Aston Villa vs Stoke Post Match Thread

[Villafirst]

Just saw 'highlights' on Motd. Shocker from Vlaar - Moses had lost possession until Ron played him back in with poor control. He should've just booted it clear.

[Louzie0]

Vlaar mistake and not part of Villa any more?

It was a mistake.

I want Ron at the Villa. Anybody can make a mistake. He doesn't very often.
Major World Cup defender, but even better, Villa Captain!

Erm, been out for a couple of halves tonight Lou?!

Yup, thought this one was a winner. What do I know, eh?
Still, there's always the next 12 cup finals. Come on, Tim.

[b23]

Vlaar mistake and not part of Villa any more?

It was a mistake.

I want Ron at the Villa. Anybody can make a mistake. He doesn't very often.
Major World Cup defender, but even better, Villa Captain!

Erm, been out for a couple of halves tonight Lou?!

So Risso.

Read it again ?

Never made a #mistake ?

#ever ?

[tomd2103]

The thought of Clark charging up the wing to put in crosses fills me with same dread as when Carlos and Ollie were doing it.

He started Richardson today as the best of the options providing width and attacking intent from that position. Not a great option either, but better than Cissokho and Clark in that position. If we want to play with attacking full backs then neither side offers much at all. I'd rather we kept defenders to defending and found other players more suited to attacking and crossing to provide that.

To be fair, Richardson and Sinclair linked up quite well down the left before he went off. 

[Nelly]

Bad day at the office, we were hoping for this to be the turn around but realistically, Sherwood hasn't had long enough to un-coach the lack of confidence and fear out of these players. He only got his assistant in the other day. It would have been lovely to win today or even get a point and the fact that we lost is as much down to ourselves as Stoke in the end. We'll have better days from here. Lets not write ourselves off.

[villan from luton]

I have supported my club since 1970. I have seen some times that I cannot describe, Hghbury and Rotterdam amongst them. I started watching in the old third division and loved the passion from my first visit as a young lad. We love our club, some of you have not seen such good times or indeed the bad times, the thing we have in common is we love our club. Lets be honest, Vlaar lost us that game, but was it just his fault? How many of these players have any feeling for Aston Villa? We can say Lambert is a twat, but he is one of a list and sometimes the finger has to point to the players surely. I dont expect us to be challenging at the top, but that group of players should be doing a lot lot better than they are at the moment IMO

[Smoke]

4 MINUTES, 4 FUCKING MINUTES, FOUR!!

How on earth was there just 4 minutes of added time given the physios were on at least 5 times in the second half, not to mention how long the ref was down himself! I'm not even taking into account stokes time wasting, which started after 20 minutes.

Having just seen the ref's performance in the Chelsea game the quality of officiating in the PL is pathetic and detrimental to the game.

I'm sorry but Rugby Union have got it right, the egg chasing knobbers.

[villan from luton]

Smoke, to be fair that wasnt the refs fault, it was just real poor play and we should have been the team wanting more minutes

[Smoke]

I'm by no means laying the blame for our display on the refs.

just more a comment on how poor the refs are.

I'd be surprised if the ball was actually in play for more than 60 minutes of the 90 sorry 94 minutes "played" today.

[villan from luton]

I'm by no means laying the blame for our display on the refs.

just more a comment on how poor the refs are.

I'd be surprised if the ball was actually in play for more than 60 minutes of the 90 sorry 94 minutes "played" today.

As in any game, maybe realise we lost cos of awful defending

[Smoke]

Thanks for telling me what to realise, Mike Riley.

[OzVilla]

Well the new invigorated Aston Villa just didn't turn up at all. I appreciate that we are shit, have a group of players with low confidence and have been led a Manager that make TSM look like a tactical genius, but the performance of Tekkers, Gabby, Delph, Vlaar (our supposedly better players) makes me feel that we're cooked.

I'm not blaming Sherwood, he's probably wondering what a stinking pile of shit he's just inherited, but he's going to need a lot more of his famed 'motivational skills'  if we're going to have any chance of staying up.

Great job Lerner. Leave it so late that all the new guy is working with is limited number of "cup finals" to save us and he can't bring anyone in. You deserve to lose a fortune you prick.

[adrenachrome]

The last 2 games have seen defenders fucking around at the death and giving the ball away to concede a goal. There was a stat a while back that in the last 15 minutes of games, we had scored 0 and conceded 11. That figure is at least 13 now.  I may have blacked out for a few more.

The moment which summed up the match for me was when we had a corner and Concrete Ron was grabbed by the collar and swung around like a rag doll by one of their goons. My brother turned to me and said "He's not Martin Laursen, that's for sure".

[Drummond]

Let's hope that our new Asst Manager and coaches get to work on this bunch tomorrow morning and every day for the next couple of weeks. They bloody need to.

I'm still hoping we can get some direction and shape about us but confidence is just not there in any way, shape or form.

It's embarrassing.

[villan from luton]

Thanks for telling me what to realise, Mike Riley.

I'm by no means laying the blame for our display on the refs.

just more a comment on how poor the refs are.

I'd be surprised if the ball was actually in play for more than 60 minutes of the 90 sorry 94 minutes "played" today.

As in any game, maybe realise we lost cos of awful defending

Thanks for telling me what to realise, Mike Riley.

Lets agree it was Mike Rileys fault instead of the Dutvh centre half who captains our beloved club