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  1. 5 minutes ago, TRO said:

    Its the first time under Dean Smith, that I felt we done well to get a point.

    The conditions clearly suited their "Out muscling" game which they did very well to be fair.

    We had too many 5/10 performances to expect much more, but I am still concerned about our physical involvement in a game....they closed us down and nullified our play, whilst in contrast Joe Allen ran the show....We were not able to exhibit our technical superiority, but what bit they had was left unattended.

    We have to get more players than just McGinn who are willing to get touch close and get their foot in or dare I even say track back.

    Their 4 yellows ( despite the illegalness about them) showed where the commitment lay today.

    Pleased we were able to come back from what looked like to me, a defeat.....but not pleased that we landed ourselves in that situation in the first place.

    The main concern for me with this defence of ours is.....The ease and simplicity that they concede.....We have to work hard for what goals we get and then hand the opposition ones on a plate.

    I wouldn't blame the manager for much today, it just highlights the shortfall for some weaponary in the squad.

    Great Post, agree with most of that. Just on the last point about blame, I personally think when you play expansive football as we are trying to do at the moment, you are naturally going to leave yourself more exposed and that's the sacrifice with playing this type of football as I'm starting to realise. Even if you have the best players in the league when you're playing offensive front foot football you have to allow for soft goals going against as the team is more exposed, we still only have 11 players afterall. Its easy to have a go at our starting 11 when things don't go right but that back 4 are good by championship standards at least. 

    Stoke have good quality players for this league and they played well stifling us and that's what they did today and fair play to them. teams in general will also figure a way to stifle us and  we need to rise to that. 

    I think Smith will hopefully get around this. I wouldn't want anyone other the Smith to navigate this season to be honest. 

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  2. 17 minutes ago, TRO said:

    I didn't think we would play like that.....such a complete performance in both defensive and offensive mode.

    That for me is a watershed moment in our progress.

    awesome display.

    Yeah the defensive aspect was equally as impressive as the forward play, how quickly they got into a good defensive shape after losing possession was impressive. Teams must really be dreading having to face us now. 

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  3. 30 minutes ago, Dave-R said:

    Think at some point if he ever leaves villa, deserves a chance to manage England.. 

    Yeah it'll be a good retirement gig for him when he's in his late 60s.

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  4. It annoyed me for the last goal how he reacted to the shot going in by his near post, he was so unprepared for it when the only possible shot on was the near post option considering the angle. 

     

  5. 5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

    One thing that seems to be happening - and I'm happy to be corrected on this - is that sometimes the full backs are so keen to get forward that Chester, Axel and Hourihane/Whelan/whoever in the centre can only pass the ball in a straight line into the midfield, and more often than not it's being picked off by the opposition.

    On Sunday and again tonight, there were several occasions where the central 3 had no wide options without going up and over.  The full-backs need to be holding their run until we're further up the field.

    I noticed that as well, even on Sunday a lot of the times Chester and Whelan in particular got caught in possession or gave the ball away there was no option given by the full backs to help them out. 

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  6. 2 minutes ago, romavillan said:

    Well he can't fix it by changing the back 4 can he? ;)

    I think we could be overreacting a bit, they had 5 shots on target and scored 5. We gifted them goals and we created enough to win 3 games. Abraham should have got 5 himself which is an insane thing to be typing. Looking at how they scored, it wasn't just the back 5 either, Lolley was given way too much time and space every time more an organisational thing and midfielders needing to be more aware I guess. I'm sure Smith will be working on it to sort it out. I think January's transfer window might give him some more tools to do so.

    **** great game though.

    Totally agree with that assessment 

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  7. Just now, romavillan said:

    To be fair the previous incumbent decimated the defence and left Smith with ZERO options, the back 5 picks itself and it's not Smith's fault.  

     I'm a huge fan of Smith and what he's doing but he can't be blameless for the team conceding so many. His system is definitely leaving us very exposed defensively and he needs to sort it out soon. 

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  8. He looked very nervous on the ball yesterday, like he didn't want to have it which is a problem when he's under orders to play it out from the back every time. 

    A mitigating factor though I thought he was left stranded a few times when team mates didn't offer a simple option, Taylor in particular. 

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