Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Preston

[limpid]

Your ratings and reactions please. Keep it respectful even if you know everyone else is wrong.

The players' names will be added to the poll when a mod gets chance.

[foreveryoung]

Not our best performance but I'll take that, not a bad team are Preston, even Wolves Struggled a draw against them

Edited February 20, 2018 by foreveryoung

[Fowlersrs]

Has it even finished yet lol

[Chewie]

With at least 4 minutes to go and the match thread closed, I’m gonna go ahead and say a 1-1 draw isn’t good enough at all. 

[smg]

Ok

[Eastie]

Poor team selection and very poor  performance from several players - not good enough from team and staff - sort it Bruce !

[jim]

Smash and Grabb

[Brumstopdogs]

Preston have only lost 6 out of 33 league games this season so tonight was always likely to be tough.

Without arguably our 3 best attacking players, Snoddy getting injured and Elmo not starting it didn't help our cause.

Saying that I think Bruce got the line up wrong and has to take a portion of the blame for not setting the team up attacking enough.

Regardless, we're still in the mix and did not lose. On to the next one!

Edited February 20, 2018 by Brumstopdogs

[NurembergVillan]

Horrible performance.  Awful referee didn't help.

One mitigating factor is that Preston are the dirtiest bastards I've seen all season.  You can see why they're up the table - they're so hard to play against because they chase everything that moves and kick the **** out of it when they catch up with it.

[Alakagom]

So much money spent on this team and yet the only real threats are Adomah and Grealish... 

[bojong]

Frustrating, but picking points from games like this is important.

Edited February 20, 2018 by bojong

[Vive_La_Villa]

Very poor performance but if you think about it. Our best players in 2018 in terms of goals and assists have been Grealish, Snodgrass, Adomah and Elmo. 

Really we missed all four of them today and it showed. We were second to every ball. Too many mistake. Couldn't handle the press. Very lucky to get a point. 

Grabban looked decent when he came on. 

Bruce was right to take Hourihane off as he was anonymous and even worse than Onomah even though many think he is the worst player in the team.

We need Grealish back badly. 

[Demitri_C]

We were so poor tonight how we left with anything it literally was a smash and grabb. 

We are struggling and struggling badly. We are going to lose a hell of a lot of games playing that poorly.

cardiff can go 5 ahead of us now, terrible

[sne]

Ref MOTM for us even thou he was a bit shit.

Flood light robbery that we got a goal and a draw.

Was all about batten down the hatches today apparently.

We go again

[Reivax_Villa]

I will take that result.

We need that international break to have that final push

[foreveryoung]

You ain't gonna walk over Preston, would have been risky having Grealish in the team, he would have been kicked all over the place if not worst.

[Vive_La_Villa]

Just now, Demitri_C said:

We were so poor tonight how we left with anything it literally was a smash and grabb. 

We are struggling and struggling badly. We are going to lose a hell of a lot of games playing that poorly.

cardiff can go 5 ahead of us now, terrible

4 points ahead. 

[VILLAMARV]

I'll take that. Always going to draw a couple somewhere.

Got to get back to winning ways though. Weds, QPR and Sunderland up before Wolves.

And some of the front 4 being fit would be nice

[Rugeley Villa]

Disappointing, but Preston are a tough nut to crack lately. At least we picked up something, and we seem to have some more winnable games coming up. Keep the faith. 

[mikeyjavfc]

Bad performance, good point. I am not worried yet assuming Jack’s injury is not serious. If it is and he will miss more games then god help us.