Aston Villa vs Burnley Post-Match Thread

[Clampy]

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.

So are you suggesting we're better off losing next week than winning?

I'd have liked us to have had a better season than we have, we all do. Sherwood has already said that he dosen't want us to be struggling again and I don't think we will and that should be the aim. However, next week is a bonus and after the shit we've endured over the last few season's, we deserve a day out in the worlds biggest competition. It's been too long since we won the bloody thing. The other 90 clubs would give anything to be going down there next week. Don't worry about next season, that's a bridge for us to cross when we come to it.

[PeterWithesShin]

The journeymen etc performances of the last 3 home games included over 40 goal attempts and 6 points out of 9.

[brian green]

Clampy, why do you always want to have a fight with me?  What have I ever done to you that whatever I say you take exception to it?   Where do you get the take that I want us to lose the cup final?

I have said and I hold to it, based on 69 years on the Holte End man and boy, that I want us walking tall in the Premiership and that anything else is a bonus.   You have no right whatsoever to twist that into some sort of accusation that I want us to lose.

As for the journeyman comparison, our games against West Ham and Everton that saved us us our Premiership status were  inferior to our performance against Liverpool.   

[Monty]

There's no question that we need to improve the team for next season, and a victory next week shouldn't be used to gloss over that. Nevertheless, one of the recurring themes under Lambert was how badly we were underperforming, and how this group of players really shouldn't be so deep in the relegation quagmire. Sherwood, I think, has proved that beyond reasonable doubt. Therefore, strengthening the team wouldn't be about avoiding relegation, but trying to break into the top half.

[Clampy]

Clampy, why do you always want to have a fight with me?  What have I ever done to you that whatever I say you take exception to it?   Where do you get the take that I want us to lose the cup final?

I have said and I hold to it, based on 69 years on the Holte End man and boy, that I want us walking tall in the Premiership and that anything else is a bonus.   You have no right whatsoever to twist that into some sort of accusation that I want us to lose.

As for the journeyman comparison, our games against West Ham and Everton that saved us us our Premiership status were  inferior to our performance against Liverpool.   

What on earth are you talking about? I'm not fighting with you, i'm disagreeing with you. I honestly don't care that you've been going 69 years man and boy, that's irrelevant. Besides, when was the last time I disagreed with you other than today? It seems to me you have a high horse that you need to get down from.

[Billy Walker]

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.

All being well it won't be Brian, hopefully the people are now in place to rebuild the club regardless of the outcome of the Final. 

[PeterWithesShin]

Only at the Villa can we worry that finally winning the FA Cup could be a bad thing.

[Clampy]

As for your question, you did say that winning next week will make future hard decisions harder to make and it will mask underlying failings so I just offered the suggestion that you thought that it may be better if we lost, nothing more  nothing less.

[brian green]

It is not in the least irrelevant.   I know whenever I put up any kind oif opinion on here, you will be back in a flash to have a pop.  I deeply resent that you have the bare faced audacity to suggest I want Villa to lose the cup final.   My horse is my horse and my time spent following Villa puts me in the saddle.   Get over it.

[hipkiss92]

I bet Callum Robinson is less than pleased

[Clampy]

It is not in the least irrelevant.   I know whenever I put up any kind oif opinion on here, you will be back in a flash to have a pop.  I deeply resent that you have the bare faced audacity to suggest I want Villa to lose the cup final.   My horse is my horse and my time spent following Villa puts me in the saddle.   Get over it.

Get over what? It's a forum, you'll from time to time be disagreed with, that's how it works. Again, point out where I disagreed with you before today and come back to me when you do,

[CT]

I bet Callum Robinson is less than pleased

Yup, I thought that too.

[clash city rocker]

A win yesterday would have brought an extra £2.5 million into the club.

[PeterWithesShin]

Add on at least £60m TV money and QPR got about £62m in total for being shit. Chelsea got about £96m.

[darren woolley]

I hope we play better on Saturday.