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  1. 2 hours ago, Tom13 said:

    As his performance tonight proved? He came on in the 86th minute for a side that had no midfield.

    OK, not a long time just 14 minutes or so but as with most times when he comes on he makes no difference at all. Clearly UE put him on for reason so what was that?

    Sorry but I just don't rate him,  if you do please enlighten us as to why.

  2. He's not a premiership player as his performance tonight proved. I know it was all about FFP but we should have kept Archer. He will just fade away over the next twelve months and be loaned out. 

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  3. We were very poor after the second goal and we seemed to get worse as the game progressed. We let a bang-average Man U side on a dreadful run of form win. My observations are:

    1. We missed Kamara. His stupid red card cost us.
    2. We missed Torres with his long passes out.
    3. Luiz was woeful for most of the game.
    4. Playing tippy tappy football on the edge of their penalty area does not get you goals.
    5. Lenglet worries me. I am not sure he is PL player and there is no partnership with Carlos.
    6. We basically gave them the ball and let them run at us for the second half
    7. UE substitutions were way too late.
    8. Duran is a championship striker at best. We should have kept Archer.
    9. We don't have great options on the bench particularly with the injuries we have.

    This result is way more annoying than SU. They came for a point and got it. We just lacked the killer edge in that game. Tonight it feels we gave up and let a poor side run rings round us. I actually think the hype has got to us. All the top at Christmas, maybe win the PL stuff.

    Worse still we will be treated to 48 hours of Man U media w*ankfest.

    The Burnley game is a big one now. Anything less than three points is unacceptable.

  4. 3 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

    People who expect football fans en masse to create a partisan atmosphere when watching absolute dross are **** idiots.

    We had this against Wolves. "Fans were crap"

    Well **** me right, I was out the house at 7am, not been home, its 8pm and the sight of watching 11 players walking around with no intent doesn't get me hard as a rock.

    Pathetic.

    For the record I was not suggesting there should be a partisan atmosphere. I said the atmosphere was placid compared to other games and neither was I suggesting the 'fans were crap'

    But just look at the banner on the Holte End. Seemingly the fans think or are expected to be the 12th Man.

    Added to that should the fans not get behind a team more to encourage and support them when they are not playing well? (BTW that's not intended as a dig at you, its a general observation)

  5. 36 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

    All fair but the last paragraph. The atmosphere is crap when the season ticket holders are there too. It’s crap all the time bar the odd 10 mins here and there. And nobody is worse at needing to get up all the time than middle aged men coming in late from the bar, leaving before half time to get to the bar, coming in late from the bar again and leaving early to avoid the traffic.

    The rest of your post is pretty accurate, especially the bit about Stevenage being not that good. They were organised but nothing special, we were just lacklustre and out of ideas. 

    Maybe but it just seemed flatter today. I do think we sometimes delude ourselves over the whole '12th Man' thing.

  6. 20 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

    Sorry how do you expect the reaction after a utterly shit defeat to a side 3 divisions below us, at home? The atmosphere was not great because the side offered barely anything for the entire match other than passing the ball sideways.

    During the game even when we were winning the atmosphere was dead. We are near the back of Holte and it was very quiet for most of the game. Do we not get behind the team to support them if they are playing badly or do we just wait for them to play better?

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  7. Well this seems to be the thread of chronic over reactions.

    My take on having been at the game was we utterly disrespected Stevenage and paid the price. Lots of possession and tippy tappy football with virtually no end product. As a few have said on here we treated it like a training game. They were well organised and stuck to their task.

    They kept it very simple. Ten men behind the ball for the majority of the game and took their chances when they came For all our possession we have few real scoring chances. With the possible exception of Sanson no Villa player comes out of it with any credit. With better final balls and sensible finishing we would have scored five or more.

    The scary bit for me was how poor some of our players really were:

    Cash - out smarted for the entire game by a League 2 winger.

    Coutinhio - lots of movement but utterly wasteful in his shooting. He is a shadow of the player he once was.

    Bailey - beats the players and his final ball is pub football.

    Olsen - so far from being a PL goalkeeper it's frightening.

    Chambers and Bednarek - both slow and ponderous with the turning circle of supertankers.

    We really lacked a decent DM. I think Kamara should have started and definitely should have been brought on.

    The manager called this one wrong but was severely let down by the players. My conclusion is we don't have the squad depth we maybe thought we had. OK we can't rectify that in January but we need to bring in another striker, a winger and probably a right back as Young cannot do it all on his own. The media will have a w**kfest as to how brilliant Stevenage were. The truth was they weren't, they just did the simple things much better than us. Their second goal was laughable. Our players took their eye off the ball, literally and metaphorically and paid the price. Ironically Stoke will probably batter them.

