Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[WikiVilla]

What an appalling day
I'm off to bed now
I hope to wake to find houllier has gone
Nite x

[pmk1981]

That tosser isn't going anywhere. Unless the players do a Leeds - clough meeting with randy we are stuck with that French fucker for a while and I am scared as to what shite he buys in jan

[TaxDodger]

On a slightly different note, what was that insane backwards dance the Man City fans were doing today?

[AV82EC]

They were "doing the poznan" who did at citeh in the Europa earlier in the season.

[TaxDodger]

They were "doing the poznan" who did at citeh in the Europa earlier in the season.

Oh i see. So the person standing next to me who confidently claimed they it was a pro Malcolm Glazer dance was in fact lying?

[olaftab]

When you make a mistake don't compound it by throwing millions at it, which he'll have to do in January in GH stays.

I think there is a case for telling GH  no money in Jan. Your task is keep us in the PL  this season and we will assess how much you get  based on results from now on.
If GH can not move us away from relegation  battle with the current squad than he is not good enough to be trusted with any money.

[damon loves JT]

I would love to see a 'Pro Malcolm Glazer Dance'. They say the movement of the human form is civilisation's most subtle language, but fucking hell. That's even better than the 'Swales Out' mass ukelele solo protest of 1988

[KevinGage]

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to offer up a dance to symbolise the majesty of the ginger God Bernie Gallagher.

[damon loves JT]

Only if you devise a piece of performance art in homage to Kevin Poole

[gerags]

I don't think throwing money at the squad is the first step.
We should look at working hard to organise and restore what was a very good defence so thet we stop conceding silly goals.

That's the basis on which you should build any team.

[citychris]

I said that I would come on and give you a City fans perspective win,lose or draw.

Firstly I want to say that the Villa fans at the game today were brilliant, lots of gallows humour, and they sang their hearts out, we had a good drink with a few in the "Townley". The best away fan experience so far this season in there.

The match itself, well I enjoyed it!

City started with so many changes, we thought that the Villa boys would think,  what no Tevez, but we started in a blistering style. Only Downing and Bannan seemed interested , with DeJong being made captain for the day, he was everywhere which nullified both of them. Adam Johnson also was always going to be all over Downing to prove something from their Middlesboro days.

It was all very easy, due to your boys not turning up and I have to say we could have scored a lot more, it's not often I am bored with 25 minutes to go when we're 4-0 up and taking off all our better players and replacing them with what we now see as reserves.

This is shit to write because I have always liked The Villa, yes I want to win, but could name a lot of teams that I would rather us do a number on.

Villa team today was shocking;

 I think Bannan has got something about him. he tried his heart out and one day will be a player
Albrighton was left on his own, either side of the pitch he played on, if the fullbacks don't support you then Zabbaletta or Richards will and they did
Agbonlahor worked his tits off with zero reward, on his own up front, he had no chance against Lescott and the incomparable Kompany.

I found Villa today had a total lack of confidence, no leaders on the pitch and no direction from the bench.

Good luck for the rest of the season, There are definetly 3 teams worse than you so don't worry about relegation and if the fans who were at Eastlands today are anything to go by, no problems.

[garyfouroaks]

I am no knee-jerk merchant. It is quite clear that this is all going horribly wrong. There is quite obviously a serious problem with the way the football side id being managed. This needs to be resolved quickly.The stench of relegation looms.

[old man villa fan]

When you make a mistake don't compound it by throwing millions at it, which he'll have to do in January in GH stays.

I think there is a case for telling GH  no money in Jan. Your task is keep us in the PL  this season and we will assess how much you get  based on results from now on.
If GH can not move us away from relegation  battle with the current squad than he is not good enough to be trusted with any money.

I had to read this twice to make sure that I hadn't misread it.

Are you serious?  The squad is clearly short in some major positions but you would rather test the ability of the manager rather than improving the strength of the club and moving on.

Fair enough if you do not think GH is good enough.  If so, get rid of him now, not set him a test in management skills.

If GH still has a job next week, he should be given money to spend.  Randy either backs him or sacks him, there is no in between.

[Pat McMahon]

what manager is going to get that shower to play for them what insentive can he offer. Most know they are in the last chance saloon and were thankful for Mon's generosity. Him quitting, walking out, running away leaves them in the same position the crowd he left at Celtic were in. They like we will have to, took a hit and still have not found enough to finance a total rebuild.
To do so in the Prem will be harder, much harder. Too many hangers on and not enough quality experience to help the kids. If Tsvet,s insider knowledge is right, there's no chance Randy will refinance the squad, so its a no win situation and no manager can sort that in under 6 months.
Sack who u like I'm not impressed with Houllier, but I seriously can't see anyone else doing anything with the shit Mon left, short term.

Didn't he leave Celtic to look after his sick wife?

And didn't they win the title the season after he left?

Possibly (can't be arsed to check), but they also won it 3 times in 5 years while he was the manager there.

[JD]

I said that I would come on and give you a City fans perspective win,lose or draw.

Firstly I want to say that the Villa fans at the game today were brilliant, lots of gallows humour, and they sang their hearts out, we had a good drink with a few in the "Townley". The best away fan experience so far this season in there.

The match itself, well I enjoyed it!

City started with so many changes, we thought that the Villa boys would think,  what no Tevez, but we started in a blistering style. Only Downing and Bannan seemed interested , with DeJong being made captain for the day, he was everywhere which nullified both of them. Adam Johnson also was always going to be all over Downing to prove something from their Middlesboro days.

It was all very easy, due to your boys not turning up and I have to say we could have scored a lot more, it's not often I am bored with 25 minutes to go when we're 4-0 up and taking off all our better players and replacing them with what we now see as reserves.

This is shit to write because I have always liked The Villa, yes I want to win, but could name a lot of teams that I would rather us do a number on.

Villa team today was shocking;

 I think Bannan has got something about him. he tried his heart out and one day will be a player
Albrighton was left on his own, either side of the pitch he played on, if the fullbacks don't support you then Zabbaletta or Richards will and they did
Agbonlahor worked his tits off with zero reward, on his own up front, he had no chance against Lescott and the incomparable Kompany.

I found Villa today had a total lack of confidence, no leaders on the pitch and no direction from the bench.

Good luck for the rest of the season, There are definetly 3 teams worse than you so don't worry about relegation and if the fans who were at Eastlands today are anything to go by, no problems.

Thanks for the kind comments Mr City fan. I'm still fucking angry at that gutless performance. It's the worst display I've seen from a Villa team in a long time (luckily I missed the Redscouse game) and if we continue to play like today, relegation is a certainty.

I fucking hate football, it ruins my life.