Aston Villa vs Swansea post match thread

[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.

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

Hic! Cheers Luton

[aj2k77]

decisive action needed tonight please Foxy

Don't  think he was even there today.

If he needed another defeat and wacky starting 11 to tell him dim Tim isn't up to the job and hiring a mouth piece with 6 months experience was a bad idea then he's more stupid than I thought.

[West Derby Villan]

Ok ...pissed off and pissed...can 4 managers/coaches all be shit or is the core of the club be the real culprit, sorry but I think we're all doomed if things don't change by the end of the month

[aj2k77]

Ok ...pissed off and pissed...can 4 managers/coaches all be shit or is the core of the club be the real culprit, sorry but I think we're all doomed if things don't change by the end of the month

We have the perfect storm of having the core of the club run by amateurs and a stream of shit managers in a row.

[silhillvilla]

decisive action needed tonight please Foxy

Don't  think he was even there today.

If he needed another defeat and wacky starting 11 to tell him dim Tim isn't up to the job and hiring a mouth piece with 6 months experience was a bad idea then he's more stupid than I thought.

I don't want to bad mouth anyone at the club as I know they are all working hard and doing their very best. We've got decent players. It seems to be about tactics , formations and game plans that are adrift.

[ROBBO]

Didn't watch the game live but just forced myself to watch the replay. The main point for me is that we have some very good players, Gana to me is class so is Richards and Anew will be a player, overall we have a squad that should be winning games more often than not. There are clear problems, if you are not going to use wide players what use is Gestede it's like playing with ten men he is not Benteke mark 2 someone should have a word and tell that he needs to put himself about and get stuck in to defenders.I feel a little better that with a more competent manager there is still time to get out of this mess.

[West Derby Villan]

On a roll.....back in the day I knew what our strategy was....break, wingers cross to centre forwards ...bang...goal (sometimes), now I sit/stand (sometimes) and wonder what is going on. Is it me but do we have trouble passing to our own players and keeping possession. Guyana distribution is shocking and our throwing always end up with the opposition, sorry got to go and visit the shiraz

[silhillvilla]

I'm so upset. We are a massive and brilliant club. Thus it's so hard to take . My biggest issue is I care too much.

[saunders_heroes]

I'm so upset. We are a massive and brilliant club. Thus it's so hard to take . My biggest issue is I care too much.

You and me and everyone else on here.

[villadelph]

Just watched the replay as I had work all day.

We are really bad. I don't care who shoulders the blame, as a unit we are just flat out terrible.

Gabby and Gestede have got to be THE worst forward pairing I've ever seen. They are so one-dimensional and poor. Can't trap a ball, can't get into a passing build up, can't shoot, can't defend, only make reactionary runs, offer nothing proactive. Seriously, they are just so terrible it makes me want to rip my hair out. How they both conned their way into the Premier League is beyond me. Gabby is so far past it, I used to love the guy, but he should not even sniff premier league football.

Bacuna in the central midfield was just dumb and shows sherwood really means it when he says he has NO IDEA what our best line up is.

Our back four is like a blooper reel from 2008. I don't think Hutton played terrible, but I can't say the same for Richardson. The pot is really starting to boil over when Richards is losing his shit over a non-call. He was pretty good today, but gave away the free kick (foul or not) that turned the game.

Gana was okay. I liked Gil he seems to be the only one, week in week out, that plays with confidence and trusts his ability. And I'm glad Ayew is coming good, he absolutely has to lead the line for us in the future. Our other "options" are useless.

Jack needs to be better. I don't care how old he is.

With all that said, I think Sherwood needs to be replaced. Unfortunately I think this will be our year for the drop. With so many young, impressionable minds I think it will be hard to turn the club around. I don't know where to go from here. Luck Ferner.

[West Derby Villan]

I'm so upset. We are a massive and brilliant club. Thus it's so hard to take . My biggest issue is I care too much.

You and me and everyone else on here.

bloxx not only are we shite but I've run out of Shiraz.........arhh antifreeze!

[West Derby Villan]

Dang this extra hour!

[Toronto Villa]

If the clocks go back in England then Sherwood gets an extra hour as manager. We are being screwed at every turn to get rid of this bloke.

[PeterWithesShin]

It had completely slipped me by that the clocks went back tonight. I dozed off for a bit and woke up 20 odd mins ago. It's quite amused me how confused I was trying to work out what was going on when posts on here were a later time than my phone and laptop were showing it now was.

[puppyfeat]

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? 

Certainly. Ask yourself why Lerner bought into the club. Without doubt one of his main motivations would have been for financial gain. However, not only has he blown many million$ on a hopelessly misguided venture, but having managed to keep his investment vehicle in the Premier League's promised land all this time, it looks like he won't be enjoying the big cash bonanza that's coming next season.