Sunderland v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

It's funny I paid attention to the score and that's about it today. When we went 2-1 up I celebrated, but I knew we'd give it away. How was the game to those who watched?

[PeterWithesShin]

Next three games are:
5 Norwich (H) W
21 Tottenham (A) W
27 Swansea (A) W

December worries me though:
3 Man Utd (H) W
10 Bolton (A) W
17 Liverpool (H) W
21 Arsenal (H) W
26 Stoke (A) D
31 Chelsea (A) W

25 points and we are back in the hunt. Wooooo you all need to live in my world!

[LeeB]

I see three wins and two draws in December.

The big man will have it sorted by then, and we'll bounce into the New Year looking at the FA Cup convinced it's our year.

[Kingthing]

Scoring two goals has made me happy.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Scoring two goals has made me happy.

Me too....but...
none from Mr Bent.
Has he lost his touch? Should have buried at least one last week and today.

[The Left Side]

Well I would have taken a point before the game like everyone else but we should have held on, Sunderland looked poor and our defending is worrying but there were positives with NZogbia was a lot better so was Hutton. Heskey shouldn't be playing in that formation, but I don't pick the team.

[The Left Side]

Scoring two goals has made me happy.

Me too....but...
none from Mr Bent.
Has he lost his touch? Should have buried at least one last week and today.

Yep he should have scored them but it was his first touch in the penalty area throughout the game.

[Legion]

Perhaps 4 points tops:

Next three games are:
5 Norwich (H) D
21 Tottenham (A) L
27 Swansea (A) D

December worries me though:
3 Man Utd (H) L
10 Bolton (A) D
17 Liverpool (H) L
21 Arsenal (H) L
26 Stoke (A) D
31 Chelsea (A) L

At worse case scenario, you could possible see us only getting about 2 points from that lot.

4 for me.

Although, if we are all good boys and girls and write nice letters to Santa, he might leave us a few points in our stockings on Christmas morning. 

21 would be perfect.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Well I would have taken a point before the game like everyone else but we should have held on, Sunderland looked poor and our defending is worrying but there were positives with NZogbia was a lot better so was Hutton. Heskey shouldn't be playing in that formation, but I don't pick the team.

I think you should.
You'd make at least one improvement!

[Shrek]

Dave are you actually making a point?

Paul hit the nail on the head, we can't buy a win at the moment and Mcleish's team selection and tactics are shite and have isolated Bent.

A confident Bent would have slotted that ball home 6 yards out today.
We can't defend, we don't score many and we have no midfield.

Paul Merson summed us up before kickoff "villa might nick a goal but their not gonna put 3 or 4 past them" and that's against Sunderland.

The point I am making is that today we played a game which almost half of even our supporters thought we would lose according to the poll on here and which bookies made Sunderland strong favourites to win. We got a point and could/should have got three. I would say that's worth a bit of praise to the team, instead of which we're getting constant, repetitive whinging.

What's your point?

My Point is the manager isn't good enough, we are hindering Bent's quality and we are playing a useless lump in midfield (heskey).

My point is on current form we are heading for a relegation battle.

I'm not constantly whining every week, I am always positive and nearly always vote Villa win, but I'm really depressed at the state of our club at the moment.

[dave.woodhall]

If we're that bad then today is a good result. You can't have it both ways.

[Jockey Randall]

I think from now until the end of December 4 points is the absolute worst case scenario. Most likely it'll be around 9ish I'd say.

I think it's very harsh for people to be labelling the manager as not good enough after 10 league games though. Considering all the negativity floating around with certain sections of the support I think he's made a solid if unspectacular start at the club. If we actually want to achieve anything we're not going to get anywhere sacking managers after a handful of games because some people have no patience.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

If we're that bad then today is a good result. You can't have it both ways.

Agreed, we weren't that bad today Dave.
We're not whinging, just desperate for our team to win and frustrated that we gave the lead away TWICE in the last 5 minutes of each half. We conceded last week with one minute to go to half time. With the most positive attitude in the world that's a real bugger that we'd rather not have!

[Eigentor]

If we're that bad then today is a good result. You can't have it both ways.

Well, if we can't moan that a point at Sunderland is a bad result, then we'll have to moan that we're now so bad that at point at Sunderland is a good result!

[bertlambshank]

If we're that bad then today is a good result. You can't have it both ways.

You havent seen todays game have you.how about laying off people until you have.