Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithe]

Quite possibly the worst game of football I have ever seen. Both sides deserved to lose.

Indeed, utter garbage, if we cant beat Palace we deserve everything we get.

[David_Nab]

That was as piss poor as it gets.The team selection screamed draw and as it was we created nothing of note until they scored and we brought on Albrighton.

The fact he started KEA at RM over Albrighton is enough to give him his p45.

[Malandro]

Quite possibly the worst game of football I have ever seen. Both sides deserved to lose.

I thought they looked like Barca in the second half

[Ads]

No, Palace were utter shite. That is what makes it so bad.

[Eigentor]

I think we may have reached tipping point. In any sane world, this manager would have been sacked by now. The people running the club do not understand football, though, and this is the nub of the problem. They're like a couple of bus drivers in the cockpit of an Airbus A380. "Well, Paul, we haven't crashed yet, so we must be doing something right."

That's the scary part.

I think they find this acceptable. We need to stay up. I suspect their ambition doesn't really stretch very far past that these days.

I'm not saying that the board is perfect, but that they are not panicking and sacking the manager doesn't mean that they find this acceptable.

[Nelly]

Mentions of Sir Brian or Big Ron; we've fallen so far. At least when we went to Norwich needing a point to stay up we sort of knew as a club we'd bounce back sooner or later. These days we seem like a sort of corporate day out rather than a solid football club.

Lerner and Faulkner need to get a grip on this situation. If they smilingly allow Aston Villa to get relegated they shouldn't be allowed to step foot on the fucking pavement outside Villa Park, let alone be let anywhere near the running of the club.

[barrysleftfoot]

 His poor recruitment is starting to tell now.Nobody at the club who can beat a man and pick a player out, nobody who has a pass in them, no movement up front.Puncheon and Bolaise were the best 2 players on the pitch today, how much did they cost.

 My bugbear Westwood, was at his best today.He has a pass on him, but is far, far too negative.The only player really we have in midfield who can create, creates one chance against Palace.Not encouraged enough, not put under any competition, too comfortable.

[Stu]

I think we may have reached tipping point. In any sane world, this manager would have been sacked by now. The people running the club do not understand football, though, and this is the nub of the problem. They're like a couple of bus drivers in the cockpit of an Airbus A380. "Well, Paul, we haven't crashed yet, so we must be doing something right."

That's the scary part.

I think they find this acceptable. We need to stay up. I suspect their ambition doesn't really stretch very far past that these days.

I'm not saying that the board is perfect, but that they are not panicking and sacking the manager doesn't mean that they find this acceptable.

Not making a choice is still making a choice.

[caster troy]

Well I only saw the second half, but from what I saw we were atrocious. Gutless, clueless, pathetic.

Put Sid in charge and we may not win every game but at least we will try. If we stick with Lambert for Southampton we are guaranteed a tense atmosphere and as soon as they score the knives will come out big time.

I am praying he is gone by Monday lunchtime. We are on the brink and basically sleepwalking into the Championship at the moment. We need a change, something to galvanise the club. We can't change the players so there is only one option.

[Goldie.7]

No, Palace were utter shite. That is what makes it so bad.

No they looked decent enough to me and deserved to win.

[Billy Walker]

Get the orange dot out for the Southampton match, we need Villa Park to carry the side over the line.

[Malandro]

No, Palace were utter shite. That is what makes it so bad.

sorry I don't actually mean they were that good, we were that bad. We looked like Grantham Town

[TEEJAY]

To quote from Golden Gordon in Ripping Yarns 'Useless,useless bastards'.

[Ads]

Palace deserved nothing. Playing anybody else they would have been mullered, the awful long ball garbage.

Playing us, we offered nothing and weren't event competent to keep out their tedious one dimensional attack.

[Kevin Dawson]

I very rarely comment about performances, but that was a disgrace to the name of Aston Villa. Shocking selection and performance. I've stuck up for Lambert, but I just can't any more.