Aston Villa v Blackpool Post-Match Thread

[brontebilly]

Defenders knew he was outjumped and acted like he had been pushed. Ref bought the fake. As an aside, there was nothing about the penalty decision on the BBC highlights. Was it a very good shout?

trevor francis though it was during the commentary. Was on the line of the box so a freekick at the minimum. Albrighton missed an absolute sitter aswell later on. He went pretty ballistic that the Fonz goal was disallowed. That was super play from Young.

Their full backs were absolutely rank to be fair.

Cant believe people on about Dunne. Collins was way worse tonight. Dunne was ok I thought. Dunne was also superb against Fulham. Maybe it was just an off night tonight with them as a partnership but I thought we struggled mainly because Phillips absolutely destroyed Warnock and our two in midfield struggled against them. Clark in particular was hardly in the game in the second half. Bannan was decent from handy ball but didnt demand it when we were under the cosh either.

[Risso]

A bit sloppy and a fair bit of Keystone cops defending but a bonus is the kids had more experience and could form the nucleus of a very good team in the coming years, This period of injuries may be looked upon as a blessing in disguise in the future as we've had to blood the youngsters and they are taking to the task well.
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When Dunne signed I thought we were getting a bit of a liability, he proved me wrong big time, now he's looking like his old self again.
Cuellar simply has to play.

Agree with all that.  An overdue win in an entertaining game, with some terrible defending.  Dunne has been distinctly below par for a lot of this season.

[Legion]

My Engerlish is better than your's.

Sorry. Gone off-topic.

I enjoyed the match today, especially the second half.

[pauliewalnuts]

Defenders knew he was outjumped and acted like he had been pushed. Ref bought the fake. As an aside, there was nothing about the penalty decision on the BBC highlights. Was it a very good shout?

trevor francis though it was during the commentary. Was on the line of the box so a freekick at the minimum. Albrighton missed an absolute sitter aswell later on. He went pretty ballistic that the Fonz goal was disallowed. That was super play from Young.

Their full backs were absolutely rank to be fair.

Cant believe people on about Dunne. Collins was way worse tonight. Dunne was ok I thought. Dunne was also superb against Fulham. Maybe it was just an off night tonight with them as a partnership but I thought we struggled mainly because Phillips absolutely destroyed Warnock and our two in midfield struggled against them. Clark in particular was hardly in the game in the second half. Bannan was decent from handy ball but didnt demand it when we were under the cosh either.

I have been disappointed with Dunne almost the whole season, but I agree, Collins was worse tonight (goal apart).

You're right, though, Warnock had a torrid time, and looks a shadow of the player he was when he first joined.

[TheSandman]

Defenders knew he was outjumped and acted like he had been pushed. Ref bought the fake. As an aside, there was nothing about the penalty decision on the BBC highlights. Was it a very good shout?

trevor francis though it was during the commentary. Was on the line of the box so a freekick at the minimum. Albrighton missed an absolute sitter aswell later on. He went pretty ballistic that the Fonz goal was disallowed. That was super play from Young.

Their full backs were absolutely rank to be fair.

Cant believe people on about Dunne. Collins was way worse tonight. Dunne was ok I thought. Dunne was also superb against Fulham. Maybe it was just an off night tonight with them as a partnership but I thought we struggled mainly because Phillips absolutely destroyed Warnock and our two in midfield struggled against them. Clark in particular was hardly in the game in the second half. Bannan was decent from handy ball but didnt demand it when we were under the cosh either.

He very well should have done well against Fulham as they are powderpuff up front. With the exception of against Chelsea he has been rotten all season. Collins deserves more lee way as he has been very good all season APART from tonight.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Watching the highlights there is one thing I'm glad Houlier has done. He has stopped us doing only in swinging corners. Our two best corners were Downing from the left which, until today, was where Ash used to do Keeper catching practice from.

Watching the highlights there is one thing I'm glad Houlier has done. He has stopped us doing only in swinging corners. Our two best corners were Downing from the left which, until today, was where Ash used to do Keeper catching practice from.

I don't think Houllier can take credit for that one, Dunne and Collins made Downing take the outswinging corners instead of young in the 2nd half, they wanted him to hang it up cos they fancied their chances against their markers, and it certainly paid off

You can hardly blame them, Blackpool failed to get numbers back to defend corners. They'd obviously been watching videos of how ineffective we've been on corners for the last 12 months.

[The Man With A Stick]

Just watching MOTD, no idea what Collins was doing with that first goal.  Very unlike him.

[Small Rodent]

Lets see if he's doing a good job when we don't win any of our next 4 league games and we're hovering around the relegation zone. I'll be surprised if we draw one let alone win any.

Sergeant, take this man to the back of the lines. We want men who will fight and not let each other down.

[pauliewalnuts]

Lets see if he's doing a good job when we don't win any of our next 4 league games and we're hovering around the relegation zone. I'll be surprised if we draw one let alone win any.

Sergeant, take this man to the back of the lines. We want men who will fight and not let each other down.

He's wrong in the "surprised if we draw any" bit.

I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if we get a point against Man U. In fact, I shall be wagering a small amount to that effect with my local, friendly turf accountant.

[timeoutbigbar]

On the plus side, order is restored in Midlands mini league...

[TheSandman]

Lets see if he's doing a good job when we don't win any of our next 4 league games and we're hovering around the relegation zone. I'll be surprised if we draw one let alone win any.

Sergeant, take this man to the back of the lines. We want men who will fight and not let each other down.

He's wrong in the "surprised if we draw any" bit.

I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if we get a point against Man U. In fact, I shall be wagering a small amount to that effect with my local, friendly turf accountant.

I may do the same. I don't get the we will be lucky to get draws in the next four. We seem almost destined to draw games (even tonight we were damned close!). I will be unsurprised if we draw all four to be honest.

 

[The Situation]

Just got back under 1 hour ago after getting something to eat on the way back so I've had plenty of time to reflect on tonight. First of all, whoever was the referee tonight should be ashamed - I was there and amongst many Villa fans witnessed how awful he was... if you think Clattenburg was bad watch this fella in the future. Plz tell me why Fonz's goal was disallowed (I had a perfect view in the North Stand Upper) and plz tell me why we didn't get a blatant peno and also plz explain why you didn't have the balls to give a yellow card for dickhead Blackpool player acting very pathetic.

Bannan, Albrighton, Young, Delfouneso, Downing and L.Young all played great tonight. Marc should of scored two goals period. But Albrighton was buzzing down the right-wing as usual and his performance was Grade A tonight, a goal would of got him an A+. Typical that Harewood scored and fucking disgraceful how we concede with minutes to play yet again - when will this crazy shit stop? Luckily Big Collins got us the winner from a corner... we could of easily scored another two from corners but I don't care; I just care we got those much needed 3 points and fighting back to get victory after I thought it was all over at 2-2.

We need to work on our finishing and stop conceding stupid goals in the last minute(s) but I'm a happy Villan tonight and also extra happy to see some nice results for us over the last two days.

[hawkeye]

never been convinced about the Dunne Collins axis, but at least they are up for a battle, warnock is a worry so we are allways likely to concede, the team needs radical surgery we look forward to a season of scraping enough results to be mid table but a great chance to encourage the youngsters

[pauliewalnuts]

Apparently that referee is one of the chaps who has been reffing for four or five years and got "fast tracked" to the Premier League.

This is according to the (nice) chap who sits next to me, and is a ref himself, so tends to know said things, but may have been incorrect in saying this.

[TheSandman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Taylor_(referee)