Aston Villa v Southampton Thread - 1st Nov - 12 noon

[Dumble]

On this showing no chance of City coming back for Douglas. His worst game for ages

 

[eltoro]

I refer you to my Xmas/DS timeline in the DS thread - much more of this between now and Xmas and he's toast IMO.

I fucking hope so.

 

[Xchurch Villa]

How's the European bonus negotiations going lads?

 

[JW1985]

I'm glad I'm miserable enough that I never fully convinced myself that things had really changed that much. Fucking hell 3 nill down to Southampton at half time. Desperate stuff.

 

[Bonker]

Begin to see why he cost 2.5m

And why Buendia is worth 10x that.

 

[Tom Cat]

Really hope none of you were foolish enough to pay £15 for that.

I always will unfortunately. Care too much. Heart over head for sure

 

[Fulford]

Dean Smith is going to have to answer to a few things after this. Whatever game plan they did today is not working at all.

I can see our owners being fairly ruthless this season. A few more games like this and I think Smith will be on very thin ice.

Lets hope he organises something positive for the second half.

It will be another cut and paste interview after this.

 

[Villan57]

Southampton haven't had to work at all for their goals. 3 fouls around the box. They haven't been good, they just have a dead ball specialist and we can't defend free kicks.

I said the other week our team is to short in height at freekicks

 

[Thomas Holte]

Don't expect any major changes at half-time from our team manager because that's beyond him.

 

[Villan57]

looks like another long season

 

[Villan57]

Don't expect any major changes at half-time from our team manager because that's beyond him.

Have you seen the bench

 

[Fulford]

Traore is beginning to look exactly like I expected him to look.

 

[david-avfc]

Abysmal stuff. Really need to go back to the drawing board with the team selection and tactics 6 goals in two halves is quite clearly not right, especially after previously priding ourselves on being tough to score against

 

[danvilla2]

Radio saying McGinn marking their big men. We’ve always had McGinn on big men so that Mings can mark fresh air (haven’t seen the goal but I assume Mings was the free man)

 

[AV Dave]

Do we even do our homework on other teams, because the others seem to have sussed us out quick enough.

 

[Villan57]

May as well put Davis on and Watkins out wide take off Barkley

 

[overlookedvillan]

Gotta coach the shit out of set pieces. We're terrible at them, offensively and defensively. Southampton really haven't offered anything other than the dead ball. If this doesn't get sorted then we'll lose games before they even start, like today.

Couldn't think of a southampton player that's done well (dead balls apart of course). It's our own capitulation.

 

[Melon Donkey]

Sorry . If we keep picking up players from the championship we will never progress.

We were crying out for a sprinkle of proper, proven top flight experience.
And we sign a right back from forest and Brentfords centre forward .

This isnt a reactionary opinion. I said in the close season and last summer our recruitment is not right.

 

[ldgavfc]

Getting all the simple things so, so wrong. Corners, free kicks... Who is our Goalkeeping coach? Martinez has regressed so much, don't trust him to save a fucking thing.

 

[eltoro]

Dean Smith is going to have to answer to a few things after this. Whatever game plan they did today is not working at all.

I can see our owners being fairly ruthless this season. A few more games like this and I think Smith will be on very thin ice.

Lets hope he organises something positive for the second half.

A few more games? You don’t need anymore games, he wouldn’t be our manager but for Covid, he’s fucking clueless and I don’t give toss if he’s Villa or not.