Stratvillan

Smith has ballsed up, but jesus we can't pass the ball. They all like they've been on the lash. 

Why is the follow up allowed? The half was over.

1 hour ago, poitier said:

I'm not his biggest fan but he was very good today until he faded, might even say that was the best performance I have seen from him. Hope he can sustain that level.

Totally agree. Thought he was impressive today.

8 minutes ago, paul514 said:

Simple, we are moving to a model of small net spends or balanced spends for whatever reason.

Fans have no idea what the current and future funding of the club is at the moment after selling our best player and only spending that money and no more despite needing other players.

It's a privately owned club, so this transparency is unlikely to happen, they're not going to tell competitors what their spending plans are. 

We can't sign half a dozen players every window, and integrate youth. 

We've spent big (not net), money we don't spend today may well be there for future spends. 

1 minute ago, paul514 said:

 we suddenly have no negative net spend without a word from the club. WTF?? 

What would you have the club say?

They clearly feel that the right player isnt available at the right price. 

There's some really panicky views being expressed here. We have to move away way from signing players for the sake of it. Only sign if it's right and improves us in the long term. 

Not a great performance, but with so many players out it was always going to be disjointed. Glad to see the vast majority appreciated this in the post match manager voting.

6 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Not only can I see a loss. I can see a bad one where we can't get hold of the ball.

We're a long way from full strength.

If we play the same team as last week, that's not far from full strength. 

Mings was injured before the Newcastle game  he had a lot of strapping on his chest.

If there was a covid issue, I think that would have come out in press conference etc. 

It'll be interesting what allocation we recieve.

2 minutes ago, bcarpet said:

Do we know when the draw for the next round is? Also is it still split north & south?

Tomorrow night.

I think it's an open draw.

Just now, LondonVillian said:

18 sideways passes amazing stuff 

Pass through for el ghazi for the goal?

Very limited subs bench if things go wrong. 

3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

 

However, 99 percent sure we would have zero chance.

So you're saying there is a chance.

It's happening. 

Thanks for this thread, Hornso. It must take a lot of time but uts really informative.

Even if our youngsters aren't making the pitch as unused sub, it's much better experience being around a squad where if they impress they'll get a chance. Realistically none of the loanees, with the exception of Kessler would be anywhere near the 1st team at Villa this year. 

New season nerves I think.

Love some of the votes on the match thread!

Nervous game and atmosphere. Still a big cdm hole. 

Late on. Too late to do much I think. 

2 hours ago, commander said:

I disagree out of all that dross, he was - in my opinion - by far above the worst and I've seen Richard Walker, Jordan Bowery, Simon Dawkins and Michael Boulding.

So you're comparing an established prem league player with 4 players with a total of 35 appearances, and saying the established player is worse.

Ok.

Both.

On 27/07/2021 at 20:02, turnbull said:

The club sold its previous training ground on Trinity Road to King Edwards Grammar School in Aston, ironically my secondary school after leaving Kingsland. Doug Ellis purchased the land for Bodymoor Heath from a farmer in 1970. 

Never realised villa trained at KE Aston. I may have tried harder in PE lessons if I'd known!

5 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Need to grow a pair and drop either Ings or Watkins

Strange when they've never played together. 

1 hour ago, lexicon said:

Besides the goal, not up to much at all. This wasn't a good midfield we were up against and he really struggled. Ramsey looked twice the player when he came on IMo

Can't do any wrong in some people's eyes. I don't get it. 

Can't do right in some poeples eyes  I dont get it. 

1 hour ago, hippo said:

Jack's gone and we're nothing without him.

Cheer up. 

5 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Simply much better player than Nakamba in that position.

If we actually sign a DM this window then can push him a bit forward aswell.

Luiz isn't better than Nakamba as a cdm. He is a much  much better player pushed further forward though.