Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur Post-Match Thread

[Exeter 77]

It took me a while to dredge it up.

[OCD]

When Robbie Keane came on loan he was always getting frustrated with the lack of movement.

[hawkeye]

If you look at the way Mclieh sets the team up its petty obvious why there is no pass and move. He emplys a zonal system in our half and resticts where the playes go, that combined with 2 midfield anchors and then isolating the wide players.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd also like to know what we put on our boots? Quite a few slipped over, and yet I don't remember any Spurs players doing the same.

[villajk]

I'd also like to know what we put on our boots? Quite a few slipped over, and yet I don't remember any Spurs players doing the same.

Noticed by us also.  Wondered whether our players had studs one their boot.

[rob_bridge]

The last few weeks I come to realise McCleish is staying guaranteed else he would of been sack and no statement from the club backing him would have been released. Therefore we need to give McCleish time to get his own squad in and I'm hoping for 3/4 great players such as the Berbatov/Siguršsson and give him another chance. If he can't manage to attract this kinda quality i think he needs to go but we need to wait and give him the chance.

Are your drugs legal or illegal?

[VILLA MOLE]

The last few weeks I come to realise McCleish is staying guaranteed else he would of been sack and no statement from the club backing him would have been released. Therefore we need to give McCleish time to get his own squad in and I'm hoping for 3/4 great players such as the Berbatov/Siguršsson and give him another chance. If he can't manage to attract this kinda quality i think he needs to go but we need to wait and give him the chance.

oh , well when you put it like that .  No 

[Dr.Feelgood]

Ahh, safety.. albeit the most ugly brand, its a relief.

WE WERE ABSOLUTELY AWFUL AGAINST TEN MEN.

McLeish had no plan, no initiative to adapt to the circumstances. He just put the players out there and figured that was all he could do. Unacceptable display. I can't believe our inability to get a decent build in to the final third. They pressed so high with ten men that a little bit of possession in their end would be a gaurentee, but leave it to Villa to be out-played and out-possessed.

Ship em out, all of em.

I was getting stick from a few for daring to suggest to the bench to LEAVE A MAN UP at corners... 1 player draws 2 of theirs & they were already a player down... it just meant when / IF we cleared they were able to come back at us immediately. CLUELESS, these two... Grant issuing orders that clearly confuse the players.  Spurs WANTED it more - we NEEDED it more & I (for one) was relieved with the point... Can't watch more of this crap - the Club MUST know where the problem lies & he MUST go. Take N'zogbia with you, - Hutton too. And Heskey.

[rob_bridge]

Just home from the game. My lasting memory of an otherwise very unmemorable game is how useless the two McLeish Galacticos Alan Hutton and Charles N'Zogbia are.   N'Zogbia is such a chicken shit both on the ball and in the apologies for tackles he puts in he makes Stewart Downing look like Gordon Cowans.

Agree. A lamer.

[robbo1874]

We are not safe yet, but you'd think QPR wouldn't get anything at City, so hopefully. Let the inquest into this abomination of a season begin.

We are all but safe; Bolton will have to score about 15 without reply to outstrip us.

Or we could lose 8-0 and Bolton could win 7-0!

[rob_bridge]

We are not safe yet, but you'd think QPR wouldn't get anything at City, so hopefully. Let the inquest into this abomination of a season begin.

We are all but safe; Bolton will have to score about 15 without reply to outstrip us.

Or we could lose 8-0 and Bolton could win 7-0!

Correct - but it won't happen.

[PeterWithesShin]

We are not safe yet, but you'd think QPR wouldn't get anything at City, so hopefully. Let the inquest into this abomination of a season begin.

We are all but safe; Bolton will have to score about 15 without reply to outstrip us.

Or we could lose 8-0 and Bolton could win 7-0!

Amazingly we'd still stay up with those scores.

[wombat]

2nd Half was really really bad, outplayed by a team with 10 men. We had no desire to get the ball, no idea what to do with it when we got it and certainly no idea how to keep hold of it. Utter Blues.

I'll echo the movement off the ball stuff. We have virtually none.

After seeing the performance put in today by one C. N'Zogbia (i'm struggling to think of a worse one all season by anybody) I am convinced we Aston Villa avoid all things French they have pretty much all been for varying reasons been disasters Didier Six, Ginola, Berson, Makoun, Houllier, N'Zogbia, Pires....

Get shot of McLeish before Norwich, let everyone enjoy themselves and let the demolition job on this team of underachieving, dimwitted, lazy blundering mugs commence.

[PeterWithesShin]

Having seen MOTD I have to say that it was a hideous challenge by Rose. Hutton is very lucky not to have broken his leg.

The challenge by Dunne really was stupidity of the highest order.

And finally, Alan Shearer proves once and for all he knows fuck all. Twat.

[Irish villain]

i just watched through two games expecting to see villa but I missed them. Damn