Bloody typical isn’t it?
The missus and myself left the game early, because we were frankly near frozen after being away for a couple of weeks.
We were just walking past the Holte when we heard the roar and someone said Mings had scored.
We’d just got past the Aston Social where someone said Abraham scored.
And then the daughter called me to say Green had scored for 3-3.
Cue me kicking myself for doing something I’ve hardly ever done, in leaving early.
Not that I’m overly bothered.
Okay, we’ve shown massive resilience in coming back from 3-0 down, but make no mistake about it, this team is utter, utter rubbish and I found myself wondering how people bother paying good money in the cold to watch this stuff.
Well, maybe I might have been willing to watch a three goal comeback, but it really shouldn’t be like this.
For as much of the game that I saw, I commented that when Alan Hutton looks our biggest threat, you just know there’s something majorly wrong.
I’m sure I’ve said that previously, a few times.
We’d offered absolutely nothing and I bet their goalie’s hands were as cold as mine.
Kodjia was awful, as was our whole midfield.
Even McGinn couldn’t show his usual effort.
What worries me is that we show no desire whatsoever and were second best to the ball nearly all the time.
I’m sure Abraham must wonder what he’s doing at the Villa at times, as he had no service whatsoever and looked disinterested to me.
The referee was abysmal too.
He must have given Sheffield fifteen frees compared to our one or two, yet it was never that sort of a game.
No doubt the talk will be about how we pulled a draw from the jaws of defeat.
But what I saw just simply isn’t good enough and our defence still looks poor, as much as I thought Mings did okay.
The worrying part is, I don’t really see what Smith can do about it.
Promotion?
You’re having a laugh.
I can’t see me rushing to watch another game down the Villa.
At least not until I get used to the weather again.
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67 responses to “Villa – Sheff Utd; Six goals and I missed all ours!”
Coming back from 3-0 down will be the headline, but it just isn’t good enough, simple.
It’s still only a draw, which means we lose even more ground.
😂 Please stay away from VP Badger! Just saying 🤔
Oh crap! We are on tv against Brentford. Don’t think my blood pressure will cope!
D’you know something?
I don’t remember the last time I saw us win live at home.
Fair play to the Sheffield fans, they shut all the home fans up while I was there.
Apparently that changed after we left.
Which just goes to show, give the fans something to sing about and they will.
Oh, I forgot.
Seems my source was indeed spot on with the team selection.
I won’t say how he knew, but I’ll see if I can get the gen earlier from him, from now on.
And just on another note the Ref was a total ba….d tonight
McGinn was targeted tonight they knew well he was the only player with any grit truth is we’re f….d without Grealish in the team no creativity without him and Kodjia shouldn’t be let near that side what a gobshite no interest in playing for the Side Hutton to old we sadly won’t make the plays offs with that side sorry for negativity
Badger, perhaps you can an announcement over the PA in the “Elvis has left the building” style – the players can take that as the cue to stage a revival.
I can only recall being present at one bigger Villa comeback. A Tony Hateley inspired 5-5 after being 5-1 down at White Hart Lane.
Indeed.
“Badger has left the building. You are now allowed to start playing”.
Gutted I missed the revival, but I’m seriously worried.
I think we’re nearer bottom third than top third, as we stand.
And truth be told, I don’t believe Smith has a total grip on the dressing room for one minute.
Maybe that’s a step too far, but there’s seriously something not right, imo.
The lack of effort, or more accurately, intent, amazed me.
We were crap, I’ll agree. However, the fact is that we score goals and i much prefer that to the goalless,negative efforts we’ve been so used to in previous seasons. And we were playing top opposition today who could go on for automatic promotion: So stay calm; we got a draw, unexpectedly, and we managed to entertain the fans. I watched from far away, courtesy of espn, and the final 10 minutes were well worth the wait.
Let’s face it: We don’t have the perfect 11 and there are players out there who are not at their best or just simply don’t fit. Kodja is mentally at the exit door imo. Hourihane is the biggest enigma as it’s often his spot ball that leads to us netting. However, as a cog in midfield he’s weak, offers little offensively and gives away stupid fouls, like he did today for their first goal. My opinion is that there must be another player with equal dead ball skills who we can use instead.
McGinn wins motm again, in my opinion. He would be more of a loss than JG if he went now, and he’s close to 10 yelllows and consequent suspensions. It’s his tenacity and ball capture skills that are most important to us now. We were flaccid today but without him we’d have been completely walked over. At 3 million he must be our best bargain in years.
