Aston Villa vs Man City Post-Match Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Sounds like a good one to miss

Without a doubt. Although it was almost worth it for 3rd. I'm struggling to think of a worse goal i've seen us concede in my 40 odd years of watching us.

[Toronto Villa]

I'd disagree with lack of fight, we weren't holding back in tackles etc and won most 50/50s, with some full blooded challenges. We were just hapless in the final third. And not much better in defence.

think about how much pressure not having any kind of attacking presence puts on the entire team. And it's not just the forwards who are at fault. The one thing Sherwood did do early on is get our midfielders into the box which led to the emergence of Tom Cleverley at the end of the season. We don't just need new strikers who actually move and create space, we need midfielders whop want to score goals. It's maddening when you just know that we'll knock it around the box for ages until we concede possession. There is no penetration or killer intent in the side at all.

[aj2k77]

Now we can concentrate on getting quietly relegated and a summer of guff from the brains trust. There is no composure, very little technical ability, no height, no tenacity and no pace in the team. Somehow we've assembled 20 odd players who can't actually do much. This is probably the slowest Villa team I've ever seen.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Sounds like a good one to miss

Without a doubt. Although it was almost worth it for 3rd. I'm struggling to think of a worse goal i've seen us concede in my 40 odd years of watching us.

The kind of pass Delph can only dream of providing.

[ClarrieBlue]

So it's about quarter to six on FA Cup Round 4 day and we've just limped on to page 2 of the post match thread. What the bloody hell is happening to us? The club is in such a mess it's unbelievable.

[aj2k77]

So it's about quarter to six on FA Cup Round 4 day and we've just limped on to page 2 of the post match thread. What the bloody hell is happening to us? The club is in such a mess it's unbelievable.

What is there to say that hasn't been said with increasing regularity over the past 5 years though? There's only so many ways you can say Westwood is wank, we go again or everything will be alright.

[ClarrieBlue]

Well I can't argue with that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Out of the cup and I doubt anyone at the club really gives too much of a shit.

I'm aware how tough it is to sign players when you are bottom of the league but I refuse to believe there is not a player out two out there to bring in and give us a better chance of staying up.

The total lack of transfer incomings, the defeatist, meekly doomed tone of the board at the trust AGM... it's like they don't care about our disintegration. I can put up with defeats like today, especially when they are so predictable, but I fucking hate the meek acceptance of shitness

This is just another page in their growing book of "couldn't give a fuck".

That is something that trickles down from the top, from the bored rich kid who decided he didn't give a shit five years ago. This is just a moribund basket case of a club.

[tomd2103]

The thread you've all been waiting for!

It was okayish, well for us, until the third. That third goal is one of the worst you will see any team concede at any level. I'd be fucked off if Brosmgrove conceded a goal like that. The 4th wasn't much better either.

Yep it was okayish in parts, but even then we hardly created anything.  Our crosses and set pieces are atrocious and never beat the first man.  The third goal was genuinely awful and it was the sign for us to give up altogether.

[Louzie0]

Westwood is one of a team and I will argue with such ridiculous scapegoating of an individual who doesn't deserve it.

Last time I looked, the midfield performances today were being identified as 'better than City's' and he's hardly to be held accountable for the lack of fire power up front. 

He's supposed to be playing a less than glamorous linking role; by all accounts in most weekly match reports and stats, he does that. He's provided assists to forwards who then don't make the most of them ( usually) for weeks, now.

Slag off the team, the manager, the strikers, the defence, even the coaches by all means because they share culpability but please, lay off Westwood!

[django]

If Gabby is fit I'd play him from now on. Even with his pace having greatly diminished he's still quicker than Gestede or Kozak. I was watching his movement off the ball and although not the most intelligent (!) there was at least movement off the ball.

We are so slow it is unbelievable. To think of our fast counter attacking team of six years or so ago it's incredible what we've allowed to happen to our squad. The game is more and more about pace on the attack and we've got barely any.

If we do actually have a recruitment policy I hope its focused on getting some nippy six footers in.

[exigo]

Black out.

[manic-road]

It saves having another thread on who we'll play in the next round of the FA cup, I don't think I will ever see them win the cup in my lifetime.

[in exile]

I couldn't go today (despite having our season ticket seats) as the wife isn't too well, so listened to it on radio until I couldn't stand any more after about 50 mins.

What was the atmosphere like?

[Deano's Mullet]

I didn't give a fig about the game before k-o. I feel no different now its finished. Hiding to nothing game.