LIVE! Match discussion 2014/15

[Paddingtonwolf]

As soon as a yellow comes out it is violent conduct and should be a red. I also am in two minds about how accidental it was.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Benteke scores again, Villa back on level terms.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Good equaliser for Villa, smartly taken by Benteke and good work by Delph to set it up.

 

[YoungWolf]

Good goal, well taken! Lovely little pass by Grealish

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Lovely goal for Villa, great play by Grealish.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

He's playing really well so far today, Grealish. Finds some great little pockets of space and some good decisions with his passing too, looks a good player in the making.

 

[YoungWolf]

Yeah I like the look of him. Has he committed to playing for Ireland now?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Not definitively as yet.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

2-1 down and you bring on Glen Johnson, Rodgers is such a chancer.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

The Jackett special!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

At least Ken did it at 0-0!

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Timmy tactics is fucking buzzing!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Villa deserved it. By far the better team on the day.

 

[Tony Towner]

They weren't as bad as Lambert made them look, but Sherwood has done a very good job so far. Be interesting to see what he does when he's not just parachuted in mid season, will his effervescent approach work over a pre and full season? I'm not so sure it will.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

RAWK has exploded into Rodgers-out mania.

Excellent.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Horrendous miss at the end of the Sevilla game here, guy can only be a yard or two out with a completely empty net ahead of him but gets so little on his attempt that it just flicks off his foot wide of goal.

 

[lemonjelly]

They weren't as bad as Lambert made them look, but Sherwood has done a very good job so far. Be interesting to see what he does when he's not just parachuted in mid season, will his effervescent approach work over a pre and full season? I'm not so sure it will.

That's sherwoods MO though. Get the mis-firing big guy to score a few. He's done that. He did it with Adebayor. However once he went off the boil, spurs looked poor.

Sherwoods big test is next season. I'm not sure he's got it in his locker though.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I think the bigger test for Sherwood is what he does through the summer, he has no experience in the transfer market what so ever.

He's shown himself to be a pretty good motivator even though he's some what simplistic with his tactics, generally get it forward as quickly as possible and make sure you get as players in and around as possible for when the ball arives. It works to a point if you've got enough firepower to score a few, he had that at Spurs and he's got reasonable attackins options at Villa too for where they are, they'll certainly do a lot better with that approach than the very restrictive game they'd ended up playing under Lambert. It'll never get them very far against the better sides though.

I can't see the full season/half season thing making too much difference to his approach or the effectiveness of it, unless they hit a particularly bad patch where he might need to try something different to get them out of a rut, I think he'd struggle to change things in that situation as he's just too one dimensional but then plenty of managers seem to go that way.

As said I think the summer will be potentially difficult for him, does he know what positions he needs to strengthen or what sort of players he needs to improve the team? He's shown he's got a decent eye for a young player and isn't afraid to give them a chance but has he got a good enough eye for talent that you'd trust him to go throwing money around with?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They badly need to get some decent defenders in, Vlaar is probably off on a free and really isn't very good anyway, Clark and Baker are disaster areas, Okore looks ok but is really inexperienced at the moment. Hutton is awful, Cissokho appears to have been written off already, Bacuna and Richardson aren't even convincing as makeshift full back options. It's only a fortnight or so since they contrived to let in three at home to QPR which really takes some doing.

 

[Alan]

My kind of refereeing! :icon_lol: