ozvilla28 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 5 hours ago, Enda said: There’s still a third of the season left. Plenty, plenty of opportunities to get a few results. There is tho no convinced under Smith bad sign yesterday effort wasn't there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 The mentality was worrying. Thought we were only signing players with the right mentality? Its as if we see the other side press us and look more up for it, decide we dont feel like matching it and down tools. Happens in away games all the time. El Ghazi was the epitome of this. As bad as Drinkwater has been, our midfield still looked better with him and Douglas than it does Douglas and Marvelous. Have to muster up some big home performances, its the only hope I have now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 10 hours ago, Phil Silvers said: Cant put enough emphasis on that Spurs late goal, I think its absolutely knocked the guts right out of em, piss poor that though for professional players. You're right. The game went from "an encouraging good performance point from a good team" into "everything is against us, we'll never win anything any more". It would be tough for a mentally strong team, let alone a fragile Villa team that is on the brink of disaster every game. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 1 hour ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: The mentality was worrying. Thought we were only signing players with the right mentality? The mentality on the pitch often comes from the manager though. There's a reason Jose's teams always have that edge and bit of nastiness to them, there's a reason Arsenal players always bottled it at season's end and lacked accountability, Fergie's teams always scored late, etc. I think Smith would be fine for us if we were a midtable kind of side, but I just honestly don't think he has the mental strength for a relegation battle. He rode Greallish quite a lot to the playoffs, but his football is far too open for the PL. You'd hope for some kind of adjustments after 70% of the season, but it just hasn't happened yet and that is absolutely terrifying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Only glimmer of hope I can think of is that we've been on bad runs previously under Smith and managed to turn things around, if we can somehow get back to the form we showed previous to the Bournemouth game it might give us a chance, but even if we manage that it will still be tough as I think we have by far the hardest run-in of any of the relegation threatened sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 You just know Watford are going to beat Man Utd today. We've ridden our luck way too long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Both West Ham and Watford play three league games before our next league game against Leicester, West Ham play Liverpool away, Southampton at home, and then Arsenal away, and Watford play Man Utd away, Liverpool at home and Crystal Palace away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 3 hours ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: The mentality was worrying. Thought we were only signing players with the right mentality? This is a catch 22, i feel for a long time, with us, the "Right mentality" has been signing " A nice bunch of lads". Yes, it is important to have good characters in the dressing room, but I feel it has also lead to us having a team of "nice" guys who can;t stomach a FIGHT on the pitch! I'd much rather a guy who ruffles a few feathers but is blood and thunder on the pitch if i'm honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 What's the reason that the Manure and Wolves games today are not on the telly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 17 minutes ago, sne said: What's the reason that the Manure and Wolves games today are not on the telly? Moved to Sunday for Europa League. Arsenal is the TV game today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 United score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 Watford and Norwich both losing. So far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Good good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, osmark86 said: Good good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 23, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2020 Problem is you can't see where we are going to get points from. All 3 aren't going to lose every week till the end of the season. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, sidcow said: Problem is you can't see where we are going to get points from. All 3 aren't going to lose every week till the end of the season. Indeed. But hell it just has to happen. Maybe that good SJM feeling will boost the morale. I hope the reaction after ydays shitshow galvanizes the team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Still 17th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 The quality of the league is so heinous this year we might actually stay up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Just forget about Newcastle, Brighton and Bournemouth. It's a 4 horse race this. I hope Newcastle are safe when we play them. Should be a free win when their at the beach. Same goes with Palace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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