Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[olaftab]

Played 27 won 6 scored  30, conceaded 35,  points 30. This really is relegation material. We are lucky that this season there are 5 very bad teams below us.

[adrenachrome]

I have run out of frustrated overreaction. I look at the remaining fixtures and feel like the last Russian sniper up in the grain elevator at Stalingrad, counting my fags and my bullets, and waiting for the bastards to come one final time.

"dig tunnels . deep, store grain everywhere and never seek hegemony"

"pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will"

[olaftab]

Predictable to the extent I believe I could have won a huge amount of money betting on draws,

With 10 mins to go I placed a £10 at 5/1 for a draw.  Sadly it came in. and as you say was so predictable.

[pedro25]

Games like today make me think McLeish was very wrong letting Makoun go, how we could do with a midfielder who knows how to keep the ball and pass to a man in a Villa shirt, the game at Old Trafford when we lost 3-1 he was the best player on the pitch.

[Villanation]

[size=12pt]WHAT DID YOU SAY AT HALF TIME ALEX, WHAT DID YOU SAY.[/size]

How in the hell did we not take three points from this. We absolutely dominate the first 45 and then we PACK IT IN?! We sit back and let a team that is guaranteed relegation attack us? What planet are you on Alex. Herd was one of our best players, and a defensive center midfielder that I want on the pitch for the last 15 minutes. How you decide to take N'Zogbia off is beyond me..

"That's enough offense for one day, last hang back for the rest.. we'll be fine"

Take us to the Championship Alex, take us to the Championship.

This is the comment for me, I was lost for words after the game, we are capable of 45mins only, but never to such a degree and never so emphatic, not since O'Dreary, without a question of a doubt something was said, impossible to have 11 players playing at such a tempo, playing really good one touch football that the likes of Messi and Co would have been proud of, adrenalin going, those lads must of walked in at half time dying to get out onto the pitch to continue the game.

It wasn't that they stepped up a level, we simply stopped playing, we backed right half and defended deep inside our own half, we didn't move the ball, we where virtually backed into our 18yd box, we became a mess from the start of the 2nd half, how does that happen.

Something was said to those same 11 individuals that had just been going at full throttle in the first half, full of it, this unnerved them, upset them, thrown them of balance, something that deflated them and took the wind totally out of there sails, and if that's the case the truth will out.

If Randy Lerner was watching that and his NFL coaches where doing the same even though they may not know the sport, as sports coaches they will know they have just witnessed something that was manufactured.

Ireland, Albrighton and N'Zogbia where unstoppable in the first half, Gabby for all his rustiness in that role couldn't keep his mouth shut, pointing directions to everybody all over the shop, 2nd.............Not a peep, Ireland vanishes from the face of the earth, N'zogbia deflates, and Albrighton, I seriously was asking the question was he on the pitch.

Terrible, and frankly I think we all now the truth and a lot of questions have been answered.

The only thing that will now keep Villa up is not Villa, its the fact there are 2 or 3 teams below us incapable of winning and we have the cushion, thank goodness.

[MarkM]

File a complaint with AVFC

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/ContactUs/0,,10265,00.html

I did that very thing last weak, I even supplied my phone number in case they wanted to call me to discuss the letter.

All I got was the auto reply email from the club and nothing else

[Steve kirk]

We are unbeaten in 18 our our 27 games, that is sort of positive ish     

[phantom limb]

Of all people, it's fat bastard Dunn who scores the equaliser. The icing on the stinking turdcake that has been our season so far.

[lennythekad]

At What point do we as Supporters need to take action?

The action by supporters will be taken in the Summer with chronic season ticket sales.

I'm really not sure it will make a difference though, even if we got relegated.

Yep I'm ashamed to say I will not be renewing my Season Ticket but I just cannot except McLeish's negative boring football

No need to be ashamed mrfuse. I'm not. Eck's fast draining any last vestiges of enthusiasm out of the support, which will be almost impossible to get back whilst he's here,(not that I think he'll be leaving anytime soon).

[Villanation]

At What point do we as Supporters need to take action?

The action by supporters will be taken in the Summer with chronic season ticket sales.

I'm really not sure it will make a difference though, even if we got relegated.

Yep I'm ashamed to say I will not be renewing my Season Ticket but I just cannot except McLeish's negative boring football

No need to be ashamed mrfuse. I'm not. Eck's fast draining any last vestiges of enthusiasm out of the support, which will be almost impossible to get back whilst he's here,(not that I think he'll be leaving anytime soon).

After today's performance I think McLiesh has got one foot out the door and the other is in fast pursuit catching up.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Dull, uninspiring, boring, predictable.
Watching the Villa these days is like having an extremly boring job. You clock in, put in your hours, you clock out, and you go home.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

RL made a BIG decision to appoint AM.
Unfortunately I think he will stick with that big decision and we will be stuck with AM for at least a couple of seasons yet.

Bollocks!

[OzVilla]

Didn't see the game but don't have to anymore - i've given up getting up at 2am to watch this shit.  Now i wake up at 5am and lie in bed wondering how we got on only to find I was right not to waste my time again.  Every cloud and that.......

The most predicatable result ever from the most predictable Villa team ever.

[villadelph]

McLeish would've gotten the axe at Blxes with this run of form.

A complete joke.

[PaulWinch again]

With the players at his disposal the results are truly atrocious.