Aston Villa v Crystal Palace post match thread

[Chris Jameson]

It's a depressing thought that both Lambert and Agbonlahor have recently been rewarded with long term contracts.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I think the players can be bothered. They're just poor players being badly managed.

[supertom]

Another Villa clown on the radio singling out Sanchez out for being poor, no mention of anyone else.

He was the best player on the park. Not sure what game he was watching. He got the MOTM at the ground too.

[Malandro]

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

[Goldie.7]

Another Villa clown on the radio singling out Sanchez out for being poor, no mention of anyone else.

He was the best player on the park. Not sure what game he was watching. He got the MOTM at the ground too.

Hopefully someone will call WM and tell him to open his eyes.

[LTA]

Sanchez was the one positive.  He is a very good player, cant believe theres people saying he was poor

[LTA]

Another Villa clown on the radio singling out Sanchez out for being poor, no mention of anyone else.

He was the best player on the park. Not sure what game he was watching. He got the MOTM at the ground too.

Hopefully someone will call WM and tell him to open his eyes.

What did he say about him?

[ez]

It's a depressing thought that both Lambert and Agbonlahor have recently been rewarded with long term contracts.

Sad to say it but it's a pity Gabby's red card was overturned.

[old man villa fan]

I always try and look for positives from each game but before they even kicked off I could see how the match was going to play out.  If you are going to try and play a possession based passing game building from the back, you do not go into the game with a 4-3-3 formation, particularly if one of the 3 in midfield is Bacuna.  To cap it all, Lambert then made the stupid substitution of Grealish for Cleverly.  Granted Cleverly is not playing well (but not as bad as many are making out) but at least he is a proper midfield player that knows how to link play.  The substitution should have been Grealish for either Gabby or Weimann.

The way Lambert is trying to play is so easy for the opposition to set themselves up for.  All you have to do is put a wide player in the space in front of Hutton and Cissoko and we have nowhere to go with ball with the players we have got.  You need the extra man in the middle so that the ball can be worked through the middle and draw the opposition wide players in and then create space for the fullbacks.

Going back to the point of possession football, you have to have players that have good first touch.  Most of our players have absolutely crap ball control.  Players in certain positions where they get more space and time can get away with it but not in the middle.  When you see either Gabby or Weimann drop deep to receive the ball you are immediately thinking that we are in danger of turning the ball over.  It reminds me of the Atkinson comment about Carlton Palmer when he said "Palmer covered every blade of grass on the pitch today but that was because his ball control was so poor".

No more excuses for the manager.  Granted that we do not seem able to field the best team consistently because of injury and suspension, he cannot use the players available to play a system that suits.

[dl9]

New Year, same shite.

Groundhog Day B6 style....

[curlytailavfc]

just got back soaked thru dire villa again

[Chris Jameson]

One positive about the result is I was bought a Golden Goal ticket for Xmas. It said March.

[dl9]

One positive about the result is I was bought a Golden Goal ticket for Xmas. It said March.

Which year?

[pauliewalnuts]

One positive about the result is I was bought a Golden Goal ticket for Xmas. It said March.

Which year?

One positive about the result is I was bought a Golden Goal ticket for Xmas. It said March.

Jasper Carrott on the phone, he wants his joke back!

[pauliewalnuts]

Quote fail there.