Liverpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[eamonn]

Delfouneso looked good, Downing was hardworking and didn't do a lot wrong, probably Irelands best performance for us and looked a lot better when we went to 442. Luke Young didn't disgrace himself and Brad snr wasvirtually redundant(bar picking the ball out of the net). The rest were woeful. Seems like the usual suspects of Dunne, Collins and Warnock were abysmal.

Ireland, Young, and Delfouneso were shit...no disrespect meant mind!

Nathan was far from shit. Rarely lost the ball, showed great feet on a number of occassions. Pity none of the tossers around him had the workrate and bit of nous to support him.


I was very close to going to Anfield to watch this game with a group of Liverpool supporting friends. Two months ago when we discussed it I honestly thought Houllier's return would be a happy one for us. Thank fook I didn't bother.

[mj]

Terrible, utterly dire 'performance'. We look completely lost.

Honestly can not see where the next win is coming from.  Depressing stuff indeed.

[hawkeye]

Any team playing the Villa at the moment will be rubbing their hands with glee, knowing they only have to 'turn up' to win the game.

That's the shocking thing about this current team.

you are right, its so easy to score against us and no threat up front and that is a recipe for disaster

[Dan England]

Delfouneso looked good, Downing was hardworking and didn't do a lot wrong, probably Irelands best performance for us and looked a lot better when we went to 442. Luke Young didn't disgrace himself and Brad snr wasvirtually redundant(bar picking the ball out of the net). The rest were woeful. Seems like the usual suspects of Dunne, Collins and Warnock were abysmal.

Ireland, Young, and Delfouneso were shit...no disrespect meant mind!

None taken. May have been a bit OTT but I do think Delfouneso and Ireland, particularly 2nd half, were the slight positives to be taken from that game. To say they were shit is being harsh considering the rest of the crap on the pitch.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We can't defend, we can't create, we've got no leadership, we've got no commitment, I genuinly don't think the players want to play for Houllier

..and by the look on his face, I don't thing he's bothered. It was well out of order somebody putting Superglue on Gary MacCallister's seat too. No wonder he never got up. I hope he's still not there now.

[eastie]

Liverpool fans were great says houllier as he thanks them- what about the poor sods who pay your wages gerard and travelled in awful weather to watch such shit- very dissapointing mr houllier!

[glasses]

I wish people would stop saying we have the same team as MON, he never had the injuries to contend with that we have now. I'm as angry over that performance as anyone but keep a sense of reality.

I think you will find that the players training regime will have been altered to fit in with Houlliers style of play. Perhaps MONs training Methods meant that players rarely got injured and were fitter for matches more often. Is that something you have considered?

[Karlos96]

Liverpool fans were great says houllier as he thanks them- what about the poor sods who pay your wages gerard and travelled in awful weather to watch such shit- very dissapointing mr houllier!

That and his poncing around touching the sign and wave to the Kop is a bloody disgrace.  Houllier has really made it hard for himself now.  DOL did the same and once you've lost the fans your finished.

[deanl123]

I know we have injuries, but that does not explain tonight.

Dunne is a great player, but his form has nosedived beyond belief. Carew never put much work in, but always looked dangerous until recently. Warnock has never set the world alight, but he can play much, much better than that. Collins is still working hard, but his decision making has gone to pot.

We are now in a relegation fight, which we could well lose.

I don't blame Randy though. Martin O'Neill was a horrible bloke, but a good manager. He commanded respect, but in the end he refused to understand basic economics and he walked. Unfortunately there was no-one obvious available and Houllier was as good as the rest that were around, and so Randy took the gamble.

The problem with gambling is that sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Houllier tonight proved he has no future in football and can only harp back to the past.

I would normally state that a manager should be given time, but tonight I feel different, and I think Randy should get rid now and give the transfer window to the new guy. Although God knows who that could be!

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh and another thing I have stopped feeling excited and anticipatory when we are playing again.  The last time I had that feeling was in 2006.

[Villa'Zawg]

"The liverpool fans were fantastic, I'd like to thank them for their chants at the end and for their banner."

Tell me you are kidding VD, please....

word for word.

[glasses]

I honestly can't think of any chances we had to score? You can't count Agbonlahors in the second half really. I mean, thats like saying you got a hand job, when really, someones hand brushed past your knob and you came in your pants!

[glasses]

Oh and another thing I have stopped feeling excited and anticipatory when we are playing again.  The last time I had that feeling was in 2006.

Same here. I'm not pining for MON, but I do pine for that feeling that week in week out, whoever we were playing, that we could beat them. Its long gone.

[vilan461]

Every single one of those players should have been made to go to our fans and hand over their shirts and boots.

Awful.

          Carlos did both shirt and tracksuit top-----shows he at least is bothered,he MUST play Saturday time for the comedy double act to be dropped enough is enough-----we are on the edge of a yawning abyss,heading headlong into a relegation battle like a runaway speeding downbound train!!

[AVFCRob]

"The liverpool fans were fantastic, I'd like to thank them for their chants at the end and for their banner."

You missed the final line leading on from this which was that he was "touched". Evidently tonight was all about Gerard Houillier and his relationship with Liverpool Football Club. The plight of his current club is clearly incidental.

Tell me you are kidding VD, please....

word for word.