Aston Villa vs Swansea post match thread

[Dave Pountney]

I take the point that the owners of the club can't be blamed directly for the poor coaching, tactical ineptitude, selection blunders and the inability of players to perform the basic skills of the game,  but if anyone seriously thinks that Villa's deep seated problems can be cured by the appointment of yet another new Manager, then they are seriously deluded. Our club has been brought to its current dismal and depressing plight by the people who have run it for the past four or five disastrous years and who appointed Houllier, McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood. Not only were these poor choices, they were compounded by a campaign of austerity imposed on the club to rescue it from O'Neill's profligacy; a profligacy, by the way, encouraged by a guileless and naive owner who thought he'd inherited a managerial genius. Lerner's casual, lazy, remote and long distance ownership style allowed O'Neill to run the Villa like his own personal fiefdom and the club was virtually a financial basket case in terms of its day-to-day solvency before Lerner woke up and tried to rein O'Neill in. The self-important and overrated Ulsterman then stormed off in a huff and left us in the lurch on the cusp of a new season and our current plight can be plotted all the way back to those fateful days.

The story since has been a tragic catalogue of botched managerial appointments and shoestring investment from an increasingly resentful owner and I fear the worst run club in the top flight over the last five years will meet its just deserts in May and become a Championship club, just at the very time that the Premiership gravy train really does arrive at the station.

Oh dear, the very irony of it all.

[Steve67]

Did their keeper have to make anything like an actual save?

Dave Pountney, great post mate. I do think that we are run slightly better these days, although not much. But I do think that the right appointment will be a big lift.

[KevinEaton]

My biggest issue is the lack of any effort to create a formation and style of play and stick to it! He keeps saying that he is going to keep making changes in the hope of stumbling across the right combination. Well I'm sorry, but we don't pay you to throw a load of names in a hat each week and hope you randomly draw out a winning side. That's what training sessions are for! Decide on a formation and who your best players are within that formation, stick to it and do some bloody work on the training ground to make it work

[Chris Jameson]

What the fuck was Richards playing at with his pathetic macho man handbags as Swansea were breaking? Pathetic.

[aj2k77]

I'm gutted tonight, I don't even have the energy to vent because it's just repeating the same things said for the last couple of months or in some cases the last 4 years.

The bottom line is we are in a state of our rookie/thickie leaderships making and we will do very very well to not be relegated this season.

I just don't see it though, we won't score many and we will concede almost every game. No shape, no pattern, the players are poorly drilled, the selections are wrong. We are fucked. We're going down this season and I'm hurting.

[rob_bridge]

I take the point that the owners of the club can't be blamed directly for the poor coaching, tactical ineptitude, selection blunders and the inability of players to perform the basic skills of the game,  but if anyone seriously thinks that Villa's deep seated problems can be cured by the appointment of yet another new Manager, then they are seriously deluded. Our club has been brought to its current dismal and depressing plight by the people who have run it for the past four or five disastrous years and who appointed Houllier, McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood. Not only were these poor choices, they were compounded by a campaign of austerity imposed on the club to rescue it from O'Neill's profligacy; a profligacy, by the way, encouraged by a guileless and naive owner who thought he'd inherited a managerial genius. Lerner's casual, lazy, remote and long distance ownership style allowed O'Neill to run the Villa like his own personal fiefdom and the club was virtually a financial basket case in terms of its day-to-day solvency before Lerner woke up and tried to rein O'Neill in. The self-important and overrated Ulsterman then stormed off in a huff and left us in the lurch on the cusp of a new season and our current plight can be plotted all the way back to those fateful days.

The story since has been a tragic catalogue of botched managerial appointments and shoestring investment from an increasingly resentful owner and I fear the worst run club in the top flight over the last five years will meet its just deserts in May and become a Championship club, just at the very time that the Premiership gravy train really does arrive at the station.

Oh dear, the very irony of it all.

Irony? 

[brontebilly]

What the fuck was Richards playing at with his pathetic macho man handbags as Swansea were breaking? Pathetic.

To be fair he had been nutted in the face. Would be more concerned that he was MIA again for their second goal and gave away a needless free kick for the first one.

Gueye's lack of professionalism for the second goal was disgusting. Let the Swansea player run off him and hung Richardson out to dry.

Nice goal we got, well worked. Would have scored a similar one earlier if Gabby had played across to Ayew.

How did Bacuna go today?

[Lastfootstamper]

My biggest issue is the lack of any effort to create a formation and style of play and stick to it! He keeps saying that he is going to keep making changes in the hope of stumbling across the right combination. Well I'm sorry, but we don't pay you to throw a load of names in a hat each week and hope you randomly draw out a winning side. That's what training sessions are for! Decide on a formation and who your best players are within that formation, stick to it and do some bloody work on the training ground to make it work

That is, word for word, what I find myself shouting at the radio on a frequent basis whenever some pundit or "expert" attempts to enlighten the world on our club's current woes. Yes, there are undoubtedly issues away from the pitch, but on it, just stop fucking dicking about, you twunt.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Every week the team/formation changes, how can we get any kind of consistency? I'm sick of seeing Hutton on the ball in their half because you know he's just going to give it away or put it out for a goal kick.

Just everything about the team is boring. Gestede with no wingers, Gabby full stop! A cracking ball from Grealish with him on the bloody end and he can't even get it on target. Just go you boring ****** and if he switches his phone off txt him!!!!!

[Sexual Ealing]

It feels like 1969/70 all over again.

Yes, or 1966/67.

I bet the members of Ocean Colour Scene text things like this to each other all the time.

[Pete3206]

Bacuna and Lescott produced performances which were amongst the worst of my 45 years on this planet.

Abysmal beyond belief. Fucking abysmal.

Yes, I have been drinking. I've had a lot to drink.

[aj2k77]

                             P    W  D  L    G    A    PTS   GD
Aston Villa             81  20 22 39  86  114  82   -28

Our home record the last 4 and a bit years

[villan from luton]

Bacuna and Lescott produced performances which were amongst the worst of my 45 years on this planet.

Abysmal beyond belief. Fucking abysmal.

Yes, I have been drinking. I've had a lot to drink.

So have I and may I suggest you are wrong. First post I have seen so gone for you as actually thought Bacuna was good

[silhillvilla]

Just home.

Totally gutted , upset beyond belief, no idea where we go next.

[silhillvilla]

decisive action needed tonight please Foxy

Don't  think he was even there today.