Aston Villa v Southampton Post-Match Thread

[eastie]

So in 19 days we are going to recruit a new manager who is going to sign the right players to keep us in the league?

Really?

Stupid

If we have no money anyway signing players doesnt matter.

We have what we have, we get up and go again.

For me it's now down to who you think can keep us up. Can Lambert inspire this team to be more than the sum of it's shitty parts. The signs say no.
I dont like or dislike Lambert. I just want to stay up and so far this season the performances suggest he can't do the job for us.

Lerner has money- he's just not giving it to lambert.

I think lambert will be gone in 48 hours at most.

[aj2k77]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.

Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.

It's a bery disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.

The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.

I wish I could be this positive, but this kind of blinkered match reporting seems like head in the sand talk to me now. We have been shit all season, not just since Christmas, that's when things came to a head. And please no one bring up random cup games or the Liverpool miracle as excuses for this team, they dont need excuses they need a lift from someone new.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

I just don't understand, what happened to the Villa that beat Norwich and Liverpool? How have we gotten so badly so quickly?

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Why do we have to play Barcelona every single week?

[SoccerHQ]

Going down m'lord.

[hawkeye]

So in 19 days we are going to recruit a new manager who is going to sign the right players to keep us in the league?

Really?

Stupid

If we have no money anyway signing players doesnt matter.

We have what we have, we get up and go again.

For me it's now down to who you think can keep us up. Can Lambert inspire this team to be more than the sum of it's shitty parts. The signs say no.
I dont like or dislike Lambert. I just want to stay up and so far this season the performances suggest he can't do the job for us.

This squad is not good enough to stay up, that is obvious. So unless we improve the team we are down.

[Toronto Villa]

So in 19 days we are going to recruit a new manager who is going to sign the right players to keep us in the league?

Really?

Stupid

If we have no money anyway signing players doesnt matter.

We have what we have, we get up and go again.

For me it's now down to who you think can keep us up. Can Lambert inspire this team to be more than the sum of it's shitty parts. The signs say no.
I dont like or dislike Lambert. I just want to stay up and so far this season the performances suggest he can't do the job for us.

Lerner has money- he's just not giving it to lambert.

I think lambert will be gone in 48 hours at most.

No he won't

[Jimbo]

Tarts and drama queens. I bet that's what General Custer was screaming as his men fell all around him.

[Steve R]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

....
One drawn game (in which we were shit, lest we forget) and we should forget that we haven't scored a league goal at home in how many games, and conceded 18?  Wake up and smell the coffee, this is the worst Villa team in 30 years, and Lambert the most useless manager.

I was talking about today's game Risso, rather than looking for a reason to bring up how badly then have been lately, or how well we played against Liverpool and Norwich for that matter.

It was a game we did not deserve to lose, but it happened. There were still positives.

As for the worse team and manager in thirty years, we've had worse in both cases in the last 30 months.

[hilts_coolerking]

The last time I head I heard someone scotch a suggestion so strongly was about an hour before O'Neill quit..

[rob_bridge]

So in 19 days we are going to recruit a new manager who is going to sign the right players to keep us in the league?

Really?

Stupid

If we have no money anyway signing players doesnt matter.

We have what we have, we get up and go again.

For me it's now down to who you think can keep us up. Can Lambert inspire this team to be more than the sum of it's shitty parts. The signs say no.
I dont like or dislike Lambert. I just want to stay up and so far this season the performances suggest he can't do the job for us.

Lerner has money- he's just not giving it to lambert.

I think lambert will be gone in 48 hours at most.

No he won't

Cant see him being sacked and no way will he resign. We were in relegation battles last 2 seasons and didn't sack either of those 2 unpopular buffoons

[Ghost of Pongo Waring]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.

Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.

It's a very disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.

The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.

Agree entirely.

Unlucky to lose today and we wouldn't if not for a bad decision by the referee and cheating by Southampton. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.

Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.

It's a very disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.

The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.

Agree entirely.

Unlucky to lose today and we wouldn't if not for a bad decision by the referee and cheating by Southampton. 

And what about us playing for, at most, a third of the game?

[remy]

I can't support Lambert anymore. You live and die by the players you bring in and send out to play and here we are

Soundly beaten by a 4th division team
Worse team records being broken
Currently sitting in the bottom 3
Worse off now than under TSM

Majority of the fans including me expect us to go down. I've heard phrases like 'whipping boys' and joke FC banded about and it hurts like hell.

If we get hammered by the Baggies on Saturday I expect Lambert to be sacked.

[hilts_coolerking]

And what about us playing for, at most, a third of the game?

Now you're just nitpicking.   Don't you realise everything is going totally according to plan?