Aston Villa v Stoke City Post-Match Thread

[Lizz]

Not long home, haven't read all this thread yet. Main observation - thank f*ck I'm not a Stoke fan, couldn't bear to watch them every week. First half thought we should have won it, seemed slightly more even second half.

Only caught a bit of 6-0-6 tonight; as calm as he is, Mr Lizz can't stand Robbie Savage. One caller, a Stoke fan, sounded like he wanted to take issue with Savage for defending Tony Pullis. The caller was basically saying Stoke's football is ugly and boring to watch. Found myself in total agreement with him. 6-0-6 with Savage and Johnny Vaughan [who made Colin Murray sound the consumate professional] is rapidly dumbing down, imo.

[VILLA MOLE]

Not long home, haven't read all this thread yet. Main observation - thank f*ck I'm not a Stoke fan, couldn't bear to watch them every week. First half thought we should have won it, seemed slightly more even second half.

Only caught a bit of 6-0-6 tonight; as calm as he is, Mr Lizz can't stand Robbie Savage. One caller, a Stoke fan, sounded like he wanted to take issue with Savage for defending Tony Pullis. The caller was basically saying Stoke's football is ugly and boring to watch. Found myself in total agreement with him. 6-0-6 with Savage and Johnny Vaughan [who made Colin Murray sound the consumate professional] is rapidly dumbing down, imo.

i switched to talksport which just just kills me

[FrankyH]

Westwood must be one of the first names on the teamsheet at the moment.Thought Baker was very solid aswell.One of the most pleasing things about the game was that our young side weren't bossed about by Stoke's Alehouse football mentality.Clark's tackle on Kenwyne Jones, just before halftime, epitomised this when the whole Villa team jumped into the melee to defend their team mate.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Been saying for a long time that Baker has matured into a solid reliable CB. Rather than being bullied by Jones he never got close to competing with Baker. He looked like a seasoned premier player. We have not got the formation to accommodate Bent and Weiman would have been more of an effective replacement for Gabby. Dont think Lambert is going to wait and hope Nzogbia is going to be the spark we need in the last third. Hope the new scouting team have a selection of young hungry players lined up to add a dynamic edge to the team ......

[silhillvilla]

Not long home, haven't read all this thread yet. Main observation - thank f*ck I'm not a Stoke fan, couldn't bear to watch them every week. First half thought we should have won it, seemed slightly more even second half.

Only caught a bit of 6-0-6 tonight; as calm as he is, Mr Lizz can't stand Robbie Savage. One caller, a Stoke fan, sounded like he wanted to take issue with Savage for defending Tony Pullis. The caller was basically saying Stoke's football is ugly and boring to watch. Found myself in total agreement with him. 6-0-6 with Savage and Johnny Vaughan [who made Colin Murray sound the consumate professional] is rapidly dumbing down, imo.

Did you hear the Stoke fan who rang in and had the audacity to say Villa were awful

[Oscar Arce]

My thoughts from the game:
Stoke City are a collection of raggy arsed thugs who have nothing to do with football, their only tactic is to try to bully people, that's why all their players are six foot 5, their manager is a disgrace and I truly hope if there is a football god he will send them to the place they belong, the Blue Square Bet North, with as much haste as is possible.
Well done to our babbies for standing up to them and at least trying to play football.
But I am getting worried about our lack of killer punch, for all our good play.

[olaftab]

Westwood must be one of the first names on the teamsheet at the moment.Thought Baker was very solid aswell.One of the most pleasing things about the game was that our young side weren't bossed about by Stoke's Alehouse football mentality.Clark's tackle on Kenwyne Jones, just before halftime, epitomised this when the whole Villa team jumped into the melee to defend their team mate.

You mean the tackle on Showcross and Jones had a go him ... Yes Clarky "did" him!

[N'ZMAV]

I was happy with the performance all in all. Thought we'd get beat, so it could have been worse.

[silhillvilla]

Westwood must be one of the first names on the teamsheet at the moment.Thought Baker was very solid aswell.One of the most pleasing things about the game was that our young side weren't bossed about by Stoke's Alehouse football mentality.Clark's tackle on Kenwyne Jones, just before halftime, epitomised this when the whole Villa team jumped into the melee to defend their team mate.

You mean the tackle on Showcross and Jones had a go him ... Yes Clarky "did" him!

It was great to see our young lads outmuscle stokes thugs today.

[silhillvilla]

I was happy with the performance all in all. Thought we'd get beat, so it could have been worse.

If we'd nicked it 1-0 I think it would have been well deserved and we'd all be over the moon.

[darren woolley]

I'm another one who thinks Stoke really are anti football I'm just glad we didn't lose.

[FrankyH]

Westwood must be one of the first names on the teamsheet at the moment.Thought Baker was very solid aswell.One of the most pleasing things about the game was that our young side weren't bossed about by Stoke's Alehouse football mentality.Clark's tackle on Kenwyne Jones, just before halftime, epitomised this when the whole Villa team jumped into the melee to defend their team mate.

You mean the tackle on Showcross and Jones had a go him ... Yes Clarky "did" him!

Yes, I stand corrected.Clark and Baker seem to have a knack of taking out a player and still winning a freekick for themselves.That was one of the instances today when the Ref's poor display went in our favour.

[danlanza]

I was happy with the performance all in all. Thought we'd get beat, so it could have been worse.

If we'd nicked it 1-0 I think it would have been well deserved and we'd all be over the moon.

Spot on. I was worried about the physical side of the game today but we did very well. UTV.

[nigel]

Westwood must be one of the first names on the teamsheet at the moment.Thought Baker was very solid aswell.One of the most pleasing things about the game was that our young side weren't bossed about by Stoke's Alehouse football mentality.Clark's tackle on Kenwyne Jones, just before halftime, epitomised this when the whole Villa team jumped into the melee to defend their team mate.

You mean the tackle on Showcross and Jones had a go him ... Yes Clarky "did" him!

Jones pushed Clark in the back, which was what we got the foul for, and Clark lost his footing and went into Shawcross.

Yes, it was great to see our young guns stand up to the bullies.
I noticed Jones got brave with Benteke once 3 players were in between 

[Lizz]

What was the slap in the face bit about in the first half? Think a Stoke player hit one of our players, but didn't catch it all.