Stoke City v Aston Villa Match Thread

[richard moore]

The usual boring useless crap again...almost week after week now with the odd fluke win thrown in

[Morten]

Pass the ball and use some widht ffs

[supertom]

Bowery's at least managed to find team mates with a couple of passes. I'll give him that.

[Jon Crofts]

Still a few results going our way today, but, at this rate we'll be in the bottom 3 by the end of the Arsenal game on Monday 13th Jan I reckon.

[brontebilly]

think albrighton had an injury

we have looked the worst side in the league over the past few weeks

[Deano's Mullet]

three defeats leading into Xmas. Again.

[ozzjim]

I think our fundamental problem is that we have far too many players who aren't good enough

2 brackets for me - some are clearly not up to it, and some are, but only when the better players are on it too. They are lifted to a better standard by others, but sink without them.

[devilla]

Albrighton off?!

Lambert - I would question your judgement

Why Albrighton picked up a knock.

In that case, apologies. Just our luck.

[phantom limb]

I don't think we've been great but Stoke are the same bunch of classless, cheating thugs that they always have been. We should be getting a point out of this at the least but I can't see it

[Toronto Villa]

As much as Lambert has to be accountable for some of what we are seeing it must be shit to as picks the team that Vlaar, Benteke, Okore, Gabby, N'Zogbia etc are all out injured

Put those 5 into the side and we are very different, but the back up to those he has bought have been really poor so far.

Yep and throw in players like Westwood, Weimann, Lowton who have all regressed and it's a very difficult situation right now

[pbavfckuwait]

Paulie spot on but it is the manager that has put this unacceptable squad together, so to me that means he is not good enough

[supertom]

Why has he signed so many players who can't control, dribble or pass the fucking ball? Clueless.

[richard moore]

Still a few results going our way today, but, at this rate we'll be in the bottom 3 by the end of the Arsenal game on Monday 13th Jan I reckon.

I think you're right. Results have gone for us today as all our rivals for relegation with the obvious exception of Stoke are losing or drawing

[curiousorange]

I have no patience with Lambert left. Terrible football, terrible signings, terrible excuses.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think our fundamental problem is that we have far too many players who aren't good enough

Wrong. Our problem is not the players. It's the clueless fool that manages them. He really is out of his depth and is being found out every week.