Fulham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

What a typical dumb bloody interview. The manager clearly wants to dodge the poor performance and focus on the referee so the interviewer lets him by spending ages talking about the penalty decisions and the Berbatov-Herd non-event.

He's never going to properly admit that, but in the longer interview on the OS he does say more than he usually does. My beef is if he's so concerned about not upsetting the fragile mindset of a young dressing room, then buy a few old leaders that can take it on the chin. That and they can give it and motivate while on the pitch.

[eric woolban woolban]

Bacuna is not a full back.

Herd is not a centre back (I dunno what is).

Baker is not a full back.

El-Ahmadi is not a premier league footballer.

Lambert made a mess of it today.

Lambert is not a Premier league manager. Win % just under 29.

[Dave Clark Five]

Goals

Steve bloody Sidwell. Coolly-taken penalty, though. Did Guzan go too early?

He was cabbaged.

[Legion]

Stats for Villa managers

[john2710]

We haven't done anything other than take punts on Championship or less quality players for the last 2 years.

The problem is that those that were shite (KEA, Sylla, Bennett) are still shite, those that were good (Benteke, Westwood, Lowton, Weimann) are playing like they are shite & the players we've bought are either shite (Tonev, Hellnius) or it's too early to say (Kozak, Bacuna, but in all honesty they are probably shite too). Only Guzan, Vlar, Gabby, Delph & possible Clarke look anywhere near good or consistent enough.

It says everything you need to know about the quality of our club that KEA is anywhere near the squad, never mind a regular starter.

Aston Villa deserve better than what Lerner is turning us into.

[Dave Clark Five]

What a typical dumb bloody interview. The manager clearly wants to dodge the poor performance and focus on the referee so the interviewer lets him by spending ages talking about the penalty decisions and the Berbatov-Herd non-event.

He's never going to properly admit that, but in the longer interview on the OS he does say more than he usually does. My beef is if he's so concerned about not upsetting the fragile mindset of a young dressing room, then buy a few old leaders that can take it on the chin. That and they can give it and motivate while on the pitch.

Well, he's already got Hutton on £60k a week training with the stiffs. I can't believe that he would not do better than the current makeshift arrangement.

[UK Redsox]

I haven't seen the match today and only got the chance to listen to occasional snippets on the car radio.

You lucky bugger !!

It was horrendous. Guzan and Delph (and maybe Gabby) versus Fulham (and the Refs)

[hilts_coolerking]

Stats for Villa managers

Gregory's is very healthy, and over 190 games too.  Was a different era then though.

ETA - good to see TSM confirmed as the worst

[Pete3206]

Are you a Premier League team getting spanked every week? Out of form and generally on your arse? Never fear, a fixture against Aston Villa is always around the corner. Coming next, an out of sorts Man Utd.

[Irish villain]

We haven't done anything other than take punts on Championship or less quality players for the last 2 years.

The problem is that those that were shite (KEA, Sylla, Bennett) are still shite, those that were good (Benteke, Westwood, Lowton, Weimann) are playing like they are shite & the players we've bought are either shite (Tonev, Hellnius) or it's too early to say (Kozak, Bacuna, but in all honesty they are probably shite too). Only Guzan, Vlar, Gabby, Delph & possible Clarke look anywhere near good or consistent enough.

It says everything you need to know about the quality of our club that KEA is anywhere near the squad, never mind a regular starter.

Aston Villa deserve better than what Lerner is turning us into.

Hear Hear. Becoming perennial stragglers. When, as an Aston Villa fan, you find yourself delighted to see us in tenth you know something has gone badly wrong. There was a time being tenth was a disappointment as a villa fan.

[PeterWithesShin]

Who has said they are delighted with 10th? You don't half make some stuff up to help your point of view.

[MarkM]

If you devide the league teams into these categories:

Lucky if you get anything
Tricky
Winnable

Sadly we are now on everyone's winnable list

[sirlordbaltimore]

Bacuna is not a full back.

Herd is not a centre back (I dunno what is).

Baker is not a full back.

El-Ahmadi is not a premier league footballer.

Lambert made a mess of it today.

I'll take the above and add a 'this 4-3-3' obsession is no longer working. The midfield with 3 playing narrow is completely dire, and we're carrying a passenger in Weimann when he's picked this season.

Put Bacuna or Albrighton to the right of a midfield four, stick Lowton back where he should be (and he can push up as and when) and leave Gabby and Benteke loose up top. Hopefully the added width will help them out immensely.

And above all else, stop fucking hoofing it long. It's meat and drink to experienced central defenders and does none of our forwards any service at all.

[aj2k77]

Shit again. Probably the  10th or so time this season already. Lambert is no good, I've said it since last Christmas and nothing has happened to change my mind. Most of his £43m quids worth of signings aren't worth a shiny shit either, he's hiding behind the Benteke gem.

Westwood
Bacuna
Tonev
Bennett
Sylla
Helenius
Bowery
El Ahamadi

All add nothing.

I'm sick of us being shit, don't kid yourself, we are shit right now. I'm sick of signing unheard of shit and im sick of making excuses up for why this week we wasn't any good, again.

We cannot pass the ball, we can barely control a ball. The better players all we already at the club and this scotch clown has frittered away the cash we had to spend. He can go fuck himself, the dour, boring, dull, unimaginative, excuse making twat.

I'm sick of them. And i'm sick of Lambore especially.

[Quiet Lion]

Just got back from my annual game.....

Just utter shit, Southampton we got away with it, today we got what we deserved. Made a team in the bottom three look really decent.

We will need to improve