Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

The Villa team that beat Swansea last season.

Aston Villa
22 Guzan
04 Vlaar
06 Clark Booked
30 Lichaj Booked
34 Lowton Booked
07 Ireland (Westwood - 70' )
08 El Ahmadi
25 Bannan
09 Bent
14 Holman (N'Zogbia - 79' )
26 Weimann (Benteke - 71' )

£43 million quid on, is it any better this season?

No, it's far worse. Don't give this man a penny more to spend, just sack the mumbling buffoon.

[Ron Manager]

If you think about it the last two sets of coaching staff  taken on by Alec McCleish and Lambert are probably the two worst in our history.

They are to blame for the shambles this club has become.

[Legion]

Apologies for the pedantry, but it's McLeish.

[Ron Manager]

Yes you are right and I apologise.

[PeterWithesShin]

Apologies for the pedantry, but it's McLeish.

What about my antry?

[olaftab]

The crowd sounded fantastic second half. Hats off to everyone there today.

Thank you. I honestly think the noise generated halfway through second half gave the team an uplift. They were not playing very well and could have lost the game quite easily but the fans were not prepared to allow that and raised the tempo  to a fantastic level.

[olaftab]

Apologies for the pedantry, but it's McLeish.

and Alex or Alec? Or is it same?

[Lastfootstamper]

It was a LOT better than the garbage served up on Thursday.

You think? After Boxing Day, I was expecting a reaction, not an encore. I posted in the pre-match thread that if we scored early for once, we'd win with some comfort. But having witnessed today's performance, forgive me for finding myself going into the new year with an impending sense of doom. We're going backwards from last season. Where are the green shoots, straws to clutch at, any signs of progress? At times it was like watching schoolboys. And not the organized U16 type, more like 9 year olds running round the park playing 30-a-side.

[Legion]

All I heard at the end of the game was a lot of people booing.

[Legion]

It was a LOT better than the garbage served up on Thursday.

You think? After Boxing Day, I was expecting a reaction, not an encore. I posted in the pre-match thread that if we scored early for once, we'd win with some comfort. But having witnessed today's performance, forgive me for finding myself going into the new year with an impending sense of doom. We're going backwards from last season. Where are the green shoots, straws to clutch at, any signs of progress? At times it was like watching schoolboys. And not the organized U16 type, more like 9 year olds running round the park playing 30-a-side.

Yes. I'll admit it wasn't great today by any stretch of the imagination barring the first 10 minutes or so but it was still an improvement on the abject drivel served up on Thursday.

[aj2k77]

The crowd sounded fantastic second half. Hats off to everyone there today.

Thank you. I honestly think the noise generated halfway through second half gave the team an uplift. They were not playing very well and could have lost the game quite easily but the fans were not prepared to allow that and raised the tempo  to a fantastic level.

It gave me a lift hearing just hearing it sitting here. In fact I think it stopped me moaning for 5 minutes!

As the atmosphere rised i'm sure it coincided with us harrying them all the way back to the keeper a few times.

[PeterWithesShin]

All I heard at the end of the game was a lot of people booing.

[Legion]

Apologies for the pedantry, but it's McLeish.

and Alex or Alec? Or is it same?

Alex.

[Tayls_7]

I don't need Lambert to start attacking the excellent support the team have been receiving at VP to find reason for wanting him gone. His utter managerial ineptitude has been more than sufficient all season. Yes the quality of our squad is undoubtably the worst we have had for generations but that withstanding any manager of even modest proportions would be able to push out a team with some semblance of footballing adequacy. Whatever this plan is I lack more confidence in it than your average Tommy on the front line in WWI. Most of the players look completely shot (I saw the pun there). I know there are better players in there somewhere. Most of them are shadows of last season. Why? How is that progress? I don't have any answers to it except to say something is wrong with this picture. Lerner won't shake things up as he will feel it will be counter devisive to his aims of saving money if he has to sack and recruit. For me lambert has shown he isn't the man we hoped would take this club forward.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I was actually laughing at our players today. They're so shit, it's unreal.

You're done here, Lambert. Time to go.