Manchester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[dicedlam]

Absolutely fucking stupid to start with Heskey, Delfonuso and Gabby.  No sense what so ever.

They're strikers, not providers. 

Petrov shouldn't play again

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[Bosco81]

Pathetic, Bradley & Petrov gave the worst midfield performance I've seen in a long time.

You just know that despite Bannan being the best Villa player by a mile he will struggle to get on the bench on Saturday.

Season ticket prices are going to make intersting reading, can't see myself going to a home cup game for a long, long time.

[N'Rexy]

Ged getting a slating on R5. They are offering some decent criticism and comparing it to Moscow. I think he has really fcuked himself with this.

[wombat]

Team Selection: Abysmal
Team Performance: Abysmal
Result: Abysmal
This season: Abysmal

I'd think of something clever about mastercard but i'm too pissed off.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Its opened a whole can of worms now as well. its gonna be open day on aston villa for the next few days, talksport, the papers etc etc etc. Our name is mud.

Like the press wasn't anyway! Who cares what they say?!!

With our financials we NEED to stay up. I think GH made the right decision.

Lets all get behind them for the Bolton match.

Dony worry we will be behind them. But Houllier had better make sure there are 3 points there after whats hes done tonight.

[Monty]

The funny thing is, as usual, that our senior players (Dunne aside) were the ones who let us down the most tonight. Friedel was shaky and indecisive, Heskey has concrete in his boots and can't move and Gabby was more concerned with his personal battle with Richards than team play. Bradley started brightly but faded, and Petrov's bursts forward were never accompanied by getting back in time to cover.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Of course, if we beat Bolton away and are suddenly not that many points off top six, we may all politely draw a veil over tonight...

Come on Richard is that tongue in cheek?

[Dave Cooper please]

GH: "Take away the 2 goals and 1st half was even".............what drugs is he on??

Well...strictly speaking and all that.

"If it had gone in it'd been a goal!"

[ozzjim]

Ah nothing like a H&V over reaction. Give the bloke some time and lets judge him next season. Strictly he is right, the players were all either full (most of them) or U21 international footballers, so rotation is something we have to get used to, and GH openly knew they are a better team with a much stronger squad. Think the over reaction is madness. Just agame of football, 50 odd years and we have not won it, calm down.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Disgusting - AGAIN . Moscow esque.

Embarrassing - AGAIN.

Fair play to those who went - I could of but knew what was coming.

Petrov - busted flush- thanks for the last few average seasons but please just go

Gabby - pathetic - a shadow of the player of 2 years ago - lazy, uninterested - I could mark him.

Heskey - woeful - though thought he looked injured (if so should have been replaced)

Bradley - first game but pretty shit

When 88% of our revenue went on wages then we have got a few years of this to get used to.

I think Ged was wiining us over - this has put him back a long way.

Pissed off big time tonight

[Diablo]

Bannan and Herd were good.

Let's hope we beat Bolton, or Gerrard will look a complete twat.

He looks like a complete twat regardless of the Bolton result. Absolute disgrace!!!

[Irreverent ad]

Ah nothing like a H&V over reaction. Give the bloke some time and lets judge him next season. Strictly he is right, the players were all either full (most of them) or U21 international footballers, so rotation is something we have to get used to, and GH openly knew they are a better team with a much stronger squad. Think the over reaction is madness. Just agame of football, 50 odd years and we have not won it, calm down.

Spot on.

[CJ]

The additional worry for me is that not only did he surrender the FA Cup before the game started, by doing so he has probably convinced Ash to go. 

[Ian.]

I still believe GH can take us forward but thought he could have thrown caution to the wind tonight for the sake of a go at the Cup. Football in general is so wrong at the moment and it is not going to get any better for a long time.
Disappointed.

[Olneythelonely]

The only argument for his decision is he wanted to avoid injuries.

Yet he threw them all on when we had absolutely no chance of winning anyway.

So why did him leave them on the bench? I'm absolutely bemused at his decision, just when it looked like we were picking up some momentum, he goes and repeats O'Neill's biggest mistake. Idiotic.