Aston Villa v Stoke City post match thread

[David_Nab]

Simply awful defending both Bacuna and Baker were pub players today.

[eric woolban woolban]

To a man, we were shit.

So Jekyll and Hyde.

[lovejoy]

Thickie Villa comes bounding back like a great big stupid dog in a supermarket, knocking over the baked beans and generally getting into a right old silly mess.

Classic post

[Deano's Mullet]

I'm starting to think that when we get results, it is despite Lambert as much as it is because of him.

NINE home league defeats already and still three home games left.

I just have no confidence at all in his ability to improve us so we play consistently well.

I understand that mid table teams are inconsistent, but really, how is it acceptable to lose nine times at home?

I honestly think we'd be best off just saying goodbye to him this summer.

right on.

[PeterWithesShin]

Staggeringly shit most of the game. Baffling after last week.   

[eastie]

I'm starting to think that when we get results, it is despite Lambert as much as it is because of him.

NINE home league defeats already and still three home games left.

I just have no confidence at all in his ability to improve us so we play consistently well.

I understand that mid table teams are inconsistent, but really, how is it acceptable to lose nine times at home?

I honestly think we'd be best off just saying goodbye to him this summer.

Yes, enough is enough.

[Steve kirk]

Such a strange team, unbelievably inconsistent which is why I for one rarely look up the table even when we win a couple of games, Stoke's first away win since August, ah well back to being fuckin miserable again.

[ChicagoLion]

I am in the "I can not believe what I am seeing camp". Sadly there have been just too many of these performances under this manager.

For so many players to play crap is truly astonishing.


Bacuna played like he had his laces tied together.

Baker was all over the place.

Gabby just awful, no brain no nothing.

Silla oh dear worse than Tonev on a bad day.

Grant Holt, what is the point?

No pride no passion no skill no idea.

[bilsim]

Hands up who DIDN'T see that coming? I'm guessing there can't be many.

[richard moore]

He's thick, I've said it so many times and I stand by it. Harsh but true....

[exigo]

At least when I play on the pitch in May, I can be sure it won't be the worst performance there this season.

[citizenDJ]

Well, it's difficult to argue now, I think, that the good results we have enjoyed are anything other than flukes; today is much more typical of Villa under Lambert.

Another (another!) woeful home performance against a pretty poor team who, due to our shambolic performance, looked like Champion's League winners. Stoke today looked like they were from a higher league, as have other teams who have come to Villa Park this year.

It's crap, and I have seen nothing to suggest that Lambert really knows what he is doing.

[pauliewalnuts]

Our problem is that every now and then we will get a good result - sometimes two but usually just the one - and we will then follow up with a sequence of truly awful performances.

It isn't just inconsistency, it is veering from one extreme to another. It's great that he gets such good results against the top four, but the vast majority of teams are not in the top four. What about those matches?

I honestly expect this summer we will have the addition of three or four players of the same mediocre quality, and more or less the same shitty season we've had this season and last.

Except we won't have Benteke, of course.

[Archie]

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.

This.
We do not have a gameplan.
It seems that the two last wins had come by chance.
I have wanted PL when he was at Norwich, and I would never expect that he would bring me to hate football.
We are lucky enough to have just gained as many points as we need  to gain the safety.
This is not my Villa, the mighty and proud Aston Villa.

[Jon Crofts]

Out of the woods?  I think not, this team is capable of not getting another point before May, I haven't changed my opinion on Lambert either, still think we'd be better off without him.
There were some woeful performances out there today, Vlaar was the worst I've seen in a long while, Baker, Bacuna, KEA, all poor and as for Sylla, Christ on a bike that lad is championship at best.

After 2 great wins at home, what on earth went on in the last 7 days is what I'd like to know?  Does Culverhouse train it all out of them?