Ratings & Reactions: Norwich v Villa

[Fab]

Massive result. 

Great day for the academy graduates.

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

We need to keep winning to catch up/keep pace with the front runners.

Cardiff and Ipswich etc have been very fast out the blocks.

Yes I know it's a marathon but we are a lap behind.

[foreveryoung]

11 minutes ago, One For The Road said:

Good win. No excuses for not kicking on now for Bruce. Confidence will surely be restored after that so let's see what happens next.

Excellent work from Davis and Hourihane. Hutton needs to go.

Bang on!!!

Put this at the top of the whole forum.

[Eastie]

Far far better , shows why hourihane should have been in an attacking midfield role - hopefully Davis will get a run even when gabby is fit and Bruce will finally dump hutton - we need to pit a run together now and kick on from here. 

Bruce has earned his kebab tonight .

[Eastie]

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

We need to keep winning to catch up/keep pace with the front runners.

Cardiff and Ipswich etc have been very fast out the blocks.

Yes I know it's a marathon but we are a lap behind.

Wouldn't worry about Cardiff and Ipswich .

[Demitri_C]

2 minutes ago, Eastie said:

Wouldn't worry about Cardiff and Ipswich .

Yeah I don't expect them to keep up the momentum espically ipswich. Cardiff may do well for play offs.

if we can get the team playing like that away from home we will go up without question. The away form is holding us back

[dounavilla]

9 minutes ago, Eastie said:

Wouldn't worry about Cardiff and Ipswich .

Many said the same about huddlesfield.

Really enjoyed that. Haven't said that about a Villa match in a looooooong while. 

WHERE have we been hiding Davis ? Great debut.

Would have liked O'Hare involved, hopefully gets a start on Tuesday.

[NottingVilla]

Good goal by Green.

Not excited by the rest of it Norwich could not be arsed which was beyond evident.

Can't really enjoy it as I think SB will live off it for a while which grates on me. 

 

[AntrimBlack]

5 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Yeah I don't expect them to keep up the momentum espically ipswich. Cardiff may do well for play offs.

if we can get the team playing like that away from home we will go up without question. The away form is holding us back

I have always thought that a team under pressure plays better away from home. I think they just need to be allowed to be more offensive like today.

[dounavilla]

1 minute ago, NottingVilla said:

Good goal by Green.

Not excited by the rest of it Norwich could not be arsed which was beyond evident.

Can't really enjoy it as I think SB will live off it for a while which grates on me. 

 

If you didn't enjoy that after what we have had to watch for god knows how long, the  my friend you should consider following Man city or Real Madrid.

[TheAuthority]

But we lost possession again 37% - 63% 

BRUCE OUT!

[turvontour]

Brilliant!

Getting into a scoring battle with the opposition, and out scoring them is what this division is all about. 

[Demitri_C]

Just now, TheAuthority said:

But we lost possession again 37% - 63% 

BRUCE OUT!

It's not the possession it's the fact Bruce plays defensive shit football and playing your best attacking midfielder as a holding midfielder 

[NottingVilla]

1 minute ago, TheAuthority said:

But we lost possession again 37% - 63% 

BRUCE OUT!

But we WONZ !!! Bruce in now OMGZ !!!1

[TheAuthority]

Just now, Demitri_C said:

It's not the possession it's the fact Bruce plays defensive shit football and playing your best attacking midfielder as a holding midfielder 

And plays Hutton. No surprise we looked far better going forward today without Agbonlahor in the team

[AntrimBlack]

A very good first half. Looked to me that they may have been told to contain Norwich at the break. Sat back too much again at the start of the second half. Nearly threw it away.

Positive signs, though. Hourihane and Davis were brilliant, Green also very good. Whelan and Lansbury also looked better when we played on the front foot. 

Hutton is awful - should not be playing. Bree made quite a difference when he came on. Terry is beginning to look rather dodgy.

Should have kept Davis on - when he went off the ball did not stick up front.

If Bruce keeps them playing like that he can get us up. If we get promoted I don't care who the manager is. So come on, Bruce, I will be happy to be wrong about you.

[OutByEaster?]

Oh hello!

All change today with the non-performances of the last two being completely turned around in favour of some not unattractive football. We're a bit Jekyll and Hyde, but the good news is that the reasons why aren't a mystery. Put simply; Keinan Davis.

