Aston Villa v Sheffield United Post-Match Thread

[eastie]

Got to go out in 20mins. Eastie.. Has Lambert made a statement yet and if so where is it?

A nation waits with baited breath.

Not yet, heard him on the radio bemoaning injuries after the game but his avtv interview should be available anytime now.

[spangley1812]

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "I don't think we did enough to go through and that is me being honest. Good luck to Sheffield United in the next round. We never did enough to go through.

"We had a lot of the ball and huffed and puffed. It was one of those kind of games.
 
"We had a couple of chances towards the end of the first half - Christian's headers - and a couple in the second half where we should have maybe scored more than one goal.

"I know it (an upset) can happen and it is not a great feeling when things like that happen to you."

Paul Lambert on his pre-match FA Cup comments: "I was asked a question which the journalist in question actually regrets asking. He knew the context in which I was talking.

"I never decried the FA Cup in any shape or form. I never demeaned the competition. I respect its history. I put out the strongest team I could do to try to win the game.

"The FA Cup is a brilliant competition and everybody wants to do well in it.

"If you look at my own career, I won things in cup competitions. I won a few leagues here and there but actually won competitions so I am not degrading it."

[not3bad]

Oh and one more thing......

Who's dumb idea was it to go sober for Jan (oh that'll be me), god I could murder a beer.

THere's little comfort to be had from sparkling water on a day like this 

http://www.justgiving.com/Fergal-Keating-dryathlete

What a fucking week to go dry....

I've donated.  I know what it's like to be a dry Villa fan in January!

[London Villan]

Luna kept being told not to push on by both Mumbles and the Moron Hater.

[pooligan]

I posted on here a couple of weeks ago that if we kept Lambert in charge we COULD be in League 1 at the end of  next season .Well after that spineless performance today, let me change it to we will

[Mortimer's Bear]

When that straw-chomping yokel Ian Holloway called us a "half-arsed club that used to be famous" he wasn't a million miles away from the truth. And that's an incredibly difficult and sad thing to admit.

That's no way to talk about our next manager.

[hilts_coolerking]

Ah yes, some of us...you mean you two. It doesn't what you call it, the measures needed to be taken. Or maybe you think Lerner should have stuck with MON and sent us into oblivion? Neither of you have a solution other than being critical of everything.

Saunders doesn't speak for me.  If you bothered to cast your eye over pretty much any of my posts where I have mentioned our finances, you'll see that I entirely support the attempt to get our house in order, so to speak.  It was done rather too quickly and severely, with the consequent dropping down the table, but something undoubtedly had to be done.

[Lee]

The Villa spin machine (and Lambert) have apparently now claimed the journalist that broke the FA CUP GATE story now regrets it. However the journalist himself says he does nothing of the sort. Slightly embarrassing

Yes that's correct. Regan is the journo concerned and he has stood by his story but regrets the fact that other stations plagiarised his words and Villa Press office spent almost 3/4 hours last week pressurising him to drop or heavily modify his story.

What the fluff is going on at Villa Park.

[dave shelley]

Curiousorange my friend, please don't ever feel the need to deny who you support, you support Aston Villa, as we all do and despite the arguing and seemingly bad feeling going on between us at the moment we  know they are just the greatest football club ever!  I know it isn't pleasant at the moment but as the old sentimental cliché says " the darkest hour is just before dawn". 

Take it from an old man following the Villa for over 55 years, things will improve, I've seen it and even at my age I'm still expecting it to happen.  Chin up.

[LeeB]

When people state that they "can't comprehend" that someone has a different view to them, then I tend to dismiss them as an idiot.

[Jimbo]

When that straw-chomping yokel Ian Holloway called us a "half-arsed club that used to be famous" he wasn't a million miles away from the truth. And that's an incredibly difficult and sad thing to admit.

That's no way to talk about our next manager.

Now that's made me laugh. Even if we offered him a company tractor, he'd never come here.

[eastie]

When that straw-chomping yokel Ian Holloway called us a "half-arsed club that used to be famous" he wasn't a million miles away from the truth. And that's an incredibly difficult and sad thing to admit.

That's no way to talk about our next manager.

Now that's made me laugh. Even if we offered him a company tractor, he'd never come here.

Maybe a combine harvester would swing it

[PaulWinch again]

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "I don't think we did enough to go through and that is me being honest. Good luck to Sheffield United in the next round. We never did enough to go through.

"We had a lot of the ball and huffed and puffed. It was one of those kind of games.
 
"We had a couple of chances towards the end of the first half - Christian's headers - and a couple in the second half where we should have maybe scored more than one goal.

"I know it (an upset) can happen and it is not a great feeling when things like that happen to you."

Paul Lambert on his pre-match FA Cup comments: "I was asked a question which the journalist in question actually regrets asking. He knew the context in which I was talking.

"I never decried the FA Cup in any shape or form. I never demeaned the competition. I respect its history. I put out the strongest team I could do to try to win the game.

"The FA Cup is a brilliant competition and everybody wants to do well in it.

"If you look at my own career, I won things in cup competitions. I won a few leagues here and there but actually won competitions so I am not degrading it."

Huffed and puffed would sum us up Lambert, we don't have any clue.

[Ron Manager]

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "I don't think we did enough to go through and that is me being honest. Good luck to Sheffield United in the next round. We never did enough to go through.

"We had a lot of the ball and huffed and puffed. It was one of those kind of games.
 
"We had a couple of chances towards the end of the first half - Christian's headers - and a couple in the second half where we should have maybe scored more than one goal.

"I know it (an upset) can happen and it is not a great feeling when things like that happen to you."

Paul Lambert on his pre-match FA Cup comments: "I was asked a question which the journalist in question actually regrets asking. He knew the context in which I was talking.

"I never decried the FA Cup in any shape or form. I never demeaned the competition. I respect its history. I put out the strongest team I could do to try to win the game.

"The FA Cup is a brilliant competition and everybody wants to do well in it.

"If you look at my own career, I won things in cup competitions. I won a few leagues here and there but actually won competitions so I am not degrading it."

Thanks Spangley. We're off out to enjoy ourselves!

[Legion]

Mods  Put a stop to that please

Mods keep out of here on days like this.

Unfortunately, I/we don't.