Match Thread: Shrewsbury Town v Aston Villa, 3PM 15 July

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Aston Villa are continuing to show all of our pre season friendlies live on the interweb this summer, so next up we have Shrewsbury Town.


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After the two opening friendly games midweek, the two squads join together for selection.

Will John Terry play?....Will Green start after his impressive display? .... Plenty for Steve Bruce to ponder over.

The away view.... https://www.shrewsburytown.com/matches/fixtures/first-team/2017182/july/shrewsbury-town-v-aston-villa/

Ticket news.... Tickets will not be sold at the New Meadow, so those will without tickets will be left disappointed should they travel to the game

Tickets for our away game with Shrewsbury Town go on sale this Wednesday.

The pre-season friendly takes place at Greenhous Meadow on Saturday July 15, with a 3pm kick-off.

We have a full allocation of 3,760 tickets and prices are £10 (adults), £5 (O65s and U18s) and free for U8s (not available online).

Please also note that Shrewsbury Town will not be selling tickets on the day of the game.

There are nine wheelchair bays – prices are as above with a free personal assistant.

These are available by calling the Ticket Office on 0333 323 1874.

On Wednesday June 28 at 5pm they are on sale to 2017/18 season ticket holders online via our box office or on Thursday June 29 on the phone or in person.

On Thursday June 29 at 5pm they are on sale to Villa Cash members online via our box office or on Friday June 30 on the phone or in person.

On Friday June 30 at 5pm there are on general sale online via our box office or on Monday July 3 on the phone or in person.

The deadline for sales for this fixture is 10am on Friday July 14.

After this period, it will not be possible to purchase tickets from Villa Park.

The deadline for refunds is Thursday July 13 at 5pm.

Only tickets purchased before 3.30pm on Thursday July 13 will be posted to supporters. All tickets purchased after this deadline will be available for collection only from Villa Park.

To buy, visit us in person, call 0333 323 1874 or buy online from our ONLINE BOX OFFICE.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2017/06/27/pre-season-shrewsbury-walsall-cup-of-traditions

Travel Information

Trains run from Birmingham New Street to Shrewsbury Central on a regular basis, with the journey taking about an hour.

The train station is located around a 45 minute walk from the New Meadow Stadium.

The 8, 21, 26 and 27 bus routes will take fans closer to the stadium.

According to AA Route planner, the New Meadow is 45.3 miles (51 minutes) away from Villa Park.

Directions and car parking information is available at www.footballgroundguide.com..... http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/shrewsbury-town-vs-aston-villa-13328392



Thoughts here folks
:35: :94:
 
The result isn't that important at this stage of the pre-season but the same old mistakes, lack of creativity and lack of cohesion were highlighted yet again and Hull is only 3 weeks away!?

 
I know, I know, 'It's pre-season so take it with a pinch of salt'. Except the indicators are there to see. Barely half the team for the first hour were playing with any confidence. No, it's not confidence it's 'lack of fear'.
If it's true that Sunderland want McCormack then sell him pronto because he has no fitness and no control at all.
Terry and Chester were fine; Hutton and Taylor also. Hourihane anonymous, Veretout tried but achieved little, same with Bjarnasson. Green was largely ineffectual. Hogan could be fine but was given no service, McCormack is a liability.
We could do better and will do better when Kodjia and Jedinak are back and they all have more match-time under their belts but that won't solve the problem of some players playing like they're frightened shitless all the time.
 
Bruce would never play that system we employed in the league after the subs came on, so why do it today? It looked like 2-6-2. :21: Before that we looked cohesive but once again we were lacking the final pass. I thought even before they scored they had better chances than we did. McCormack looked much better than Wednesday and made some decent runs which nobody seemed to see.
 
Just back - what an utterly appalling waste of an afternoon. How to dampen enthusiasm in the space of 90 minutes or what.

Things I learnt :-

Terry is so head and shoulders above anybody else it is quite shocking, and also very sad - do you remember the times when we used to have the likes of John Terry in their prime, and we had mybae 6 or 7 at that level ? - he must think it is like a dad playing with his 6 yr old kids.

McCormack - is quite frankly a waste of a squad number. Fat, lazy and either he has lost whatever he had, or he just can't be bothered to show it.

Hogan - Just don't get him at all. Doesn't seem to anything to be honest.

Green - Apart from Terry, the other ray of hope. Not wonderful, but he is direct and when he has the ball, it gets you out of semi-conciousness.

Hutton - 100%er again, don't get why people want him gone.

Veretout - Just look at McCormack - dreadful.

Chester - him and Terry will be great.

Taylor - not great today to be honest, but I know he will be fine

Amavi - yet another game, yet more mistakes , his mistake lead to the corner, his lack of marking lead to the goal.

The rest - meh.


Yes, its only a pre season friendly, and really counts for nothing, but still, 9 months and a pre-season in, I still cannot fathom how we are supposed to be playing - we have no system, we have no method , it seems to be make it up as we go - thats the bit that worries me rather than players.