I went to the reserves earlier in the week and made a point of how impressed I was with his ability to fight for balls, hold the ball up and bring people into play - I must admit, I didn't think he was physically ready to do that in the first team, but there he was today - getting his body between the ball and defenders, fighting for it, winning it and making it ours. 

What that does is allow our midfield to catch up with play and get forward. If you're Conor Hourihane and you play a ball up to Hogan or Kodjia then, four times out of five, your involvement in the attack is over. When you play the ball up to Davis, four times out of five you have the opportunity to get involved in the next phase of play. When you're Conor Hourihane, being involved in the next phase of play is very interesting. Both Hourihane and Lansbury today looked like attacking threats, they looked like they were getting forward and getting into positions where they could make things happen - they haven't changed position - it's Keinan Davis's ability to hold up play, to control games from the front that has got them there. All our midfielders looked better today and for me, a lot of that is down to Davis.

Now, whether this tactical masterstroke is down to Bruce having watched the reserves and thought "that might work" or whether he's spoken to the medical team and said "Are there any fit strikers?" doesn't really matter - he's found it, it works and it'll now become a matter of figuring out how often we can play the young lad and whether we can find anyone else who can do the job when he needs a rest. If the manager whose head I called for earlier in the week can figure that out, then two things are true - we'll win a lot more matches and Bruce can come round my house, write "Who the f*** are you?" on a piece of paper, roll it into a ball and make me eat it.

I thought at the back we looked susceptible to pace and once Norwich figured that out that caused us a fair bit of difficulty. I thought the midfield revelled in being allowed to be more involved and I think we looked like we had a reasonable shape. It'll be interesting to see what we change for Tuesday's cup game - but this feels a lot, lot better.

When did we last score four at home?

 

[SirSteveUK]

I think that KD was always going to start - and there is a rumor going around that SB & Gabs had a dust up  when Gabby foung out he would be on the bench

 

[SirSteveUK]

2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Oh hello!

All change today with the non-performances of the last two being completely turned around in favour of some not unattractive football. We're a bit Jekyll and Hyde, but the good news is that the reasons why aren't a mystery. Put simply; Keinan Davis.

I went to the reserves earlier in the week and made a point of how impressed I was with his ability to fight for balls, hold the ball up and bring people into play - I must admit, I didn't think he was physically ready to do that in the first team, but there he was today - getting his body between the ball and defenders, fighting for it, winning it and making it ours. 

What that does is allow our midfield to catch up with play and get forward. If you're Conor Hourihane and you play a ball up to Hogan or Kodjia then, four times out of five, your involvement in the attack is over. When you play the ball up to Davis, four times out of five you have the opportunity to get involved in the next phase of play. When you're Conor Hourihane, being involved in the next phase of play is very interesting. Both Hourihane and Lansbury today looked like attacking threats, they looked like they were getting forward and getting into positions where they could make things happen - they haven't changed position - it's Keinan Davis's ability to hold up play, to control games from the front that has got them there. All our midfielders looked better today and for me, a lot of that is down to Davis.

Now, whether this tactical masterstroke is down to Bruce having watched the reserves and thought "that might work" or whether he's spoken to the medical team and said "Are there any fit strikers?" doesn't really matter - he's found it, it works and it'll now become a matter of figuring out how often we can play the young lad and whether we can find anyone else who can do the job when he needs a rest. If the manager whose head I called for earlier in the week can figure that out, then two things are true - we'll win a lot more matches and Bruce can come round my house, write "Who the f*** are you?" on a piece of paper, roll it into a ball and make me eat it.

I thought at the back we looked susceptible to pace and once Norwich figured that out that caused us a fair bit of difficulty. I thought the midfield revelled in being allowed to be more involved and I think we looked like we had a reasonable shape. It'll be interesting to see what we change for Tuesday's cup game - but this feels a lot, lot better.

When did we last score four at home?

 

March 2014 I think v Norwich lol

 

[OutByEaster?]

21 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Now, whether this tactical masterstroke is down to Bruce having watched the reserves and thought "that might work" or whether he's spoken to the medical team and said "Are there any fit strikers?" doesn't really matter

Just seen Bruce's press conference and he said the main reason he put him in was his performance on Monday. Fair play to him.