Everton v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Mortimer's Bear]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

[Greg N'Ash]

Thought we played pretty well. Best for a long time. The collapse I thought was inevitable given the defence but Lambert did at least attempt to shore it up. I'm sure others have already said that you can't keep having to score 2 or 3 to get a draw, as its such an obvious point to anyone but the manager. Anyway, a point is a point more than i was expecting so that's something. Just a shame we couldn't have held out as apart from the much needed points, it would have given the team a hell of a lift. Ah well......

[pauliewalnuts]

Fuck it, today we competed for 90 minutes at one of the hardest places to play and the best player on the pitch had to pull them out of it, and we got a point.

There's hope.

And yet, Reading's win means we're deeper in trouble than before.  Today was a good point on the face of it, but it's not enough in isolation, especially when it follows a defeat at home to Newcastle.

Customary sense, Mr B.

It's not the best we could have got, but it's a damned sight better than going there and losing by four or five goals, which is what most of us expected.

Yes,, I think everyone knows we have to win games, but I'd be a lot more worried if there were no positives at all to take from the game.

We can't do anything to influence the games of the teams around us, but if you stuck all the remaining games on a spreadsheet and stuck the result from each you'd be happy with, I reckon there's not a single person on here who wouldn't have gone for a point from Everton.

Don't get me wrong, I know, we have to start to win games, and more than we've won in about a year before the end of this season, but I don't really think it achieves much to just keep putting the boot in today, after a decent point, that's all.

We've had far worse results this season, this is one of the least low low points.

[Ron Manager]

We seem to be missing Kent Neilsen...an awful lot.

[UK Redsox]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

Pic

Why the obsession with this bloke ?

I saw him today as well....... and so what? He's just a bloke at a football match

[UK Redsox]

Woke up in the early hours and watched the last twenty minutes. It was inevitable they would get the leveller not one Villa player could hold onto the ball and they battered us. One very tall central defender needed before the West Ham game.

The transfer window is slammed shut mate.
We are fucked. Very disappointed with Vlaar and Clark again today.

I'm beginning to think that Sponge Ron Squarepants just isn't that good and can see why I'd never heard him linked to a "big" club before we signed him.

[Lizz]

Domestic life meant we only followed the game periodically this afternoon. The nearest we got to following the game fully was at the end on Final Score on BBC2 [which is nowhere near as deliberately sensationalised drama than Soccer Saturday on Sky, imo]. One of the commentators singled out an Everton player who he said virtually gifted us our goals. Is that a fair summary?

[PeterWithesShin]

At least we're second on MOTD. We're going up in the world. Shame we're not going up the league at the same time.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Domestic life meant we only followed the game periodically this afternoon. The nearest we got to following the game fully was at the end on Final Score on BBC2 [which is nowhere near as deliberately sensationalised drama than Soccer Saturday on Sky, imo]. One of the commentators singled out an Everton player who he said virtually gifted us our goals. Is that a fair summary?

Not really. Our goals were excellent, some very goOd team play. However, Benteke pretty much owned Heitinga in much the same way that Anichebe owned Clark.

[PeterWithesShin]

For those who can't wait. And you'll love the music!

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[silhillvilla]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

Pic

Why the obsession with this bloke ?

I saw him today as well....... and so what? He's just a bloke at a football match

Agree, he's just another villa fan like the rest of us. Top bloke IMHO.

[robbo1874]

It's funny you say that pws. I've just checked the premier league table on the Grauniad website and it shows us 17 with 23 pts! I thought that can't be right as I'm sure we only had 20 pts previously. So I checked the table on the fa premier league site and it showed the same.

Did they feel sorry for us and give us an extra couple of points?

Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

[dave.woodhall]

On a side note, my mate sent me a picture of Wolfy at Goodison!

Post it up then

Pic

Why the obsession with this bloke ?

I saw him today as well....... and so what? He's just a bloke at a football match

He's part of our matchday culture.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's funny you say that pws. I've just checked the premier league table on the Grauniad website and it shows us 17 with 23 pts! I thought that can't be right as I'm sure we only had 20 pts previously. So I checked the table on the fa premier league site and it showed the same.

Did they feel sorry for us and give us an extra couple of points?

Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Beeb has us 19th with 20 points. I reckon they are all making it up as they go and we're really 10 points clear at the top but the media are skanking us. 

[Lizz]

For those who can't wait. And you'll love the music!

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Thank you.