Aston Villa Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2017

Ronan Raver77

Cheers Matrim.

Rhodes is off to Sheffield Wednesday.

basillarkin

Ronan Raver77 wrote: »

Cheers Matrim.

Rhodes is off to Sheffield Wednesday.

what kind of deal? loan or permanent?

Ronan Raver77

basillarkin wrote: »

what kind of deal? loan or permanent?

Deal worth 10m was mentioned on SSN

Corholio

Lansbury, Hourihane and Bjarnason all start. Bree on bench.

CSF

No excuses tonight. Time to step up.

CSF

Ross McCormack off on loan to Forest, thank f*ck. Hope he does well there so he is easy to sell in the summer.

listermint

CSF wrote: »

Ross McCormack off on loan to Forest, thank f*ck. Hope he does well there so he is easy to sell in the summer.

Gabby on loan to the carpark attendents

matrim

Corholio wrote: »

Lansbury, Hourihane and Bjarnason all start. Bree on bench.

I had expected Bree to start but Bjarnason to miss out.

Doyler92

Am I having a really stupid moment or should I know who Davis on the bench is?

matrim

Doyler92 wrote: »

Am I having a really stupid moment or should I know who Davis on the bench is?

Young striker from the U23 team. He seems to be making the squad now that Hepburn-Murphy is refusing to sign a contract.

JPA

Game on Sky Sports Mix which is a free channel.

matrim

Has the Ayew - Taylor deal been completed?

rebelomar

5 mins in and the midfield looks a huge improvement

basillarkin

shocking miss

matrim

rebelomar wrote: »

5 mins in and the midfield looks a huge improvement

A midfielder showing both strength and an eye for a pass. We normally on get one of the two

basillarkin

green adomah and lansbury have all started brightly

CSF

Honestly that is some of the worst defending you'll see.

rebelomar

Bad judgement from Chester

listermint

2 men running in the back there. Stupid

CSF

Honestly, Messi, Suarez and Ronaldo could have been the signings in this window. We'd still be sh*t. Can't even say this is a good performance past the first 10 minutes when we were all filled with more false hope.

listermint

They are all over us.

All over.

CSF

listermint wrote: »

They are all over us.

All over.

How long until the gelling excuses start...

basillarkin

if kodja tucks away his easy chance, we would be talking about a different game. we have problems all over the side unfortunately.

JPA

That midfield offers no protection.
We'll need Jedinak playing every game to make it work.
Bring back Westwood!

matrim

whole new midfield and same issue. No support for Kodjia. Everytime we clear it, it's booted up the pitch and comes straight back.

Compound it with **** defending and you have what we see here

Raven Runner

CSF

Kevin Toner gone out on loan to League 1. Surely we need centre backs.

Corholio

All over the place for 2nd part of that half. Look like a team who have started 3 new players in midfield unfortunately. Can't understand how a pretty consistent appearing defence can be dragged around like that, Hutton and Chester big culprits in that half.

artanevilla

Why.

LeBash

rebelomar wrote: »

5 mins in and the midfield looks a huge improvement

That's must have been the 5 mins per 90 that Villa midfield looks good.

artanevilla

Scott Hogan's just come out of the tunnel and sat on the Brentford bench.

listermint

Right we are Leeds.

CSF

How do you concede the same goal twice?

rebelomar

Mother of God.. Kodjia and Adomah rolling around on the ground while we go three down...

Bruce has got his work cut out

CSF

Honestly Bruce should be considering his own position after this. Xia bringing everything he can to the table. What is Bruce bringing to the table?

Patser

So just tuning on....

WTF is happening!!

matrim

How has bruce not made a change?

CSF

matrim wrote: »

How has bruce not made a change?

When does he ever make positive changes when they're needed, rather than when it's too late to impact the game?

artanevilla

I'm trying to push a move to support another club before the deadline.

Patser

artanevilla wrote: »

I'm trying to push a move to support another club before the deadline.

Good luck with that username!

listermint

artanevilla wrote: »

I'm trying to push a move to support another club before the deadline.

Could just slink away from football. Sure there's enough depressing stuff out there to put my hat on.


Bah

CSF

artanevilla wrote: »

I'm trying to push a move to support another club before the deadline.

I'd genuinely consider scrapping the big money transfers, sack Bruce and postpone the rebuild until the end of the season.

Had Xia not put so much January investment into the team, this would be Bruce's final game. I'm sure of it.

Patser

GAA is back this weekend, never craved the Allianz League so much.

artanevilla

At least we're in Ireland watching from a safe distance. Imagine trapsing up and down the country to watch that ****e.

I've done it with Bohs but they've never been bad as that.

JPA

It's very hard to maintain any enthusiasm for this.

The signings seem good but the balance needs took be right.
Hourihane is an attacking midfielder and Bjarnsson is a winger from what I understood?
Lansbury is a creative midfielder who can look after himself but has always been a player to push forward.

So that team tonight was in serious trouble as soon as they started closing down Lansbury.
The other 2 are not ball winners.
As Westwood and Tsishbola were let leave a defensive midfielder to challenge/back up Jedinak should have been signed.

LeBash

artanevilla wrote: »

At least we're in Ireland watching from a safe distance. Imagine trapsing up and down the country to watch that ****e.

I've done it with Bohs but they've never been bad as that.

I'm lucky, 3 mins walk to watch the tripe getting served up at Dalymount. Not sure I'd walk 3 mins to VP these days.

Panrich

Brentford didn't miss their star striker too much tonight. I wonder if he'll make more of a difference for us? After tonight, I'd have my doubts.

In order to score, especially away from home you have to create chances in the final third. That takes bravery and our players always take the easy option.

I posted concerns last night that we had made too many signings and that it might take time to gel. Bruce went all in tonight with a totally new midfield and after a decent start they went out of it and lost all shape. We were chasing shadows all night.

The defence will rightly get pelters after that. Johnstone is a liability and looked shot by the end. Baker and Chester had me wondering if Elphick and Richards might be worth a go.
Hutton almost got ahead of the Brentford players for the first two goals. Hats off for the comical backpass too.
Amavi is regressing so far that it's amazing to think Liverpool were looking at him very recently.

Playoffs a dream too far and Bruce and Calderwood have a lot of work on. The post match interview was not very encouraging in that he didn't seem to know why the players didn't turn up tonight. New signings heads dropped in unison with the rest and nobody on the pitch or the sideline took the game by the scruff of the neck.

CSF

For me that goes in with the Norwich (A), Leeds (A), Cardiff (A), Wolves (A) in the reasons why Bruce shouldn't be the manager next season.

There's absolutely no benefit to sacking him while the season is still ongoing so I'd give him every chance to improve but really he looks like a dud who is living off nowt other than excuses and reputation.

I don't think excuses about teams gelling etc hold any weight when you've spent more than probably the bottom half of the table combined.

JPA

Bruce has always been a limited manager but the Championship is supposedly where he excels. No sign of it yet and no defined formation or team structure..

CSF

It'd be easier to take if there were a game we'd lost and been unlucky or not performed awfully. What solace can you take from those kinds of games?