SHA v Aston Villa LCQF Post-Match Thread

[Bad English]

"I think you got off lucky" has appeared on one of my 'social networking' pages.

[andrew08]

They won't beat west ham

[gervilla]

Playing them off the park is one thing, creating some chances and putting them away is another.
The two dopes in the centre of our defence need to get their shit together or we are seriously fcuked.

[TimTheVillain]

I fucking well hope Houllier's the man, or we are fucked.

[avfcpg]

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

Agreed...for some reason not that bothered about losing to them tonight. Better team by a mile tonight. Need Heskey, Albrighton, NRC and Petrov back, add a few others in January and we'll be fine. These games the kids are playing in are just what they need and none look out of depth. Just a shame the defence looks brittle now.

One thing I do like lately is the way they are keeping the ball, playing possession football from back to front and not just lumping it. It will come, it will take time but it'll be worth it.

[Ger Regan]

Friedel - 6
L. Young - 6 Quiet enough but did nothing wrong for me
Dunne & Collins - 2. Deserve to be thrown in together. Pathetic.
Warnock - 6 Not bad
Downing - 5 Not great
Hogg - 4 Lacks the quality, not going to make it
Bannan - 5 Not a winger, wasted out there
A. Young - 5 Not good enough for me, can't remember one decent ball into the box from him
Clarke - 5 May have to revise my prediction of him as a midfielder
Gabby - 7 Well taken goal and our only threat

Subs
Ireland - 6 Couple of nice touches, worked reasonably hard, possibly should have done better with the chance.

[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.

[richard moore]

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

[itbrvilla]

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.

spot on.  It wasn't a good performance at all.
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.

[Toronto Villa]

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.

[TopDeck113]

Right, off to watch The Apprentice.  Hopefully that'll cheer me up a bit.

[itbrvilla]

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

[damon loves JT]

If anyone wants to pop round and beat me unconscious with a length of timber, go ahead.

[Matt Collins]

Never deserved to lose, and to a jacksy goal from a terrible player. We were a shower defensively again though. We have to make changes there. I thought Hogg was very good. Really pissed off.

[hawkeye]

All they had to do was put men behind the ball and bang it into our box, that was enough to win the game. We are fucked