So, what does the future offer?
I still believe that we are capable of scraping into the playoff zone, but winning it is a stretch and how we would fair after that? The squad still needs extreme surgery if it is going to meet the demands of Premiership.
I am personally not concerned if we fail to make it up this season but I do worry about losing our best players as a result. It’s really Smith’s challenge, to figure out how not to let this happen.
Positives – apart from the Lazarus effect – err…………
Unfortunately, that comeback papers over the cracks for another few days but there were a couple of positives – Mings looked a decent defender who can actually pass the ball. When Chester is fit he should move to left back where he originally played for Ipswich – downside is, it leaves us with two right footed centre backs. The other is that perhaps Whelan will be given more credit for the role he performs in the team. I have posted before that imho he’s the best DM we have (fwiw).
And Hutton once again stood out – he just never gives less than his all.
Last word – Kodjia should never start again.
don’t know where to start in summing up that game. first off sheff utd were the better TEAM and deserved to win. they had more control, they worked harder. created good positions and chances. they had the best player on the pitch in the referee. compared to us we just a bunch of individuals.
no way should that second goal av stood. first off the guy who eventually scored, was offside when the original shot came in. he was active cause he was virtually in front of goalie blocking his view. second or third phrase ltr he then kicks the ball out of the goalies grasp.
third goal was a calamity of bad team errors. first off kodjia doesn’t offer no protection playing on the wing, means taylor is left putting pressure on the ball, as well as being alert to danger in behind him. hang on where is the support. jedi’s man runs in behind taylor. jedi just points to mings the danger and he continues to trot back. mings doesn’t come across until its too late.
so why were we so bad?? i reckon its just down to basics. sheff utd like in the first game back at theirs. they just wanted it more, they inter change positions dragging villa players out of their positions. they put loads of pressure on the villa players without the ball, making it hard for us to start anything. we ended up rushing our possession, playing panic football. in rugby its called the hot potato, get rid of it
for all that shit, 82 minutes of shit. sheff utd either lost focus or energy, they worked hard in building a lead, suddenly started to make errors and they also allowed villa more time, than they had in the entire match. villa showed great fight and belief to comeback. lets face it. we were dead and buried and should never have come back from 3 nil. but we did hopefully that fight we showed, can put us in with a chance of playoffs.
BTW some great posts last week on smith. i agree with most he should be given time to build a team. i am confident the club can find smiths type players we will have lots of budgets to fill, when we lose our current crop of high earners. how long does it take to build a team?? he will have just summer and then he has no excuses. i am confident he will get it right next year. but i still believe in this season. grealish is the glue that makes a team knitted together, he links up play and when your struggling, he takes the pressure off his teammates. which allows them to play better. i heard hes back very soon and we are still not far away from 6th
Find nothing wrong with that assumption Nath, I pretty well agree what went on, we do need a player that can glue us together, that team I’m my mind didn’t have a footballing brain, someone said the game changed when Whelan and Green entered the game, I thought Kodjia was a complete waist of space and Hourihan needs to lean how to create attacking chances. On that showing we can forget play off we are still missing a captain in the game to get things moving.
thank you 🙂 bill
whelen certainly help because jedi was really poor. i agree kodjia is a liability if he plays on wing. he isn’t a team player, doesn’t effect the game enough to be a top gun solo player. for me he plays up front or not at all. jedi should go out to stud. we need two new full backs. who are better going forwards. in smiths system his full backs are more like wing backs so they needs to affect the game in the attacking sense.
watch wolves i dare anybody. i liked how their wing backs worked last year. but this year they have been just as affective. you can heap praise on Neves for spraying the ball around, but both wing backs give him great targets with intelligent runs and staying out wide means, if the opposition press you in field that wide ball is always a outlet.
i think smith will be after a similar thing with our full or wing backs. just hutton and taylor can not play this way. intelligence and ability lacking on the offence side. still chin up we soldier on at least till grealish is back.
next preseason is massive,regardless what happens this. that might be the problem some players know they are leaving so might not be giving their absolute best
‘Chin up we soldier on’ – love it Nath and describes Villa to a T last night.
Take your point about Kodjia but have never really been convinced and, if one believes what was written in January, he doesn’t want to be at Villa – and it shows.
