Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[barrysleftfoot]

  They tried to play football today, but their was poor quality, from Albrighton in partic, and no closing down i midfield, partic from Petrov.

  Too lazy, and not enough quality, but we know that.Some of our supposed big names are getting away with too much atm hiding behind the vitriol directed towards the manager.Pertov is the club captain, but shows no leadership, endevour or indeed interest.Gabby looks lazy and disintereste as well.Ireland for all his faults, at least shows some bottle.

 The manager might need to be changed, but some of our more popular players need to step up or go.

[Nev]

It's no good pretending we are not in a relegation fight. We were in one as soon as we appointed this manager last summer.

[PaulWinch again]

We are very clearly in trouble of relegation and anyone who thinks we're not is mad.

[Legion]

Cuckoo!

[murgsy]

on this form it will be us QPR, Wolves going down...

[Barca 2011]

Sad to say I saw the team selection, Heskey back, didnt bother
trying to find a stream or listen. Another game we had given up on before we even
kicked off.
Its going to be close, but still think we will be ok!

[dutchvilla]

the terrible thing is that even relegation would not (necessarily) rid us of McCleish. After all, Faulkner / Lerner can point to his experience in getting teams promoted from the Championship...

[Villanation]

  They tried to play football today, but their was poor quality, from Albrighton in partic, and no closing down i midfield, partic from Petrov.

  Too lazy, and not enough quality, but we know that.Some of our supposed big names are getting away with too much atm hiding behind the vitriol directed towards the manager.Pertov is the club captain, but shows no leadership, endevour or indeed interest.Gabby looks lazy and disintereste as well.Ireland for all his faults, at least shows some bottle.

 The manager might need to be changed, but some of our more popular players need to step up or go.

Can't agree, we know Gabby can play, we know for a fact there is decent football in Albrighton, we know that Petrov can put a decent shift in, we've all seen it many times, so what's the common denominator when it comes to pointing the finger of blame, these players are wondering around listless because there is total uncertainty about what they are supposed to do, you can see it at every angle every movement form every corner of the squad, and thats why you often see player looking so frustrated.

They simply don't know what they are supposed to do, you have to remember that most of these blokes where under MON who drove them on and get so much more out of them.

[Villanation]

We are very clearly in trouble of relegation and anyone who thinks we're not is mad.

Agree.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

McCluess has to go now, if only to give a new manager time to assess the players he wants to keep for next season.

This turgid, negative, passionless, shit has to stop.

Not scored a goal all season from a corner but conceded how many?
How many late goals have we conceded?
How many times do we have a throw in, and within 20 seconds our opponents are in possession of the ball?
Our movement and passing is worse than the year 8 team that I coach at school.
What the fuck do these players do all week at Bodymoor, they don't even look fit.

[David_Nab]

One faint hope is Liverpool are not in great form maybe we could sneak a draw there ...

[GarTomas]

Where to start? Comfortably beaten from start to finish.  With the exception of a couple of breaks down the right very little in the way of us having a go.

What's more galling is being outworked. I don't mind watching us lose if we battle and have a go. Sadly lacking on both fronts today.

Only positive for me was Ireland. Constantly looked for the ball and when he had it sadly the others were statuesque. 

Gardner and Weimann both tried when they came on. Why not start with them?  Both appear to have some idea of what to do.

It's getting very difficult to defend McLeish. Today again looked like a let's try and not be beat performance. Arsenal are going to score goals past us. Why not try to score at the other end?

Very disillusioned right now.

[D.boy]

I think we were comfortably beaten before we even kicked off which is the part that really frustrates me. Bunch of surrender monkeys.

[avfcpg]

on this form it will be us QPR, Wolves going down...

Another 3 or 4 points should see us safe...we got lucky this season. 3 of the bottom four will go.
Next season is a different story however...we'll drop ulness he goes.

[mrfuse]

We are very clearly in trouble of relegation and anyone who thinks we're not is mad.

Agree.

I agree because we show no fight, Blackburn , Wigan and Bolton can all fight themselves out. We have nothing when the going gets tough