SHA v Aston Villa LCQF Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

Sometimes you need a lucky break to win a cup match. Blues had it tonight.  Zigic is  just about the worst player in the PL and  some how some how he manged to guide the ball off Collins in to the net.  That was pure luck nothing else.  Yes we battered them in the second half but I can not remember, other than  Ireland shot Foster  parried that  just didn't run right for Ash, us creating any good chances.  We have beaten them with late goals  about 4 times in the last few seasons. I guess it was their turn tonight.

Put away your cyanide tablets we will be OK  when  senior players return  and join up with  like's of Bannan and Albrighton.

[Lowendbehold]

Suddenly we have loads of midfielders who can play but no one who can defend.  Dunn needs to get fit so he can get to a ball and Collins needs to be stronger.  I suspect Dunne's long standing injury is effecting his overall fitness and thats having an effect on Collins.  Luke is getting on and Warnock just needs a kick up the arse.

Davies and Clarke will be our centre halves of the future, Luke will be on his way and with a new 200 goal a season striker we will be fine.

[itbrvilla]

Suddenly we have loads of midfielders who can play but no one who can defend.  Dunn needs to get fit so he can get to a ball and Collins needs to be stronger.  I suspect Dunne's long standing injury is effecting his overall fitness and thats having an effect on Collins.  Luke is getting on and Warnock just needs a kick up the arse.

Davies and Clarke will be our centre halves of the future, Luke will be on his way and with a new 200 goal a season striker we will be fine.

Can play?  What the fuck did they do precisely?

[damon loves JT]

I would love us to sign a 200 a season striker.

[Mazrim]

Sometimes you need a lucky break to win a cup match. Blues had it tonight.  Zigic is  just about the worst player in the PL and  some how some how he manged to guide the ball off Collins in to the net.  That was pure luck nothing else.  Yes we battered them in the second half but I can not remember, other than  Ireland shot Foster  parried that  just didn't run right for Ash, us creating any good chances.  We have beaten them with late goals  about 4 times in the last few seasons. I guess it was their turn tonight.

Put away your cyanide tablets we will be OK  when  senior players return  and join up with  like's of Bannan and Albrighton.

Sense.
More of this sort of thing please.

Sometimes, even the spanner kids from across the road can kick you in the back when you're not ready.

[Irish villain]

Gutted. Absolutely guuted.

We dominated the whole game....Gabby was ace. Dunne, not good enough

[The Situation]

To the people who have criticized Curtis Davies... can you honestly say he would be playing worse than Collins and Dunne at the moment? Dunne and Collins had very little to do tonight because they have such a piss poor attack - but even when they had to deal with basic things they made a mountain out of a molehill.

It's so  fucking annoying. We're trying to progress playing a new brand of football, we're playing well in most games but things just aren't going away it's so fucking annoying!!!!! They were scared of us second-half, we camped in their half, we looked dangerous... losing to shitty teams who play shitty football is just really frustrating! Drawing to Fulham, drawing to United, losing to Blackburn, losing to pond scum?

[monkeyboy]

dunne and collins are out of form (and one out of shape) - we have cover with Cuellar / Clark - and the bloke playing at Leicester if anyone has his mobile number, so we can do something here - and all are capable first team players int he league. We do need to do something though - couldn't take SHA and then Red scouse beating us in a week - would be too much

Real thing that worries me though is that, sure we have injuries - but Bannan and Clark have come through and it could be argued could be first team regulars anyway (Hogg not yet for me ) - so in real terms, when the injured folk get back - are we really going to be that much better.

Sidwell is shit, Heskey is shit, Reo is not good enough, Delph is untried still - which leaves us with Petrov and Albrighton improving us. Honestly though they don't turn us from where we are now to top 4 contenders.

Bottom line our defence is lacking confidence and is like a swiss cheese at the mo - but this can be and will be fixed - hopefully sooner rather than later - but we lack goals and creativity - we had two shots on target tonight - and we had a ton of possession, every team we play seems to have a greater cutting edge than we do - Jerome for instance this evening, he's useless in terms of strikers in the PL - but he's better than anything we have in terms a strike man, to boot he worries defenders, makes space and makes goos runs through the middle (sure he couldn't finish a mars bar - but you get my point) - playing with no strike man especially when you consider we play wide blokes getting crosses into Gabby as our strike man makes for frustrating viewing - and unsuccessful results - Gabby's as good as we have got but he's not Peter Withe is he

Roll on Jan 1 - GH as a job to do then else we are knackered

My 2p's worth

[pauliewalnuts]

Sometimes you need a lucky break to win a cup match. Blues had it tonight.  Zigic is  just about the worst player in the PL and  some how some how he manged to guide the ball off Collins in to the net.  That was pure luck nothing else.  Yes we battered them in the second half but I can not remember, other than  Ireland shot Foster  parried that  just didn't run right for Ash, us creating any good chances.  We have beaten them with late goals  about 4 times in the last few seasons. I guess it was their turn tonight.

Put away your cyanide tablets we will be OK  when  senior players return  and join up with  like's of Bannan and Albrighton.

Quite right, too.

[Lowendbehold]

Suddenly we have loads of midfielders who can play but no one who can defend.  Dunn needs to get fit so he can get to a ball and Collins needs to be stronger.  I suspect Dunne's long standing injury is effecting his overall fitness and thats having an effect on Collins.  Luke is getting on and Warnock just needs a kick up the arse.

Davies and Clarke will be our centre halves of the future, Luke will be on his way and with a new 200 goal a season striker we will be fine.

Can play?  What the fuck did they do precisely?

Try to find one unfit striker who did try his hardest but isn't match fit.  Young is best out wide and so it all fell to Gabby.

[richard moore]

Time to sign off. Nice to see most people keeping a sense of perspective about what was a very unlucky defeat. It may get worse before it gets better but we just need to hang on in there until 1st January for all sorts of reasons - the games we have coming up, the players who will return from injury, the chance to buy a couple of new faces, and the opportunity to get rid of some of the baggage who are now hanging around the club and making no positive contribution at all!

[JJ-AV]

Five games running we've conceded atleast 2 goals.

[darren woolley]

One word gutted.

[Mazrim]

I would love us to sign a 200 a season striker.

We can trade him for our 10 a day defender.

[The Situation]

Oh, and I wouldn't be nearly as pissed off if we weren't in 15th position in the league. If (yes I said if lol) we had beaten Fulham and Man United I really wouldn't care that much because I know we could push on into a European Spot... no chance of that happening now. So depressing.