Leicester v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[ROBBO]

Hasn't he gone yet?

[VillaSpen]

Announce relegation.

[OzVilla]

It's the hope that kills you.

I keep hearing this phrase but in all honesty a lot of the 'hope' ebbed away watching that game.  Put it together with the Southampton and Bournemouth performances and relegation is hardly going to come as much of a shock to any one paying attention.

[Three Spires Villa]

I left Leicester last night with all of my hope and belief drained from me. We fail to do the basics. We played well for the first six minutes, then it was like a disaster movie. We looked like we would concede every time Leicester attacked. We could have been 2-0 down before the goalkeeper incident. We mess about on the ball, we take so long in everything we do. I don’t think this team or the manager have got what it takes for a relegation fight, we just crumble.

[Clampy]

It's pretty hard to describe exactly how bad that was. Not only the result but one shot on target (which was from a full back) is just not good enough.

[olaftab]

Purslow should be given his marching orders as well.  Loves the sound of his own voice a bit too much, and has put together a car crash of an organisation with Pitarch and Smith.

Purslow is shit. All corporate waffle and no substance. He has had his best time and hardwork somewhere else. This appointment was another money hoovering exercise for himself on his ultimate retirement plan. Never liked him didn't trust him. The biggest folly amongst his useless recruitment policy was shoehorning that twat Terry in the coaching set up. A man without any character or coaching qualification.

[Axl Rose]

Purslow should be given his marching orders as well.  Loves the sound of his own voice a bit too much, and has put together a car crash of an organisation with Pitarch and Smith.

Purslow is shit. All corporate waffle and no substance. He has had his best time and hardwork somewhere else. This appointment was another money hoovering exercise for himself on his ultimate retirement plan. Never liked him didn't trust him. The biggest folly amongst his useless recruitment policy was shoehorning that twat Terry in the coaching set up. A man without any character or coaching qualification.

Spot on mate. Well said.

[RamboandBruno]

Because he, like the rest of us can see that this manager and this set up is not working.
It’s been pretty apparent for some time now.

If Jack wants to be a top (top) player...he should be riding above it. Like he did for weeks when we were arguably as bad at times. Last three games, when the pressure is at its highest, he has been invisible. It's not like he is trying things that aren't coming off, he is making no impression bar the odd foul against him.

Try and compare it to Roy Keane for example when Forest went down. They were playing for a manager who was a fully blown alcoholic by then and a load of players simply turned it in. Not Keane who was like Grealish a player with a lot of potential then. Keane tried his heart out to the end, wasn't enough anyway but he had the two best teams in England after him that summer.

Completely agree with this. I don’t want to get on any anti grealish bandwagon, as I love the kid. I love his old fashioned swagger, I love the fact he’s a brummie and love the club and I love his role in that 10 game run last year and his role in trying to keep us up this year. But he had 15 touches of the ball in the first half, 15. Coupled with the fact he was one of our worst players in the cup final and could of made the difference if he turned up. Even the best players have off days, but he simply hasn’t turned up for the last few weeks. It simply isn’t an excuse to say he must me pissed off with the management and other players. With us defensively being so iffy, he creates most of our offensive play, hence one half hearted shot all night last night from Guilbert.

If this carries on for the next few games, talk about his head being turned will start, is that really how he wants to be remembered. Loads of players played at a high level for villa for a number of years, not just two half seasons.

[sid1964]

Can someone please explain to me why Hourihane gets picked to start games - last night he did 5 things of note

1 decent free kick, an air shot (when he probably should of scored), got booked, pushed a player in the back (in my opinion that was a penalty), and got subbed

He had zero effect on the game! no wonder our midfield is so poor 2 are having to do the work of 3 players!

[OzVilla]

All players suffer a dip in form through a long season and considering the amount of pressure to perform on Jack shoulders it's hardly surprising he looks burnt out. 

Rather than blame him how about asking some of those other useless feckers to step up put in a shift now and then.

[PeterWithe]

I don’t blame Jack one iota, I’ve been baffled for months why the opposition don’t man mark him with one or two players as if they do they drown us at birth. Now they are and we look what we suspected we might, poor.

[mr underhill]

Who would have guessed that when our owners declared last May that 'the sky was the limit' that they were, in fact, presaging new levels of managerial calamity. Looking back, the business as usual sign was there when Smith was awarded a 4 year contract and confirmed beyond doubt with the sanctioning of  the signings of Drinkwater, Reina and Baston ( one million pounds for the square root of nothing, a man incapable of playing for Swansea). No other club, with the possible exception of Newcastle, does black comedy as well as we do.Last night surely marked game over for our chances of survival and the (almost) certain departure of the few players we have that can actually play. It is now nearly ten years since we last had a respectable top flight finish, a decade defined by three different sets of owners, managerial teams, managers, coaches and players, each as inept as each other. I don't know when the imperious call for Villa fans to renew their season tickets is coming from VP Marketing, but if it is this morning, I won't be one of them.

[The Edge]

Well i've slept on it and it looks even bleaker this morning. Reading the posts on here i think every point has been nailed on the head (apart from one or two unhinged posts) I don't want to "scapegoat" but a special mention for our defence. Guilbert was shocking, he looks every bit the French League 2 player we bought. Engels only slightly better. Mings form has dropped so rapidly since his England call up, which makes no sense. Reina, well what can you say about that howler except to say he must vastly overrate how fast he can run aged 37 up against a pacy young 21 y/o winger. Our midfield was woeful, Hourihane? Sorry another one clearly not PL standard. Marv/Doug just doesn't cut it as a pairing, Jack? Looked like he's had enough of carrying all the deadwood. Samatta? I'm unable to comment as he was so totally isolated. Davis made an impact. I like him but he appears to be made of tissue paper. All in all the coaching staff and many of the players are just not good enough to represent Aston Villa Football Club. Off to Cheltenham today. Should be full of the joys of spring but i'm  not thanks to that shower of shit i saw last night.

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Bye then.

[The Edge]

Bye then.

Bye bye