Aston Villa 0 Watford 1 Post Match Thread

[HolteLower]

 There was a fair bit of shouty stuff from mid upper Trinity pretty much from kick-off too. Some old geezer sat behind me in particular, who was just embarrassing himself throughout the match.


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Were you in the Lower Holte there's a geezer behind me that sounds like it could be him!

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Our home support had become crap too. On the players backs most of the game and fucks off with10 minutes to go, having barely made a peep. There's a sense of entitlement and sneering expectations rather than a sense of togetherness we had in the promotion run and first year back.

The lower Witton have always been shit houses, but it's infecting everywhere. Just catching the Kane winner and our away end would have been half empty given the late equaliser, if it had been us.

There was a fair bit of shouty stuff from mid upper Trinity pretty much from kick-off too. Some old geezer sat behind me in particular, who was just embarrassing himself throughout the match.

As a villa player, it must be easier playing away from home these days. Atmosphere is shocking to how it used to be.

If I was Coutinho in the summer with a contract on the table I’d be saying ‘fuck that’! We’re starting to sound like self-entitled Spurs fans.

Yep. You have someone on here saying Coutinho has turned  from a prince into a frog just because he's not had two great games. Some of our fans are just ridiculously childish.

The bloke praising Targett after he called him a coward after several performances previously is an eyebrow raiser.

Sometimes things can be annoying and poor without being cataclysmic. Being midtable and doing irritating midtable things, like losing to a poor side 2 weeks on the bounce, doesn't mean that's where you have to stay or will stay. Sometimes it gets worse, given the way the club is, it will probably get a bit better, as it has done since 2018.

[LeeB]

Here’s how this plays out.

We’ll finish 14th this season.
A few players will leave.
Gerrard gets a pre season and a window and spends a lot.
Gerrard is sacked by Christmas latest and we go again.
Pitiful state of affairs.

Sadly, I fear this is the case.

We seem to be rendering a lot of talent redundant with this system (McGinn, Luiz, Traore, Bailey), a system which is not that effective. So were trying to bang square pegs into round holes, when should making the holes square until we can at least buy the requisite round pegs.

It's a bit Houllier.

[OzVilla]

That’s 13 defeats now which is unacceptable. Apart from a few weeks we’ve been looking down the table all season.

[tomd2103]

A stinker, no mistake about it.  Hardly created anything against a poor Watford apart from the Ings sitter, but I have a feeling that would have been offside from the replay I saw on the screen at the ground. 

Just feel that the starting team hadn’t got any real pace and that when we did look to break, we hadn’t got anyone who could carry the ball at pace, so it was all a bit static and and slow.

[Smirker]

That’s 13 defeats now which is unacceptable. Apart from a few weeks we’ve been looking down the table all season.

We lost 15 last season. Had hoped we'd have fewer than that this time. Not gonna happen is it?

Hoping we finish mid table and don't lose any key players. Coutinho on a permanent would be a dream, there is agreement in place isn't there? £35m? Please tell me there is.

[PaulWinch again]

Here’s how this plays out.

We’ll finish 14th this season.
A few players will leave.
Gerrard gets a pre season and a window and spends a lot.
Gerrard is sacked by Christmas latest and we go again.
Pitiful state of affairs.

Sadly, I fear this is the case.

We seem to be rendering a lot of talent redundant with this system (McGinn, Luiz, Traore, Bailey), a system which is not that effective. So were trying to bang square pegs into round holes, when should making the holes square until we can at least buy the requisite round pegs.

It's a bit Houllier.

You might well be right, but I think it’s far too early to judge.

[darren woolley]

Very disappointed that's two weeks running we have been really bad.

[dorsetvillian]

Finally home. Well over a thousand miles in the past week. Two terrible performances, two defeats against crap opposition and no goals scored. Another brave new dawn...

[Legion]

Emperor's new clothes.

[andyh]

I think Gerrard is messing about with the ‘identity’ he keeps banging on about that no one has a fucking clue who they are and what they are supposed to be doing.

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

The passing is dreadful - far too many times the ball doesn't go in front of the advancing player thus slowing down the build up play. McGinn more so than anyone.

[KevinGage]

We had a mini pre season apparently, after the Everton game.

Hindsight being 20/20 vision and all that. But some of our lot maybe needed a proper break. 

McGinn, Mings, Martinez and Luiz (who have all taken pelters in recent weeks) played through the summer last year - on the back of a season that had a short turnaround time post Covid. 

We can maybe carry one or two players looking leggy (and even that's pushing it). But when it's 2-3, Coutinho adapting to a new team and Bailey returning from injury etc it's too much to work around. 

[Drummond]

The opposition continue to play very compressed lines when defending, making it hard for us to play through. When we defend we are very open and spread thus allowing teams to play through us.

The number of times today in particular that Digne and Cash are in acres of space on the touchline begging to be given the ball only for a central player to turn and pass it 5 yards and same again and then back to Mings is so frustrating.

Why are we so easy to frustrate when we have the likes of Buendia and Coutinho on the pitch? There was a point when Coutinho was our deepest outfield player. Bizarre.

[Drummond]

Oh and I'm starting to think I'm a jinx.

Brentford, Wolves, Man Utd, and Watford with my lad and Man City and Leeds on my tod. Yet to see a win.