Aston Villa v Arsenal Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday afternoon.

[Fergal]

Fuck it....

[Bad English]

Houllier must be in the Guinness Book of Records for injury-time goals.

[PaulWinch again]

Well that first half followed on a series of bad first half performances and was one of the poorest I've ever seen. We cannot play like we did in the first half and expect to get anything. Played better in the second half and at least tried to fight. Ireland was decent when he came on. Warnock and Carew were fucking abysmal.

[Summers]

Infuriating. Urgh.

[Ger Regan]

Diabolical first half, just-about-passable second. If anyone needed more evidence as to the work GH has to do to rebuild the squad, then today showed it.

[Jimbo]

Well, that was painful wasn't it. Bit like having your wisdom teeth taken out with a hand grenade, you know it's going to be painful. The real pain will kick in when we play the knuckledraggers, though, because that's a game this bunch will never find the balls to win. Hope it's snowed off.

[Edvard Remberg]

Actually  - why even bother playing overpaid primadonnas when we got a youth setup that really show what it takes... when Carew went off, everything went better...No Carew No Ireland and we would have won

Ciaran i like you ....and all you Young bashers..he did actually put in a hard work (so did Downing)

[Summers]

saying no Ireland and we would have won is a joke, surely. He came on and made a difference with some good passes and getting involved.

[beness]

Can't afford to carry Carew in games like this. 

[hipkiss92]

Can't see where our next win or even our next point is going to come from, Houllier has a lot of work to do, and I'm really getting pissed off with Ashley Young atm, some of his performances have been dire.

At least Bannan, Clark and Delfouneso showed the energy and fight needed if we're going to do anything this season, and Luke Young was once again his normal consistent self.

[timeoutbigbar]

saying no Ireland and we would have won is a joke, surely. He came on and made a difference with some good passes and getting involved.

Indeed, thought Ireland was ok when he came on, though couldn't really work out why he spent much of injury time in our own half rather than on the edge of their box.  The few times we did get the ball at the end, we seemed to punt it aimlessly and get nowhere near having the ball in their half.  At least the lads tried second half, and I consider the 4th goal they scored irrelevant.

[eamonn]

Missed the game but I'm kinda worried about how long ago Houllier wrote-off this season. When he signed the contract was there an agreement with Lerner that Champs League/top 6 was off the agenda for the forseeable?

Cos, all excuses aside, that's how we've been playing all season. Say what you want about MON's inability to win games at home but we were always (Chelsea 7-1 excepted) a difficult side to beat. We've become very soft.

[Ger Regan]

Luke Young was once again his normal consistent self.

Barring the awful mix-up for their second.

[Blackcountry Villa]

Very lucky to ONLY lose 4-2. They were so much better than us it was embarassing to watch at times and really it should have been 6 or 7.

Arsenal are crap at the back, everytime we attacked them they looked like conceding so why did we allow them to dominate and take the piss? Even when we made it 2-1 and 3-2 we then did fuck all else and didn't trouble them. I don't care how good they were, we allowed them to be. No passion, no fight, but most of all no quality. There is a distinct lack of it in our team and squad and whether we like it or not we're going to be in a relegation battle, we look very poor and very limited and i don't think anyone we've got out injured will make a difference.

Our defence is laughably bad, keystone cops stuff from them. All it takes is one ball and they part like the red sea, they're all over the shop.

Dreading the Blues game, no way are we going to win that.