Former PL club Aston Villa 2-3 Watford - post mortem thread

[paulcomben]

I fully expect Moyes to take over at Newcastle in the coming days saving their season.

When we look back, the fact that the best manager Villa never had was available in our hour of most need will hurt more than any of the other many monumental Fox Lerner fuck ups. Billions of pounds lost & years in the wilderness will be their fuck-ups' legacy.

[mr underhill]

it's going to be a very long six months. I am going to talk to the hedgehog in our garden to find out how to hibernate

[saunders_heroes]

David Moyes should be our manager right now, but instead we go for the cheap option.
We deserve everything we get.

[phantom limb]

To be fair we've been shit for such a long time it was always just delaying the inevitable, I feel oddly optimistic about the Championship. We might even win some games there.

[eric woolban woolban]

Well i don't think we deserved to lose but that's all academic. We're doomed. Could be the worst premier league team ever.

[aj2k77]

Absolutely rooted to the bottom and no way out from here I'm afraid. I've been mentally preparing for the drop but it's going to be hard to actually conceptualize it until it's nailed on. This is terrible.. I wonder if we'll get some sort of statement from the Board.

They'll probably all sneak off in the middle of the night and leave the keys with the cleaners and not be seen again.

[rob_bridge]

We in deepest trouble and need to pick up at least 8 points from next 5 games. Can't see it.

We left Lambert in place too long to sign has beens like Richardson and Joe Cole and then give The Mouth on a Stick 3 games too many.

Fucking useless

We are worse than 86-87

[saunders_heroes]

I fully expect Moyes to take over at Newcastle in the coming days saving their season.

When we look back, the fact that the best manager Villa never had was available in our hour of most need will hurt more than any of the other many monumental Fox Lerner fuck ups. Billions of pounds lost & years in the wilderness will be their fuck-ups' legacy.

They're not fuck ups, we just won't pay the going rate for Premier League players, and is why no decent manager worth his salt will touch us with a barge-pole.

[Rigadon]

This is anew record isn't it? Fewest points ever achieved by any team  in the premier league era at this stage?

Anybody thinking these players are good enough must be watching a different team. I'm no fan of his, but shetwood was totally right in saying every single player in the team needs to play a blinder for us to get anything. 

[rob_bridge]

To be fair we've been shit for such a long time it was always just delaying the inevitable, I feel oddly optimistic about the Championship. We might even win some games there.

I'm not so sure. We have a manager who would have been best hired in the summer of 2014. I'm not sure how he'll do in the league below. How many of the fuckers have got reduced wages written into their contracts if we get relegated? Gabby (and belly) 50k a week?

[mr underhill]

even had we appointed DM he wouldn't have saved us this year imo. time now to plan sensibly for life in the Championship

[Malandro]

Why did I buy three tickets for the West Ham game? It's going to be excruciating.

It doesn't mean you see us lose three times, on a positive note

[GarTomas]

How did the Ayew goal and 10 minutes announced for injury time not galvanize us like it would every other team? We managed it in the first half leading to Richard's goal.

Fitness of the players. Not much left after 90 mins.

Sherwood said the same - the fact he said is 3 months after having been in charge was scandalous.

[saint13]

David Moyes should be our manager right now, but instead we go for the cheap option.
We deserve everything we get.

I agree Big Sam is doing what Big Sam does. We should have gone for Moyes. He was the best Manager we could've got in our perilous situation.

We are well & truly Fucked!

[Stu]

*sigh*

Some positives to take from the performance but losing to fellow strugglers at home, and letting in three goals in the process, equals we're shit and going down. I can't see any other outcome when looking at what the team has to offer; any decent build-up play is stymied by the fact that we don't have a focus in attack, and the defence is always at sixes and sevens. We can't score more than the opposition and our defence leaks goals. No escape this time, people; this is the end game.