St. Valentine's Day massacre (The Post-Shambles thread) (WITH POLL)

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm not a fan of booing but can understand why it happens. We've won 11 of our last 71 league games. Folks have spent a lot of time and money watching us during that time, patience isn't always going to be there.

That is pretty much my view on this, too.

[SoccerHQ]

I'm not a fan of booing but can understand why it happens. We've won 11 of our last 71 league games. Folks have spent a lot of time and money watching us during that time, patience isn't always going to be there.

Yep, our form is wretched (again), we're not in the premier league any longer, in a league where there should be many more winnable games and yet we're on another terrible run despite spending millions on the squad (again).

I can understand why patience is wearing thin...it's not like there's booing at 0-0. It started at 0-2.

Completely different era but I always remember a game in one of the MON 6th seasons v Portsmouth. A game we dominated but Pompey scored two goals from 30 yards and won 3-1 and there were boos at half and full time.

That's when I don't get booing, not now.

[Villatillidie1982]

Someone's due a thrashin...

What's the point

We buy poorly
We choose managers poorly
2-6k a week go to away games
30-40k watch home games
We have great owner
Idiots like me sit and listen on the radio hoping
So many of our ex players are playing well elsewhere

Who was the last manager to go on to a better job?

The owner may be a part of the problem. Maybe he doesn't understand the game and thinks that money solves everything. All of this constant change will see Villa in League One.
Let the current players build an understanding and some confidence and things will improve. What happened to Jed Steer?

[Villatillidie1982]

Just seen a replay of the 'penalty' for the first time. Thought it was a really bad decision at the time. Seeing it again it borders on outrageous.

The only one in the ground who thought it was a penalty was the ref, only Barnsley player appealing was the fucker who slipped / dived. Never a penalty.

Hogan looks worryingly average.

Hogan and Kodija don't seem to enjoy playing together which is worrying. Kodija is too selfish and Hogan spent most of the match looking perplexed.

[PeterWithesShin]

IIRC at one stage Portsmouth had 3 goals and 2 shots.

[dave17]

Just seen a replay of the 'penalty' for the first time. Thought it was a really bad decision at the time. Seeing it again it borders on outrageous.

The only one in the ground who thought it was a penalty was the ref, only Barnsley player appealing was the fucker who slipped / dived. Never a penalty.

Hogan looks worryingly average.

Hogan and Kodija don't seem to enjoy playing together which is worrying. Kodija is too selfish and Hogan spent most of the match looking perplexed.

Spot on. Feel for hogan that they seem to fancy lumping long balls up to his head

[dave17]

Someone's due a thrashin...

What's the point

We buy poorly
We choose managers poorly
2-6k a week go to away games
30-40k watch home games
We have great owner
Idiots like me sit and listen on the radio hoping
So many of our ex players are playing well elsewhere

Who was the last manager to go on to a better job?

The owner may be a part of the problem. Maybe he doesn't understand the game and thinks that money solves everything. All of this constant change will see Villa in League One.
Let the current players build an understanding and some confidence and things will improve. What happened to Jed Steer?

So many of our ex youth team appear to be doing decent jobs (and our ex recruits too).

We smack a little bit of the New York Yankees out here. Too fat and rich to care at times

[PeterWithesShin]

Steer is out injured.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I could never boo Aston Villa nor any of our players or managers.

But I understand why other fans have reached the point where they do.

[Witton Warrior]

I could never boo Aston Villa nor any of our players or managers.

But I understand why other fans have reached the point where they do.

To stop myself booing I didn't go...

[AV82EC]

I could never boo Aston Villa nor any of our players or managers.

But I understand why other fans have reached the point where they do.

To stop myself booing I didn't go...

I heard one bloke leaving in the 82nd minute opining that he was so disenchanted he couldn't be bothered to stay to boo.

The boo was very short lived on this occasion at the final whistle in my view a real FFS Villa which quickly descended into a low murmuring and shuffle for the exits with some light applause for those players who approached the Holte.

[mr underhill]

I left after their third and didn't feel as though I was selling AV short by doing so.

[olaftab]

Just because you have a right to something does not mean it is the right thing to do.

Can't argue with that however it's the natural and only way fans can express  their disappointment in an arena.