Aston Villa v Blackpool Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Wednesday night.

[Dave]

Well done gang.

Good game, deserved three points.

[TonyD]

Phew!  3 points.  We are on our way now!

[Somniloquism]

Well we are upto 10th. Bolton are 5th!?!

[PaulWinch again]

Well we deserved to win but very lucky at the same time, we need to be so much more clinical. Also we need to stop making horrific fuck ups late in the game. Carlos should be back in the centre of defence.

[Nelly]

All this last minute/late in the game crap is no good for me.

[hilts_coolerking]

Made hard work of that.

It's all very well sitting tight and playing on the break - and we do look very good coming forward - but if we're going to dplay that way we've got to more solid defensively.  This was Blackpool reserves and they still managed to create a number of very good chances.

The defence is the one area where we haven't got injury problems and it's the one area where we looked very shakey tonight.

[achilles]

Struggled to win that against Blackpool Reserves, grateful 3 points but pathetic!

[Blackcountry Villa]

Well that was cack, again. Blackpool reserves and we scraped a win, and yet another late goal conceded.

Warnock is a liability and Dunne should be dropped.

[manic-road]

A much needed win and deserved to. Not sure why Fonz's goal was disallowed, he just seemed stronger than the defender.

[supertom]

Should have scored 4-5 today. There-in lies the problem. If we give away silly goals because of slack defending, then we gotta take our own chances. Collins redeemed himself, but Dunney needs dropping.

Barry B did well again. Downing was excellent. Ash was excellent 2nd half. Fonzie played okay and took his goal excellently. Gabby aint quite there yet, that's obvious.
Ireland looks a shell of a player right now. I don't think he appreciates Houlliers approach to man management. But he needs to man the fuck up and concentrate on his game. You feel he needs a goal to kick on.

[brontebilly]

fair play to Blackpool they played some great football. We deserved to win but only barely which is very worrying. Collins got the winner but was horrific for both their goals I thought. Phillips roasted Warnock all night - Warnock has to be dropped and bring in Beye. Thought our midfield two in particular Clark struggled tonight. We were dangerous down the flanks though and Young was very good in the second half. I know Gabby needs match practice but I felt the Fonz should have been left on longer as he was dangerous. Ireland's powder puff tackle in the build up to their second was embarrassing.

Friedel 6
Young 6
Collins 5
Dunne 6
Warnock 3
Albrighton 7
Bannan 6
Clark 5
Downing 8
Young 8
Fonz 7

Gabby 5
Ireland 5

[PaulWinch again]

We created a lot of chances, but we have to score a much higher percentage. Also as an aside we would have had 4 had the referee not been diabolical.

[hilts_coolerking]

Also as an aside we would have had 4 had the referee not been diabolical.

Make that 5!

[TheSandman]

Great game but nervous stuff.

Good stuff from Ash and Downing tonight. Nice for Fonz to get a goal.

I don't know what Dunne needs to do to get dropped but I'd like him to do it. Never mind Cuellar, Dunne has been so abject at times I'd take Davies back! Warnock has been awful for a year as well. Whatever happened to Shane Lowry?