I watched this, but actually managed to miss our goal and the highlights of it, somehow; go figure.
Either way, it doesn’t matter.
Why we started with Samba in a back three against a well known lively Bristol attack, is totally beyond me and you have to call Bruce’s tatcics out here.
The disaster was corrected after about 20 mins, but it put us on the back foot from the off.
The simple question is, who looked the better side today?
It wasn’t us, by a long chalk, in my opinion and while we came back into it later on, we never deserved to win that game.
And While Bristol won’t be challenging for the league title, on that showing, they’ll finish higher than us.
And that isn’t good enough!
They had shape and more importantly, a plan.
Whereas we seemed devoid.
Big shout out to those who were there, as they deserved a lot better than what they got.
Shocking performance, but I wonder how some of us will try and spin this???
Not going to spin it Badger – Cardiff was a shocking performance – this one was OK as showed improvement away from home.
Of course there is room for improvement – there always is.
http://www.nowsports1.com/2017/08/25/video-onomah-goal-bristol-1-1-aston-villa/
See what I mean by ‘mind games’ …..fecking sad!
Never had time to post when we scored 4 in consecutive games. Now it’s almost instant! Again guys, you work it out!
And BTW, we didn’t lose as it would have appeared even quicker if we had!…..reverse psychology at its worst ……shame on you!
Langford, I post what I see, when I get a chance.
If you think I have some agenda, that’s fair enough.
But I don’t, trust me.
I just don’t wear the same tinted glasses as you.
And most importantly, if you think anything you say is going to influence my opinion, you’re sadly mistaken.
I think you’re ridiculously over optimistic, but hey, I’ll live with it.
In the meantime, please stop calling me out as overly negative.
Like I said, I say what I see, mate.
It’s as simple as that.
Exactly the repky I expected….more ‘anti Villa’ ….so sad!
good post badger
how many saves had bristol keeper to make,
langford you do write some crap at least you dont have we wont be relegated anymore
JV – both sides had the same number of shots – Bristol had a massive one more on target 5 to Villa’s 4.
Hope that answers your question.
Was an even game, 1 point is better than 0.. previously going behind was game over but we seem to have some fight in us now. Its certaintly not all doom and gloom! Were not going to win every game so get over it.
We are already too far behind for top 2 with just ( games gone which is a disgrace in my book. Draws are useless for us
No were not too far behind.. no club will steam roll this league this year clubs like cardiff will drop points.
I’ve taken the mutt for a stroll and mulled it over.
We were shit, simple, imo.
If we can’t take the likes of Bristol, we have absolutely no chance of challenging; it’s as simple as that.
Early days or not, we simply have to get cynical and effective, quickly,
hope you didnt kick the poor dog
As in the classic story. A man says his dog is so intelligent he barks when our team score, the right number of barks to match the goal tally. “What does he do when the oppos score?” “Somersaults”. “Matching the tally?” “No – depends how high I kick him.”
Ha ha IV not heard that one lol
Agree Badger
From the mouth of Bruce after the game…
“If you approach the Championship like we’ve just witnessed tonight, sort of half-hearted, and not really showing the energy or the desire to make a fist of it, no matter what sort of player you think you are then you’re not going to achieve anything in the Championship.”
“We’ve got to make sure we improve, especially away from home, but I think on the night the draw was probably a fair result. At least there’s improvement from the previous two, which wouldn’t be difficult, if I’m being very honest. They stuck at it and there was a response from when we went behind, from an awful goal.”
It was also nice to hear him praise the hardest workers of the squad…
“I’ve brought in some experience and the young ones are the ones who have particularly impressed me and they’re going to be the future and I think the way forward.”
A draw away to Bristol is a good result, sorry to say people we need to lower or expectations, we will not get promoted any season soon, so expect mid to higher table with a few exciting cup games….. We just aint the big club we think we are anymore !!!
Agreed Saddened.
As it happens their goal should have been disallowed for offside. If you watch the replay their cf was standing in an offside position in centre of goal and interfered with play which allowed the ball to run to Patterdon who scored – and no I’m not making excuses just calling it as I see it.
where do I start lol well first I am upset we didn’t win I lost a tenner on a treble villa hull and Cardiff. but that’s life. change in formation its the manager decision, he thought he needed to change and it didn’t work he changed it back. last season Chelsea walked the premier with that formation. so its not the formation fault it didn’t work for villa.
of our game, I thought it was a good even battle, Bristol started better but villa were the better team after the break. should we be winning these games ?? no team has the divine right. we signed a decent player in Snodgrass. our squad built under bruce is sadly better than our squads under last few managers.
our away form is a concern. we have a break now, which will be welcomed more work for the players remaining and maybe some injuries will clear up. I still think we will be top two come the end. once we start winning, we are going to be hard to stop. its just a matter of how long it takes to start. I did see villa start to play with a swagger second half, when they where going for the win. finally Bristol are a decent championship team. I think they will beat most at their ground.
