Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Then the entire defence and half the midfield just stood around doing the square root of fcuk all.

[olaftab]

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

We are a stopover for glory hunters on their way to Mancity. Everyone needs to support us for a few weeks to make themsleves fully justified in making the move. It's a sort of ritual  self cleansing exercise. You will need to hang on for a few more games and take the punishment!

[villadelph]

Cuellar Dunne Collins Warnock

Albrighton    Petrov     N'Zogbia

      Ireland         Gabby

                 Bent

From now on.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Plaudits are due not just to Brendan Rodgers but to Paulo Sousa and Roberto Martinez for creating then maintaning that pass and move style of play...and above all to the Swansea Board, who've had the vision and the courage to stick to their guns through their appointments.

[Simba]

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

We are a stopover for glory hunters on their way to Mancity. Everyone needs to support us for a few weeks to make themsleves fully justified in making the move. It's a sort of ritual  self cleansing exercise. You will need to hang on for a few more games and take the punishment!

One of your best aftab!

[Legion]

Warnock...whoops!

[olaftab]

I was going to say a lot about the performance when I left VP  however I can't be bothered just like some of  or most of our players today.
Petrov and Gabby should not have played today.  Subbing ireland just didn't make sense to me and oh  what did Hutton do when he came on?

[Shrek]

KRS, the point is, we are effectively playing with 10 men, he doesn't touch the ball.

I don't know what the answer is, but i do know we played Arsenal, Stoke then Chelsea and the performances and results got better and better.

[TheSandman]

Warnock...whoops!

It was shocking from Dunne as well.

[PeterWithesShin]

Warnock...whoops!

Will they ever learn that there is a right time to play football at the back, and then there are times when you just twat it away. Feels like more often than not we hoof it when it could be played and play it when it needs to be hoofed.

[MarkM]

With the style of play that McLiesh seems to have as a fall back position Bent becomes a passenger for large parts of the game.

When he does coe back to try and get the ball he has little options ahead of him and invariably looses the ball.

Villa need to decide if we can / want to play a formation and style that gets the best out of Bent, if we can't then we need to consider other options.

Bent was not the reason we lost, it was down to defensive cock ups and a lack of tactical ability from McLiesh.

Our home form is woeful and considering this, the reaction to McLiesh from the Villa crowd has been quite balanced.

His honeymoon period (to use a term) is over and he needs really to start managing a recovery, after all that's what he is paid for!

[MadJohnnyC]

I was going to say a lot about the performance when I left VP  however I can't be bothered just like some of  or most of our players today.
Petrov and Gabby should not have played today.  Subbing ireland just didn't make sense to me and oh  what did Hutton do when he came on?

Im not a Hutton fan either but in fairness Cuellar did ask to come off cuz he had a knock

[Clampy]

I was going to say a lot about the performance when I left VP  however I can't be bothered just like some of  or most of our players today.
Petrov and Gabby should not have played today.  Subbing ireland just didn't make sense to me and oh  what did Hutton do when he came on?

Carlos went off injured which is why Hutton came on i think.

[Ian.]

Warnock...whoops!

It does not get any better does it. I'm not one for scapegoating but he fucked right up, and so soon into the game.
I still can not blame AM. For us to let that goal in and then the next one 3 minutes into the second half is just madness and no manager could prevent it from happening.
For some reason we undone all our hard work from the last few matches and now it is time for AM to do his work before the next match.

[Edvard Remberg]

I said on the matchthread, that this weekend, is the weekend where the big team lose against the small teams.

Fulham 2 Arsenal 1.. Villa 0 - Swansea 2, Sunderland 1 - city 0 et.c....