Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna Post-Match Thread

[phantom limb]

Shite all round. I'm bracing myself for a bollocks season and lots of grief at work from my colleagues.

[TheTimVilla]

I really don't understand the Heskey hatred. He scored a goal, great reactions but people just concentrate on a snapshot reaction to a very poor penalty. I thought he played well tonight, held the ball well, won some free kicks in good positions.

Ireland had a great first hour, not one misplaced pass, very inventive. Disappeared badly though.

Davies was fucking shite, mind.

[Apyadg]

If I had a season ticket - i would rip it up....shame

After one home league game, when we've not even appointed the manager for the rest of the season? Are you fucking joking?

[Edvard Remberg]

Its the top who has to take the blame..starting with lerner down to KMac...Easy as that..

Stop talking about thinking about the job. just step down.

[Rigadon]

Utter,  utter shit.  KM is not and has never been the predecessor to MON. The calculated gamble Lerner & co made has/will not pay off and now they really need to deliver a very good manager. If they don't, the last 4 years will have been a waste of time and (Randy's) money.  Over to them I guess. 

The current complete lack of positivity surrounding the club is only comparable since  the  O Leary years.  Scary.

[pauliewalnuts]

If I had a season ticket - i would rip it up....shame

After one home league game, when we've not even appointed the manager for the rest of the season? Are you fucking joking?

And plastic is hard to rip up.

You'd have to snap it.

[Edvard Remberg]

Oh - and sack and cancel the contracts of the wank players we  have...make an example.

[hilts_coolerking]

Piss poor.  Just piss poor. Vienna throughly deserved it on the night and how that happened I have no idea because after the first half hour I was wondering how they were ever going to score.

The defeat in itself is hard to take but I am worried about what effect the lack of European football will have on our chances of attracting a really top quality manager. And we absolutely must get a really top quality manager.  Not Kevin MacDonald, even for a season to keep the seat warm for somebody.

It's a salutory lesson in what happens when you let one man dominate the club for so long and then he buggers off.  The club just feels totally rudderless and more than a little bit amateurish.

[Mister E]

Two comments: Beye out of position and Petrov for poor penalty-taking.
I'd attack Ivanhoe for the point-blank miss but it's too easy.
I'm in pieces here.

[TheEgo]

Going to be lots of overeactions tonight. Truth is, this will be a transitional season, key is now getting a quality manager in asap!!we can then regroup and build again

[TonyD]

I really don't understand the Heskey hatred. He scored a goal, great reactions but people just concentrate on a snapshot reaction to a very poor penalty. I thought he played well tonight, held the ball well, won some free kicks in good positions.

Ireland had a great first hour, not one misplaced pass, very inventive. Disappeared badly though.

Davies was fucking shite, mind.

Heskey is not a goal scorer, he is a liability.   Need more info?

[Apyadg]

Oh - and sack and cancel the contracts of the wank players we  have...make an example.

Give away millions of pounds of assets. Genius.

[Edvard Remberg]

If I had a season ticket - i would rip it up....shame

After one home league game, when we've not even appointed the manager for the rest of the season? Are you fucking joking?

And plastic is hard to rip up.

You'd have to snap it.

its not the one game - its the signal the top sends about the club.

[Kingthing]

Thank god I only watched the first half as I was driving my ill son around the streets to get him to sleep, but I thought NRC played ok, I was counting his passes for 15mins and almost all of them were spot on.

[toplad4u]

I think KMacs got the same tactics as O'neil play as many people out of position as possible. Only positive from the game for me was Albrighton coming had flutters like he did west ham last week. I really belive we need to get rid of deadwood (aka beye, davis, guzan) and replace with Clyd , Westwood, Striker maybe Keane for the right price.