I honestly struggle to think of a game that depressed me more than that one.
Our play lacks invention, it lacks incisiveness, it lacks desire and urgency, it lacks pace and it lacks quality.
We’re just a very, very poor side and it seemed to me like Wolves never even got out of second gear.
I just don’t get it.
How can we lack urgency when we’re in the position we are?
Douglas Luiz, who I thought looked very decent, apart, we just look directionless and clueless.
We played two strikers, which was needed in my opinion, but they were usually so far apart there was no way they’d link up.
Likewise, Grealish again played miles too deep, too often and it just totally frustrates me.
Then again, when he did get on the ball, he was mostly useless. I’ve not said anything before, but I’ve thought for a good while that he’s lost interest now and is frankly sick of watching the pure lack of quality around him.
I’ve never been a big believer that players have their next club in their head, but I think it’s definitely the case with him. He just looks like he’s given up.
Our setpieces were horrendous today and I’m struggling to think of a ball that didn’t go clean over the players’ heads. If Hourihane can’t get that right, he’s an utter waste of time on the pitch and he was invisible yet again.
As for Nyland, I’ve never seen a Villa goalie that scares me as much as him.
He’s fumbled the ball so many times lately and after the way he mis-threw that ball to Taylor, means he has to be dropped now. He looks devoid of any confidence and Smith needs to take him out of the firing line.
It’s the lack of direction that worries me most though and I just don’t see what we’re trying to achieve on the pitch.
When we do attack, we inevitably slow it down and Grealish was the most guilty of this, which means that the opposition have time to reorganise and the chance is lost. Loads of times, I heard myself saying “too late”.
It’s like the team have no belief and it’s this which will see us go down.
The result is bad enough in itself, but it’s the performance which has got me down more.
There’s the age old saying that the table doesn’t lie and I think that’s exactly the case.
We are where we are, because we’re frankly just awful.
And boring with it.
Plus their goal difference getting a hammering. But what the hell will happen to villa in the next two matches I dread to think man u on fire and Liverpool smarting from their defeat,ah well watch us go in the championship 😂
Watching Man Ure at the moment and I don’t think Grealish would get in their team. I personally don’t think he could break into any of the top six teams. He might make a squad player with impact from the bench but he is too slow thinking for teams like the ones at top who break with pace and effectively too. He obviously is talented and can draw a foul with his quick feet but if we are offered £70m plus, I would snap their hands off!
Whatever league we are in will require a massive rebuild and £70m can buy 2 – 3 top notch players as long as Suso doesn’t recommend them.
look at the bottom of the championship there are a few teams around there which we were in direct competition with not too long ago. teams that were in premiership not too long ago. football can change in a blink sometimes for the worst. Middlesbrough Stoke Hull city and Huddersfield. once clubs lose forwards momentum it can be difficult to stop the decline. quality of players you sign also declines.
we only just got promoted,so it would be a hard sell to the better players, come to villa and fight relegation. most quality players would say no thanks, i want to play in a better team with more chances created for me. so that is why we saw in summer some players get talked about and then we switched to lesser players.
we need to get established in the premiership before we see top managers and players again. if we go down, i think we will come back stronger but we need to some stability, wholesale changes again might mean a slower start and playoffs again.
P/S i watched norwich last two games and they do not deserve the result they get, they just have no striker, a fox in the box. had they had a player like that that 4 nil to arsenal could have been 4 4 or better, against brighton nothing in the game, norwich created good chances, good crosses. but not a soul inside the 5 yard of them. this is what happens to teams that lose their belief they stop making runs inside the box. you lose faith in your team mates like super jack has. norwich have watford i think next. wouldn’t surprise me at all, if they beat watford. cause they are dangerous team on the break and norwich have no pressure now, watford will have to beat norwich so all the pressure is piled on them. watford players will expect a easy game and norwich dominate the ball quite well and if watford pile forwards they will play into norwich game.
With Brighton winning the relegation is now 3 from 5. My gut feeling is that West Ham could beat Newcastle which would render it to 3 from 4. Sod’s law that Chelsea screw up against Watford too and then it’s probably game over. Fact is we are hoping that Bournemouth, West Ham and Watford have failed to pick up any points when we have all played 34 games which is hoping big time!
Funning thing is about Grealish I said the same, I think Man Utd jumped the gun in having him now, that Greenwood will be in the England side before Jack, I see him on the bench more times than he wants .now, we mentioned Minns and mistakes he’s made and yes he has, but what about the times he’s saved us in games, What about our goalkeepers, how many have they failed in games, we would have never won the European cup if we never played a goalkeeper that was not first choice, I’ve always maintained at 18 your ready but in someone’s eyes they are kids, we have got to start playing up and coming players and not has been and done it players, Villa are still in the old times of Deadly Doug. ..
Don’t think I can watch this game. Will just check the score at the end… Teams around us are catching us up on our negative GD. Today could blow that… A 0-0 draw would be like a victory!
Anyone got a spare bus to park?
Bum Bum, you was on the wrong post….
Don’t think I can watch this game. Will just check the score at the end… Teams around us are catching us up on our negative GD. Today could blow that… A 0-0 draw would be like a victory!
Anyone got a spare bus to park
Like you Bum Bum frightened to look, by the way your on the wrong post.
I’ll watch the West Ham game..