ManYoo vs Aston Villa Post Match Thread.

[Toronto Villa]

I reckon if Sherwood remains in charge then Gil's Villa career is over.

I think Sherwood prefers 100mph, Prem breed players, for better or worse.
Gil may turn it around in pre-season, but it's not looking good for him.

I think he prefers to have that sort of player now. He has said that the way he plays in trying to keep us up isn't how he would necessarily start the season. That said, it would be nice to see what Gil can do and feature more often.

[pauliewalnuts]

Thank the lord Man Utd were 2nd half thinking more about their derby game next week. They're nothing special but we did ourselves no favours.

I turned on our match in the second half and saw about ten minutes of it.

It was ten minutes consisting almost entirely of them passing the ball effortlessly around our players who seemed totally static - we actually looked like a load of pins in some form of pub game.

Then I turned it off.

[supertom]

What really pisses me off about shrek is not just that he scores against us and is generally an annoying little shit. It's that he's lauded as some world class player but has never shown that against world class opposition when playing for England.

Watching him score a goal like he did today really gets on my nerves as a (former) England fan. I've given up watching those toss=bags in the qualifiers now and end up, like many, watching the major tournaments out of abject curiosity. Then like clockwork, these players always lauded as world class suddenly look decidedly ordinary. Rooney is a fucking charlatan. Ask Utd fans if they can remember the last big CL game where Rooney really turned up.
I'm no Steven Gerrard fan and he's been shit for England too, but at least when his career is all said and done he can look back at that CL final and remember a game where he lived up to his reputation as being one of the best midfielders of his generation. He delivered.

Rooney has not. It's all well and good him getting yet another goal against a tin pot piece of shite side as Villa normally are when they step onto a pitch against Utd, but I'd like to see him doing it when it matters in an England shirt. Look at the Euros and there's not one side that England should be quaking in their boots at. But what will happen next year? If we're lucky we'll shuffle unconvincingly to the last 16 and then get knocked out at the first reasonable side we play against and that pug ugly piss kidney will no doubt bemoan the fans lack of passion.

[Goldie.7]

Thank the lord Man Utd were 2nd half thinking more about their derby game next week. They're nothing special but we did ourselves no favours.

I turned on our match in the second half and saw about ten minutes of it.

It was ten minutes consisting almost entirely of them passing the ball effortlessly around our players who seemed totally static - we actually looked like a load of pins in some form of pub game.

Then I turned it off.

Wise.

[curiousorange]

Benteke seems to be becoming an enigma. If you can't look interested playing at Old Trafford, it doesn't bode well for a game at Wembley. If he was a flat track bully I wouldn't mind, because that would put us in the driving seat for Tuesday, but you never know what you're going to get with him these days.

Ah well, as long as he takes his chances. I have confidence our defence is as good as we can expect now. Midfield still touch and go. Up front still needs a lot of work.

[oldham_villa]

More than anything, we need to start strongly and up and at em on Tuesday. Get the fans buzzing and we will win.

A laboured, safety first start will get the home crowd quiet and nerves will accumulate

[Goldie.7]

Hutton out for Tuesday.

[supertom]

I reckon if Sherwood remains in charge then Gil's Villa career is over.

I think Sherwood prefers 100mph, Prem breed players, for better or worse.
Gil may turn it around in pre-season, but it's not looking good for him.

I think he prefers to have that sort of player now. He has said that the way he plays in trying to keep us up isn't how he would necessarily start the season. That said, it would be nice to see what Gil can do and feature more often.

Well I hope so. He played this way at Spurs and thus far with us. Of course ultimately it might not be his long term style. But we shall see.

[Toronto Villa]

I almost get the impression that it has become a cultural thing at the club. The level of subservience we have seen vs the so called "big" teams is embarrassing. And then once in a while he'll pop out a stunning display and we all look round round scratch our heads and wonder why it has taken 5 years, and why the next win will take that long again. It will take a lot of surgery to change the mental state of the players. We need to stop thinking we are small and play to who we are. And should be. It is going to take this manager or whoever succeeds him, whenever that is time and a load of money.

[Smirker]

Baffling what's going on with Gil.

[PaulWinch again]

What's frustrating is that it was so utterly predictable.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Until he leaves Weimann somewhere east of palookaville I have zero confidence in Sherwood as any kind of top manager.

[Toronto Villa]

I reckon if Sherwood remains in charge then Gil's Villa career is over.

I think Sherwood prefers 100mph, Prem breed players, for better or worse.
Gil may turn it around in pre-season, but it's not looking good for him.

I think he prefers to have that sort of player now. He has said that the way he plays in trying to keep us up isn't how he would necessarily start the season. That said, it would be nice to see what Gil can do and feature more often.

Well I hope so. He played this way at Spurs and thus far with us. Of course ultimately it might not be his long term style. But we shall see.

The difference at Spurs is even the "huffers and puffers" we're very expensively acquired and technically good players. They are for the most part a cut above the majority of what we have.

[PaulWinch again]

Gabby was fucking awful today.

[ez]

We could have played better than that. It's like we went expecting to lose so didn't bother trying.