Aston Villa v Stoke City Post-Match Thread

[Chris Smith]

To those who say they couldn't watch stoke every week - did you happen to see them beat Bolton 5-0 in the FA cup semi 6 days beforehand? There was bound to be a comedown after that & they obviously came for a point. More fool us for not being able to combat it.  Let's not get too much like Arsenal fans, eh?

Yes, Bolton were shit. Stoke didn't have to anything special as the game was gifted to them.

[VillaZogmariner]

The annoying thing about Stoke is that they have (or did have) the players to play a decent style of football. (Etherington, Pennant, Tuncay etc)

[glasses]

The annoying thing about Stoke is that they have (or did have) the players to play a decent style of football. (Etherington, Pennant, Tuncay etc)

When they took off Etherington for that clogger Whitehead, I couldnt beleive my eyes.

[Tony Boucher]

To those who say they couldn't watch stoke every week - did you happen to see them beat Bolton 5-0 in the FA cup semi 6 days beforehand? There was bound to be a comedown after that & they obviously came for a point. More fool us for not being able to combat it.  Let's not get too much like Arsenal fans, eh?

Yes, Bolton were shit. Stoke didn't have to anything special as the game was gifted to them.

Come off it, they scored 5 goals in a Wembley semi final - that takes some doing, whatever the opposition.  Plus another 3 last night.  I'm not saying they're Barcelona, just that they might have seen our game as a good point & moved on to the next 'winnable' one.