Aston Villa vs Stoke Post Match Thread

[ozzjim]

Today hurt more than usual.

But Sherwood has to learn some very quick lessons.

Gabby is a fucking donkey, that should not be used again this season.

Gil needs to have a more free role to have any effect.

Sanchez has taken it upon himself to give the ball away at every opportunity.

Weimann is a waste of a squad place.

Learns those quick we might stop up, but I doubt it.

Let us hope he is the man to get us back up.

[Tuscans]

Disappointing. Deserved a point, but what a cock up at the end. Dearly me Vlaar. 19th now

Am I missing something? We are 18th.

19th

[Monty]

Familiar Lambertian bollocks in many ways - players looking jumpy with the ball, the lack of confidence to try things, it comes back so quickly.

Sherwood? Well, we had a bit of a lift early on, and there was more energy about the display. However, I don't think the formation did us any favours, and hoofing the ball up to Benteke from literally minute one had the effect of three shots overall. The formation wasn't responsible for the goals, though - that was some world class fucking rubbish defending on both counts from the individuals involved.

[timeoutbigbar]

Absolute fucking shit.  I really fucking hate these players sometimes.

[hilts_coolerking]

Yep, gutted here too.  I didn't see that coming, particularly after we started so positively.  The players looked confident and knew what they were doing.  Conceding the equaliser on the stroke of h/t killed us and we were so timid in the second half.  Having said that, we ended up creating two or three more good chances but then gave the whole fucking thing away in a moment of madness.

I know we've been saying all season that this isn't a bottom 6 squad and maybe that's true but the fact is that too many of our players just aren't doing enough.  Every game we have four, five, six players who offer nothing all day.  Looking at that positively, I would expect Sherwood to come to a view on who they are a lot quicker than Lambert did.

[oldham_villa]

Does anyone have any idea why Delph always goes into his right foot, when it is much use as a perforated condom?

I feel a bit responsible as everything I've touched today has turned to shit. All my teams on the accumulator lost and I out Gill and Vlaar in my fantasy team today.

The side are utterly devoid of any confidence

[Jimbo]

Let's not start accepting we're down now. There are twelve games to go and we can still escape. Time to grow some balls.

[Toronto Villa]

Our GD is worth one less point, so we can't even rely on that. Lambert really has fucked us over.

[Adam B]

Big clear-out needed, I'm afraid.

[LTA]

1 step forwards and 2 back again

[Toronto Villa]

Familiar Lambertian bollocks in many ways - players looking jumpy with the ball, the lack of confidence to try things, it comes back so quickly.

Sherwood? Well, we had a bit of a lift early on, and there was more energy about the display. However, I don't think the formation did us any favours, and hoofing the ball up to Benteke from literally minute one had the effect of three shots overall. The formation wasn't responsible for the goals, though - that was some world class fucking rubbish defending on both counts from the individuals involved.

and in both cases bollocks defending from a player who should know a lot better and has really let us down today.

[VillaAlways]

Big clear-out needed, I'm afraid.

There will be when were in the Championship

[passitsideways]

We were absolutely clueless going forward after the first goal, and then gave it up with two pieces of terrible defending.
Not really a fan of the formation either, since Gabby was a waste of space again, while Delph and Sanchez aren't good enough on the ball to work it around in a two-man midfield.

[hilts_coolerking]

The formation wasn't responsible for the goals, though - that was some world class fucking rubbish defending on both counts from the individuals involved.

Yep, I know we went into this on the match thread, and I know we disagree, but if so many of our players underperform (or in Gabby's case, are past it, or in Andi's case, never really had it) it's going to make fuck all difference what system we play.

[WBAKev]

Well all the delusion that has come with the arrival of messiah Tim and everyone neglecting that we are just way short for this league has been quickly expelled. 31000 as well, pathetic. Where has our fight and pride gone??