Jedinak shouldn’t have played – any pass more that 3feet in length went to a Sheffield player. I know many don’t rate Whelan but if you take time to watch him he does a very effective job as a DM – he reads the game well and he can and does make good forward passes – rarely wastes a ball. In my humble opinion, he should be starting in that position every game.
Taylor looked lost but, I have some sympathy, Kodjia did absolutely nothing in the way of tracking back – would rather see Adomah playing on the left – he always puts in a shift. I saw Hourihane sarcastically clapping Kodjia at one point – not good but understandable. Smith has to address that – leave Kodjia out of the team.
So Carroll is out for about 10 days! Another injury prone player to join Lansbury. Signing Mings was a risk but probably necessary with our defensive situation. Signing another injury prone player who wasn’t really needed was a big error and a waste of wages. Grealish will be back soon so he will be even more surplus to requirements. Looking back on Sharps 2nd goal it should have been disallowed on 3 fronts. 1st for offside, 2nd for kicking out of keepers hands and 3rd for dangerous play with studs facing ‘over’ keepers head! Referee and officials in championship are a joke. I might be paranoid but a lot of them seem to have it in for the Villa.
Sharps first goal was fair enough – Tammy was just a little too deep in the goal mouth to clear it – but great example of playing for team.
His second was an awful catalogue of errors by the referee and his assistant. Sharp should have been flagged offside when he tried to flick the first cross into the net – clearly active and off side and then to put the ballin the net with his studs out of the goal keepers hands …… you can actually see Kalinic trying to move his head out of the way of the studs.
The result of not winning last night ….or over ladt few weeks….is playing out at the moment…blues hammering qpr and forest winning…hull and others can go above us as well….
Birmingham are going to receive a points deduction down exceeding ffp. that fooks up their playoffs chances. i have to say thou, they are individually much poorer than us. but hats off to them, they get much more out of their players than we are currently doing. albeit with more simplified tactics.
Yes the players have all bought into the managers system and give 100%….will be 200% when they play us…
that makes the difference doesn’t it, players giving their whole 100%.
not sure our players are not giving their best. i think our tactics are more taxing under smith and our players not comfy with them. brum and sheff utd players individually lesser quality but collectively in a team are more than a match.
qpr are coming back 2 4 now
3-4 Now Nath
i am crossing everything for 4 4
Why is it Gary Monk can get a squad of players, that on paper you would think is no where near as good as ours, out performing Villa. My opinion is that Monk has more grafters than we have with a couple of good players who perform as a team. We have too many lightweights who are too many occasions are outfought and lacking passion. Smith needs to address this because we can’t keep starting or finishing games as we have done this season. A few more like Elphick, McGinn and Abraham are required. Hutton has these qualities but his days at Villa are coming to an end. Too many players have joined Villa on big salaries and probably ‘switch off’ their hunger to succeed. It annoys me that too many sign for an easy ride and just go through the motions. If we are to get out of this league we need to add some grit to the club. This summer is going to be massive and will either take us onward and upward or leave us to stagnate or worse.
QPR now have 3. Can they do a Villa? We can only hope.
I agree with you Holte in that this league won’t let any player get away with giving less than 100%. I’m hoping that Friday’s comeback will give us some confidence and kick start the rest of the season but I’m all too aware of our frailties. Unfortunately we may have to wait until the summer before we can do anything about them.
My sentiments Holte66 I’ve said this Villa being a last ditch for retirement players, no wanting because its just a game. We don’t want players for running down in their last days in football.
missed pen qpr noooooooo idiots
Shit.
we are still in with a chance of top 6th this season. we just need to get some form some, self belief and if jack grealish is back asp we will get all that,
i hate these friday games, totally ruins the weekend for me. that james collins at luton was a villa youngster he has 19 goals in league 1 thats pretty good going
And we have a sh*t record playing Friday night games
6 points and they have a game in hand to get to 6th place, I don’t see it happening. They have to lose games and we have to win, sorry tall order with that side we have. In my mind we’ve missed the boat ,maybe next season different story.
6 points is nothing with the amount of points still left on offer. being 3 nil down with just 8 minutes remaining is ridiculously impossible, adding to that being outplayed and out fought over the first 82 minutes. clearly nothing is over until its mathematically over.
we are entitled to disagree, i know we cant continue to play like this, we have too many good players to continue and return of grealish will bring a massive lift.. iam not about to bet my house on this outcome
I love your optimsm; I really do Nath and whilst I accept the mathematical possibility of getting into the playoffs, I think the stark reality is that we haven’t demonstrated an ability to put 5 or 6 wins together which is what’s needed.
