Magnificent Aston Villa vs The (Not Very) Great Unwashed Post-Match Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Small Heath were awful. If that's the level of their performance the rest of the season, they are going down.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Couple of comments from one of their shitty little forums.

"No class, no intelligence, no nothing. How dare they claim to be Brummies" 

"They’ll never be brummie.
I was screaming at the TV when the commentator said they were. "    

[PeterWithesShin]

Probably sat in Redditch/Solihull/Rubery as they typed that.

*Delete as applicable unless one of them is Barry Austin who would be sat in all 3 at the same time.

[Monty]

It's a great day for us, and IMO significantly another step towards Jack realising his potential, but my thoughts are mainly with Bruce after the week he's had. Football results don't matter too much after something like what he's gone through, but it's still good that the lads were able to put a show on for him and a smile on his face.

[ez]

'The city is ours' always gets a reaction out of them. They fall for it every time.

[Damo70]

Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...

Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.

I genuinely thought Small Heath were fucking terrible. They looked utterly out of their depth - as their manager said after the game.

The keeper shat himself and whacked it into touch any time we chased him down, they struggled to string three passes together and looked feeble at the back.

We all knew they were a poor side. It is just that from past experience we half expected them to turn into world beaters just for today. Although as I said in a pre match thread, in the past they have had some real battlers suited to local derby games and sometimes even a sprinkling of some genuinely quality. I didn't see either of those two attributes in this latest bunch prior to today's game.

[Edvard Remberg]

How were the unwashed behaving after the game? Any crowd troubles?

[PeterWithe]

We were head and shoulders above them, they looked like rabbits in the headlights of the Villa machine.

They were lucky to get nil.

[Bad English]

The police tweeted that there were NO incidents.

[LeeB]

Blose weren't as shit as is being made out, they had the best chance of the first half and right up until our goal were frustrating us. Once we scored their heads dropped but they're no worse than most of the teams we've beaten at VP. I'd rather focus on how professional and decent we were. That Grealish roll for Adomah's goal and the cute Hoor's howitzer, just magical...

Watched it with Olofs Beard of this parish in Farringdon, London. Plenty of screens showing Villa but audio was of two non-entities in the Preemier playing each other.

I genuinely thought Small Heath were fucking terrible. They looked utterly out of their depth - as their manager said after the game.

The keeper shat himself and whacked it into touch any time we chased him down, they struggled to string three passes together and looked feeble at the back.

We all knew they were a poor side. It is just that from past experience we half expected them to turn into world beaters just for today. Although as I said in a pre match thread, in the past they have had some real battlers suited to local derby games and sometimes even a sprinkling of some genuinely quality. I didn't see either of those two attributes in this latest bunch prior to today's game.

To quote Daft Punk:

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

[PeterWithe]

That lad who was marking Jack, the fella who got sent off, did they sign him on the car park at 10.30 like you used to in the Festival League?

[john e]

been reading all week how people hate this game and wish we didn't have to play them,
I'm sitting there thinking I must be the odd one out because I absolutely love them it's my favourite fixture of all

it's what the games all about for me,
my first visit to VP was in the 70's when Blues had Trevor Francis and beat us but i was awestruck with by whole thing, times have moved on now and it's not quite the same but today reminded me why I love Villa and why I love beating them

while some can't understand why fans enjoy these games against SHA I can't understand why people don't

[Kingthing]

A mate of mine wants an update on a bloke that got hit by a car outside the Holte Suite, he gave first aid until the services came. If anyone knows anything let me know.

Back in London, emotionally drained but Happy, we can say it means nothing but beating them is just the best feeling.

[SoccerHQ]

been reading all week how people hate this game and wish we didn't have to play them,
I'm sitting there thinking I must be the odd one out because I absolutely love them it's my favourite fixture of all

it's what the games all about for me,
my first visit to VP was in the 70's when Blues had Trevor Francis and beat us but i was awestruck with by whole thing, times have moved on now and it's not quite the same but today reminded me why I love Villa and why I love beating them

while some can't understand why fans enjoy these games against SHA I can't understand why people don't

My first live watching of this fixture was 03/03/03.

In fairness I don't mind it these days as we never seem in danger of losing to them anymore so not too nervous on matchdays but it's still that horrible feeling they could turn us over like they did when they first came up to the premier league.

[PeterWithe]

I’ve just remembered something.

An hour or two after the game, outside the Aston Social with a load of others, along came a Merc with a fella hanging out the  sunroof saluting the crowd.

The fella was Ian Taylor.