Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers Post-Match Thread/Ratings

[GJH]

Long way to go yet! Thought we had a good start last year 3-0 against West Ham, 2 great results though, perfect start for Mcleish.

Need to hammer Hereford and beat the Wolves and see where we are after that.

[Witton Warrior]

The lad and I thoroughly enjoyed today.

Thought we would run up a big score after 25 mins but Heskey hasn't got a left foot and we went off the boil at times.

We decided to watch Fabian and, unsurprisingly, The Zog and were not disappointed as both were very good.
The reception of Zogs second half piece of skill bodes well for his relationship with us fans.

Ref was a cock!

Clarke came on and was impressive I thought, Bannan injected immediate pace to the passing and Marc just needs to focus all that energy and he will be fine.

Bent is a killer...

Blackburn look doomed already. Can we buy Pederson just to stop him scoring good goals against us?

We (the crowd) seemed quite subdued at times... 
Welcome to Alec was OK, that is another relationship that is building

[gervilla]

I've just seen Gabbys goal on the net, superb. Good result , hopefully we can keep the momentum going while we have a handy run of fixtures. Get points on the board now before we face some of the big boys.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Good performamce against a poor side. Should be good for building the confidence.

They have fixed the tannoy system in the Holte - my ears are ringing for the claret and blue !!

[Clampy]

Good professional perfomance overall, Delph and Petrov were very good, Bannan impresses me everytime i see him, i love watching him. I mentioned Salgado being the weak link in the pre-match thread and Gabby exposed it, we missed him when he went off.

The ref was inconsistently crap and in the Holte Upper, we've gone from having the poorest tannoy in the Prem, to at times, the ear splittingly loudest.

[john e]

To be honest I don't give a toss about how bad Blackburn were,
we have struggled to beat poor sides at Villa Park in the recent past, if we are going to improve under AM then it's against these sort of teams where we ought to start

[PeterWithesShin]

Post match interview

[PeterWithesShin]

Heskey goal

[TheBarneyArmy]

Good 3 points against relegation fodder, my brother-in-law (who is a staunch rovers fan) is convinced rovers will go down so I'm not getting too excited just yet as they seem a very poor outfit. 

Need to follow it up with a good performances against Hereford and Wolves.  It'll be great to see MOTD show the league table tonight even though it is early days.

[PeterWithesShin]

Dodgy quality video of Gabby's goal.

[Clampy]

Mcleish really does sound pleased to be managing us, it's nice to hear.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Just watched Gabby's goal, reminded me of AY at his best:-)

[Arsey]

Post match interview

In fairness, he does seem a decent chap.

[Arsey]

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Just watched Gabby's goal, reminded me of AY at his best:-)

I was thinking exactly the same thing watching the goal again.

[gervilla]

Just watched Gabby's goal, reminded me of AY at his best:-)

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