Millwall v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Pete3206]

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.

Randy's on the Dolittle list.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

Christ.

I'd totally forgotten about that letter.

[Steve R]

Well i admit we are not an amazing team and we are struggling. And i understand others seen the relegation thing but i wont give up ever ! Its very sad we re not champions league challengers no more but Lambert needs our support right now !

tell that to the freezing fans making the trip home tonight

not my place to tell other fans. I live in London and made choice not to go more because of personal safety issue. Respect to those who went! 

Safe as houses mate. Police are incredibly well organised there.

Biggest  issue is being kept in 30 minutes to get the train back to London Bridge. That and the tripe on the pitch....

Judging by the reaction he's getting on here maybe it's not the Millwall fans he was worried about.

Good decision Fernando, you probably avoided being lynched.

And more power to your elbow.

[David_Nab]

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.

Christ.

I'd totally forgotten about that letter.

Oh I hadn't and we have fallen down the list ,the poor performance on the pitch has had a negative effect as you can imagine.

[Dave Clark Five]

Lambert has refused to take questions from Mat Kendrick from the mail. It would appear the mail open letter hasn't gone down too well. This off the back of will he won't he attend the PC on Thursday and it doesn't appear he is actually "thriving"

Happy if he is sacked or walked now. Enough is enough

His body language tonight said a lot. He cut a sad figure,  uninvolved,  no energy or passion.  We got the now customary chant of  "You're getting sacked..." from the opposition fans but this time it looked as though PL believed it

He would believe it as a few of ours joined in with it at the end. The team were roundly booed off at the end, with the booing and general nastiness getting worse as any players tried to clap our fans. I felt sorry for Ron Vlaar. He looked like he was trying to apologise and held his head in his hands. I hope it got to him and some of that shower got sorted out in that changing room. Lambert's post match press conference was dismal. We all roared with laughter when 'we go again' came out. He has seen how bad the Villa fans can be when Alex McLeish received dogs abuse at Norwich. Lambert has told us that he felt sorry for McLeish. He must be beginning to fear it happening at Villa Park, with the first episode being on Tuesday night.

[Brend'Watkins]

I could and should have stayed another night out of the country, hearing about our defeat arriving at B'ham airport didn't hurt too much because after Tuesday I'm on the ropes I've taken the telling blow and now every additional punch has no outwardly effect but I know my insides are taking a battering. 

[Brend'Watkins]

Lambert has refused to take questions from Mat Kendrick from the mail. It would appear the mail open letter hasn't gone down too well. This off the back of will he won't he attend the PC on Thursday and it doesn't appear he is actually "thriving"

Happy if he is sacked or walked now. Enough is enough

His body language tonight said a lot. He cut a sad figure,  uninvolved,  no energy or passion.  We got the now customary chant of  "You're getting sacked..." from the opposition fans but this time it looked as though PL believed it

He would believe it as a few of ours joined in with it at the end. The team were roundly booed off at the end, with the booing and general nastiness getting worse as any players tried to clap our fans. I felt sorry for Ron Vlaar. He looked like he was trying to apologise and held his head in his hands. I hope it got to him and some of that shower got sorted out in that changing room. Lambert's post match press conference was dismal. We all roared with laughter when 'we go again' came out. He has seen how bad the Villa fans can be when Alex McLeish received dogs abuse at Norwich. Lambert has told us that he felt sorry for McLeish. He must be beginning to fear it happening at Villa Park, with the first episode being on Tuesday night.

Give me something to cling to, did anybody play better than average?

