Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[brian green]

Just home from the game.   Good battling performance which will do them the world of good.  Bit disappointed in Bowery.   Did okay but we have a similar player on loan at Blackpool.   Don't see the point really.   Baker is so slow, he needs to be coached intensively to overcome his running against the wind style of locomotion.   Delph played well but I would have had him behind both Brad and Charlie for man of the match.   Three points that is all that matters.   I even understood three or four words of Lambchops' interview with Pat Murphy.

[honestmarkovilla]

A great win - it wasn't pretty but it sure felt good

[Monty]

I remember thinking about halfway through the game that Clattenburg was reffing it really well.

[PaulWinch again]

Clattenburg was very good today on the whole.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I am relieved. STill not convinced we will stay up but thank you for a happy day Charles & Darren! I dont get to say that very often.

[john2710]

[quote author=Can Bent Be Bettered!?!? link=topic=49118.
Bennett would argue that Baker has had a player in front of him to help out. Bennett has been part of a formation which resulted in him being on his own facing two players (due to no midfielder realising they need to help both full backs.)
[/quote]

Absolutely correct, almost all of Bennett's games have come in that 3 2 3 2 formation that has created most of our problems.

Anyway, a good win, well deserved. MOTM was Clarke.

[rob_bridge]

I don't have to go to work siting degrees of doomedness at least for another couple of weeks.

[SoccerHQ]

Big Sam and Pulis are "home" managers. Both stick to our agriculutral basics of getting the ball forward quickly and playing tight deep defences that get them consistant results in home games. Once they go away on big wide pitches unfamilar to them neither have a clue. Stoke and West Ham have two of the worst away records in the league.

At least both get home results on a regular basis. TSM couldn't even manage that at VP last season!

[SashasGrandad]

Enjoyed the first West Ham fan on 606 saying that Clattenburg was awful and that the pen and freekick were both terrible decisions.  Oh, 3 points!!!  3 fucking big, beautiful bastard points!

Thought it was nice to have a decent referee for a change - Clattenburg had a very good game - and showed he vastly superior to Dowd, Dean etc. Plus he isn't biased like those 2.

[Jockey Randall]

Big Sam and Pulis are "home" managers. Both stick to our agriculutral basics of getting the ball forward quickly and playing tight deep defences that get them consistant results in home games. Once they go away on big wide pitches unfamilar to them neither have a clue. Stoke and West Ham have two of the worst away records in the league.

At least both get home results on a regular basis. TSM couldn't even manage that at VP last season!

Definitely agree on the Allardyce/Pulis point. I actually think TSM got a bit of a raw deal. It wasn't like he had a long time to slowly build his team. Given a few years he probably would have got together a steady side that got results. We would have bored everyone to tears mind.

[saunders_heroes]

A win, great! It wasn't pretty who who cares. It's stopped the rot and we've actually moved up the table. Christ we needed that!

[PaulWinch again]

A win, great! It wasn't pretty who who cares. It's stopped the rot and we've actually moved up the table. Christ we needed that!

That's the point, the win was the only important thing really.

[SoccerHQ]

Big Sam and Pulis are "home" managers. Both stick to our agriculutral basics of getting the ball forward quickly and playing tight deep defences that get them consistant results in home games. Once they go away on big wide pitches unfamilar to them neither have a clue. Stoke and West Ham have two of the worst away records in the league.

At least both get home results on a regular basis. TSM couldn't even manage that at VP last season!

Definitely agree on the Allardyce/Pulis point. I actually think TSM got a bit of a raw deal. It wasn't like he had a long time to slowly build his team. Given a few years he probably would have got together a steady side that got results. We would have bored everyone to tears mind.

Nah the garbage football didn't surprise but I at least thought he could get a solid base of home form to maybe get some of the crowd onside, didn't he go over a year at SHA without losing a home game in the league?

I think I'd take garbage, long ball football if it meant 9/10 home wins a season at VP rather than the 4/5 we seem to be feasted on most seasons now.

[Jockey Randall]

Big Sam and Pulis are "home" managers. Both stick to our agriculutral basics of getting the ball forward quickly and playing tight deep defences that get them consistant results in home games. Once they go away on big wide pitches unfamilar to them neither have a clue. Stoke and West Ham have two of the worst away records in the league.

At least both get home results on a regular basis. TSM couldn't even manage that at VP last season!

Definitely agree on the Allardyce/Pulis point. I actually think TSM got a bit of a raw deal. It wasn't like he had a long time to slowly build his team. Given a few years he probably would have got together a steady side that got results. We would have bored everyone to tears mind.

Nah the garbage football didn't surprise but I at least thought he could get a solid base of home form to maybe get some of the crowd onside, didn't he go over a year at SHA without losing a home game in the league?

I think I'd take garbage, long ball football if it meant 9/10 home wins a season at VP rather than the 4/5 we seem to be feasted on most seasons now.

For me it just came down the fact the quality of the players in his reign, especially in midfield, even more so after we lost Petrov, just wasn't there. At least at Blues he built a solid midfield that could protect the defense for large parts. Ours went down the toilet towards the end of last season.

[Mazrim]

Not me. Football is entertainment and I want to be entertained. I see no good reason to "settle" for shit attritional football such as played by the likes of Stoke and West Ham.