osmark86 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 we are done as a football club. onwards into obscurity and infinite irrelevance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 We played like a team of Micah Richards, calamity stuff. Bunn, Grealish and Ayew the only ones who get any credit, the rest were poison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 (edited) If this doesn't make Tony and RDM appreciate the awful standard of the squad and the shattered glass mentality of the players then nothing will. Baker, Gardener, were loaned out for a reason Richards is just as garbage as he was last season, so is Hutton, Gestede, Westwood, Bacuna, Cissokho. Okore i had always rated, but on this display words fail me. If we continue to pretend that these muppets can be reformed then we will soon be relegated to league one. So far we have got rid off some dead wood but also sold some of our better players, which has reduced our midfield to the standard of our defence. Forget promotion we need to halt the slide first. Edited August 10, 2016 by VillanousOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted August 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2016 You can't buy a team character and this team lacks it in spades, tactics were predictable. Okore isn't anywhere near a championship players, he was hopeless tonight , the rest were nearly as crap I have watched under 12 play better football , sad day, time foe me to step back from it all for a month or two . UTV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 The worry for me about that performance is not just that we got ourselves humiliated on national television yet again, but that we don't have much time to put things right. We now have home games against two sides that will probably be towards the foot of the table. If we can't get results in those fixtures - and to be honest, you wouldn't bet on us - then we are in the position of losing games to relegation candidates at home, which doesn't lead anywhere good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Amazing stuff, I've watched a serious number of football games in my life but don't think I've ever seen a worse defensive performance than that second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 2 **** games is all it took to remove any optimism I had for this season. Thanks Aston Villa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slovenian Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 2 minutes ago, dounavilla said: 1st time in out history we have been knocked out in round1 . Those records continue to be broken . and we're not even there yet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 It'd be interesting to put up a game between fans of the club against this senior side. I wouldn't put it past the amateur fans winning it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaCas Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Gardner and Tschibola were awful. Tschibola doesn't look a starter to me and Gardner isn't good enough for the bench. Earlier in the week people were touting Green as the answer for us down the right - not on that showing. He's only a young lad so his time may come but he is not the answer at the moment. Grealish again failed to make any real impact We need about 6 new signings including a complete midfield to be anything like. It's fine clearing out all the deadwood but we need to see a few more coming in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Disgrace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaCas Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 6 minutes ago, Bunnski said: We played like a team of Micah Richards, calamity stuff. Bunn, Grealish and Ayew the only ones who get any credit, the rest were poison. Sorry but Grealish gets no 'credit' from me - I thought he was poor and did nothing to secure a place for the weekend. If he's half the player he supposed to be then he should be tearing league 2 sides a new one. Bang average going forward and nowhere when we don't have the ball 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaBrum Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 16 minutes ago, darrenm said: Big reaction required. Amavi 5 Grealish 4 Everyone else 1 Luton have 11 better players than us. I think that you are unfair on Dunn - 8. We could have lost by at least another 2 and he seemed to command his area well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NurembergVillan Posted August 10, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2016 8 minutes ago, Bunnski said: We played like a team of Micah Richards, calamity stuff. Bunn, Grealish and Ayew the only ones who get any credit, the rest were poison. I actually disagree with Ayew getting any credit. Our collapse coincided with him going from playing well to completely losing his head and being ineffective. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaBrum Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Just now, VillaBrum said: I think that you are unfair on Dunn - 8. We could have lost by at least another 2 and he seemed to command his area well. Sorry Bunn (Dunn would probably have scored 8/10 as well!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villafan306 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Ok, let's start with the positives: - Now that's out of the way onto my thoughts. Bunn had a decent game and made a fair few saves. He was left over exposed by a woeful defence especially in the second half. He does not inspire any confidence though, I think Gollini is most definitely first choice. The less said about the defence the better. Amavi was at fault for the first goal, Richards is a shell of himself from last season (which isn't saying a lot), Baker did ok in fairness but I feel he needs to experience of Elphick next to him, Okore should never wear a Villa shirt again and Hutton should not be allowed near a football again. Lots of energy from Green and Tshibola but they were not able to convert that to end product. Gardner reminded me of Westwood, so much so that I forgot he was on the pitch. Grealish looked confident on the ball and was probably our best player tonight (again, not saying a lot). Ayew showed that petulant streak again and was lucky not to be sent off. I've never quite understood the buzz around him, personally I would be happy to see the back of him if a bid was made. McCormack didn't offer much tonight either and I fear that he will struggle without any service. I thought he had been sent off but apparently Gestede came on? Shame he didn't bother turning up! A lot of work needs to be done still. I'm not quite sure why RDM put out some of the players who had such a big hand in last year's downfall but hopefully this has opened his eyes and Xia's chequebook. A big reaction is needed here otherwise we will be playing Luton in the league soon enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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troon_villan Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 RDM concentrating on the league. Very shrewd. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Yes Ayew was terrible. In fairness we had a lot of bad luck. Everything went Luton's way but we weren't clinical enough and made the same type of errors we kept making last season. Hopefully the confidence hasn't bee too dented because we played some wonderful stuff first 30 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 minute ago, PaulC said: Yes Ayew was terrible. In fairness we had a lot of bad luck. Everything went Luton's way but we weren't clinical enough and made the same type of errors we kept making last season. Hopefully the confidence hasn't bee too dented because we played some wonderful stuff first 30 minutes. in all fairness, there really isn't any confidence to dent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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