Stoke City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Fergal]

Fuck.....

[BedsVillain]

Pennant really is a cheating little shit.  Knicks the ball past petrov, kicks him and then throws himself to the ground to win a free kick which costs us a point.  Little shit.

No, Petrov, being his usual sluggish self, brought him down because he's not quick enough and not good enough to tackle.

Which would be a brilliant arguement if he'd made any contact with him, well done!

[TheSandman]

Downing played well. Possibly even Coco and Gabby too.

The rest not so much. Warnock and Young have been bloody abject for a long time. Bloody hell I've really started to get fed up of Warnock and his inept positioning and stupid tackling.

Predictable as ever mind.

[not3bad]

Oh fucking pisiing shitters.  I fucking love conceding two late goals to fucking stoke.  Do you think we could arrange it so it happens every week?  I'd fucking love to watch them dancing over fucking football graves every fucking week.

[JUAN PABLO]

Pennant was a cheating cnut at the end for the FK

[olaftab]

Abysmal 2nd half perfprmance and we got what we deserved nothing.

[jembob]

We paid the price for conceding too much possession in the second half. I just cannot comprehend why Brad insists on lumping the ball up field when we only have little guys being marked big blokes. Same thin happened against Everton and it just gives the opposition another easy chance. Dumb.

We looked very good with the ball tonight and why we didn't pass the ball more in the second half is a complete mystery to me. We squandered those points tonight when a bit of intelligence would have stopped Stoke applying pressure.

[Risso]

What was the point of bringing on fucking Heskey for the last few minutes? We needed a proper change ages before that MacDonald you prat. How long until the proper manager starts, KM has proved he's woefully short of being good enough.

[Guy M]

Pennant really is a cheating little shit.  Knicks the ball past petrov, kicks him and then throws himself to the ground to win a free kick which costs us a point.  Little shit.

And then took the free-kick 10 yards ahead of where it should have been. This is my major objection to the calls for goal-line technology. Would that have been any use this evening? Would it b*ll*cks? Would video referees? Maybe, but how many times are you going to allow referees (or managers) to review their decisions if so.

[Chris Jameson]

I'm so glad my sons season starts at the weekend so I can start to enjoy watching football again and go back to only taking a passing interest in the goings on at Aston Villa.

[Rancid custard]

Some positives - NRC, downing, Albrighton and Ash all looked dangerous tonight, um that's it.

Jimbo back to a dodgy patch, great blocks, timely interceptions and got around but somehow I still feel a tittle bit cheated.

Is it just me or has Dunne been coasting a bit lately?

[pauliewalnuts]

It wasn't dreadful.

The result was dreadful, but there were plenty of positives to take from that. For long spells, we were well in charge, and playing well.

The problem was that, when it was glaringly clear that we needed to change things to stop the game starting to run away from us, Kevin Mac did absolutely nothing.

Pulis, on the other hand, used all his subs, and changed the way the game was going.

That was something we never seemed to do under MON, and it seems that KM is of the same ilk. Hopefully Houllier will not be like that.

Losing like that is going to hit us really, really hard. The club need to stop fucking about and pull out all the stops to get Houllier here asap. If we're paying him 8m over three years, then he is going to have to start earning it by extracting himself, ASAP.

[eric woolban woolban]

Go  away Villa until 3pm on Saturday.

[Walmley_Villa]

Typical Villa - come on we all knew it was going to happen. Roll on Saturday! UTV

[DaveD]

Downing played well. Possibly even Coco and Gabby too.

The rest not so much. Warnock and Young have been bloody abject for a long time. Bloody hell I've really started to get fed up of Warnock and his inept positioning and stupid tackling.

Predictable as ever mind.

Pennant really is a cheating little shit.  Knicks the ball past petrov, kicks him and then throws himself to the ground to win a free kick which costs us a point.  Little shit.

No, Petrov, being his usual sluggish self, brought him down because he's not quick enough and not good enough to tackle.

Which would be a brilliant arguement if he'd made any contact with him, well done!

If he'd made contact with the ball at any other point during the game, I could forgive it. As usual, we were playing with ten men though.