Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

What was the applause for in 17th minute? We arrived smack on kick off so if there was an announcement we missed it. Joined in tho.

Two Newcastle fans died on 17th July on the MH17 air crash, and yes it was universally respected

Is it me, or is this applause thing getting a bit OTT.

Terrible circumstances in which to die, but applause for the rest of The season?

Are we supposed to do this for every supporter that dies?

Respect is respect and it cost you 1 min of your time and it means a lot to them...hold your head in shame

So you'll clap for a minute every time a football fan dies?

If its in such Terrible circumstances .....yes

Old age doesn't count then? Or cancer? Or any such other illness that has caused death?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I didn't watch the match, but, after reading the reports and comments on here, I'm thankful of not renewing my ST as it still sounds the same as usual.

Is it wrong I wasn't really fussed about watching it?

Pleased for you. Well done.

Such a witty retort for a genuine question. I'm pleased for you. Well done.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Cant we have a thread about people who were there and watched it or watched it via any other media. I'm sick of reading about those who don't go anymore, those who couldn't be bothered to watch it.. I'll happily clap for a minute if those poster's, don't bore me every post match thread.

Yeah, let's have a genuine fans support thread.

[N'ZMAV]

I watched it.

The defence was excellent
the midfield was average
the forwards (Gabby and Weimann) were fucking awful

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I watched it.

The defence was excellent
the midfield was average
the forwards (Gabby and Weimann) were fucking awful

An improvement them. I'm currently debating whether to go next week, positive comments help!

[HK Villan]

What was the applause for in 17th minute? We arrived smack on kick off so if there was an announcement we missed it. Joined in tho.

Two Newcastle fans died on 17th July on the MH17 air crash, and yes it was universally respected

Is it me, or is this applause thing getting a bit OTT.

Terrible circumstances in which to die, but applause for the rest of The season?

Are we supposed to do this for every supporter that dies?

Respect is respect and it cost you 1 min of your time and it means a lot to them...hold your head in shame

So you'll clap for a minute every time a football fan dies?

If its in such Terrible circumstances .....yes

Old age doesn't count then? Or cancer? Or any such other illness that has caused death?

In my opinion, no. These 2 guys were specifically traveling to the other side of the world to see NUFC play... hence why their supporters quite reasonably want to remember them at NUFC football games.   It won't go on for ever.  If you don't want to applaud then don't.

[AV82EC]

I watched it.

The defence was excellent
the midfield was average
the forwards (Gabby and Weimann) were fucking awful

Watched online, good summary.

[Gareth]

We could have been 10-0 down and it would still have been shameful. We sank to their level that night and Dion's part in it was the worst.

100% agree, Dion was a coward not a hero that night! 

As for the game, thought we were solid.  Look forward to when Sanchez settles in, hopefully will mean the rest of the midfield can play a few yards further up the pitch and as such liven us up as an attacking force.

Gabby, I've felt for a couple of years that we set up to accommodate him rather than him contributing.  Because of the nature of Benteke's injury I would love Lambert to get a striker on loan who is a) capable of winning the occasional header and b) capable of controlling & holding a ball up.  Gabby & Weimman continually fail to produce consistently and it is time to freshen it up...

Hope Cissokho is not badly hurt, we need that first choice back four available

[damon loves JT]

Having met and spoken to the family of one of the Newcastle lads who died, I can assure you that the applause will mean a great deal to them. They're an ordinary working class family and the support shown by football supporters is about the only thing helping them to make sense of what happened.

[Monty]

Having met and spoken to the family of one of the Newcastle lads who died, I can assure you that the applause will mean a great deal to them. They're an ordinary working class family and the support shown by football supporters is about the only thing helping them to make sense of what happened.

This is what clubs are for, in my opinion. If the arbitrary cheering-on of one set of colours against all the others is going to manifest in anything positive, then it's in things like this.

[silhillvilla]

Defence - very good
Midfield - average
Attack - woeful
Subs - questionable
Attendance - low
MOTD - last ?

[andyh]

Again!

[clash city rocker]

Well 4 points from first 2 matches mean there are a lot more positives than negatives..We aren't going to avoid becoming perennial relegation battlers overnight but the signs are encouraging so far.

[UK Redsox]

We were terrible going forward no imagination no craft, Weimann should be benched, well played Delph the only player with any idea.

Delph was the best player today by a mile, shame others like Gabby do nothing week in week out and still get picked.

Gabby is pretty awful these days. One of the main reasons that Villa had no shots on goal was because he and Andi were normally nowhere near the goal.

There were plenty of decent crosses but no Villa players got anywhere near them. Bent should start and just be told to hang around in the goalmouth.

[Louzie0]

Pleased with the beginning to the season for Villa and also today, with the wholehearted response to the memorial for the Newcastle fans on the plane that was disgracefully shot down by a bunch of selfish introspectively political chancers in charge of equipment they should never have been allowed anywhere near, in any universally humanistic or democratic universe. B*s*ds.