Aston Villa v Bradford City Post-Match Thread

[itbrvilla]

I'm not sure that things can be turned around, I think the rot has truly set in & neither changing the manager nor bringing in new players will turn things around.  We are well & truly fcuked.

Spot on. I just wish they looked like they give a shit. I feel like I hate the club at the moment as everything  I see or hear just makes me feel like shit.

[TopDeck113]

Well just got back...from spending six hours with my missus in North Manchester General after she was admitted this afternoon with severe abdominal pains.   So to add to my store of great Villa nights will be watching the H&V match thread on my phone, the wife dozing with morphine awaiting a consultant, as we fail we beat a 4th division side over two legs.   

I wish they'd given me an injection for my pain.

how she doing?

Thanks for asking.  Kept her in overnight and another consultant will see her in the morning.

[Clampy]

Well just got back...from spending six hours with my missus in North Manchester General after she was admitted this afternoon with severe abdominal pains.   So to add to my store of great Villa nights will be watching the H&V match thread on my phone, the wife dozing with morphine awaiting a consultant, as we fail we beat a 4th division side over two legs.   

I wish they'd given me an injection for my pain.

Hope she gets well soon mate.

[Nii Lamptey]

Can't believe we haven't strengthened. All this talk of no money, etc....With the tv deal around the corner, he needs to put his hand in his pocket to safeguard the future of the club - Needs to speculate to accumulate. Ludicrous business decision.

I'm done with the lot of em. It's back to the O'Dreary days, where the highlight of the trip to the Villa, was the real ale and Thai pub lunch at the Bartons.

I'm gonna give my money to the Harriers from here on in, who are much more deserving of it, until the club do something worthy to gain my support back. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all. 

[Irish villain]

I deliberately stayed away from H&V so that I wouldn't post anything I would regret.

After careful consideration, all I can is is we are inept from the pitch, to the dug-out to the board-room.

The manager: What exactly was the point in taking off a midfielder and a defender for two more strikers when we already had three very attacking (four if you count Ireland) on the pitch? It smacked of panic and desperation. We were shambles with no shape for most of the second half. Hard to back him after that.

Our players? Good God. I dread to think what championship sides would do to Clark, Bannan and Bennet week in and week out. in fact it horrifies me. Bullied, out fought and out-played. If we go down you can be sure we will lose our good players and be left with the ones with no bottle for a battle.

The board: What's the plan? How has it been allowed come to this? Can we here something

Aston Villa FC, what now? Those fans deserve better.

[Risso]

Well just got back...from spending six hours with my missus in North Manchester General after she was admitted this afternoon with severe abdominal pains.   So to add to my store of great Villa nights will be watching the H&V match thread on my phone, the wife dozing with morphine awaiting a consultant, as we fail we beat a 4th division side over two legs.   

I wish they'd given me an injection for my pain.

how she doing?

Thanks for asking.  Kept her in overnight and another consultant will see her in the morning.

Hope it's nothing serious Rob.

[5ft811st2 Durham]

Barry Bannan seems to be the number one scapegoat now, people around me were giving him dogs abuse from about the 2nd minute onwards.

This is a shame to me , he is at least one of our own and hasn't cost us anything unlike Ireland who is meant to be an £8 million  midfielder and has done virtually nothing for us in 2 and a half seasons.

I'm sure his wages are significantly more than Bazza's as well.

With regard to the game , obviously gutted particularly with Lambert's appalling tactics after the equalizer.

That was a time for cool heads , instead we started playing like there were only 2 minutes left.

Going forward,  we've got to start playing Weimann down the middle from hereon in, he's possibly the best finisher we've had since Platt and it's a cardinal sin to play him out wide.

Fair play to Bradford though , it's good to see proper football fans getting their day in the sun. 

[Irish villain]

I'm not sure that things can be turned around, I think the rot has truly set in & neither changing the manager nor bringing in new players will turn things around.  We are well & truly fcuked.

Spot on. I just wish they looked like they give a shit. I feel like I hate the club at the moment as everything  I see or hear just makes me feel like shit.

The comment about it being 'too late' is indeed bang on. We are up to our necks in the brown stuff. We have chopped and changed too much already. We have to go with what we have and hope for the next. I don't think this regime has any more rabbits in the hat (and if they did I think I would rather stick with the devil I know).

[PeterWithesShin]

How does he manage to overhit so many corners? I haven't played football for about 10 years but could still put more dangerous ones in.

[bertlambshank]

Well just got back...from spending six hours with my missus in North Manchester General after she was admitted this afternoon with severe abdominal pains.   So to add to my store of great Villa nights will be watching the H&V match thread on my phone, the wife dozing with morphine awaiting a consultant, as we fail we beat a 4th division side over two legs.   

I wish they'd given me an injection for my pain.

how she doing?

Thanks for asking.  Kept her in overnight and another consultant will see her in the morning.

Hope she's nagging you by the morning,best of luck.

[TopDeck113]

Well just got back...from spending six hours with my missus in North Manchester General after she was admitted this afternoon with severe abdominal pains.   So to add to my store of great Villa nights will be watching the H&V match thread on my phone, the wife dozing with morphine awaiting a consultant, as we fail we beat a 4th division side over two legs.   

I wish they'd given me an injection for my pain.

how she doing?

Thanks for asking.  Kept her in overnight and another consultant will see her in the morning.

Hope it's nothing serious Rob.

I don't know, mate.  It's a reoccuring thing that we've yet to have a defininitive answer on.   Worryingly, though, it is happening on a more frequent basis. 

[richardhubbard]

Good night all, that was horrific!

[FatSam]

There isn't really much to say. We didn't have the collective ability to manufacture an aggregate victory against a team three divisions below us. I could understand a one-off game, but over two legs its unforgivable. To have our centre backs and goalkeeper pumping the ball in the 'mixer' for the last half hour betrays a real lack of guile. Although they lost on penalties, Arsenal clawed their way back into the quarter final late on with a different approach.

I was stuck in work, so listened to most of the game on the radio, and was only able to watch the last quarter in the pub. The first half sounded promising, but not getting the second goal in the first half seemed to be critical, and at half time I didn't have confidence that we would keep creating chances for the whole game.

The last year has been the worst in my experience of supporting the Villa. Not just our record breaking defeats, and poor league performance, but also successes of morally corrupt clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City. It's enough to turn you off football completely. Having said that, the well deserved success of Bradford in this competition pushes me back in the other direction. I'd like to see them go on and win it. After all this it would be a let down to see them taken apart by Chelsea in the final.

[saunders_heroes]

What was Lambert thinking having 5 forwards on the pit and sticking them all up front with absolutely no width? We looked like the Ant-Hill Mob for the last 20 mins. Honestly, it was one of, if not the most embarrassing managerial decisions I've ever seen. He deserves sacking for that alone.

[Legion]

Pick up ad infinitum