Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[andyh]

From about minute 20, through to about minute 89, we were totally and utterly abysmal.
For that whole period we barely looked like a football team, but like a bunch of blokes making the numbers up.

[nick harper]

11/1 to go from 33/1 this morning.

Someone please reassure me we can find 3 points from the last 5 games.

[Tuscans]

It's like Lambert and his staff have coached the football out of them. What ability they had looked more promising last season than it ever has this.

He has assembled a bloody terrible football team that looks inept in everything it does. I really haven't seen such a piss poor midfield in all my life...sidewards, backwards, back a bit more, to the keeper, BANG...lost it.

We need an owner who want's and strives for this club to achieve greatness and a manager with coaching staff who are not still set in 1970's football.

[Billy Walker]

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.

The only thing that is going to galvanise us in the immediate short term is the fans.  When the players take the pitch v Southampton they need to know they can step on the pitch without fear and with total backing for ninety-plus minutes.  If we do that I'm confident of three more points.

[Ads]

I cannot think of how we set up to score a goal. I have no clue how we were supposed to have scored today.

[Legion]

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

Didn't exactly work very well this afternoon.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I cannot think of how we set up to score a goal. I have no clue how we were supposed to have scored today.

You're Paul Lambert and I claim my Saturday afternoons back.

[PeterWithesShin]

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

Didn't exactly work very well this afternoon.

I've given up in believing in the dot. It rarely works anymore. Orange Dot out!!!!

[citizenDJ]

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

Didn't exactly work very well this afternoon.

I've given up in believing in the dot. It rarely works anymore. Orange Dot out!!!!

Truly, these are dark times.

[Legion]

Admiral's pie back in.

[Dio1874]

Piss poor all over the field, worst I've seen delph play, his passing was awful.
After nearly 2 seasons I'm still not sure weather Lambert hasn't got a clue or the current squad
are just so shockingly bad that they can't play the way he wants them to.
Trouble is, think it's the worse case scenario where it's a combination of both.
Next chance of any points will be at Eastlands ha ha UTV

[mr underhill]

I think we've picked up 15 points in 19 games which is indefensible. however I think one more point may see us safe as plucky though they were today, Norwich's run in is truly horrific

[Villain1874]

We are in such a mess at Villa Park...
We have an owner who has simply given up and is just going through the motions and it's bringing our club to its knees..
We have a manager that is pretty much useless in every department within the confines of his job..
We have a team full of championship and lower league players...
I'm not buying a season ticket next year as it stands, there is no point and I could really spend that money on something more enjoyable and better value for money (might buy a PS4 with FIFA 14 and the new F1 game and then I can pretend I got Sky Sports haha)..
I love Aston Villa but I can't support Lerner anymore, he has to go...

[Ron Manager]

What most of us expected we got. Lambert will not be sacked immediately, we might just stay up, but between May to July I think there will be major changes all round at Villa Park.

[supertom]

Palace aren't a very good side but they're very well drilled in what they do. I think Pulis was happy to let us have the ball and try and make something happen, knowing it's not our strong suit. I think with Pulis he'd have been content enough getting a point. He didn't set his side out for an all out attack. He played it patient, knowing that if they sat deep and invite us to try and dictate things, we'd fall short.
We played right into Palace's hands. They set up, possibly much the same way as McLeish often set us up, to soak up any pressure and try and nick a goal. We had no answer to that and we never threatened. The onus was on us to break them down and of course, without the ability to play quickly on the counter, we had nothing going for us.
Lambert altered things too late as per usual, and as per usual made the wrong decisions. Grant Holt was awful and he looked dead on his feet after about 20 minutes. He should never have lasted the full 90. It even seemed like he was pretty keen to go off as well. He seemed to have a touch of cramp at one point. When he had one half chance, his legs had well gone by that point.