Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers Post-Match Thread/Ratings

[darren woolley]

Really pleased thought we played really well today long may it continue.

[gaucho1966]

Post match interview

In fairness, he does seem a decent chap.

"ai proud moment for him and his family." I bet he hasn't had many of them over the past couple of years.

[Big Dick Edwards]

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

Christ, yes! I thought it was just me who found it deafening!

[Lizz]

It's a family tradition that I take my mom to the first home game of the season. Even she could tell Blackburn were poor. Listening to Jason Roberts on 6-0-6 he thought it was a pretty even game. Not how I saw it.

Out of curiosity, given I wasn't wearing my glasses and my eyesight's not brilliant, was Luke Young's name on his shirt showing as L Young, and if so why, now that Ashley's gone?

[gaucho1966]

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

Christ, yes! I thought it was just me who found it deafening!

Some guy in front of me in the Lower Holte was screaming and gesticulating for the volume to turned down.

[Irish villain]

I watched the highlights on Irish tv earlier and we looked pretty decent. Bent's typical poacher's finish while Gabby showed real class for his goal.

By the way, when will we see Bent score at the Holte End?!

[eamonn]

Heskey laboured at the coal face and mined some nuggets in his normal output of assorted rubble.   

Fantastic.
You should be in Brian Glanville's job.

Not sure I wholly (wholely?) agree with what appears to be the common consensus that Blackburn are utter muck. They started off the game quite lively, and for the first 15 minutes of the second half were in the ascendancy. Well-worked goal too.

We scored each of our goals at crucial times, doing enough to keep them at arms length.

I drifted off from watching the game after Bent's goal cos I was chatting to a girl I think I'm in love with on facebook.
I think we did alright though.

[swiss1968]

Regarging the Holte tannoy system,couple of chaps with laptop's and noise detector's checking such tanoy,went up to 95 dec on the mic ,ouch i thought . Lol.

[Dazvillain]

Blackburn were poor, i dont think there will many worse than that at VP this year, but you can only beat whats in front of you. Many better perfromances than against Fulham last week. Would love a couple of more signings though, too get us through to January

[Toronto Villa]

nice to get the first win of the season out of the way, and with two very decent defensive performances in the first couple of games. Took a look back through the first few pages of the match thread. Some people really need to give the team a chance to settle down and play. You'd think we were 3-0 inside 10 minutes reading what one or two were saying. This will be a good morale boost to the club heading into an important week. Give some of the lads like Given, Gabby, Heskey, Stan and Dunney a breather, and bring in the likes of Makoun, Bazza, Ireland, Clark. Fonz and Marco to take care of Hereford. We'll need a good effort next week to take care of the dogheads.

Well done AM. Enjoy your Saturday evening.

[luke25]

Don't think its been said yet but you can only beat whats put in front of you.

[Toronto Villa]

the black socks looked ace

[Irish villain]

TV, that's why I have tried to avoid posting during games this season. I had been developing an annoying habbit of posting stuff as it came into my head! I'm a very nervy follower of villa so that was a disaster! As such, i can sympathise with those who furiously post harsh comments on the match thread.... they are just nervous for us!

[Toronto Villa]

TV, that's why I have tried to avoid posting during games this season. I had been developing an annoying habbit of posting stuff as it came into my head! I'm a very nervy follower of villa so that was a disaster! As such, i can sympathise with those who furiously post harsh comments on the match thread.... they are just nervous for us!

yeh, I know. We all get a little bit of trigger finger when watching the games. For that reason I've made a vow to stay away from the keyboard in the first 15 minutes of a game. Might be hard to do, but I figure there's little point in getting too carried away, positively or negatively too early in a game. I just think in some of today's posts there were one or two who had it in their heads that AM could only play a certain way. They were proved very wrong in the end. Sometimes it's better to see how things develop before passing judgement.

[Apyadg]

I'm glad it wans't just me. It wasn't just loud, it was ear-splitting painfully loud. How fucking hard can it be to sort out a PA system. They've been tinkering with it for years and if anything, it's got even worse.

Was it ok in other areas of the gound, because if so, I'd consider just not sitting in the Holte until it's sorted, it was painful.