Aston Villa vs Stoke City Match Thread

[CT]

time to bring in Ronnie Pickering

Who's he?

It's me! :-)

[Proposition Joe]

I reckon Sherwood's got FIFA on in the dressing room, and is clicking through all the formations on the tactics screen.

Next Saturday it'll be 3-4-3.

To reference another game, this season is like a Football Manager game gone badly wrong. Buy a bunch of players no one's heard of that your scouts recommend, start the season with a set plan, then results get worse and worse and you still don't know your strongest team or even formation so you change it each week hoping something works somehow.

TS has lost confidence in himself. And his self-confidence was the one major thing he had going for him.

[Jimbo]

A proper corner now?

[Toronto Villa]

At least Lambert waited until January before he dropped us into the bottom 3. This guy has been figured out. Today's team and play only suggests worse times ahead.

[pauliewalnuts]

The thing is, some of our players - quite a few of them - are actually pretty good.

The problem is the bullshitter of a manager.

[Malandro]

At least Lambert waited until January before he dropped us into the bottom 3. This guy has been figured out. Today's team and play only suggests worse times ahead.

I didn't see that team selection coming. I really don't understand it at all.

[JUAN PABLO]

We could have won starting with this team

[ez]

All stoke are doing is standing they're ground.

[Monty]

This team, something like what we all wanted from the start, has been given fifteen minutes to rescue Sherwood from yet another defeat.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Jesus. It's like watching a different team

[SamTheMouse]

That team selection had McLeish written all over it.

[ozzjim]

So after Chelsea it will be 1 point from 24.

Risso might be right. It might be time for Allardyce.

[Nelly]

Not our day

or month. or year. or decade....

Or Era, as the BBC told us recently.

[Villa in Denmark]

Jesus. It's like watching a different team

One capable of playing football?

[pauliewalnuts]

I dont get it.

Gil, at  Leicester, is excellent and scores an absolute belter of a goal. He then disappears for weeks, only to turn up today, too late.

Ayew comes on against Small Heath, is excellent, disappears, resurfaces today, too late.

Does anyone doubt these two will now disappear again and we'll start with Sanchez and Westwood next week?