In for a hard season- defensive duties anyone?

[FromTheDarkness]

We lost the next England captain center back, we enter the prem and we dont have anyone with a bloody clue or leader at the back, we bought a big defensive midfielder that's playing as a center forward.. honestly wtf is going on with these tactics today?

Vinny said he out works every other manager, well Vinney you where well and truly out worked today... simple! stop our wingers and simply run though the middle as our big crap central midfielder is up the top on the back line. We had no plan B they read us like a book.
Vinney I am disappointed you where out worked by the opposition manager, welcome to the world class managers of the premiership.

We are fine going forward, good infact at passing and moving in and around the box.

As soon as we loose possession it is chaotic, players running about yet are miles off, bumping into each other yet not them, acres of space gifted to them so they can pick a pass, every goal was like this, the amount of times they tuned our players seems like they have been training with Tovial and Dean

Our midfield personal and tactic are way way off.
Berg - crap.. what's he in there to actually do? He is just a poor version of Brownhill, but Brownhill gets back and defends and puts pressure on the ball and gets his foot in, I fail to see this lads game..
Cullen, I dont get it.. ball player, thats all he offers - his passes are not that good...?

Pluses - Foster looks great, couldn't have done more with limited service - played well
- All the subs looked better than the first choices - mainly due to experience, for example Redmond gave the ball away twice, but then chased it down and forced their error, opposed to allowing them to tovail and dean us and create a chance with all the time in the world.

Of all the things we should be **** hot at - defending - gifted to much time on the ball, chaotic as if we didn't know who to mark, what runners to pick up.. it was terrible.

Credit to Villa, and Emry they put the homework in and had a game plan that worked.