Sunderland v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[fredm]

If - Downing's shot had been a foot inside the post.

If - a penalty had been awarded when NRC went down inside the box.

then, I think we would have gone on to win the game fairly comfortably.  At the start we were knocking it about, Emile was tearing their centre backs to bits and they were jittery.

However, such a small word, with such large dependancy.

[Archie]

Other positives, apart from the return of the socks: 1 - yesterday we played without Albrighton, Delph and Bannan that in the next few months will constitute the heart  of our midfield: 2 - we were  without Gabby, that is our best forward:  3 - we had in the center of the defence Richard Dunne, that is is an awful state of form, and that  hopefully in the next few months will become a good sub for the pair Clark and Cuellar.

[Pete3206]

If you don't have any strikers, there's a good chance you're going to struggle to score goals. This has to be GH's priority for his first dip into the transfer market.

I'd offer cash and a fair bit of dead wood to Sunderland for Mr Bent.

[Clampy]

After the spell we had when Downing hit the post, i thought we were going to coast it and maybe had his shot gone in, we might have. Unfortunatley, the goal seemed to knock the stuffing out of us.

He made the same sub i would have made, but i'm disapointed he did'nt throw Fonz on, especially after his 2 goals in the reserves in the week. An extra striker with a bit of pace might have got us something.

Overall, very disapointing, but we've got two ideal games for us now to bounce back.

[luke25]

After having a good nite sleep and time to think about it my initial negative post does seem a tad over the top, however my main gripe is still that even when we were putting them under pressure in the 2nd half I never felt like we would score, stating the obvious now but were crying out for a new striker

[Percy McCarthy]

Blimey. I thought we played very well and were extremley unlucky to not come away with a win.

Me too. Knocked it about nicely, undone by a totally unnecessary attempted clearance from Dunne. I think we are showing real promise so far. As I said to Woodhall towards the end of last season, one silver lining if MON left would be that we would have a squad again, and that is proving to be the case. Missing Milner of course, and Gabby, who I think would be flying this season if he was fully fit and playing alongside the rejuvenated Heskey.

[paulcomben]

Is anyone keeping a note of all of the clear chances missed this season - loads per match e.g. Carew: a hat trick of open goals vs West Ham and a penalty vs Newcastle and a 1v1 vs Chelsea. As we have all repeated since you took over Mr Lerner, we MUST sign a goalscorer, marksman, finisher, poacher, hitman, striker, 20aseasonman....

[Chris Jameson]

Is anyone keeping a note of all of the clear chances missed this season

A thankless task when you've got Heskey in your side.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Is anyone keeping a note of all of the clear chances missed this season

A thankless task when you've got Heskey in your side.

MOTD were moaning about Heskey's fluff up, but I thought the Dunne shot wide was worse.
How did he miss the target from there?

[Legion]

Match highlights

[mozza]

Highlight of the day I'm sorry to say was fish&chip lunch in Osmotherly
(the idiots from Kidderminster who removed signs & chairs from the
boozer give our club a bad name- grow up or stay away)

Match wise - yes played decent football second half and could/should
have come away with at least a point but we lack a natural goal scorer,
the fans know it and hopefully the new management team will rectify it
in January

Haven't see it picked up elsewhere but I was disappointed with the
lack of anyone in our technical area, whereas Brucie was kicking every
ball and questioning every decision for 93 minutes I didn't see Gerard
till 88 and then he wandered back and sat down after 20 secs

 

[JD]

It was a strange game and just one of those days. On another day we could have won by 3 or 4 and we never really looked seriously threatened (apart from by Dunne  ).
I think we would have buried them if we had had a fit Gabby in our side.
It is still early days in Houlliers reign but it is nice to see him give players a chance to play. He will now be getting a good ida of his best team, areas where we lack and where our strengths are. I can't wait for January but let hope we win the next two games as they are very important to help set our season up.   

[Somniloquism]

Is anyone keeping a note of all of the clear chances missed this season

A thankless task when you've got Heskey in your side.

MOTD were moaning about Heskey's fluff up, but I thought the Dunne shot wide was worse.
How did he miss the target from there?

He didn't. It went out for a corner after taking a nick from the defender.

[elvisbyworth]

Highlight of the day I'm sorry to say was fish&chip lunch in Osmotherly
(the idiots from Kidderminster who removed signs & chairs from the
boozer give our club a bad name- grow up or stay away)

Match wise - yes played decent football second half and could/should
have come away with at least a point but we lack a natural goal scorer,
the fans know it and hopefully the new management team will rectify it
in January

Haven't see it picked up elsewhere but I was disappointed with the
lack of anyone in our technical area, whereas Brucie was kicking every
ball and questioning every decision for 93 minutes I didn't see Gerard
till 88 and then he wandered back and sat down after 20 secs

 

as chairman of the kidderminster lions i can only apologise for the behaviour of a minority of our travelling group and ensure everyone that this will not happen again, our monthly meeting is tomorrow night where this matter will be dealt with as the committee see fit, apologetically yours mark byworth