Good balanced post Nath.
We lost 3 – 1 here last season and were awful after going 1-0 up after 5 minutes.
The Championship is aggressive football played at a 100 miles an hour. It took Jedinak time to adjust and it will take Whelan et al time as well. I thought second half we played pretty well.
It’s all very well being disappointed at not winning but I do think there are some over reactions (negative) to last night’s game.
There is so much negativity that any positives such as Davis who lead the line well and held the ball up nicely and the fact that we had three 19 year olds playing (when Bree came on) – something fans have been asking for – are being completely ignored.
It’s all very well and too easy to criticise Bruce and the team and completely ignore any other aspects of the game because we didn’t win.
So if you think I’m over optimistic – well so be it – rather a happy clapper than be a miserable moaner.
Morning lads, well I travelled up from Cornwall as the match was being played and just read the posts, thanks Villaaway for being able to see both goals and have to say great goal from us but a scrappy goal off them, have to agree with Badger its not good enough and why did he play Samba knowingly he’s unproven and clumsy in challenges in a defensive game, ok a point away but on that showing not Championship progressive winning team, I think Bruce is trying to be fair to his players and not understanding who can and who cannot give 100% in the game, we need to take every game to them, not to us we are a team with skill in players but some are not saying to themselves I’m better than that player and showing he is. Undecided if we will go up yet.
Brucey ain’t going anywhere soon so sorry to piss on the party 🎉 since he had 3 games to prove himself 2 wins & a draw scored 9 goals, still fucking not happy jog fucking on we’ve had a tough opening fixture list, whinge like fuck if we’re losing up till Christmas I’ll probably join you. UTV
Giddy…hope your having a good time and enjoying the wonderful German ale.
Negative shit on here is pathetic, so fecking sad!
BTW…..BWS, is claiming that I am influencing your positivity lol 🙂
Have great time mate and see you in rehab 🙂
Enjoying it mate until I came on here 😁 in Berlin atm good reception so making the most, I’ve replied to BWSs comments. Fucking strong this German froth loving it. Hopefully back on here when some on here has finished with the samaritans.
Plankford aka sad sack motherfucker, the postcode for VP b6 6he.
Let me know when you’re going to use it anytime soon, I’d love to have a meet up with you good self.
Ask badger for my email if you’d like to contact me directly.
Be hearing from you.
Bws xxx.
Lol….so fecking funny. Crawl bak into your skip you cock sucking. Bluenose cretin!
And that’s all you’ve got wankford?
Told you contact me badger can furnish you with details.
Look forward to hearing from.
Bws xxx.
Giddy, that’s not a whinge its a fact mate, if we don’t go on a pitch to kill the opposition then we can piss into the wind all you want and get nowhere, i cannot comment on this game but only read other posts ,Badger my have set the seal on how he sore things but if I see a little bit farther than my nose and can see that its not 100% from a player or players I dont hide the fact. Yes its early days and I hope what he has said yesterday gets into their heads fans care, well I do I’ve spent enough to have that respect.
Bill that wasn’t a reply to you but what I think about this whingeing mate
Sorry mate, I’m still trying to catch up on posts, it followed mine and I got the wrong train of thought, you get that beer down you and enjoy the holidays at least you’ve worked hard for it. Me have to start doing a dry one now start work again next week minding grandchildren. No rest for the wicked. Utv
Bill…welcome home. Hope you had a great time 🙂
Cheers Langford,
Got to dry out now, yes think the camp site was glad to get rid of me, no bloody wif though found it hard to get Tuesday’s results but when I did holidays got better. UTV.
Groveling prick.
So I’ve read most of the media reports…..ALL of them say we deserved the result and that we are pulling together away from home. Morover, our owner has acknowledged the recent imorovements…..2 wins and a draw inside 7 days (thats terrible according to some on here)…..take a bow Badger, oohah, BWS and JV,
So fecking sad that we have a few ‘anti Villa’, ‘mind game playing’ negative attention seeking peeps on here!
UTV
Seeking attention?
Lmao.
If anyone one ever that posted so much as a sentence on this site was a look at me! look at me! Self important attention seeking twat that person was most definitely YOU!
