Aston Villa v Brentford Post-Match Thread

[tomd2103]

Really frustrating.  I actually think.we didn't play that badly and it was always going to be difficult to break them down.  Disallowed that equaliser was key, as that would have taken a lot of pressure off and we wouldn't have been so rushed. 

What has happened to them?  Used to be a really good footballing side, but now are one the most niggly and cynical sides I've seen.  Unfortunately the ref was too piss weak to deal with them and got bullied into giving them everything.

[wince]

Shit but thats how it goes sometimes. On to the next one. Tammy and Doug will settle in and lets hope Ollie is fit and is coming back soon.

[Smithy]

I hope that VAR call gets the scrutiny it deserves.  VAR is not there for whether it THINKS the ball crossed the line.  They're saying it factually went out, so they better provide evidence it was definitely out.  It looks like it might be, but that's NOT sufficient to rule out a goal.  VAR is not there to offer opinions on whether a ball is out, or not.

At 1-1 and with 40+ mins to play, it's an entirely different game.  Feel sorry for Tammy, that was a good poacher's goal.  Once it was disallowed, it was like the Brentford players grew 6 inches each and our shrank a little. 

We didn't play well enough to win, and dominating possession and with 27 shots doesn't get you points unless you convert, and we didn't create many "good" chances.

A really disappointing weekend.  All the teams around us winning, and also losing at home to that park-the-bus shite.

Unai needs to do what he does best and get us back to winning ways quickly.

[tomd2103]

You cannot tell me that the goal we scored was out of play.  The linesman didn’t call it.  Neither did the ref.  And the video was inconclusive.  Zero proof.  Antonio’s the cunting goal.  We played all the way up the pitch too.  That is a scandalous decision on my view.

They had every single bounce of the ball too. 

Freak result.

Onwards.

There needs to be clarification of that decision today, as I can't see how it can be argued that the officials followed the proper process. 

1. How far do you go back to check decisions?  Even the explanation they put on the screen was wrong as it said it had "occurred in an attacking phase of play" when Bailey was in fact defending by his own goal line

2. Is that a precedent now that everything needs to be checked when a goal is scored?

3. The VAR officials haven't got the technology to make a definitive decision in those circumstances, so are in fact just guessing and therefore how can that deemed a 'clear and obvious error'?

4. The VAR official made a subjective decision that overruled the on-field decision made by the officials.  Surely in those circumstances the ref should be called to the screen to look at it as well?

To end up having a VAR official looking at something for ages and then just guessing isn't acceptable.  Not when these decisions can be so costly  as we saw with the one at Old Trafford last season.

[Smirker]

We absolutely did not miss Watkins.

He would have offered nothing useful today.

[PaulWinch again]

We absolutely did not miss Watkins.

He would have offered nothing useful today.

Pointless, probably inaccurate, but entirely predictable post.

[Sexual Ealing]

You're being silly now.

[Jane]

It was always going to be a banana skin today, even before the red card. We can't win every game.

Well no, but you’d hope to not lose to Everton and Brentford in back to back home games and fail to score in either.

We couldn't have predicted that we'd beat Arsenal and Citeh at home either. Shit happens.

[Smirker]

We absolutely did not miss Watkins.

He would have offered nothing useful today.

Pointless, probably inaccurate, but entirely predictable post.

What exactly would he have done? His finishing is no better than what we had out there.

We were camped inside their box. Did we really need him to chase anything down and lay it off?

Does he play defence splitting passes?

Does he even take a good penalty?

No so what would he have offered? I'm all ears pal.

[rob_bridge]

We absolutely did not miss Watkins.

He would have offered nothing useful today.

Total and Utter Bollocks

Episode 4397

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

You can't confidently state something which is impossible to prove eitherway. This is obvious.

[kippaxvilla2]

There’s some enormous positives from today.  The main one being that having been schooled twice this season by Keith ‘lovely mop’ Andrews and Meat n Potatoes Moyes there’s no way Unai is getting the Real job.

[Goldenballs]

Can you take this to the Watkins thread?

[PaulWinch again]

No, because it’s been said so many times. I just don’t think you understand - that’s fine, let’s not bother tying up another thread with it.

[adrenachrome]

We absolutely did not miss Watkins.

He would have offered nothing useful today.

"A man obsessed / is a man possessed / by a demon."

Hubert Selby Junior