Aston Villa v Bradford City Post-Match Thread

[avfc1966]

Available Tuesday night.

PLEASE PLEASE GO I CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT IM SURE YOUR STYLE OF FOOTBALL IS GREAT IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY. LERNER AND ALL GENERALS CAN GO AND PLAY BASEBALL IN THE PROMISE LAND.

[VillaAlways]

Was anyone actually surprised about the result,really? I knew we would win the game but not by enough. When they scored from that corner I knew our fate was sealed

[Nii Lamptey]

I can't believe that some people on here can still think Lambert is the man to guide us through this. I was ecstatic when we got him, but it has gone dreadfully, dreadfully wrong, and he is clearly not the man for the task.

He has GOT to go - you can't blame funding. Has Moyes ever had £23 million to spend in a window? Did Rodgers/Laudrup spend anything CLOSE to that at Swansea?

He is to blame. It's his job to train the players, his job to instil them with confidence, his job to give them clear instructions of their roles on the pitch, his job to change tactics to adapt to match circumstances. He is clearly inept at ALL of the above.

We've given him a lot of space to get things right, but it just isn't going to happen. Time to go NOW, before it's too late.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Just got back.

We went out because we can't defend corners. Not that it should've got to a corner. Bennett is an awful defender. He should've not let it go for a corner.

We had 4 strikers on the pitch, yet we kept on passing sideways and backwards over and over again. We should've just kept hoofing it forward at this point. Oh, we did, once, and scored.

Unbelievable.

So closed to just not bothering to use my season ticket anymore.

Bradford were there to be beaten and we should've done comfortably.

Enough is enough. Lambert out.

and you said i was bizarre for saying Lambert out after Southampton.Nice volte-face.

[steamer]

To keep on appointing managers and firing them after a season can not be the way forward, TSM should never have been appointed.
As for Lambert, he was never going to be fergiescum or Pepe in his first season.
Fergiescum was almost one game away from being fired at the start of his tenure, The Red Scum had also gone through a period of changing managers regulaly after Busby and they were going no where.
I hurt as much as anyone but sack Lambert and then what !!
Some dreadful second half performances and to give ratings per player is cringeworthy.
If we do not buy what is a patently clear requirement to every supporter, Centre half, midfielder and fullback then we should understand, is it Lerner not wanting to spend or Lambert being stubborn.
Lerner needs to get involved or employ a football man better than Faulkner.
Dark days but we are Aston Villa and need to keep the painful faith.
I fucking hate the minnows, but well done to Bradford, with our conivance you deserved over two legs to win.

[richard moore]

2219:
 Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (Agg 3-4)
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "That is the worst day of the season. We had two chances to do it and haven't done it.

"We've lost four goals from set-pieces over two games which is not good enough.

"I am embarrassed. We will never have a better chance to reach the final."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21148092

Good, so piss off now. I am embarrassed and ashamed too and I care 500 bloody per cent more about this club than you do you useless git. Any of my three cats, Miss Tibbs, Daisy or Bella could make a better fucking job of managing a football team than you

[PeterWithesShin]

Fucking bollocks shit arse wank.

[itbrvilla]

2219:
 Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (Agg 3-4)
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "That is the worst day of the season. We had two chances to do it and haven't done it.

"We've lost four goals from set-pieces over two games which is not good enough.

"I am embarrassed. We will never have a better chance to reach the final."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21148092

fuck off then you clueless prick

[Billy Walker]

We've just got to take this on the chin.  Well done to Bradford.

On a wider note, as others have said, we need serious set piece coaching to take place at the club.  We are so wasteful when we have them and we are awful when we have to defend them.  It's almost got to the stage where you know exactly what's going to happen - we give away a needless corner or throw, they cross it in and get a big fella on the the end of it to score the inevitable goal.  This has been happening for the past couple of years and Lambert has to make it a priority to sort out.

Frustrating, disappointing, you name it.  Hopefully we will grow stronger from this season's events.  I still back the manager - he's only been in the job for five minutes - but Lerner has to support him or get out of the club. 

[sirlordbaltimore]

An absolute disgrace to the once proud name Aston Villa.

First half was okay, but we let them off the hook. Second half was diabolical. And once we went 5 in attack it was over, what fucking retard just sticks a load of strikers on and then forgets we have nobody left to supply the chances ?. It was worse than kids football. Hoof!

ALL season long Lambert hasn't fooled me. He's not up to it, he never was and he should fuck off right off. And Lerner should sell up to. Another pathetic result in a pathetic season from a now pathetic club. And wonderful defending from Vlaar, Concrete Ron my arse. Plywood Ron would be more apt

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Just got back.

We went out because we can't defend corners. Not that it should've got to a corner. Bennett is an awful defender. He should've not let it go for a corner.

We had 4 strikers on the pitch, yet we kept on passing sideways and backwards over and over again. We should've just kept hoofing it forward at this point. Oh, we did, once, and scored.

Unbelievable.

So closed to just not bothering to use my season ticket anymore.

Bradford were there to be beaten and we should've done comfortably.

Enough is enough. Lambert out.

We shouldn't have had four centre fwds in the pitch. I think we did a fair bit of hoofing to be fair!

We did nothing if the sort til 5 minutes to go. What game were you watching???

[mrfuse]

 I am going to refrain from having a go at the manager, but if Gabby and Clark have another game in a Villa shirt, then it will be 1 game to many.

 Gabby was playing like park football the last 30 mins, no effort , no desire, no clue.

 Lambert went for it, and it backfired, it might be helpful if you have a gameplan tbh.

Well I've always backed Lambert but I don't think you can blame either of them for the way Lambert decided to just put all of our strikers on the pitch.

[ktvillan]

Lambert substitutions are often strange but today they were beyond belief.  As soon as he took Bennett off for Weimann I knew we'd gone school playground and had no chance.

Bennet had put in the best two or three crosses of the game, including the one for Benteke's goal.  After taking him off we had zero width and I think we managed only one cross into the box from Weimann. 

Gabby should have gone off, his pace is a useful weapon away from home when we are playing on the break but at home i think he should be left out as teams sit back which nullifies his pace, and he lacks the touch and subtlety to help us break teams down.  He was great on Sunday but really  offered very little tonight.

[mrfuse]

We've just got to take this on the chin.  Well done to Bradford.

On a wider note, as others have said, we need serious set piece coaching to take place at the club.  We are so wasteful when we have them and we are awful when we have to defend them.  It's almost got to the stage where you know exactly what's going to happen - we give away a needless corner or throw, they cross it in and get a big fella on the the end of it to score the inevitable goal.  This has been happening for the past couple of years and Lambert has to make it a priority to sort out.

Frustrating, disappointing, you name it.  Hopefully we will grow stronger from this season's events.  I still back the manager - he's only been in the job for five minutes - but Lerner has to support him or get out of the club. 

good post I agree

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Delph, the useless ******, should be congratulated for wasting most of the stoppage time by two foot tackling a guy on his own with no one round him.

Well done, now fuck off.