Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

We were very shit at times.
Clueless at others.
Both for most of the game.
Swansea gave us (and a lot of others watching) a lesson in how to work, run and pass for each other as a team.
Don't we work on keeping possession in training? Just to raise ONE point among many possibles: Does it take a genius to work out that lumping the ball up in the air to someone who is a bit shit in the air (Bent) is a complete waste of valuable possession. I worked this out myself while playing in the Sutton Sunday League (Divs 2,1 and Prem) many years ago. If Bent had played for my pub side the way he played today he'd have been dropped next week! Along with................
And I wouldn't have taken our best player off!

[mozza]

Supporters & players alike should have been confident of getting a positive result today after
improved performances over the past three matches but how wrong can you be -

Second best all over the park and in the technical area - no way will a team managed by McLeish play
how Swansea did today -

The system and players needed to be changed at halftime but our manager didn't have the bottle
or nouse to do it - but the team should take responsibility for a lack lustre performance

[TaxDodger]

Just got back. Does anybody want to buy a season ticket?

[villadelph]

Just got back. Does anybody want to buy a season ticket?

There's no market for them.

[Mazrim]

Just got back. Does anybody want to buy a season ticket?

Easier to sell tins of Tartan paint.

[Risso]

Just got back. Does anybody want to buy a season ticket?

I'll take it off your hands for £100.  That is, you pay me £100 of course.

[James]

Just got back. Does anybody want to buy a season ticket?

There's no market for them.

The board will realise this in the summer, but sadly it will be too late I fear!

[kippaxvilla2]

Where are we going to bag the 17 points we need to stay up? 

[Witton Warrior]

Where are we going to bag the 17 points we need to stay up? 

Interesting conversation on 5Live today discussing 40 points not keeping a team up :-(

[kippaxvilla2]

There is one positive from today.  It can't be too long until we see the Heskey shuffle again.

[Mister E]

They just didn't play for him which may or may not be his fault ...

And that, I think, is the real nub of it.
We have players who could 'get up' for the game on Saturday but not today. We had a manager who did not get the players' attitudes right for today.

I can only speculate but my take is that McMinge is a "nice but dim" sort of guy who is not subtle enough and tactically aware enough to deal with both the players and the demands of the games. One-offs: okay - it's may be easy to get the team buzzing. But it's the sustainability of peak performance that is difficult (as PubeHead found out).

Maybe playing the kids is the answer. Maybe being brave and offloading a couple of the defensive dinosaurs is right. Maybe walking out now is right.

I just do not want McGinge to become the classic sports-quiz queston: "Which manager took two diffferent teams down in successive seasons from the Premiership?" [clue: they were both from the same city]

[tarzansbrother]

There is one positive from today.  It can't be too long until we see the Heskey shuffle again.

Surprised its not a YouTube hit. Imagine the hits it would get.

[Steve kirk]

Relax everybody I have done the BBC predictor and we finish 14th on 42 points, bet that makes you feel a lot better

[BILL DE VALL]

Norwich offered Lambert the job when his side schooled them to a big defeat when Bryan Gunn was in charge.
Can we offer that Brendan Rodgers a job?

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Positives from today.

I never forked out £30+ to watch that shit...yet again.

I feel for those who have forked out to watch that garbage for the umpteenth time this season.