The Mind Numbing Task of the Stoke City v Aston Villa (R) Post Match Thread.

[andyh]

At 2-0 it was just the same old meh, couldn't even get myself worked up over it, we've seen it all before, then we get a lucky goal and have 10 minutes to throw it all forward too equalise and what do we do? fuck all, we find another level of ineptitude, every other club on the fucking planet would have been throwing all they had forward too go for the equaliser, we on the other hand watched Stoke pass it around, Remi Garde should have been yelling them on but instead he was stood there like a fucking piltchard.... It was unnaceptable, aston Villa FC is a fucking embarrasment.

Exactly what I thought. We gave a chance a (very,very) slim chance with close to 15 minutes left, with injury time, and did absolutely fuck all to put real any pressure on Stoke.

I've said it before, there really is very little point in us having possession of the ball because we do so little with it.

Aston Villa, the team of meaningless possession.

[curiousorange]

My minimum expectation of the Championship is to like some Aston Villa players. Because at the moment, I couldn't hold them in more contempt.

[GarTomas]

It just needs to be over. I'd like to see Garde have a look at some of the fringe players in and around the squad to see who he wants to keep for next season. His alternative is the ones he wants shot of keep playing to keep them in the shop window so to speak.

Today the 1st half was a non entity. Stoke waited for us to drop a bollock to get 2 quick goals and that's it. We're not looking like scoring 2/3 goals in a game. For all his tidy touches Gill doesn't actually create anything; whether that's him or the movement of the players around him I'm not sure. It's hard to tell when watching on a TV rather than at a game.

I'll be attending a game for the 1st time in about 15 months on Tuesday. I can't decide whether it's excitement at going to Villa or dread at what will be served up that I'm feeling more!!

[CJ]

Bacuna and Westwood. Please fuck off.

Both given 5 year contracts at the start of the season. If it wasn't so mind-blowingly incompetent it would be comical.

[andyh]

Bacuna and Westwood. Please fuck off.

Both given 5 year contracts at the start of the season. If it wasn't so mind-blowingly incompetent it would be comical.

To be fair, it's been said players were given new contracts to allow relegation clauses to be added.
One would hope that in Bacuna's case, it means we can sack the fucker.

[PaulWinch again]

So so bored of this. Just hurry up relegation and let us be done with this.

[in exile]

Bacuna and Westwood. Please fuck off.

Both given 5 year contracts at the start of the season. If it wasn't so mind-blowingly incompetent it would be comical.

Oh deep fuckin' joy

[PeterWithesShin]

Well that was shit. And it was fucking cold! At least we're on the way back to civilisation.

[Boz]

From the attitude of these players, most of them don't want to play for Garde and IMO they are doing their best to remove him. They are in the main a disgrace to AVFC.

[saunders_heroes]

Bacuna and Westwood. Please fuck off.

Both given 5 year contracts at the start of the season. If it wasn't so mind-blowingly incompetent it would be comical.

Westwood is a stain on the Villa. An appalling footballer who is completely out of his depth in the PL and he has been since day one. I shook my head in disbelief when the club's PR machine laughably tried to talk him up for the England squad after we beat Liverpool in Lambert's first season and I'm shaking my head today with the realisation he's still here making a living in the PL.

[saunders_heroes]

From the attitude of these players, most of them don't want to play for Garde and IMO they are doing their best to remove him. They are in the main a disgrace to AVFC.

Garde didn't help himself with his stupid "I'm not getting what I want from the players during training" comments this week though. He went down in my estimation with that nonsense.

Basically the whole club is a disgrace, and it's down to one man only - Randy fuckin Lerner.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

I thought the first was a soft penalty. I wanted the players to surround the ref temple veins bulging in a Keane/D'Urso scenario. (Like I was jumping around my room shouting WTF?? dive ref!!!) Unfortunatley it was just resigned compliance.
Sinclair has nice bursts of energy and drive when he comes onto the pitch.
Gestede should be on a building site. He never wins anything in the air and is slower than Micky Quinn.

[curiousorange]

Everton getting new investment today. Shoulda woulda coulda, but playing Stoke will forever remind me of not being able to hold that 2-0 lead. It's rare that you can wind history back to a single Sliding Doors moment, but we hold onto that lead, I reckon we wouldn't be getting relegated.

[claret and blue blood]

Can't remember ever being so resigned to our fate as today, it's just a hopeless depression , the nervous tension , butterflies in the stomach have all gone.
Very sad.

[curiousorange]

I will be bothered on the day we can first go down, but even then, say we win, it'll happen probably the week after. I don't even talk about the Villa anymore, except on here.