Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa Play Off Final Post Match Thread

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

tomd as an outsider  looking in shall we say your team needs an injection of pace . far too slow moving the ball from the back to front whilst fulham looked every inch the man city of the championship as warnock mentioned in the week .

whilst we took the route 1 option wolves and fulham looked a prem side in terms of passing football .


leylandalbion what a strange name for a villa fan by the way -lol glad you enjoyed wembley but me experience is that's it's far over priced and the view is awful and no you ain't nicking out goalie either !

[SoccerHQ]

Saw Neil Etheridge play many times live for Walsall. Great pick up for you guys. At Walsall he was always very slow taking goal kicks or even clearing the ball from backpasses so looks like Warnock told him to speed up judging by his Cardiff games!

[OzVilla]

Why do I get the sinking feeling Bruce will still be in charge next season?

I have that horrid feeling.

Who’s out there that will do a better job?

For me, we should stick with him.

I agree....he’s made us better not worse, unlike the previous 4 or 5 managers that couldn’t do it

  How many times did an attempt to keep passing the ball end up with Johnstone, who is the worst kicker of a football that I have ever seen? Pity as he is a decent goalkeeper.

You clearly never saw Mark Bosnich then.

[AsTallAsLions]

Why do I get the sinking feeling Bruce will still be in charge next season?

I have that horrid feeling.

Who’s out there that will do a better job?

For me, we should stick with him.

I agree....he’s made us better not worse, unlike the previous 4 or 5 managers that couldn’t do it

  How many times did an attempt to keep passing the ball end up with Johnstone, who is the worst kicker of a football that I have ever seen? Pity as he is a decent goalkeeper.

You clearly never saw Mark Bosnich then.

The problem with the comparison is our managers made allowances back then once it was clear he wasn't getting better, and had him make short kicks or passes to a defender to play it out from the back.

Bizarrely, Bruce has been entirely OK with him kicking it out wide to whoever's marking Snodgrass (as I think Dave called out earlier), or indeed straight the hell out of play. It's hard to forgive such a disdain for basic tactical adjustments as that over a long period of time. I'd file that next to foul throws in a short list of things that should just be addressed as soon as they happen more than once.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

This is still the best Villa team for a number of years. Unless we can get Guadiola, Klopp, Pellegrini etc. then he deserves at least until Christmas.

It's this short term thinking that scares the shit out of me. So at Christmas we replace him with who..Alan Curbishley? Planning must start at the most advantageous time for the club otherwise we return to the "oh, he needs at least three windows" bollocks that has cursed us for far too long. I'm tired of being shit. Aren't you?

[Toronto Villa]

Now is the time to replace him. We have a bit of time to see who is out there and give the person the freedom to pick his staff before the window opens. None of this give Bruce until January bollocks then we end up picking up the leftover scraps of whoever hasn't been employed or recently fired. Start the search next week.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

HQ a bit of hit and miss for me regarding etheridge

some days he looks the bees kness then others not so

i ain't complaining though .

onto more pressing matters any of you lot looking forward to the world cup ? obviously for me gutted Wales didn't qualify but looking forward to 3 more weeks of footie  along with catching a few glamorgan cricket games .

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Next week? I would hope, having just missed out on a 160 million pound deal, we have already a contingency plan.

[Jon Crofts]

Just got home, still a bit too angry to post sensibly, tomorrow can wait. Referee, what a ****** though eh?

[tomd2103]

tomd as an outsider  looking in shall we say your team needs an injection of pace . far too slow moving the ball from the back to front whilst fulham looked every inch the man city of the championship as warnock mentioned in the week .

whilst we took the route 1 option wolves and fulham looked a prem side in terms of passing football .


leylandalbion what a strange name for a villa fan by the way -lol glad you enjoyed wembley but me experience is that's it's far over priced and the view is awful and no you ain't nicking out goalie either !

I think the point about pace is a fair one DC, but it also doesn’t help that three of the four players in wide positions are on their ‘wrong’ side.  It means that one of the full-backs and both wingers are forever having to cut back inside as they it allows them on to to their stronger foot. 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Just got home, still a bit too angry to post sensibly, tomorrow can wait. Referee, what a c*** though eh?

Not to mention his Assistant. Stamping on Jack, right under his eyes and the twat did nothing. As much as I admired Fredericks, I really hope his balls fall off, twice.

[Jon Crofts]

Just got home, still a bit too angry to post sensibly, tomorrow can wait. Referee, what a c*** though eh?

Not to mention his Assistant. Stamping on Jack, right under his eyes and the twat did nothing. As much as I admired Fredericks, I really hope his balls fall off, twice.

Didn't really see it but heard about it after from Madrid fans in the pub after, all said a straight red.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Just got home, still a bit too angry to post sensibly, tomorrow can wait. Referee, what a c*** though eh?

Not to mention his Assistant. Stamping on Jack, right under his eyes and the twat did nothing. As much as I admired Fredericks, I really hope his balls fall off, twice.

Didn't really see it but heard about it after from Madrid fans in the pub after, all said a straight red.

If you'd seen it, and knowing you, you'd have been on the pitch to rip his head off. That was another major disappointment today, how we as a team let them get away with it. See how Fulham reacted to Jack's late 'challenge'.

[KevinGage]

Played 90+ minutes and did their keeper tip it around the post once?  Maybe he did, but I don't recall.

Football won today.

Good luck Fulham. Bit cheeky that they were trying to knobble Jack, but welcome to the real world. They (and every other sinner) knew he was our only real threat. We tried to kill the game as a spectacle and live off the scraps. Rubbish.

[Badsastard]

tomd as an outsider  looking in shall we say your team needs an injection of pace . far too slow moving the ball from the back to front whilst fulham looked every inch the man city of the championship as warnock mentioned in the week .

whilst we took the route 1 option wolves and fulham looked a prem side in terms of passing football .


leylandalbion what a strange name for a villa fan by the way -lol glad you enjoyed wembley but me experience is that's it's far over priced and the view is awful and no you ain't nicking out goalie either !

Fulham aren't a particularly good side, the idea that they're the Man City of the Championship is laughable although I imagine Warnock thinks that about any side that put 3 passes together.

The game was lost because of Bruce's negative tactics in the first half. We were more than capable of a win today.