Aston Villa are class, and have £30 million players in pretty much each position, including a goalkeeper who won the World Cup in the same team as Messi.
We tried to take the game to them and were picked off and punished. We were tactically naive, and it was silly playing Holgate instead of Robinson, though we probably would have lost no-matter what we did.
I remember a discussion at the start of the season I had on here saying we are not a premiership team, in name only, and that is the case. Look how Leicester thrashed Stoke in the championship today, Leicester are a premiership team etc.
We are a mid-championship team. I don't think the players didn't try and there was some good stuff at times. They didn't deserve for fans to walk out early on them.
If the players aren't good enough that's not their fault, and Wilder really can't really do much with them to make them continuously compete at this level and we have improved since he's returned (coming from someone who didn't want him back).
As for the Prince, well he gets hate for the players we sold. If we didn't sell them we still probably would have gone down and lost them both on a free. He should have dropped his asking price but that bridge has sailed.
The recruitment has been dreadful, but again I understand taking punts as we don't have the funds for proven players.
So all in all, as I said at the start of the season, 12 points is the aim and anything above that is a bonus and hopefully we won't be embarrassed most weeks.
I've felt embarrassed after some games watching us- tonight was not one of them.
We tried to take the game to them and were picked off and punished. We were tactically naive, and it was silly playing Holgate instead of Robinson, though we probably would have lost no-matter what we did.
I remember a discussion at the start of the season I had on here saying we are not a premiership team, in name only, and that is the case. Look how Leicester thrashed Stoke in the championship today, Leicester are a premiership team etc.
We are a mid-championship team. I don't think the players didn't try and there was some good stuff at times. They didn't deserve for fans to walk out early on them.
If the players aren't good enough that's not their fault, and Wilder really can't really do much with them to make them continuously compete at this level and we have improved since he's returned (coming from someone who didn't want him back).
As for the Prince, well he gets hate for the players we sold. If we didn't sell them we still probably would have gone down and lost them both on a free. He should have dropped his asking price but that bridge has sailed.
The recruitment has been dreadful, but again I understand taking punts as we don't have the funds for proven players.
So all in all, as I said at the start of the season, 12 points is the aim and anything above that is a bonus and hopefully we won't be embarrassed most weeks.
I've felt embarrassed after some games watching us- tonight was not one of them.