw ins really piss me off too...

He is wildly overrated on here, if Elmo had performed like Cash did tonight the abuse he would have got would be off the charts.

You think everybody is shit and cowardly though.

[brontebilly]

2 assists.

He's a good defender. Very aggressive and competitive.

Doesn't say much for his delivery, does it? He attacks a lot but delivers little.

Great, he is competitive. By diving in nearly every time on an opponent. Gives away countless free kicks, two penalties (and should have been a third at Soton), six yellows. His throw ins really piss me off too...

He is wildly overrated on here, if Elmo had performed like Cash did tonight the abuse he would have got would be off the charts.

You think everybody is shit and cowardly though.

Go easy on the bed time Bovril, petal

[ROBBO]

We have a Premiership defence and the rest is Championship standard. The skill level from midfield onwards is terrible. Davis for all the crap he takes on here did more in his little cameo than most of the others did all day, thats not to say he is the answer because he's not but at least he looked interested.
We are nor gettingt relegated so i would much rather play a couple of youngsters til the end of the season, the likes of Trez, El Ghazi and Triore just boil my piss, clearly they are just not good enough but they still get trotted out each week.

[OzVilla]

The Newcastle fans are up in arms over Bruce at the moment, but lets be honest - we're no better than them at the moment.

No. Sorry to disagree but that is totally wrong. We are vastly better then Newcastle

Without Grealish were not.

Still wrong  with or without Jack

You thought we were better than them last week then? Interesting.

Which isn’t the point. You say they are better then us. That’s wrong they are not. We didn’t play well against them last week agreed but it doesn’t make them a better team

The real point in this ridiculous argument is last week we played poorly based on the standards we've set ourselves this season.

They played abouyt as well as they can do. And yet we were one routine clearence away from winning a dreadful game of football.

[dave.woodhall]

2 assists.

He's a good defender. Very aggressive and competitive.

Doesn't say much for his delivery, does it? He attacks a lot but delivers little.

Great, he is competitive. By diving in nearly every time on an opponent. Gives away countless free kicks, two penalties (and should have been a third at Soton), six yellows. His throw ins really piss me off too...

He is wildly overrated on here, if Elmo had performed like Cash did tonight the abuse he would have got would be off the charts.

You think everybody is shit and cowardly though.

Go easy on the bed time Bovril, petal

Less of that please.

[Meanwood Villa]

That pen was bullshit and wouldn't have been given if it wasn't Kane.

Leaving that aside, another abject display. We are terrible going forward. Not sure what has changed from creating chance after chance before Christmas to now where we barely create anything. It can't just be Jack because we were poor before he got injured too. Hopefully his return galvanises us. We need something, season petering out badly.

[richtheholtender]

Id sooner have Guilbert and have put the extra and signed a Callum Wilson than have what Cash offers.

Blimey we 're tough markers sometimes. Cash was poor tonight but he's been one of our best players this season.




I put in my post before that it isn’t a knee jerk reaction to tonight, he genuinely concerns me having him at right back and most times I see the opposition targeting him. I think we missed a trick, having a Wilson up front would have allowed for resting Ollie, a tie up top or Ollie on the wing and moving Jack as a 10. Instead we got a right back that in my opinion it’s even doubtful if he’s better. We will never know anyway.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

A poor showing against a poor spuds team.
I was worried when I saw who the ref was and he lived up to his low expectations. He gave Villa very little throughout and in real time (I haven't watched it back since) I didn't think that was a pen.
Martinez was loose with his clearance for the 1st goal. Cash struggled in his 1st game back.
Trez and Traore were both ineffective. Bert has good feet when he can remember which is right and left. He cannot challenge for the ball in the air as he has no heading ability.
McGinn marking kane at corners...serious?
I'm not worried what Grealish might be thinking of the team in his absence. I am worried that Grealish in 2 of the last 3 seasons has spent lengthy periods of time injured and out of the team (the enforced covid break last season might also have spared him having a lengthy time out with injury). Going forwards we can ill afford to have this occur again.

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2 assists.

He's a good defender. Very aggressive and competitive.

Doesn't say much for his delivery, does it? He attacks a lot but delivers little.

Great, he is competitive. By diving in nearly every time on an opponent. Gives away countless free kicks, two penalties (and should have been a third at Soton), six yellows. His throw ins really piss me off too...

He is wildly overrated on here, if Elmo had performed like Cash did tonight the abuse he would have got would be off the charts.

You think everybody is shit and cowardly though.

Go easy on the bed time Bovril, petal

Cash has the 10th highest assist record for a defender. Seems pretty reasonable. If he lands a cross on Watkins head that goes in against Fulham he will become joint 6th.

He makes a raft of blocks, is defensively sound, highly aggressive and part of the reason we've improved defensively.

[LukeJames]

The Newcastle fans are up in arms over Bruce at the moment, but lets be honest - we're no better than them at the moment.

No. Sorry to disagree but that is totally wrong. We are vastly better then Newcastle

Without Grealish were not.

Still wrong  with or without Jack

You thought we were better than them last week then? Interesting.

Which isn’t the point. You say they are better then us.

Nobody said that.

[Allan C]

The Newcastle fans are up in arms over Bruce at the moment, but lets be honest - we're no better than them at the moment.

No. Sorry to disagree but that is totally wrong. We are vastly better then Newcastle

You do realise that when you say we are vastly better than Newcastle even without Grealish
 Your pointing your finger straight at Smith

How?? I think Smith is doing a good job but we are still rebuilding. Nobody can deny surely that we are much better than last season and theres great improvement?? We still lack quality in the squad as a whole but the foundation is there. Newcastle are in decline with a dinosaur in charge. Even with our need for quality we’re still better

[JuanMartinez]

Cash is the best thing since Mark Delaney, only better looking.

[PeterWithe]

It’s not difficult to explain really, Jack is possibly the best creative player in the league and anyone would miss him, the wingers have always been inconsistent, McGinn has been misused and Barkley hopelessly out of form. So we’ve created fewer chances.

I just feel this slump was inevitable given the strength of the squad.

[richtheholtender]

2 assists.

He's a good defender. Very aggressive and competitive.

Doesn't say much for his delivery, does it? He attacks a lot but delivers little.

Great, he is competitive. By diving in nearly every time on an opponent. Gives away countless free kicks, two penalties (and should have been a third at Soton), six yellows. His throw ins really piss me off too...

He is wildly overrated on here, if Elmo had performed like Cash did tonight the abuse he would have got would be off the charts.

You think everybody is shit and cowardly though.

Go easy on the bed time Bovril, petal

Cash has the 10th highest assist record for a defender. Seems pretty reasonable. If he lands a cross on Watkins head that goes in against Fulham he will become joint 6th.

He makes a raft of blocks, is defensively sound, highly aggressive and part of the reason we've improved defensively.

When he was injured we kept 2 clean sheets and really should have been a third against Newcastle. Defensively didn’t even notice he was out.