Arsenal v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

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

Wigan have still got to play Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle, and overhaul an 8 point gap and 21 goal difference.  How likely is that?  Not very.

Exactly.

As poor as we are, and believe me, that is very poor, people tend to forget that the teams below us need to put in great runs of form for us to go down.

Next season is a completely different matter though.

[olaftab]

Hutton stood there watching Gibbs tee up his shot  for goal.

[luke25]

"Not many teams come here and get anything", Our record there was fantastic until you graced us with your presence Alex.

[Fergal]

Three shots in 90 mins.

[D.boy]

I turned over when our game came on. It was bad enough first time round.

[The Left Side]

Petrov also stood there and let Gibbs just run through, we just did not look bothered today.

[pelty]

Albrighton sucks wang. How he continues to play is beyond me...

[JD]

I recorded the game to watch this morning when I got up.
When I saw the team I thought we were going for damage limitation.
After about the first ten minutes, where Arsenal were playing the ball around our box and we weren't tracking runners I thought we were in for a beating.
After the first goal, which basically was discraceful defending, I gave up and went out on my mountain bike.

I don't think we will get relegated, but on some of the discraceful performances we have put in this season, when we have given up trying to win before a ball is kicked, I'm not sure we deserve to still be in the Premier League. Someone sort this shit out, FFS, WE ARE ASTON VILLA.
Why doesn't that mean enough to a lot of the Players, the Manager, Owner etc?       

[Bottom Right 89]

Credit where it's due Song's pass to Walcott for the second was Cowans-esque.

Realistically we were never going to win this game, had it been 2 months ago when Wenger was on the ropes maybe.

Now Chelsea are a different proposition - shit record at Villa Park recently and struggling to cling on to a champs league place, surely we will have a go? this will be 3 of the 7 we need.

[Simba]

Some stats/comments from the Telegraph.
Villa possession: 28%  !
Shots off target:   1
Shots on target:   0
Corners: 15-5

"Yey it has to be said Villa were awful........ master class in how not to defend"

Fan comment: 'Disgusted with Villa's lack of ambition today'
"Setting up to lose by not many and still losing three nil is the work of an idiot"


I don't think the stats are exactly corrent but what a sad indictment of what we have become.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I watched till the second went in, I never switch off but it was frustrating me so badly it was the only option.

I'm not even enjoying watching us anymore, I said yesterday if we could end season now and finish 4th bottom I'd take it and I mean it

[Desi]

I didn't stay up for the 1 am kick off (set 'Record' though) as I reckoned that the result and probable team/performance was going to be predictable (if by some amazing happening we got a result then it would be good to watch when I got up).


Having read the reports and comments here I finally decided to 'bite the bullet' and watch the game.
 
Clicked on my 'Recorded Programmes' and clicked on 'Arsenal V Aston Villa' and a message came up.....
 
'FAILED'
 
Sums us up I thought, not only yesterday but the whole season really!


(Due to 'adverse weather conditions' apparently but I wonder???)

[Nev]

Credit where it's due Song's pass to Walcott for the second was Cowans-esque.

Realistically we were never going to win this game, had it been 2 months ago when Wenger was on the ropes maybe.

Now Chelsea are a different proposition - shit record at Villa Park recently and struggling to cling on to a champs league place, surely we will have a go? this will be 3 of the 7 we need.

The quality and form of the opposition is immaterial given the approach of the manager. At any level, this kind of cowardice is utterly unforgivable. Coupled with an innate ability to select the wrong team and tactics you have the recipe for relegation, as history has proved with this manager on two previous occasions.

The two games against Arsenal are an ideal contrast and example of the beliefs of the manager. Although the results were the same, the difference in performance couldn't have been more stark. The manager, in opposition to almost everybody else, including fans of other clubs, seems to have chosen the path demonstrated by yesterdays performance and in light of this, should be removed from his position with immediate effect.

The stumbling block to this is that the people who run the club appear to inhabit the same cloud cuckoo land as the man they appointed and one can only conclude that, whatever the results, whatever league we play in, supporting Aston Villa for the forseeable future is destined to be a joyless and frustrating pursuit.

[Fin Feds Dad]

Did stoke think they were beaten before they went on the pitch before city yesterday - NO.

Did Wigan think they were beaten before they went on the pitch before liverpool yesterday - NO.

Just our lot with this inept bloke in charge - its a disgrace - and our approach to games against teams at the higher end of the table is embarrassing

[olaftab]

"Not many teams come here and get anything", Our record there was fantastic until you graced us with your presence Alex.

Yes this attitude alarms more than most things about Alex.
How about "we were a disgrace and I am going to make sure that an Aston Villa team  never ever goes on the pitch and performs like that again"?