Aston Villa v Stoke City post match thread

[TopDeck113]

Do you know what? I'd actually take the relegation now.  Not because I particularly want it, but simply after what is now years of this relentless shit we might actually achieve some level of respectable mediocrity, you know, like a few home wins on the bounce, the odd surprise away result.

There I've said it.  The only way we're going to reach mid-table any time soon is in the Championship.  And the cat that I say it at a time when Leicester and Crystal Palace are at the top of the league we're currently in is fucking depressing.     

[richl]

Sack him now, give a new chancer the international break

[Richard]

Gave up my season ticket this year and didn't go today - saddest thing is I'm not missing it at all and am almost resigned to relegation already

Please sell up asap Lerner !

[exigo]

The selection of a manager trying to get sacked. Or he's just clueless. Either way, he's got to go.

Why Westwood instead of Sanchez? Why three right backs? Why 3-5-2? Why no creativity? Why can't we fucking cross when our only chance of scoring is Gestede?

[TopDeck113]

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[silhillvilla]

6 defeats in 8
1 point from possible 12 at home
3 out of 4 home games fail to score .

Sack this clueless muppet now while we have a 2 week break . I'd take Fat Sam in a heartbeat

[CT Villan]

Stoke had nothing and we had even less...shocking. Sherwood deserves credit for keeping us up last season but he has lost the plot this one. Thanks Tim...and cheerio !

[richard moore]

As I say every week now, what is there left to say that hasn't been said a 1000 times already?

My position too Richard. I'm exhausted by getting this worked up, and I try hard not to. But 5 years and counting and even being one of the most optimistic ones I feel beaten to shit by it all.

It just saps your energy doesn't TV? I feel drained by 5pm every week now even though, bizarrely, they make me care less and less. I actually watch hardly any football now at the weekends or in the week and it's all down to year after year after year now of this unremitting shit. I sat in Bath in the sun in the week and thought how much I wished I could live there, go and watch the rugby every week, and forget all about this f*cking drain on my life

[Nastylee]

Did we ever really think swapping Benteke for a lumbering, immobile Championship striker was going to work? He then selects a team where our biggest creative threat was Alan Hutton.

[GarTomas]

The selection of a manager trying to get sacked. Or he's just clueless. Either way, he's got to go.

Why Westwood instead of Sanchez? Why three right backs? Why 3-5-2? Why no creativity? Why can't we fucking cross when our only chance of scoring is Gestede?

If you are going to go 3 at the back why then play Hutton ahead of Bacuna who is better going forward and crossing. 
Hutton so often gets into the right positions but then doesnt seem to know what to do next.

[silhillvilla]

We're already 4 points adrift.

[passport1]

They can sack him but with the clueless muppets running the club they are capable of coming up with an even worse option.

[GarTomas]

Whilst Gueye has been decent this season - was I the only one who thought he was awful today?  Looked disinterested at times.

[CT]

Do you know what? I'd actually take the relegation now.  Not because I particularly want it, but simply after what is now years of this relentless shit we might actually achieve some level of respectable mediocrity, you know, like a few home wins on the bounce, the odd surprise away result.

There I've said it.  The only way we're going to reach mid-table any time soon is in the Championship.  And the cat that I say it at a time when Leicester and Crystal Palace are at the top of the league we're currently in is fucking depressing.     

Is there any guarantees that we'd be mid-table in the Championship?

[Smirker]

Do you know what? I'd actually take the relegation now.  Not because I particularly want it, but simply after what is now years of this relentless shit we might actually achieve some level of respectable mediocrity, you know, like a few home wins on the bounce, the odd surprise away result.

There I've said it.  The only way we're going to reach mid-table any time soon is in the Championship.  And the cat that I say it at a time when Leicester and Crystal Palace are at the top of the league we're currently in is fucking depressing.     

That's kind of how I feel too. I'm sick of the same shit performances again and again.