Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[bertlambshank]

I met som eone today who had made a 12,000 mile round trip. Beat that.

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The club could do a great half time competition,guess the block Paul Lambert thinks Randy is sitting in.
1st prize a season ticket for next season.
2nd prize Austin Maestro GL.

[Villafirst]

Lerner needs to get a proper football brain in at board level. Normally, any Manager with a record of 8 home defeats from 13 matches (only 11 points from 39)  would've been sacked by now. Stupid, stupid January transfer window with no real investment in the squad. For the sake of maybe £10M on 2 decent signings, Lerner is content to risk halving the value of his main asset - brainless, idiotic logic - economics of a man who is totally out of touch!!

[adrenachrome]

I met som eone today who had made a 12,000 mile round trip. Beat that.

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The club could do a great half time competition,guess the block Paul Lambert thinks Randy is sitting in.
1st prize a season ticket for next season.
2nd prize Austin Maestro GL.

I am fairly sure Simon Callow disnae gae ta tha fitba.

[JUAN PABLO]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

We were dreadful and got what we deserved- take off your blinkers!

No we were not and I was at Villa Park and not wearing blinkers. I am sorry it's my fault as   I could have been watching a poor stream and joined the armchair brigade in  condemnation.

what a silly post .   

[Dave Clark Five]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

We were dreadful and got what we deserved- take off your blinkers!

No we were not and I was at Villa Park and not wearing blinkers. I am sorry it's my fault as   I could have been watching a poor stream and joined the armchair brigade in  condemnation.

what a silly post .   

Sometimes you need to be at the game to get the vibe.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I met som eone today who had made a 12,000 mile round trip. Beat that.

If it was Randy did you tell him about Fucking time

[Goldie.7]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

We were dreadful and got what we deserved- take off your blinkers!

No we were not and I was at Villa Park and not wearing blinkers. I am sorry it's my fault as   I could have been watching a poor stream and joined the armchair brigade in condemnation.

what a silly post .   

We were absolutely dire. We didn't have a shot on target till just under an hour of football?

I saw excellent seats going for £10 and still wasn't tempted. I was warm and toasty on my armchair this afternoon thanks. My stream was excellent, top quality. I'll go when i cba that's the perks of not being a ST holder.

[Pat McMahon]

I met som eone today who had made a 12,000 mile round trip. Beat that.

If it was Randy he needs a new chauffeur, as it should only be a 6,000 - 7,000 mile round trip from New York. His driver is taking the piss on the mileage allowance.

[Goldie.7]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

We were dreadful and got what we deserved- take off your blinkers!

No we were not and I was at Villa Park and not wearing blinkers. I am sorry it's my fault as   I could have been watching a poor stream and joined the armchair brigade in  condemnation.

what a silly post .   

Sometimes you need to be at the game to get the vibe.

Six games i've been to this season and we haven't won any of them. Those vibes ey, although there's nothing better than being at the match regardless of the result.

[baddowvillans]

I've read through most of the posts here with the immediate post match ones showing the inevitable frustrations and the later ones more considered.

Me I still feel strangely numbed.  I was at the game today and can't understand the views including lamberts that we were "fine" in the first half. To me we created nothing and were vert fortunate to go in level. But I took heart that we hadn't conceded and felt sure we would come out fired up for the second half. How wrong I was.  Wet Spam looked like the home team for the first half and till they were 2-0 up. We didn't start to try playing till then.

I recognise the limited budget and quality of the players but they are all Lamberts choice. If he can't motivate them - and clearly he can't - until we are two down there is
Little hope.  The weaknesses are recognised by all on here why not lambert? 

I can see ST sales massively down in  starting with mine. I don't mind the long journey and recognise that outside the top six which we now demonstrably are we have zero chance of glory but I expect effort, passion and an attempt to play football. Strangely PL sees this every home game but I rarely do. Maybe I'm in the wrong seats?

I do think there are 3 worse teams but I can't take much more

[eric woolban woolban]

10/1 to go down with will hill this morning.

We're the outsiders in a eleven horse race.

Not sure how though.

[Mister E]

I've read through most of the posts here with the immediate post match ones showing the inevitable frustrations and the later ones more considered.

Me I still feel strangely numbed.  I was at the game today and can't understand the views including lamberts that we were "fine" in the first half. To me we created nothing and were vert fortunate to go in level. But I took heart that we hadn't conceded and felt sure we would come out fired up for the second half. How wrong I was.  Wet Spam looked like the home team for the first half and till they were 2-0 up. We didn't start to try playing till then.

I recognise the limited budget and quality of the players but they are all Lamberts choice. If he can't motivate them - and clearly he can't - until we are two down there is
Little hope.  The weaknesses are recognised by all on here why not lambert? 

I can see ST sales massively down in  starting with mine. I don't mind the long journey and recognise that outside the top six which we now demonstrably are we have zero chance of glory but I expect effort, passion and an attempt to play football. Strangely PL sees this every home game but I rarely do. Maybe I'm in the wrong seats?

I do think there are 3 worse teams but I can't take much more

well, I posted earlier that I thought we were toothless in the first half but in the second the Beast should have had a hat trick. Through the game, we did only have one shot on target, but we had 10 off, of which two strikes were on the woodwork. We also had over 60% possession.
The frustration for me was that in the first half, if Weimann and Gabby had run the channels a little more, and got wide more often, we'd have had more chance to really open up the flaky Hammers defence. Instead, we were horribly static upfront and I really didn't get what Weimann's brief was.

We were poor, but we could and should have won that game with something to spare.

[SteveN]

10/1 to go down with will hill this morning.

We're the outsiders in a eleven horse race.

Not sure how though.

16-1 last week you wonder what we might be if we lose at Cardiff.  Fulham, Sunderland and I'm hoping a win for us at Cardiff makes them the third worse team than us.

[AVFCRob]

P.s. I'm getting reay fucked off with us bringing every player back to defend corners. Leave Gabby up and at least two players have to stay back to mark him.

Chelsea have 2 or 3 players near the halfway line which means that 3/4 opposition players have to stay back. But hey, Mourinho's tactics or Paul Lambert's? It's tricky, no?

[AVFCRob]

The board are that dumb they will give him a new contract, a payrise and then end up sacking him and paying  millions in compensation 6 months later

Gabby is an extremely limited footballer. Without his pace he has little else. His value is predominantly most effective away from home when teams have to attack us leaving space for him to exploit. His movement is awful at home, he doesn't have the nous to move into space or make runs.

In 2 or 3 years time when his pace dwindles he will be struggling to get a game in the top 2 divisions.