Aston Villa vs Burnley Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithe]

For a team with so many good players, finishing fourth from bottom is pretty disgraceful. We just didn't play with any tempo yesterday and allowed them to funnel back behind the ball from where we failed to create anything of note, I thought both full backs were most at fault, both picked for their ability going forward and neither of them got high enough up the field to get decent crosses in.

All in all, crap.

[silhillvilla]

Obviously Lambert and his awful tactics and general management takes a major slice of the blame, but also, the players need to take a long hard look at themselves . Even under sherwood , among the good stuff there has been some absolute garbage put out their by the players as a collective.

[Bad English]

I am happy that we saved our skins because I didn't think we would until we did, if you get my drift.

It would have been most agreeable to beat Burnley and finish 14th or 15th and not go to the Final with two losses behind us. However, our final league position is fully deserved. 15th would not be an accurate reflection of our season.

Arsenal can be beaten, as others have shown. We either will win the FA Cup or take a kick to the bollocks. But we are used to that.

I can't fucking wait for next week.

[Pete3206]

Blimey, tough crowd.

Safety already achieved, dead rubber match and no harm done to the big players. This time next week, we could all have the happiest hangover of our lives.

[PeterWithe]

Finishing fourth bottom isn't something to be celebrated, yes there is a sense of relief that we've just about pulled ourselves away in time but five years of flirting with relegation simply isn't good enough, Cup Final or not.

[DB]

Things have to be done this summer to ensure we are not having another season like the last 3. New owners needed with some cash...Tim? Jury is out for me, yes he has done great to keep us up but how will he be long term? My concern he is another motivational coach, but we shall see.

[Monty]

Things have to be done this summer to ensure we are not having another season like the last 3. New owners needed with some cash...Tim? Jury is out for me, yes he has done great to keep us up but how will he be long term? My concern he is another motivational coach, but we shall see.

It is his strongest suit, but if you compare his tactics to someone like MON's you can already see a good bollock-load more ambition and variation. It might not always come off, but at least he tries different things - unlike MON, whose solution to something not working was to try it again forever.

[brian green]

I am with PW.   Judged as a whole the season has not been good enough by a long, long chalk.  Since that glorious day at Wembley we have regressed.   I am, being pure bred Brummie, by nature a pessimist with miserablist tendencies and what bothers me about the journeyman performances that saved us against West Ham and Everton, the farcical ineptitude of Southampton and the Lambertitis of yesterday is that this another of our many false dawns.
Right down to the most minute fibre of my heart I want Tim Sherwood to succeed and to energize and revitalize us, I love the man and I love his devil-may-care approach to the game but he drops such monumental bollocks from time to time that you lose the belief that there is a bright new tomorrow with new owners and winning football.
I knew it was going to be a bad day at the office yesterday when they made Tim put out the stern faced diktat to the fans to stay off the pitch.   It was sugar coated with a prologue about thanking the fans but it was all very constructed and very much not Tim Sherwood's style.   The printed message that we were dragging the club's name in the mire was obviously created in the same executive workshop and made no note of the 99% of us who booed the silly bastards who ran on to the pitch before the final whistle.   I fear that the fans are being being treated as customers again.

Cannot wait for next week and will be on the edge of insanity just like I was in 1957.

[AlexAlexCropley]

And who thought it a good idea to ringfence the stands from the first minute with stewards? Maybe for the last 10 I could understand, made it feel somewhat uncomfortable in my book.

[Billy Walker]

All this gnashing of teeth about our last two games is meaningless distraction - Aston Villa have an FA Cup Final to win on Saturday and that really is all that matters. 

[brian green]

I agree with you wholeheartedly Billy but next season will be next season whether we win, lose or draw at Wembley.  With every sincere acceptance of your point of view, my point of view is that I do not want the FA Cup to be a distraction to the rebuilding of our club.

[Clampy]

I agree with you wholeheartedly Billy but next season will be next season whether we win, lose or draw at Wembley.  With every sincere acceptance of your point of view, my point of view is that I do not want the FA Cup to be a distraction to the rebuilding of our club.

Why would next week's game be a distraction for next season?

[brian green]

Because it is only one game.

[Clampy]

Because it is only one game.

But it's a one off game and besides the season's over now.

[brian green]

Clampy, please note my comment about Liverpool and the season being over.  There is no such thing as a season, there is only the stream of performance.   Win the cup and it is harder to make hard decisions.   It masks underlying failings.   I want Villa to win game after game and climb the table.   A trophy in the trophy cabinet is as nothing compared with the fear and respect of the teams you go head to head with each week.   It is like saying a fabulous passionate honeymoon is as important as a happy marriage.