Aston Villa v Everton Post-Match Thread

[Hillbilly]

We really should avoid Man City cast-offs - Dunne, Ireland, Richards, Lescott. It's not helped by the traffic in the other direction either.

[Lobsterboy]

Garde's team selection was awful and the subsequent ninety minutes akin to sticking knitting needles in my eyes for an hour and a half

Absolutely dreading Saturday as fear it genuinely could be 8 or 9 for Citeh

Gestede took his goal well when the game was gone but beyond that there are no positives to take from this match... oh apart from we only have another 900 minutes of this shit

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I guess not bothering to check on the results of Sunderland and those teams fighting relegation just about sums up tonight's performance.

Everton, as their league positions shows, are just like Stoke, crap. Two games against relatively poor teams and we make both look like bloody Barcelona. A team fighting relegation would have picked up 6 points from them. Us? We just bloody roll over. There's no fight in this team, just a group of overpaid tossers.

[SoccerHQ]

Not our worst performance of the season.

There was a decent response to going a goal down I thought but as soon as it got to 2-0 that was it.

We have gone back to being piss easy to score against either with the ludicrous 5 at the back so going to be a struggle to get much over 20 points now.

[adrenachrome]

Didn't we have a decent defence with Dunne, Collins and Warnock in the team? Unfair to throw them in with that other lot.

Well, for one season, we did, at least until Dunne came back from injury the size of a fucking house. Let's not forget what an unprofessional fat fuck he was.

Good player though, and immensely better than the shit we've had since.

For one whole season.

THat's precisely the problem with this club for the last ten years plus. One season. Any other club would regard that as a dreadful failure, but we're so used to fucking shit, he's seen as a great player.

And as for being better than the shit we have had since, that's the faintest of praise.

The issue with Dunne is that we would not have got him unless he was flawed.

His propensity for drinking and his disciplinary problems were well known before we bought him.  MoN's exit and Houllier's arrival more or less ensured what would happen. Ditto Warnock, and Collins. All potential piss artists waiting for an excuse to go the piss. New training program, switch from zonal defending: Bingo!

Don't forget that Warnock got into the England squad on the basis of his performances for us.

Moral of the story. Do not swing widely from one managerial style to another without considering the players on the ground.

[curiousorange]

An alternative moral would be 'Get with the program, dickheads.'

[BC54 VFC]

Out the door on 74;
Back at Highgate Drive for 10.25.

Respect to all those who stood up and left; good publicity on Radio 5 from Pat Murphy.

[E I Adio]

Well Pat Murphy you are right.

I think it's a close thing. (Puts on pedants hat.) That team had the likes of Charlie Aitken, Mick Wright, Bruce Rioch and Andy Lochead as well as Chico and George Curtis. Battlers every last one of them. We could do with one or two of them now.

[auntiesledd]

I'm surprised The General hasn't stepped into the breach with more of his hugely effective Desert Storm analogies...

[VillaAlways]

I'm eating cheese and biscuits and a large glass of red and it's lovely

[auntiesledd]

Well Pat Murphy you are right.

I think it's a close thing. (Puts on pedants hat.) That team had the likes of Charlie Aitken, Mick Wright, Bruce Rioch and Andy Lochead as well as Chico and George Curtis. Battlers every last one of them. We could do with one or two of them now.

Weren't Chris Nicholl & Giddy young pro's at that time?

[Walmley_Villa]

I'm surprised The General hasn't stepped into the breach with more of his hugely effective Desert Storm analogies...

I think the evacuation from Saigon is more appropriate.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm surprised The General hasn't stepped into the breach with more of his hugely effective Desert Storm analogies...

I think the evacuation from Saigon is more appropriate.

Ah yes, good old "We'll be here through thick and thin" General Krulak, who disappeared like a rat up a drainpipe within the first few weeks of "thin".

[Des Little]

We are a fucking dreadful team - without a shadow the worst Villa team I've ever seen (I'm 45) and what scares me is that we could well see an even worse mob in our beloved shirts next seaason.

Sack the board.

[Jimbo]

I'm surprised The General hasn't stepped into the breach with more of his hugely effective Desert Storm analogies...

I think the evacuation from Saigon is more appropriate.

Ah yes, good old "We'll be here through thick and thin" General Krulak, who disappeared like a rat up a drainpipe within the first few weeks of "thin".

"We'll be here through thick and so thick you won't fucking believe it."