Aston Villa vs Swansea post match thread

[Witton Warrior]

There is a tolerable team in this squad but what the hell they are coached to do week after week I cannot fathom.
Watching the "build-up" for the equaliser was incredible as we had three, relatively easy, chances to progress the ball up the pitch but managed each time to put the receiving payer under pressure until it was lost and the free kick ensued.

As for the chanting - a lot of the Upper Holte didn't sing for Sherwood and there was laughter at the "Lerner out" chants as that is exactly what he bloody wants!

I fear there will not be a Bolton/Hull moment for Tim as a lot of fans are just numbed by the whole debacle.

[Legion]

Has he been sacked?

[AlexAlexCropley]

The service and one queue system in the club shop was very good.Wished I'd stayed there for the match

[Ducksworthy]

From Andy Dunn in The Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/aston-villa-football-club-unquestioned-6698377?ICID_mirror_MF

Aston Villa Football Club is an unquestioned mess, but so too is Tim Sherwood's team

The Villans fell to yet another defeat at home to an equally out-of-form Swansea and are increasingly looking like relegation fodder in their current state

It is not Tim Sherwood's fault Aston Villa Football Club has been shedding its dignity over the last half a decade.

It is not Tim Sherwood's fault one of football's grandest institutions has shifted into a swamp of mediocrity.

It is not Tim Sherwood's fault Villa's transfer policy might as well have been made up over a few jars.

There has been a desperate inertia - lifted only sporadically - about this place for a long time. A long time before Sherwood arrived with his smile, swagger and soundbites.

But it is Sherwood's fault this team looks devoid of a cogent plan.


It is Sherwood's fault the only people who find his tactics harder to decipher than the punters appear to be his players.

It is Sherwood's fault he trusts defenders who have perfected the art of letting him down at key moments. And Sherwood knows it.

He knew it as he drew down his eyelids with a clawed hand when Andre Ayew dispatched the most predictable winner imaginable.


Only 10 league matches into a season and, as a glaze of quiet anguish flushed his face, you suspect Sherwood - for all his instinctive defiance - is expecting the call.

Even that defiance carried the sort of defensive half-heartedness that allowed Swansea and Garry Monk this shot in the arm.

Sherwood's voice croaked with the soreness of having to trot out the cliches again. Until I hear otherwise, we battle on. We'll keep going. I love this job, I'm not giving it up. I'm no quitter.

Yet there was a desperation distorting that familiar, confident lilt. He lamented how Swansea's winning goal was side-footed home from six yards without a challenge and his exasperation was laid bare as he pondered on how Jordan Ayew's goal was really just an equaliser scored first such was the certainty of a Swansea leveller.


More tellingly, he bemoaned 'poor quality' and virtually implied that much of Villa's summer transfer business has turned out not to be to his liking.

That, of course, brings Villa's recruitment system into the spotlight.

You can probably find only one man and his dog who believe recruitment should be the sole preserve and duty of the manager. And that man is Arsene Wenger, by the way.

There would be considerably more decrying the use of analysts and number-crunchers but they probably have their role as well.

But what has happened at Villa Park is the people commissioned with the acquisition of new talent have lost sight of - or never had sight of - the person they are buying for. Unless, of course, they know he is on borrowed time.


Raw, international, potential talent was not what Sherwood wanted. It's not what he felt this football team needed.

If the club felt he was wrong, they should have shown him the door before a ball was kicked this season.

Sherwood's job is no longer to nurture young talent, pockets of which might be of use to the first team.

It is to keep Aston Villa in the Premier League. And improve them. He felt he knew the tools the club needed to go out and get and the club came back with a different set for him.


Sherwood knew all this, though, and bought into it. And that is why he cannot deflect a single shaft of blame being shone towards him.

Confident character he is, Sherwood thought his motivation, his inspiration, his training ground nous would be enough to overcome a transfer set-up that is clearly not to his liking.

It has not been enough. Nowhere near enough. As Sherwood himself said, Aston Villa is a club in a hole.

That it got there is not his fault. That there are absolutely NO signs of it being lifted out IS.

And that is why the call will come. Sooner rather than later.

[Loxton01]

All I feel is sadness!
Losing to Leicester killed the confidence. Sherwood has made mistakes but this club is rotten and Lerner is the root cause

We have a bottom six squad. Sherwood should have us on about 9 points with the squad we have!

However everyone wants him out who comes in whose out there? Who can save us?

It's just sad we are finished

[myf]

The sad thing is we actually have a good squad of players.

Sack the c***.

although the defence is fucking useless. Sick of the sight of these has-been high earners getting ripped apart every week.

[LeeB]

Even my old gaffer, who is a born again Christian, Man Utd fan and lives in Uganda has felt compelled to message me asking when we're likely to bin this chancer.

[myf]

Men of the Match - Jordan Ayew & Alan Hutton, but for me Hutton shaded it (as much as I don't like him)

pity he didn't pick up ayew when it mattered

[myf]

Just seen the dust up in the tunnel at the end...Richards seemed to be going psycho in there/. He's one of the few who can hold his head up high this season.

pah! Missing for the winner today and needlessly arguing andbgetting booked in he first half. He can fuck off with sherwood as far as im concerned

[BC54 VFC]

As an aside, after the game I pointed at the car in front and said to Leeg "isn't that the reg of the bloke on H&V that has his number plate as his username?". And it was him. Highlight of the day!!

First time I've ever been referred to as 'highlight of the day'

My highlight of the day was getting back to Shrewsbury in time to watch Jamelia and Aliona on Strictly! 

[Legion]

We waved but you ignored us.

[BC54 VFC]

We waved but you ignored us.

Sorry.

[Bully2345]

From football365: http://www.football365.com/news/end-of-the-road-for-sherwood-at-aston-villa

"Alan Hutton, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott and Kieran Richardson should not have formed a Premier League defence eight years ago, never mind in 2015. Gabby Agbonlahor should not still feature in top-flight games, never mind start them. Villa’s best player in Carles Gil remains on the bench. Rudy Gestede – a man backed by Sherwood as the best header in English football – is fielded, but with no wingers on the pitch. A litany of mistakes, and that was before kick-off."

They're right, you know. Time to go

[Villafirst]

Yet another late goal conceded....The same mistakes week in week out; Indeed it's been the same problem for years these late goals against.

[PeterWithesShin]

As an aside, after the game I pointed at the car in front and said to Leeg "isn't that the reg of the bloke on H&V that has his number plate as his username?". And it was him. Highlight of the day!!

First time I've ever been referred to as 'highlight of the day'

My highlight of the day was getting back to Shrewsbury in time to watch Jamelia and Aliona on Strictly! 

We were debating if I had time at the traffic lights to jump out and come knock on your window and say "you're banned from H&V" before running off back to the car and giggling like girls. We decided we didn't have time.