You can understand can't you what the addition of just one quality player in Eze can have on a squad because we can all see it can't we, so you can then understand the difference that just one or two who aren't quite at the races can make to a team regardless of who or where they're playing, quality has nothing to do with age.

But what are they trying to play? This team looks like a Sunday pub team! No shape (Roy's speciality subject), no discipline, no desire - all facets of the game that fall under Roy's jurisdiction. Roy gives them instructions and sends them out to play, what you see is his planning. Or is PVA always out of position because he doesn't listen to Roy's instructions? If so, why is he always selected? I thought Roy (according to Ray) was one of those types that if you don't do as he says, you don't get a look in?
It seems to me that Roy has lost the players, they look confused and leaderless, with no clear idea of what they need to achieve and how to achieve it.
Of course there is no excuse for the obvious lack of effort, but again this stems back to the manager - it's his job to motivate and inspire, but if you listened to the Villa post match interview, Roy is uninspiring, snappy and defensive, with the usual "if this if that" waffle.
The cold fact of the matter is the players didn't react to the thumping by Liverpool, facing a team down to 10 men for 45 minutes. As a manager paid to sort that stuff out, Roy failed.

Over summer there were people screaming that we need a full overhaul. In reality we only needed about 3. We've had Eze, Clyne, Batshuayi, and Ferguson.

Eze has made a difference, but he's not been played in his correct position yet.

Roy's completely overlooked plenty of talent, plus has only got 6 months left.

Who'd invest in an underperforming manager effectively working his notice period? Especially when the manager has repeatedly shown that he wont use the players he's been given.

How many of our players would Villa use, Zaha, Eze, Shlupp, Townsend, Riedewald and Ayew, does that not inform you of our problems, all the rest against strong squads will struggle. Not the fault of our manager.

When one has a numerical advanrage in terms of players on the pitch, the common wisdom is to make the pitch big, move the ball quicker and switch the play.

We lacked energy and pace and had no outlet whatsoever down the right to the extent that all our attacks were somewhat 'Narrow' which suited a team a man short.

As for their second goal, it stemmed from a needless free kick from Milivojevic (Yet again) Ward got beaten to the ball by Watkins whom he was marking and Kouyate never reacted when Konza whom he was marking ran past him and headed the ball as it came down off the bar.Terrible defending all round.

Think Roy will stay until the end of the season, unless a successor has already been found now, perhaps the like of Howe ? December fixtures always looked hard. If we go down tomorrow then it has been a poor month, a win, then not too bad, 8 points from 6. COYP !!