briny_ear

Cripes, the past 10 years have been dire.

How come 12 people think Whittingham was better than Young? Does he have a large family still living in the area?

6 - ...Oh ! and we have never lost the FA Cup (stolen)...the fact we've never won one is irrelevant ...

8 - Their winning goal in 1982 was flukey, scored from...a cross supplied by another old Blues player Tony Morley (well he joined us afterwards)....

Sheer class!!!

Cripes, this thread shows what thin gruel Villa fans have lived for most of the 2000s and just how a weak midfield was a big part of the problem.

I've gone for Merse despite the fact that he wasn't a CM and didn't play for much of the decade. But he was better than Tayls.

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Solano only played for us for about a season and a half before he emptied his locker and **** off back to Newcastle so for me it has to be Jimmy.

Did anyone else notice how much of a spoilt drawer (if there's such a thing?) Mark Hughes was in his post-match interview? He should take a lesson or two from MON in how to be gracious in defeat, draw and victory when doing an interview. He's gone up in my estimation of nearly being more of a rocket polisher than Redknapp.

On the match in general, I'm a bit disappointed to be frank. Thought we should have put the game to bed in the first 60 minutes. Milner could and should have scored.

Still, the joy of seeing Dunne outfox Barry for the first goal will have to keep me happy for now.

Merson doesn't really pass this test:

(The person you pick should ideally be somebody who excelled post 2000, rather than excelled previously and crossed over into post 2000)

If he does pass on the words of wisdom, I hope he pauses first to wonder why these stats start at 15 November.

Maybe because taking a different time frame they wouldn't look so conclusive? :winkold:

racist fans making monkey actions and noises towards a Blackburn player.

Guzan 8- had a few difficult things to deal with and dealt with everyting excellently.

Beye 7-solid and dependable

Cuellar-8* superb

Collins-6 Bothroyd caused him problems in the first half i thought. Generally dependable, but was caught in possession in the second half which could have cost us.

Shorey 7-good in possession and going forwards

Gardner 6-unfortunately as this was the league cup Gardner got his game as MON is obliged to play him at some stage. He did some good things, but MON seems to think he is a right winger which clearly he is not. Poor management and I felt for him at times. Albrighton should've played in ths position.

Petrov-8 made some nice interceptions. This poorer standard of opposition suits petrov though, as he seems to have plenty of time on the ball. Nice passing. Look beyond the excellent technique on the surface and he is still a major issue defensively in a 4 4 2.

Delph 8- Lively and an excellent range of passing. Somehow found himself in a midfield with Petrov again which fundamentally failed against Wigan, and again it looked vulnerable with Cardiff in possession.

Milner 7- a little wasteful unfortunately but the work rate was there again, and I also think he is equally as effective as Young on the left on current form.

Carew 6- didn't do enough, but his run leading up to the goal was excellent.

Gabby 7-Played with confidence, good goal, and looks to be shrugging off the 'lazy' tag.

Albrighton 8- could make the grade, and should've started ahead of Gardner in that position.

MON 5-unconvincing team selection and again failed to make changes. Petrov in a 4 4 2 against a team playing 5 across the middle was again overlooked and we got away with it, and Gardner IS NOT a right midfielder. No sign of NRC which is worrying. Play this system against Man City and Chelsea, and fans will begin to lose faith again.

any idea what the goal was like folks??.

Cardiff have not played Villa since a 2-0 Division Two defeat at Villa Park in April 1975 as the Midlanders eased towards top-flight promotion, while the Welsh club were eventually relegated.

I remember this game. They kept eleven men in and around their own penalty area the whole time while Villa had some ridiculous number of corners (about 30 or something) before finally scoring after about 70 minutes.

Same again tonight will do (but hopefully we won't need quite so many corners).

Come on lads, lets have a good Cup run at last!

If you think it's pointless, don't vote or comment.

maybe there should be a standard paragraph added to the first post of every one of these polls explaining that it is an opinion poll to guage week on week support of the manager, that way we wont have to wade through countless daft posts of people saying that it is pointless and you have asked exactly the same question as last week.

With the training bust up with Reo-Coker he's gonna have a job on his hands managing the squad I feel.

UTV!

There certainly didn't seem to be any evidence of dissent/low morale today, did there?

Can't decide if Gabby was MOTM or Friedel. Certainly we owe a big part of our win to that pair. Defence looked good again.

Just saw a screen saying Villa 5- Pompey 5 and wondered if I'd missed some goals but it was corners. 8)

Delph on for Heskey. What larks!

1st class commentary. why is this muppet always covering our games

Silly card for Gabby.

Defence is looking pretty solid.

Well you asked for a sub!

Heskey on for Carew.

Hmmm... Pompey getting into the game a bit now. Need to check this.

Go Jimmy!

What a shot! Thought that was in.