I fully expect it to be a hell of a lot better with Jedinak, Adomah, Kodjia and a few others, but who-ever on that pitch should be playing to a plan - and from what I can see , we are not,

I expect MUCH better, friendly or not !
 
As said before, Terry and Chester look to have the makings of a very good partnership.
Green looks positive and direct and has the pace lacking in the rest of the squad.
That midfield wants looking at. Nobody goes past an opposition player.
Still, early days I suppose.
 
It's a pre season friendly I know but you expect to see some shape or pattern but apart fron 10 minutes or so in the first half there wasn't much on show.

We desperately need a midfield wizard , someone who can get there head up and spot the runs that Hogan makes for instance. , because if we don't Hogan won't be scoring. As the other night Hogan must have made 3-4 good runs peeeling off the shoulder of the last man only for the ball to be played square or backwards.

A few looked a bit rusty to me namely Taylor , Terry and Thor.

Also it might sound a bit churlish but if Terry wins a header is there any need for the fans to have orgasms about it ? I am chuffed that we have got him but there surely is no need to clap every time he touches the ball.
 
Oops. Not in the plan!.

But, as I have not watched/been any where near the game as I have been on the piss.

Chill, pre season, means Jack.

We will win the league

Boom

:94:
 
Same old crap from what I saw of the stream - hoof ball, failed attempts at forward passes, keepers distribution crap, they won so many headers and tackles. What I saw was diabolical, pathetic. Terry must be in shock.
 
Melon Donkey - 15/7/2017 20:37

Oops. Not in the plan!.

But, as I have not watched/been any where near the game as I have been on the piss.

Chill, pre season, means Jack.

We will win the league

Boom

:94:
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Melon me old Donkey, playing as we did today, even in the first half, we wouldn't come anywhere near winning the local Sunday morning pub league.

If a change is to be made, it should be made at halftime and should be a change of formation only.
 
Aston Villa headed to the Greenhous Meadow on Saturday for our third pre season friendly of the summer and sadly went down two one on the day.


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I watched it on the you tube stream. Just like last season, no creativity, no plan, no tactics.

I know it was a pre-season friendly but ffs it was like watching the worst of last season and people think Bruce will be better with a pre-season.

 
We're still hopeless in the final third. We can never construct any kind of a move up front.

Kodjia seems to make all of his goals, the rest are from set-pieces or crosses. Never a 4 or 5 pass move around the box.

You see lesser teams do it the whole time.

 
From Bruce's point of view, he couldn't stick all of his best players on for the first half because he needed some to bolster the team when he made his masss substitutions in the second. Having said that, it was only Shrewsbury we were playing after all, who to give them credit were well organised and positive. Too positive, maybe; the ref should have waved a few cards. One thing to remember; this was a small pitch, which doesn't really suit us, and made it easier for Shrewsbury to defend.

Impressions. There was a lot OK with the first half. The defence looked untroubled. We played quite a high line with confidence, something we didn't do last season. We played a lot of one touch football. Some good training has gone on.

Hutton and Green combined well down the right, and overcame some of the restrictions of the narrow pitch; Green managed to get the odd decent cross in. And most of those on the pitch were playing well. But, we still didn't have any bite up front, and our build-up play in the middle of the pitch in the final two thirds invariably broke down. Poor performances; McCormack is still overweight and too slow, Hourihane was anonymous. And while both Veretout and Hogan tried, they weren't great.

When the great change came on 60 minutes, it disrupted the organisation of the team, fatally. Think by that time Bruce was probably only thinking of looking at individuals anyway. Actually, some of the ones who came on did OK. Lansbury was an improvement, Gabby and Davis were lively, Gardner at least hit the post, Lyden created our goal. Didn't see much of Bree or Tshibola. Amavi was very, very, poor and Richards just isn't good enough.

Take the first half team, swap Hourihane for Lansbury, Gabby for McCormack, maybe Lyden for Veretout, and we'd be going in the right direction. Still not convinced we'd create enough in the middle, but the right direction. I liked the fact that the defence looked solid, played higher up, and didn't rely on the midfield for protection. Grealish will be back soon and Jedi and Kodj in due course which will give more options.
 
Only saw bits but we give the ball away so easily it's embarrassing. Richards , gabby , gardner , mcbigmack and fries , amavi I don't want to be here , veretout neither do I. Not worth a pot of piss and still around the squad. I know it's pretty season but we've seen this shit to many times. John Terry is worth every penny .
Gabby and richards will kill us if they are in our first team squad because they are both shit, one can't score and the other can't defend.
God help us , again!
 
Sure I only watched the stream [well not all of it cos I got so bored and depressed] but I saw the 15 mins up to the mass subs and organisation is not a word I would use to describe Villa. You could view such changes in a couple of ways - the manager wanting to see what he has got [well its the same as he has always had plus JT & minus the only bloke who scores], or he is just pissing in the wind. Why is it still so difficult to pass the ball to a bloke wearing the same kit.
 
Which says it all really ... put Gabby in ahead of £24m .... 12 goals in the last 4 seasons. Put him in? He should be a million light years away.
 
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