Match Day Thread Aston Villa v QPR

Sorry, I forgot we played last Friday (was thinking Sat)

 

did we play 4-4-2

 

No, Ted. Some sort of 4-2-3-1 kerfuffle with Yeni somewhere on the pitch maybe.

 

was stacy happy with the game

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Guess we're knocked off the top of the form league now, which is very disappointing, I was clutching desperately to that accolade

 

I think that went at Derby, I'll feel a bit more comfortable if we can win one more game...

 

I asked her and she said,"hmmmmpffff...,grmmmmmmppppffff...,(choke).....hurummmmmmmmgggghhh (gag)...."

Seemed satisfied.

 

Doubt there's many if any other teams that drop there two main strikers!

 

I hope Holloway is taking notes of what's working and what isn't. I'm all for tinkering if it's for trial and error purposes, but let's find out what we're good at and get some consistency in that regard.

Very difficult and strange league as we all know. You pick up points when you don't expect to and drop them in baffling circumstances. What we do know, is teams that quickly settle with a system and gain some momentum tend to do well.

Can never fault the passion, now let's find the consistency

 

I would have thought just dropping in a couple of players into a successful team would allow you to see them perform better to their ability.
Throwing five new players in at once just seems to be a way to cause confusion or a lack of continuity within the team.
The last two games have cast doubt on Holloway again in what, exactly, he is trying to achieve with all this tinkering - because it isn't working. Points would be good.
I agree with Col, we need a good run-in to maintain belief and also to make players want to come to the club as a successful career move.

 

I'm relatively unconcerned with Olly's tinkering and I'd far rather he experiments now than at the start of next season.

My inference from his slightly questionable team selections is that he is taking a decent end of season look at all the players with a view to his retained list and to evaluate if/where he needs to strengthen.

Can't realistically see any threat of relegation, and he is giving all the players the chance to earn their contracts.

 

I can't believe other than he's trying to put his best teams out over these games, trying to keep them fresh. He's not seriously experimenting, they are all just squad players getting games. Relegation isn't that remote, especially 2 rounds ago. We were shyte at Derby, so the changes were justifyable IMO. Just tells me that we are really no better than we were back in August.

 

Just seen highlights from the QPR official video.
Looked like a penalty to us to me??

 

Yes, but teams have poor games - things don't work/go to plan - we were not world beaters when we were top of the form table - neither are we totally **** relegation candidates when we lose a few games. We're middling to average at the moment. From my viewpoint Olly's changes suggest experimentation, but happy to accept others have different interpretations. More than anything just happy to know that for the first time a long time we have a chance to start pre-season with a settled squad of 'good-eggs'.

 

There was one in the first half which from my terrible angle looked a foul from the goalkeeper but there was barely an appeal and we got a corner so guess he got the ball.

The one that really irked me that I've not seen mentioned was Bidwell was clearly struck by one of theirs during their counter-attack in the second half right in the middle of the pitch. It was off the ball but I thought one of the officials should have seen it given where it was on the pitch.

Still, we'll be there next year.

 

All this rotation and still Michael Doughty doesn't get a look in, pointless bringing him back I know Swindon have suffered without him.

 

**** Swindon. I guess Holloway wanted to have a look at him and he's not the first to decide he's not up to it. A few years ago I thought it was wrong he was overlooked but he's not young now and we have better players.

 

I agree, sorry my post didn't read as such. Don't see a role for him in the team at the moment, with 4 or 5 changes each game and he still doesn't get in the writing must be on the wall.

 

Cheers.