Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[joe_c]

Players just need to add goals. :-)

 

That's a pretty big "just", though.

Like saying "they're a good band, they just need to add tunes."

You can't pass, you can't shoot, you look awful...

[pauliewalnuts]

Stoke are an intreresting example. Mark Hughes has had less to spend than Lambert yet has come up with Diouf, Bojan and Arnautovic for about 3m which creates a forward line of pace, power and creativity when it's on song.

As much as it would've been seen as negative at the time, Hughes to us in 2011 would've probably been a good move as he's shown frequently he can build decent competitive premier league teams for virtually peanuts.

Fulham and QPR competitive?  Man City team for peanuts! (and QPR).  He broke the British transfer record at Man City!

He is one of those managers who seems to do well on a small to medium budget, and fucks it up if he has to go large. Brendan Rogers is the latest in a long line of these chaps.

My theory is that the PL financial bonanza came relatively late in the scheme of things and so managers/coaches from leagues that had mega millionaire players before the Preemyership TV megadeals  kicked in had a head start.   
 

Steve Bruce is the big one for me. The more money he spends, the worse his teams get. That happened at SHA and Hull are getting poorer results than last year despite seemingly having a better squad.

My brother in law is a Hull fan

On boxing day we watched them beat Sunderland. He was saying that, in his opinion, this current side is worse than that of the final days of Phil Brown, expensive signings contributing next to nothing.

He also mentioned the fact that they have a megalomaniac owner who can't handle people disagreeing with him and casts a shadow of general nervousness over the club.

I think they'll go down this year.

[SoccerHQ]

His daughter has told me off on Facebook for not being in favour of a minute's silence. Oops.

Think it's better to keep quiet tbh, she is grieving after all.

R.I.P to him anyway, not a great game to go out on to say the least.

Edit; Just seen your other post Richard, thought you'd personally commented on her FB but seems not.

[Legion]

His daughter has told me off on Facebook for not being in favour of a minute's silence. Oops.

Think it's better to keep quiet tbh, she is grieving after all.

R.I.P to him anyway, not a great game to go out on to say the least.

Edit; Just seen your other post Richard, thought you'd personally commented on her FB but seems not.

It was on our FB Page.

[silhillvilla]

Emotions will be running high after such a death. When one of my family died last year the club were brilliant putting a lovely note in the programme and we are going to get a cobblestone done outside the Trinity as a final memento and something we can look at from time to time.

[Richard E]

I think that the way we do it now, with a mention in the programme and then the scoreboard thing at the end of the season for everyone we've lost that year is spot on. Once you start having minute's silences for individual supporters you will end up really upsetting someone when their loved one isn't honoured in that way. I don't expect her to see it that way, of course, she's 16 and she's just watched her dad pass away in front of her eyes. But the club has to see the bigger picture.

[olaftab]

Really feel for the young lady. Terrible trauma of seeing your father pass away in front of you is bad enough but just now she has no idea about the magnitude of this loss. This is going to keep coming back to her. I hope she finds comfort within her family and friends.

[brian green]

I feel for the girl.   My heart breaks for her. The human condition requires us to suffer these things.   I wrote a piece for the mag about the Villa fan who died under our feet in the park as we went home from that awful defeat by Small Heath.   He gasped his last dying breaths half buried in litter and rubbish surrounded by strangers doing the best we could to comfort him.   Life is a bastard and so is death.   Poor girl.
The club will do the right thing by him you can be sure.

[SoccerHQ]

I feel for the girl.   My heart breaks for her. The human condition requires us to suffer these things.   I wrote a piece for the mag about the Villa fan who died under our feet in the park as we went home from that awful defeat by Small Heath.   He gasped his last dying breaths half buried in litter and rubbish surrounded by strangers doing the best we could to comfort him.   Life is a bastard and so is death.   Poor girl.
The club will do the right thing by him you can be sure.

Blimey I remember reading that article in H&V Brian. That was the horrible 03/03/03 night wasn't it.

[dave.woodhall]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

We're pretty good at lots of minutes of silence at the moment. She just needs to pick one.

This isn't really the place.

[Rudy65]

Not absolutely certain but I believe our worst goals for record was in Div 2 in 1969/70 when we got 36 in 42 games.
I guess that's about 33/4 in a 38 match season.
Somehow with this idiot still at the helm I can't see us getting a goal a game in the second half of the season in order to at least equal that

Another record to add to the collection of the Mr Dire himself

[Rudy65]

Very much agree with the people pointing out Benteke's moaning and complaining.
Are we seeing the start of 'billy big bollox' syndrome with him being too good for everyone around him ? Much like I think we are starting to see with Delph.

The Last second chance against man u was the case in point. He blamed Bacuna when if he had ran faster we may have won 2 one

[rob_bridge]

Very much agree with the people pointing out Benteke's moaning and complaining.
Are we seeing the start of 'billy big bollox' syndrome with him being too good for everyone around him ? Much like I think we are starting to see with Delph.

The Last second chance against man u was the case in point. He blamed Bacuna when if he had ran faster we may have won 2 one

I think he should have been in the mix attacking the ball and their defenders too