Aston Villa Banter Archive September 28 2016

28 Sep 2016 22:03:01
Now the dust has settled and we are all no longer feeling deflated, let's discuss last night with a clear head. In my opinion it was a carbon copy of every other game this season, didn't take anywhere near enough of them and then crumbled in the final minutes. Now my first point:

Gollini is still a huge Question mark, he made good saves against Newcastle but last night he made a huge mistake for their goal, and working it out I'm sure he's now cost us 7 points and made 4 mistakes, is it now time to take action? Subs bench and give Steer a chance?

Point 2:

The defence on the whole is solid, other than Bristol we haven't been shakey as a defence until after the 80th minute, the only common theme is that when we are sitting back, all players clinging on edge of the box for dear life we can't not concede. That tells me we can't defend as a team, when we all go back it's over crowded, unorganised and clumsy so we end up giving space/ making mistakes. So we have two options A train hard on how to defend as a team and keep a shape and understand responsibilities when we're penned in every man behind the ball or B don't get penned in, keep our shape and look to break.

And finally point 3:

We need to pick our front 3 and stick to it, to me it would be kodja McCormack and ayew, the first two seem to already have a decent understanding and I don't think you can take ayew out the team at the moment!

We have to look for the positives and ignore the noses, we're 5 games unbeaten and look a good attacking team for 80 minutes in a game. Now let's get the last 10 right and climb up that table! UTV!

28 Sep 2016 22:19:43
Agree about steer.

28 Sep 2016 22:49:33
Think Steer deserves a shot, Bunn is a bit of a nightmare and Steer hasn't been given the opportunity to show his worth! (Sorry about the long post just wanted to be constructive for once)

29 Sep 2016 00:43:51
chris, i fully agree with you mate. its worring times again if we can't win a football mate we could go down i dnt fink we will but at the momment we can't winc4 toffee we was awful at barnsley 1st half was crap an 2nd was only just better i don't think they can develop a good understanding if the manager keeps changing formation every week.

also his slow making decisions everybody could see at grelish was having a nightmare in yet some how he kept him on to be honest if we don't beat preston he should be sacked!

28 Sep 2016 23:21:18
That's a great post Chris.

29 Sep 2016 08:39:08
Totally agree Chris - For me the front 3 picks itself - Are we trying too hard to accommodate Grealish I wonder? And does this impact our midfield which was overran again last night?

I wouldn't be so quick to drop Gollini however - I think he is very raw but there is a good goalkeeper in there, I'm sure of it - I recall United fans being very concerned about DeGea initially - I think he will come good but I understand your point, do we have the luxury of waiting - Perhaps not.

I think we have been extremely unlucky at times this year - We should really have 4-6 more points on the board. A win is coming and that could be the turning point - Wishful thinking :-)?

29 Sep 2016 09:40:34
Some good points Chris we all seem to agree with you on them.
However, for me you missed out the one overriding reason why we are not either killing teams off OR defending right to the bitter end. The midfield.

29 Sep 2016 13:07:59
Cheers lads and I was going to include a point about the midfield but the post was getting very long. I think our problem with the midfield is Tshibola is our only decent midfielder at the moment on current form. Jedinak hasn't really started the way we would have expected, Westwood still isn't good enough at this level and Gardner seems to try too hard to impress. And the fact I've only spoke about midfielders is worrying because that's all we have, would love us to sign someone like Tom Huddlestone, can getup and down the pitch for ninety minutes and has the experience.

28 Sep 2016 11:09:41
Say a team are playing lousy, manager gets the sack, new one comes in and says the slate is wiped clean and everyone starts from scratch. he then picks a player who the fans dislike, what do they do?

They know the new manager must see something they don't, but we don't like the guy, but what happens is we get behind the manager and trust his judgement (begrudgingly); sound familiar?

So don't be surprised if our friendly neighbourhood pantomime villain, the Gabster is named as a sub at some point or other, we just got to let it play out for the greater good!

28 Sep 2016 12:25:55
Forward line isn't our problem So I don't think we'll be seeing Agbonlahor again thank God.
Our problem is in midfield . We are too lightweight too nice. We are unable to dominate teams and take any game by the scruff of the neck.
Given the right service our forwards will score loads. Given the right protection our defence will hold out much more often until matches are finished.

28 Sep 2016 10:41:38
how mad has the world become when i'm on here defending rdm. it's a midweek away game, a good result i think. keep the faith.

28 Sep 2016 09:40:46
Would anyone consider giving Jed steer a chance? Did he do that bad for Huddersfield last year?

28 Sep 2016 01:41:05
people say i say the same thing well obv course i do because we keep making the same mistakes! rdm has got to go big sam all day 4 me.

28 Sep 2016 07:12:30
Big sam won't come so forget about that.

28 Sep 2016 08:36:31
So you would like a manager that's never done nothing and corrupt? Dear o dear get a bloody grip.

28 Sep 2016 09:45:37
I expect David 'one-point-from-six-games' Moyes will come available shortly so I expect there will be a renewed clamoring for his services from the 'any port in a storm' brigade shortly.

28 Sep 2016 10:17:36
Somehow, i don't think dr. tony wants to be associated with a money grabbing, underhanded, selfish, self-loving, arrogant piece of work. we got enough of those on the squad as it is!