Aston Villa v Tesco Bags Post-Match Thread

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

When Trevor Francis can't even see why they were given a penalty never mind a sending off that says all you need to know about Phil Dowd.

That said, excuses aside it was McLeish that bought Hutton and Y'Zogbia to Villa - the modern day Neil Cox and Nigel Callaghan.

Fuckin rubbish

[NeilH]

Oh how one utter numbnuts decision can turn a game. Pathetic decision that utter screwed the match up. Having said all that, we cannot simply implode if something sh** happens to us, we need to be stronger than that.

[phantom limb]

Shabby. I don't know what that red card was all about for a start, but after that we were so poor we clearly didn't deserve anything. I wouldn't mind if N'Zogbia suddenly started to remember how to play football as well, to describe his performance as  anonymous is too kind.

[taylorsworkrate]

Its amazing that all those slagging off Dowd are very conveniently forgetting Hutton's "tackle".

It wasn't even Dowd's decision to award the penalty / send off Herd.  It was the LINESMAN'S

[PaulWinch again]

Hodgson says it was a stamp, absolute bollocks.

[PeterWithe]

Had Dowd refereed competently he'd have sent off Hutton earlier and not Herd and then not given the missed penalty. Can someone explain how we would have been better off?

That was a disjointed, poor performance.

[Eigentor]

We've seen some big improvements from last season,

I think that last season, despite our inconsistency, we looked more like a coherent unit than we do now. How much of it is due to NRC, Young and Downing leaving and how much is due to a change in tactics, is difficult to say. But sadly, there is little doubt that we appear to be regressing.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

..there's no doubt about that Clark should have come on as soon as Herd was sent packing..

Completely agree. We should have taken off N'Zogbia and brought Clark on to maintain the balance.

[PaulTheVillan]

From where I sat it looked like Herd kicked out, couldn't tell if there was contact, but as soon as I saw the Lino flagging I knew he was going off.

I knew Bents miss early on would come back to haunt us.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Its amazing that all those slagging off Dowd are very conveniently forgetting Hutton's "tackle".

It wasn't even Dowd's decision to award the penalty / send off Herd.  It was the LINESMAN'S

Ok, so it's the LINESMAN'S fault. Shame the LINESMAN didn't help Dowd out with the rules of the game in the cup final.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Hodgson says it was a stamp.

Then all respect for Hodgson goes out the window. Herd just pulled his foot free, you can see by the way his leg makes a big swing after. I just hope we appeal.

[Compass]

I haven't seen our defence improve that much. We still give away silly goals from corners, so what's the point of McLeish if he can't even sort that out?

I also despise the majority of players considering the wages they're on and the fact they can't even pass the ball round properly at all. There's just no value at all. I can see why Randy Lerner is cutting down the wage bill, but he's getting rid of the wrong players. I'm sick to death of seeing players like Heskey and Petrov still remain in our club. Especially Petrov. It makes me sick to still see him wear the armband when Bulgria finished bottom in the qualification table. He isn't a leader. A real leader would have gotten the team something today.

Randy Lerner has got to be the most clueless chairman around surely? We could argue Venkys are worse, but Randy has been around for 5 years now. He should have some sort of clue by now. But it seems he is a fraud and the sooner he goes the better.

It really is a shit time to be a Villa fan. The best we can hope for now is survival. 2005/2006 all over again.

[PeterWithe]

Setanta played the sending off almost continually through half time and I still cant see what he'd done wrong. It might have looked as though his foot was in the right area to stamp on Ollson but you'd think the lino would need to be a lot more sure than that to give a penalty and tell the ref to send him off.

[woody4866]

Suprise

Woy Hodgson just said on Sky they played werry werry well and it was a clear sending off

[KevinGage]

We seem to have no hustle.  We have too many players "waiting for someone else" to do it.  Earth to McLeish - Our offensive system is not working.

Hutton, Heskey, Dunne and Collins wearing Villa shirts is pretty offensive to me.
But I don't think that's what you mean.