Aston Villa 0 v Stoke 1 Post-Match Thread

[kippaxvilla2]

Garbage

[olaftab]

Fuck off Dean you threw that away.
No need to bother with this thread.

[Nev]

Meek.
I'm off to bed.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Well that was pretty dour.

Any redeeming features? The final whistle.

[Monty]

Yeeshk. Timely bump down to earth about the squad.

[kippaxvilla2]

Lansbury has all but retired.  He’s dining out on one decent performance for Forest against Barnsley four years ago.  £40k a week and a man bun and this is what you get.

[picicata]

Rubbish to a man but fortunately most of those players will get very little PL time all being well.

It annoys me that I'm not more annoyed by going out of the cup though

[sickbeggar]

And that's why we're an injury or two from being in deep shit this season. Fuck knows what will happen if Watkins gets injured with Kienan Van Bastan to come in and its a paper thin squad depth all over the team. I really think Smith hates Davis because you wouldn't keep playing him if you like the guy would you? No chance of getting rid of the deadwood on that performance so I guess we're stuck with Traore.

[DB]

Our 2nd 11 are pretty shit.

[Edvard Remberg]

May that be the last game for AEG for Villa... jaysus

[Legion]

Our second string are just not good enough and Smith will only try Ramsey (who was OK in the first half) from the U23s.

[PeterWithesShin]

A number of those players should have been trying to force their way into the first team match squad, if not first eleven. Most of them played their way out of contention.

[Risso]

The only good thing I can say about that game is hopefully it will show the owners that we've still no strength in depth, especially at the back.  That was utter wank from start to finish.

[cdbearsfan]

Oh well, losing the final is worse and I didn't want to qualify for the European Windscreens Shield anyway...

[brian green]

And there's me thinking that playing like that was behind us.