Aston Villa v Everton Post-Match Thread

[TimTheVillain]

Albrighton must improve his first touch.

Hutton - what a player

Warnock - better than Hutton )

Petrov - does he make love to his Mrs sideways ?

Well played Gabby, the only player to have any confidence in at the moment.

[barrysleftfoot]

  I see Mr Scapegoat is getting all the criticism on here again tonight.Hutton, who kept Drenthe relatively quiet all game, helped Albrighton all game, attacked on a regular basis, and always offered a ball gets all the criticism, and Petrov, who wa utter shite today gets no mention.

  Yet again another mistake by Warnock gives points away.Replace Petrov and Warnock, and move Clark into the back 4 and we would have won that easily today.Ireland MOM yet again, Albrighton had a very good game, Gabby good in the 1st half, poor in the 2nd, Bent, well as a footballer poor, as a goalscorer brilliant.As Shrek said earlier we have a problem, N'Zog was missed today, but who do you drop?

[Karlos96]

Not long been back an awful game with two mediocre teams.  I thought Ireland had a good game but the rest were average.  The movement off the ball is shocking players like Ireland must be so frustrated and you could see when Keane came on the few times when we broke he had absolutely no options.

One last thing Warnock and Hutton must the worst two fullbacks i've ever seen, they're all over the place at the back and going forward they're just as bad, how hard is it to cross a ball?  The amount of times they just send the ball over everyone's head, and we're stuck watch those tossers for the rest of the season.

[SoccerHQ]

Albrighton wasn't that great, his crossing was poor.

[Villanation]

After that display today, looking forward to the end of the season and hoping we survive both the Premiership and Mcliesh's tenure at the club, TBH I doubt it will be many more games when I join the ranks of those deserting the Villa park terraces and screens and give up the ghost on this season, which by the way they mentioned today the club was already a million and a half down in gate receipt money, goes without saying then that by the time we get to season end the next manager will have nothing to spend in the summer window either.

I 100%agree with the comment made by 1 poster that there is a good team in there, you can easily see judging by that 10 to 15 minute spell just how lethal we could actually be, when Ireland received ball out of defence turned is player and switched defence into attack in nano seconds, just for those seconds he looked real top quality.

I think if and when we get a more adept manager he will recognize what he has and play to those strengths because clearly that is where we are very good.

No explanation to what is supposed to be our managers strongest attribute, organizing defence, because Everton could easily have been 3 up at half time and our defence was shocking as it has been in other games this season, I'm assuming Cuellor is either still injured or just not well.

All in all chalk up another sinful performance IMO.

[TimTheVillain]

Fellaini bossed the midfield, he'd be a great replacement for Petrov who must be playing his last season for us.

We do have the worst fullbacks I've ever seen too, dreadful.

Play Clark at LB and, do we have a youth player who can replace Hutton ?

N'Zog will have to take his chances when he's played now, and Ireland is fast becoming our best midfield player - he needs more quality to play with.

These aren't the best times at VP, our home form could see us challenging for relegation at this rate.

[Chipsticks]

I, for one, thought it was a decent game and even thought we played well. Gotta remember that we were playing a decent side today.

[preston28]

Apparently, we're losing on average £1.5m from game revenue due to the decline in crowds.

I heard that on the commentary but it is rubbish.  One too many noughts and even then it is exaggerated.

To the game and as Francis said, a laboured performance.

Where do you start with an analysis of the performance.  I could write a book on it but cannot be bothered.

Not really -an article in the Daily Telegraph - we're averaging 2.5K down per home match. At £40 per ticket that's £100K per match or £1.8M (give or take a few £100K with ticket price fluctuation) over the season. Peanuts really if you consider TV revenue over a season............

[UK Redsox]

Is Lihaj fit again yet ?

If so, he should come instead of Hutton.

Ireland looked good today.

As mentioned above, there were a couple of occasions when Keane had the ball that he had to just stand still with it because there was no one moving ahead of him.

Felaini shoul be playing for a far better team than Everton


The highlight of the day was of course the half-time giant hamster-ball racing

[Villanation]

Apparently, we're losing on average £1.5m from game revenue due to the decline in crowds.

