Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Clever (the bastard):

[Exeter 77]

Good to meet you too. As for me, the main highlight was so many people coming up and introducing themselves given the recent bad news.

It was good to meet you too Lee.

[saunders_heroes]

Brilliant wing play from Downing for the first goal. Wish we had a player as good as that on our wing.

[Rigadon]

I'm not sure your original post was anything too happy-clappy, but what has you going to Villa park to watch the game got to do with anything?  'The armchair brigade'.  Good grief.

Apologies to the forum for that unnecessary outburst but I guess a lot of frustration of the whole afternoon was not helped by reading the post match thread.

Ah no worries.  You can't blame folks being bored of losing at home though. 

[Legion]

It's not so much being bored of losing, it's being bored of being bored.

[silhillvilla]

Can't take anymore, off to throw myself off the Somerset levels

[paulcomben]

I was gardening all afternoon. I only had to look at the score. I feel blessed.

A wise man indeed.

Gardening in an icy force ten gale with sideways sleet? You must have felt like Baker and Clark.

[john e]

we might as well write our remaining home games off and just concentrate on away matches, starting on Tuesday
its a ridiculous state of affairs when you are actually more positive about winning away matches against anybody than at home against rubbish teams

[paulcomben]

What is Villa's worst ever home record in the PL? Or is this it?

[saunders_heroes]

What is Villa's worst ever home record in the PL? Or is this it?

I can't remember anything as bad as this.

[eastie]

What is Villa's worst ever home record in the PL? Or is this it?

I can't remember anything as bad as this.

Me neither and it's gone on far too long - totally unacceptable.

[PeterWithesShin]

What is Villa's worst ever home record in the PL? Or is this it?

I'm assuming McLeish, 4 wins, 7 draws, 19 points.

[adrenachrome]

we might as well write our remaining home games off and just concentrate on away matches, starting on Tuesday
its a ridiculous state of affairs when you are actually more positive about winning away matches against anybody than at home against rubbish teams

An additional problem this season is that Hull showed the other struggling teams how to play us at home: set up like the away team and sit deep. Fulham did this as well. Liverpool went to the opposite extreme and thought they could remove a holding midfield player and put on an attacking show.

[Legion]

What is Villa's worst ever home record in the PL? Or is this it?

I'm assuming McLeish, 4 wins, 7 draws, 19 points.

I think the same. I'll check.

[mike]

We have all had the wool pulled over our eyes to swallow the club line McLeish bad, Lambert good.   Lambert is not a good manager or if he is, he has shown nothing to prove it since taking charge at Villa Park,  but he has produced an endless stream of evidence that he is no more competent than Alex McLeish.   I do not say it lightly because I love the Villa but that defence today was the worst I have seen in many years.   Not only are they unskilled, they are slow and hesitant in everything they do.   Clark and Baker are nice, willing lads but they are far too slow for the premiership.

Brian, I just thank God someone has the same view as me because this is driving me demented. The only thing that every season is about is staying up. Where is the fun or pleasure in that? Get to April or more likely May to find out there were three worse teams than us, a few months off and start again. The manager and the players are just not good enough.