Aston Villa v Everton Post-Match Thread

[Monty]

The period between the goals was the best football I've seen us play this season. Unfortunately our confidence is easier to shatter than a Ming vase. The best football we played was instigated by the Ireland-Gabby-Clark axis in midfield, and moving Clark to left back didn't help things (even though he was replaced in those areas by a link player in Keane). Bent scored, but today was all about Ireland from a Villa perspective.

[eamonn]

That Monty was moved to post saying it was our best performance of the season cos we played well for 10-15 minutes says it all really.

[Toronto Villa]

 I've seen more movement off the ball in a game of table football.

[kippaxvilla2]

I hate what you have made us McLeish.  Boring, predictable, stale, codswallop.  Now feck off back to the interesting City of Granite.  I am now officially worried.

[hawkeye]

on a positive note, Ireland was superb

[Colhint]

utter cock. How long has warnock got left on his contract. Hutton poor. Collins poor. Dunn is better than those 3 so keep him. 3 easy goals given away in the last 2 weeks. SHite shite shite. What is going on with the passing and movement?

[Rigadon]

Oh, and somebody please tell James Collins to stay at the back when we have a corner.  He is utterly useless at anything other than clutching his bone head in despair as he trundles back to his own half after yet another header sails 8 meters over the bar.   

Ireland was once again our best player.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

1-1 - I thought we were incredibly unfortunate - our slick passing and movement coupled with the managers incredible desire to play attacking football I thought would have seen us home.

I'm now off to take my medication.

[Barca 2011]

Ireland our best player by a mile, Warnock
awful. The rest poor.

[pauliewalnuts]

A first half whicih was trully shite, absolutely not good enough. Everton are shit as well, and we made them look far better than they are for 45 minutes.

Twenty minutes of good stuff, but our piss poor defence let us down again for their goal, and then it was back to utter mediocrity.

Turning up for 20 mns of the 90 is nothing like enough. I'm now starting to get very worried.

Ireland was very good. Gabby worked hard.

Warnock was terrible again.

[Monty]

That Monty was moved to post saying it was our best performance of the season cos we played well for 10-15 minutes says it all really.

Not best performance, best period of football. A performance is between minutes 1-90 (or 94 in this case), and overall it wasn't good enough, again.

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh, and somebody please tell James Collins to stay at the back when we have a corner.  He is utterly useless at anything other than clutching his bone head in despair as he trundles back to his own half after yet another header sails 8 meters over the bar.   

Ireland was once again our best player.

The Collins bit made me laugh out loud.

[PaulWinch again]

Ireland is a class act and should be in the middle every time. The team should be told to get the ball to him. Unfortunately is a huge minority in our squad who can actually play.

[Toronto Villa]

As good as Ireland has been and was today, he would never get into one of the top teams because he's just too slow. Technically very good, and a very good brain. Either that or you'd have to find very quick players to play with him. We might have the slowest midfield in world football between Clark, Ireland and Petrov, and Albrighton's not exactly lightning either.

[KRS]

Depressingly predictable result.