Add to that, that we need more than one team to start losing then I think it’s a game too far.
With all the players out of contract and loans at the end of this season, then objectively. I think we need another season to get our house in order and to give Smith a chance to build a team in his fashion
UTV
the pieces are all there this season. smith is manager he needs to work out the problems. its not like we are lacking in any department. our defense is on paper just as strong as other championship teams and thats our achilles heel.
whether smith has his own players in house or not, we still have a squad of over paid well capable championship players who have all played higher leagues. its down to smith to give the players the correct tactic to win the game.
we all like to win 6 nil and playing fantastic, but that can wait until next season. smith has to ditch his plan to play attractive football and just attempt to progress step by step. start by winning games then introduce his philosophy gradually
look at the resources of us and sheff utd. goalie is a massive important position. we have a international we paid how many millions for and sheff utd had a newby in his first season at 1st team level. leeds are playing kids because they are scrapping the barrel with their resources. and norwich sold their best player last season. smith needs to work out the best players he has this season and give them a system to play they want to play and can achieve.
championship teams will all come into form and drop out, bristrol city have been dog shit most of season and six wins on the bounce and they are right up there. it was hull a few weeks ago. we have pele coming back soon he can win all his own
We weren’t as bad as everyone is making out. We were the better team for good portions of the game and really should not have conceded 3.
We were very poor at times though. Jedi kept giving the ball away, but I’m going to cut him some slack as it’s his first game back.
It might be coincidence but when the crowd (those still there) got behind the team for a corner the come back bagan. We stayed behind them and they scored 2 more.
I’m not blaming the fans or excusing some poor performances but if we can make a difference it’s by not getting on players backs and being loud and positive.
It may not make much difference but it is certainly better than the alternative
Sid, you must have watched a different game to me, as the concensus from both sides is that we were outplayed for the first 80 mins, although, tbf, I do remember one 5 minute spell where we knocked it around quite nicely.
It’s all about opinions though 🙂
Yes, it’s a good point about the crowd.
We had a bit of a sing, but the North stand isn’t really conducive to it, which is why I’m not keen.
But the Holte end was incredibly quiet, although I never heard any rumblings of discontent. I actually thought the fans were very patient and it was just a more “resigned to losing” atmosphere.
The Utd fans were excellent, but it’s so much easier when your team’s playing well, I suppose.
Badger, I’m a glass half full kind of guy so not the reliable witness however we actually started better, albeit only for 3 or 4 minutes then we’re very poor but had a patch in the first half and then I thought we played better for much of the 2nd half despite the 2 goals.
I’ve given him stick in the past but Whelan came on and made a real difference.
I thought Mings was very good
Green had a mare until his goal but again coming back so some slack and score a goal and all is forgiven
Full backs all at sea although Hutton decent going forward
I watched the extended highlights and it made us look like we bossed the game but I know we didn’t having watched it live
There was some dissent in the Holte. It was ok atmosphere to start with but after the goals we were very quiet until the corner for the goal and then it was buzzing until the end. A bit of booing at half time and some cheers and clapping when Jedi got subbed which I think is bad but if you pay your money it’s up to you what you want to shout.
I’m hoping this is a turning point, whatever anyone says, the endeavour and purpose for the last 20 minutes or so was great and a bit more of that with a returning Grealish and who knows?
Interesting.
We aren’t far off in our assessments really.
Agreed, Whelan looked good from what I saw, but only because Jedianak was so poor.
Yep, Mings looks very decent.
I thought Green was poor too.
And Hutton was our biggest threat (!)
But to me, it’s not so much about individuals. We just don’t look like a team that knows how each other plays and that’s what concerns me.
Plus we can’t do the basics.
I hope it’s a turning point too, as after all it was against a very decent organised side.
i agree about the team part. we just don’t look like a team compared to a good championship team like sheff utd. they controlled us for a 82 minutes and they still managed to only draw.
if we could just improve slightly when teams press us. we just can not handle a good press. i don’t understand why we cave in and freeze up. it happened under bruce plenty times as well.
listening to sheff manager he gave a good interview on the game. he admits we have good players and we took advantage of their mistakes. he explains their plan and how we couldnt get round them, this is the reason we were shit but its still a worry how we cant handle a team aggressively pressing us. its my opinion we got more control as they thought the game was won and slacked off pressing.
