Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna Post-Match Thread

[Edvard Remberg]

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

Give away millions of pounds of assets. Genius.

I would! - cheaper than loose futuer income.

[TimTheVillain]

Can't wait for Downing's battle cry for the Everton game 

[Somniloquism]

i only saw bits of it due to a shit stream but I see Davies is getting much of the blame.  I can only say the first Rapid goal was down to Beye giving it away, Cuellar losing the aerial battle and Guzan being beaten on his near post.  And the second was mostly down to Guzan's fuck up.

So you didn't see how the corner they scored from came about? Davies is a yard from the side line hoofs the ball out for a corner over the top of our own crossbar. If it wasn't a corner then it wouldn't have been a goal.

[eastie]

These things happen says kmac- well mr mcdonald if you have any pride you will just happen to go back to the youth team.

Lerner has saved his cash and made nearly £20m this window- some ambition that randy-Aston villa are not a toy , if you can't or won't invest more Money then please find someone who will.

Tonight was hugely shit!

[AVFCRob]

Didn't you just know we'd find a way to blow it? But how inventive that was? Comedy Beye for the first goal, Comedy Davies for the second and comedy Petrov and Heskey for the missed penalty?

I was angry watching the game but now I'm past caring. Which other club and which other players are capable of screwing things up so completely? Vienna did nothing in that game, nothing. We gave it to them.

Davies, Beye, Heskey (God, at least he tried), Petrov, go away please, far, far away......

[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.

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

Yes please. I genuinely thought he played well and he did score. How is he a liability?

I'd look at Beye, Davies, NRC, even Guzan & Petrov, before I even thought about criticising Heskey tonight.

[ajmant]

Any ideas how on earth we got 29,000 for that shower of shite?

[luke95]

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.

I thought Heskey was our best player tonight, tho it didnt take a lot granted .

[TheSandman]

Fuck. Really fuck.

He definitely shouldn't get the job full stop definitely not. I like the bloke, he has done a magnificent job for the reserves but no way. To play that pathetic waste of a shirt, useless, sheer inept, rubbish, arrogant, dreadful, incompetent prat Davies again after last week defies belief. I cannot believe he ever made it as a footballer. Even then our defensive errors are basic ones. Things I fucking know to do without a coach telling me.

I genuinely think we have to get a seriously decent appointment in and two or three new players in. The board has to pull all the stops out to do so. If we see McDonald as a permanent manager or someone of a similar ilk in then that really will be the last straw for me. Bob Bradley at least (based on what I've seen of USA USA USA) can organise a defense but still we should try to get better. Can we with the money we have? Probably not but the situation is so bad the owner will simply have to dig deep if he wants things to happen. Those two fucking pathetic piles of shit performances are just unbelievably crap.

From a squad that was so expensively assembled, packed with experienced premier league players this is nowher near good enough.

As for that bespectacled arsehole O'Neill. Well you really left us in the lurch you twat.

I'm physically shaking with fear. I've had enough with the lot of them and the lot of it. I just can't be bothered with the match against Everton. I literally want to do anything but watch it or even hear what happens. I'm fed up with and pissed off with the lot of them the former manager, the players, the caretaker and even though I have stuck steadfastly behind them I'm starting to feel that way about the board and this will continue should they not pull a rabbit out of their arses and quick. The question is whether I am being unfair on them under the circumstances. Well I don't know and I am all most certainly not in a realistic, reasoned and relative enough mood to answer that question.

I'm just so unbelievably downhearted and fed up with the whole thing. O'Leary wasn't this bad as it was a kind of slow realisation over the course of the season in particular towards the middle and end of the season. The malaise at the club has turned into a horrible disease. From top to bottom the club is bereft of ideas and leadership. Things can be turned around but I'm not sure. I think it will be a long, hard and painful season. Well it will be interesting enough.

[Mister E]

Phew, i didn't renew, and drove past Villa park today on the way home to manchester, I was tempted but thank god i didn't bother!

Lost a lot of interest in football in general, but i was hoping i'd miss the Villa. I'm not

Well, lucky you and yahoo boo sucks

[Fergal]

Piss poor, the team is in a bit of a shambles.  Someone needs to get a grip.

[Edvard Remberg]

Thank you for fucking yet another day (or couple of days) for me Aston Villa....i actually start to understand "glory hunting" fans..They dont have the grief...

[TimTheVillain]

Where are we vis a vis the 5 year plan Randy ?

General K never ever answers this question ..... christ, it was a long honeymoon period.

[ventnor villain]

A complete and utter shambles from the back to the front and from beginning to end. Am i the only one who thought when we scored both times that it wouldn't last? There can't be any excuses, this was a strong team (on paper). No one comes out of this with any credit: players "manager" or board. At least this shows that KM probably doesn't have what it takes to manage at this level if RL was thinking of taking the cheap option.

[Walmley_Villa]

To be fair to Kmac he is out of his depth and knows it. He's in  a no-win situation and we should be grateful that he was happy to help out after O'Neil's betrayal. Remember - he dropped us in the shit not Kev Mac.
Having said that we now need a decent management appointment that will boost the players and the fans. I gather Petrov said after the game tonight that the team want to know who will be the managers so it is affecting the team. Unfortunately for Petrov as club captain he should be leading the players - I have seen little of that in the last two games. The likes of Beye, Davies and Heskey can all feck off as they give our club absolutely nothing. We need leadershp and fast!