Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers Post-Match Thread

[brackley]

Ever since John Carew ballooned that penalty over the bar at Newcastle, this season has stumbled along getting from bad to worse.

Like yesterday, games that we have started promisingly, with neat passing football and intelligent movement, have degenerated into desperate hoofs into the box in the last five minutes in the hope of snatching an undeserved point.

Yes, it's true that three worse teams than ours will get relegated, but isn't that always the case?. I'm getting tired of spending my afternoons at Villa Park anxiously checking the scoreboard and hoping that other teams are doing worse than us.

The loud booing and abuse at the end were drowned out by the celebrating Wolverhampton supporters and i left  with "You're going down with The Albion" ringing around the ground.

Yes, like all managers, he will get the sack. The only question is, how long will it take and how painful will it be?

[pablopicasso_10]

we are dire...

i know we have injuries, and i know a less moronic referee might have given us a pen (which ashley young would have missed and then been on the official site talking about not hiding), but there is no fight and desire in our team...

houllier has come in and while discipline and fitness were an issue, you would think that he would have taken a less bull in a china shop approach than he has, and totally ruined any squad harmony we had, and with that, created a situation where we are in freefall and in very serious danger of going out of the division...

its not like he hasnt thought about the impact that changing too much too soon can have, when he blames o'neill for the defence for how shit we are, and how he cant change it until next season... i ask myself, how and why?

how has one of the best defences of the previous 3 seasons been turned into one of the very worst i have ever seen? and why cant the current manager of the football club do anything to change it?

its not like he hasnt come in and changed everything else, so why is it completely someone elses fault, and nothing can be done about it yet?

the man is a moron... the season a nightmare, and between o'neill and houllier, we have been put back many years of progress, and in danger of being put back decades...

not a happy man at the moment...

as for the players, i have never hated so many players who are meant to be aston villa players, as i do right now... agbonlahor coming out and waffling about not looking at being in a relegation battle, young talking about being happy being the central figure, them all talking about needing to get wins on the board, etc etc, well do something about it then you bunch of overpaid, over rated tossers... maybe if they did look at the table, they would see we ARE in a relegation battle, and the more they think we arent, the less likely chance we have of staying in the premier league... as for young, just piss off... leave and go be the "central figure" elsewhere... you are not as good as you think you are, and tbh, i am sick to death of seeing your irritating little face complaining at referees after you have fallen over think air.. that is pretty much his game these days... i really cant wait for the jumped up little shit to leave... hes not the only one who has an over inflated view of their own self importance, and hes not the only one who is shit...

so many disgusting characters in our dressing room, and so many things to dislike about my club right now...

relegation or not, i cant wait for this nightmare season to end...

oh, and fuck off houllier, you useless boggle eyed cheese eating surrender monkey...

[Clampy]

I was absolutley convinced Houiller was going to be sacked after we lost up at Man City 4-0 and i would'nt have been upset had it happened and i wish it had. It's a sad state of affairs when even now i'm thinking Big Sam could'nt do any worse and i detest his type of football, that's how bad it's got. I could smell relegation in the air yesterday and i did'nt like it.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

We need someone in, but it doesn't have to be the dreaded Fat Sam, there are other options.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

There was one player off the bench who would have made some difference in terms of effort, passion and a bit of skill.

But Bannan's at Leeds.

[VillaZogmariner]

Utter utter shit. I came back to that shower of wank bollocks?

I've defended Houllier on here but after watching that I can't see the point. It is clear he has lost the dressing room, and now he has lost about 90% of the fans I'd guess.

If he is going to stay we need to break the bank and bring Phil Thompson in beside him. If not fuck him off and bring Magath in. Tell the players they are playing for their futures and hope that's enough to keep us up. It certainly can't be any worse than keeping this muppet in charge.

[Risso]

Can I just point out that Felix Magath has gone back to Wolfsburg, so that's one name you can forget about.

[Dan England]

Fans like Eric have an absolute right to choose not to go wile that clown is in charge. £41 for that shit today and an afternoon wasted

Absolutely, as long as he doesn't whinge next season about not being able to get tickets because he hasn't got the correct booking history. I'm sure he'll be saying then " but I've been going down the Villa for 20 years I should deserve a ticket".

[paulcomben]

Has anyone else highlighted yet that Houllier had two weeks to set up the team knowing about the injuries in defence? Yet, he was lost tactically. Why did he prepare a makeshift defence and then sub Baker after 30 mins?In fact, the defence was not the problem. It was unlucky that Cuellar's clearance fell to the scorer, but why wasn't he being tracked by a midfielder? Gabby and Pires for Mark and NRC-inexplicable.

[Greg N'Ash]

i wish there was a clear candidate to take over. At least if there was randy could hold his hands up and says thanks but no thanks to GH and move on if he was so inclined. there ain't tho' and the bigging up of Sam Allardyce into some sort of messiah just shows the spot we're in

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Can I just point out that Felix Magath has gone back to Wolfsburg

That's a shame, my cats like him.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Has anyone else highlighted yet that Houllier had two weeks to set up the team knowing about the injuries in defence?

I'm still puzzled that he didn't sort out a left back.
How he could think Clark and Baker are sufficient, is beyond me.

[barrysleftfoot]

  I quite like 4-5-1 tbh, but Ashley is not the player to play there.As fredm said earlier, he has'nt got the pass, or the touch to play there, and he does'nt score enough from open play.

  I would go back to 4-4-2 until we van get a player who can play in that hole.


 By the way what did everyone think about Herd yday.For me he is a central midfielder, but playing out of position, showed a lot more commitment and endeavour than most of his supposed superiors.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I agree, 4-4-2, get a partner in for Bent.

Young is going anyway, so let's put him back in his most effective position, on the wing.

He's the 2nd striker but he's got just 6 League goals.

Christ, what a miserable season.

[paulcomben]

By the way what did everyone think about Herd yday.For me he is a central midfielder, but playing out of position, showed a lot more commitment and endeavour than most of his supposed superiors.


Yes, he did brilliantly in the circums. I thought Doyle would bully him, but Herd was strong and smart. By contrast, did anyone notice whether Darren Bent was in the team at all?!