Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[john e]

No where near as bad as against Spurs, we had Heskey and Hutton in midfield and were playing from the of for a defeat.

It all went wrong today but we hadn't given up the ghost before the game began like against spurs

[ez]

Bent thrives on crosses, but McLeish dropped our player of the month winger to accommodate him and changed a winning team.

Crazy decision.

5 losses in 6 at home, pathetic.

When we go a goal behind at home its virtually game over as we collapse so badly. The team and the manager don't have a clue what to do about it.

[PaulWinch again]

No where near as bad as against Spurs, we had Heskey and Hutton in midfield and were playing from the of for a defeat.

It all went wrong today but we hadn't given up the ghost before the game began like against spurs

That is true.

[damon loves JT]

I've only been supporting Villa since Saturday. Is this what it's supposed to be like?

[ktvillan]

I've only been supporting Villa since Saturday. Is this what it's supposed to be like?

Don't know about supposed to be, but it always has been.

[bertlambshank]

I've only been supporting Villa since Saturday. Is this what it's supposed to be like?

Larf a minute.

[midnite]

Agree with you there KRS

I don't think it was the right team today. Petrov struggles with 90 mins and played his heart out against Chelsea. He looked knackered today. He should of been Subed or start from the bench to come on and impact later in the game. Taking Ireland off was an odd call but not as odd as Clarke for bannan. Why was the point? What's bannan going to do in 5 mins?

Everton is going to be a huge game for everyone. We need to stop this losing streak at home. And we need to find out which was the fluke result. Have we indeed turned a corner and today was a blip after a hard game at Chelsea or was it the Chelsea game that was the false dawn. I really hope it was just a bad day at the office today.

[eastie]

Outplayed in all departments -very poor display and we look a far better team with gabby leading the line , granted bent is a better finisher but he contributes little to the play and if the right price is offered which leads to 3 quality signings id be tempted to let darren leave.

Two shockingly poor goals conceded and back to square one again.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

1 - Warnock is an awful player.
2 - "Why can't we pass it around instead of hoofing it?" said the bloke next to me (and countless others), "Because they're patient and you're not" was my response. Brendan Rogers and his players have said numerous times that they will always pass it. It if goes wrong, it goes wrong, but eventually passing the ball will be more beneficial. The Villa fans have never and will never accept that. Our fans prevent us from having a team that passes the ball. We had a manager last season who was trying to change the way we played, and look at the response he got.
3 - The booing for the substitution of Ireland? I'm sorry, I must have blinked when Ireland did his bit to warrant staying on the pitch.
4 - Two shocking mistakes by players who should know better is not AM's fault.
5 - First 20 minutes we looked good.
6 - AM should've changed the tactics a lot earlier and played two up front pretty much when we went 2-0 down.

Out of interest, have the Villa ever been a passing team? I've been going since about 95/96 and, whilst on occasions, we have passed it well, we've never done it like they did today.

[bertlambshank]

1 - Warnock is an awful player.
2 - "Why can't we pass it around instead of hoofing it?" said the bloke next to me (and countless others), "Because they're patient and you're not" was my response. Brendan Rogers and his players have said numerous times that they will always pass it. It if goes wrong, it goes wrong, but eventually passing the ball will be more beneficial. The Villa fans have never and will never accept that. Our fans prevent us from having a team that passes the ball. We had a manager last season who was trying to change the way we played, and look at the response he got.
3 - The booing for the substitution of Ireland? I'm sorry, I must have blinked when Ireland did his bit to warrant staying on the pitch.
4 - Two shocking mistakes by players who should know better is not AM's fault.
5 - First 20 minutes we looked good.
6 - AM should've changed the tactics a lot earlier and played two up front pretty much when we went 2-0 down.

Out of interest, have the Villa ever been a passing team? I've been going since about 95/96 and, whilst on occasions, we have passed it well, we've never done it like they did today.

Under Big Ron.

[ktvillan]

We were a superb passing team under Atkinson.

[jcsutv]

On Av2 now. To me N'Z  has no idea where he should be either when we have the ball or don't. Both goals came down his side of the pitch despite the manager changing it.  Why not take him off as he was a liability. We played with 10 men and N'Zogbia today.

[mrfuse]

I've said it time and time again, our movement off the ball is appalling, were as Swansea's was excellent.

This is our main problem and why we are useless at home

[hipkiss92]

There's a difference between what happens when we try to pass it, where it moves around about 30 times between Petrov, the back 4 and the keeper before being launched forward aimlessly when someone is put under pressure, and what Swansea did today where they pass it around quickly looking to move it forward.

[Jimbo]

McLeish sounded like a drowning man on the radio just now.