Newcastle United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Rudy65]

Oddly I am now on the other side of it. Just accepting with a smile and a shrug our time has come. Hey ho we will still have a club next season.

If by a miracle we start winning games then thats upside but right now its easier to just accept its our year and not get upset over it.

Me too. Our form suggests no other option

[kippaxvilla2]

We must be the only fcukin side who don't get a managerial bounce from a change of manager.

[eric woolban woolban]

We must be the only fcukin side who don't get a managerial bounce from a change of manager.

There wouldn't be a bounce if they'd brought in Zebedee and Tigger as joint managers.

[andyh]

I'm sure I read that we are the only team in all 4 divisions to not have recorded a win in 2015.

I don't know about taking it on the chin, fair play to those who are resigned to it.

Personally, I am absolutely fucking distraught.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Oddly I am now on the other side of it. Just accepting with a smile and a shrug our time has come. Hey ho we will still have a club next season.

If by a miracle we start winning games then thats upside but right now its easier to just accept its our year and not get upset over it.

Me too. Our form suggests no other option

I too feel the need to protect myself from the pain. I have to find ways to survive emotionally. This could become serious.

Its the only way at this point IMHO. Its that or be miserable to our families and have every weekend ruined for the next few months. Football is meant to be fun, its just not worth getting that upset over. Accept, have a grin and move on.

[villadelph]

Oddly I am now on the other side of it. Just accepting with a smile and a shrug our time has come. Hey ho we will still have a club next season.

If by a miracle we start winning games then thats upside but right now its easier to just accept its our year and not get upset over it.

Me too. Our form suggests no other option

[VancouverLion]

Westwood is absolute shite, he almost never gets a set piece over the first defender which then puts us under pressure on the counter. We"re in the shit alright, pathetic!!!

[clash city rocker]

Well Mr Lerner the businessman. Your actions of the past are now coming back to haunt you and dramatically reduce the value of your investment. To you Aston Villa may be an investment or a toy but to me it is the club I love. I am seething , absolutely seething..custodian ? Custodian my fuckin arse..You have let Aston Villa down by your ineptitude. Shame , shame and fuckin shame on you.

[ez]

I'd also say that, although I don't really blame Sherwood for the last couple of results, you have to seriously question Lerner and Fox's brains to

1. Leave it so very late to sack Lambert in the first place.
2. Replace him with a rookie manager with no track record of motivating players in a desperately struggling side.

How on earth did they think that was going to pan out?

These people have noble intentions (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that, anyway), and Fox might be great at getting sponsorship deals and whatnot, but they have zero "nous", absolutely zero.

Good luck flogging that shirt sponsorship in the Championship next year, Tom. Oh, and good luck flogging the club, too, Lerner.

Number 1 is really the biggy. Dumb as nuts to think there was any hope of Lambert turning it around.

I don't think Sherwood is wholly responsible for these two defeats - it's 7 in a row, not 2 in a row. However, I don't think his tactics have helped. Today, even when we were playing well, we looked ramshackle and shapeless. You can't help but compare it to how quickly someone like Pulis gets his teams organised and competent.

Agreed. We chose a manager with 20 games under his belt instead of a proven prem manager with 20 years managerial experience.

Yes. Leaving Lambert in place so long has crippled us. That performance stank of Lambert.

[Oscar Arce]

Albion will be rubbing their hands. Anything less than a win and they've virtually sent us down.
Thanks Lambert. Thanks Lerner. Thanks useless excuses for players.
Wankers.

 

[pauliewalnuts]

Senderos and Cole..... I know they haven't played today and I'm in a bad mood now but these two fucking leeches signing, another example of why we are where we are.

Most of our signings last summer - Cole, Senderos and Richardson - looked suspiciously like Championship signings at the time.

I didn't really understand why so many people were happy with our summer business. I thought it was fecking awful, and reeked of having absolutely zero ambition beyond not getting relegated.

I thought our January window was awful, too.

It isn't all about buying players, because too many of the ones we already have aren't producing, but I can't remember the last time we had a transfer window which really gave any encouragement.

[Mister E]

Bringing on Weimann and NZog puts a huge question mark over Sherwood's judgement. I know it is only his second game, but neither were going to bring anything different to the game.

If we're going to survive, we have to do the simple things well and also do something radically different; make the oppo uncomfortable.

Can't see it happening.

[kippaxvilla2]

We can only hope for freak snow storms to hit Birmingham on Tuesday for two months.

[ronshirt]

Players lacking in any kind of confidence. Players lacking the experience of mucking in at the bottom of the table. Players who probably don't care either way. Players who might secretly think that life in the Championship might be more to their liking. Players who might relish the thought of relegation because of their treatment during the tenure of TOSM.

I realise that our Randy may be too busy engaging with Shunammites to address himself to the possibility of relegation but surely The General could find time to mis-type something or other to encourage us all.

[curiousorange]

Senderos and Cole..... I know they haven't played today and I'm in a bad mood now but these two fucking leeches signing, another example of why we are where we are.

Most of our signings last summer - Cole, Senderos and Richardson - looked suspiciously like Championship signings at the time.

I didn't really understand why so many people were happy with our summer business. I thought it was fecking awful, and reeked of having absolutely zero ambition beyond not getting relegated.

I thought our January window was awful, too.

It isn't all about buying players, because too many of the ones we already have aren't producing, but I can't remember the last time we had a transfer window which really gave any encouragement.

To be fair, I thought Senderos started the season okay. But you're right, when he was linked, I think my exact words were 'Fucking Senderos?' Cole was never going to be a good fit as a Villa player either. Even the Spaniard we managed to get in was a bargain basement option.

It's not so much spending peanuts that bothered me. It was that it was yet another two windows where you couldn't tell what we were aiming for. I couldn't picture any of those signings taking us by the scruff of the neck, Dave Mackay style, and making us anything other than league meat.