Still no apology from the club!

[Bad English]

the club needs the money that matchday brings and lower gates make it more difficult to compete.

Putting out your best team would make it easier to compete. It all depends if you really want to.

[pelty]

the club needs the money that matchday brings and lower gates make it more difficult to compete.

Putting out your best team would make it easier to compete. It all depends if you really want to.

I am unsure to whom the "you" refers in the above statement, but there is a general bemusement amongst some in the club at the choices made for Wednesday's match, I would imagine.

[KevinGage]

I'm still gutted by the result and the team he put out but not only that i get blown away by a sexy Italian barmaid in Covent Garden just don't get any better does it.

Was she Mafiosi?

Has this post reached us from beyond the grave?

[ozzjim]

what a complete load of nonsense. I'm guessing that some people will be asking for the club to send out emails, letters, surveys etc to all and sundry ahead of games so that people can provide their best line up and formation. I know Wednesday didn't go to plan, but fuck me what a bunch of drama queens we have on here.

Second this.

[Nigel Macdougall]

I dont think you will get an apology straight away.

I went to watch us lose 3-0 away to watford in 1969 and that was really shite. I am still waiting for an official apology from the club and havent given up hopes of a refund.

Your postal order for five bob,is in the post !

[Bad English]

I know Wednesday didn't go to plan, but fuck me ...

Are you telling me that Houllier was PLANNING to win the tie with that team?

[Risso]

In defence of the club, they didn't ask us to thank them when they shelled out £20m for bent the other week
 

The General was on hear moaning about the low crowd for Bent's debut.  I'm afraid that I think the current owners just don't "get" English football.

Or, alternately, some of the fans are fairweather... To-may-tos, to-mah-tos. Not talking about those on here or other sites, of course, as everyone here is passionate enough that they would spend there time on such a site. But surely there are fringe fans who pay attention when the club does well and are willing to pay the money then (but, perhaps, only occasionally) but not when the team is not riding high. That plus the economy equals low attendances. That said, the club needs the money that matchday brings and lower gates make it more difficult to compete. A vicious cycle...

Fairweather or not, it's up to the club to entice the fans back.  The latest accounts show another disappointing set of results, and events like Wednesday will only make the board's job a lot harder.  You may think my comment was harsh on Mr Lerner, but one of the main things owners have to get right is appointing the right boss.  I've seen nothing to suggest that Houllier is anything like the right boss.  If we do have fair-weather fans as you suggest, then chucking the towel in in the FA Cup is the quickest way to ensure those floating voters vote with their feet.

[TopDeck113]

If we'd played our best team and lost 5-0 on Wednesday I'd have got over it by now.

That's how I feel.  Like everyone else on here under 60, I've only ever known a season to include a Cup defeat, and in that time I've witnessed all manner of Cup exits, from the unlucky to the inept, but up until Wednesday, what they all had in common was they'd happened with us fielding our strongest available team.

Whilst the exit always hurts, I can ultimately accept the other team being better, I can accept that sometimes the rub of the green/big decisions going against you, I can accept the collective bad day at the office, I can even accept Lions being led by donkeys, in the sense of the manager getting the tactics wrong. 

What I can not and will never accept is a manager almost deliberately setting out to get us knocked out.   

[Toronto Villa]

I know Wednesday didn't go to plan, but fuck me ...

Are you telling me that Houllier was PLANNING to win the tie with that team?

I will bet you that between GH, Gary Mac, and Villa legend Sid Cowans that they didn't give up on the result before the game just because they named that team. That just like Man City, we rested a few players, most notably Ash and Downing (two players who's commitment has questioned by some on this site in the last few months), we weren't just throwing away the game. And that the 8 changes from Blackburn were not all made by choice which also seems to be being ignored by the angry mob.

The team we put out, admitedly not being our very best was hardly anything like the Villa academy side now was it? The fact that the senior pros didn't play to a certain standard says more to me about their quality and future at the club than it does about the decision to play them in the first place in my opinion.

[koreanmeatballs]

*Another Houllier rant *

I was all up for going out of the cup early doors - just get out of it as soon as possible and concentrate on the league (I notice a few people on here defending our inept manager who had a bit of a moan at me because 'we always want to see Villa win, that's what proper fans do!' Bit of a change of opinion there lads.)

However...

What I can't understand is why he comes out with 'It's a big priority' bull shit before the game. If he just said 'Look were doing shite in league, we must concentrate on that' then there would be no problem but by saying what he did he has made a dogs dinner out of this situation.

Furthermore why didn't he just play the team that would of us give us the best chance of winning, if this was a priority? 'Ashely/ Stewart...might get injured then we won't compete' shite that some fools have been on about. Why then doesn't this logic apply to our only senior goalkeeper and our only two fit center halves (now we have lost Dunne!) if we weren't bothering to even try with this match then why risk them? Does not make sense.

If we played our first team and actually gave ourselves a chance but still got a beating no one would of give a shit. We are not expected to beat them so why not just give it a go? After the performance at Blackburn Geddy had the chance of building on improving opinions. Somehow he has made a 'win-win' situation into a loss.

Now today he has said 'They (Villa fans) blame me for an Arsenal keeper messing up!' Bloody hell, I reckon the fella wants us to hate him.

'Don't come down' 'You're not a proper fan' 'Fuck off then' or whatever replies (if any) are coming, I'd just like to say I'm a paying costumer of Aston Villa and have been for a long time. I like you want the best for Villa, Gerrard Houllier is not.

[Bad English]

Verily, I do believe that some of the posters on here could get home to find Houllier doing their partner up the wrong 'un and they would ask him if he fancied a beer afterwards.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I went to watch us lose 3-0 away to watford in 1969 and that was really shite. I am still waiting for an official apology from the club and havent given up hopes of a refund

Me and Alex Alex Cropley got pissed and wrote a 9 page letter to Graham Taylor after we surrendered at home to Wimbledon in 1989 ( in the cup?). We really gave it to him with both barrels. He never replied.

Can't remember if we posted it.

[Legion]

I wrote a letter to Sir GT and the Meaning Evil on the day he got booed whilst speaking to the fans on the pitch. I received a reply posted on the day he resigned.

[kipeye]

Verily, I do believe that some of the posters on here could get home to find Houllier doing their partner up the wrong 'un and they would ask him if he fancied a beer afterwards.

Agree entirely. This is nothing to do with sour grapes at being beaten. I am now in the fuck off GH and as long as you are there I ain't going to be no way back for me.
When Herbert was at his worst I only went to away matches, now I am so glad I didn't go with my City mates on Wednesday and I am not sure I will go to any home or away for a while. Like a few have said, I have seen us at our worst and supported the club through thick and thin, but ever since it became the Preeemiership, I just cannot get enthusiastic.
I am just so pissed off.

[luke95]

I'm hoping an apology will come in the way of his resignation or sacking after what I can only see as another defeat tomorrow.

Nothing other than a Victory tomorrow is acceptable.