[Dave Clark Five]

Lambert has refused to take questions from Mat Kendrick from the mail. It would appear the mail open letter hasn't gone down too well. This off the back of will he won't he attend the PC on Thursday and it doesn't appear he is actually "thriving"

Happy if he is sacked or walked now. Enough is enough

His body language tonight said a lot. He cut a sad figure,  uninvolved,  no energy or passion.  We got the now customary chant of  "You're getting sacked..." from the opposition fans but this time it looked as though PL believed it

He would believe it as a few of ours joined in with it at the end. The team were roundly booed off at the end, with the booing and general nastiness getting worse as any players tried to clap our fans. I felt sorry for Ron Vlaar. He looked like he was trying to apologise and held his head in his hands. I hope it got to him and some of that shower got sorted out in that changing room. Lambert's post match press conference was dismal. We all roared with laughter when 'we go again' came out. He has seen how bad the Villa fans can be when Alex McLeish received dogs abuse at Norwich. Lambert has told us that he felt sorry for McLeish. He must be beginning to fear it happening at Villa Park, with the first episode being on Tuesday night.

Give me something to cling to, did anybody play better than average?

I thought N'Zogbia looked committed as did Vlaar.

[villajk]

Just saw this on Twitter

Ron vlaar appealed to the away fans for support and was booed with chants of 'fuck off villa' from villa fans , peak

Phil, I definitely never heard that chant. A fair amount of booing and angry comments at the end but I never heard that chant.

Doesn't mean it didn't happen of course.

I saw that so differently.  I thought Vlaar was sympathising with the fans and in his way apologising to them.

There had been a few chants on f**k off from some fans at the players before he came over to us.

[Brian Taylor]

Oh shit..oh so much shit. What to say?

[Clampy]

Not long got back myself. We were ok first half, did'nt look good second and it's another defeat and another knock to the confidence. N'Zogbia and Vlaar looked as if they really wanted it. The others were not good enough. It looks very worrying.

As for their fans, well i'm sure Millwall have worked hard over the years to rid themselves of their image but it all came crashing back down tonight. Launching several bottles onto the pitch, which narrowly missed a female steward a couple of times just because a free kick was awarded against them, will hopefully land them in trouble. The ref even had to get Danny Shittu (who had a great game) to go over and tell them to stop it. The wait after the game was annoying but necessary. Oh and the area around the ground is the grimest in football, a truly horrible place.

[BC54 VFC]

Well, what a fun night out that was; just arrived home, absolutely knackered and thinking what a mug I am. As usual, the best part of the trip was the social aspect before the game, in this case meeting up with a London Villa fan, who was born within 10 minutes of The Den and whose wife is a Millwall fan, and drinking in pubs around London Bridge before getting on the most packed train I've ever been on to South Bermondsey.

..and then the game started.

An absolute shambles, and Lambert must have been at a different game if he thinks we controlled it. Now, it seems, we have to take some medicine before we 'pick ourselves up and go again'; I think the Villa team had been on the medicine before the match. Tonight ends what must be the worst five week period since I started supporting the Villa nearly 47 years ago. Worse than 66-67, worse than 69-70 and worse than 86-87. We are going down and could well be back at Millwall on a Friday night before 2013 is out.

[Dave Clark Five]

Not long got back myself. We were ok first half, did'nt look good second and it's another defeat and another knock to the confidence. N'Zogbia and Vlaar looked as if they really wanted it. The others were not good enough. It looks very worrying.

As for their fans, well i'm sure Millwall have worked hard over the years to rid themselves of their image but it all came crashing back down tonight. Launching several bottles onto the pitch, which narrowly missed a female steward a couple of times just because a free kick was awarded against them, will hopefully land them in trouble. The ref even had to get Danny Shittu (who had a great game) to go over and tell them to stop it. The wait after the game was annoying but necessary. Oh and the area around the ground is the grimest in football, a truly horrible place.

Interesting that not one copper went into that area where the bottles were being thrown from.
They remained upstairs, seemingly segregating the Millwall fans from each other (second half) and huddling round the exit (first half).

[ciggiesnbeer]

If you beleive the AVTV audio Weimann played pretty good as well. Didnt see the game myself I was at work.

[pooligan]

Hell,it is hard being a villa supporter these days. Just woke up at 4 am  and the first thing that comes into my mind is what a spineless load of wimps currently manage and play for our once great club.Worse still there appears to be no hope that it is going to get any better any time soon