Aston Villa vs Man City Post-Match Thread

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

Wonder if this person did the same when Man City were shit and went down?

Or did they not even bother going because they were shit.

[john e]

There's no excuses this time chaps

Saturday 3 o'clock kick off, FA Cup tie against title chasing City, tickets at £15 and £10
fans have just had enough, who can blame them

There is a whole generation of kids who we will find it difficult to engage,
 my own lad (eight) has only ever seen us being rubbish, he thinks that's what we are, he knows and has seen nothing else, he's living in a TV world of Messi and Ronaldo

He was more interested in seeing Aguero and Silva yesterday, I know they didn't play but the fact is he wasn't excited about anyone playing for Villa, Benteke was his first footballing hero and Delph, both gone
I'm taking him to games and he's still struggling with supporting Villa, any brummie kid or otherwise left to there own devices isn't going to be picking us, they are an absolute embarrassment

I can look back and remember us being league champions and European cup winners young school kids today look back and remember the dizzy heights of finishing 9th

It's a bad thing that's happened

[OzVilla]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

Wonder if this person did the same when Man City were shit and went down?

Or did they not even bother going because they were shit.

Citeh are second only to Blose when it comes to embarressing relegations so I wouldn't be taking too many lectures from them.  Infact, they were heading for the Championship and thought that the Thai bloke was their Chinesse hairdresser before the oil money turned up and turned them from panel beaters to world beaters. *

Copyright Big Ron.

[walsall villain]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

Wonder if this person did the same when Man City were shit and went down?

Or did they not even bother going because they were shit.

Citeh are second only to Blose when it comes to embarressing relegations so I wouldn't be taking too many lectures from them.  Infact, they were heading for the Championship and thought that the Thai bloke was their Chinesse hairdresser before the oil money turned up and turned them from panel beaters to world beaters. *

Copyright Big Ron.

It doesn't seem long ago when we beat them 4-2 (Gabby hat trick) and with their Thai owner a wanted man they looked in serious trouble. Jammy bastards.

[VillaAlways]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

Wonder if this person did the same when Man City were shit and went down?

Or did they not even bother going because they were shit.

Citeh are second only to Blose when it comes to embarressing relegations so I wouldn't be taking too many lectures from them.  Infact, they were heading for the Championship and thought that the Thai bloke was their Chinesse hairdresser before the oil money turned up and turned them from panel beaters to world beaters. *

Copyright Big Ron.

It doesn't seem long ago when we beat them 4-2 (Gabby hat trick) and with their Thai owner a wanted man they looked in serious trouble. Jammy bastards.

We beat them twice under Lambert 4-2 at the Ethiad in the Cup and 3-2 in the league at home Comes to something when you start looking back at Lamberts reign with fondness because we were capable of pulling off a shock result against the big boys. Now we can' beat barely anybody

[olaftab]

There's no excuses this time chaps

Saturday 3 o'clock kick off, FA Cup tie against title chasing City, tickets at £15 and £10
fans have just had enough, who can blame them

There is a whole generation of kids who we will find it difficult to engage,
 my own lad (eight) has only ever seen us being rubbish, he thinks that's what we are, he knows and has seen nothing else, he's living in a TV world of Messi and Ronaldo

He was more interested in seeing Aguero and Silva yesterday, I know they didn't play but the fact is he wasn't excited about anyone playing for Villa, Benteke was his first footballing hero and Delph, both gone
I'm taking him to games and he's still struggling with supporting Villa, any brummie kid or otherwise left to there own devices isn't going to be picking us, they are an absolute embarrassment

I can look back and remember us being league champions and European cup winners young school kids today look back and remember the dizzy heights of finishing 9th

It's a bad thing that's happened

Yes john e quite right it's tough turning our youngsters into Villa fans in the world they live in and current situation and not being in the Premier next season will turn another Brummie generation in the wrong direction.

[Chris Smith]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

To a certain extent he's right. We gave a master class in ineptitude yesterday. We conceded early, gave away a penalty and then gave them a third from a woeful attempt at a back pass. That in between times we passed the ball neatly counts for nothing.

