Aston Villa v Manchester City Match Thread

[berneboy]

I am a very positive, rarely critical, hopeful, life long Villa fan.

This is awful and I blame the MCleish mentality.

[Mister E]

One thing I'll give Steve Kean a lot of credit for is that he has given it a go in every game and has been given far less support by the fans than McLeish. They've scored in every away game and in my opinion don't have anything like the talent that we have on our books. This is very very hard to watch, and very, very hard to defend even if like me you a trying to give the bloke every chance possible to succeed.

Good comment, TV.

[villadelph]

we shouldn't need keane for our next three matches.

[D.boy]

Dante, I think I can safely say we all support the club but watching such negative tactics is frustrating. If we had a go at Man Citeh but ended up losing then it would soften the blow and most would accept it and say at least we had a go. The negativity we are seeing week in week out is what is driving us nuts especially when we have a defence so regularly gifting goals to the opposition.

[Irish villain]

Albrighton on the left and Heskey on the right are there obviously to protect Cuellar and Hutton. Is it worth it? Petrov and Gardner got overran by sometimes even 4 vs. them two. Positive attacking contributions from Albrighton & Heskey <2. Didn't see any, but just to be sure.

I'd rather let Man City worry about us.

[berneboy]

 Get Clark in to strengthen the middle and help us keep possession. Sub Heskey and Albrighton.

Clark's injured, I believe

[PaulWinch again]

The way we are playing is an embarrassment to the club and its history.

[Compass]

I bet if somehow we're still drawing 0-0 at the 80th min (if we're lucky), he still won't bother bringing on Ireland to win the match or anything. He's after his goal less draw.

[berneboy]

The way we are playing is an embarrassment to the club and its history.

I agree.

I felt like this at Wembley v Chelsea when we were so negative on the day of a big occasion.

[Matt Collins]

Dante, I think I can safely say we all support the club but watching such negative tactics is frustrating. If we had a go at Man Citeh but ended up losing then it would soften the blow and most would accept it and say at least we had a go. The negativity we are seeing week in week out is what is driving us nuts especially when we have a defence so regularly gifting goals to the opposition.

Exactly. Look at the reaction after the arsenal game. We actually tried to play football even if we lost. And that positive performance carried on to the Chelsea game.

[pauliewalnuts]

we shouldn't need keane for our next three matches.

The thing is, it wasn't too long ago we were talking about our easy run of matches yada yada yada and things would get much better, but here we are approaching 6 wins out of 25, and well over three months with no home win, and we're sat in 15th place.

[Fergal]

Positives.. we haven't conceded, and we haven't really came close to conceding.

Assuming we become a better attacking side in the second half (as we can't possibly be worse), things are looking okay.

They hit the post, how close do they need to get?

[Jockey Randall]

Did Chris Coleman just say "I like this Albrighton dude"?

[JUAN PABLO]

villa mascot doesnt shake man citys mascot hand . Classic

[TonyD]

Citeh aren't all that and a well picked side could have a chance of winning.   This team has no chance of winning.  AMs attitude is simply disgraceful to all those fans who have made the EFFORT to go down today.