Aston Villa v Liverpool Post-Match Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

Any time would struggle with the loss of their two first choice forwards, but the sad truth is that they probably wouldn't have made much difference.  I really do not want to see Heskey in a Villa shirt ever again, and his final game for the club cannot come quickly enough.  This season we're going to rely on being better than Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton for our fun.

The presence of Bent and Gabby would have made zero difference today.

It was just a masterclass in giving the ball away, from start to finish.

[caster troy]

Another terrible performance.

I don't know how long McLeish will be our manager for but while he is in charge we are only headed in one direction. Given the terrible atmosphere and the fact that I can't even be bothered to go on Wednesday when I have a season ticket suggests the club shouldn't be too surprised when we struggle to get 28,000 at Villa Park come Feb/March.

I can't think of a single reason to be optimistic except the knowledge that one day, even if it takes 5 years to happen, neither McLeish nor Heskey will be paid employees of AVFC.

[PeterWithesShin]

That was shit. Why do I bother freezing my bollocks off at VP to watch this crap? Inept, gutless and clueless. The only saving grace is that it could and probably should have been 6 or more.


2-0 down at home and you don't bother bringing a striker on until there's 10 minutes left? Fuck off.

And what the fuck do they do at Bodymoor Heath? It sure as fuck isn't practicing defending set pieces or movement off the ball.

Royally fucked off right now with how embarrassing we are to watch.   

[PeterWithesShin]

I did enjoy the Heskey shuffle though!

[Risso]

I don't like saying this as he's a young player who I'd like to see do well, but Delph is rapidly approaching "another waste of money by O'Neill" territory.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't like saying this as he's a young player who I'd like to see do well, but Delph is rapidly approaching "another waste of money by O'Neill" territory.

I'm starting to wonder myself.

He still has that horrific tendency to go in wildly two-footed, too.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't like saying this as he's a young player who I'd like to see do well, but Delph is rapidly approaching "another waste of money by O'Neill" territory.

He really does look poor. Doesn't pass or tackle very well. Not ideal from a midfielder. I lost count of the amount of times he gave the ball away today.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I've never rated delph and I don't know what the fuss was all about

[villadelph]

What is Randy's contact information, I need to tell him something. His mail address has to be public information, no?

[garyshawsknee]

Were the ironic cheers(when we strung more than two passes together) coming from the holte or the Liverpool fans?

[eastie]

We have two top class young players in Gary Gardner and ciaran Clark- please lets see these 2 given a good run in the team- albrightons hit and miss but bannan and the fonz along with Delph aren't going to cut it at this level in my opinion.
The club is in a shambolic state and mr Lerner must accept a huge slice of the blame for our current situation.

[The Situation]

I told myself after beating Bolton that maybe we would start to get some consistency going... Obviously not it seems.

Yes, you can make the argument that having two if your best players out doesn't help, but that doesn't mean the rest of the team has to give up. Other players need to step up.

Very disappointed and sad. We look far worse than last season and that's really saying something.

What happened to McLeish bringing stability to the team? A grand total of 4 fucking league wins and a defence that still looks woeful.

What frustrates me even more is that joke of a manager's tactics worked for those knuckle draggers.

Randy Lerner and Alex McLeish pls go. You're both embarrassing the club we support. You're both sucking the life out of our club.

[David_Nab]

The worst thing about losing to Spurs ,Man U and now Liverpool is that they didn't even have to play well !!

The games have been on TV and every pundit has slated us for how we played.Right now Kean and Coyle seem to be taking all the flack but we the run of games we have coming up I expect the media backlash against Mcliesh to really start.We are looking at 3 very losable games and then a giant killing in the cup...depressing times.

[Walmley_Villa]

Well yet again my youngest wouldn't go despite having a ST and tbf U can't blame him.  I think he knows something we don't. To be fair in the first half there were flashes from N'zpg. We did miss Gabby today whatever anyone says. Still can't defend set pieces and look as threatening as a goldfish on our own. The Fonz won't ever make it IMO and nor will Albrighton. We lack quality players and a quality manager.
I really hope Randy is looking to sell because we are only heading one way.

[jembob]

35,000 people turned up today knowing that we were going to be abysmal and we were. Clueless, pointless and shameful.

The worst thing for me was that at certain points of the game, most people around us were just laughing at our sheer ineptitude. Liverpool are a really mediocre outfit who's game plan seem to be 'belt it up to Suarez and see what he can do'. They didn't need to even try in the second half such was our lack of organisation or ambtion. It even seems that the Liverpool fans are sorry for us.

Our team performances are becomming a laughing stock and it is the fault of McLeish. Say what you like about players taking responsibility for their own performance, but the sad fact is that they clearly don't want to play for this manager and seem to be as frustrated as the fans.

The sooner Mcleish fucks off, the better. It can't come quick enough for me.