Ratings and Reactions: Norwich v Villa

[villakram]

Back to the pies for Steve, defend and play the percentages is a wonderful championship strategy. Truly compelling stuff.

[PompeyVillan]

Jaded and bereft of ideas. Careless with the ball and poor movement all around.

Midfield lightweight and unable to control any game let alone a challenging one like this. 

Elphick is a clogger, lacking defensive nous. Huttinho gave the ball away at every opportunity, Westwood is about as imposing as Ed Milliband. 

[PaulC]

I thought that was a pen at the end but we didn't deserve anything out of the game. No legs in midfield. I thought Bruce left it too late to make changes.

[blunther]

It's gonna be a long drive home for our lot. 

[Rodders]

unacceptably shit, so bad you have to have concerns over the manager. That's two awful games in a row, this time we weren't so lucky 3 games of shite if you include Leeds. **** me we were depressingly shit. 6 players in january please, and if we play like that too often a new fecking manager. 

[ermie123]

Kodga needs dropping as he does nothing, Elphic is calamity Jane and the midfield despite Jedinak are crap! 

[Villa87]

I can't describe how bad that was.

Thank **** I can't watch at the weekend!

[Rugeley Villa]

Shite. Best chance was right at the end where he should of buried it. 

[midian]

Not even voting nobody was MOTM absolutely S!!T wasnt a big Bruce fan and still not got it totally wrong Away from home again!

[Alakagom]

Just now, Davkaus said:

I don't know why I'm even slightly surprised that in great form, we stumble to one of the least in-form teams in the league. Classic Villa.

Don't think so. Last game we were equally awful but got  super lucky with flukey goal. We are crap. Simple as. 

[OutByEaster?]

No midfield = no control.

Too many forwards, not enough balance, disjointed, hapless, with no shape; we need three midfielders.

We can't fix it until January, there are five midfielders in the squad - Jedinak, Westwood, Gardner, Tshibola and Bacuna - if we want to go up, we need to replace at least three of them and we could probably do with adding to the numbers too. 

 

 

[jim]

Elphick needs to be dropped if Baker is available.

[ismail-villa]

We need a Baker back, and please don't start Gabby ever again. 

[dAVe80]

Terrible game of football. Why do we always save our worst performances for the Sky cameras? Bruce had a bad day at the office tonight, horrible selection with the starting line up, and I'm not entirely sure what the game plan was? Very poor. 

[trevor]

Awful, worrying thing is going forward we still don't look like a team, still look like a group of individuals. That the best chances came right at the end through hit and hope football is disgraceful. 

[handsworthvilla]

Gotta be worst performance of the season. Truly awful. Not a single chance. How is that even possible considering how many attacking players we have? 

Bruce is basically playing "hoof it and hope" away from home. Everything was hit in to pointless channels, no chance of creating anything.

[maqroll]

[imavillan]

[Richard]

Just like Saturday 

[Paddywhack]

And to think I could have spent the evening measuring my skirting boards.