Millwall v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Kingthing]

back from the den.

first of all, the majority of the away fans were fed up, lots of gallows humour, but i think the expectation is we'll be back at the den next season.

as for the games itself, very poor,  but i'm glad we don't have a replay. n'zogbia was the only player who looked like making anything happen. bannan's passes were either backwards or misplaced. wiemann cut a frustrated figure.

their first goal, danny shittu header from a corner, about 2 minutes after he'd just won another header from a corner which went slightly over. their second goal, header smacks against the crossbar, falls kindly and he taps it into their net.

millwall fans revel in their reputation. throwing bottles onto the pitch all through the second half. chanting "you're just a town full of pakis", spending the 19th minute giving wanker symbols to the away end.

policing was efficient. kept in for 40 minutes or so at the end. didn't see a single millwall fan, except in the ground.

Did the away fans give the players a bit when they came over at the end?

Fucking right they did, big time. Vlaar came the closest holding his head in his hands and every other player got a round of boo's as they tried to clap, i thought i'd seen it on Tuesday but tonight was a tipping point.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I'm trying to think of an away game I've been to where our fans have given the team more stick than tonight.

They deserved it.

[django]

I keep thinking we've hit the bottom and we'll see a reaction, but we haven't and we don't.
We really need an international break or something to give the players a chance to regroup. The flurry of fixtures since the Chelsea game hasnt given them any opportunity to get their shit together.

[Kingthing]

I'm trying to think of an away game I've been to where our fans have given the team more stick than tonight.

They deserved it.

Enjoy the demo tomorrow, at least you'll see a bit of passion.

[ChrissyPrice]

We made Danny Shittu look like a world beater.

Danny F*cking Shittu.

[adrenachrome]

I'm trying to think of an away game I've been to where our fans have given the team more stick than tonight.

They deserved it.

They deserved it, and they got it. And there is a lot more getting to be got before this show is over.

[oldham_villa]

Paddy Power have us evens for going down and 5/1 to be bottom

Sounds shit but this is easy money :-(

[manic-road]

Just got back, that was shit.
It was like going back in time to the 80's when the fans are kept segregated for over half an hour after the game before we were allowed out.
Just about topped off the night.

[Pat McMahon]

I'm trying to think of an away game I've been to where our fans have given the team more stick than tonight.

They deserved it.

Enjoy the demo tomorrow, at least you'll see a bit of passion.

And have a banner pointing out that Millwall fans are racist eejits

[JD]

The most depressing thing is it was all so predictable.

This in a nutshell. I wasn't in the least bit surprised by the result and I am past being angry when we lose. i'm just getting resigned to it and hoping it doesn't depress me too much to have an impact on my life. F%*king Ba"*ard Villa.   

[manic-road]

Havn't seen the managers comments after the game yet, but no doubt it's along the lines of "we pick ourselves up and go again".

Well i have only missed three games this season and i won't be going again for a while.

[Irish villain]

The most depressing thing is it was all so predictable.

This in a nutshell. I wasn't in the least bit surprised by the result and I am past being angry when we lose. i'm just getting resigned to it and hoping it doesn't depress me too much to have an impact on my life. F%*king Ba"*ard Villa.   

I had a really shit week career-wise. I was hoping villa would get a smile on my face Tuesday night.

At least I have my new girlfriend and she is a star for coming to watch the semi-final with me.

[Rancid custard]

Fuck me sideways, they've had my money for 10 games this season, well - no more! Every time I watch them play it's like someone's thrown a turd in my coffee. I just love being held in a pen for 40 minutes after being served up that dour shit on a freezing ass night.

Delph looked up for it and was making the moves until he got injured. Weimann cut a frustrated figure up top as he battled in vain against our occasional route 1 musings and the Zog tried to make things happen. No other positives. A chaotic mix of route one and crab football, individual error, piss poor marking at the back post, lack of organisation and looked like a half hearted sunday kickabout. I lost count of the amount of times Given or Lowton or Bennett kicked the ball into touch while we were in possession.

This has been the display to finally turn me into a relegation certified, Lerner hating, Lambert bashing believer. Hey Paul - if you want a guy to kick a ball sideways for 60 minutes I'm your man and I wont even ask for £10,000 a week, how about it? You know what I mean Bannan, you diminutive, crime scene fleeing, super tennants drinking, elven pixie.

[brian green]

Nearly one in the morning, just home from the game.

Where can I start?

I followed Villa down from the first division, through the second division and into the third division, home and away and that performance tonight was as bad if not worse than any of that period of our history.

It seems an odd thing to say but some passages of our play tonight and the performance of some of our players was so bad that if somebody had told you that they had been betting on themselves to lose you could easily have believed it.

In the Stalag Bermondsey compound in which were were held for nearly fifty minutes freezing our knackers off while the police racked up their overtime I became involved in a heated but friendly debate about the reasons why were are so shit.   My point is that is not lack of confidence, it is not morale, it is not age, it is not lack of leadership, it is not tactics, it is not coaching - YES, all those things play a part but the rock bottom fact which is there in plain sight for us all to see is that the players are not good enough.

From that team tonight, the two with proven quality are Given and Bent and they both played stinking games, especially Given.   They are good enough players but they both have personal issues with the manager, both having lost their automatic team sheet places, Given to Guzan, Bent to Benteke and neither of them gives a shit whether we win or lose.   They are both on mega money and if the results get it up the arse for the manager so much the better.   As for all the others with the possible slight exception of Weimann who could make a tidy player for a Premiership mid table club, they are simply not good enough.   They may have been not so bad if they had been drafted into a better side with better players around them but they were not.   We are a rubbish side playing rubbish football and anybody who thinks we will bounce back from the Championship, go and stand over there with those who think we are going to sign some players in this window.

As for the manager, he stood for ninety minutes in the corner of his technical area with his hands in his pockets looking totally bored.   The only time he took his hands out of his pockets was when they went two one up.   He did three or four quiet little claps as we lined up for the restart then put his hands back in his pockets.   He behaves like a man who seems to have lost the will to live, let alone the will to win a football game or two.   Perhaps he has suffered some deep personal trauma we do not know about, but in the absence of knowing anything about such a thing I conclude that he is in the same category as the players, namely simply not good enough.

I am off on an Aston Villa detox programme.

[Nelly]

Randy, how's that Deloitte Top 20 list thing looking now? It doesn't matter what league we're in, so long as we're aiming for that list.