Aston Villa v Palace Post-Match Thread

[Drummond]

Special shout out to the group of coked up pricks in block 112 who spent the entire game paying no attention to what was happening on the pitch, and chose instead to shout in people’s faces and calling them shit fans for not signing loudly enough.

Similar in 525. Bloke behind my lad putting his feet on the chair, the bloke next to him spreading his legs and taking more space and the row of about 6 behind shouting to said bloke. All moaning about how shit our fans were, how the beer wasn't strong enough etc.

Wankers.

[VillaTim]

Our fans may not be great sometimes, but I'd channel the frustration at the team and management to be fair for that shitshow yesterday .
This no show from the team and manger is going down in villa folklore. "I was there when ......" etc .
Proper gutless shitshow , up there with Oldham A

[PeterWithe]

Credit to Palace fans, if i was 30 years younger and a Palace fan , behind the goal looked like the place to be , they had it rocking .

If you like that sort of organised, choreographed ‘you will have fun’ type stuff.  Nuremberg was similar.

[VillaTim]

Credit to Palace fans, if i was 30 years younger and a Palace fan , behind the goal looked like the place to be , they had it rocking .

If you like that sort of organised, choreographed ‘you will have fun’ type stuff.  Nuremberg was similar.

Ehh ?

[martin o`who??]

Just annoying that palace conceded ten goals in two games very recently and then completely outplay us.

[Mark W]

Complete surprise to me when Rashford did not appear for the warm up - anyone know when was he declared unfit? 

Praps playing him on the left wing was going to be Unai's change of tactics against Palace and that injury scr*wed all the week's planning and meant Asensio had to come in and McGinn moved?

Too late to care much, but ....

[RamboandBruno]

Our fans may not be great sometimes, but I'd channel the frustration at the team and management to be fair for that shitshow yesterday .
This no show from the team and manger is going down in villa folklore. "I was there when ......" etc .
Proper gutless shitshow , up there with Oldham A

Tim, there are dickheads in society, some of whom are in our fanbase as well as every other club. The performance and result doesn’t negate the fact they are dickheads.
There were lots of fans who had a good drink yesterday, including myself to be honest, but most of them didn’t act like what TaxDodger and Drummond describe, the performance has nothing to do with it.

[Randy Gurner]

Complete surprise to me when Rashford did not appear for the warm up - anyone know when was he declared unfit? 

Praps playing him on the left wing was going to be Unai's change of tactics against Palace and that injury scr*wed all the week's planning and meant Asensio had to come in and McGinn moved?

Too late to care much, but ....

Out for the season. It was in most of the papers today

[waynejames]

Complete surprise to me when Rashford did not appear for the warm up - anyone know when was he declared unfit? 

Praps playing him on the left wing was going to be Unai's change of tactics against Palace and that injury scr*wed all the week's planning and meant Asensio had to come in and McGinn moved?

Too late to care much, but ....

Out for the season. It was in most of the papers today

Your username has cheered me up somewhat…..in a carry on film kind of way

[Mark W]

Complete surprise to me when Rashford did not appear for the warm up - anyone know when was he declared unfit? 

Praps playing him on the left wing was going to be Unai's change of tactics against Palace and that injury scr*wed all the week's planning and meant Asensio had to come in and McGinn moved?

Too late to care much, but ....

Out for the season. It was in most of the papers today

Thanks - but when did he/they decide he was unfit?  Was it at start of last week so they had loads of time to prep?  Or was it Friday afternoon/yesterday?  Main pre-match article in yesterday's Guardian was all about the impact Rashford was going to make (and Unai saying he wanted to pair Rashford and Ollie). 
Unai's subsequent reaction to the question about Rashford's injury just seemed more abrupt than normal....   

[VillaTim]

He didn't seem in any pain at the boxing last night.
Another waster , good riddance to him .

[Drummond]

As for Palace fans being good, it's a fucking drum that kills what makes football good. The ebb and flow, ups and downs, the oohs and ahhs if you like, all it leaves is constant noise like a misfiring propellor aircraft.

I enjoying hearing both sets of fans singing at a match, back and forth, but what they produce ignores and drowns out the football in front of it.

There was no class there, they weren't waving flags just heavy duty bin bags on sticks. Now they face a side whose fans can't be arsed to turn up, such is the boredom of being at Wembley again, their owners trying to cleanse the stain of their regime by buying everything in sight.

The TV companies will no doubt celebrate the finalists, but in reality the true spectacle would have been Forest v Villa, the two more storied and bigger clubs, fighting to return to where they should be, and with supporters who know what it means.

[Randy Gurner]

Time to get Rashford and Pau in the stocks outside of Aston Hall on Monday morning so VillaNiceButTim can throw rotten veg at them

[Randy Gurner]

As for Palace fans being good, it's a fucking drum that kills what makes football good. The ebb and flow, ups and downs, the oohs and ahhs if you like, all it leaves is constant noise like a misfiring propellor aircraft.

I enjoying hearing both sets of fans singing at a match, back and forth, but what they produce ignores and drowns out the football in front of it.

There was no class there, they weren't waving flags just heavy duty bin bags on sticks. Now they face a side whose fans can't be arsed to turn up, such is the boredom of being at Wembley again, their owners trying to cleanse the stain of their regime by buying everything in sight.

The TV companies will no doubt celebrate the finalists, but in reality the true spectacle would have been Forest v Villa, the two more storied and bigger clubs, fighting to return to where they should be, and with supporters who know what it means.

Even though I agree with all of the above, the Palace fans were clearly (and audibly) more up for it than we were. 25 mins of slow motion tippy tappy tiki taka seemed to neutralise our fans as much as our players.

[cdbearsfan]

He didn't seem in any pain at the boxing last night.
Another waster , good riddance to him .

You don't half talk some shite. I'm quite capable of sitting down for a whole boxing match. It doesn't mean I have the required fitness level to play top-flight football.