SHA v Aston Villa LCQF Post-Match Thread

[Apyadg]

So another day and once again we we played good football but lost.  The defence is letting us down.  Waat Cuellar needs to do to get a game is beyond me.

You think that was good football? We created few chances, and frankly, though Blues looked like creating nothing, I was terrified every time they came close to our defence, because we didn't look like we could handle it. If all you look at is the passing in the middle 50% of the pitch, then yeah, we looked great. But you don't get points or cups for nice little passing sessions in no mans land.

[Bad English]

Of course, nobody went on the pitch after the Villa vs Blackburn semi...

Yes, but our fans didnt run straight over to the Blackburn fans and have a go at them. Disgusting behaviour, throwing flares etc. Chuck the animals out of the competition

Ah, yes. Oh! I switched the stream off 0.000004567 secs after the final whistle. Oh. Fucking ******! The gold-plated testes show up the animal world once again.

[TonyD]

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 Left Side]

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.

With you every word of the way. We just need to hold our nerve and hang on in there...

Agreed, we played them off the park we were the only team in the 2nd half... we need to get to January 1st and get some injured players back, Arsenal are desperate for a trophy and the rags won't get in their way. Let them kid themselves that they are a good team, so they have more games to play and forget about the league. UTV

[Grande Pablo]

We looked good & pretty stable, without too much creativity & a wobbly defense.  Ordinary.  Football is cruel sometimes.

They need shooting.

[richard moore]

We need the time to consolidate and regroup anyway. As players come back, Houllier needs to decide on his best first team matchday squad and, just as importantly, who goes or is dropped out of the picture....

[Holy Trinity]

and to make matters worse ashly young misses the liverpool game monday after his 5th booking of the season, for arguing with the linesman! muppet

[Jon Crofts]

8 fucking seconds after the final whistle the first gloating text arrives from a nose.

I congratulated him & his team on their cup final win.

[Shrek]

That was a fucking disgrace by our defence.

Collins is basically playing on his own. Dunne must be dropped, get Cueller and Collins together.

And I think we do need a new keeper in the summer, Freidel is still quality but mistakes are creeping into his game more often.

[BedsVillain]

I still stick by the encouragement that we are playing much better football. I think if GH brings in 2 or 3 of his own players this January the we will be fine and heading in the right direction.

I get the feeling that Dunne & Collins are being encouraged to be more cultured CB's, which they obviously aren't, and told to play the ball out from the back. Normaly, I would have thought, Ginge would have smashed the ball over the top, just before the penalty, out in to row Z! Dunne, I agree, looks out of shape and extremely out of form, hopefully Carlos will be ready for Monday.

With Ashley out of the Liverpool game, I hope we go with Gabby & The Fonz up top, although I imagine Ireland will come in instead.

[The Situation]

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.

[PaulWinch again]

That was a fucking disgrace by our defence.

Collins is basically playing on his own. Dunne must be dropped, get Cueller and Collins together.

And I think we do need a new keeper in the summer, Freidel is still quality but mistakes are creeping into his game more often.

To be fair Collins was equally inept, and fucking dense in the last couple of minutes up front.

[hawkeye]

The problem is that when it came to it, a number of our players could not step up to the mark, they let us down

[ktvillan]

We  were the better  side by far but the same old problems - no penetration at one end and defence like butter at the other. 

O'Neill was good at getting average players to over perform.  Take away the O'Neill effect and you are left with some limited plodders.

Friedel has the occasional great game but lets in far too many saveable goals for my liking, and flaps a fair bit when under aerial pressure - in contrast to Ben Foster.  The fumble for the disallowed goal was awful.  Well past it in my opinion, sign Given or someone in January please.

Dunne should add a "y" to the end of his name because he is toilet.  Clearly overweight,  slow and seems uninterested.  His attempt to get over to block Jerome for the second goal made Barry look like Usain Bolt. Surely Clark, Cuellar or Curtis Davies could do better. 

I thought Gabby did very well, Ash worked hard but once again wasted corners and possession.

The young lads all came out with credit.  Hogg improved a lot tonight.

[TopDeck113]

and to make matters worse ashly young misses the liverpool game monday after his 5th booking of the season, for arguing with the linesman! muppet

Which of his bookings aren't for dissent or petulance?  He is starting to really infuriate me.