Fulham vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

The negatives.

Heskey and Gabby playing poorly out of position
Bent being so isolated
Petrov - I still fail to see what he gives us (other than the laundry woman the sweatiest shirt ever)
Their keeper didn't have a save to make in 90 minutes
Very little creativity

The positives
A clean sheet
A point away from home
They were fitter and sharper than us and we didn't lose

I'm pleased with the point, what concerns me is the lack of goals within the team that started today. Only Bent really has goals in him, maybe Zoggy will in time.

McLeish says he has to sell before he can bring in players, the problem is, the players we don't need people won't buy because of the obscene wages O'Neill put them on. (Heskey and Beye to name but two)

[Archie]

McLeish says he has to sell before he can bring in players, the problem is, the players we don't need people won't buy because of the obscene wages O'Neill put them on. (Heskey and Beye to name but two)

Fully agree with you. And add Dunne to the list.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

I thought Dunne was ok today Archie, still a little clumsy at times especially when he gave away a couple of free kicks in dangerous positions.

[TheBarneyArmy]

Would have taken a point before the game, nice to see us keep a clean sheet away from home. Just need to give the forwards chance to get used to playing together and start feeding off each other. Heskey out and Albrighton in for the Rovers game, Gabby upfront with Bent and revert to 442 to give us more balance.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Just got back. Fulham is one of the best away days on the calender, with several really good pubs to choose from.

Happy with the point if not the performance.

If we can draw our away games and win our home games we will be fine. Roll on next week.

[The Left Side]

Good point, clean sheet and a decent keeper will help us out this year, still lots of room for improvement.

[gervilla]

Just got back. Fulham is one of the best away days on the calender, with several really good pubs to choose from.

Happy with the point if not the performance.

If we can draw our away games and win our home games we will be fine. Roll on next week.

No losses then , I'll take that.

[BC54 VFC]

The negatives.

Petrov - I still fail to see what he gives us (other than the laundry woman the sweatiest shirt ever)

There's a bit if a clue in your last four words; Stan, as ever, worked as hard as any player on the pitch today and was one of our better players. Any of the Petrov knockers on this site had better get used to the fact that he is likely to be the first midfield players name on the teamsheet every week - simply because he's the best we've got - at least until we sign the strong, influential, central midfielder that we clearly need.

[BC54 VFC]

Just got back. Fulham is one of the best away days on the calender, with several really good pubs to choose from.

Happy with the point if not the performance.

If we can draw our away games and win our home games we will be fine. Roll on next week.

Good to see you, and meet Fin, in the Duke's Head, Martin. Couldn't believe what you paid for the train from Stafford - a cracking deal; we had a good drive back here - got back just after 7.30 which is a record for London.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Just got back. Fulham is one of the best away days on the calender, with several really good pubs to choose from.

Happy with the point if not the performance.

If we can draw our away games and win our home games we will be fine. Roll on next week.

Good to see you, and meet Fin, in the Duke's Head, Martin. Couldn't believe what you paid for the train from Stafford - a cracking deal; we had a good drive back here - got back just after 7.30 which is a record for London.

Always good to see you Brian - all very civilised in the Dukes Head too - tottenham it ain't !!

[Tony]

A clean sheet away from home is the big positive, Fulham are way ahead of us in terms of sharpness and competitive match practice, that will take its toll on them later in the season.

Now let's see how we line up in a home game, Mcleish went through a spell of making Small heath very hard to beat at home, we haven't had a decent home record for years so hopefully he will sort that.

[Matt C]

Staggering that is our first away clean sheet since Hull April 2010.

[Ads]

It will be interesting to see if we are able to find the right blend of taking today’s good defending and organisation and mixing it with the pace and a bit of flair that we possess in the squad

As said, it’s the first game against opposition in a fitter and sharper condition. The statistic about an away clean sheet is appalling and I’m glad its been rectified.

[ez]

No conceding from a set piece. No conceding late goal. A tad boring but if it keeps us up so be it.

[Matt Collins]

Was at the game. Dull. Very much a mon type performance but without the quality in attacking areas at crucial times to get us a goal. I thought heskey was crucial to our relative dominance in the first half and delph was very good in that half too. First 20 minutes of the second we were toss. N'zogbia was getting frustrated and started wandering, which would be fine if we had movement in our side. We don't. And thus we were very unbalanced. Centre backs played well.

Overall, hard to judge after one game. But we played a lot of long balls out to heskey on the left and a lot of aimless crap. Fulham weren't up to much though.

I'm very undecided what side I'd play v Blackburn but it wouldn't be the same side. At least 2 from makoun, Ireland, bannan, albrighton ate needed i reckon.