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People id like to see go - all except Delph, Grealish, Sinclair and Benteke

We deserve to be below hull in fairness

Is it claret and blue? If so stick it on the pitch. Itd do better than half our starting 11

You mean he isnt one?

I worry about our coaching methods or player conditioning. Its a week since our last game. Professionals should not be tired playing one a week!!

Sherwood? Sense? Youre having a laugh!!!!!

@Sherwood Youre not the messiah youre a very naughty boy!!!

Just heard on the radio that hutton a cleverley are both def out. So i think we will see vlaar in and clark/okore pushed to fullback. Also no westwood and cissoko. Anything less than a win and we are gone

Honestly think the sides around us want it more. We dont seem capable of pulling off shock results but all tue teams around us do and have

cant really see us getting any more than 6 points between now and the end of the season - will it be enough???

Todays result is on sherwood. Defensive issues were there for all to see and he did nothing

Before the game id have said this was a must win. Having watched the match so far i think sherwoods gotten this wrong. Too much pace in this swansea side to play so high a line in defence. Now id say must not lose! Thank god for some smart stops by guzan amd poor finishing by gomis!

That was a quarter final wasnt it?

If they thought it was full timw why did it take them so long to get off when the rest of the crowd started booing?

It's not the fans running on at the end of match people are bothered by, it's complete idiots who did it whilst the game was still in play. Imagine the ref blowing the whistle because of safety reasons and the match would have been played again... For a few seconds I thought this could happen. Lack of stewards was worrying Stewards were focused on keeping away fans safe as that would have been worse had thete been crowd trouble. Was also very worried the ref would abandon the game. The ref made a number of very odd decisions so it would not have surprised me

Great second half and great win. The fans that invaded the pitch - i hope they all get banned for life. Completely unacceptable behaviour!

Yes, weve had it. Not just planning for championshit next season, but league 1 after that. Soooooo depressed!!!

My first born - and im not even joking. Yes, i am a horrible human being

Win lose or draw there are npt enough winnable games to save us. Imo Hope im wrong but i feel like we are already down. Only thing that could cheer me up is if blues actually got wound up and died.

So did i imagine us playing 4-3-3 or 4-5-1 without any actual width all season? I imagined us playing attacking football towards the end of last season and start of thos? Just because we wete not playing these tactics a few weeks ago doesnt mean we never played them. We have 2 big strong centre forwards in benteke and kozak. We have players who can play out wide in gil and grealish and bacuna. Our strengths lie in our pace. Why are we playing so narrow? We should be making use of our pace in wide areas and banging in lots of crosses to make use of benteke not playing 500 sideways and hackwards passes. Posession and passing are not our strong points. Counter attack and the power and stength of benteke are our strengths but it seems lambert forgot that and sherwood is oblivious to it.

Just dont get it. Sacked Lambert, and rightly so, but appointed a manager who is picking the same players and employing the same tactics. What was the point in that? Think Sherwood got the selection, tactics and subs all wrong again. Dont think he has any clue what to fo with these players. We are relegated - simple as. The team are lost and there is no one at the club who has any clue how to turn it around, or indeed cares of anything changes. Nevermind the championship, i worry will we even survive there? Can see us in league 1 in just over a year unless Lerner gets out.

Sherwoods got it all wrong agsin today imo. We are going down.

My 2 cents: Tactics - wrong Team Selection - wrong Subs - wrong Performance was poor for the mosr part. Not all the managers fault but i do thinkthere are ways to play against stoke that are more effective and ways to play that suit the players we have better too. He will hopefully figure that out soon

This match thread is nearly as dull as watching villa... Oh....

BORING BORING VILLA!!!! :-D