Aston Villa vs Stoke Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

has holt touched it yet

[villa_cads]

least marc gives it a go

He's the only one who looks like he cares. What a awful performance this has been today.

[eastie]

No class or guile going forward whatsoever

No class at the back either - shocking display .

[Tuscans]

No class or guile going forward whatsoever

No class at the back either - shocking display .

Just no class and guile then.

[Summers]

So clueless.

[Deano's Mullet]

Saunders and Phillips in Sky Studios show more passion. Benteke is a danger but when its going wrong hes more petulant than Savo.

[Monty]

We just don't have any really foundations to how we play. When we play well it all seems precarious, based on instinct and timing and touch and the players having confidence, not all of which have nothing to do with Lambert. However, when things go wrong it all flails and falls apart, and the players get the ball with no idea what might be done with it. That is Lambert's fault.

[Toronto Villa]

So where are these two wins gonna come from?
Old Trafford next week - oh dear !!!

thing is we are so unpredictable you just never know. Very few people gave us a prayer last week against a far better team than Man U. Yet this week we've seemingly shit the bed against yet another mid table side. I suppose you could argue Man U are a mid table side. Point is, that we mix in good and shit in equal measure and without the first clue which game will be which.

I kind of agree but then again this is our ninth league loss at home.

That is consistently poor, so that bit is relatively predictable

just after two good wins we've gone back to being bollocks. Predictable that we have done that on the back of two unpredictably good wins.

[ez]

Stoke are not having to do much in this second half.

[VinnieChase84]

Out worst home record ever!? Think we've just broken it, wasn't it 8 losses at home that was the worst?

[eastie]

The prospect of lambert getting a new 3 year contract fills me with depression .

[richard moore]

We just don't have any really foundations to how we play. When we play well it all seems precarious, based on instinct and timing and touch and the players having confidence, not all of which have nothing to do with Lambert. However, when things go wrong it all flails and falls apart, and the players get the ball with no idea what might be done with it. That is Lambert's fault.

You also get what you pay for by and large. You pay circa £2-3 million for players, this is what you get and, even more depressingly, why they are the only sorts of players we seem to attract these days

[Deano's Mullet]

ha! that would have summed it all up, icing on the cake.

[JUAN PABLO]

 - we need so many players better than these -

awful

[pauliewalnuts]

I am wondering whether I've got it wrong in terms of who to blame and this is more the fault of the manager than the players