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

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Let's worry about this season before we start talking about the next 2.

whats to worry about?

we are down and anyone who thinks we arent is deluded

and as for players coming in during jan, fuck me who are we going to attract?

call me deluded but I will not accept we are done for
never ever ever UTV

can you see us picking up a point from our next two games?

 5 points from 16 games and we will survive? i admire your optimism!

[West Derby Villan]

Thought we played better today. Thought they scored fortunate goals against the run of play. Thought we didn't get any luck. think we will go down. VTID

[john2710]

Just watched the goals again & the defending for all 3 is suicidal. If you look at most of the goals against us, they come from straight down the centre or individual errors. We don't get opened up, we don't concede from set plays. Only Liverpool, Spurs & Everton have really outplayed us.

We have to be realistic on what can be achieved between now and the end of season. The best we can hope for is to put up a decent show of it. January is too late, it would take a miracle. We need to plan for next season.

Whatever happens, I'll still be there next August.

UTV

[preston28]

Just got back.  Wine opened and boy I need it!
In my mind despite a moderate improvement in performance we are going down. Squad is simply not good enough and Garde hasn't got the time to sort this m so out. We need at least 11 wins from the remaining games to have a fighting chance. I can't see where the next win will come from?

[Steve67]

So many poor decisions. So many things wrong at the club. They haven't planned or executed anything well whilst in the Premiership, under Lerner, since MON walked, unlikely to do it in the Championship either. What a time to get relegated. Not done yet but history is well and truly against us. We need way too many replacement players in one window to stay up. Keeper, centre back, full backs, midfielder and a striker all required.

[four fornicholl]

Let's worry about this season before we start talking about the next 2.

whats to worry about?

we are down and anyone who thinks we arent is deluded

and as for players coming in during jan, fuck me who are we going to attract?

call me deluded but I will not accept we are done for
never ever ever UTV

can you see us picking up a point from our next two games?

 5 points from 16 games and we will survive? i admire your optimism!

saints we win
arsenal we draw
there you go
im deluded to fuck but wont admit it

[Ron Manager]

Has anyone else noticed how Gueye's (Gana) performance level seems to be dropping each game? He was a shining light when he first arrived but now he looks to be trying but only to a certain level in a losing team.

[ROBBO]

Lerner has sole responsibility for this, after MON walked out leaving us with overpaid journeyman stinking the club out instead of gradually changing the structure he cut to the bone looking for cheap options all the way. Yes he spent a lot of his own money when he believed we could be a top four side but as soon as he realised that wasn't going to happen he shut up shop, stopped coming to Villa Park (family committments is the fall back excuse) and literally lost interest. He has done to us what he did to the Browns, he has taken a well respected premiership club and turned us into a laughing stock. Garde has no blame in this whatsoever neither do any of the previous managers, they didn't appoint themselves the idiots running the club did. Before Garde was appointed i thought that Big Sam was the only manager out there that could save us, yes the football wouldn't be great but he would get results and survival but now we have give Garde his chance. Those expecting Lerner to spend big in January are in for a big disappointment.

[class-of-82]

Just got in 8-30 pm Saturday night from another 350 round trip from towie land to vp over a season that's about 6-7 thousand fucking miles a season. Every trip is started with hope and optimism thinking that today we "gonna get it right".
This has been going on for season after season now,basic errors poor performances poor judgement from so called premiership players. Yes we can all blame randy,Tom fox Reilly and that bloke whose name I can't be bothered to spell and yes these are the players they helped to sign.
But some of these performances from our players wouldn't  even get to the judges houses on X factor that's how bad they are
It's now 9pm and it's taken me 30 mins to write about 8-9 lines that's how fucking numb I am with all of this

[mr woo]

Lerner has sole responsibility for this, after MON walked out leaving us with overpaid journeyman stinking the club out

I've never really bought into this bitter and twisted jilted bride mentality many people have against O'Neill.  The day he walked out was the day I knew we were in decline.

I wish we were being 'stunk out' in 6th place every year right now.

[aj2k77]

There's no way out of this one simply because we have no Benteke's, no Delph's, no Bent's, no Downing's, no Cleverley's, no Vlaar's.

We have gradually sold off all the crown jewels and anyone of any real value and have the bit part players and gambles left.

[class-of-82]

P.s.
Captain Morgan is going to get one hell of a beating to night

[aj2k77]

Just got in 8-30 pm Saturday night from another 350 round trip from towie land to vp over a season that's about 6-7 thousand fucking miles a season. Every trip is started with hope and optimism thinking that today we "gonna get it right".
This has been going on for season after season now,basic errors poor performances poor judgement from so called premiership players. Yes we can all blame randy,Tom fox Reilly and that bloke whose name I can't be bothered to spell and yes these are the players they helped to sign.
But some of these performances from our players wouldn't  even get to the judges houses on X factor that's how bad they are
It's now 9pm and it's taken me 30 mins to write about 8-9 lines that's how fucking numb I am with all of this

We will come good again one day, those journeys will end up enjoyable, we've just got to weather the storm a while yet.

[LeeB]

Has anyone else noticed how Gueye's (Gana) performance level seems to be dropping each game? He was a shining light when he first arrived but now he looks to be trying but only to a certain level in a losing team.

This is something of a recurring theme at the club. Player comes in, player looks good, player slowly turns to shit.
Ryan Bertrand was a fine example of this, in particular because a move to Southampton had him looking like a player again, immediately.

[Ads]

I think it will be daily surprising if we stay up now. Another poor team in Watford turn up at Villa Park and take all three points.

I actually thought we were the better side for most of it and created some opportunities, but the level of defending is appalling.

It's F course  of mathematically over, but I cannot see us staying up now.