Aston Villa v Stoke City Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

JESUS WEPT TORONTO

yip that match today showed us how we as a club think of Gerard


basically the players couldnt give a fuck


thats why we are CELEBRATING 41 POINTS

anyway all the best in toronto

and last week? Where were you?

i was here last week

what is your point Toronto?

as i said THIS WEEK was all about Gerard

what this pish about last wekk Toronto?

Are you thick? The point being, if the players don't give a damn about Houllier now, how is it that they put in such a good performance last week? Why didn't they just tank it against West Ham in what was a much bigger game given we had 37 points. And wouldn't it have been a bigger statement had they done it in front of the manager they supposedly hate so much?

You can't answer that because you've either got another agenda or, like I said you're just thick.

[madirishvillain]

sorry toronto

last week was a far better result

it was

this week - the manager went to hospital

NOT LAST WEEK

this week he went to hospital

then we HAD ALL THE NEWSPAPER SHITE ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO FOR THE MANAGER

TORONTO

do you need it spelt out?


JESUS FUCKIN WEPT

[Tom_Mc9?]

More insipid than inspiring, but a point's a point. Stoke's style of spoiling football is a disgrace.

I don't think so. It gets them what they need - points. I get fed up of people like Wenger preaching about how football should be played. What's he won recently?

[andyh]

Awful game.
Stoke did what they do, we didn't have the nouse,guile,ability to break them down.
Reo Coker was MOTM according to the tannoy!!! Where the fuck did they get from, he was abysmal.
And our Ashley....well, very poor, as somone said all fart and no shit.
Why oh why is he allowed to take virtually every deadball kick, the bloke has put one decent cross in in the last 12 months I reckon (Gabbys winner last week) and today he put in some of the worst corners I have ever seen.
Dunne and Collins appeared to be scared shitless, but fortunately Friedal was on form.
I honestly don't think their goalie made a single save in the second half and I don't recall too many in the first either.

Oh well, its another point and if we pick up a couple more singles (Baggies and Wigan) we will survive.

[PaulTheVillan]

I think that was a hard earned point, Stoke are never easy to beat.

We'll find it easier to beat WBA next weekend.

[CJ]

Horrible place, horrible people, horrible team, horrible manager, horrible football. One dimensional hoofing and time wasting are the sum total of their approach to the game. Anti-football at its worst. Is Pulis just Allardyce in a silly cap?  Until they fuck off to where they belong at least we only have to suffer them at VP once a year.

And why did the ref keep moving Ash and Downing away from the touchline when Delap was taking throw-ins? As far as I'm aware there's no rule that says you have to be x yards away when a throw in is taken - otherwise why didn't he move them away when Delap was off and someone else took the throw-ins?

Still - a point's a point and we're now all but mathematically safe. Even though I predicted a draw that somehow felt like a defeat.  At least the traffic wasn't bad.

[Toronto Villa]

sorry toronto

last week was a far better result

it was

this week - the manager went to hospital

NOT LAST WEEK

this week he went to hospital

then we HAD ALL THE NEWSPAPER SHITE ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO FOR THE MANAGER

TORONTO

do you need it spelt out?


JESUS FUCKIN WEPT

I can just imagine the players all texting each other when they heard the manager was in hospital. "I know we got a win last week, but let's stick it to that French fucker by not winning against Stoke. That will teach him. Might even finish him off"

FFS. And what's with his Jesus Wept bollocks you keep spouting?

ps. Don't stop posting. Every new post makes you look a bigger pillock than the last

[DeKuip]

That really was a very poor game of football today.
One team with no ambition to try and win it and the other team with no idea how to break them down, with an embarrassing lack of intelligence in and around the box.

There are too many games like this in the Premier League. Best league in the world? My arse!
Do not dare to put prices up again next season Mr Lerner - we're getting short-changed too often as it is.

[eric woolban woolban]

Geez that was dreary. We played into Stoke's hands. High balls up to Heskey and Bent.

Should have played Gabby from the start and passed along the floor.

I'd hate to have to watch more than one Stoke game a season. Every goal kick and throw in took at least 45 seconds to action.

Why the ref didn't book Begovic much earlier is beyond me. He was playing for time after about half an hour.

Roll on the end of the season. Which it would end now. Yawn!

[Muscle-Dolphin]

Albrighton and Gabby should of come on earlier.  Why was Heskey on for so long?  Dunne was shakey.  If Lerner hadn't put up the bucks for Bent we might be at the bottom of the table right now.  Houllier IMHO will not be back next year.  He is not inspirational and seems somewhat distant.

[Nastylee]

We can get to the edge of the box but then we shit ourselves. Too much tippy tappy when it requires someone to take responsibility and either beat a man or shoot rather than pass it again. We're safe, it's been a shit season so it matters not as far as I'm concerned. It's all about next year now.

MadIrishvillain - give it a rest as you're embarrassing yourself. Stoke made it hard, we couldn't break them down. It's a simple as that so stop making mountains out of molehills. What did you expect? GH is ill so we win 6-0?

[Nastylee]

Albrighton and Gabby should of come on earlier.  Why was Heskey on for so long?  Dunne was shakey.  If Lerner hadn't put up the bucks for Bent we might be at the bottom of the table right now.  Houllier IMHO will not be back next year.  He is not inspirational and seems somewhat distant.

Heskey playing was all to dop with his aerial ability in defensive situations. He was always going to be needed as long as Delap stayed on the pitch.

[VillaZogmariner]

Just back from the snorefest. Stoke really are anti-football, fucking horrid team to watch. It's enough to make me want Man City to win the FA Cup.

One thing I did notice though today, when we were defending corners we had 7 players in our 6 yard box. However, when we are attacking corners not a single player in the 6 yard box.

[Legion]

Yawn.

[TimTheVillain]

Horrible place, horrible people, horrible team, horrible manager, horrible football. One dimensional hoofing and time wasting are the sum total of their approach to the game. Anti-football at its worst. Is Pulis just Allardyce in a silly cap?  Until they fuck off to where they belong at least we only have to suffer them at VP once a year.

And why did the ref keep moving Ash and Downing away from the touchline when Delap was taking throw-ins? As far as I'm aware there's no rule that says you have to be x yards away when a throw in is taken - otherwise why didn't he move them away when Delap was off and someone else took the throw-ins?

Still - a point's a point and we're now all but mathematically safe. Even though I predicted a draw that somehow felt like a defeat.  At least the traffic wasn't bad.

More or less THIS.

Stoke is the home to a load of horrible people, manners and dulce et decorum not exactly their strong points.

Their football team is dreadful - Man Cteh should give them a total pasting.