Blackpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Chris Smith]

What an absolutely disgraceful performance, not least by Young, wearing the captain's armband. I hope that we unload this childish, over-rated, petulant, cheating player as soon as the next transfer period opens. I am ashamed to support a team that considers him worth a pay-packet of any denomination. let alone what Villa are paying him.

What a bloody drama queen.

If the rest of them put in the same effort and showed the same level of commitment as Ash we'd be unbeatable.

[holtepaul]

Absolutely woeful !

I am starting to wonder with Houllier = it alwyas seems one step forward, two back.

Makoun gets minus score. He was absolutely appaling even before he got sent off.
Young is a complete and utter waste of a Villa shirt, and Marc must be wondering how the hell he is being left of the bench.

Bent - so , he was quiet - the reason for a goalscorer is he doesn't have to have great games, he just puts the winners in. As soon as he went off, you could visibly see Blackpools defence think "job done"

Alwful awful game, back in the bottom 6, 3 points off relegation having played more games.

Sorry - nowhere near good enough !

[Summers]

Seen a few anti-Bradley comments, coming on in that situation isn't easy by any means. No point judging him.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely woeful !

I am starting to wonder with Houllier = it alwyas seems one step forward, two back.

Makoun gets minus score. He was absolutely appaling even before he got sent off.
Young is a complete and utter waste of a Villa shirt, and Marc must be wondering how the hell he is being left of the bench.

Bent - so , he was quiet - the reason for a goalscorer is he doesn't have to have great games, he just puts the winners in. As soon as he went off, you could visibly see Blackpools defence think "job done"

Alwful awful game, back in the bottom 6, 3 points off relegation having played more games.

Sorry - nowhere near good enough !

I'm sorry you clearly didn't watch Makoun, prior to the sending off he was far from awful.

[ktvillan]

So having played our way out of the brown stuff against Citeh and Wigan, we've played ourselves right back into it by failing to win in two very winnable games. Brilliant. 

Once again poor marking and ball watching from the defence. It's schoolboy stuff and the main reason we are in the pooh.  I have no faith in Friedel any more, Clark is no left back, and Dunne looked like he's been locked in the pie shop again and had to eat his way out.

At the other end the main failing is our final ball.  Downing and Young were especially guilty today.  The best crosser we have is Albrighton, and the best picker of a pass is Bannan - neither anywhere to be seen today.   

And as for our dead balls, for fuck's sake how many do we have to waste before we change it?  Ashley Young can fuck off for all I care, he massively underperforms far too often.

[hawkeye]

The system that GH is deploying is very limited and he seems as stuborn as MON, same players playing the same limited football but now with  "bound to concede a goa"l. Downing was shocking in the second half he gave the ball back to them at every opportunity but he will start again next week, we are in a dog fight and Downing is not a player for that. With the players at his disposal we should be doing a lot better than this.

[spangley1812]

This team and this formation would have won today

                          Friedel

Walker       Collins      Cuellar    Clark/Warnock


Albrighton   NRC      Makoun    Downing


               Bent      Heskey

Players in their right positions in a formation they know how to play     

[Matt Collins]

I am a big fan of his normally but today....my word.  If Downing had scored his one on one we would have gone on to win I reckon.  Couple that with his shocking service and I lay a lot of the blame at his feet for having one of his worst days in a Villa shirt.  Honourable mentions for Clark and Walker who were also useless.  Must beat Blackburn now.

But isn't the major reason for his service the fact that he is playing on the right?

[pauliewalnuts]

The system that GH is deploying is very limited and he seems as stuborn as MON, same players playing the same limited football but now with  "bound to concede a goa"l. Downing was shocking in the second half he gave the ball back to them at every opportunity but he will start again next week, we are in a dog fight and Downing is not a player for that. With the players at his disposal we should be doing a lot better than this.

Do you do posts which don't mention Downing any more? Or is it some sort of template?

[andyh]

Blackburn up next, Bolton away then Wolves.

Its gonna be horrible horrible horrible

Exactly !
Two weeks ago we were relishing all these games coming up....Fulham, Blackpool etc.........
Now we just look vunerable and unable to beat whoever we play....and we are being pulled back down into the shit.

It IS going to be horrible,horrible,horrible.

[ktvillan]

Message to GH -  you are allowed to sign a defensive coach outside the transfer window.  It might be an idea to do so.

[sfx412]

Second half - shit going forward, shit in the middle, and shit at the back.

No they were not. Considering how many Blackpool score 1-1 was a good result especially as Friedel wasn't called on to do much, second half and, you may have missed it, Makoun was sent off early on. But for Youngs  and Webbs antics we might even have snatched a winner, even with 10 men.
Good news is Houllier won't be able to use Makoun for 3 games.

Nice to see the others making a fight of it, another couple of wins and who knows we might be in the top 10,and with Blackburn and Wolves to come at home and Bolton away who knows

[Monty]

Sorry, are we now dreading Blackburn and Bolton? Geez, I know we didn't play well today, but grow some balls, people!

[hawkeye]

The system that GH is deploying is very limited and he seems as stuborn as MON, same players playing the same limited football but now with  "bound to concede a goa"l. Downing was shocking in the second half he gave the ball back to them at every opportunity but he will start again next week, we are in a dog fight and Downing is not a player for that. With the players at his disposal we should be doing a lot better than this.

Do you do posts which don't mention Downing any more? Or is it some sort of template?

cant resist mate,

[ronshirt]

Time for the knife sharpeners to be brought out of the draws perhaps.

Anyone who harbours large uncomfortable kitchen implements in their undercrackers is bound to be prone to wild outbursts now and again.