Aston Villa v Bolton Wanderers Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday evening.

[Bad English]

Fucking dismal point. Get the fuck to work Houllier!

[Rigadon]

Outplayed at home by Bolton Wanderers.  Lucky point.  At. Home. To. Bolton.

Shit.

[Monty]

Our system is just so suicidal. We have good players in possession, why do we shoe-horn them into a system which means none of them have support on the ball? God Almighty.

[Toronto Villa]

disappointing. It never ceases to amaze me how much we give the ball away. These are professional footballers and surely keeping the football makes more sense. That's the first thing I hope Houllier tries to change. Keep the ball, and if certain players can't move them on and bring in players who can.

[PaulWinch again]

Positives - Downing played decent and went in for some tackles. Albrighton started well and Ireland showed glimpses when he was in correct positions. Biggest positive, thank fuck it's the end of the KMac era.

Negatives- Awful point and hanging on against Bolton at the end of the game is unacceptable. Dunne was in despicable shape and rightly hauled off. Petrov is over the hill full stop and should be dropped.

[KevinGage]

Bunch of Arse from about the 13th minute on.

[supertom]

We jammed the win against Everton. This was poor too. We shouldn't get so thoroughly battered on our own patch, certainly not by Everton, but especially not by Bolton. That we picked up 4 points from said home games is a miracle if I'm perfectly honest.
GH has his work cut out. Sadly I don't expect a sudden delivery of slick, eye catching football either. We'll probably go back to winning ugly, with perhaps less emphasis on hoofing than O Neill.

But with all these attacking midfielders we have, could we not have some fancy football at Villa now? Please!

[Toronto Villa]

All I'll say is, if any player kicks up a fuss that KM wasn't made manager, stick him on the transfer list immediately. If he was so good, and so important, then fucking play for him. It shows me at least that he isn't good enough, and some of the players aren't either. I think there are players in that squad that want to play a different style and haven't been led in that direction yet. I hope Gary Mac looked at that today and said to himself that is the last time we play that way.

[sfx412]

Outplayed by Bolton's reserve side, amazing stuff.

At least we managed a point in the fight for relegation and most of the other results went our way. If KM is a Premiership manager Mon is the Messiah.
What a total waste of 14 players in a Villa shirt.

[Toronto Villa]

Outplayed by Bolton's reserve side, amazing stuff.

At least we managed a point in the fight for relegation and most of the other results went our way. If KM is a Premiership manager Mon is the Messiah.
What a total waste of 14 players in a Villa shirt.

What are you talking about?

[Somniloquism]

I'm just glad Ash finally scored from a FK otherwise we would have had nothing from that game. Might as well relieve him from that duty for the rest of the season now as his one for the season is over.

Dunne shouldn't have started after the last few matches and Duverne has his work cut out for him already. I can understand now why supposedly when Dunne suggested they practice passing, MON had them running. He realised that if the bulk wasn't shifted Dunne wouldn't have seen the ball at his feet to pass it anyway.

Drop one of Downing, A Young or MA, play RC with Petrov and Ireland further forward supporting the striker. I'm sure that Ireland could thread some great balls through onto Gabby's runs.

[PhilGibson]

We did not play like a team today besides the first 13 minutes, tactically we are very naive, we do not know how to pass and move, and trying to shoe 3 wingers and an attacking midfielder into the starting line up just does not work. Reo Coker has his faults we all know this but he provides bite and energy in the middle of the park.

Martin O'Neill walked out 5 days before the start of the season and the impact of this is there for all to see, he did so and knew that it would cause major issues for the club.
The board then took ages to sort out a new manager for whatever reason this has also had an impact.
We have been running on a skeleton staff running the 1st team, reserves and youth team with about 4-5 coaches. This was never going to be enough and coming from the reserves to the premier league is far too much of a step up for Kevin Mac as has been proved since the beginning of the season.

It has been a cluster f**k since May to September and Monday brings a new beginning we need to put this horrible chapter behind us and hope to god Houiller can get in and make some positive changes from the out set because on today's performance and others this season, I am really not positive at all.

Please lets have some light at the end of the tunnel and go out and beat Blackburn on Wednesday, because the fixtures in the league do not get any easier over the next few games!

Wolves (A), Spurs(A), Chelsea(H), Sunderland(A) and Blues(H) to come in the next 5! Not overly confident of the points haul from that lot.

[hilts_coolerking]

Started really well, got the goal and then stoppped playing. 

Brad, Luke and the ref kept us in it.  Footballers being the feckless bunch they are, all that talk of doing it for Kevin MacDonald was bollocks. They looked directionless, uninspired and - despite the attacking team selection - short on ideas. 

We miss Milner quite obviously.  Houllier must work out what formation suits our collection of players best and then play it and them.  If that means a big name gets left out then so be it. 

[AlexAlexCropley]

Is Sid to be first team coach?That`ll sort the passing out.