Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[Jimbo]

Shit. And I could only stomach the first fifteen minutes. We're utterly rudderless from the chairman, to the manager and the players. There might be three worse teams than us, but one of them might change their manager and fight their way back. We won't.

[Rico]

My God that was awful!!!!! Clearly the players don't want to play for Mcleish. There wasn't one single Villa player who came out of that with any credit whatsoever. Wouldn't trust Mcleish in the January transfer window.

[Neil Hawkes]

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

[TonyD]

You pick a shit team and you will lose.  Simple.

[garyshawsknee]

No difference from the Spurs,Utd games,gutless,lacking basic passing and movement,yes we were depleated a bit today,but McCleish is worryingly out of his depth at a club like Villa. 'were lucky that there are 4 or 5  teams who are worse than us,thats our only saving grace.

[DB]

Have a stinking cold and hoped for a result today after last weeks win. Awful. Basically, no movement, all we did was give ball away under no pressure, hoof it form centre backs to no-one in particular. 2nd hald L-pool just sat back we had no answers, they didn't need to get out if 2nd gear. It was dreadfull. Can we learn how to control / pass?

Delph - powder puff, Albrighton - in-effective, Delfounso - missing.

[Edvard Remberg]

2-2 against ManUtd - we had half of the reserves then starting - yet played them of the pitch. No excuse for that apathy on show almost every game.

[garyshawsknee]

decent performance. only losing by two is nothing to be ashamed of. We've lost Gareth, James, Ashley and Stuart yet we are still comfortably mid-table. credit to McLeish where it is due. Not ideal, but not too bad

you been on the sauce?

[villadelph]

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.

[DB]

decent performance. only losing by two is nothing to be ashamed of. We've lost Gareth, James, Ashley and Stuart yet we are still comfortably mid-table. credit to McLeish where it is due. Not ideal, but not too bad

you been on the sauce?

Decent? We lost!!!!! I hate to think what you pt down a s a bad performance. You on Crack?

[ROBBO]

I watch most prem games over here and Bolton apart we are the worst footballing side, Relegation is a real possibility under Mcleish.Most of the young kids have been tried now and they are just not good enough, Bannon when he came on continually gave the ball away unless it was on the half way line, the Fonz will never make it, just not good enough, Albrighton may be okay in a good side. Why Clark hasn't been given his chance is anybodies guess. I suppose the word to express todays effort was embarrassing.

[villa for life]

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

[Matt C]

Another meek surrender against a team from the top six. Pitiful.

[garyshawsknee]

decent performance. only losing by two is nothing to be ashamed of. We've lost Gareth, James, Ashley and Stuart yet we are still comfortably mid-table. credit to McLeish where it is due. Not ideal, but not too bad

you been on the sauce?

Decent? We lost!!!!! I hate to think what you pt down a s a bad performance. You on Crack?

I didnt know Chris Smith had two usernames.

[KRS]

I've just witnessed the most depressing live commentary on Radio WM that I've ever heard...it was like listening to a funeral service. RIP Aston Villa.

decent performance. only losing by two is nothing to be ashamed of. We've lost Gareth, James, Ashley and Stuart yet we are still comfortably mid-table. credit to McLeish where it is due. Not ideal, but not too bad

Struggling to understand much of this post..."decent performance". Really? If that was a "decent performance" then it just shows how low some of our expectations have fallen. "comfortably mid-table". Really? A quick glance at the table shows we are 3 points above 15th place...is that really "comfortable"?

Fortunately for us, there are at least 3 teams who we will finish above but there is no getting away from the fact that if it wasnt for those teams then what we are seeing on the pitch is the standard of team that should be in a battle for relegation. The league table still papers over some seriously large cracks, but with a few more defeats to come against Arsenal and Stoke the reality could start to look a little more harsh.