Cardiff City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Meanwood Villa]

We will stay up. But we will still lose more than we win before the end of the season.

[pauliewalnuts]

I hate the Internet.

Turn it off, then. It's not going to go away.

[BC54 VFC]

Not that the first half was boring, but I was reduced to wondering when was the last time that 70% of our starting outfield players had surnames beginning with the first two letters of the alphabet.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

We go from shit to pretty good within the blink of an eye.

We really do.  I've seen some appalling Villa sides in my lifetime and some terrific ones, but I can't ever remember such a schizophrenic one.  We can be brilliant, inspired, scintillating, kamikaze, ridiculous, insipid and pathetic, and quite often manage the whole lot in the same game.  It's truly baffling.  I genuinely wonder if Lambert is as baffled as me; surely it's beyond any human being to plan such erratic form.   

[SoccerHQ]

Missed the first half...surprised to read that Cardiff were dominant and we barely threatened as from the 50th minute onwards we completely dominated and should've won. Opportunity missed.

Cardiff are probably the worst team I've seen this season, certainly at VP they were. No chance they'll finish above us and think they're heading straight back down.

Marshall, top keeper. Fair play.

[pauliewalnuts]

Marshall, top keeper. Fair play.

Turner for them was excellent, too.

[olaftab]

I think we've certainly gone backwards. Last season was awful, only saved by a decent run at the end. What happens if we don't replicate that during this run in?

We don't need to to do that this season. Remember position is the important thing. At this stage last season we were in and out of bottom 3. Now there are 7 teams below us who need to do a West Ham and for us to keep playing as  badly as we have been to take us into the bottom 3. That is not going to happen. Having  said that it is absolutely unacceptable that we are where we are.

[SoccerHQ]

Yeah he was, a nose aswell who's also play for Coventry so no surprised he was extra motivated for this one.

[dave.woodhall]

We go from shit to pretty good within the blink of an eye.

We really do.  I've seen some appalling Villa sides in my lifetime and some terrific ones, but I can't ever remember such a schizophrenic one.  We can be brilliant, inspired, scintillating, kamikaze, ridiculous, insipid and pathetic, and quite often manage the whole lot in the same game.  It's truly baffling.  I genuinely wonder if Lambert is as baffled as me; surely it's beyond any human being to plan such erratic form.   

And this is what bloody well annoys me the most. I could handle being consistently shite - it's happened plenty of times before. But the glimpses that there's a team in there are what is driving me insane.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think we've certainly gone backwards. Last season was awful, only saved by a decent run at the end. What happens if we don't replicate that during this run in?

We don't need to to do that this season. Remember position is the important thing. At this stage last season we were in and out of bottom 3. Now there are 7 teams below us who need to do a West Ham and for us to keep playing as  badly as we have been to take us into the bottom 3. That is not going to happen. Having  said that it is absolutely unacceptable that we are where we are.

You say "do a West Ham" as if it's something remarkable, when actually, it means "win two games".

This time last year, 18th position was 23 points, 11th was 30.

Now, 18th is 24 points, 11th is 28, as it stands, and 5 of the teams below us currently are playing tomorrow.

I am not saying by any means that we are doomed to relegation, just that the arguments that "it's not going to happen" when there is this much of the season left, are somewhat over-confident.

[Chris Smith]

Marshall, top keeper. Fair play.

Turner for them was excellent, too.

Agree with both of you, when their keeper and centre half are their most important performers it tells you a lot about the game. Once we got the measure of Zaha I thought we dominated but a combination of our finishing and decision making plus the two mentioned above denied us the win our efforts deserved.

[JUAN PABLO]

two wins in 12 games is it ?   that cant carry on , I know that .

[saunders_heroes]

I still think Weimann should have buried that chance at the end. Good save though it was, it was at a good height for him. Weimann should have smashed it in low. Bad miss for me.

[PeterWithesShin]

I think we've certainly gone backwards. Last season was awful, only saved by a decent run at the end. What happens if we don't replicate that during this run in?

We don't need to to do that this season. Remember position is the important thing. At this stage last season we were in and out of bottom 3. Now there are 7 teams below us who need to do a West Ham and for us to keep playing as  badly as we have been to take us into the bottom 3. That is not going to happen. Having  said that it is absolutely unacceptable that we are where we are.

You say "do a West Ham" as if it's something remarkable, when actually, it means "win two games".

This time last year, 18th position was 23 points, 11th was 30.

Now, 18th is 24 points, 11th is 28, as it stands, and 5 of the teams below us currently are playing tomorrow.

I am not saying by any means that we are doomed to relegation, just that the arguments that "it's not going to happen" when there is this much of the season left, are somewhat over-confident.

West Ham have won 3 in a row. Plus a draw at Chavski. So 10 points out of 12. Without conceding a goal. How many of the clubs below us are going to manage that?

For a side that had won 2 out of 15 league games before Chavski, including 9 defeats, i'd say that was remarkable.

[SoccerHQ]

I fancy us to get something at Newcastle as they're a bit depressed without Cabaye. Won't be more than a draw unless we show more composure infront of goal as can't see us keeping a clean sheet up there.

What I don't like is that increasingly Norwich at home is looking a must win to me...the words "must win" and "home game" don't generally go together as after that we have the two Manchester clubs and Chelsea all within three weeks so we certainly need a win from one of the next two at least to be comfortable.