I heard that on the commentary but it is rubbish.  One too many noughts and even then it is exaggerated.

To the game and as Francis said, a laboured performance.

Where do you start with an analysis of the performance.  I could write a book on it but cannot be bothered.

Not really -an article in the Daily Telegraph - we're averaging 2.5K down per home match. At £40 per ticket that's £100K per match or £1.8M (give or take a few £100K with ticket price fluctuation) over the season. Peanuts really if you consider TV revenue over a season............

Hardly peanuts, we finish in a poor position in the Premiership, yet further drop in money, club becomes even more unattractive to sponsors, not the way to go IMO, we worry about high wage bills but don't worry about falling gate receipts, recipe for disaster that is.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Felaini plays with a confidence like he owns the place. We on the other hand have such a lack of confidence in each others ability, we always look for the safest of safe balls and even then manage to mess up. The fans don't help but after so many years of crap football at Villa Park you can hardly blame them for having the odd moan.

We desperately need confidence and realistically that can only be build from the back. Carlos has to return, either at right back or to replace Collins. I'd also rest Petrov for a game or two, let Herd and Clark have a spell together because at the moment Stan looks knackered both physically and mentally.

[preston28]

Apparently, we're losing on average £1.5m from game revenue due to the decline in crowds.

I heard that on the commentary but it is rubbish.  One too many noughts and even then it is exaggerated.

To the game and as Francis said, a laboured performance.

Where do you start with an analysis of the performance.  I could write a book on it but cannot be bothered.

Not really -an article in the Daily Telegraph - we're averaging 2.5K down per home match. At £40 per ticket that's £100K per match or £1.8M (give or take a few £100K with ticket price fluctuation) over the season. Peanuts really if you consider TV revenue over a season............

Hardly peanuts, we finish in a poor position in the Premiership, yet further drop in money, club becomes even more unattractive to sponsors, not the way to go IMO, we worry about high wage bills but don't worry about falling gate receipts, recipe for disaster that is.

Fair point it doesn't make the end of year accounts good reading but I think I was trying to say (in a very obtuse way!) that if we didn't have the TV money the Mr. Lerner et al would perhaps be more concerned at what is going on at VP??

[Villanation]

Apparently, we're losing on average £1.5m from game revenue due to the decline in crowds.

I heard that on the commentary but it is rubbish.  One too many noughts and even then it is exaggerated.

To the game and as Francis said, a laboured performance.

Where do you start with an analysis of the performance.  I could write a book on it but cannot be bothered.

Not really -an article in the Daily Telegraph - we're averaging 2.5K down per home match. At £40 per ticket that's £100K per match or £1.8M (give or take a few £100K with ticket price fluctuation) over the season. Peanuts really if you consider TV revenue over a season............

Hardly peanuts, we finish in a poor position in the Premiership, yet further drop in money, club becomes even more unattractive to sponsors, not the way to go IMO, we worry about high wage bills but don't worry about falling gate receipts, recipe for disaster that is.

Fair point it doesn't make the end of year accounts good reading but I think I was trying to say (in a very obtuse way!) that if we didn't have the TV money the Mr. Lerner et al would perhaps be more concerned at what is going on at VP??

Well that's true enough, or at least he should be a bit more concerned.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Cuellar does'nt really offer anything going foward.

  The problem today was in the 1st half he played Ireland on the left, and Gabby down the middle.Clark and Petrov played deeper, but did'nt move the ball quick enough to the more creative players.Then , fair play to McL , he swapped Ireland and Gabby and it worked better.Petrov and Clark were still too slow with the ball, and too deep, but at least Ireland was getting on the ball more.

 2nd half, we had more of the ball, but the final ball was generally quite poor.Then we scored, and for 10/15 mins looked a good team, but Gabby and Bents movement off the ball was quite poor, so we did'nt get that much needed 2nd goal.Then Warnock gave his customary goal away, and the confidence of the team deteriorated and we was hanging on.

  Yet again booing at H/T why?

 

[Archie]

The message the the two teams gave to the two sets of fans is clear.
You must be happy to be in the Premier League.
Tptal lack of further ambition.