Nath, that’s not the Wilder interview I read.
He basically said they battered us for 80 minutes and then they made mistakes.
We couldn’t get round them, over them, under them or whatever.
In other words, a polite way of saying they pissed it and totally f*cked it up in the last few minutes.
no he means they stopped a very good team from hurting them for 86 minutes. then they made mistakes and that they were punished by them very good players. the way we started, the way we set up we made good players boot it out of play. they couldn’t get around, through us or over us.we played with a belief.
then the important part / we got up to there fullbacks ( that is football talk to pin um back) we got up the pitch, we were brave in our shape, brave in possession and out. (then he says they didn’t have the answers), thats good manager and players to what we did.how we set up.how we played.
wilder isn’t just saying we battered um, he is saying how they stopped villa from even competing. that is what i have said loads of times. some teams get pressed and pressured they either pass through it or most simply go over it passed the press. we fold and simply misplace passes kick for touch. the equivalent in boxing is when bruno used to get caught and stand there dazed.
why can villa players never work out other teams tactics, we beat teams that surrender space and ground to us and allow us to have the ball unchallenged. but soon as they get in our faces and make it a battle all over the pitch we generally fold like a deck of cards. i think its just down to being a team. we are united fully as a team, we have individuals that are not working for the team but themselves, maybe its cause most know its just this season and they are off
I think we’re missing the point, in that we don’t look like we can put one win together, let alone 5 or 6!
We’ve only beaten Ipswich in how many games?
And that was almost equally as awful, imo.
Oh, we now have the second worst defence in the division, by the way.
I believe Grealish has been pencilled in for the Stoke game and I don’t think we can expect miracles from him straight away. Hence we’re running out of games.
Whatever, assuming we don’t get promoted the question then has to be, given that we might lose Abraham and possibly Grealish, combined with all the other loaners and out of contract players, will Smith be able to quickly get us going next season?
He is going to have a massive rebuilding job.
Here’s a list of players that are out of contract in the summer;
Abraham, El Ghazi, Mings, Jedinak, Elphick, Tuanzebe, Hutton, Whelan, Richards, Hause, Green, Steer, Lyden, Bunn and maybe Grealish too.
So that’s at least 8/9 regular players.
It’s nice to see so much positivity, but I’m not feeling it at the moment, I’m afraid.
As much as I like/rate Smith, he isn’t a miracle worker.
I think you nailed the problem with this season Badger, the fact we are unable to string a few wins together. The only thing we are consistently good at is drawing games and conceding far too many goals. I thought Smiths post match comments were unlike his previous refreshing and honest interviews and bordered on denial if he thought we were good other than the last 10 minutes. Maybe it was to protect the players morale and confidence levels! Abraham has kept our season going almost single handed and when Grealish does come back we have to allow him a few games to get up to speed. I don’t know what kind of clauses are in Grealish’s contract but I would assume it would allow him to leave if a premier club comes knocking and offer whatever the release fee is. Who would you hang onto from players with contracts expiring in the summer? Green definitely and maybe Elphick for me. I would love Abraham, Tuanzebe and Grealish to be Villa players next season but we will have to get promoted for that to happen.
Exactly Holte.
Smith is publicly in denial, because he can’t say we’re crap.
Without Abraham, we’re relegation material.
And this is my point.
Take out the players you want to keep and we are utter crap.
We will be in major trouble next season and as much as sacking Bruce was the right decision, he did have major pulling power, via his contacts, in getting top notch loans in.
We are not going to have that option next season.
With players like Whelan, Jedinak, Richards and Hutton off the books at the end of the season, then we will save a fortune in wages so even with FFP we will have a chance of some decent signings. I agree Bruce probably had more pulling power as a manager but surely the biggest attraction for any player is the club and the size of it especially in the championship. We won’t be going up this season simply because we can’t put a decent run together. We would need to win 5-6 on the bounce to break into top 6 and we just aren’t good enough to do that.
Although Hutton did take a significant cut in wages as part of his additional year’s contract – fair play to him.
Copied the following from MOMS; thoughtful and balanced view of Dean Smith the manager?
It’s now one win in his last 11 league games for Dean Smith, and that was an unconvincing win against bottom of the table Ipswich. It’s certainly not a good look and he’s evidently failed to address the weakness of Villa’s defending as a unit.
