Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[villaledge]

i've been supporting the villa since 77, my 1st post on this forum is to say i have never ever seen a performance of that calibre as i witnessed today .............................. The management and players did'nt represent Aston Villa in the manner in which our great club deserves, that is all i have to say.

Did you miss the Liverpool and Newcastle games earlier in the season and the Chelsea game last year?

No i seen them its just that i was probably in my naievity expecting a response from the team @ management 

[Irish villain]

I don't think it's right for Houllier to reveal that sort of stuff in an interview. Looking for scapegoats. He's the fecking manager.

[Irreverent ad]

i've been supporting the villa since 77, my 1st post on this forum is to say i have never ever seen a performance of that calibre as i witnessed today .............................. The management and players did'nt represent Aston Villa in the manner in which our great club deserves, that is all i have to say.

Did you miss the Liverpool and Newcastle games earlier in the season and the Chelsea game last year?

No i seen them its just that i was probably in my naievity expecting a response from the team @ management 

Keep the faith fella. The lion will roar again!

[The Situation]

Im really depressed to be a Villan at the moment. Knowing you are about to get a pasting before kick off really says it all about the state of the team.

We have the very real possibilty of being relegated at the moment - 2 points off the bottom 3 with reigning champions (last time was 7-1) next up. It just gets worse.

I dont like Houllier at all. Before todays game I was prepared to be patient for the January window because we've had a bad run with injuries and he has to bring in his own players, however I was appalled at todays performance which is hinting there could be some kind of mutiny in the ranks or the motivation / tactics the players are just not responding to.

We sack the manager and who do we turn to ? Big Sam - bleedin hell, it would take me a week to dry the mattress.

Curbs? oh goody lets be the next Charlton.

Martin Jol? Possible. I think we should stick for a bit longer before twisting.

I think he simply has to play 10 behind the ball for the next 3 games - just to get some points on board or avoid defeat however you look at it. Then buy a couple of players to stem the tide - ideally a replacement for Warnock and a striker.

For Chelsea:

Guzan

Lichaj Cuellar Collins Warnock
                NRC
Bannan Petrov Delph
           Albrigtton
            Gabby

That team should be capable of getting a 0-0 and then we build from there (I hope).

Agreed. I don't care if we just park the bus and play ultra negative football against Chelsea in the hope of getting a point which will stop the rot (for the time being) and it might give some confidence into the Sunderland game.

I thought the win against West Brom would be a turning point but it shows it hasn't been. After winning a game why do we always lose the next few games and play awful? No consistency at all.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Houllier looks a beaten man, if he hasn't got the fight in his belly how is he expected to get fight out of his players? He sat on the bench dithering with the cold whilst McCallister shook his head. There is no leadership from the top, and maybe we need to include Randy Lerner in that also. When your in a relegation fight you need to scrap for points, I can't see any scrappers in our side, only souvenir shirt hunters.
I'm sick of the "We need to work harder", "We need to pull our socks up" from the players, start fucking doing it on the pitch you bunch of overpaid wankers!! I'm sick of the likes of Paul Faulkner and The General telling us that our hard work will pay off. Undoubtable O'Neilll left us in the shit, but that is history, stop fucking moping about it and move on, since he has left us things have got worse and unless Lerner gets rid of this idiot in charge of the team and brings in someone who can organise this team and instill some fight we're going nowhere other than the championship.

I didn't expect to beat Man City, but what I do expect from any Aston Villa team is a manager that can send out his team with a game plan, with them being organised and to show some fight for the shirt they are wearing and the fans they are playing for. This is NOT happening under the manager we have and ultimately he is responsible.

GET RID NOW.

[DeKuip]

Nothing changes - we're shit year after year at Citeh. 9 trips to Eastlands and 8 crap defeats.

Last season at Citeh we conceded a penalty and were all over the place defensively when Adebayor scored. They tore us apart down our left through Adam Johnson. Had all the possession 2nd half but couldn't muster an equaliser then they broke and scored again
The season before Wright Phillips  ripped us apart first half down our left and we trailed to a penalty at half-time. Second half we had all the play then they broke and scored again.

Today we lost to two pens, a goal where the ball never crossed the line, and a goal blatantly offside. This time it was mainly Silva we couldn't handle, although Johnson again showed us up down our left. Second half we were better and at least played tidy football without getting anywhere near scoring, apart from one chance at the end. 

If when we go there next year we've nicked their best two players to warm our bench, spent a zillion petrodollars on players, and STILL lose... it'll then begin to annoy me a tad.

Life goes on.

[sfx412]

To be fair I agree Gary. Anybody who has ever expected anything positive from Man City is a fool.

True

[The Situation]

I'm sick of the "We need to work harder", "We need to pull our socks up" from the players, start fucking doing it on the pitch you bunch of overpaid wankers!! I'm sick of the likes of Paul Faulkner and The General telling us that our hard work will pay off.

Yep. It's all well and good coming on an internet message board saying the players are trying hard, we're working really hard at the training ground... but the reality is that none of that is being shown on the pitch. We should just do our talking on the pitch then say we've been working hard etc...

[Lynesadam25]

On the way 2 manchester 2day talkin in the car be4 the game all in the car expected to get beat about 5-0
i wouldnt mind getting beat in a game if the team turned up, but same old villa didnt turn up.
we are 15th in the table and chelsea on sunday and u have 2 reli think 2 urself where do we go from ere, i reli think it comes from the top gh has been out of the game for a long time and the game has changed alot since he been away? yes people say that it is not his team and yes its still o'neils team except from milner.
but when a manger comes in and you have a arguement with richard dunne and john carew and that is 2 player we know about then u have problems in the camp
Then a few weeks ago a training ground bust up? he has lost the dressing room and once u have lost that ur in trouble
then we go to anfield then gh is touchin the liverpool badge signing autographs for liverpool fans? and not even bother with the villa fans.
I think the time has come for a change maybe big sam used to working with not much money and used to scrappin (not pritty football i know) but we r in a relegation fight or soon will be and he used to prem
or matin jol who would also be a risk,
but reli nobody else i can think of but all i know is gh must go sooner rather than later
we have time to turn it around now leave it 2 long we will be going to coventry next season

Up the Villa

 
 

[achilles]

I think people will accept losing as long as there is a little more fight, effort and pride.

That's the difference.

That sums it up perfectly!

[paulcomben]

Oh goodie. Now SHA have equalized with a handball offside goal to go above Villa in the league. Merry Christmas, one and all.

[villajk]

Brad had his hands on his head. Warnock gave the away fans a snidey look, the jibbing Scouse twat. Pires and The Fonz clapped the fans- the rest were more interested in swapping shirts.

I was just about to post exactly that.  The miserable bastards.  I feel better for having said that.  Now, where's the prozac?

[Richard C]

Oh goodie. Now SHA have equalized with a handball offside goal to go above Villa in the league. Merry Christmas, one and all.

Still below.

[paulcomben]

Thanks heavens for negligible mercies.

[olaftab]

Brad had his hands on his head. Warnock gave the away fans a snidey look, the jibbing Scouse twat. Pires and The Fonz clapped the fans- the rest were more interested in swapping shirts.

That I do not understand. Assuming it was our players after their shirts and not the other way round a disgarceful act of arse licking. Did  they not remember that those players had just corked a pineapple  up their bum hole and kicked it for good measure  to ensure it was well rammed?