Fulham v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Skerra]

Think the point DS misses is that not all football supporters are thick or/and blind. I would have so much more respect for him if he just told the truth. Doubt many of our players even broke sweat.
On another note, I see Wolves are still putting out a strong side despite having played God knows how many matches already this season.

[hilts_coolerking]

Do we really only have four quality players - McGinn, Grealish, Mings and Heaton.

I’d add Guilbert, Nakamba and Luiz albeit inconsistently. After that we have a lot of players who can play well but havent shown it consistently.

So basically we've got four quality players with the rest unreliable.

[Percy McCarthy]

Maybe we’ve gone perma-shit like b-lose.

[hilts_coolerking]

Fulham may have played like a team, a very shit one.

That ran rings 'round us. I dream of us being that shit.

They're still selling tickets for big clashes against Hull and Boro, fill your boots.

Fulham were dreadful. We were dreadful. They managed to less dreadful in two moments, when afforded all the time.in the world.

You're just cold!  I thought Fulham played very well in the second half.  Although it must be said there was little in the way of opposition.

[Ads]

Fulham may have played like a team, a very shit one.

They kept possession and knocked it around without much pressure, see the amount of passes that led to their winner.

If Lansbury or Kodjia had an ounce of Knockaert's desire we might have had a chance. Hourihane did his usual invisible routine away from home.

We are so weak without Mings and Grealish but for a coach that espouses attacking football, Smith was kidding himself in the 5Live interview just now, mentioning the couple of chances we created in the game. We were comfortably the poorer team.

That's because we were dire. Our press was like a daddy long legs, a half hearted one.

Nakamba is a bit in and out, today he was incredibly bad. But the likes of Lansbury, Jota, Elmo, Kodjia are painfully mid table Championship, at best.

The system is so open, but when Hologram is out of B6 he becomes the ineffectual hologram. So many poor individual performances.

That said, I'm not overly bothered we've lost, just how crashingly shit every aspect of the game was. I refuse to talk up a shite Fulham who spent more time peppering the roof than the goal.

433, burn it with fire. And if anybody moans about Luiz, ever, watch that game again today and then post your apologies. I'm going get a sleeve tattoo, a shit hair ****** or a ****** beard and maybe I could pass for Lansbury or Jota. I can run harder and faster than those lace curtain wankers too.

[Duncan Shaw]

I'm just glad I didn't go now.  I feel for those that did.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Why do managers do this, it was one of the good things about Smith, I felt I had watched the same game as him.
But now he has reverted to the post match defend my corner. Surely he realizes it’s daft to do this.
Or is it just the pressure getting to him?

MON did it all the time with his "scintillating football". It helps get managers their next job as hiring chairman only watch MOTD and listen to the manager's comments.

[Jon Crofts]

When I was a kid my Dad always told me when Villa were knocked out of a cup competition that 'the team that beats the Villa wins the cup'

He's been wrong for about the last 25 years.

[Pete3206]

For me, Dean's comments summed up his attitude towards this game. He wasn't really arsed about it.

[Richard E]

Sod ‘there’s always next year.’ There might not be. And there will always be some objective in the league which can be said to be more important. I want us to win this competition. Is there any club of comparable stature to ours that hasn’t for 63 bloody years?

[ChicagoLion]

When I was a kid my Dad always told me when Villa were knocked out of a cup competition that 'the team that beats the Villa wins the cup'

He's been wrong for about the last 25 years.

Arsenal Chelsea.

[Sexual Ealing]

When I was a kid my Dad always told me when Villa were knocked out of a cup competition that 'the team that beats the Villa wins the cup'

He's been wrong for about the last 25 years.

Arsenal, 2015. Though I take your point.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Well the people that said it didn't matter got their way.What a waste of time , effort and money .

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Sod ‘there’s always next year.’ There might not be. And there will always be some objective in the league which can be said to be more important. I want us to win this competition. Is there any club of comparable stature to ours that hasn’t for 63 bloody years?

Newcastle, 65 years. Stretching it, I know but there you go.

[garyshawsknee]

Bravo Ads, Lace curtain wankers sums them up perfectly.