Bologna v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[brontebilly]

We played better in the second half but Steve Bruce would be proud of wor efforts tonight. A classic BruceBall smash and grab.

That's understating matters. For 20-30mins after half we were outstanding. Played at a great tempo. At 0-2 up, we had a number of opportunities for our forwards to finish the tie. Buendia x 2 and Rogers on edge of box came close, Ollie miscontrolled a 1 on 1. Tielemans running the show and Buendia/Watkins torching them.

They finished strong again for sure. But Emery was sitting on his hands a bit and made the wrong changes. It was blatantly obvious that Rowe was their main threat. Putting on Bailey on the right wing and moving a fatigued McGinn inside was poor.

[Demitri_C]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

We took a gamble on morgan after ine game against us although it was a low transfer fee

[Holy Trinity]

Fantastic game!

What a result

[Percy McCarthy]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

I doubt it. We watched Guessand 30 times, for all the good it did.

[Somniloquism]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

We took a gamble on morgan after ine game against us although it was a low transfer fee

We didn't sign Rogers after one game against us, especially as he did nothing in that game of note. He was probably put on Emery's radar because of monitoring the opponents ahead of a game and he then was looked at indepth. But being as we were supposedly looking at Rowe around the same time (Dec2023) and didn't sign him might point that Emery didn't see the same things in him at that time.

[Dave]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

We took a gamble on morgan after ine game against us although it was a low transfer fee

We didn't sign Rogers after one game against us, especially as he did nothing in that game of note. He was probably put on Emery's radar because of monitoring the opponents ahead of a game and he then was looked at indepth. But being as we were supposedly looking at Rowe around the same time (Dec2023) and didn't sign him might point that Emery didn't see the same things in him at that time.

I think there was a long Athletic article about his early years in football, and that seemed pretty sure that the main voice behind us signing him was Mark Harrison who had him for years when he was in the West Brom academy.

[paul_e]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

We took a gamble on morgan after ine game against us although it was a low transfer fee

We didn't sign Rogers after one game against us, especially as he did nothing in that game of note. He was probably put on Emery's radar because of monitoring the opponents ahead of a game and he then was looked at indepth. But being as we were supposedly looking at Rowe around the same time (Dec2023) and didn't sign him might point that Emery didn't see the same things in him at that time.

I think there was a long Athletic article about his early years in football, and that seemed pretty sure that the main voice behind us signing him was Mark Harrison who had him for years when he was in the West Brom academy.

Yep, I think a lot of people seem to overlook that Rogers was coached at WBA by a lot of people who are now in our academy structure.

[brontebilly]

Whilst Rowe played well last night I hope the club aren't going to throw big money around based on one performance, unlike some on here.

We took a gamble on morgan after ine game against us although it was a low transfer fee

We didn't sign Rogers after one game against us, especially as he did nothing in that game of note. He was probably put on Emery's radar because of monitoring the opponents ahead of a game and he then was looked at indepth. But being as we were supposedly looking at Rowe around the same time (Dec2023) and didn't sign him might point that Emery didn't see the same things in him at that time.

Great scouting by Emery on Rogers but not quite the level of Brian green (rip) recommending Ollie Watkins to the club when he was at Weston super Mare?

[eamonn]

Is that Toronto's schoolpal from the late 80s, Harrison?