MaVilla Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 i think i can openly say we have been really poor for half of the season now, our last 14 games is 15th to 17th level form......terrible. Draw at Newcastle, loss to sheffield...... the last 14 games we have averaged 1.14 points a game........that over a season is 43/44 points...........we have been terrible for literally the entire last half of the season! We are bloody lucky we had such an amazing start to the season. A number of our players are just not good enough, regardless of the rose tinted glasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 St James Park has been one of our worst grounds to visit. No win since 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Just now, DCJonah said: When Traore went off, we basically had last seasons team. That's 3 important players missing, combined with others being out of form. Watkins , Martinez, Sanson, ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbcuk Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I’m just glad we got off to a good start, as we just don’t look like winning in this current form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Just now, MaVilla said: We are bloody lucky we had such an amazing start to the season. Don’t think it was luck, we were that good and deserving of the start we had. No denying we have gone backwards though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 He’s bringing out the schizophrenic nature in me as a footie fan as I loved him a couple of weeks ago ... Now I’m getting back to where I was with him last season - frustrated and questioning. Does Jack’s singlehanded ability mask Smith's deficiencies as a top level coach & is he holding us back? It’s a massive overreaction to a bitter blow... Win the next two and I’ll love him once more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 minute ago, hippo said: Watkins , Martinez, Sanson, ??? Sanson came on 2nd half and is still new to the club. The majority of the starting line up was last season. We had trez and el ghazi both on. When does that happen? Elmo still at rb and no attacking options on the bench. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Just now, DCJonah said: Sanson came on 2nd half and is still new to the club. The majority of the starting line up was last season. We had trez and el ghazi both on. When does that happen? Elmo still at rb and no attacking options on the bench. He's been here for more than 2 **** months. At some point we have to do away with the "he's still new" excuse. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Our players look mentally tired. You could argue since post lockdown they've been very good and solid. It's taken a huge mental effort. Since the Covid outbreak we've looked uninventive and uninspiring. Even with Jack Grealish playing we've struggled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 If Cash wasn't ready to play why was he on the bench, from the guy who prefers players 'playing their way to fitness' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Well you can always trust AVFC to make me angry about football. Never fails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 We're finished for the year, gone lazy and sloppy Typical mid table nothing to play for team And that's not factoring in whatever corona did to us and us missing Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, VillanousOne said: If Cash wasn't ready to play why was he on the bench, from the guy who prefers players 'playing their way to fitness' Because who else is there? Who from our squad who isn't over 21 was actually missing today? Cash was a precaution, fit enough to play if desperate, engelsnproabbky the same The squad is looking thin and poor right now 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 9 minutes ago, DCJonah said: When Traore went off, we basically had last seasons team. That's 3 important players missing, combined with others being out of form. Goes back to our lack of depth again which I hope we can partly fix in the summer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, Zatman said: St James Park has been one of our worst grounds to visit. No win since 2005 Thank god for that, an here's me thinking we were just shite. On a serious note though, Smith needs to get these guys performing. McGinn, poor, Luiz, poor, Watkins an off game, Ming's off game, an what does Ramsey really offer apart from a bit of fitness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DCJonah Posted March 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2021 I genuinely don't get all the concern and anger. We aren't going down. For the first time in over a decade we can just relax without our season being on the line going into the end of the season. That's huge IMO. We're a midtable team and our owners are going to invest again in the summer. This is all part of our journey back to the big time. Its going to take more than 2 seasons. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Just now, DCJonah said: I genuinely don't get all the concern and anger. We aren't going down. For the first time in over a decade we can just relax without our season being on the line going into the end of the season. That's huge IMO. We're a midtable team and our owners are going to invest again in the summer. This is all part of our journey back to the big time. Its going to take more than 2 seasons. I'm happy with our position, it's the performances I think a lot are angry about. I know we're already safe but we've just been woeful lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Just now, DCJonah said: I genuinely don't get all the concern and anger. We aren't going down. For the first time in over a decade we can just relax without our season being on the line going into the end of the season. That's huge IMO. We're a midtable team and our owners are going to invest again in the summer. This is all part of our journey back to the big time. Its going to take more than 2 seasons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackbauer24 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Losing faith. It's like the kid who has the best Top Trump card who just keeps winning. The second they lose that card you realise they don't even know how to play. You can't be THAT much of a one man team, especially after the summer spending spree. Line ups are poor, midfield is confused, tactics are none existent, substitutions are predictable and there seems to be no understanding of how the opposition play differs from team to team. Thank you but you, like Mings and McGinn, have reached your ceiling. We need some proper quality now. You cant just have plan A being "let Grealish run the game" and no plan B. Change at the end of the season if we have any ambition. No room for sentimentality unfortunately. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, villa4europe said: We're finished for the year, gone lazy and sloppy Typical mid table nothing to play for team Tbf. We are within 1-5 points from European football with 10 matches left and our best player coming back. You'd have to be French to say we're finished for the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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