Aston Villa v Stoke City post match thread

[richl]

From the beeb

Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood: "I am very disappointed, we needed to win the game at home to a team that we could have leapfrogged.

"We failed to capitalise and it was not good enough. I think a draw would have been a fair result, both teams were average.

"The situation is getting worse, it is alright saying ifs, buts and maybes, but we are not picking up the wins and that is why we are down near the bottom of the league.

"We are all in this together but as the manager I take all the responsibility.

"I will use the international break to get my players fitter because they are not fit enough yet to play the way I want them to play. For some of them it will be like a mini pre-season."

[Fin Feds Dad]

Indefensible today again. he picks his teams with the use of a dice and a board - if he has no idea of his best starting 11 after 8 months here - well that should be a sackable offence for a start . 5 at the back against Stoke at home ....... I could fucking weep

[garyshawsknee]

Surely he bought these players with an idea of how they would fit together? Or am I being naive ?

[pauliewalnuts]

Why will it be like a mini pre-season, out of interest?

Why wasn't this done in actual pre-season?

[Ormy Droid]

If the manager of a cafe kept shitting in the slush puppy machine, he would be sacked.

Depends how niche the cafe is.

I don't think our manager shits in the machine. But apart from throwing his tea towel about he doesn't seem to know what to do about it.

Funnily enough there's a 'The Slush Puppy Shitters' opening up in Shoreditch pretty soon.

[Richard E]

1-0 down in the 95th minute, we get a corner and we take it short. And we can't even do that wrong thing correctly. Drove hom deeply regretting renewing my season ticket and wishing the whole club would sod off forever.

[PeterWithesShin]

Whose fault is it that are players aren't fit in enough in October Tim? That has to be one of the shittest excuses for being shit that i've ever heard.

[olaftab]

From the beeb

"I will use the international break to get my players fitter because they are not fit enough yet to play the way I want them to play. For some of them it will be like a mini pre-season."

Jesus weeps.

[Tayls_7]

If the manager of a cafe kept shitting in the slush puppy machine, he would be sacked.

Depends how niche the cafe is.

I don't think our manager shits in the machine. But apart from throwing his tea towel about he doesn't seem to know what to do about it.

Actually in Scarborough I doubt that's a sackable offence.
Funnily enough there's a 'The Slush Puppy Shitters' opening up in Shoreditch pretty soon.

[PeterWithesShin]

Our corners are staggeringly shit. Charlie Adam took one in the second that was a beauty even if we did clear it ok, ours are just shit. And we can't even just blame it on Westwood, they were no better after he went off.

[The Left Side]

Devoid of creativity, it is going to be a long season... I like TS a lot but he is out of depth here and his coaches don't seem to be helping.

[olaftab]

Whose fault is it that are players aren't fit in enough in October Tim? That has to be one of the shittest excuses for being shit that i've ever heard.

He should be sacked for this one thing if not many other errors.

[ktvillan]

Just saw his interview on SSN. He looks lost. Surely Fox can see this? We need someone with an established, proven philosophy, even if it's Sam Allardyce. Tim's all over the fucking place. At this rate we'll be swapping divisions with b-lose. Imagine that with the new TV deal about to start.

A perfect illustration of why it was insanity/utter incompetence to a) hire a manger with no proven track record and b) not invest heavily (i.e. a bigger net spend than 4-5m) in the squad to ensure we are still around to get the big bucks next season.  At least Doug could run a corner shop, Lerner and Fox would be out of their depth running a hot dog stand.

[Villa in Denmark]

Team sheet v Chelsea


                                   Guzan

Amavi            Lescot              Richards              Bacuna

                        Westwood        Gueye

Sinclair                                                                  Veretout

                        Gabby                Gestede


Subs:

Creative player no.1
Creative player no.2
Creative player no.3
Better option no.1
Better option no.2
Stealing a living no.1
Stealing a living no.2
Am I seriously worse than Guzan? no.1


Any questions?

442?
With Westwood as one of the 2 in the middle?
Have we got a red carpet and a couple of ushers to make sure Matic and Fabregas know where the fuck off, huge hole straight to our goal will be?

[rougegorge]

Post match interview on WM Sherwood says "i need to keep shuffling the pack to find out what works".
He is admitting he doesn't what he is doing. This is going to be the toughest season supporting Villa yet.

Wow, that's pretty uninspiring stuff, to say the least.

You shuffle a pack, it is random. That's exactly what it isn't supposed to be, Tim.

That is crazy

Yes, and he holds no aces and is out of trump cards as well.

Any other half decent team would've beaten a very mediocre Stoke team who kept helping by giving us the ball back, but unfortunately we don't meet he half decent criteria.

The formation seemed so wrong in a must-win home game.

Hutton (no end product), Richards (apart from goal and an absolute sitter) and Gana were the only ones who could take much from that.

I cannot see where another point is coming from let alone another win. OK it's only 8 games but not many teams survive after getting just 4 points.

I believed TS when he said we wouldn't be in the same position again,  but I didn't know it meant we would be in an even more parlous position.