Blackpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[hawkeye]

All this wailing; Tony, what is Houllier supposed to do, finish Downings one on one for him?

When you've watched the first half you'll see that we should have been 4 or 5 up. We're causing our own problems by being so wasteful.

What is Houllier supposed to do?   There is plently he can do as per my post.     

the system is not working, Downing and Ash should be competing to play left and Gabby should be played on the right or up front, try some one other than Downing or Ash to take dead ball kicks.

[Ads]

All this wailing; Tony, what is Houllier supposed to do, finish Downings one on one for him?

When you've watched the first half you'll see that we should have been 4 or 5 up. We're causing our own problems by being so wasteful.

What is Houllier supposed to do?   There is plently he can do as per my post.     

And none of it addresses the most obvious problem. You said yourself that you didn't watch the first half. When you have then you'll see how many times we got in behind them and how Downing should have scored at least one.

[hawkeye]

Downing made 33 passes of which 13 were unsucessfull I rest my case

[TonyD]

All this wailing; Tony, what is Houllier supposed to do, finish Downings one on one for him?

When you've watched the first half you'll see that we should have been 4 or 5 up. We're causing our own problems by being so wasteful.

What is Houllier supposed to do?   There is plently he can do as per my post.     

And none of it addresses the most obvious problem. You said yourself that you didn't watch the first half. When you have then you'll see how many times we got in behind them and how Downing should have scored at least one.

The trouble is on too many occasions we dont score and then live to regret it.  As Hawkeye said it is not working.   The points dont lie.

[Legion]

Neither do the hips. I had a great day out. Watched Kidderminster beat Altrincham 2-1. A missed penalty and two red cards. Lovely stuff. Met some very nice people aswell.

With regards to the Villa, I'll watch MotD later before I comment. Thanks to my friend Warren for providing me with sms updates as to our progress today.

[barrysleftfoot]

    Granted i only saw the game from a poor stream, but i thought in the 1st half , only poor choices from the wide players kept Bpool in the game.

  Too often, in good positions, the final ball from Downing, Young and Gabby is poor.Whether its poor judgement, or poor movement in and around the box, that is GH to sort out, but for me Downing offers a lot more than AYoung, and i would probably drop Gabby.I thought Makoun was ok, its his game to give the ball to Downing and Gabby and AYoung, and them to open the teams up.

  Oh and for me, the last minute, AYoung, England International, should be doing a lot better.

 Certainly not the worst performance i've seen off us, and signs for me we are getting better.Clarke had a better game, but hes not a LB

[AV82EC]

Just back home to Mancland and the day could best be described as frustrating.  Our lack of clinical finishing and delivery is whats costing us this season and another really shit goal given away.  Like others I can see the positives in the fact we absolutely ripped them to pieces at times but we're not making it count. 

Oh and Howard Webb, and his linesman in front of the mainstand, words fail me.  Thought Sian was excellent to be fair.

Oh and Blackpool was a shithole and I did want to come home.

[olaftab]

Chill people.  A draw  at Bpool is good and now  we have only lost 1 game in the last 5. 8 points from 15 is not bad at an average of 1.6 per game.  The  worst result  in this  little spell was Fulham at home as we lost the lead twice. We will pick up an averagre 1.75 points per game from now till end of the season.
However I am starting to accept that we will not qualify for Europe via the League this season. 

[Tom_Mc9?]

It was a bit rubbish today really. Shame about Makoun's red card. Needless, and makes it harder for him to settle into the Premier League. Never mind.

[BC54 VFC]

what's hard to question is Ash's committment. He runs his bollocks off every game. What can be called into question is what he does with the ball in critical situations and on set pieces. He's been below par far too often this season. Today, as ever he worked very hard, but there simply wasn't the quality we all have come to expect from him.

He was doing ok but his petulance was embarrassing and if anything reduced the his impact. I think he's become more workmanlike this season because of the position he's being asked to play. Far less effective but his effort can't be questioned. A swap with him and Gabby would make us far more dangerous, but the manager seems determined to plough this unproductive furrow.

Get rid of the 'r' and the first 'k' in workmanlike and you're spot on.

[ozzjim]

I think I would drop Gabby too BLF, probably for Bannan. We need someone, anyone, who can deliver a final ball. Although Bannan AND Albrighton need to be back in the side!

[Grande Pablo]

Ironic that Johnny Hogg was sent off too today for Pompey.  Better the devil, etc.

[levico]

Really really should have won this. It's going to be a real struggle to stay up now IMO. Think we'll do it but only by the skin of our teeh.

[Ian.]

I really enjoyed the first half, I thought it was a good game of football from both teams. Bad defending from both teams too, which could have easily been 2 or 3 each.
I don't know how anyone can say Charlie Adam is a division 2 player, he was very good. It is a pity he is off to Liverpool because he would have fitted the bill for us.

God knows what happened second half as my stream kept getting blocked, it sounded pretty poor so grateful we got a point in the end especially playing with 10 men for 25 minutes.

[villa1]

Claret socks today. Enough said.