Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Dave]

Well, that was rather horrendous.

[achilles]

Fed up saying the same old things, unfortunately only other teams will keep us up as Villa have absolutely no fight left in them, lambs to the slaughter, Lambert is utterly pathetic!

[levico]

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.

I am beginning to get the impression that's exactly what they are going to do - almost by design but I can't figure out why.

[paulcomben]

http://twitter.com/MaddisonGR/status/455033490686234624/photo/1 Great Twitter pic showing Lambert's tactics board.

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Re: Stoke City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread
« Reply #78 on: December 21, 2013, 05:12:38 PM »
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After suffering that shite again , if anyone thinks that we are not bang in trouble  , then wake up.

Clueless manager - way worse than mcleish - yes - honestly .

If randy or Faulkner have got any idea on football then they need to get rid - we are sleepwalking toward the trap door .

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Called it months ago.

[brian green]

I am sorry but what is happening now comes as no surprise to me.   To a number of us Lambert's inactivity in the January window, whether from trying to obey his masters or failing to demand more from them, resulted in us going into the second half of the season with massive inadequacies in the team.   My own gut feeling is that he thought he could reproduce the late surge of last season and winged it.   It was a policy asking for trouble and trouble is what we have got.
As I posted in February it is not as though we were trying to find like for like for players like Barry, Milner, Young or Downing, it was a bit more quality than what we have and a bit more football savvy.   We got Grant Holt on loan.
I think Paul Lambert is every bit as poor a manager as Alex McLeish.   He promised to be considerably better but never delivered.   He is not even a shadow of the manager he was at Norwich or Colchester.

[kippaxvilla2]

To the manager and the owner.

You have gambled this clubs Premier League status by allowing experienced international players to leave the club and replacing them with utterly inexperienced and largely unknown 'talent'.

Worse still you have allowed us to be dumped out of competitive cup competitions (our only chance of silverware) in order to preserve our Premier League place which tonight hangs by a thread.

Lambert you spoke of a three year plan and advised us all to be patient and watch this young and hungry batch of players grow. 

Whilst we have shown this immeasurable amount of patience you have presided over record breaking defeats, record breaking numbers of home defeats, humiliating semi final cup exits at the hands of 4th Division opposition in this case unforgivably over two legs, early cup exits against other lower league opposition, one of whom is enjoying a Wembley appearance this weekend.  All this in the name of 'steady progress'.  You even steadfastly refused to consider a recall of a proven England International striker that you unceremoniously dumped when you learned that your one success (Christian Benteke) would be out for the rest of the season.

Given that we are almost certain to end this season on a worse points total than last season and are poised to finish closer to relegation than ever (with the possible exception of one other Premier League season) you must accept by any measure this project has failed spectacularly.  We are now in a worse position than when you started with not a lot of genuine hope for the medium term.

When faced with the stark facts in front of you then you must accept your time at the club is now at an end and you must do the decent thing and go now.

[Stu]

It's fair to say the fans have turned I think, the next home game could be very ugly.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Didn't sound too bad on the feed i had tbh.

[Dave Clark Five]

Abject - very little fight today apart from the Villa fan who was escorted off by 5 stewards.

It all started going wrong when some of our support were singing during the Hillsborough silence.

Yes. They were total arseholes and that is the trouble when we take the full allocation.

[Toronto Villa]

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!!!!

the dark moon of despair has eclipsed the once mighty orange dot and plummeted us into eternal darkness

[villasjf]

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

It didnt help today.

[supertom]

I'd like to see us mix things up a bit in the next few games. Give games to a few of the outsiders in the team like Tonev, Helenius and a few of our youngens like Johnson, Robinson and Gardner.
We should never play 5 at the back again either. Having both Clark and Baker in the side just doubles your chances of a cock up. Stick with 4 at the back, as it's scoring goals we're struggling more with.

Gabby should be dropped. Holt should not start games.

Weimann's had most of a games rest, and I'd like to see him playing right up top with perhaps Helenius dropped off him.

We've got to change something round.

[Ron Manager]

Where's Villa Kicks. I need cheering up!

[supertom]

Where's Villa Kicks. I need cheering up!

He'd have picked a better side today than Lambert did to be fair to the lad.

And yes, that zany fella and his bizarre posts are missed at the moment.