Harry

Much as I like him I’m not sure he is a PL player.

Waste of the loan fee. At least now we can look at better options.

Thread can now be locked....yay!

But what about all the decisions that went against us.

The worrying bit is where the tattoo will be

Much too late sadly

It would have helped had McGinn not gorged on Pukka Pies as part of his recovery regime.

I don’t think that is what I said. My comments about DS were about his management of the team and the squad as a whole. Given how awful the three of them are at the moment many fans would heave a sigh of relief if we gave players who might actually play a bit better and try a bit harder a chance.

Mings just typifies the problems at the club. A good player who is going backwards. At the moment he would struggle in the Championship. He was poor tonight as he has been for many many games this season.

Gave up watching at half time as I could guess the script. No way do we ever come back from two down. I simply cannot believe how much space we gave them nor the shocking performance from Mings who reminds me of Micah Richards at his worst, a lumbering HGV. Grealish is utter gash at the moment. He has for far too long got way with being ‘one of our own’. I can’t decide whether our attack is just plain awful or just gets poor service, probably both. To be honest I could count the players who deserved to wear the shirt tonight on one hand and have fingers spare. Much as I like Deano the sad conclusion has to be he is out of his depth. I get the principle that the squad is not good enough, we simply could not buy enough talent with the money we could spend.There is some potential there but it’s not possible to allow it to develop sufficiently given the pressure of the PL. Having said that the players have no bottle, no fight and fail to even do the basics properly. That’s the responsibility of the manager. Just like Grealish Deano has traded for too long on being a Villa fan. Funnily enough he could probably get us back up but sadly we have to look to the longer term and make the change at the end of the season.

Poch or Rafa? Any suggested alternative to Smith needs to be realistic and gettable. So it looks like Big Sam then. a

Why could he not get us back up? I am fascinated by all the revisionist history on this thread recently which you could sum up as Smith has always been a poor manger who has no been found out. For the record I am not saying that we should not sack him, who’s next is what concerns me.

And your gettable dream replacement is.........

Just to be clear you are saying he fluked promotion last season and has always been a poor manager who has now been found out in the PL? He gets no credit last season for the ‘ridiculous run of form’ or for ‘scraping through the playoffs’?

So that prompts the ‘who then’ question either right now or next season which tends to generate totally unrealistic suggestions.

Just posted this on Twitter: The question is do we sack Smith now accepting that he seems totally out of his depth in the PL and we are performing worse than the capability of the team. There is a slim chance a new manager could save us BUT if we are relegated Smith would be the best shout to get us up #avfc

Love Mings to bits but sadly he is not a PL player. He looks totally out of his depth.

In the reverse fixture at the start of the season I said that Bournemouth were one of the dirtiest sides i'd seen for a while so we should have known what to expect and adjust accordingly.

Absolute beast with the speed and turning circle of a supertanker.

Top pro who worked so hard for us. I wish him well.

Exactly...the various Villa groups on Facebook are populated by complete to***rs who abuse anyone who does not share their warped views ( thank heaven for moderators ). Given their self evident lack of knowledge he will probably be a star of us.

Deeney, Deeney what’s the score

I was nobody.....thankfully

Please stop