Cardiff City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[adrenachrome]

At least it was entertaining, unlike several matches at VP this season. Vlaar and Delph were very good. Some crunching tackles from the boy Baker to keep them honest.

The crowd reaction shot of the incredulous guy with the Litttle Richard hair when Gabby missed that sitter was solid gold, and I hope it appears on youtube.

"What the fuck was that?"

And Good Golly Miss Molly, he had a point. 


 

[Drummond]

I hate the Internet.

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

No shit Sherlock.

Perhaps I should have said that I hate what the Internet does to some people.

[pooligan]

Another of the so called easy winnable games gone ,it's getting scary

[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.   

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.

It is infuriating.  The best I can moot as an explanation is that it's the result of relative inexperience.  Not one of these players has any experience of being part of a settled and steady Premier League squad.  From the start of last season it's been a case of having to get up to speed and learn on the job, and consequently it's always, always been a struggle.  Such was the size of the rebuilding job there has never really been a spell in Lambert's tenure that we've not been in a battle.  We've rarely put together a long unbeaten run - let alone a run of wins - and I think we're seeing is what happens when a bunch of inexperienced players are constantly playing on the edge of their nerves.  When it clicks and we get it down and play, you can see the belief surge through the team; conversely, when things don't come off the whole team panics and quickly starts playing like a Carlton Palmer tribute XI. 

A heap more composure would make a huge difference, but that takes confidence - something that has been fragile for a long time now.  I wonder how much Lambert can really do about that; he can hardly talk them up any more in public, so at some point the players have to take some responsibility, relax, and play the game that they are capable of.  As I said, I wonder if he's as exasperated as me.   

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Another of the so called easy winnable games gone ,it's getting scary

I don't think many people on the pre-match thread saw this as an easy winnable game.  A fair few insisted we'd lose.

[rob_bridge]

Well we're 10th favorites to go down on Oddschecker at 12-1, we were 10's before the game.  The bookies are always right aren't they? Please say yes!

They are right. The average armchair bookie's pundit hasn't a clue how bad we are. They saw us v Arse, Cit-eh, Chelski and 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

[PeterWithesShin]

Well we're 10th favorites to go down on Oddschecker at 12-1, we were 10's before the game.  The bookies are always right aren't they? Please say yes!

They are right. The average armchair bookie's pundit hasn't a clue how bad we are. They saw us v Arse, Cit-eh, Chelski and 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

So none of them saw any of our other games?

[dave.woodhall]

Well we're 10th favorites to go down on Oddschecker at 12-1, we were 10's before the game.  The bookies are always right aren't they? Please say yes!

They are right. The average armchair bookie's pundit hasn't a clue how bad we are. They saw us v Arse, Cit-eh, Chelski and 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

And why should they know? After all, it's only their job.

[berneboy]

Cardiff are a dreadful team, not just generally but home and away v us they've been dreadful, there's no chance they'll finish above us imo. Fulham are too far behind imo so there's two teams and I'm sure one of the number below us won't catch us up, I'm thinking Norwich as long as they don't beat us as their last four league games are horrendous.

I think that's going to be the bottom three Norwich, Cardiff and Fulham.

I agree. Norwich look woeful. 1 win in 11. Three months since they scored more than 1 goal in a league game.

They'll sack thingy and get Malky Mackay and escape by one point

[hilts_coolerking]

Perhaps I should have said that I hate what the Internet does to some people.

Come on man, stop beating around the bush - say what's on your mind.

[KevinGage]

Plus points:

-Vast improvement on Saturday.

-incisive passing that opened up the opposition more than once.

So rare to see that from a Villa team.

Minus points:

-Cardiff were on a bad run, clearly poor and I reckon the vast majority of sides in the top flight would have cashed in on their shiteness in the second half.

They will most likely go down, have been hammered by some fairly average sides recently and we still couldn't beat them.

I don't wish to take away from our second half performance at all, but I still can't quite make out whether we were quite good in that period or whether Cardiff were truly dreadful. We have rarely had that amount of chances and possession against any side in the league all season, so I'd have to sway for the latter.

One thing I will say is that if we repeat that second half showing in more performances (particularly at home) between now and May, Lambert should have no concerns about holding on to his job.

[Matt C]

We need three more wins, maybe four out of the remaining 12 games.

Easy, right?

[SashasGrandad]

We need three more wins, maybe four out of the remaining 12 games.

Easy, right?

3 wins 3 draws should be enough. If we can't get at least that we don't deserve to stay up.

I bet we will play worse than we did tonight and win at least once more this season.

[dave.woodhall]

Another of the so called easy winnable games gone ,it's getting scary

An easy winnable game which the majority of our supporters thought we wouldn't win.

[Toronto Villa]

shit as this might be to admit but we need to win the 11 team Barclays PL Division 2. Currently lying in second place to a resurgent West Ham. Bottom 3 teams go down.