Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[hawkeye]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Back to the game, I thought Friedel has once agian cost us. Wanted shooting for that first.

I think he's got to go at the end of the season.
Yet another of our positions that needs sorting.

[Ads]

Also, Jagielka wants banning for the rest of the season the cheating bastard.

[Ads]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

Whether we beat them or not is down to us. The fact is Stoke are a poor side and Wigan are shite.

[kippaxvilla2]

The fact that Smethwick are two points above us with all the quality players we have in the squad at this stage of the season says all you need to know about this season and the current manager.

[pauliewalnuts]

Here's how I experienced the match.

Saw the weather was lovely, so decided to take the hint and go out for the day, avoiding all thoughts of football. Went to Stow on the Wold. Soon after arrival, bottled it, and had quick peak at West Ham score, they were winning 2-0. Felt a churning sensation in the pit of my stomach. Decided not to look again.

After a while, decided to go to Bourton on the Water. Went wrong way, ended up in Broadway. Bought some nice chutneys, and some strange dandelion and burdock sweets. Weather was still lovely. Mood was excellent, despite presence of lots of Japanese tourists and local Range Rover driving, fox hunting, Tory voting idiots.

At that point, bottled it again, and switched Footmob (football alerts thing) on on my phone. Shortly after, whilst driving between Broadway and Stratford, feel phone buzz to tell me there's been a goal in the match. Ignore it. Drive on. Phone buzzes again. Two goals now. Ignore it.

Then I bottled it, and turned radio on at the precise minute the kerfuffle over the goal that wasn't was ruled out, only to hear "oh, and Villa have gone up the other end and scored! They lead 2-1". At this point I punched the air, shouted at the Mrs to change the radio to another station and decide to just ignore the rest of the match.

Then, a while after, my phone buzzed again, and, having mentally calculated that it was between 80 and 90 minutes, I didn't need to check who had scored. I just KNEW. This season in a nutshell.

I have no idea how well we played, but I'd have snapped your hand off for a point this morning. But then I see Blackburn getting a point at Arsenal, Wigan getting a point at Spurs, Blues and Albion getting three points, and there we are, 16th position and two points off the drop zone.

When you get a decent result, but very nearly everything else goes against you, maybe things are destined to end badly. Despite having got more than i expected from Goodison Park, this evening I am far more pessimistic about our prospects than I was last night, and have gone from thinking relegation is a strong possibility to thinking it will actually happen.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

Whether we beat them or not is down to us. The fact is Stoke are a poor side and Wigan are shite.

I agree that Wigan are piss poor, but Stoke have proved to be a better team than us this season.
The media keep saying how good our team are 'on paper' but it's utterly meaningless.

[hawkeye]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

Whether we beat them or not is down to us. The fact is Stoke are a poor side and Wigan are shite.

I have been hearing all season about the next winnable games and its like a bad tune stuck on a loop and the tape is running out, and we are down to the last 7 and we have won one of the last 7

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

Whether we beat them or not is down to us. The fact is Stoke are a poor side and Wigan are shite.

I have been hearing all season about the next winnable games and its like a bad tune stuck on a loop and the tape is running out, and we are down to the last 7 and we have won one of the last 7

Quite.
Newcastle have a striker crisis but still managed to dispatch Wolves 4-1.

[pauliewalnuts]

I disagree. I think they're both poor sides and I think we'll beat both of them.

like all thse other poor sides we keep beating

Whether we beat them or not is down to us. The fact is Stoke are a poor side and Wigan are shite.

I have been hearing all season about the next winnable games and its like a bad tune stuck on a loop and the tape is running out, and we are down to the last 7 and we have won one of the last 7

Yep, at the start of the year it was "we've had our run of tough matches, we're now at the start of a run of winnable matches". Except we won next to none of them.

And here we are again, just seven matches left, and I wonder how many of this new "winnable run' we'll win. Not many, I suspect.

[Legion]

Enough.

[hawkeye]

Paulie next time try the snowshill arms-snowshill

[damon loves JT]

Fletch, I know what will cheer you up. I've got an AA gun mounted on the back of my pickup. Let's go out into the desert and hose a few hundred rounds into the sky

[Legion]

Fletch, I know what will cheer you up. I've got an AA gun mounted on the back of my pickup. Let's go out into the desert and hose a few hundred rounds into the sky

How's your party going?

[Ads]

So that means Stoke are Argentina and Wigan are Brazil?

No. They're both shite and we have a much better chance of beating them than the sides at the top. As I said, whether we beat them is down to us. How we got on against Blackburn and Bolton doesn't mean a thing for those games, so yes, our recent results have been poor, with performances up and down.

Today was a good point, probably should have been all three but for Jagielka being a diving ******, but there you go. I fully expect us to beat Newcastle, get a point at West Ham and then beat the Albion and Wigan. You don’t. So we’ll wait and see.