Aston Villa v Gloryhunters Post-Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

When you consider all of these players were unavailable today... it makes you pretty proud of how the youngsters are stepping up!

Curtis Davies
Ciaran Clark
Habib Beye
Carlos Cuéllar
Steve Sidwell
Stephen Ireland
Fabian Delph
Stilian Petrov
Nigel Reo-Coker
John Carew
Emile Heskey
Andreas Wiemann

other than the odd few thats a proper MON team there and theVilla team yesterday would have spanked them...

[Dave Cooper please]

there is always those empty seats in the middle of the stand , there is loads of them. Surely we can start selling those seats.  ..

Trinity Road?
Those are the corporate seats, we do sell them at vastly inflated prices to businesses and rich people!
You get a balti pie and a warm bottle of Fosters thrown in though.

[olaftab]

When you consider all of these players were unavailable today... it makes you pretty proud of how the youngsters are stepping up!

Curtis Davies
Ciaran Clark
Habib Beye
Carlos Cuéllar
Steve Sidwell
Stephen Ireland
Fabian Delph
Stilian Petrov
Nigel Reo-Coker
John Carew
Emile Heskey
Andreas Wiemann

Worried now... effect on team when this lot return?

[The Man With A Stick]

When you consider all of these players were unavailable today... it makes you pretty proud of how the youngsters are stepping up!

Curtis Davies
Ciaran Clark
Habib Beye
Carlos Cuéllar
Steve Sidwell
Stephen Ireland
Fabian Delph
Stilian Petrov
Nigel Reo-Coker
John Carew
Emile Heskey
Andreas Wiemann

Worried now... effect on team when this lot return?

We'll have a hell of a good subs bench.

[villasjf]

Fergie moaning about us on teamtalk

Ferguson was full of praise for Villa, although he was unhappy that some of their tackles were allowed to go unpunished by Mike Dean.

He said: "You've got to give credit to Villa for their battling qualities. They were enthusiastic and made it a very difficult day for us.

"They were playing at a high level of emotion and deserved the result.

"They tackled everything. A lot of the tackles were unfair but the referee allowed them to go."

He even went on to say with another 5 minutes we could have won the game, god knows where the 5 minutes were from in the first place.

[TimTheVillain]

A lot of the tackles were unfair but the referee allowed them to go."

What a load of bollox.

[cheshire-villa]

Just wanted to echo what most have written on this thread.

Villa were outstanding yesterday especially 2nd half. I really feared for us going into this game however we were so unlucky not to get all 3points.
Albrighton was again outstanding. Bannan is getting better every game. 2up with 10mins left and not winning left me feeling gutted but I'm very proud of the performance of the young lads in midfield.
These young players have been banging on the door of the 1st team for a while but O'Neills stubbon/ignorant policy of playing the same 11 week after week stunted their progress.
I only hope that Houllier sticks with these young lads past the January window.

[barrysleftfoot]

  FWIW my views.

 Joy to watch at times yday.If Evra is the best LB in the world then Albrighton is the best right winger in the world, he caused him so many problems yday.

 Downing is looking the part now, fantastic crossing, and really unlucky he did'nt score.

 Gabby is essential to us.Not fully fit, but his power and pace is essential to us.

 Hogg and Bannan.Very impressed by both and pleasantly surprised by both.Both seem comfortable at this level.Bannan in partic always finds time and picks a pass.The reason why our game was so free flowing yday was because of the quality of the distribution from these two.

  Ashley...needs to score more if playing in this role, needs to provide better quality passes.His ball, and support for the 1st goal was what he should be doing all the time.

  Defence, generally ok today, did'nt read the lay off for their 1st goal, and LYoungs lack of pace off the mark allowed the cross to come in for their 2nd.Nani did'nt get anything out of Warnock but terrorized LYoung.

  Overall, against a Ure team who without Rooney is distinctively average, but who will probably finish 2nd, we probably when 2-0 up should go onto win.A Viera kind of player or a fit NRC in the centre of midfield, probably would have been enough to carry us through, but its hard to be negative.Before the game, i would have taken a point.....bring on BBurn.

[Monty]

Terrific, we nearly beat Manchester U-bloody-nited with our youth team. Nothing but positives, and the players who made mistakes were the veterans rather than the youngsters - and even then, it's Man Utd, you sort of expect to concede the second once they get the first.

A word about Bannan - some exceptional play yesterday against one of Europe's most vaunted midfields, sometimes doing it all by himself. The through-ball for Downing was particularly Xavi-esque. He keeps this up and he'll save us £20m on a creative midfielder.

[Risso]

I had written this season off before it even started. But now I reckon I was wrong.

To be honest I'd be happy for this season to be a "write off" if it meant that we could get all the youngsters ready for a proper season next year.  No offence to the players, but I don't think I ever want to see the likes of Sidwell and Petrov in a Villa shirt again.

[barrysleftfoot]

   The youth yday suggested that Carew , NRC, Heskey, Cuellar and Beye could be added to that list.

[Toronto Villa]

I had written this season off before it even started. But now I reckon I was wrong.

To be honest I'd be happy for this season to be a "write off" if it meant that we could get all the youngsters ready for a proper season next year.  No offence to the players, but I don't think I ever want to see the likes of Sidwell and Petrov in a Villa shirt again.

I don't know about Petrov, but Sidwell, Davies and Beye don't do anything for me. I still think the others used properly have something to offer this season. Next season though it would nice to start fresh with a squad of vibrant young players tearing the opposition a new hole week after week.

[PaulTheVillan]

Some views from a Man United forum

RedCafe

[barrysleftfoot]

   I agree Monty........Bannan really impressed me yday, and surprised me as well.

  I was worried that his stature would hold him back, but he showed yday he has ALL the qualities to be a top quality player.He ALWAYS looks for a pass, and generally finds a good one.Always causes the opposition problems with his passes, and it was his quality pass to AYoung yday that led to our 2nd goal.

  More importantly, i really enjoy watching Bannan.

[hipkiss92]

Some views from a Man United forum

RedCafe

Some of them make some really good points that are nice to hear, but some of them are just fucking idiots.
Especially the one complaining that 'Bannan was kicking Hernandez out of the game', I don't know what match he was watching.