Just a quick one to say I managed to watch the game via a Balkan streaming site. Which was just as well, as the AVTV audio went down just a couple of minutes before the goal. AVTV has proved to be an utter waste of time this season and I’m going to have to think hard about continuing my subscription next season.
Anyway, I think it’s hard to fault how we played today and quite simply we did everything except get the winning goal, with us hitting the bar and the post, as well as Hourihane missing one he really should have buried.
I reckon 4 or 5-1 on a better day wouldn’t have been out of order, but that’s why we love footy, isn’t it?
Does that guarantee us third place or not? I’m really not sure and to be honest, I don’t know what the difference is if we get third or fourth.
Our automatic second place is out the window, so while I rue the fact that we didn’t win, it’s not the end of the world and it was a very decent game to watch for the neutral, I’d have thought.
Did the draw kill Derby’s promotion chances yet? I’ll have to check before giving my Derby mate some banter.
Onto Millwall next then and I’d suggest that’s a very tough proposition, although I think we demonstrated today that we have plenty in our locker.
If only we can put the ball in the net often enough.
With that, I’m off for copious amounts of alcohol.
UTV!
you cant compare davis with murhpy they are two ends of a scale. one plays very direct, rarely gets involved in any build up play. the other plays a massive percentage outside the box,with his back to goal. strikers are judged on goals so they say. well not when they contribute in build up play and creating goals.
to answer the same old story of including more youth. i believe they should be included only on merit. why should we include a youth player, who can offer less ability then say grabban aged 30 plus. doesn’t matter if we own the players or what aged they are. snodgrass grabban onomah they all have good ability. if this is better than what we have. then its simple they get to play.
youth players need to improve to get a game,its that simple. only aim for the managers is to pick a team which is capable of beating the opposition. playing a team which includes two or three youngsters in it with less abilities than players you omit, weakens our team for that match.
you have to weight up blooding players to improve them to what you want to achieve your season goal. our aim this season was to get promoted not to blood youth players and build for future. we are down to championship rounds in boxing the rounds 10 11 12 playoffs semis and final. all season boils down to these three games. if you think players like ohare are not a downgrade on grabban or snodgrass than you wont mind bruce picking ohare and dropping of of them two. maybe drop them both and put murphy in up front,
Probably what I said previously about Davis was a bit harsh. He does offer something different to the other forwards we have. He came in when he was the only fit striker and did a great job in bringing Adomah and others into the final third. Against some teams he will be able to cause problems preferably with two up front. I don’t think he will be a prolific goal scorer though. Andrew made a good point that some fans have formed an opinion of our youngsters after playing a game or two in first team. Most players need a run of games to adapt, and that includes experienced professionals. It will always be down to the money pressures of whether it’s getting promoted or avoiding relegation that prevents youth coming through. Managers are too scared of the risks involved and would prefer safe bet of signing or loaning players. An ideal opportunity would be mid table comfort which we haven’t had for several years.
if you were the manager of the club and you had pre season you mould your squad. are you saying you wouldnt have bothered bringing in the loans we have and you would have played your youth. so say snodgrass who has played the right mid or wing all season. reliable and good consistent performer. you would have not bothered to bring snoddy in and played players like ohare and other youth, so instead of grabban being loaned in you would have played murphy give the youth the opportunity
other teams loan out their youngsters to other teams, like a finishing school where they can improve and make mistakes not detrimental to the parent club. why would we play our youth, which two of our best so called youth. failed to cut it this season at division 2 why then would we risk it blooding them with every game we played this season, very important to promotion.
we wrote off our fa cup campaign playing these youths which are quite ready. we got a hammering to a team one league below us, if we had blooded them in the league also,you can only imagine we would have dropped more points.
this season is balancing on a knife-edge. success and failure is determined in the next three games.now is not the time to even be considering dropping better players for potential players.who might never make it there are no guarantees
corey talyor is another player from the under 23 he is not ready but another player with lots of talent. i really believe they should have loaned ohare out second part of this season. we will see if that has held him back. when mckirdy returns from his less than successful loan. it will be interesting to see if hes learnt much and improved for the experience. because even bad experiences are good ones. he might come back a fair better hungrier player ready to challenge for a first team place at villa,
Bill, if you were to eat some cheese today, what type would it be?
Blue Cheese Bum bum, I’m blue to the core.
Nice choice.
Aston Villa will reportedly offer Gareth Barry an emotional career swansong if they are promoted back to the Premier League.
Our sister paper the Mirror reports today that the club will add the 37-year-old to their ranks if they can win the play-offs.
Barry is the all-time Premier League appearance holder with 653 games and is currently injured at West Brom after being sidelined with a knee operation.
The report claims that the the left-footed midfielder is keen to keep playing in the top flight and it is unlikely that he has a future at The Hawthorns.
He has a clause enabling him to quit The Hawthorns if the bottom club drop into the Championship.
Barry has reportedly put his Cheshire mansion up for sale for £4.5million and wants to relocate permanently back to the Midlands.
Villa are potentially willing to include coaching opportunities too if Barry is interested.
Barry first signed for Villa as a 16-year-old form Brighton.
He was signed in a controversial deal between the two clubs when Brighton demanded £2.5m for Barry and Michael Standing, who also joined Villa as an apprentice.
Brighton settled for a deal that would have seen them make £2.4m in the event of the two youngsters making appearances for the England national team.
Sorry to hear that Steve Bruce’s mother has now passed away having lost his Father earlier this year, our thoughts are with you and your family Steve during this sad time.
Sad News that Rock1, I wish him all the strength through his loss. May she R.I.P.
Tonights AVFC U23 game is free entry to anyone who happens to be in or around Swansea – otherwise the match is also being streamed live via Swansea City’s website from 7pm
Is it on YouTube Bill?
Cheers Holte66, I was going to see if it was , 👍
puts kicking a pigskin around and field in perspective. very sad news for SB god bless. RIP ste bruce mother and his father 🙁
a field (sorry)
congratulations under23’s winning the league cup. against a very good side in swansea