Author: Hitchens60

  • Barn Doors, Missed Tricks and a Throw of the ‘Dyce’

    Dean Smith commented that he wasn’t concerned over our failure to convert 27 shots into a single goal on Thursday night and said ‘My concern is when you’re not getting chances’ I beg to differ – for a one off game OK – but the failure to hit a barn door over a number of…

  • Badger’s Poll, Burnley in town and JG’s misdemeanors

    It would be remiss to write a post without at least mentioning the unwanted headlines about Grealish’s driving ban and heavy fine. I think we’d all hoped that he’d learnt from previous unwanted press attention that he needed to be fully aware of the consequence of his actions – but alas it seems not. As…

  • Wolves away, no crowd and no JIminez

    This is going to be a pretty quick article with a couple of thoughts on todays game Both teams come into the game on poor runs; Villa one win in five and Wolves one in four and off the back of a poor result at Anfield whereas Villa played really well at West Ham without…

  • Outthought, outfought and outplayed.

    I admit to having stopped watching after Leed’s second goal; it seemed pointless putting oneself through further agony! Love him or hate him, Bielsa is undoubtedly an exceptional coach with far more experience than Smith and JT put together and I thought that last night it showed. He set the team up to attack our…

  • An Away clean sheet at the 27th attempt, Samatta leaves and Fulham up next

    Aston Villa’s second XI comfortably disposed of Bristol City last night whilst removing an unwanted statistic. 26 Consecutive away games in all competitions without a clean sheet is not something to be proud of, certainly not for a club of our standing and ambition. I admit to being rather concerned when I saw the team…