Tomaszk

He's soft for sure. A footballer not a grafter.

Chelsea was the wrong game for him. Leicester was the wrong game for him. Sheff Utd I think is the wrong game for him. Watford and Southampton... I want him on the pitch.

Was fearing for him if taken off.

We haven't done a Fulham and still won't have if we go down. Can we close the thread?

Not about goals for me. I want to see he can play football and contribute for the team. The team incidentally, that are all sick of him and try and keep him out of the game. It'll be a nightmare trying to explain why he still should be dropped if he scores a tap in like the Newcastle one he fluffed. Performance, performance, performance!

Doug, McGinn, pick whoever you want except Taylor. They would all be better.

Targett injury might have saved him getting subbed. Crowd reaction would not have been good. They've started to reflect to feelings of the other players who are sick of him.

Absolutely he's got worse and worse since then. He's clearly still our best CB. And when he eliminates those easy errors like not getting tackled trying to cruyff round a striker he'll be even better.

If Smith is determined to stick with him, he still should be taken out v Sheff Utd where we're likely to get a good kicking. Watford & Southampton define how the rest of the season is going to go and what sort of targets we'll be able to attract in January.

If we had Glenn Murray we'd probably have 4 or 5 more points. We're trying to win games with a striker who can't play football.

Good chance I'd say yes. Without a new striker, I'm afraid not.

See it? Peach. Smith has largely been handed this squad to work with. But he mentioned a few times he didn't think Maupay was worth the asking price. Wonder if someone convinced him Wes was the better option or he decided himself. We'd already be looking to next season if we had Maupay now.

Deary me, absolutely no chance. God knows his level, but Championship is well beyond it.

What a misjudgement. We've got Wes who can't kick a football instead.

Worst performance for Villa. Shame. Should have won the ball for Leicester first, even with many other issues contributing.

Best keeper to ever play for Aston Villa.

So before the injury... He got tackled cruyff turning outside the edge of his own area at Chelsea. Today he lost it thinking he's better than he is, again outside his own area. Wonder if he'll ever get told to stop. Really interested in what happened around the sub. Did he lie and say he was OK? Physios know you can't run off a hammy but if the player says it feels alright what do you do? Hope he's not out for long, increases the chance of Taylor appearing on the bench.

Eduoard has been on for 10 mins Celtic. He's held the ball up more than Wes has all season. We could have tested them with £22m bid in the summer.

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This is so obvious it makes me sad.

Today I've realised there's something else he can't do. It's quite funny if you can get over the general sadness of watching him play for us. Challenging for long balls...he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows he should be doing something, but he's not sure what. So he jumps and throws his arms, but he's got no plan. He doesn't know if he's bringing it down, flicking it on, touching it back to someone. Just jumps or moves to the general area and half puts his body at it. Never ever ever in the right place. Doesn't know how to play football. The only thing he can do is take touches backwards into easy areas that takes pressure off the opposition and makes passes out wide that anyone with legs could do. What an absolute disaster of a signing.

This could get incredibly ugly.

He wasn't. Was pretending due to embarrassment as he'd tried to shoot but duffed it wide.

The most he's done that half aside from setup their goal is hoof Schmeichel into the net. That was funny.

No Fred very disappointing.