Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[WikiVilla]

Yesterday was a good solid battling point

Its the home games vs the likes of Wolves, Fulham, Sunderland that have killed us

[KevinGage]

got to view the game in isolation really. Anything at Goodison is a decent result wherever you are in the league. with the bottom half of the league so tight and teams moving up 3 or 4 places after a win its easy to get a distorted view. we may just be very glad of this point come May

Agreed Greg.

Time to drop Makoun for Stan and drop Friedel too
Bents goals should just keep us up

Wouldn't necessarily drop Makoun, but would like to see Petrov come off the bench in the latter stages to help close a game out. He's not a match winner, but has decent composure, will play the simple ball and can generally calm things down.

He is a leader as well, not necessarily in a John Terry fist-pumping OTT way, but the players respect and listen to him.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Just watching Goals on Sunday. They are saying that Jagielka was clever to win the penalty - what a crock of shit. If he was (insert name of a foreigner here) they'd be saying how much of a diver he is. c***s.

Alan Shearer called it right, no penalty, he also said
'The kindest thing I can say is that he went down very easy, let's leave it at that.'

[cheltenhamlion]

He should know

[mozza]

I was stood in line with corner flag, and granted I'd had a couple of pops pre-match
the ball was NOT over the line, so Everton can have no complaints they were denied a valid score.

Couldn't comment on penalty decision, it being the other side of area but motd seem to confirm
Jagielka conned the referee-

Performance wise ...........obviously improvement on Wolves, and the 4-4-2 formation was
welcomed by majority in my earshot, BUT why can't we defend a lead or control a game
longer then a few minutes ?

Despite Everton having a much weakened team and subs bench of in-experience, they
still played the more controlled football and made the better chances from which they
should have secured the win -

Shouldn't complain it's a point towards survival in the mini-league ..........seems obvious
but our destiny lies at how we do in matches at Villa Park between now and 23 May   

[wombat]

Went as my first away game of the season. Better than I expected, Houllier made the right decision in playing 2 up front and putting Young back on the wing, credit to him for that, let's hope he sticks with it for Newcastle.

The major problem still remains, too many mistakes and a note to Mr Freidel. Your full back has just ballsed up when you rolled the ball too him, so why keep rolling it to him, he doesn't want it! Kick it, I don't care if you spoon it into touch near half way, they can't score from there! (b4 anybody says Stoke... yes I know but we aren't playing them).

[Bad English]

My Windows/NVidia/Pentium goal line technology, "Print screen of internet feed" shows that it was over.

So, to all Everton fans HA! HA! HA!

[adrenachrome]

Went as my first away game of the season. Better than I expected, Houllier made the right decision in playing 2 up front and putting Young back on the wing, credit to him for that, let's hope he sticks with it for Newcastle.

The major problem still remains, too many mistakes and a note to Mr Freidel. Your full back has just ballsed up when you rolled the ball too him, so why keep rolling it to him, he doesn't want it! Kick it, I don't care if you spoon it into touch near half way, they can't score from there! (b4 anybody says Stoke... yes I know but we aren't playing them).

I would guess that he is under instructions to do this as part of our new style of play.

I would further guess that Carlos is not in the side because of his aversion or inability to adapt to this style.

[Apyadg]

My Windows/NVidia/Pentium goal line technology, "Print screen of internet feed" shows that it was over.

So, to all Everton fans HA! HA! HA!

Still doesn't look like it to me. there's certainly more of the ball over the line than not, but is the whole ball over it?

[damon loves JT]

The whole of my balls are in their mouth, for sure

[KevinGage]

Tagged, tea-bagged and good to go.

[WikiVilla]

Carlos cant pass, that may be his achilles heel under GH

[olaftab]

My Windows/NVidia/Pentium goal line technology, "Print screen of internet feed" shows that it was over.

So, to all Everton fans HA! HA! HA!

Still doesn't look like it to me. there's certainly more of the ball over the line than not, but is the whole ball over it?

NVIDIA graphics are not to be trusted. We use them at work and they are shit.

[Steve R]

Plenty of commitment yesterday, we just look very brittle when the pressure is on. None more so than Collins. Cuellar should be in the side in his place. He's not as good a header of the ball but his anticipation and nous would have been invaluable yesterday.

Newcastle at home is a harder fixture than Everton away? If we cut donw on the mistakes at the back and play the majority of game in their half - as we should - we're a good bet for the points. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Plenty of commitment yesterday, we just look very brittle when the pressure is on. None more so than Collins. Cuellar should be in the side in his place. He's not as good a header of the ball but his anticipation and nous would have been invaluable yesterday.

Collins looked like someone who has spun around on the spot twenty times and then tried to stand still as Osman ran at him for the goal. Really piss poor defending.