It’s hard to buy this social media narrative of some fans who are quick to make excuses for the Villa fan. Apparently, (all of a sudden) Villa’s current players are cr*p and we’re nothing without Grealish.
If you are to believe Smith’s appraisal of Grealish as “the best player in the division”, the good news is, no other team has a Grealish. Also, most other teams don’t have the talent that Villa actually do have in their squad.
The same fans would be hard pressed to pick one Sheffield United player to get into the Villa first XI too (almost all would have Tammy Abraham over Billy Sharp).
There is certainly enough decent players in the Villa squad to manage into a Championship play-off team.
So what’s up with the players? Who seemed to have regressed since the impressive 3-0 away wins at Derby and Boro.
Do they not buy into their former Brentford boss, now? In the same way that Villa’s decorated early 1980’s players were less than impressed suddenly being managed by ex-Shrewsbury Town boss Graham Turner?
The Blades were only recently promoted to the Championship too, but are fantastically organised both in defence and attack by their boss Chris Wilder. They only conceded against Villa due to some poor individual errors.
Smith has never been convincing with the defensive part of his game as a manager. As MOMS pointed out when he was appointed, he’s never finished higher than 9th in the league with either Walsall or Brentford.
It’s been argued he never had the resources, but did Chris Wilder have such resources when he got Oxford United promoted from the Conference to the Football League? Or when he won the League Two title with Northampton? Or, when he won the League One title with the Blades?
He has quickly developed a proven winning pedigree as a manager, Dean Smith does not at the moment, and this is fast becoming a concern.
His attacking football ideology is nice, but Smith, on the evidence so far, has shown that his teams only win when they play very well. If they are not on song, then tactically they are left too open and vulnerable to ever win a game by playing poorly.
As we all know, in football, teams are successful, because on their off days, they know how to win ugly too.
Improvement is needed from Smith before any doubts in him begin to grow.,
Last sentence is probably reflective of mutterings in some quarters!
See, we do actually listen Ted 🙂
Badger
You mentioned Bruces’s pulling power. Let’s be fare he has managed virtually 1 in 9’of the English top four division clubs.
1998–1999
Sheffield United
1999–2000
Huddersfield Town
2001
Wigan Athletic
2001
Crystal Palace
2001–2007
Birmingham City
2007–2009
Wigan Athletic
2009–2011
Sunderland
2012–2016
Hull City
2016–2018
Aston Villa
2019–
Sheffield Wednesday
I would expect he does have contacts but that does not overcome his failure at all clubs.
With the movement to directors of football individual managers have less pull. I reckon this is supported by a typical manager lasts less than 2 years and a typical player contract being 3 / 4 years. Thus the DOF will have the biggest say on incomings. Bruce’s methods are the way of dinosaurs and they became extinct.
It would be more Smith as ying to Purslow and co, we need a new centre half and they have a list of appropriate players who they go out and try to secure one from.
The biggest pull would be the club. Villa’s name has that pulling power. Many up and coming players would see us as a good stepping stone. Plus with new wealthy backers, great infrastructure, this will help them to believe it is only a question of time before we go back to the premiership.
I’m astonished after all the stick I got, saying perspective and questioning Dean Smith I read the above now apparently agreeing.
The article from MOMS is proportionate and constructive.
One win in eleven games, no improvement in January just because he allegedly supported Villa he is defended.
Smith is not good enough, press conferences he laughs, and thinks his record is acceptable, is he joking? Why are fans not challenging him? The press are.
Ted, why are you astonished?
You’re probably part of about 1% of Villa fans who currently want Smith out.
The other 99% know we’re rubbish, but are willing to give him a chance.
Jeez, he’s only been here for five minutes!
What would you do, keep hiring new managers and sack them if they don’t win say, 90% of their games?
That said, us footy fans are an impatient lot and discontent will grow if Smith can’t turn things around.
Don’t worry, you’ll get your way eventually. It’s only a matter of time for any manager.
If Ted had been a Man Ure fan then Fergie would have gotten the boot well before he managed to perform the miracles he did.
Have a little patience FFS
Ted, the difference between the MOMS article and your posts is that the article asks a number of legitimate questions without concluding that Smith is ‘not good enough’.
You allege that fans are not questioning him ‘because he is a Villa fan’ – not true as the MOMS article makes clear, as does the majority of posts on this site.
As Badger points out – to call for his head after 4 months is lunacy.