Stade Rennais v Aston Villa pre-season friendly thread

[cdbearsfan]

Hurrah we win again. One hand on the title, IMO.

champions of France and Australia

And Walsall!

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Feeney on

Less of that sectarianism.

That made me laugh more than it should have

Ha!

[Rigadon]

I still think pre season doesn't really tell you anything about the season ahead. I feel that Watkins and Doug are on borrowed time, we have a much stronger squad and the youngsters coming through look very promising but I still can't shake the feeling that we are going to finish in the same position again by May next year.

I agree with all of this.  We need a new centre forward and perhaps (still) a centre midfielder. 

[TonyD]

Don’t think this squad will suddenly click.
Frustrating season ahead me thinks. 

[Legion]

Weren't we unbeaten pre-season when di Matteo was in charge...

[Rudy65]

Agreed
Sometimes you’ve got to shake things up and we haven’t done that based on the lack of outgoings

[N'ZMAV]

from todays showing, there's clearly not enough pace in the squad.

[Taylor]

Don’t think this squad will suddenly click.
Frustrating season ahead me thinks. 

We are unbeaten in pre-season, against decent opposition (maybe not Walsall). I realise that friendlies mean nothing, but for fucks sake!!!

[Risso]

Bad day Taylor?

[pauliewalnuts]

from todays showing, there's clearly not enough pace in the squad.

I think that's a good point - we look technically decent at times, but having a fast outlet would make a big difference.

[Risso]

Well Bailey's pretty rapid. I know he can't do everything himself, but still. Quickest player we've had in a long time.

[Taylor]

Bad day Taylor?

Ahh. Thanks for caring Riss, but no, not particularly, managed to catch a dodgy YouTube stream of the game and thought we did pretty well against a decent team on their turf.

[Rudy65]

It’s more about the performances being the same as the ones we’ve become use to over the last 3 yrs (bar when Jack was involved). Slow, one paced, side ways passing and no real consistency in tactics from the same group of players

[Villa Lew]

Don’t think this squad will suddenly click.
Frustrating season ahead me thinks. 

We are unbeaten in pre-season, against decent opposition (maybe not Walsall). I realise that friendlies mean nothing, but for fucks sake!!!

Walsall won 4 nil today!

[Taylor]

Don’t think this squad will suddenly click.
Frustrating season ahead me thinks. 

We are unbeaten in pre-season, against decent opposition (maybe not Walsall). I realise that friendlies mean nothing, but for fucks sake!!!

Walsall won 4 nil today!

Even more reasons to be optimistic.