Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[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.

I think the same. I'll check.

I just checked, and it is.

[Legion]

I'll go with that.

[Villafirst]

Jores, Jores, FFS please please get fit asap - and big Ron!!!

[eastie]

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.

I just checked, and it is.

11 points from 13 games so far I think , could be on course for another lambert record.

[Jimbo]

I've said it before but I want to say it again, because it makes me feel slightly better. We're a club desperately in need of a brain. There's that Einstein quote about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But I'd say that's also a definition of stupidity. At the moment, we're like Laurel and Hardy, the stupid leading the stupid. Nobody knows when to stop and say, whoah, this shit ain't working.

There's a sad naivety about us, like a very old man whose mind is going, we refuse to admit the mistakes we're making. We think we can carry on as normal, but everybody else can see if we carry on driving the car like this, sooner or later we're going to crash.

It's sad because we all know that Lambert is only still at the club for two reasons. 1) We're doing the bare minimum to survive (so far), and he's bought into the 'plan'; and 2) We're petrified of sacking the manager, because we know we're hopeless at appointing new ones. I mean, can any of us really stomach another embarrassing manager search courtesy of Lerner and Faulkner?

We're in a sorry mess and, until we find someone with a brain to sort it all out, it could get much sorrier.

 

[Mazrim]

If only we knew how weak we were at the start of January, then, if there was any sort of desire to do so, we could have done something about it...

We're shit, and we know we are. Hoping for three worse teams again and they're not currently all that obvious.

[PeterWithesShin]

Trivia question. Without cheating! When did we last win 10 home league games in a season?

[Legion]

When John Gregory took over?

[PeterWithesShin]

After that.

[paulcomben]

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

Yes. It is the certain knowledge of what a performance is going to yield, which we can all see yet the very highly paid staff cannot. Having just watched Liverpool hammer Arsenal by starting fast, I sorta hoped our shower would do the same, since they also must have been watching TVs. But right from minute one it was sideways sideways misplaced pass hoof, then they all fell asleep at half time.

[Chipsticks]

I was really disappointed with our support today, which was really dire. I know what was being served up didn't particularly warrant any excitement or applause but we were very quiet and eager to get on their backs, even during the first half when we were still at 0-0, which I thought wouldn't be so bad after the West Brom game.

Just a thought, but we really need to stop waiting for something to sing about, and instead give the team something to play for. There's more than just footballing reasons why teams love coming to Villa Park.

[Legion]

After that.

Houllier?

[Mister E]

Having been to the match, watched a nicely-developing England team demolish the Scots and camed down, I feel I can post now.
Firstly, the result was bad news. Clark and Baker - that well-known local comedy act - delivered on expectations.

The irony is that: Benteke could easily have had a second half hat-trick; Albie demonstrated again that he should have been in the starting line-up as a useful outlet; and, we once again showed how easily we can be beaten by a very limited opposition. The Spammers exploitation of their wingers in the first half was embarrassing in the extreme.

My concern with Lambert is that he does not seem to see the obvious weaknesses.

Westwood, Bertrand, Delph (in parts) and Albie looked good; several others were poor.

But in the end we spurned loads of opportunities to score; that's the bottom line.

[PeterWithesShin]

After that.

Houllier?

Before that.

[Legion]

SGTII?