Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers Post-Match Thread

[Risso]

Listening to his interview on the BBC website is like fingernails scraping down a blackboard.  Rarely has anybody come across as quite so completely fucking useless.  What a huge, colossal chump.

[Ethnic Tours]

Love your last line there, absolutely on the money Risso.

[eric woolban woolban]

When the linesman hobbled off, all Houllier could do was fold his arms and look at the bench!

No last minute tinkering, cajouling of the players. How inept is this man. Well I wouldn't call him a man. He's doesn't fulfil that role.

Foolier is absolutely clueless!

And the less said about MuckAllister the better.

[Ethnic Tours]

Lerner and Bradley Branning really should have thought twice before they decided to force our arrogant former manager out; not saying they were wrong to do as such, just that they would have been far better placed had they actually done so with some forethough to his successor. To then follow that up with the will-he won't-he faffing around with McDonald further underlined their utter ineptitude.

[Chipsticks]

I felt like I was in bloody Egypt in the Holte today with all the banners and uproar etc.

Anyone know what the banner in the North Stand Upper that was up mostly pre-game said? I could make out the words Houllier but that was it.

[OzVilla]

Message to Randy - Sorry but it's time to pull the trigger.  I know you have been under pressure all season to fire this twat, from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' onwards, and I appreciate that you wanted to give your man time, but it really is time.

If you don't we will get relegated. 

So show some fucking backbone, hold your hands up, admit it isn't workking and let's get on with saving our Club from relegation - we've 8 games to go Randy.

And if anyone still thinks that this monumental prick (GH) is improving our Club then they must be totally fucking mad.

[PeterWithesShin]

Just had this email from a female Swedish friend of mine on Facebook. She knows very little about football but being friends with me means she hears way too much about Villa and has adopted us as her team.

"I couldn't see the game but I saw the result on here. Houllier isn't doing his job well at all is he? Seems to me, and I know I don't know much, that since he took over it's been downhill and more headlines than football?
I'm truly sorry to hear that that can happen, just not fair! Get that twat out and put someone there that knows what they are doing, I think it would be hard though to find someone doing it worse?
Villa is one of the oldest teams and one of the "founding fathers" of football, they will be back and they will kick ass."

The "I'm truly sorry" bit was she'd asked me how I was and I said fucked off with facing the fact we could be relegated.

[mr-villa]

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I was really looking forward to seeing makoun for the first time but he is just a french petrov. No vision no idea of what is going on around him, just like the rest of the fuckwits.


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That would be the "French Petrov" who threaded a perfect ball through to Ash only for him to smash the crossbar wouldn't it?  That through ball was the best forward pass by a Villa player in the whole game

[Grande Pablo]

I was indifferent to the appointment, but warmed to him up to I saw the team named for City.  Now I want to see the back of him.

The team selection to start today wasn't that bad, although I'd question the loans for Lichaj & Lowry, although Herd did well & Baker is the unluckiest player ever.  The substitutions were piss poor.

What next?  The life is ebbing out of the team.  I'm sick of reading bravado in the papers that 'we're not thinking of the drop'.  Well, start fucking thinking about it or else we'll be down & out.

[WikiVilla]

Very very loud chants of "you don't know what you're doing" after Marc was subbed then later
"the villa is ours. Fuck off Houllier, the villa is ours"

He lost the players some time ago

He's now lost the fans

No return now for him, The Holte has spoken

[hawkeye]

Just got back, wrong selection, wrong tactics, wrong substitutions wrong manager

[mr-villa]

Just seen Villa are 13/2 to go down, that has to be worth a punt. Should be way shorter surely...

It was much better at 25/1 in November.

Foolier has to go now.

Randy, we're in last chance saloon. Fire the fool tonight. Two weeks until the next game.

Get it sorted, else it's Championshit football for us.

But not for me as I won't be coming back to see the Villa.

And the club can do without part time fans like you then Eric

[brian green]

Just got home from the game and I agree with everything posted on this thread.   The total lack of spirit was the real killer today.   On that performance today I think the only unknown is in which of the three bottom positions we will finish.

Just a minor thing but what was that time-out McCarthy managed to pull with five minutes of normal time to play.   The rules of football do not allow players to stop playing to take a drink.   The whole thing is designed to break up the momentum of the losing side.   Dowd just stood and watched them do it.   Not a word of complaint from our bench that I could see but then you would not have expected it would you.

Houllier should have gone at Christmas when there was still time to secure our Premiership status.   The club chickened out behind the excuse that we had to be fair to Houllier.   Now we are paying the price.

I apologise if all this has been covered before but that was one of the worst games at Villa Park I have travelled to in many years.   If you half closed your eyes you could see O'Leary leaning against the side of the dug out in his expensive crombie overcoat.

[theleftside]

before i get shot down, there is a part of me that feels for houllier - he has an old fashion view no mobiles, hard graft on the training ground, none of these days off - i think his view is your paid a shed by the club so the club will do with you what they want (PR, extra press days etc) he cuts a lonely figure at the moment none of the players buy into this and still are stepped in the MON school of thinking.  i have not been anti houllier and still keep this stance but without a big clear out in the summer (all the MON boys club) and some good re - investment hollier is simply a dead man walking. 
will randy put up with another "i just need a couple of signings to kick on" from another manager (25m- 30m+ to me and you..)
we are at a crossroads and from what i saw today we better have a good sat nav! 
and yes today we were crap really crap.

[Holtemeister]

Houllier has been dealt a shit hand ..... a shocking injury list, ill disipline and stroppy players caused through an overly relaxed training programme, coming in at an awful time, only having the January window to deal etc etc so am minded to cut him some slack in those respects.

However on and off the pitch he has time and time again proved that he is tactically inept, lacks passion, lacks a connection with the fans and has treated the cup which this club has held in high esteem, with complete distain.

The players are clearly not putting it in for him and although i feel that it is the players to blame and its far easier to change the manager and let the feckless fooking players win than it is to root out the bad apples.

On that basis Gerald my old son, its time to take a hike !!!