Aston Villa v The Throstles Match Thread

[eastie]

I really wish I knew what the chairman is trying to achieve at this club now??? The decline of this club over the past season and a half is absolutely galling

This.

[Fergal]

McLeish out.

Do you really think?  Of the many problems we have I do not think too many are the responsibility or the fault of McLeish.

Or were you being sarcastic and I missed it?

Have you seen where he is playing Heskey?

At least Heskey is putting in a shift.

I could put a shift in for what this lot are being paid, don't mean I will be any good though.

[boboonthecorner]

Fuck me. It comes to something when I look enviously at Alan Pardew...

Shit......I got fed up of MON but seriously how many derby games did we lose with him in charge. We really are getting to be the joke club of the midlands.

[Somniloquism]

I think we could well go down.   We are a shambles.

The silver lining today is that Bolton and Wigan are losing as that will be the teams we will be competing against at the end of the season.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

According to BBC Sport we've had no shots on target at home in open play. Is that true? If so, McLeish out. He'll relegate us.

Have a good time in Brugges? Twat.

[citizenDJ]

I honestly thought Given was going to catch that for a minute!

[Fergal]

Without a doubt we are indeed shit.

[taylorsworkrate]

McLeish out.

Do you really think?  Of the many problems we have I do not think too many are the responsibility or the fault of McLeish.

Or were you being sarcastic and I missed it?

Have you seen where he is playing Heskey?

At least Heskey is putting in a shift.

Yep, fully earning his 65k this week.

[PaulWinch again]

Petrov, terrible.

[The Situation]

McLeish out.

Do you really think?  Of the many problems we have I do not think too many are the responsibility or the fault of McLeish.

Or were you being sarcastic and I missed it?

Sarcasm mainly.

It's a bummer we only have 10 players on the field when we should be playing with 11 players (thanks to Phil Dowd you ******)... you can't blame McLeish for that, what's annoyed me is the lack of effort almost looking as if we've completely given up on the game in second half.

I was hoping we'd be going into half time with the lead, them equalising kinda ruined McLeish's gamelpan in the second half.

I blame Phil Dowd for our loss today.

[Dante Lavelli]

McLeish out.

Do you really think?  Of the many problems we have I do not think too many are the responsibility or the fault of McLeish.

Or were you being sarcastic and I missed it?

Have you seen where he is playing Heskey?

True but I said before the game that it was a huge game for Herd as there was no suitable replacement for him on the bench.  Of the players available he probably has played more than most in midfield.

I suppose Clark is an alternative that was available to him.

[Monty]

We're soberingly bad at football.

[Jimbo]

We can't pass a football. That's a huge problem.

Would normally agree with you but we're finally starting to show that we actually do can pass a ball. Good to see Villa man-ing up, playing with plenty of heart. We just need to maintain the pressure. Can't argue with taking off Bannan, he's not doing enough, especially finding space.

We can still get something from this.

I must have missed the bits where we passed the ball well. Mainly, I've seen us squander possession, hit balls into touch, hoof it a lot and fail to retain the football. There may well be statistics to back this up, but I can't be arsed to look for them.

I hope you're right, that we can get something from the game.

[eastie]

shocking afternoon with no positives to be taken from this at all-deeply depressing!

[Dave]

According to BBC Sport we've had no shots on target at home in open play. Is that true? If so, McLeish out. He'll relegate us.

Have a good time in Brugges? Twat.

Please don't insult people, however thick they might be being.