Ratings & Reactions: Southampton v Villa

[terrytini]

I’m afraid the Coach needs to consider his position. 

We have to give teams in the bottom half a game, and recent trips here, Bournemouth, Brighton ( Fulham) and Watford have all been

(a) very poor and 

(b) identically so.

I have had, and have, no issue with getting beat, no issue with mistakes, no issue with inconsistency.

I can by and large accept pretty much all tactics, even when they are hard to fathom.

But we simply must get a level of desire, commitment, and hunger from the team every week, and if the Coach can’t bring that about - and I’m afraid it appears he can’t, we need someone who can.

There is another argument, tgat the players aren’t up to it. But I’ve seen enoughover the season to think they are.

 

[Davkaus]

Just now, nokesy said:

**** it, didn’t sack Smith In December and now we are Paying the price. Anyone who thinks we have a glimmer of hope of staying up must have started watching football yesterday 

That run against relegation rivals put the writing on the wall. The owners ignored it. 

[KHV]

If he was a real Villa fan he would walk

[John]

[Kingman]

[nick76]

2 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I didn’t think we would get anything from this but I didn’t think we’d lose so badly. The score flattered us. They should have won by a lot more.

That's the worst part.  We are supposed to be fighting for our lives and they look liked they were playing a preseason and were 3-0 up and just cruising.....it was a f@cking disgrace!

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

Oh yeah and burn every single one of them blue away kits. Never want to see one again

[jim]

A game where we had to come out fighting and we didn’t turn up. Again!

Smith our. Not up to the task.

[RobSpain]

We will finish 19th. Too many negative things to point out in that match. Try to have a good weekend Villans 

[Brumstopdogs]

If we had lost 4 or 5 nil it would have been been a fairer reflection on the game.

Absolutely terrible performance and the pressure has to be on Smith.

If the idea of playing 3 centre backs is to make us harder to beat it isn't working anymore and now we carry little attacking threat too!

[Vive_La_Villa]

No heart. No fight. No ability. No shape. No plan. No idea. 

That was a bad as it gets. Play like that next week and we could be looking at a record scoreline for a final.

[Xela]

Getting worse.

Too many poor signings in the summer. 

[Talldarkandransome]

Not voting, all sh1te. Glad I'm not going next week cos I fancy 8-0 to City.

Defo some internal issues, Jack telling AEG to get off the pitch and all I heard from Smith today was effing this and effing that. Miserable performance for a miserable day. 

[kiltorken]

That kind of performance just drains the hope, some of the passing today was horrendous. I'd take guilbert and Trez out for Elmo and anybody at the moment. 

[Jimzk5]

1 shot on target against the worst home team in the league

It isn't even surprising, we are a soft touch and have been for a decade. Nakamba and Luiz are weak as fish piss. So easy to play against.

[thunderball]

9 minutes ago, PaddytheVillan said:

We've been bad in several games this season, but always had a couple of good patches.

This game, we were utter garbage from the first minute to the last, and the second goal summed up the game. 

Norwich 20th, Villa 19th, come May. 

I think you are over estimating us

[TRO]

1 hour ago, NurembergVillan said:

At least we're not playing Man City at Wembley live on TV next.  That'd be embarrassing.

Give my tickets up.....I could see it coming from weeks back and I remember the arsenal pain.

Edited February 22, 2020 by TRO

[richp999]

 

No point in sacking Smith now, all we can do is get behind the team and hope we can snatch a few results. 

The most worrying thing about Smith is that he just can't seem to get the team going - I can't remember a second half where we've come out fighting after a rousing team talk. 

You might not have liked o'Neil but sometimes it seemed like we had a different set of players on the second half.. 

 

[Talldarkandransome]

4 minutes ago, KHV said:

If he was a real Villa fan he would walk

Summat is going on in the camp, i think he will walk

[villadude]

Piss poor, all my optimism has vanished, I think we’re going down.