Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[Clampy]

I'm sure he's just as disappointed as we all are. All you can do is try and put it right in the next game though, what else can they do? They can't mope on it. I haven't got a problem with what he's said.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I'm glad I had the foresight to put some tinnies in the fridge for when I got home.

My match review: Fuck, arse, shit, bollocks and wank.

[Villan82]

A bit disappointed with McGinns post match interview.

Don’t tell us we have 4 massive games coming up when you have just failed to raise your game in one of the most important matches for years.

Don’t say we can’t sulk for too long.

Read the room, feel the pain, disappointment and fury that the fans are feeling.

As I posted in the Emery thread it is pretty clear that the club saw the FA cup semi final as the least important of our remaining games and that is why I am fuming. Usually defend Unai to the hilt but this has serious stench of Moscow.

Not as bad as playing the u-12s but we played with the handbrake on in the semi final of the one trophy we crave the most.

[ChicagoLion]

A bit disappointed with McGinns post match interview.

Don’t tell us we have 4 massive games coming up when you have just failed to raise your game in one of the most important matches for years.

Don’t say we can’t sulk for too long.

Read the room, feel the pain, disappointment and fury that the fans are feeling.

Mcginn was one of a few that looked like he was genuinely trying.

[rob_bridge]

Football is mad. Last week I was thinking how amazing our squad is, that we’d finally win the thing this year and with the right additions in the summer we could seriously compete for the title next year.

Now I think we could lose/sell half of the squad and I wouldn’t worry.

Palace were brilliant v City in first half then went missing for 2.5 games, They were dreadful. Then they woke up mid week and easily matched Arsenal.

We batter form sides Forest, Newcastle and PSG - current form all Top 20 in Europe, latter maybe number 1, lose narrowly to City in midweek.

Then we get battered by Palace. Football I hate it sometimes

[PaulWinch again]

The Moscow comparison is nonsense - other than Mings, which obviously was a preference not a decision to rest, what about that side wasn’t pretty much full strength? We played badly, but I don’t think we intended to play badly.

[rob_bridge]

I'm sure he's just as disappointed as we all are. All you can do is try and put it right in the next game though, what else can they do? They can't mope on it. I haven't got a problem with what he's said.

Nor me. There are 4 games left. I wish it were 5, but it isn't.

Let's just win them all and finish as high as possible.

[andyh]

I'm sure he's just as disappointed as we all are. All you can do is try and put it right in the next game though, what else can they do? They can't mope on it. I haven't got a problem with what he's said.

A few minutes after being battered by fucking Crystal Palace in an FA Cup semi final is not the time to say ‘we’ll try harder next time’.

[rob_bridge]

The Moscow comparison is nonsense - other than Mings, which obviously was a preference not a decision to rest, what about that side wasn’t pretty much full strength? We played badly, but I don’t think we intended to play badly.

The Moscow comparison is utter twaddle. We played badly. Palace played really well. A couple of selections were debatable - that is true every game with this squad.

[Clampy]

I'm not sure what else he could say. He knew they weren't good enough, they know that themselves. All they can do as players is learn from it and try and end the season on as high as note as possible. If they mope on it, they'll lose the next four as well.

[PeterWithe]

The Moscow comparison is nonsense - other than Mings, which obviously was a preference not a decision to rest, what about that side wasn’t pretty much full strength? We played badly, but I don’t think we intended to play badly.

Yup, I cant see anything to suggest that we didn't take the game as seriously as a league game, we just got the tactics wrong and all the players played badly on the same day. So we got deservedly beaten.

[Flamingo Lane]

Fifteen minutes in, I said to the chap next to me, if we don't score the first goal in this game, we'll lose. It was so obvious our game plan would take us nowhere.

By far the best part of the day was the ease of leaving the place, getting on the tube so quickly, and being home much earlier than I had expected.

[ChicagoLion]

The Moscow comparison is nonsense - other than Mings, which obviously was a preference not a decision to rest, what about that side wasn’t pretty much full strength? We played badly, but I don’t think we intended to play badly.

Yup, I cant see anything to suggest that we didn't take the game as seriously as a league game, we just got the tactics wrong and all the players played badly on the same day. So we got deservedly beaten.

I think you can add selection as a huge factor.

[LeeB]

Another thing with the selection, if we're going all cagey and fine margins, then ignoring advantage from having Onana and Mings at set pieces, the most physical and aerially dominant players we have seems odd.

[Clampy]

Just because some of the team selection was wrong, doesn't mean it wasn't taken seriously. Mings, Ramsey and possibly Onana should have started for me with maybe a pacey full back on the pitch. It wasn't just the team selection though, it just wasn't good enough full stop.