Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[Fasth56]

Whilst I agree the performances recently have been far from acceptable, it appears there are a number of posters on here who are delighted with what is happening at the moment so they can vent their spleen at Lambert. Plus if you think that Clapping Weiman being subbed is going to help then you are sadly mistaken.

Nobody on here is delighted with what is happening - we all love the club are care deeply about the situation!

Try posting something positive for a change then

I will post it as I see it - I have never been short of praise when deserved .
This a forum to express opinion , not to have everyone agree with you.

Please don't come here saying people are delighted with the situation - nobody is!

The original post was a personal observation rather than a discussion point and I fail to see where it requires everyone to agree with me.

[eastie]

The supporters have been superb and a credit to this great club - there are few clubs who would pull these gates with such a home record - full credit to everyone of you .

[danlanza]

Shall we take a look at the pre-match thread and the number of people who said we were going to get a right tonking.
I believe the percentage was quite high.
Well, the tonking never happened. A good thing isn't it. Or should we have lost so we could give Lambert some more hammer.?
The football is not good at the moment, granted. Does that mean Lambert has to go ? I think that would be a mistake personaly, at the moment.
His coaching staff on the other hand need to take a good look at themselves, they are the ones who are not good enough.
If Lambert were to go now we would be relegated for sure.
Lets see what happens in January, if anything does happen for us in the transfer market.
If the glaring frailties are not addressed then we should be very worried about our status in the Premier League and very worried about the " Plan" that Lambert has.
I may be in the minority on this issue but i would give him a bit longer and i would be encouraging him to change his coaching staff.
Just my view on this subject.
We are all mad Villa fans on here, lets not be to hasty in pulling the trigger on something that could come good.
We knew we were in for a rough ride when O"i want more fecking money to spunk up the wall" Neil fucked us over. As a business this cost cutting is absolutely needed, or we will not exist at all.
If Lambert had the amount of cash that the Irish manager had we would be flying high now, sadly the cash was never available but one day soon it may be.
We are having to watch the total rebuilding of the club we love. It's not pretty, it's not pleasing to the eye, but it has to be done, absolutely has to be done.
I am in the mindset of again surviving, finishing in the top half would be nice but with some good quality experience added to this young squad in January.
If this does not happen i may change my mind on the whole Lambert "Plan."

[Legion]

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

Words fail me.

[damon loves JT]

Can understand people not being happy with that performance. It was poor, and in the circumstances - Swansea could and possibly should have won - a point is ok.

But I can't fault the effort the players put in. Clearly they are very low on confidence. We need leadership on the pitch. Clark and Baker looked pretty solid to me, but we miss Vlaar as captain. We are playing without one at the moment.

Hoping that we have bottomed out now. If we can avoid defeat for the next few games it would be good.

[SoccerHQ]

On a completely random note, the ref whoever he was had an excellent game, don't think he made one decision I disagreed with all afternoon. First time I've thought that for ages.

[Legion]

On a completely random note, the ref whoever he was had an excellent game, don't think he made one decision I disagreed with all afternoon. First time I've thought that for ages.

I thought he was OK, but inconsistent.

[PeterWithesShin]

Can understand people not being happy with that performance. It was poor, and in the circumstances - Swansea could and possibly should have won - a point is ok.

But I can't fault the effort the players put in. Clearly they are very low on confidence. We need leadership on the pitch. Clark and Baker looked pretty solid to me, but we miss Vlaar as captain. We are playing without one at the moment.

Hoping that we have bottomed out now. If we can avoid defeat for the next few games it would be good.

Based mainly on the first half when he playing right in front of me I thought Baker was decent as well. Showed a few moments of intelligence as well as he blocked a runner off for Clark to clear, showed an understanding between the two as well.

I still want Vlaar back sharpish mind, just thought it worth mentioning after the stick he has, rightly, received at times.

[brian green]

Just home from the game.   The great SGT once said very wisely "if you are going backwards you have to stop before you can start to go forward".   I do not know if that was a halt to the backward slide but it certainly was a slowing of the backwards momentum.

Not that I think we played any better than we did against Palace (although Hart had to play out of his skin against them today so perhaps under Pulis they are not the gimme we took them for).   We showed more grit and character in the second half and they deserve credit for that and most importantly they responded to the crowd who were magnificent.

I still have issues with Guzan who did not make a throw out or a direct pass to one of his own men until the forty first minute of the game despite it being clear from the outset that Swansea were winning everything in the air.

Not that I care but that point could have saved Lambert.

[Brend'Watkins]

We improved slightly in the 2nd half or was it that Swansea weren't as good?

I'm totally bemused as to why Luna doesn't mark his man, he must be coached not to as he's been doing it now for at least the last 5 games.

[Legion]

I would argue that Guzan does as he is told.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yeah he is Lambert's bitch! Don't diss the G-Man!

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

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

Words fail me.

What's wrong with laughing at them? It's better than getting angry.

[aj2k77]

We improved slightly in the 2nd half or was it that Swansea weren't as good?

I'm totally bemused as to why Luna doesn't mark his man, he must be coached not to as he's been doing it now for at least the last 5 games.

To be fair to Lambert on my stream every few minutes I could hear loud screams of 'LUNA LUNA' so someone is telling him what to do, the plank is just not doing it enough.

[rob_bridge]

I would argue that Guzan does as he is told.

Yep and whether he kicks it up the middle in a hit and hope or rolls it out our lot are so poor at ball retention it doesn't really make any difference.