I know we conceded a fourth but after the third I decided I no longer wanted to spend by time having my seat kicked by the little rugrat behind me so left, along with hundreds of others. Just I got to the top of the steps down to the concourse and an old bloke started ranting at everyone for leaving and not to bother coming back, all I could do was laugh at the futility of it - and then as I turned they scored again.There were so many people on Witton Lane as we walked to the pub it felt like a normal full time.

Where he hasn't got a point is that his club are a massive part of the problem. Their fans act as though they are in a fair fight when the truth is they can leave players out and still field a side costing many times more than our entire squad. We leave out a few and get the Keystone Cops.

[NorthYvillan]

I have been going "down the Villa" since the late sixties and have had a season ticket since they introduced standing season tickets in the late 70s(?). I've kept this going despite moving to North Yorkshire 20 years ago. Enjoyment of home performances started to decline when MON made us into a counter-attacking team - we'd get a goal and then sit back and let the opposition attack us and try and hit them on the break. Far too often this wouldn't work and we' drop points unnecessarily.

Since then it has only got worse. This season I have only been to VP twice to date - the last being the thriller 😴 against Stoke. When you can watch the game without leaving home why waste 5 hours in travel plus petrol costs to watch crap.

I will use my season ticket again vs Norwich mainly because I'm seeing friends in Brum for the weekend. Reluctantly, if relegation means we can see winning attacking football back at Villa Park then it might not be all bad.

[SashasGrandad]

BBC reported VP as "near empty". I actually think 23k is fairly decent considering the current situation and the fact this result was a virtual foregone conclusion.

And was more than turned up at Tescos Smethwick Branch

[Quiet Lion]

The AVTV audio was so poor, I ended up listening to a City feed on their website.

What I found interesting was the commentators had this kind of genuine sympathy for us. The could not believe how easy it was for them or how fat Gabby was. The players, the fans and the club have all given up.

Sucks to be us at the moment

[PeterWithesShin]

I was hoping my "he's fat as fuck" version would catch on.

[not3bad]

Last time we were terrible in the FA Cup we responded with a decent league performance against Crystal Palace the following Tuesday. Am hoping it happens again.

[Karlos96]

There's no excuses this time chaps

Saturday 3 o'clock kick off, FA Cup tie against title chasing City, tickets at £15 and £10
fans have just had enough, who can blame them

There is a whole generation of kids who we will find it difficult to engage,
 my own lad (eight) has only ever seen us being rubbish, he thinks that's what we are, he knows and has seen nothing else, he's living in a TV world of Messi and Ronaldo

He was more interested in seeing Aguero and Silva yesterday, I know they didn't play but the fact is he wasn't excited about anyone playing for Villa, Benteke was his first footballing hero and Delph, both gone
I'm taking him to games and he's still struggling with supporting Villa, any brummie kid or otherwise left to there own devices isn't going to be picking us, they are an absolute embarrassment

I can look back and remember us being league champions and European cup winners young school kids today look back and remember the dizzy heights of finishing 9th

It's a bad thing that's happened

At the game yesterday there was a little lad sat not far from me I overheard his dad talking to him about how his son hadn't even seen a win yet.  Felt really sorry for them must be hard taking your kid, trying to get them interested in watching the Villa and then having that garbage served up every week.

[OzVilla]

Statistically being the worst team across all divisions over the last 4 years (I think) is bad enough but to do it in this age of the glory hunting, reflected gratification, I want it now, era could royally fuck us up in ways we've just not realized yet.

I'd hate to know how our fan base of under 16's is going these days. And that's just local, you can forget across the world.

Another master stroke of timing from Randy and his band of chancers and dullards.

[dave.woodhall]

Villa, though... they've given up as a club. their fans did no more than shrug and trudge out after our fourth. no remonstrating, no anger, just passive. They're resigned to the Championship and will do nothing to stop themselves, it seems.


A post from Bluemoon forum. Sums it up. Apathy everywhere.

Wonder if this person did the same when Man City were shit and went down?

Or did they not even bother going because they were shit.

Citeh are second only to Blose when it comes to embarressing relegations so I wouldn't be taking too many lectures from them.  Infact, they were heading for the Championship and thought that the Thai bloke was their Chinesse hairdresser before the oil money turned up and turned them from panel beaters to world beaters. *

Copyright Big Ron.

Those years never happened. They slipped into the same Mancunian black hole that wiped the memory of 1968-93 from their brothers-in-arrogance.