Dchitz

Disgraceful substitution, would of scored just there had gabby found him and good late run for buttons cross

Clarke inzogbia and bent need 3 touches to control

Embarrassing how bad our defenders and holding mids are at tracking players

Completely disagree with comments about ireland, if we were two up everyone would raving about him, only one bringing others into play, given bent and inzogbia plenty of supply which wasva complaint for ages and tracking hard.

This is horrendous, inzogbia and gabby and Ireland keep having to come deep cause mids won't take or carry ball

Completely agree

Clarke and petrov just don't show for the ball

Very rarely losses possession always making space

Jesus benty where's your touch or movement

They are first to every ball in our half

Jesus warnock

Advantage FFs

Get ball Ireland, leave the fancy stuff to the attackers warnock FFs

Hahaha aha pull the other one, to lazy/happy to pull up your old quotes

FFS, give it a rest Petrov was superb today and another classy goal Jees, some people Here here

Dont be daft, the boys a genius, wouldn't of passed if he was off, haha

Very good game plenty more to come from him, delighted for the believers

STD ie Ireland u legend never stops playing football

Inviting them into our half

Missing? Him and gabby pressing hard, team to deep

i'd bloody buy it for him if he keeps this up.. great first half i must admit by him. He must be doing ok if dude is saying that, praise from CI now and I'd be in shock Lol

More interested to see how many of the first teamers pull an injury for this and miraculously come back for the Swansea game.

the bigger picture, 15m is a lot of money to lerner these days due to the little interest he has in the club , bent was bought to play for houllier and score goals to keep villa up, that he did, Id imagine he's not the type of striker mcleish wants and only plays him as he is a "big name" as he certainly hasnt been performing. Im sure Liverpool know this and wont be held to ransom for him. His wages along with others is what randy wants to get off the books

To be fair looking back over this thread it seems to be the same three or four people constantly having a go at him, these are the same people that have a go off him in the match day threads before any of the few games he's started aswell and probably hope he has a bad game just to be vindicated. The crux of the matter this year is by all accounts Ireland is an excellent trainer, hard working and reliable, has played above average in any game he's played in and gets praised by management and then completely dropped inexplicably even though he has been on the bench and available for numerous games not to be called upon. Holtelower above has completely forgotten that ireland hadn't played even as a sub for many games before being dropped in at the deep end at arsenal, anyone whose played at a decent level knows no matter how hard you try it is very hard to mimic match intensity in training. Ireland pushed himself hard, closed down well and played at a high tempo for 40 mins, add to this he had a virus the week before. He pulled up with muscle tightness, a common problem for players returning to match fitness. I couldn't fault him for that. He is contracted to villa for the next 2 years, he should be given an opportunity to stake a claim for a place in the team and supported by the fans.

Nice to see Mcleishs attitude has finally rubbed off on all of the fans in this thread and now worry about the opposition more than playing to our own strengths, I would Start withe the same team as other night with herd in for Hutton if he's suspended. Clarke, dunne, ceuller and gabby can all head the ball well, herd isn't bad either, Why give poor teams such respect, last game was a 2-1 loss to arsenal not blacburn, we have footballers and pace in our ranks