    Oh and the atmosphere in the ground was bad, Our fans were silent for most of the game, we never got behind the team. It was not helped by many season ticket holders not coming and their seats going to families where the parents spend all their time taking their kids for food or to the toilet. That sounds harsh and young fans have to start somewhere, I accept that but what we ended up with was a very placid Villa Park. By contrast the Stevenage fans had a ball and got behind their team. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, juanpablosaliceband said:

    That’s true. I just have a sense he’s more removed from what’s going on. And why would we turn down 25 million for a player Gerrard doesn’t even select in his 11 and we could lose for free. Are we keeping him for a new manager who will get him to sign a new contract. Bordering on crazy conspiracy theories here I’m aware!

    I am buying in to everything you have suggested.

  9. The positive I take from this is our owners will not be bullied by so called 'big clubs'. I would hazard a guess that Arsenal were way too arrogant about how they approached this and left it way too late. 

    I think maybe keeping Luiz for the rest of the season and him potentially going on a free was a price worth paying. If he's professional, and I think he is, he will knuckle down and work hard which is of huge value to us.

    Of course he may also know / suspect that his main detractor in the shape of Gerrard is leaving imminently.

  10. 5 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

    No need to apologise. The basic is that the percentile shows where he sits in comparison with other midfielders.  Green is good (better than most other mids), red is bad (worse than most other mids). If he is in the middle then he's better than as many midfielders as he's worse than.

    Obviously, you have defensive midfielders and attacking midfielders, so anyone at the top percentile of the defensive stats (in the bottom section) is naturally more likely to be at the bottom percentile of the offensive stats (in the top section).

    In summary for leander.  He's very good at blocks, decent in the air and pressuring, but pretty bad at tackling and intercepting (especially so considering he's a defensive midfielder).

    His pass completion is relatively good, but none of it is progressive and he doesn't actually attempt to pass that much anyway.

     He's about average across the board for goals and assists.

    Overall, he's a slightly better Nakamba I think 

    Thanks for the clarification. I am now officially underwhelmed!

  11. 4 hours ago, viivvaa66 said:

    He will be sacked soon anyway, why don’t they do it now. I can’t see what is different in 1,2,3 or however many games he will be given, he has nothing to offer as a manager.

    There is no player development, all our our players are worse then what they were when he joined.

    He replaced our best player on an area with the new signing. Happened both in defence and midfield, what is wrong with playing two good players in the same area. It worked wonders when Kamara and Luiz was together in midfield against West Ham.

    Constantly try to get bad tactics to work, game after game, but is to stubborn to try something else.

    After losing Beale tactics and substitution have gone from not very good, to a total horror show.

    Gerrard needs to go now.

    This 100%

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  12. 25 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

    Probably not a good sign that when you type "fbref" followed by his name into google that it doesn't auto complete until you've typed "leander dendo" into it... but hey, ho. I know literally nothing about him.  Fbref seems to say he's average...:

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    I literally have no idea what all this means....sorry.

  13. Desperate signing by a desperate club with desperate manager.

    It would have been better to have kept Hause, as we loaned him after Carlos got injured.

    Does anybody really think this guy is an upgrade on Hause?

  14. 12 minutes ago, wilko154 said:

    Personally I would take £25 million and try to get someone in tonight to replace him.

    This is completely our own fault, we should have given Luiz a deadline to sign a new deal over the summer; and if he didn't sign it we could have sold him. That would then have given us plenty of time to replace him.

    We've gambled and we will now either lose him on deadline day, or lose him for nothing next summer.

    In the next 3 hours? 

  15. I think it's highly likely there will be no one coming in today.

    It's obvious to everybody in the football world (except perhaps Purslow) that Gerrard is going to be sacked in the next 2-3 weeks. Any sensible player would hold fire on joining Villa knowing that new managers always want to put their own stamp on a squad.

    I am so pig sick of the mess that this club is in I consider retaining Luiz as the best outcome today.

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  16. 2 hours ago, MaVilla said:

    i shouldnt need to say this, but it seems a requirement, "i dont dislike McGinn as a person".....

    but.

    the dude is terrible, he shouldnt be in this first 11, at all, should be a squad player at best, i cant believe we have this guy as our captain, complete and absolute joke.

    really, a pure joke, he's so s***.

    i actually dislike McGinn as a player, a lot, i have a disdain for him as a player right now, but not sure its his fault, Gerrard keeps playing him, my lord.

    I'd agree with everything except the last sentence. I think McGinn is a PL squad player at best and certainly should not be captain. He's had a free pass for way too long aided by the Super John McGinn tag with fans constantly singing his name, at least until fairly recently.

  17. With hindsight appointing Gerrard was a massive gamble. I am pretty sure any of us could manage Celtic or Rangers and win something.

    It's clearly not working and I doubt it ever will. We will lose the next two games but the manner of those defeats will define Gerrard's future.

    Put simply we don't do anything well now and that needs to change quickly. It's clear to me that he has lost the dressing room at least in part and they just don't believe in his philosophy and tactical decisions.

    We need an experienced PL manager who can get the best out of the players who are currently very short on confidence and self belief.

    Poch to me is the obvious choice or perhaps Rodgers who is clearly being shafted at Leicester.

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