Lol….your so , so funny!
Crawl back into your skip….you crawling little bluenise, attention seeking, inbred moron lol
I think that’s the biggest challenge that I’ve faced in my managerial career really.
The club, after getting relegated, had a horrible atmosphere to it and all of the lads who were in the club basically lost half their salary.
So as soon as I walked into the club there were a lot of miserable faces for a start.
And if you approach the Championship sort of half hearted and not really showing the energy or the desire to make a fist of it, no matter what a good player you think you are you’re not going to be able to achieve anything in the Championship.
So I think it was important that most of those players moved on and we moved to a new era if you like.
I’ve bought in some experience and the young ones are the ones who have particularly impressed me just lately. That’s going to be the future and the way forward.
That’s a comment made from our Bruce and hes well aware of the needs.
Bill – welcome back mate. It was an excellent interview with Bruce last night and quite revealing
Fuckoff you one eyed west country six fingered inbred nonce.
Lol….skip living, bluenose, inbred moron …lol
Yaaawwwnnn.
Yaaaaaaaawn….my yawn is bigger than your yawn lol!
Attention seeking, cock sucking, bluenose, clhamydia ridden, inbred ‘anti Villa’ skip living whorebag…..lucky you caught me in a generous mood lol 🙂
Caught you in a generous mood?
Fuck me I’m quaking in my boots, I won’t sleep tonight!
You are a proper geezer ain’t you wankford?
‘Lol?’ What sorta twat laughs at their own jokes? Tells me all I need to know.
Lol….just lol
Give me a kiss BWS and I might forgive you!
Lol, just lol
I retract all above my previous comments as the penny’s just dropped Langford obviously suffers with some sort of mental health issues.
Sorry langy, you ok mate?
Love you Bill, always have and always will 🙂
Hey lads, what the fucks going on? Just came back from the allotment and a war has started. We have the same team in support, we fly the same colours and yet we are now name calling and acting like Zulu warrior’s. Let’s give each a kiss and make up for the sake of our beloved club. Right who’s the first? to be the man.🔚💕
Just a bit of friendly banter Bill 😂
You ok Langy mate?
Sure am BWS….My love for you is totally unconditional! 🙂
Fuck sake, you had me going .happy days.
I’ve stalled on posting to think it over, and while it’s not the started any of us wanted we’d be very naive to say there hasn’t been an improvement since the Reading game. We’ve just picked up a point away from home against a side who crushed us 3-1 there last year and have only lost one home game since February. It was an improvement, and that’s all we should be looking for.
Like I said however it’s still not the start any of us wanted, Bruce has said himself we are 5 points off where we need to be. It makes next month massive for our season really, we play the likes of Bolton and Brentford at home and travel to Burton and Barnsley. Quite simply need 4 wins from those 4, what hurt us last year was it took us so long to get that second win, hopefully we’ll have it this time first game back from the international break.
As for the team, well we have the likes of Kodjia, Jedinak and Snodgrass to come in.. so given the way we have been holding up without them I am quietly confident with a fully fit squad we will truly hit our stride..
On a side note, our midfield are finally scoring goals!! How long have we needed that? Wasn’t the closest to Kodjia last year Grealish with 4 goals? Well Hourihane already has that.. don’t lose the faith brothers! Still all to play for, reckon next month will be very telling!!
funny when you watch any other match ,you very rarely see teams parking bus,look at bournmouth having a real go at city having scored a cracker and defoe having a good effort ,bruce would have 100 excuses why he played 5 at back ,
Would that be the Bournemouth that lost against 10 men? 🙂
at least bournemouth had a go,
And lost lol! Wheras we didnt lose despite going behind to a goal that should have been disallowed!
So whats your point as I cant quite see it? Bournemouth lost against 10 men, we didnt against 11….so whats your point?
JV…. Gone very quiet mate!
So lets just try and work you out!
1. Your ‘positive’ about a team you dont claim to support (Bournemouth) although they LOST at HOME against 10 men!
2. Your ‘negative’ about a team you CLAIM to support who got a well deserved point AWAY from home despite having a goal given against them that SHOULDN’T have been given!
It seems that you’ve fallen into your ‘OWN TRAP’, very much like Badger and Ohaah!
What a totally weird way of thinking!
Now, now Langford behave yourself. You know JV is always right 🙂
Just wanted to get my point across Hitch….all of the 3 named have fallen into the same trap in the last 24 hours. There’s no way that they can defend their negativity now….although, they’ll probably try to!