Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

That two point difference between the two managers first seasons is quite interesting - it's not much, is it?

Well actually there is. Not a MON fan myself BUT he took a shambles of a team  and got 50 points. Houllier took  a near CL  team and gave us a miserable season. In short O'Neill over delivered in his first season Houllier has under delivered by  keeping us in relegation mire in his first season up to the last but one game.

A big difference.

[Mister E]

Best Villa player today was Petrov, closely followed by Downnig. Both were superb. LY was excellent, NRC pretty good. Dunne - poor, in my opinion. Times when we played really well.
Great and slightly surreal atmosphere at VP today ...
Weird season; glad it has ended and hope that the questions that remain get answered ASAP.

[gervilla]

That two point difference between the two managers first seasons is quite interesting - it's not much, is it?

Well actually there is. Not a MON fan myself BUT he took a shambles of a team  and got 50 points. Houllier took  a near CL  team and gave us a miserable season. In short O'Neill over delivered in his first season Houllier has under delivered by  keeping us in relegation mire in his first season up to the last but one game.

A big difference.

I have to agree with that.
New management please.

[john e]

bet we wont be first match on MOTD tonight, bias bloody BBC !

[rob_bridge]

bet we wont be first match on MOTD tonight, bias bloody BBC !

No chance we beat their beloved Liverpool. and there were one or two other things going on

[gervilla]

bet we wont be first match on MOTD tonight, bias bloody BBC !

Well I'm up early so if I can go to bed A.S.A.P. with the pictures of sobbing blue nose bastards fresh in my mind, I cant ask for any more....and it is my birthday tomorrow. Sweet.

[Ian.]

bet we wont be first match on MOTD tonight, bias bloody BBC !

Did we play?

[rob_bridge]

Looked like GH was right all along - 7th to 12th.

Yep - best we can accept under him. Under the previous one (who was not without faults) we managed 6th 3 seasons running. When did that last happen as I genuinely can't recall?

[john e]

How the fcuk have we finished 9th.
Imagine if we hadn't been absolutely crap for most of the season.
I'm not gonna get carried away what with our last 2 results but seriously how do you explain such ineptitude  for most of the season when we just picked up 6 points from the 2 games I expected nothing from.
I'm ending the season utterly confused.

man Utd didnt play like normal this year, good home record but loads of away points dropped, and the standard of there football not to high,
they still won the league by a 9 clear points

[maidstonevillain]

That two point difference between the two managers first seasons is quite interesting - it's not much, is it?

Well actually there is. Not a MON fan myself BUT he took a shambles of a team  and got 50 points. Houllier took  a near CL  team and gave us a miserable season. In short O'Neill over delivered in his first season Houllier has under delivered by  keeping us in relegation mire in his first season up to the last but one game.

A big difference.

The team was a shambles well before MON left. If the form of the last three months of MON's reign had continued into this season we would have been relegated before West Ham (and Blues would have stayed up). MON was a busted flush, and GH probably had just as much  of a mess to sort out as MON did when he took over.

[Mister E]

The team was a shambles well before MON left. If the form of the last three months of MON's reign had continued into this season we would have been relegated before West Ham (and Blues would have stayed up). MON was a busted flush, and GH probably had just as much  of a mess to sort out as MON did when he took over.

Agreed - the drama of MON's departure does obscure the fact that things were going tits-up some time earlier.

[Somniloquism]

But if we had matched MON's last season points wise in this we would have been clear 5th. Weirdly Citeh spent another £100mil and finished 1 point higher then last season. So another Billion will give them the title.

Just shows how crap this season has been.

[dave.woodhall]

How the fcuk have we finished 9th.

By being the ninth best team, in the league. The table doesn't lie, as we've been told all season.

[Legion]

We've finished 9th because we deserve to be there, based on all results since the season started.

[john e]

How the fcuk have we finished 9th.

By being the ninth best team, in the league. The table doesn't lie, as we've been told all season.

and two places better than MON's first season,
if we carry on like that we'l make top 4 next season,

but probably not