Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[onje_villa]

Lambert: "I knew the first few YEARS were going to be tough".

Christ alive just how much misery and boredom have us fans been consigned to? I think its time to prepare the protest banners for Randy and Lambert.

[caster troy]

Our passing is dreadful, our movement none existent. The players have no confidence and generally look afraid to receive the ball. Our shooting is poor, our defenders are frequently out of position. Our only leader is injury prone. We have only one good striker. We have no creative midfielders. We have no adequate full backs. We don't have a ball winning midfielder. We are incapable of controlling or even coming close to dominating a game no matter who the opposition.

If all this is just a consequence of 'modern football' being different we may as well just turn Villa Park into a museum and withdraw from the football league.

[steffo]

Under the circumstances I was happy with our starting line-up. Tonev and Backuna providing width and it proved to be a fantastic start. Then Swansea scored and Lambert bottled it.

I have a theory that defenders - defend, midfield players attack and defend, and guess what? Strikers score goals. So Gabby (a striker) scores a goal! Can anyone explain why him and  Wiemann at times in the second half were wide wing backs? In all they both played in three different positions!

Does a train driver,drive the train and collect the tickets? No! If the player ain't doing it in their rightful position then they shouldn't start.

One up front in the second half was criminal, lumping it up to the new Cascarino was priceless. Is it a scottish thing to have such negative managers?

[Stu]

Lambert: "I knew the first few YEARS were going to be tough".

Christ alive just how much misery and boredom have us fans been consigned to? I think its time to prepare the protest banners for Randy and Lambert.

Been there, done that. I think the only thing that was ever accomplished was the signing of Angel.

The Doug protests were always a bit cringeworthy too.

[E I Adio]

Not for the first time the team played reasonable football for the first 10 minutes or so, then completely forgot what they were supposed to be doing. I've never quite seen anything like it and I was around in the 1969-70 season. The difference is that today we do have some players who are at least capable of good football. The mystery is why they don't perform, it just seems that their confidence is completely shot.

[Des Little]

What does PL think when he sees his team outclassed on our own pitch like that? Does he think it's OK? Surely he must be embarrassed..we'll he should be. He clearly has very bad judgement because way too many of his signings are clearly not good enough at this level.

[PeterWithesShin]

Bizarrely, scoring it seemed scoring early made us lose confidence as we played progressively worse after that. How can we do it so right for 10 minutes, see it is working and then just stop doing it.

[eastie]

Whatever happened to this paul?

[PAUL Lambert wants to bring the good times back to Villa Park and is determined to do it in style.

The newly-appointed boss will channel all his thoughts towards transforming Villa into an exciting attacking unit and establishing them as a Premier League force to be reckoned with once again.

Outlining his plans to guide Villa up the table, Lambert showed no signs of fear that the notoriously high expectation levels at the club will thwart his progress.

Instead he said a club of Villa’s stature should be aiming to achieve big things and insisted he will do everything in his power to make it happen.

“There is a lot of expectancy at the club and it is not something I’m going to shy away from,” he said.

“It’s something I will thrive on.

“We will try to get results as quickly and as best as we can. We have to play football the right way.

[Irish villain]

I am in Glasgow for the weekend so missed the game.

The stats look dreadful and the comments suggest another pitiful performance and a team going backwards. I wish we had a lovely passing game. All that huffing and puffing to put a mere 20 points on the board after 19 games?

On the plus side, surely we can win another six games from the 17 that remain? Surly that and a few draws would see us safe? But we must get some quality players in asap. The project implied patience as we watched our hungry youngsters improve over time. Instead they are regressing before our very eyes.

I think we need to stick with Lambert for the simple reason that I am not sure another man could work with the tools we have. A few weeks ago, after the Fulham game, I was leaning towards sacking him but on reflection these are his players and I don't think this is a normal situation where a new man can suddenly inspire good performances. Lambert is probably the only person I would trust to get this particular group to scrape the points together to keep us up.

Odd logic perhaps but I hope yee see where I am coming from. Fulham and Sunderland look fucked which is a real bonus for us.

[eastie]

Can someone please clarify who the players celebrated the goal with when they ran past  lambert near the dugout?

[caster troy]

Bizarrely, scoring it seemed scoring early made us lose confidence as we played progressively worse after that. How can we do it so right for 10 minutes, see it is working and then just stop doing it.

I thought Swansea started sloppily, giving the ball away a few times and we seized the initiative. Then they settled down and we couldn't get the ball off them for most of the rest of the game, and when we did we either panicked or just hoofed it aimlessly upfield.

[PeterWithesShin]

Bizarrely, scoring it seemed scoring early made us lose confidence as we played progressively worse after that. How can we do it so right for 10 minutes, see it is working and then just stop doing it.

I thought Swansea started sloppily, giving the ball away a few times and we seized the initiative. Then they settled down and we couldn't get the ball off them for most of the rest of the game, and when we did we either panicked or just hoofed it aimlessly upfield.

I thought they were sloppy because we were pressurising them. And then for some reason we stopped doing it and gave them space and time to waltz through us.

[Jon Crofts]

Can someone please clarify who the players celebrated the goal with when they ran past  lambert near the dugout?

Well according to R5 and Pat Murphy it was Lambert they all ran to as a 'public vote of confidence'

[Villa in Denmark]

I am in Glasgow for the weekend so missed the game.

The stats look dreadful and the comments suggest another pitiful performance and a team going backwards. I wish we had a lovely passing game. All that huffing and puffing to put a mere 20 points on the board after 19 games?

On the plus side, surely we can win another six games from the 17 that remain? Surly that and a few draws would see us safe? But we must get some quality players in asap. The project implied patience as we watched our hungry youngsters improve over time. Instead they are regressing before our very eyes.

I think we need to stick with Lambert for the simple reason that I am not sure another man could work with the tools we have. A few weeks ago, after the Fulham game, I was leaning towards sacking him but on reflection these are his players and I don't think this is a normal situation where a new man can suddenly inspire good performances. Lambert is probably the only person I would trust to get this particular group to scrape the points together to keep us up.

Odd logic perhaps but I hope yee see where I am coming from. Fulham and Sunderland look fucked which is a real bonus for us.

That just makes our results against them even more worrying, although I must confess I think Sunderland might dig their way out of it, particularly if they can sign a half decent striker.

[amfy]

I have never, ever seen a Villa team this bad (I'm only 37, so didn't see relegation) Without Vlaar and Benteke we are probably the weakest side in the division.

This isn't really helpful is it? Take the 2 best players out of any team in the bottom half and they'll probably be the weakest side in the division. It's a completely meaningless comment.

Especially as over the last few games you could probably make a reasonable argument for us being the worst side in the division anyway! At least we have some hope that these players coming back might improve us.