SHA v Aston Villa LCQF Post-Match Thread

[KevinGage]

There will be a lot of doom and gloom on here tonight, and I am gutted to lose to them, but lets put some persepctive on it. We have had to play the same back 4 for the last 6 weeks due to injuries, maybe it might get changed when Cuellar is fully fit. Hogg is growing as a player, Clark is playing out of position in midfield, Gabby has been fit for about 3 games this season, we are missing all of our centre mids and arguably our most effective creator this season, and we have gone there, been the better team by a distance and been undone by our most experienced men. We need 2 centre backs and a keeper of quality, and a top centre mid. I think Houllier likes the 4-5-1 and Gabby does it well. Give it time, I think we are on a better path than the boring motorway we were on, and the end will be much more rewarding. Time now. Just time.

Sorry ozzjim, that's not going to cut it tonight.

We've just gobbed it in spectacular style to our local rivals, making all their dreams come true.

If we were having an otherwise decent season it might be a bit easier to tolerate but the same failings as we've seen all year have cost us again. The LC probably represented our best chance of salvaging anything from this increasingly wretched season -  had we lost to any other side in the last seven minutes tonight it would still have been hard to take.

To lose to the Rags is just the cow pat flavoured icing on the stale cake.

[JUAN PABLO]

I thought Ireland did ok in is 15 minutes, he is looking better.   I really thought ash would score from the Ireland rebound shot and Hogg did pretty well.....    Gabby was good after recent injuries .  Downing disapointed me . Clark was quiet...

I would have took dunne off at HT and repalced with clark and brought Ireland on and fonz should have come on earlier...

At least ash young wont be able to frustrate me Monday night

[richard moore]

They won't beat west ham

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They won't beat west ham

Oh please let them beat West Ham and get ripped one on the wide open expanses of Wembley by Arsenal. I could easily see that being about 4-0

[Apyadg]

I was very critical of O'Neill for his 'win at all costs' mentality, featuring largely bland and boring football. I certainly wouldn't want him back, not after the way he left us in the shit, but I'm starting to think we've jumped from one extreme to the other, and my judgement of him was rather foolish.

[Chipsticks]

I was told that the city was ours.

Elaborate lie.

[TheSandman]

The question is how long can we keep playing some good football which getting better and better but not seeing the results? How the fuck did small heath win tonight - they were non-existent in the second-half. Have no idea what Collins was doing tonight - get Cuellar back in the team ASAP.

small heath are an incredibly lucky team - we'll be better in the long term - just needs time and more backbone in the team at certain moments.

I know this won't go down well but I would still rather this scenario in some ways than what O'Neill was serving up. Because I always knew we would get found out playing his brand of football and we did...every season. I can actually see far more of a way forward in the current circumstances which I realise sounds bizarre at this moment in time

Agree. I said it myself that we were going to be midtable at best under MoN and give or take 10 injuries that seems to be the trajectory.

Hopefully, Blues will get England's WC bid thrown out and get the scorn they deserve. Also, the FL kick them out and give West Ham a bye into the final. We don't deserve a semi final.

[aldridgeboy]

I hope West Ham stuff em. As an aside did anyone else find it strange that the " balls" for the draw were square and didn't seem to be mixed up first? Conspiracy theorists would have a field day!!

[PaulWinch again]

Gabby, Bannan, Hogg were good. However our defence is consistently conceding two or more goals a game, which makes it impossible for our attack.

Would help if they could score more often

Even if they did at the moment they'd have to score 3 a game to stand a chance of winning.

[itbrvilla]

After the ManU game I thought we had a bright future under GH.   

I am now not so sure.   This is like Forest when everybody said they were too good to go down.

What manager allows our CH to be so fat and unfit?

The ****** should be fined every fucking week.  I'm sick of seeing the fat fucker dawdling around making mistakes cause he's so over weight he can't keep up with the game.  He's a disgrace and needs to be told as much.

[TonyDaleysHair]

Lets hope that our World Cup 2018 wasn't hanging on one chaps vote, and as the final whistle approached he was thinking "wow, what an atmosphere and emd of your seat match......i'll give England my vote". Then, 60 seconds later as he sees home fans steaming down the pitch to the away section, launching a flair into their allocation, and when provoked our fans start launching there chairs back at em.

Cuz if he was. i'd say that just about fucked it and swung it away from us.

On a side note, I feel sick. Even doing em at their place now in the league could potentially end with a "yeah but we knocked you out the cup and then went and won it! I certainly would of rather taken the victory tonight.

[JJ-AV]

Atleast Collins doesn't hide, and looks like he keeps himself in relatively good shape. Dunne is a big fat fuck who hides. He's no captain.

[richard moore]

I hope West Ham stuff em. As an aside did anyone else find it strange that the " balls" for the draw were square and didn't seem to be mixed up first? Conspiracy theorists would have a field day!!

They probably wanted to keep the two big teams, West Ham and Arsenal apart as the Rags won't fill Wembley which is just embarrassing to everyone concerned...except us!

[TheTimVilla]

There will be a lot of doom and gloom on here tonight, and I am gutted to lose to them, but lets put some persepctive on it. We have had to play the same back 4 for the last 6 weeks due to injuries, maybe it might get changed when Cuellar is fully fit. Hogg is growing as a player, Clark is playing out of position in midfield, Gabby has been fit for about 3 games this season, we are missing all of our centre mids and arguably our most effective creator this season, and we have gone there, been the better team by a distance and been undone by our most experienced men. We need 2 centre backs and a keeper of quality, and a top centre mid. I think Houllier likes the 4-5-1 and Gabby does it well. Give it time, I think we are on a better path than the boring motorway we were on, and the end will be much more rewarding. Time now. Just time.

Completely agree

[hawkeye]

The loss of NRC cannot be understated, shocking as that might be to say. His bite and endless energy in the midfield would have given the our other midfielders a bit more room and licence to be creative. He was playing very well indeed when he got injured and it's really hurt us.

FFS Tonto we had about 80% posession in the second half, we got done because we cant defend and have no cutting edge up front

[rutski]

if you always do what youve always done, then you will always get what you always got!  MON won these games but could never take us any further!

We were damn unlucky tonight, their winner comming from a scuffed shot and a deflection into the net. Let hou do what he needs to as i see only progressiveness tonight!