Aston Villa v QPR Post-Match Thread

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

How many teams has harry relegated...

Harry doesn't just relegate teams. He also leaves them in such a financial mess from his spending splurges it makes MON jealous.   

[SashasGrandad]

What were the biased referee decisions? The back pass one looked very suspect, but you very rarely see back passes given nowadays.

On motd highlights I didn't spot any others if I'm honest

MOTD highlights don't show all the refs mistakes just the absolutely unbelievable ones.

He missed booking 2 of their players after giving us the advantage (which wasn't much of an advantage)

How he got 5 mins stoppage time - then played nearly 6 mins extra.

How he kept missing QPR moving free kicks 10 years forward at every opportunity.

Just little things that made it look like he was biased in their favour - hence the Harry's paid the ref songs.

[olaftab]

Just caught the end of Match of the Day to see Jenas picked in their 'team of the day'. I know he scored, but....really? They didn't think Westwood was the better midfielder yesterday?

I think they picked him for avoiding injury in a 90 min game for god knows how long! Other than the goal he was shit as usual.

[curlytailavfc]

Great result we were lucky in the 1st half not to be 3 down and the reff was a feckin joke

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Just caught the end of Match of the Day to see Jenas picked in their 'team of the day'. I know he scored, but....really? They didn't think Westwood was the better midfielder yesterday?

More a case of them not being arsed to actually pay enough attention to notice.

[Lastfootstamper]

What were the biased referee decisions? The back pass one looked very suspect, but you very rarely see back passes given nowadays.

On motd highlights I didn't spot any others if I'm honest

His interpretation of an advantage was somewhat lopsided. Them, play on for thirty seconds, maybe have a shot, don't score, no worries, pull it back. Us, loose ball falls to a bloke who's heavily marked, still got the ball ain't ya, immediately dispossessed, tough. Unless we're breaking (Bowery late on), then it gets pulled back.

[PeterWithe]

The decision that did for me was near the end, with everyone camped on the edge of our box, Benteke broke with the opportunity to make a lot of ground, now Bannan had been booked earlier for a pretty inoccuous shirt pull in a less threatening position but here Hoilett hit Benteke with a late, dangerous, cynical foul and allied to the position it was in, its got to be a red hasn't it? Yellow only.

[CJ]

Was there any abuse aimed at redknapp today from the Holte or the fans behind the dugouts?

Yes - a couple about his masturbatory habits, plus a couple of "you're supposed to be in jail" and a classic "stand up if you pay your tax". As I said earlier - the atmosphere in the Holte yesterday was the best for years.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

All this stuff about Harry bribing the ref to try and get a QPR win. We really can't know that for sure.
For all we know he may have had a big wedge on with Chinese betting syndicates for Jenas 1st scorer and a Villa win 3-2.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Can't believe MOTD said we had a huge slice of luck by scoring straight after they hit the post from a free kick.  No mention of course that the ref allowed Bosingwa to move the ball at least 5 yards from where the foul took place in order to make it within shooting distance.

[PeterWithe]

I think in the cold light of day there is nothing wrong with us accepting that we were fucking lucky to go in level at half time, the goal came from pretty much the only attack of note we mustered. Great fight in the second half mind.

[Somniloquism]

What were the biased referee decisions? The back pass one looked very suspect, but you very rarely see back passes given nowadays.

On motd highlights I didn't spot any others if I'm honest

Look at the position of the free kick they hit the post from. Now rewind it back and look at where the actual foul took place. Now imagine him booking our players for pointing out the discrepancy  and moving the wall back 12 yards from the made up position he let Boswinga take it from. That was what was missed on MotD.

[Chris Jameson]

My 9 year old son asked midway through the second half why every single corner of ours was played to the back post where Samba was able to clear? Apart from the fact we were bloody awful in the first half that was my only grumble about yesterday, oh and the fact I had to clean up after Billy was sick in the car.

[Somniloquism]

I think in the cold light of day there is nothing wrong with us accepting that we were fucking lucky to go in level at half time, the goal came from pretty much the only attack of note we mustered. Great fight in the second half mind.

Out of all the goals, the only lucky one was the deflection for their second. Not deflected meant an easy save. Deflected more and it goes wide of the post. Are we supposed to be lucky that Guzan can make world class saves?

I suppose though we were lucky that the refs incompetence didn't cost us the match so overall, you are probably right.

[Somniloquism]

My 9 year old son asked midway through the second half why every single corner of ours was played to the back post where Samba was able to clear? Apart from the fact we were bloody awful in the first half that was my only grumble about yesterday, oh and the fact I had to clean up after Billy was sick in the car.

There was the one he missed but Clark didn't anticipate it and it looped into Julio's arms.