danceoftheshamen

Not for me, the glaring issue here is Beale leaving. Early signs are not good at all.

Sadly I think it went up in smoke already after losing and creating zero against most likely the Worst team in the division.

Well i'm personally finding it extrememly hard to stay onboard with this Gerrard thing in all honesty. The football is horrid to watch which in some instances is necessary if effective. This turgid stuff is not even effective more often than not, so what are we doing exactly. That was abysmal yesterday, as it was for the most part last season. I just can't see how we are expecting to get results with the same midfield-forward line that was quite poor last season? It's like watching last seasons Villa with a couple of repair patches stuck on the edges....But then SG counterbalances it all with this change in captaincy and dropping our best (although of course occasionally error-prone) defender in Mings. I still can't fathom why you would start Konsa over the impressive Chambers either? Especially when we were playing a team with little else but physicality & height!? .........Bizarre to say the least. I fear for us and am now 7/8 in the "need new manager" camp.

For me we just look so disjointed, sloppy and well, confused as a team. Sadly I just don’t get Gerard’s Villa at the moment and would be delighted to see Poch come in.

So the Pre season “optimism” I had has gone already, well actually not that I had much anyway really as Beale the brains left and we have failed to sort the lack of creativity or our spluttering srikers. Not a cat in hells chance this squad and manager finishes top half sadly. More drudgery as we saw pretty much all pre season.

Looking at the cold hard historic facts and taking into account this is Villa, this is a real potential banana skin fixture. Newly promoted team at theirs on the opening day, which is traditionally the worst day to play a newly promoted team on their home patch. All I will say is it is an opportunity hopefully, to get the season off to a good start. This is football however and opening day is the day when odd results happen. Couple that with this being Villa and I have no idea what the result will be

I wouldn’t normally care about any disrespectful comment about Villa from an18 year old but when it is a guy who we helped to develop to the heights he has over several years and when said guy has taken a chunk of the clubs money in the process, then Yes it annoys me!

I disagree, currently I see it a bit like this..... We are a big to very big club (on the rise) They (Chelsea) are obviously currently massive, due to Abramovich's Millions of course but we are most definately in the "Big club" bracket. Massive = Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City & possibly now Spurs i guess. Very Big = Villa (Just almost getting back to this level in my view), Newcastle (soon to enter the "massive" group no doubt) , West Ham, Everton & possibly Leicester Big = Wolves, Palace, Forest and most of the rest of the prem excluding maybe Bournemouth and one or two others Not exact science & we are likely in reality in between Big & Very Big currently (but not historically of course) So If carney had come out & said "Don't get me wrong Villa is a big club and helped me progress massively but Chelsea is the club I supported as a lad & with all due respect is a massive club right now" Or anything along those lines, I would have said fair play to the geezer.

Surely though Zatman, having been a part of the whole Sawirs & Edens rise he must have seen that this was no small club? Rather one slowly reclaiming it's place? He must have known the history, seen the fanbase and the Stadium plans etc. Seen the quality of the clubs Youth system & everything else? So why the insult? The first thing out of his gob after leaving? Sorry, but no. That's plain disrespectful and as a result I am delighted he's gone. Talk about having a rotton apple in the barrel. Anyhow he's nothing more than yet another Chelsea wannabe now so.

Apart from the inevitable helping hand they will no doubt get to claim their place at the top table from the FA, VAR etc. Something we will not get and which for me is worth 10 - 15 points per season for the "chosen" clubs, if not more.

Yes i'm sure he can learn stuff from them, but then he left Coutihno, Buendia & co as well as Gerrard... Just don't quite get the veiled dig saying "every young player wants to play for a "big" club. That was plain unecessary and quite insulting given what he is leaving behind in his desperate clamour to escape from such a paltry, tiny little club lol!

Having watched us under Gerrard, in all honesty, I am yet to see anything which makes me think we will challenge the top 8. We look pretty solid now but nowhere near a Europe finish. We still seem to struggle to get the strikers into the game as much as they should be. Hopefully Archer will be the answer.

Wherever the FA, Their corrupt officials and the even more dodgy VAR officials decide they want them to finish. With that money knocking around I'd say 7th to 8th is almost nailed on this season for them. It's an opportunity to open the human rights abusers wallets which I have no doubt the FA will not miss. Newcastoil United... who would've thought it lol!

Yep, turned down the chance to play regularly for a BIG Premier League club and learn from one of the best midfielders he could have learned from, to go to another big (£££££££'s) premier league club who he may have far less game time with and all because he liked them as a glory Hunting fan as a Kid. Meanwhile he then has the gall to make a statement saying "every kid wants to play for a "big" club." Okay Then Another JT masterpiece no doubt.

I'm so delighted he's staying for the season ahead & beyond, with a chance to truly break through into that 1st team proper! Take your chance Cameron!!

Bye! Don't forget to close the door on the way out. Would have wished you all the best but seeing as you chose to go to a rival club purely for £££££'s then I won't.

I still can't see us hitting a Euro spot as things stand. Around 10th to 12th for me but of course that could change obviously dependant on further signings.

From what i've seen of him he just needs a run of games. He looks sharper & fitter but as though his confidence (understandably) has taken a bit of a hit hence the moments when he makes a rash choice or picks the wrong pass. I really think a run of games will see him come good.

He always seems to hit similar shots. Way too high usually, which either makes it a simple save for the keeper or he over does it and it goes way wide / high or both. Both chances he had in the last two games surely would have been finished in the bottom corner by someone prolific? I don't want to hammer him coz I like Ollie but he simply has to show more.

First half showing was really poor for me and looked just like the stuff we were producing most of last season. Created barely anything and wasted the tiny bit we did create with poor forward play. Second half was promising however and despite the incredibly wasteful final third moments (which were many) we caused them a lot of problems and were for me by far the better team both before all the subs came on & to a lesser extent afterwards too. Totally deserved the draw at least. As for the ref? Appalling! He only started giving us anything in that last 20 mins & how they didn't get more yellows is a crime to football.

Can we quit with the 5 year old mistakes!! Olson now... goodness me!

Jesus wept Luiz! What a waste of a corner

Someone mentioned earlier about Wolves owners being worth around 50 billion? Well for the record a big Wolves fan I know is currently very depressed as he reckons they have gone from being one of the richest clubs in the Prem to now one of the poorest due to their owners losing around 41 billion over the last year or two!!

Watched the game and to be quite honest we totally lacked ideas from what i saw. They defended well but we were pretty awful in the final third.

No beat them 2-1 I think