Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[dave.woodhall]

Time to stop blaming O'Neill in every match thread. It seems to me that the current manager hasn't got a clue and Villa are falling fast.

The time to stop blaming O'Neilll is when nothing's his fault. That's a long way off.

Looking on the bright side, you'll have an extra 4 games to sell fanzines next season. There's something to thank MON for.

Gosh, that was hilarious. How much do you want to bet on it?

[damon loves JT]

No, for the first goal Collins was desperately trying to get across to cover for warnock who had been done for speed.

[Percy McCarthy]

Don't think people are gonna stop blaming O'Neill anytime soon. I found an old paper the other day from after we had won 2-0 at Blackburn. I think we were third in the league having won 10 out of 13 away games. And he was getting slaughtered on here by some even then.

[johnc]

Who can GH buy that will make an immediate impact, as most foreign players need months to adjust to the English game 

Van Der Vaart Seemed to get the hang of it fairly quick

[Ads]

He didn’t deserve it then. After shitting on us from a great height, he now does. You have to put things in context and that means you have to factor O’Neill into the analysis. 

[Pete3206]

Time to stop blaming O'Neill in every match thread. It seems to me that the current manager hasn't got a clue and Villa are falling fast.

The time to stop blaming O'Neilll is when nothing's his fault. That's a long way off.

Looking on the bright side, you'll have an extra 4 games to sell fanzines next season. There's something to thank MON for.

Gosh, that was hilarious. How much do you want to bet on it?

Christ, lighten up you miserable sod.

[dave.woodhall]

Christ, lighten up you miserable sod.

Shan't and you can't make me.

[villa-love]

Suprised noones mentioned how awful Warnock was today! Replacement/back up for competition for his place is needed in January.

[Pete3206]

Christ, lighten up you miserable sod.

Shan't and you can't make me.

Git. 

[dave.woodhall]

Christ, lighten up you miserable sod.

Shan't and you can't make me.

Git. 

I got called a lot worse by the Spurs fan who kindly gave me £4.50.

[Salsa Party Animal]

for buying H & V program LOL ?

Villa had attacked a lot and tried hard but they didn't have the intelligent or class to make our possession pay and our shooting / header is poor. Gomes of Spurs had an easy day in the office.

One player make my blood boil is Stephen Warnock. I want him replaced asap. Let hope GH have 3 or 4 players waiting to join by the weekend. I do think Delph selection is weird. I would thought we will give him 3 or 4 substitute appearances before a starting role. I would let GH bring in quality young players and clean out the overpaid primal donnas. then in the summer we can decide if GH need moving upstairs or not.

[richardhubbard]

We are shit under GH, he has fuck all idea and needs to leave now

so let's say you're Randy. Option 1 - You sack GH and bring in Allardyce. I don't think we are going down under Houllier, and I don't think we would under Allardyce so mission accomplished there. January rolls around and we give Big Sam 10-15m to spend on a bunch of lumpers to ensure we are playing PL football next year. By next August we have another 10-15m worth of additional lumpers, and low and behold we spend the next few years finishing between 8th and 12th every year with football from the dark ages.

Or , Option 2 - you give GH some time to get in the type of players that in the long run will massively benefit the club and play attractive football, even if it feels as though, right now, the sky is caving in?

I'm choosing option 2

They are more options than Fat Sam, I just dont think GH has the ablity to sort this out. Remember this team took us to 6th , now we heading towards bottom 3 by time transfer window opens

[villa1]

Having seen motd I don't think you can blame Warnock for their first. He was dragged across by our two centre halves who were also too far over. It was their full back who put the cross in. I'd argue that Downing wasn't doing his job in tracking him.

Admittedly Warnock has been off form but some people seem to be blaming him for everything, especially the idiot who sits in front of me and hasn't got a fucking clue what he's rattling on about.

[brian green]

Apart from Warnock being a walking/hobbling disaster area, Downing having the heart of a hamster and Carlos Cuellar being, as the perceptive wit behind me put it the only spanish professional footballer with no ball control, our biggest, most telling, most damaging fault is lack of snap in front of goal.   All of Gabby's original goal hunger and fire has been burned out of him  by O'Neill, Nathan is a bag of nerves every time he steps out in front of a full house and seems to think he should try to play like his idol Thierry Henry with little clever dinks and lay offs and flicks when what he should be doing at every opportunity is testing the goalkeeper.

We were shagged yesterday when Heskey went off because we had two slimly built strikers without a shred of confidence between them trying to take on a defence of brick shithouses.

Houllier gambled big time yesterday starting with the midfield line up he chose.   We only looked likely to trouble them when Petrov and wash my mouth out for saying it Pires were brought on.   Delph I fear is another player like Curtis Davies who O"Neill plunged a huge amount of money on and who we seem obliged to use to try get some pay back for a massive and reckless outlay.   He will go back to Leeds for half of what we paid for him.

If we do not sign a ready made goal scorer in January and take the soft option of either signing nobody or a seven foot tall greek kid the crowd give the bird the first time he does an Ian Ormondroyd relegation is a very real threat.

[Breezeblock]

Comedy defending combined with a lack of a goalscorer done us again. Thought Lichaj played well as did Heskey until Gormless crippled him (how that was not a penalty is unfathomable). Warnock miles out of position for their first and i'm sure our entire defence were playing musical statues for their second.  Surprise consolation goal from Albrighton who I thought was lively without being spectacular and I thought Gabby was working well with Heskey but didn't have a clue how to wotk with the Fonz. We looked like we couldn't score in a brothel and we are in desperate need of a goal poacher.  Oh, and a new left back.