Aston Villa 0 Watford 1 Post Match Thread

[Hillbilly]

The problem with the fullbacks pushing forward when we play out from the back is that the midfielders drop in behind them. So you’ve got Digne up the field and Ramsey dropping in. It just doesn’t make sense. And when the centre halves pivot across Luiz drops back so that he’s often the deepest player to provide cover. I don’t think this is the players but more the tactics. Call me old fashioned but why not just have the players play to their positions.

[LeonW]

Can anyone translate this from SG post game interview?

“It’s not difficult for me to motivate the players, but motivating yourself comes from within. That’s on you as a footballer."

[AlexAlexCropley]

Can anyone translate this from SG post game interview?

“It’s not difficult for me to motivate the players, but motivating yourself comes from within. That’s on you as a footballer."

It's from Kung Fu .The 70s tv series starring David Carradine when the blind guru master gives him some jewels of insight at the beginning of the episode.

[LeonW]

Can anyone translate this from SG post game interview?

“It’s not difficult for me to motivate the players, but motivating yourself comes from within. That’s on you as a footballer."

It's from Kung Fu .The 70s tv series starring David Carradine when the blind guru master gives him some jewels of insight at the beginning of the episode.

I wondered if it might be from the Sphinx in Mystery Men:

“When you doubt your powers, you give power to your doubts."

[Skerra]

Just watched us again on MOTD and although we had 60% possession, the 4 good chances all fell to Watford. If not for Martinez that could have been 0-3 easily.

[King Cropley]

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.

Are you pair serious ? Have you actually watched the shite that the paying  public are supposed to believe is 'entertainment '........dreadful fayre masquerading as football,  and it's the fans fault somehow  ?

[BC54 VFC]

Gerrard is turning us into a team of midgets. It's pointless winning corner after corner when all we've got in the box is dwarfs. He should be banned from signing anyone under 6' in the Summer.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

I agree entirely.

In fact, I just posted on the SG thread that he'll go just after xmas and we'll make zero progress before seeing this.

[Legion]

More Sherwood for me. A false dawn.

[Drummond]

My lad doesn't want to go to the Southampton game now. Can't say I blame him after what he's seen. Anyway, I'll win him round I'm sure, may take a bribe though.

[DB]

Our players are better than our recent performances.

[tomd2103]

The problem with the fullbacks pushing forward when we play out from the back is that the midfielders drop in behind them. So you’ve got Digne up the field and Ramsey dropping in. It just doesn’t make sense. And when the centre halves pivot across Luiz drops back so that he’s often the deepest player to provide cover. I don’t think this is the players but more the tactics. Call me old fashioned but why not just have the players play to their positions.

Agree and it also means our midfield are dropping deep, meaning Buendia and Coutinho are also having to drop deeper, leaving us with very few advanced options.  Luiz, McGinn and Ramsey all have their attributes, but none really have the wide range of passing to hurt teams from deep areas either.

Coutinho and Buendia also play very narrow, meaning that it is all a bit congested in the central areas and when the ball does go out to Cash and Digne, they are pretty isolated. 

[Axl Rose]

Not good enough.

Wasn't surprised we lost, and woke up to a torrent of negativity from Villa mates.

[ROBBO]

Got up middle of the night to watch the game, first thing that struck me was after the first ten minutes it was if we were playing in front of a ten thousand crowd it was so quiet, if Gerrard had stuck to his word and bought two or three players in the crowd might have been up for it but to see that failed midfield being trotted out yet again was pathetic.
At the very least if he had made the changes and it didn't work we could see that he was trying something different.
I will give Digne a few more weeks but as of now I don't see him being any better that Targett. At the end bringing Watson on to play with Ings was head scratching, haven't we seen that fail week after week? 

[aldridgeboy]

Got up middle of the night to watch the game, first thing that struck me was after the first ten minutes it was if we were playing in front of a ten thousand crowd it was so quiet, if Gerrard had stuck to his word and bought two or three players in the crowd might have been up for it but to see that failed midfield being trotted out yet again was pathetic.
At the very least if he had made the changes and it didn't work we could see that he was trying something different.
I will give Digne a few more weeks but as of now I don't see him being any better that Targett. At the end bringing Watson on to play with Ings was head scratching, haven't we seen that fail week after week? 

Elementary