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

[CT]

Fucking Vardy has scored again

He's scored one less than we have as a team. He's still got time to get level too!

[clash city rocker]

Resigned to the fact we are going down. Just hope we don't set too many records for the wrong reasons.
However painful I will keep going just to support Remi. Big Sam and Moyes may have been good short term solutions but in the long term would have taken us nowhere. I really think Remi can give us a team to be proud of eventually but it's going to take time  and a painful bout of the championship first I fear.

[Loxton01]

It's done today we had to win and we didn't! Our great club is rotten we are leaderless on the pitch and even worse off it. Stoke Swansea WBA and now Watford have all come and left with three points.

We are full of players who are not good enough at this level.

We are run by a man who doesn't want to be there and is being supported by people with no football acumen whatsoever

We have got what we deserve relegation

I am broken tonight I am sick of being put through this week after week. There's nothing left in the tank for me I'm done with it

[Stirchley Villain]

Fucking Vardy has scored again

Ah yes... another who wasn't good enough for us...

[nick harper]

Didn't deserve to lose and we played some good stuff in the first half. Really should have been two goals up. Second half we slipped back into sideways passing and no momentum.

And of course the first thing you need to do when struggling is tighten up at the back and stop conceding goals - see Allardyce at Sunderland.

I think there's enough to work with in players like Gil, Ayew, Veretout and Gana but that back four and an awful goalkeeper is why we will go.

[Stirchley Villain]

Didn't deserve to lose and we played some good stuff in the first half. Really should have been two goals up. Second half we slipped back into sideways passing and no momentum.

And of course the first thing you need to do when struggling is tighten up at the back and stop conceding goals - see Allardyce at Sunderland.

I think there's enough to work with in players like Gil, Ayew, Veretout and Gana but that back four and an awful goalkeeper is why we will go.

We did deserve to lose. They were poor but as usual we couldn't capitalise on that.

[Vegas]

It's pretty miserable stuff.

I don't mean this in a 'better fan than you' way at all, but I don't relate to this 'past caring' thing. It still bloody hurts to see us so spineless, so inept at the back, so toothless up front. I hate the fact I was desperately hoping for a late equaliser at home to fucking Watford, but I was.  I don't go to every game and wasn't there today but I'll go to my usual 10 or so this year, and 10 or so next year if we're in the Championship.

I can't argue with the side Remi picked at all but we just don't have enough quality.

One thing I didn't understand from the match thread was the flak Sherwood was getting. Surely our struggles today if anything put him in a slightly better light, not that we can take any consolation from that?

[SamTheMouse]

Our problem is that Lerner is a ditherer. He's not proactive - everything he does is passive.

He doesn't react until his hand is forced. And this time it's going to be too late.

[Richard]

I like Garde and hope he stays if we go down

Crying out for a few more quality defenders and one centre forward

Gutted today as enjoyed a lot of our attacking play

[mr-villa]

We need to win half of our remaining games to stay up. That is not going to happen.

That's total tosh we only need to win 11 not twelve, 38 points would be enough

[curiousorange]

Charlie Austin. I don't care if his knee's made of rice paper, he'll put the ball in the net.

Him and two defenders will do.

[lovejoy]

We can get out of this.  It's going to take something special between now and  May but we can do it.

Billy is that you? we need you more than ever.

[ChicagoLion]

We need to win half of our remaining games to stay up. That is not going to happen.

That's total tosh we only need to win 11 not twelve, 38 points would be enough

thanks for clearing that up.

[Rudy65]

Blame Lerner. Yes

But who the fuck was in charge if our transfer policy in the summer. £50m on that lot!

Coventry here we come

[kippaxvilla2]

The thing is we have now put ourselves in a difficult position anyway when it comes to the transfer window.

1. Persuading players to come will be difficult.
2. As a result of 1 we will almost inevitably have to overpay both on fees, and wages.
3. Are we in such a perilous position that to blow another load of money on transfers and then still go down would be again a financial disaster.

If we were in touch with the teams above us it would be far easier but looking at our next two games, I can't see that being anywhere near likely.