Aston Villa v Fulham Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday evening.

[Toronto Villa]

Your next project Mr.Houllier is to fix the defence. It isn't good enough. Very disappointing not to take 3 points today.

[PaulWinch again]

Threw away what should have been a win with two goalkeeping errors. Makoun was good again.

[Irish villain]

In the summer windo we need a 'keeper and a couple of defenders.

Kyle Walker should be signed up too if he's available.

[richard moore]

Those who thought we had a run of easy games and wins coming up and that we will beat teams like Fulham by 3 or 4 goals will now have to revise their predictions I suspect. At least, most of the other results went for us...

[Fergal]

Your next project Mr.Houllier is to fix the defence. It isn't good enough. Very disappointing not to take 3 points today.

Dont forget to learn how to make changes a bit earlier.

[themossman]

Not that we will, but on balance we deserve to go down. Every time we've had a chance to put some daylight between us and the arse end of the table we have bottled it. Bent will get us a few wins, three teams will be shitter than us and we'll be safe till next season, but it won't feel very good.

[Somniloquism]

Although the draw was down to Friedal, why do we still persist the Young in the hole, Downing on the right and Gabby on the left wing. If these were changed around we might actually convert more chances.

[German James]

I don't think the defence as a whole was THAT bad. Friedel's errors cost us- really poor goalkeeping for both goals. The wider issue of out of position forwards is a head-scratcher right enough.

[Apyadg]

Your next project Mr.Houllier is to fix the defence. It isn't good enough. Very disappointing not to take 3 points today.

In fairness to the defence, it was two individual errors by the goalkeeper that cost us today. Friedel has had some good games this season, but we need to have a replacement ready in the summer.

Makoun was decent considering he's not been here long. Reo Coker must be wondering what he has to do to get in the team ahead of Petrov who can't run after the first half an hour.

Gabby and Young, who, a couple of years ago, looked like the jewels of our best team in years, were shit yet again. Hopefully we'll replace Young. We should expect Gabby to be shit, considering he's out of position. Downing was pretty good considering he should be out on the left, too.

[German James]

Not that we will, but on balance we deserve to go down.

Don't be daft!

[eamonn]

Richard, please, stop putting ''....'' at the end of all of your posts! I enjoy reading them but there's no need to try and give them extra gravitas!

Anyway, yeah, we're still fairly mediocre aren't we? Disappointing to be honest, so little guile and craft.
Had to be Sidwell and Johnson to come up with the goods for them didn't it?

[Toronto Villa]

Your next project Mr.Houllier is to fix the defence. It isn't good enough. Very disappointing not to take 3 points today.

Dont forget to learn how to make changes a bit earlier.

yeh, maybe. I'm not going to take him to task for that as there's no such thing as knowing the perfect time. But we shouldn't be so shit in the air from crosses, and as good as Brad has been at stopping shots we need to be more secure at set pieces. The goalkeeper is a bit part of that and he isn't as commanding as we need him to be.

Today, like a number of games this season shows how close we are, while at the same time shows how much there's left to do. Conceding late goals has killed us this season.

[damon loves JT]

Those who thought we had a run of easy games and wins coming up and that we will beat teams like Fulham by 3 or 4 goals will now have to revise their predictions I suspect.

Well yes. I think this run of `easy' games will be a pretty bumpy ride. We are not good enough to piss on anybody.

[Jimbo]

Disappointing, but I did predict a frustrating draw and that's what we got. We've gone from huff and puff to tip and tap, with much the same end result. We appear to do everything we possibly can to make life hard for ourselves, and we simply don't learn from it. A huge improvement is needed, because we've played more than almost all of the relegation haunted teams, and we're not too far ahead of them.

Playing the likes of Gabby, Young and Downing in their propers positions might help. Petrov should be placed in a large baked bean tin packed with TNT and blown into orbit. A waste of space. Makoun played well, but showed signs that he might be catching the give-it-away-cheaply virus that has ripped through Villa Park in recent years. Good goal from Walker, which made up for a below-par performance. Brad - the glue factory can't be far off.