Stoke City vs Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Chipsticks]

Waking up with a massive a Villa hard-on. Looking forward to a season ramming shit down the throats of tosspot teams like Sturk, Southampton and Leicester that aren't fucking fit to play at Villa Park let alone purport to compete with us.

Me and you the same, hoping we control the game against the Geordies on Saturday and give them a bit of a battering. Hate that lot.

[Monty]

We mustn't get carried away. Just because we won it doesn't mean we played particularly sophisticated football, or attacked cohesively, or any of that. We won a bit Greekly - very good defence, go for the counters, got a bit of luck and used it well. We deserved the win, and it all looks much more agreeable than it did at 2.59pm yesterday, but let's not pretend everything's sorted just because one or two things are.

[silhillvilla]

The issue we still have is how do we take a game to a team such as Newcastle at home. I'm still not sure we are equipped to do that.

[Dlp]

Waking up with a massive a Villa hard-on. Looking forward to a season ramming shit down the throats of tosspot teams like Sturk, Southampton and Leicester that aren't fucking fit to play at Villa Park let alone purport to compete with us.

Up the fucking Villa.

Reality check! Remember the first game last season, it all went tits up after then. Hopefully this season will be better, time will tell.

[Chris Smith]

We were strong in defence and used that as a base to break in numbers which had them struggling to reorganise quickly enough. For a first game of the season it could hardly of gone any better. When you consider the people who weren't involved it makes you think we should cope with injuries far better this season.

The new signings all looked decent, Senderos really surprised me but the test will be against strikers with a bit more movement. Hutton actually looked the player enticed to Spurs from Rangers all those years ago, not the kick anything that moves bloke from when he last played for us.

It looks as though the events of the last few months with the coaching staff and Lerner's planned sale plus the loss of the chief exec have galvanised the club. No more bomb squad, a few older heads to help the youngsters and a refreshed coaching setup.

I know it is (very) early days so I am not getting carried away but we have set ourselves a benchmark for a level of performance that we have to maintain.

[olaftab]

Waking up with a massive a Villa hard-on.

Me and you the same, hoping we control the game against the Geordies on Saturday and give them a bit of a battering. Hate that lot.

In that case good job that you two were not sharing a bed!

[Clampy]

While we wasn't great overall, we defended really well and if we'd have been better in front of goal, we could have gone in a couple of goals up at half time. I was really impressed with Cissohko. Also for a change, Stoke wasn't cold.

[martyn ellis]

How much of that performance yesterday - good shape, some feisty challenges, fighting to get the ball back when we lost it - was down to the impact made by a certain Mr Keane? Quite a lot I reckon.

[Monty]

We were strong in defence and used that as a base to break in numbers which had them struggling to reorganise quickly enough. For a first game of the season it could hardly of gone any better. When you consider the people who weren't involved it makes you think we should cope with injuries far better this season.

The new signings all looked decent, Senderos really surprised me but the test will be against strikers with a bit more movement. Hutton actually looked the player enticed to Spurs from Rangers all those years ago, not the kick anything that moves bloke from when he last played for us.

It looks as though the events of the last few months with the coaching staff and Lerner's planned sale plus the loss of the chief exec have galvanised the club. No more bomb squad, a few older heads to help the youngsters and a refreshed coaching setup.

I know it is (very) early days so I am not getting carried away but we have set ourselves a benchmark for a level of performance that we have to maintain.

I wonder if Hutton playing well today was physical proof of how much better Lambert, for all his faults, is better than McLeish.

[olaftab]

We could have easily lost the game yesterday and that we didn't deserve. So it was good to show some backbone and come out of a tough one with 3 points. Let's pocket those and move on to Newcastle. Last seasons win at Arsenal was different as it was on the back of a very good finish in the previous season so we did get carried away. There is no chance of that after the miserable end we has last season. So feet to the ground and let's look for little improvements till Benteke and Kozak are back on and then we can kick on. UTV.

[olaftab]

I wonder if Hutton playing well today was physical proof of how much better Lambert, for all his faults, is better than McLeish.

Maybe but I would like reserve my judgement till around Xmas.

[LeeB]

Waking up with a massive a Villa hard-on. Looking forward to a season ramming shit down the throats of tosspot teams like Sturk, Southampton and Leicester that aren't fucking fit to play at Villa Park let alone purport to compete with us.

Up the fucking Villa.

Reality check! Remember the first game last season, it all went tits up after then. Hopefully this season will be better, time will tell.

I'd say the reality was we were fine till March when Benteke got injured. We're stronger this time.

[john e]

How much of that performance yesterday - good shape, some feisty challenges, fighting to get the ball back when we lost it - was down to the impact made by a certain Mr Keane? Quite a lot I reckon.

If we had of lost it would have been all Lamberts fault though

[London Villan]

Lambert has addressed some of his biggest issues from last year, experienced players in the back four and using the resources he has. Good start.

[john e]

I wonder if Hutton playing well today was physical proof of how much better Lambert, for all his faults, is better than McLeish.

Maybe but I would like reserve my judgement till around Xmas.

The thing with reserving your judgement is that in December we will know if he's any good or not,
it won't be an early call on his new found ability it will be more a statement of fact

I think he's rubbish,
but he's doing good at the moment so my judgement might well prove to be wrong,
 if you reserve your judgement on every player until we know for sure what they are capable of you will never be wrong, or right for that matter