Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers Post-Match Thread

[Brian Taylor]

GED will just go back to Montelimar, or wherever, and consider it an experience; we have a decade considering it as a mistake ...he can survive and we may too.. but only amongst the low grade shite for another season.
6th was just not good enough! N'Importe ou Ged?

[Louzie0]

Ah c'mon support gH . He didn't say it would be easy.  Wolves have won by upping their game against the top 4 (and whoever should have been there, including us), this season.

We have defensive issues... like GH not having a full roster of defenders to call upon, let alone how well they are playing, how fat they are , how interested they are, or whether they are available.
 There are more games and winnable games. Let's not get defeatist when we don't have to.

Will reserve judgment for another 3 weeks.  If we haven't won by then...well...  I may post a rather vexed reaction. 

[placeforparks]

utterly depressing.

there was no passion in claret and blue at all.

[cdbearsfan]

If we decide to seek a new manager it might be an idea to get one from one of our competitors so as to fuck them up. McLeish maybe?

[Dazvillain]

I have never been so undecided about a manager to stay or go than at the mo but when he sticks Pires on when we are desperate to score and Heskey, who can hold the ball up front if not a lot else, doesnt even get warmed up at all, i really am struggling to defend GH any more ?

[Walmley_Villa]

I couldn't post last night as I was well bewildered to be honest. I had a bad feeling before kick off and I was right. I have tried to defend GH but the last few weeks have highlighted a complete lack of common sense. The FA Cup team selection is now backfiring as Moscow did for O'Neill. More worryingly is the lack of team spirit and poor tactics. One striker at home is a disgrace when we need goals and points. I fear Collins and Dunne may have only been highlighting what we are all thinking that the staff are clueless. Forget style now and just win matches.

I thought how lightweight we looked as a team yesterday and then GH makes us even weaker by taking off NRC? Albrighton was the only one putting in a decent ball so why take him off? We had to put Heskey up front with Bent it was so obvious!!

The sad thing for me is that I left the stadium resigned to relegation and I am falling out of love with football. So sad.......

I never watch MOTD but prefer the Championship but never thought I would be watching us on it.

We have to make a change or we've had it.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Sunday morning and i'm still fuming, could have done without Houllier's smirking face in the MOTD interview.

Roll on the end of the season when we can fuck him off.

[Jimbo]

The team we saw yesterday was Houllier's Villa career in a nutshell. Gutless, heartless, demotivated, distracted, incoherent and utterly lacking in understanding of the task in hand. When you're one-nil down at home and you're in a relegation fuzz, you don't take off a winger and replace him with a striker - who then plays out on the wing. You don't take off your only combative midfielder and replace him with a man who remembers life before colour television. You don't persist with tip-tapping the ball around the edge of your own box while the opposition watches and waits for a slip-up.

There were so many things wrong with yesterday, it would be wasteful of bandwidth to list them all here. And it is yet another disastrous episode in a long, long list of catastrophes perpetrated by Le Gaffeur. This club is a shambles at the moment, and now Randy must look to safeguard his investment by taking swift and decisive action, which he should have taken weeks, if not months ago. Because this is going to get worse, of that there isn't a doubt.     

[Chris Smith]

Reading through the thread and what struck me as that a lot of you are convinced that you know exactly what is wrong. To me yesterday was such an all round shambles I wouldn't know where to start. It's impossible to defend a manger who is in charge of that but I don't think sacking him now would be sensible as it would just create even more unrest. I'd rather get relegated than see that twat Allardyce doing our post match interviews.

What really worries me as that I didn't see that performance coming. We played well against Blackburn and At Bolton the performance was decent just let down by defensive mistakes but we just seemed totally lacking in ideas yesterday.

In the pub last night I said that if we stay up it will be because of other sides fucking up rather than through our own efforts. Thinking about it though that supposes that we play like that for the rest of the season, but we're not that predictable so I really can't guess what will happen.

[WikiVilla]

could have done without Houllier's smirking face in the MOTD interview.

That was infuriating. What is that fucking smirk all about ?? Also the other post about him strolling out of Villa Park last night with his gob full of cake !! He truly doesn't give a flying fuck about Villa or the fans

At least McLeish had a face like thunder after their loss at Wigan and told it as it was that they were poor and deserved fuck all from the game

[Bosco81]

I can't remember a central midfield performance quite as incompetent as NRC and Makoun yesterday, they were truly awful, nobody wanted the ball and looked like they were hiding at times.

Defensively I can see why we'd struggle yesterday but the lack of heart further up the pitch was a disgrace.

[WikiVilla]

thought NRC did ok, Makoun was just awful

[Percy McCarthy]

bottom line is MON doesn't matter anymore in the big scheme of things Percy. I just hope you and some of the senior players realise that because if we don't pull together as a team, then whether its GH or some other mug we'll go down

He didn't matter to me the day after he left, you're the one still obsessing about him. I just thought he was doing a good job while he was here. You wanted him gone from his first day in the job to the last, and yet advocate keeping Houllier. I think that proves which one of us is bothered about results, and which one cares about personalities.

[CambsVilla]

If you're going to play with one forward when a goal down with 20 minutes to go then you deserve to get beat.
If 39000 people could see it then why couldn't the manager and coaching staff?
This season has lurched from one disaster to the next on and off the pitch. After the league game against Manchester City we did seem to pick up slightly,but the selection in the FA Cup game against them was indefensible.
That was the point when I decided enough was enough.
I don't actually care who manages the club now as long as it isn't Houllier. I am resigned to playing in the second division next season (I am old school 1st,2nd.3rd and 4th divisions ok?) and looking forward to going to some different grounds.
I know this is surrender type talk and it looks like I don't care about my club,but Houllier has beaten all the fight out of me now and I hate him for it.
RESIGN!

[olaftab]

thought NRC did ok, Makoun was just awful

I agree and therefore  again poor decision by him to sub NRC when JM should have been taken off. This was the first time I have seen Makoun and I was not impressed. I am sure he can be better however probably his style suits opposition who let us play football rather than likes of Wolves. He did not have an answer to player in his face when he had the ball.