Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Mediocre players producing mediocre football on the instructions of a mediocre manager.

MEH.

That never reached the heady heights of mediocre.

[DB]

I'm not on the sauce or the crack. I'm on planet reality.

OK, I'll bite. You point out what was decent about that performance? Forgetting the minor point point we lost 2-0 at home.

[cheltenhamlion]

Left with ten minutes to go. Back in the pub trying to warm up. Utter shit again. I won't be using my ticket on Wednesday.

[Lobsterboy]

We seem to play the same way against the top six under McLeish:

1. Concede shit goal or goals early doors
2. Show some fight for 20-25 minutes
3. Play out drab insipid second half with little or no chances but plenty of huff and puff
4. Manager comes out and praises effort and promises to work on dog shit set piece defending

I thought we might have got a point today but with no Gabby and Bent I really could not see where the goals were going to come from and we all know we have sod all chance of keeping a clean sheet!

Poor performance yes but some mitigation with the players he had available (Given, Jenas, Herd, Agbonlahor and Bent all would have improved that team) and not sure we need to be sacking the manager on the back of a result/performance like this

Oh and at least Downing didn't score...

[PaulWinch again]

I'm not on the sauce or the crack. I'm on planet reality.

It should have been 6 or 7, we were terrible.

[Chipsticks]

We're not going down. We're not getting Europa League.

Welcome to mid-table, lads!

[villadelph]

Mediocre players producing mediocre football on the instructions of a mediocre manager.

MEH.

That never reached the heady heights of mediocre.

What I would do to be mediocre.. We are terrible.

[Edvard Remberg]

Left with ten minutes to go. Back in the pub trying to warm up. Utter shit again. I won't be using my ticket on Wednesday.

Give it to Stan Collymore for his cause against depression. Then he can give it to someone donating for his cause...

wait! on second thought! Don't do that!

[PaulWinch again]

We combine a number of awful factors. We are terribly fragile, have no spirit and play horrible horrible football.

[SamTheMouse]

No urgency, no movement off the ball, no passion........all in all pretty shit.

Holy shit, I forgot to put this in my previous post. We are terrible at movement off the ball. Delph, Petrov, Delf, and N'Zogbia just standing around.. it was a joke.

It actually made me laugh out loud in the second half. Bannan had the ball in midfield, and Petrov, Albrighton and Delfouneso were standing about 10 yards from him, each marked, but kind of bouncing on their heels, as if they were at the end of a bungee rope. None of them actually moved into space.

[brontebilly]

Guess if you add Given, Gabby, Bent and Herd into the side it will improve things. Even then its a bit of a stretch as Bent has been pants this season and Herd despite his best efforts is fairly limited. Above all else we need serious investment in the side. MON's players needs replacing not with the Alan Hutton's of this world but with proper footballers. The likes of Bannan, Fonz, Albrighton will only be useful in a side that is on top with loads of possession. Even then they are likely to only be back up players.

We are just like Everton now. No money = no ambition.

[supertom]

We may as well not bother turning up to play one of the top 6 sides. It's pathetic and frankly McLeish is a disgrace. The sooner he's gone, the better, he's just utterly clueless.

I could buy the excuse of not having enough quality players, but I just can't buy the sheer lack of organisation, the inability to do the basics, the lack of effort, and the lack of cohesion. The players aren't giving their all and it's down to this numpty in charge.
Randy, fuck off!
Fuckner, fuck off!
McLeish, fuck off!
pardon my French.
This is as pathetic as I can remember in my 21 years of supporting this club, and I include the O Leary era in that.

[jimmygreen]

Nice Troll-age VFL. Or perhaps you're just offering the alternative viewpoint. From where I was sat it was inept, gutless, clueless, witless garbage. But you're right - only another minus two in the against column.

[villadelph]

We may as well not bother turning up to play one of the top 6 sides. It's pathetic and frankly McLeish is a disgrace. The sooner he's gone, the better, he's just utterly clueless.

I could buy the excuse of not having enough quality players, but I just can't buy the sheer lack of organisation, the inability to do the basics, the lack of effort, and the lack of cohesion. The players aren't giving their all and it's down to this numpty in charge.
Randy, fuck off!
Fuckner, fuck off!
McLeish, fuck off!
pardon my French.
This is as pathetic as I can remember in my 21 years of supporting this club, and I include the O Leary era in that.

the club is falling apart.

[villa for life]

Seem to be on my own here.......look at the teamsheets. Did you expect anything else? We lost, but only by two.
 We beat the team last week, just as we should have.... Ok, a win today would have been a bonus, but the important thing was we beat Bolton.

ok, when we start to consistently lose to the bottom six teams, then there maybe something to worry about. As for now, McLeish has done a very good job of keeping us clear of the likes of Wigan and Bolton etc