Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[villadelph]

Reality is transient and football is no different. A couple of seasons ago, I was livid when we lost to Stoke and blew our chance to cement a top four place. This year, it's a new reality. McLeish is not to blame even if many people on here want to make him a scapegoat.

How has McLeish made our squad better. As far as I'm concerned, if a team is going in the wrong direction it is the fault of the manager. He cannot coordinate a sufficient offense that will create a competitive team in this league. The players are clueless, and it is the role of the manager to supply them with instruction.

[pav]

Would we have created more with Ashley, , Milner , downing ?

[villa for life]

Yes

[luke25]

The amount of times we needlessly gave the ball away was shocking, Delph, Collins and Bannan being the prime examples, i'm lost for words really, we're just not a good team at all.

[SoccerHQ]

Nice to know we've nailed defending set pieces.

For a supposed masterclass defensive coach, McLeish is even failing at that badly. Why oh why do we have to have Dunne and especially Collins every bleeding game when they keep on giving away free headers from corners?!

[achilles]

Reality is transient and football is no different. A couple of seasons ago, I was livid when we lost to Stoke and blew our chance to cement a top four place. This year, it's a new reality. McLeish is not to blame even if many people on here want to make him a scapegoat.

Okay I have bitten, but please explain this to me? I have always thought that the manager gets paid to motivate, organise and get the best he can out of the players at his disposal, which he is blantantly failing to do so! Exactly, in your opinion, is McLeish supposed to do... anything at all?

[Andyg]

Totally inept. Can only be one person to blame and that is McLeish, please take him away in your sack Santa!!

[phantom limb]

No Gabby, no party.

[villa for life]

exactly. No gabby, no party. No bent, no party. No Gareth, no James, no Ashley, No Stuart, no party

[pav]

Exactly, get rid of your best players , and fill in with mediocre replacements , you expect crsp

[PaulTheVillan]

That was awful. I've tried to give McLeish a chance, but the players out there today just had no ideas what so ever. I really worry about what instructions (if any) he's giving them.

The amount of times we gave the ball away today was shocking.

Petrov was the only player out there today who looked like he cares.

Delfouneso was better than I thought he'd be, at least when he gets the ball he heads straight for goal.

Heskey should have done better with his header early on.

I can't stand to even look at some of our players mostly Collins & Heskey.

I just don't feel any connection with the club at the moment.

Randy, why did you ignore us?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I thought Albrighton was our best player, created two good chances, one for heskey, one for the Fonz. They both missed aside from that we were utter Fuckin shite.

Fuck you mcshit you clueless fuck

[NeilH]

The stone cold reality is that right now we are just not very good. We tried a couple of things, especially in the 2nd half, but when you're putting out a a team of whom at least 50% are Championship footballers at best, you're not going to get very far. Even if we ship out the deadwood the reality is that the kids just ain't that great and as things stand, I'm not convinced many coaches could polish a turd and we're a turd of a team.

[TonyD]

Aston Villa Football Club - FOR SALE

Would be nice to hear.

[villadelph]

The stone cold reality is that right now we are just not very good. We tried a couple of things, especially in the 2nd half, but when you're putting out a a team of whom at least 50% are Championship footballers at best, you're not going to get very far. Even if we ship out the deadwood the reality is that the kids just ain't that great and as things stand, I'm not convinced many coaches could polish a turd and we're a turd of a team.

At least you've come to terms with your depression. I'm still in the "I'll kill anything if it moves" stage.