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Devastated for fozzy, it was miraculous he made it back from his last one. Never been his biggest fan as a player though he’s improved this season, but you could never doubt he’s a decent bloke so it’s awful to see him going through this again. Has anyone talking about loans remembered Marcus Olsson is technically still a Derby player, and set to recover from his own ACL injury in the new year? Must admit I’d forgotten his existence till I thought about cover! Never really rated him either but he’s the sort of attacking full back frank likes?

Ref was utterly dire, but his impact on the result was minimal. The free kick they scored was very soft so maybe we’d have only lost 2-0. Hooray.

Must have loved a 4-1 home loss to Sunderland who were bottom then

Becoming more history than sci fi, I mean I’m all for a bit of history, but it’s not the show for an education. By all means it’s gotta be set historically but that shouldn’t be the focal point of the story. Granted they did mix it up with some weird btec red dwarf attempt last week

Unfortunately so, that’s my biggest criticism of frank on Saturday, hudd was hammered on the 5th minute (naturally got no support from Dr Xia himself with the whistle) and he could barely move after that. Wasn’t right at all and couldn’t exude any form of presence, should have gone off.

1st half: Aight 2nd half: bank

Indeed, can’t critiscise frank for that lineup. Perhaps could’ve done more in game when he saw how things were going, as well as at half time, but I didn’t see much moaning before the game at the team.

Very good assessment, it’s only one game but it shouldn’t be written off as a ‘bad day at the office’. You won’t see a team play much worse than we did second half, was very concerning to watch. Wasn’t like we were unlucky and things weren’t coming off, we were outclassed and outfought which shouldn’t be happening.

Ironic cause when he gets loads of space to cross he hits row Z without fail, gotta work on crosses both ends of the pitch

If Lawrence starts there’s summat wrong after how he played today... Bogle has been poor for a while and needs a rest/ work in training, but I’m not sure if wisdom in this system.

Love Huddlestone, but not much of that team that played today deserves to start this match. Gotta send out the right message that the level of performance and lack of battling shown today can’t be allowed. Keep everyone on their toes that way and avoid complacency.

Carson Tomori Keogh Davies Malone Johnson Mount Bryson Waghorn Marriott Wilson

Well this post aged well😉👀

Today was painfully bad to watch, but I’ll be back up and running at hillsborough. Tickets bought last week and I’ll be there right behind the lads. Get the moans out on here everyone (and there was a lot to moan about).. then get a white wall behind a, likely much changed, Derby in 2 weeks.

Such a frustrating day really, just when you think we’ve turned a corner with our performances in this block of games and looked to building some consistency, then we go on and play like we’re on the beach In Dubai somewhere today. Utterly dire and lifeless, far more concerning for me than the Rotherham and Bolton’s defeats. Occasionally it’s not your day, but when you’re completely dominated like we were today somethings up. Credit to villa but even they weren’t that good, we could have been 6 down if they could shoot. Dunno what they hell was up with our team, came out second half complacent and with a complete lack of desire. No pressing, no real attempt to win the ball back, no care with the ball, no movement, nothing. As I said earlier, feel bad for Marriott and Bennett who were the only ones who really tried till we actually started fighting... circa the 88th minute. Huddlestone did nothing, bogle cant defend or cross... and perhaps the killer, Keogh and tomori moved the ball with about the pace of the movement of the midfield, both utterly bank today. Massive wake up call for our team that today, if you don’t play at 100% energy and with desire to win the ball back and move into places to receive it, you’ll just get beat. We just allowed villa to play without by our leave, and they cut straight through us. Couldn’t have made it easier for them. Big changes needed over the international break and players returning to fitness will be important. Big test of Lampard now, how does he respond to this match? What changes does he make? What’s the message to players? Will be very interesting to see. Were still in a good position, but performances like that don’t see you anywhere. Consistency and more clean sheets required after the break.