Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[villaparkb6]

McLeish needs to grow a pair of balls and forget about the planks who are dying to jump on his back because he came from the Rags. If he's going to let a few morons make him so defensive, so bloody negative, so scared of losing, he should never have taken the job in the first place.

Shape up or ship out.

Jesus your a dreamer, no wonder your on cloud 9, no one at villapark has frightened mcleish  into defensive mode, he's shit, he's always been the same that's why he got the scum relegated twice in three years and even managed to finish third in the SPL with Rangers,  tell me how that record qualify's you for a crack at managing the Villa, he's got to go, simple

[The Left Side]

That was dreadful, I turned it off after half time, as many said the words useless and cowards spring to mind.

[luke25]

I'm not going to repeat what most have said as its fucking obvious, the thing thats pissed me off tonite, more than anything else is for the 4th or 5th time this season, our shots on target have been either 0 or 1, that is embarrasing, and another thing, get Collins out the defence and stick Clark in there, firstly he's naturally comfortable on the ball, secondly he does'nt hoof the fucking thing at every opportunity and also it stops another Cahill situation arising, theres been 3 or 4 'performances' over the past 18 months when I've truly been ashamed of the whole club, Liverpool, Man City twice and now tonight, its just not fucking acceptable, Randy Lerner your a nice guy with good intentions but you could'nt have got it more wrong last summer if you tried.

[villainjock]

i was told by many a bluenose what to expect,shit football, defending and trying to score an odd goal wimbledon style,no-one supporting the counter attack, i told them to piss off, it would be a different story at the villa , we've got a great youth set up, darren bent,  great midfielders.Tonight i watched the game. we played one recoignised midfielder, 6 defenders and 3 forwards, now i have a scary feeling in my stomach, it is not a one off,IT IS A REGULAR PATTERN we are playing the worst football, i have seen personally, since jo venglos ,danny murphy summed us up tonight, " i am suprised how easy it is for tottenham tonight""VILLA HAVE COME HERE TO DEFEND".They took their main men off after 70 minutes and put inexperienced players on.i have stuck by mccleish and argued in favour of him since he was appointed. but the football is depressing,shit, if i was a neutral i would have turned over a long time ago,WE ARE NOT BLUES RANDY, WE ARE ASTON VILLA!

[TonyD]

The team section was a joke.    What followed was predicable. The most annoying thing is that we have players in the squad that could have done MUCH better. AM please fuck off.

[TonyD]

What happened tonight is down to the manager. He should have picked a better team. My old socks in my wash basket would have picked a better team and they are just a mix of fibres without any kind of intelligence.

[Muscle-Dolphin]

If the Villa keep playing like this they are going to loose a lot of fans.  Boy, the guys on the aftershow basically slagged McLeish.  I think that Lerner is a typical guy that has inherited a lot of money - he's not willing to put the time or effort into a lot of things as he's had things handed to him on a silver platter.  Christ, some people are actually starting to ask me why I bother to continue to support the Villa when their style of play is super boring!!!  What's the point of cheering for a team that doesn't even care themselves?

[KRS]

I feel grateful that it was only 2-0...it could easily have been a lot worse.
Even saying this makes a mockery of what Aston Villa has become.

1 shot on target again?
Conceding 70% possession again?

Not good enough and not acceptable.

[BC54 VFC]

Highlight of the evening was chatting with some East Kent Villans in the Haringey Irish Centre before the game, and some good beer. Oh, and congratulations to the Villa guy in front of us, in the wheelchair, who in the 89th minute managed to speed along the track, halfway to the dugout; he was chased by a steward and eventually apprehended - brilliant, and the highlight of the 90 minutes.

Low point was what was served up on the pitch - poor team selection - and the crap driving of the driver on the official travellers club coach; he needs to be taught that you don't have to jam your brakes on every couple of minutes; you should anticipate a slowing down of traffic and reduce speed accordingly. Several people banged their heads on the seat in front on the M25, on the return journey. Christ, he had to jam his breaks on to stop running over people on the zebra crossing in Witton Lane as we departed from VP this p.m. 

[Simba]

Can't even park the bus right can we?

What a depressing shambles of a performance. What a kick in the teeth when not long ago we were considered the team that might break through ahead of Spuds.

A.Mcl has lost me now, and it would seem I am not alone. If he continues like this and he loses Villa Park it is gonna get ugly down there. The Villa fans have been very, very patient. But not  for much longer I think.

[Simba]

Just looking at the table and it makes for worrying times given our up coming fixtures. We can't feel complacent when we are seven points off the team (Arsenal) above us and only eight points from a relegation spot.

Some stats worry me and confirm  what we are watching and unfortunately do nothing to help A.Mcl's reputation:

Total Shots: 100. That is NINETEENTH in the table above only Stoke.
Shots on Target: 36. NINETEENTH in table above Stoke.

Some could point out that we have scored sixteen goals so the conversion rate is good. Fine but the stats prove that we a re not creating chances.

[Fergal]

I suggest McCleish tries this in midfield, rather than Heskey for the next game.

Let's get the signing on fee sorted & put it straight in against Swansea!!

65K a week should do it...

[willywombat]

I have to admit after that 'performance' I'm having my doubts about Eck. Many more embarassing capitulations like that and he's going to be in deep shit

[eastie]

For the 1st time in 33 years supporting the club i actually turned the tv over and watched corrie after the 2nd goal as i knew we were dead and buried-extremely worried about the lack of leadership and ambition and i can see us quickly being overtaken in the ambition stakes by the likes of stoke and sunderland-very dark and bad times ahead under this regime i feel !

[TopDeck113]

Like others, I gave up at half time - and was actually surprised when I heard the final score that Spurs hadn't at least doubled their tally.

I don't know which is the biggest cause for concern: the lack of leadership from the owner, the absence of a ballsy Chief Exec, a defensive-minded manager who - as far as Villa fans are concerned - has the worst lines possible on his CV , mediocre players who seem content to go through the motions or supporters who are increasingly turning their back on the side.

There's more than a whiff of 1986 in the air around Villa Park.