Aston Villa v Crystal Palace post match thread

[Ron Manager]

And so it goes on and on and on. Dreadful,dreadful, mind numbing football. If you can call it that. And as supporters we can do absolutely nothing about it.....nothing.

[PeterWithesShin]

Bollocks, missing a game from last season.  Can't see it altering things too much though!

My New Year gift to you. Having to relive last season!

[pauliewalnuts]

What I noticed was that Hutton looked like the only player in our side, other than Grealish when he came on, to play with any urgency to get forward at all.

The long spells of passing the ball across the halfway line were just hilarious, clearly told not to give the ball away - laudable - but with absolutely no idea at all what to do with it.

If that idiot thinks Sanogo is going to solve any of our problems, then he is absolutely nuts. Sanogo fails to score when playing in Arsenal's team, with their midfield. How on earth is he meant to score with the shite in our midfield?

[hilts_coolerking]

Meet the new dross, same as the old dross.

[Hopadop]

I'm sure I'm in a coma, is this my 'life on mars' ?

It's how you know we're not in The Matrix, it'd be better than this.

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

"What about the claret and blue pill?"

"Don't touch that one. That's some fucked up shit"

[pauliewalnuts]

This time last year we were on a similarly shitty run, but were without Benteke. Fuck knows what's going to save us this year.

For all the opportunities we create for him, Benteke genuinely might as well be in a different postcode to the rest of the side.

[Villa in Denmark]

Found the missing game.  West Ham from 8th Feb last year.

So....

28 games out of the 58 games from the start of last season have involved the phrase Aston Villa 0
In 11 games out of the 58 games from the start of last season we've scored more than 1.
In 6 games out of the 58 games from the start of last season we've scored more than 2.

[Villa in Denmark]

Bollocks, missing a game from last season.  Can't see it altering things too much though!

My New Year gift to you. Having to relive last season!

Seems fair enough after I inflicted the second half on you today.

[pooligan]

Has he mentioned that was our third game in a week and the boys were really tired. I thought they were fantastic and excellent to be honest

[ktvillan]

I'd be interested to know if the fans were calling for Lambert to go at all today.  It's way beyond time.

[Villa in Denmark]

One thing that looks clear to me is that the team are scared of conceding a goal as they do not have the confidence to score one let alone two goals in a match.  This is then leading to an over safe way of playing and thus the sterile performances.  You cannot play football by numbers, you have to have some off-the-cuff creativity.

I think it's more that Lambert doesn't trust them to.  Otherwise he'd be giving bollockings left, right and centre to get players making the sorts of runs we managed twice in the second half, where Weimann down the right side and Cisokho down the left were played in behind the fullback after 2 or 3 quick passes.  typically they both made an absolute mess of the cross.

[Rotterdam]

Both Sunderland the other day and Palace today are both absolutely shite football teams. The fact the we are unable to beat them both, at home, speaks absolute volumes about where we are.

This.

[Legion]

They came. They played. They stank.

Utter turgid, insipid garbage.

[olaftab]

That's us last on MOTD again.

i am really pleased about that as I a m going out later and will return just before the end of MotD

[RussellC]

Just heard a reporter on the radio say that is 39 out of 96 games we have failed to score in under this clueless idiot .Despite our failure to score,he has refused to give the young kid Robinson a single minute of action since he came back from Preston .He could'nt be any worse than Gabby or Wiemann thats for sure. Just like with young Jack i think he just has'nt got the balls to play them

27 games out of the 57 league games from the start of last season have involved the phrase Aston Villa 0
11 games out of the 57 league games from the start of last season we have scored more than 1.
6 games out of the 57 league games from the start of last season we have scored more than 2.

Not meaning to be pedantic, but isn't the last stat actually '2 or more' so effectively 'more than 1'?!