I’m going on holiday to Mexico tomorrow.
A big thanks to those who think I’ve deserved it and a big razz to those who think I don’t.
It’s a hard life, that sees me missing many games, but it’s not through choice, trust me.
The benefit from working two weeks every week is that I get nice holidays, as and when the time’s right.
And so it is, that I have to ask how we’re going to do in the play-offs, because I might not see the last games.
Second place isn’t decided yet, but I want Fulham to go through automatically.
It shouldn’t really matter, as the truth will always out, but if you wanted me to put money on things, I just think we would have the beating of Cardiff. Whereas Fulham might just edge us.
The Ipswich game was great, but that performance summed things up, in that we can beat inferior opposition, at a stroll.
Serious sides are a different game though and it’ll be interesting to see how things pan out.
I’ll be watchng and commenting as best I can
lets hope villa have bought this referee, sure does help to have the referee in your corner
get defending by taylor
great defending that should have been
whens Grealish or Snodgrass going down…need a free kick…..lol
One down then!
great play from grealish and grabban one two had grealish bearing in on goal just had to square it. but shot and goalie saves . oh cardiff one nill up
we just need to get a bit of form going into playoffs now….a couple of results as well
http://wizhdsports.fi/live/stream49.php
It’s about 30 seconds behind AVTV’s commentary and foreign, but excellent quality.
As for the game, well done Taylor. Never rated him, tbh.
Otherwise, we’re all over them.
Just need to get the goal.
first half we dominated long periods, but have only created few clear chances. some good moves. need to continue to move the ball at speed and derby will tire. also we need to be wary of derby breaking. derby havent created too much but could have made it 2 nil simple header into jonstones hands when either side of him would have been easier.
derby looking like they are tiring. i can smell a goal for us if we continue to press
Nath – good for you keeping up the faith – dragged that draw out of the fire. Actually I would prefer facing Derby to Middlesbrough or Millwall in the play offs.
What a signing Grabben has turned out to be – he might yet be the difference in the play offs. Also the pairing of Onomah and Grealish at Ipswich was a revelation – it seems from your comment he made a difference again.
thou it was a draw today. if we played them in the playoffs i fancy villa would have too much for them. we played good but for one gripe, i just feel we moved the ball well, from back through midfield with pace and with lots of movements. working good positions. but when we reach the box. we have a bad habit of slowing things right down to neutral, this is not good got to stop over playing in the last third, as much as we had advantages over derby we allowed them to many breakaways and will be punished if we play a better team
onomah has made a big difference 1 1
We can’t finish better than 4th. If Millwall were to beat Middlesbro then three teams would be on 72 points fighting for two play off berths with Preston on 70 having an outside chance of sneaking into 6th. Sky will be wetting themselves if the above happens! LOL
on onomah he didnt make the telling difference. but he came on for whelen, he made immediate impact by passing foward to grabban or kodjia. he linked things up like grealish does. he wasnt on field too long for him to make a massive difference to result. he misplaced one pass as he cut in from the right wing. he was trying to lay the ball back to edge of box but it was cut out
Onomah is clearly talented but he has that sort of casual style that can make a player look lazy (not that I think he is). Him and Grealish is a decent offensive midfield but leaves us a bit weak in front of the back 4 if it comes with no Whelan or Jedinak. It’s easy for Bruce to go with that formation wen we are chasing a game that in many ways doesn’t matter. He’s unlikely to go with that away to any of the play off teams unless we are behind in the tie (don’t know how the home/away legs get picked).
Last game at Millwall has got to be a time to rest key players like Grealish. Kodjia is a tricky one. He needs to get match fit but we don’t want to lose him for the final matches.
It’s going to be so stressful
whelen and jedi are both great at what they do. but they are limited with the ball or in offensive half of the field. not every game did we need to play a holding midfielder this season. onomah came on with us one nil down so it was a good sub as whelen didnt offer much as in good crisp passing. soon as onomah came on he picked up the pace straight away and found plenty forward passes. it nice to have options onomah could replace either winger or any midfielder if we get injury in playoffs.
i thought their would be loads of excited villa fans, we will be 3 games away from a return to premiership. beginning of season their were more predicting mid table finishes under our dinosaur bruce, so having exceeded their expectations i thought they would be overjoyed.
on another worrying note, if we do lose to a small london club backed by all the referees and most villa fans. next year will be much harder with smaller squad and harder competition. the mighty wigan and blackburn giant clubs will be there and baggies as one of the three from the premiership.
I cannot stop watching the game, we was unlucky not to have taken 3 point’s, Taylor I’ve seen him time after time getting himself into trouble by not doing what he’s supposed to do, no doubt about it he gave them the goal, why do we play unsafe players, Hutton could do a better job, Grealish was master again creating chances, Nath did you find a stream on that game? I looked everywhere for one, I’m locked in discussion with bt over coverage in my home keep loosing BT on my mobile in my own house, I wouldn’t mined but I’ve infinity . As for Bruce doubting by fans my hand goes up half way through the season but got back on board when getting closer to the play offs, nobody can take that away he can get you to play off he’s done it again. If only we won them two games we would be home and dry. Well done the lads.
yeah i watched on line but on cpu was on one of them old streaming sites. not sure iam allowed to name thou. was a good stream with english commentary
I tried but bad streams they kept freezing so I gave up.
well after we win the playoffs we will get better streams every week.