Legendary Point-Taking Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post Match Thread

[supertom]

Well I was at the match and if the incoming manager (whoever it may be) saw the ammount of effort and hard work our players put in he would be thinking I have something to work with here. Gueye, Sanchez and even Sinclair of all people got stuck in and gave of their best. Hutton you expect this as normal but he lacks the ability to cross the thing properly. Jordan Ayew may work well with Gestede next season. I for one don't think the future will be as bleak as others make out.

I think just cutting out 4-5 rotten apples will take us a long way right from the start. We've really got to do that to give the dressing room back to the management team (whoever that may be in June).
We've got enough quality to cope with the championship and I would expect us to buy 4-5 reasonable players to help us out. I just think one key aspect will be buying a proper leader.

[edgysatsuma89]

Really enjoyed the atmosphere. Some Newcastle fans got a bit of a beating not far from me in North Upper.

Also I did see the blose message on the plane. Flew overhead a few times. Sad, sad bastards.

[hipkiss92]

Well I was at the match and if the incoming manager (whoever it may be) saw the ammount of effort and hard work our players put in he would be thinking I have something to work with here. Gueye, Sanchez and even Sinclair of all people got stuck in and gave of their best. Hutton you expect this as normal but he lacks the ability to cross the thing properly. Jordan Ayew may work well with Gestede next season. I for one don't think the future will be as bleak as others make out.

If that was their best then I dread to think what their worst might be as that was as bad as anything else I've seen this season.

No movement off the ball, inability to pass to each other, every pass that was completed seemingly inside and backwards, no idea of even trying to attack (did we have a shot)?

Only positives I think were Clark and Toner, and even Toner was played out of position.

And if Black's 35 years of football experience have taught him to play Bacuna as a right sided centre half, he has wasted those 35 years.

[Jimbo]

Oh, credit to those with the inflatable cocks too.

Thanks. I didn't make it to the game though.

[Lastfootstamper]

Oh, forgot - also on WM on the way back heard that the Bloosers did indeed hire a plane with a banner saying 'Lerner is a Blues fan' circling round B6, but didn't see it. Wonder what it's like to be so all consumingly obsessed by something you hate

Apparently it happened. I've fallen on my sword for the rest of you, and viewed the footage on the Mail site. It took place briefly either side of 3 o'clock, circling the ground at seemingly a radius and height which ensured that anyone that'd somehow caught sight of it and foolishly forgotten to bring their binoculars would be unable to share in its side-splitting mirth.

[dave shelley]

Thought the defence did well. Just very poor and lacking ideas going forward.

Good atmosphere. Got some free tickets so glad I didnt pay to see that.

No corners, no shots on target. Abysmal

Credit to us fans, we were great. Good sing song in the Tavern afterward.

I thought the Geordies were as poor as they were in 09 when we relegated them. No fight and no bottle. Worse than we are really. Their fans were also very subdued considering what was at stake.

Roll on lots of positive chnage at VP in the summer and some better footy next season

Maybe they've had enough too, it wouldn't surprise me. 

[Zouch Villa]

Great atmosphere, awful game. Credit as always this season to the Holte end for showing what this club is truly about, rather than the overpaid clowns on the pitch.

Black is so infuriatingly negative, I half expected him to pull off his mask to reveal McLeish. The game was crying out for Adama to rip into the Newcastle defence for the last quarter of an hour, but the dimwhitted jock hasn't got the bottle to make the change.

Two funniest moments for me was obviously the topless fat bloke tormenting the steward with a beach ball in the lower Trinity corner near the Holte End (seen by many ), but also the chap in the Witton Lane stand seen disappearing down the exit carrying a blow up doll about twenty minutes from full time.  Guess he'd decided to make his own entertainment.

[eamonn]

Adams came on at the end? Been says it was Hip Ian Rush Murphy thingy.

[Exeter 77]

Villa fans showed why they are Villa fans.

[Tom_Mc9?]

And if Black's 35 years of football experience have taught him to play Bacuna as a right sided centre half, he has wasted those 35 years.

We kept a clean sheet. That'd be earning pizzas down at Leicester.

[UK Redsox]

Disgraceful from Black, some credit to the team for doggedly playing to his game plan.

Adama not brought on until right at the end and his run past a Newcastle defender before being fouled was our one moment of anything approaching enterprise in the whole game. Sums it all up I guess.

Adama Hepburn-Murphy?

[brian green]

Great atmosphere.  As my son summed it up after the game, wonderfully enervating.  We pose no attacking threat whatsoever.  Toner impressed as a good solid lad who will not let us down.  Eric Black in record time has got himself right in contention for the Person You Most Want To See The Back Of trophy.

[curiousorange]

Great atmosphere.  As my son summed it up after the game, wonderfully enervating.  We pose no attacking threat whatsoever.  Toner impressed as a good solid lad who will not let us down.  Eric Black in record time has got himself right in contention for the Person You Most Want To See The Back Of trophy.

It would take an entire evening just to hear the nominees.

[john e]

on the pitch one of the worst excuses for a football game you will ever see

Off the pitch Villa fans were absolute class, the Holte was awesome today
I've been going up the Villa for over 40 years now, and it takes a lot for me to go over the top on our support, but today it was the full fuck me we are the best in the land

simply because the team have been so shit, we are down humiliated all over the country and at home virtually every week yet still we stand proud

Leeb on the match thread got it spot on when he said we have totally owned our relegation,
We have gone down in style off the pitch,
the away matches I have attended this year have been some of the most memorable I've ever been to, I'm not sure many other clubs would have done the same

Arsenal next week I can't wait, then hopefully we can begin the come back

[Legion]

That was shit.