Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Post-Match Thread

[richard moore]

This is quite simply the worst Villa team I've ever seen, and it's gonna end in relegation if Lerner's penny pinching continues.

Yes, several of us have been saying that for weeks to a chorus of much disagreement in some parts. Worst team for almost 30 years in my view

[ciggiesnbeer]

Lets find the positives then. errrr.....

65% possession, their keeper made some nice saves and we lost at the last gasp to a very nice strike?

Thats all I got

[eamonn]

Agreed with IrishVillain over how Lambert's appointment meant a clear change of strategy of stripping bare and starting again. And if Randy told him it would get tough before it got better maybe we're not as "off-course" as us lot expect.

I don't know what the answer is. I just feel sorry for the season ticket holders who have been mugged - completely robbed blind over the past few years. Our home record and performances this decade have been nothing short of shameful.

[dl9]

Lambert's not capable of keeping us up. We couldn't overturn the Bradford semi final 2nd leg back at the start of the year and Arsenal away aside, we've been flattering to deceive. In fact I was at Arsenal and that could have gone either way. In short, time's up Paul, fuck off.

[JUAN PABLO]

The writings on the wall.

if not this season, next!

Lerner has to back lambert, and if he fails sack him, and get someone else in.

palace aint got no money

That team is 10% cost of Villas , they could have won 4-0  even Pulis is better than Lambert and I hate his football , even thou for the players he has there he has done good for them.

I think he is out of depth .

[eastie]

Three points off the bottom 3 and sliding down at an alarming rate - worrying times .

[Tony Erdington]

I think in the main , we Villa are all singing from the same hymn sheet, Lambert has lost it, Lerners a wanker, and we fans suffer

Lerner go and take lambert with you to count your diminishing millions, and we'll pick ourselves up, cuz I'd rather have that , than this not so slow death.

btw Yes Hoddle sounds good but like benetez he wouldn't come cuz he would want NEED a warchest.

[Monty]

I was very disappointed that we didn't get Solskjaer at the time, and of the prospective candidates I thought Lambert the least impressive, with a mixed record of physical football and lots of long balls to big men. My views on him have changed significantly and there's a lot about him which impresses me, but the disconnect between the football he wants to play and the football he knows how to play is enormous.

[Dribbler]

Well i guess there's no rule saying football has to be entertaining.

2 sides set up not to lose, both with a distinct lack of quality on show.

We've had a lot possession today, but that's mostly been our defense passing it around in our own half before passing it to El Ahmadi, who then passed it back to them. We pretty much evacuated midfield and were trying to play our attacking stuff with little triangles down the channels but it just doesn't work.

We looked a little better when Gabby and Albi ran at them a bit, but that was done far too little and in general our attack just looked blunt with none of the fluid cohesion we saw at times last year. Player performances were an all too familiar pattern

Guzan - couple of game saving saves
Baker = wreckless
Clark = fairly assured
Luna - a liability and Lowton not much better
El Ahmedi - a crab who only pases sideways and backwards,
Delph - had some moments of class but not enough
Albi - looked like one of the only people capable of creating something but fluffed his lines at crucial moments,
Gabby - looked like he could open them at times with his sheer pace, unfortunately he very rarely threatened and had an end product
Weimann - why man? I'm not sure what he's actually offering the team at the moment from either a midfield or attacking perspective
Kozak - tried, could have done better on a few occasions but was playing off scraps

Bowery - not a game winner unfortunately and bringing him on to try and win a game when he's never scored, kind of says it all really about where we are quality wise.

We just about eked out a 0-0 draw against a very poor Crystal Palace side that have lost 7 out of 8 of their away games this season. If they'd of had a little more quality they would have punished us several times in that game, they didn't and it's why they are where they are. I fear however that without a couple of good signings in January, our best players coming back and our finding some good form, we may well join them in that area of the table. We just look very poor.

Our home form really does have to improve, how many times have we failed to score now? Our home form most certainly is relegation form and that's amazingly worry. I think the next month will tell us a lot about whether Lambert is fit to manage our team, at the moment i'm really starting to doubt it, and wondering whether like a lot of the players he's signed, he's being found out and it's just been a step too far in terms of the quality required.

Edit - feck we lost! I started to write that just before the end and so missed the goal. Lambert out - he's to to go now!

[Villafirst]

Where are the Lerner apologists? According to them we're all moaners and can't see the bigger picture......

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Thought we'd lose and would be shit in the process, and so it turned out.

Can't see us winning again.

[walsall villain]

My patience with lambert is now exhausted. But if the transfer policy he has followed is truly dictated by Lerner then it won't matter who manages us. Team seems to have zero confidence and not much ability either, we are in the mire yet again but this time I don't think sticking with the manager is the answer.

[JUAN PABLO]

I remember I wanted him over Martinez , solksjaer and Roders .  oh dear

Can we agree I was right then, JP?

I won £100 onn my bet thou    but yes youre right

[JUAN PABLO]

maybe SAF can write Randy his own letter of recommendation this time. we could do a lot worse

can we have alex  for 6 mths . not the blue one but the red nosed one

[Hoppo]

After watching that.. I don't need posters claiming to be clever because they 'told us so' your as irratating as Lamberts after match interviews.
I want to hear what Ian Culverhouse does.
I want to know what Gary 'feckin' Karsa does.. Is he actually Lamberts brother in law?
I'm in The Social intending to get ratted then sneaking back in and shitting on Randys seat.