Aston Villa v Manchester City Post-Match Thread

[citizenDJ]

Good Lord that was poor stuff, and I'm afraid it's convinced me that if there is any possibility of replacing McLeish now then Lerner should do it. Inheriting a mess or otherwise, that sort of performance is not on, and it's happening with some regularity.

[toplad4u]

What was McCleish thinking starting Heskey and Collins! Very negative tactics. Would of been happier losing 5-0 if it meant we played attacking football!

[damon loves JT]

I guess the idea was to pay defensively to avoid a hiding, in order not to damage morale. But it's much more damaging to tell your players, effectively, that they can't beat Man City. It was the same against Manchester United, Liverpool and Spurs. It's very disappointing.

[Vanilla]

McLeish reverts to type and we lose in embarrassing circumstances. True, we'd probably have lost in any case. And we did only keep it down to the one goal. But it's the manner in which we approached the game that tells us McLeish just doesn't understand what this club is about.

He is only sticking to his remit: Don't get us relegated on a massively reduced budget. With there being 3/4 worse teams than us we won't get relegated, so he will probably get a performance bonus for achieving that.

[NeilH]

Really embarrassing to send us out like that, and it is far from the first time, either.

I can handle zero points against them, but we made it so very easy for them from the start.

That kind of ambition free approach really is not worthy of having an Aston Villa badge on it. We only looked vaguely like we were even taking part in that match when we put on CNZ and Stephen ireland.

The manager has a decreasing number of friends, and with embarassing, almost humiliating crap like that, he doesn't deserve the ones he still has.

If I were a neutral, we are exactly the sort of time I would absolutely hate.

Agree on every single word.

We utterly stink right now and no-one would be sorry to see us go down and if we start a match once more with that kind of negative approach its hard to disagree with them.

[garyshawsknee]

Neville and Tyler seemed bemused by our approach,but didnt slate McCleish,the fact that he's a nice guy saves his skin far too often.

[Boz]

The 7 points between us and the relegation battle will soon disappear with performances like that.

AM has had a lot of chances to get the right team within the restrictions placed on him, but he's not got a clue when it comes to the crunch

[Vanilla]

When they scored, I think the manager was actually pondering whether we can get back to 0-0.

[VinnieChase84]

Mcleish I hope your proud! Our WORST ever home run of results EVER!! Congratulations you Fucking clown!

[VWBelgian]

Shame just 0-1, citeh wasnt impressive at all... Best man for Villa maybe our left back King Carlos, i found he played ok today.

[Jockey Randall]

I just don't understand after all the good attacking football of late and the fact we can't keep a clean sheet to save our lives that we revert to playing for a 0-0 against one of the big teams. I would have thought we'd learned that this didn't work earlier in the season. It just doesn't make any sense. Scoring goals is our strength at the moment, look at the pressure they were under at the end. Why didn't we play to it?

[luke25]

Got what we deserved for an embarrasing display of anti-football for 80 minutes, we only looked decent when N'zogbia and Ireland were on for the last 10.

[Summers]

Today's protest only had what, 100 people? The next one will have gained a lot of numbers.

[manic-road]

Gutted that the manager can send a Villa team out at Villa Park with no ambition of trying to win a game.

[ktvillan]

I'd hoped we'd seen the back of the disgraceful damage limitation non-performances we saw earlier in the season, which not only failed miserably, but also totally embarrassed the club in the process.  He really seemed to have got the message that not trying was unacceptable for a club like Villa. 

Then the billionaires roll into town and McLeish reverts to type, and in one fell swoop destroys all the goodwill he's managed to build up by at least having ago against Arsenal, Chelsea and others.  Quite unbelievable stupidity.  It brings to mind Einsteins' definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 

I didn't expect much result wise today today, but I at least expected us to continue to play some good attacking football and to take our cue from what Everton and Sunderland had done to City and rip into them a bit.  They really aren't that good.    He'd almost won me over, now I can't wait to see the back of the fuckwit.  Well done AM, a cracking days work.