Aston Villa vs Man City Post-Match Thread

[nodge]

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.

I was taken to my first Villa game when we were in the old Division 3.  I was too young to remember what happened late sixties but many people say it was the worst time to be a Villa fan.  You can't turn the youngsters into Villa fans, they either see the light or they go and support someone else. 

[bertlambshank]

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.

We won't be playing Palace for the next 5 years.

[Pete3206]

As I queued in the 'season ticket lane' in the ticket office yesterday, a steward told us to cheer up because we had more home games to look forward to next season. Sad times.

[CT]

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.

Truth hurts and it's entirely accurate IMO.

[Jimbo]

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.

It's not wrong, is it? In the match thread I suggested a change of club motto. "Prepared" is inaccurate in every way, except that we're prepared for failure. We're set up perfectly for getting beaten. A more fitting motto would be "Passive".

We've completely given up. From our feckless, half-soaked owner down to the wasters on the pitch, nobody can be arsed. It's little wonder the fans are beginning to feel the same way.

[auntiesledd]

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.

It's not wrong, is it? In the match thread I suggested a change of club motto. "Prepared" is inaccurate in every way, except that we're prepared for failure. We're set up perfectly for getting beaten. A more fitting motto would be "Passive".

We've completely given up. From our feckless, half-soaked owner down to the wasters on the pitch, nobody can be arsed. It's little wonder the fans are beginning to feel the same way.

Well I must be one of the few who are still fuming about the fucking pathetic collection of overpaid tossers who let us & themselves down so badly again yesterday. I was in a fowl mood as I switched off the radio after the latest debacle, & the day after I feel just as angry and vengeful. No doubt I'll join the ranks of the passive, beaten majority shortly: but in the meantime I'll respect my anger as being the product of my life-long  love for this club; and my disgust at those responsible for its decimation. May the Fleas of a thousand Camels infest their pubic hair.

[supertom]

This was always a write off for me. We knew what was coming. We knew the only hope of a result rested entirely on the opposition. If Man City showed up in anything above 2nd gear we'd getting utterly fucked. That happened. We're a million miles from then.
The only hope now, is that this result doesn't dent the little bit of confidence we managed to claw back. It's also particularly evident that the only reasonable CH pairing we have at the club is Lescott and Okore. Every other formula seems to result in nothing but shit and Richards for me is actually the weakest link of all. He may on occasion play well as an individual but he's a c**ting awful team player. Probably one of the worst team players we've ever had. He has no awareness of others. No awareness of how his positioning effects others games. He's a fucking abomination with a reputation he doesn't deserve. He has every physical and skil attribute required but unfortunately he's got a steaming pile of cow dung where his bloody brain should be.

The sad part is, and I go back to this again, is O Neills last season. We're above City in the table. John Carew puts us 1-0 up against them. I think it's a March or April game IIRC. In the end they won 3-1 and the ended the season above us. It was probably the first year it looked like their money would begin to show dividends in trophies. The turnaround in both clubs since has been astonishing frankly. If a game every represented such a tragic foreboding shift, it was probably losing that one 3-1 almost 6 years ago. Okay we've never had the best record against them but we've always been on a par, or above them at least, until the last, thoroughly depressing 5 years. We're heading to shitsville and they're winning trophies.

Fuck the fuckers.

[saunders_heroes]

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.

Truth hurts and it's entirely accurate IMO.

Agree 100%. Apathy rules.

[PeterWithesShin]

Apathy Rules OK.

[Legion]

The first team squad were all at BMH this morning.

[Des Little]

As I queued in the 'season ticket lane' in the ticket office yesterday, a steward told us to cheer up because we had more home games to look forward to next season. Sad times.

And we'll have less stewards working for us too so perhaps not everything is positive

[in exile]

The first team squad were all at BMH this morning.

I think this is normal practice to prepare for a Tuesday game

[clash city rocker]

Watching the goals again ( yes  that hurt) why do our defenders just stand still and watch ? They seem to be in a different world. It's almost  unreal when you watch closely.  You wouldn't stand there like that in a Sunday league match..If you can't get to the ball first in your own penalty area then it's time to give up...fkin shocking defending..saying it was amateurish is a slight on all amateur footballers the world over.

[Fin Feds Dad]

The third goal -  It's shockingly bad - probably the zenith of comical, awful goals we've conceded - and there's been hundreds over the last 5 years alone . The corner doesn't even reach the 6 yard box - not one villa player makes a run to near post anyway - overloaded at back post & corner played nowhere near there anyway - ball falls to gana - doesn't try to look / play forward , plays blindly back (under hit / half hearted) , Cissokho (only covering player) positionally is on left touch line - no where near centre of pitch where he can cover both sides equally - and when he does finally react it is too slow - pathetic . Under 11s 9 a side footballers have more tactical nous . Fucking pathetic

[clash city rocker]

And if Bacuna can defend then I'm an astronaut that can reach the far flung  places of the universe without a spacecraft.