Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna Post-Match Thread

[puppyfeat]

Abject. Indefensively (no pun intended) awful.

I'm sorry Kev, much as I wanted to like you after all the good service you've put in for Villa over the years, but you're just not up to the job. And you know it yourself now, don't you. Please, tomorrow just tell Randy you're not interested and let us move on.

[Macho Man Randy Savage]

I don't know what team/formation I would have picked tonight, but a good defensive display is what we should have been looking to achieve. Instead we conceded 3 goals.

[Tom_Mc9?]

From another site: 

[puppyfeat]

It now feels like a sick twist of fate that we've gone out to the same team at the same stage 2 years running - they own us now and the chances are we'll probably never meet them again in a serious competition.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

From the OS "...Heskey got a decisive touch with his chest to steer home..."

Surely they mean "Heskey had the ball whacked as hard as possible at him to deflect it in as this was the only way he was going to score"

[TheBarneyArmy]

Tonight was awful, Guzan, Beye, Davies, Heskey... you simply cannot play these players together and expect to get a result. No width in the 2nd half, kept trying to play stupid passing through a crowded defence and when it did go wide we have a striker out there. The tactics and insistence on playing players out of position is ridiculous.  Having said that, if we convert the penalty and the ref (who was shite most of the evening) had the balls to send their player off on the penalty it could have been a different story. Once again when we went behind the heads dropped, watching Petrov there was no leadership, nobody in the team or on the bench trying to lift them. It was pitiful. Everton will hammer us on Sunday, especially if we defend like we did tonight.

What is the board doing about a manager, it seems to me like we are waiting for the transfer window to close, so when the appointment does come we still wont be spending any money. Lerner has to get a grip of the situation fast, else i'll be hoping for someone other than Wigan and West Ham prove to be as poor as us.

[john e]

I am terrified about what Everton will do to us.

I'm terrified to think what The Blues will do to us.  Seriously.

And every other team.

sunday - different team, different result

[SashasGrandad]

Final word before I go to bed.

I'm suprised no one has suggested the only decent run by someone in a Villa shirt tonight was a 99 year old Sikh at half time.

[timeoutbigbar]

"I'm suprised no one has suggested the only decent run by someone in a Villa shirt tonight was a 99 year old Sikh at half time."

Curtis wouldn't have been able to handle it

[puppyfeat]

Final word before I go to bed.

I'm suprised no one has suggested the only decent run by someone in a Villa shirt tonight was a 99 year old Sikh at half time.

Gotta say that's a bit unfair to Marc Albrighton, even if his shot was pants.

[dishy]

Final word before I go to bed.

I'm suprised no one has suggested the only decent run by someone in a Villa shirt tonight was a 99 year old Sikh at half time.

he was good. and his beard was amazing, but Beye, Guzan and especially Davies need fooking off, wages need to be saved, release these wasters from their contracts, money saved.

[PaulWinch again]

Good luck trying to sell them, we've failed miserably so far. Guzan clearly is never going to be good enough to be number 1.

[villajk]

Just skipped through the posts on here.

Lots of times I've wanted to quote and agree.

I'm utterly depressed and fed up with the current state of affairs.  I understand Lerner was at the game.  Let's hope he's here to appoint a manager worthy of the position and to deal in the transfer market.

The plus note, we worked it out that this defeat has saved us about £2,500.

[PaulWinch again]

Just skipped through the posts on here.

Lots of times I've wanted to quote and agree.

I'm utterly depressed and fed up with the current state of affairs.  I understand Lerner was at the game.  Let's hope he's here to appoint a manager worthy of the position and to deal in the transfer market.

The plus note, we worked it out that this defeat has saved us about £2,500.

There you go Pauline that made me smile, I'm glad there is a positive!

[mozza]

Just beginning to calm down after another shamobolic performance from the majority of our
overpaid players-

Simple truth of the matter was Rapid were better organised and wanted it more than us -

If Davies Beye Heskey never wear a Villa shirt again I won't cry any tears -

I have sympathy for Marc Albrighton who ran his socks off again and was the only
player who bothered to acknowledge the supporters who remained to final whistle-

We are becoming a comic club on and off the pitch - but I don't see many of us laughing-

Up till the last few days I have always thought highly of Randy Lerner - don't let us down

I'm dreading the visit of Everton on Sunday -

Can't see where the next win will come from -