Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Not that fussed about the football.  Just walked up witton lane to get the bus and some poor fucker is fucked on the floor. Hope he's ok he looked in a bad way.

[Matt Collins]

Oh, and worth noting the numbers below next time someone trots out the hackneyed line "you pay peanuts you get monkeys" or "buy championship players, get championship football" which are both INCREDIBLY IRRITATING:

Guzan (0.5) lowton (1) Clark, Baker (0) Luna (1) Bacuna (1.5) Westwood (1) Delph (6) Tonev (3.5) Weimann (0) Gabby (0)

Total: 14.5

Tremmel (free) Tiendalli (free) Davies (free) Canas (free) Chico (2) Williams (free) Hernandez (5) De Guzman (loan) Shelvey (5) Bony (12) Lamah (free)

Total 24 (but half on one player, whereas Villa's more expensive players not playing)

Lots of free or very cheap players in there. It would be a fairly even balance of costs if both sides had their first choice players (Vlaar, Benteke, Michu in for Bony).

[sirlordbaltimore]

The only positive apart from our goal was keeping it to 1-1

Appalling shit.

But we've managed to somehow claw 1 point from a 'must get 6' two match stretch, so i guess that'll do for some.

[N'Zimidy]

20 points after 19 games?

Not nearly good enough. Especially when there are 10 dire teams other than us in the league. I don't trust Lambert either tactically or in the transfer market to turn this sinking ship around.

[onje_villa]

HOW is this acceptable?!!!

It is not. Randy, do something about it please.

[David_Nab]

So lightweight in midfield no one is able to hold onto the ball for a second.Lack of ability on the ball throughout the team everything is hurried, the passing was in general appalling.
No Clark for next game leaving us just Baker and Herd if the later is fit.

Point was more than we deserved and in some ways this was worse than Palace as we were completely showed up for what a awful team we are.

[Kevin_Brum12]

Total utter garbage.  Sunderland and Sheffield United must be rubbing their hands with glee, one at a certain 3 points and a chance to dish out revenge following their tonking at Villa Park last April, the other at what would be the most expected cup upset ever.

The only positives we can take out of it was that for once we scored at home in the first half, and it is a point.  But the team are playing poorly.  We look like a relegation side at the moment.

If Lerner had any balls Lambert would arrive at work to find a P45 on his desk on Monday and a cardboard box.

[pbavfckuwait]

So that means Luna is less shit than the shittest full back including Hutton, he should never be allowed to put a Villa shirt on ever again, as someone said in the match thread, if there is not a reserve player who can do better than that clown, we may as well close the gates to Bodymoor Heath, because all that money spent on making it great has been wasted.

[russon]

Radio 5 just said " honours even at Villa Park". Have to disagree, there's no honour in drawing at home to a team who have 73% possession on your turf and pass you to death from front to back, even their keeper would walk into our midfield. Absolute rubbish, it's just heartbreaking.

[eamonn]

Lambert didn't clench his fist and punch the air in celebration of a point while looking up at the directors by any chance did he?
We're that gesture away from him becoming McLeish because we certainly don't play any better than we did under that other Scottish manager.

We've stripped it out and started again. Noble but useless when most of the current squad are not up to scratch.

[curiousorange]

Entirely no chance of a managerial change now.

[myf]

1 point from 15 and 4 off the drop. fucking garbage. enough is enough

[Matt Collins]

Is Clark out for the next game? Oh dear.

I imagine Ron is out for another month or so.

We must get a centre back in January, even just on loan. We just have to.

And if we can get more quality in midfield that would be very welcome.

[eastie]

20 points after 19 games?

Not nearly good enough. Especially when there are 10 dire teams other than us in the league. I don't trust Lambert either tactically or in the transfer market to turn this sinking ship around.

Are there?  I'm not sure over the last 10 games on current form if there are 3 worse teams , never mind 10.

[eastie]

HOW is this acceptable?!!!

It is not. Randy, do something about it please.

He will probably look at the table see us in 13th and nod approvingly