Ellafella Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 1. I’ve always had a soft spot for Aston Villa; William McGregor, Claret N Blue, lovely old stadium; good support, traditional old club, Sid Cowans!..marvellous…what a player! , oooh…jumpers for goal posts, that sort of thing. Oh! and I did have trials for them when I was 15. I marked Mark Walters in one of the games and guess what…yep he scored a hat-trick despite being in my back-pocket for the entire 90 minutes. Ok, so he got lucky. 2. Buoyed by the news of Edward’s goal for his Saturday team and his 2 assists {I made him give me a frame by frame account of his half-volley from the edge of the box} the Fans’ Park talk pre-match was a tad nervy with debate about FL’s team selection from a depleted squad and envious glances to the Villa team…Tammy Abrahams {who real name is Kevin apparently}, Adomah, Grealish et al…Oh we were in for a tough one. There was general agreement that we needed Tomori’s pace to counter said Kevin and many said they’d take a point now…. 3. A beautifully sombre pre-match minute’s silence with regimental presence along the touchline and Private Derby in a coat of scarlet before a 30,000 crowd and a tingling atmosphere as two middle-heavyweights went toe-to-toe. First half it was pretty much end-to-end: there was a thumping shot from Harry Wilson which stung the Villa stopper’s hands, and a medley of three shots in a pin-ball frenzy that Derby should really have scored from. Villa too had chances with Abrahams being denied from just a couple of yards by Carson’s instinctive reaction save but it was Tom Lawrence who was most profligate when clean through with a 1 on 1 he lobbed the ball clean over the bar in a sort of “miss-of-the-season”-Roger-Davies-type-scenario. Fact is though, we never had control of the midfield and it was clear that at half-time whoever took control on that area would win the game. 4. And second half it was Aston Villa whose grip gradually tightened. Huddlestone notably retreated 15 yards further back and there began to be wave after wave of Villa menace, notably down their left {our right} with an apparent targeting of Bogle being the main Villa tactic {think me versus Mark Walters back in 1980}; it seemed all too easy for Adomah and Bolasie to get crosses in from the left and so it was for McGinn to head in and Abrahams to flick home before Hourihane’s left-peg free-kick pearler. 3-0 to Villa in a 10 minute goal-fest. 5. To add injury to insult, Bennett tweaked a hamstring when stretching for a loose pass and worryingly a distressed-looking Forsyth was accompanied back to the dug-out after going down off the pitch. 6. FL hates losing. His post-match was all staccatissimo. Should we panic? No. Villa deserved the 3-0; they are a very good side who will be top 6 come January. The break for once has come at the right time. We need to get injured players back. Time will show that this was a strategic defeat. Sometimes you have to lose a battle to remind you what it takes to win a war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 1st half: Aight 2nd half: bank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellafella Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 9 minutes ago, Millenniumram said: 1st half: Aight 2nd half: bank Precisely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I listen to FL post match interview and you can tell he hates losing. I think he also feels RD are questioning his team selection when asking why a player is left out. I think he finds it tedious explaining team selection. The Tamori - Davies is a good example. I think RD just want to know the thinking behind the decision but FL seems to take it a different way. He gets a bit uptight about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRam Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Good summary also Mount and Waghorn did not play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Ellafella... Top guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Brilliant nutshell @Ellafella. Where's Sid Cowans when you need him??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 9 hours ago, Ellafella said: Sid Cowans!..marvellous…what a player! , oooh…jumpers for goal posts, that sort of thing. Oh! and I did have trials for them when I was 15. I marked Mark Walters in one of the games and guess what…yep he scored a hat-trick despite being in my back-pocket for the entire 90 minutes. Ok, so he got lucky. ... Time will show that this was a strategic defeat. Sometimes you have to lose a battle to remind you what it takes to win a war. Always liked Sid till he ducked in the wall one time against the Gumps. Really he did. And your prowess in marking Walters out of the game will become the stuff of legend. A magnificent summary and especially the final line. It's the war that's important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariotofmyown Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 6 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: Always liked Sid till he ducked in the wall one time against the Gumps. Really he did. And your prowess in marking Walters out of the game will become the stuff of legend. A magnificent summary and especially the final line. It's the war that's important. I thought 'ducked' was the swear filter and wondered what the duck he had been up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 We had an off day, It happens. That's your nutshell right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 18 minutes ago, David said: We had an off day, It happens. That's your nutshell right there. No need to be so salty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadlad Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 In a nutshell Grealish and McGinn ran the game, we had no answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 27 minutes ago, David said: We had an off day, It happens. That's your nutshell right there. Best post on here, but it wont harvest you 20 odd likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 8 minutes ago, i-Ram said: Best post on here, but it wont harvest you 20 odd likes. If you liked it i-Ram, that is enough for me today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superzak Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Alan Hutton was brilliant and showed how lack of height is no hinderance if you know how to defend properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheron85 Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 21 hours ago, Ellafella said: Villa deserved the 3-0; they are a very good side who will be top 6 come January. So far I've seen 2 teams who were comfortably better than us this season - Leeds and Villa - And I'm not giving Leeds the full credit because we were so early into the Lampard era at that point the team hadn't gelled etc etc Villa reminded me of our Mac1 team - All the pieces already in place and just needed the right manager to stitch them together - On the other hand we're still in the relatively early stages of a re-build Lampard has been happy with about 20 mins of our performances this season - Maybe a full half if we're generous - He wasn't even that happy with the second half against Man Utd! So it's fairly obvious we are FAR from the finished article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 4 hours ago, Boycie said: No need to be so salty. But he's right... Our players never came out of their shell, and made Villa look like Brazil! It was enough to pine for the return of Rowett. Four Kernel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCG Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Villa have spent far more than us and constantly steal our transfer interests. They massively under-performed under Bruce's negative approach to the game. Player for player they are far stronger than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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