Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[aev]

The thing for me is there is no excitement, no spark, just an endless stream of unexciting performances.

Hats off to those that keep on turning up and watching.

[VancouverLion]

Wonder when N'Zogbia will get his 4 year contract extension?

[pooligan]

The goals will come says Lambert,only trouble is he never told us when !Half the season gone and we have the grand sum 0f 11 Anyone know what our lowest ever total in a season is?

[Goldie.7]

I'm finding it hard to find fault in the players or manager considering we were playing for nearly the whole of the second half with one player fewer than the opposition.  Carlos Sanchez, what a footballer.

We played the whole of the first half with Nzogbia.

Who is nowhere near as bad as you keep saying over and over again.

If you want to put up his goal scoring or even key contribution record whilst playing for us I am happy to review my views.

N'Zogbia needs to be sold he is a waste of space but today going forward he wasn't the worst. Weimann makes the wrong decision over and over, Cleverley just side passes and all of Cissokho's attempted crosses were rubbish.

If we could get £4-5m for Zoggy in Jan/Sum i'd be glad to see him gone tbh.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I've gone from being depressed until the season ends to being bored to death.

Next stage is not giving a shit. I wish today I was at that stage. I missed out on a fantastic day out with the family to stay and watch that pointless excuse for stability.

[PeterWithesShin]

So for those who saw a replay should it have been a red?

First half was poor both sides, thought we did well second half as yet again we were down to 10. Jack has to start soon. Seems a different take on the game to the feeling in the ground. And no that isn't a dig just an observation.

[Malandro]

I'm finding it hard to find fault in the players or manager considering we were playing for nearly the whole of the second half with one player fewer than the opposition.  Carlos Sanchez, what a footballer.

We played the whole of the first half with Nzogbia.

Who is nowhere near as bad as you keep saying over and over again.

If you want to put up his goal scoring or even key contribution record whilst playing for us I am happy to review my views.

N'Zogbia needs to be sold he is a waste of space but today going forward he wasn't the worst. Weimann makes the wrong decision over and over, Cleverley just side passes and all of Cissokho's attempted crosses were rubbish.

If we could get £4-5m for Zoggy in Jan/Sum i'd be glad to see him gone tbh.

We should have no more nailed him to the old bench

[Gareth]

5 weeks until we play ultimate Russian roulette with our Premiership place - 5 weeks to get rid of the biggest chancer that has ever managed this great club...5 weeks till the transfer window shuts & we are stuck with this hopeless manager & no chance to improve this aimless squad.

That was a training match for Sunderland, they came for a point with the chance of snatching it & nearly executed perfectly...

Sure some will excuse him yet again because of the red card, at the end of the day he picks the team & is ultimately responsible for the behaviour of his players...

Just in case he needs to be told, today they weren't 'excellent' & they have have barely earned that accolade in any game since he was appointed.

Randy, please put us out of our misery & give someone else a chance with a transfer window to actually try & give us a team that tries to score goals.

Sanchez & the cameo from Grealish aside the rest of the game was two dreadful teams with no vim or vigour going through the motions.

[OCD]

So for those who saw a replay should it have been a red?

First half was poor both sides, thought we did well second half as yet again we were down to 10. Jack has to start soon. Seems a different take on the game to the feeling in the ground. And no that isn't a dig just an observation.

It probably is in the modern game. I can't see it being overturned, put it that way.

[adrenachrome]

Great to see Sanchez put his obvious potential into a perfect performance. Apart from that and the action at the end, yet another home game to mark down as ghastly and a waste of time and money spent.

[PeterWithesShin]

And how I missed selling. Just before 1pm a minibus pulls up full of Sunderland chavs. Yelling abuse out the windows etc. They carried on after getting off, telling the few Villa fans around at that time to fuck off etc.
A couple of them say the same to me for some reason and then start giving it the come on hand signals. When I asked them to cross the road to say it none of them were quite so keen. To the total stranger who joined me, if you read this thanks for the backup. A day of glory for about a dozen Sunderland youth as they got fronted by two blokes. Fucking twats.

[Malandro]

Let's hope we don't burn out grealish with his 15 minute cameos every third game. Robinson should have a blanket around him too, poor boys.

[Toronto Villa]

I've gone from being depressed until the season ends to being bored to death.

Next stage is not giving a shit. I wish today I was at that stage. I missed out on a fantastic day out with the family to stay and watch that pointless excuse for stability.

I dare say I'm not a million miles from that point now. For yet another season.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Don't know where to begin with that. I'm not buying into this new 'style' at all. It's absolutely toothless. We're basically passing the ball backwards and sidewards seemingly for the sake of passing it. It doesn't actually get us anywhere at all.

Not to mention, it does the one player we have with genuine match winning ability any favours either. What exactly is the point of it other than to get better possession stats ?

We only ever look like scoring when we get things moving quicker at the end of matches now. It's beyond tedious

Stupid foul by Delph and i can't see that one being rescinded.

[andyh]

I'm finding it hard to find fault in the players or manager considering we were playing for nearly the whole of the second half with one player fewer than the opposition.  Carlos Sanchez, what a footballer.

What about the first 50 minutes that was absolute fucking footballing diarrhoea?
Even with 11 on the pitch we were totally and utterly devoid of any ideas whatsoever.