Holtender_in_Sky

No, course not. Who gives a monkeys about the opposition. The Villa were brighter than i've seen for ages, truthfully how many times in the last 2 years have you come out of VP thinking "**** me, we played well today" ? How many times did we play good footballers like Luke Young and Carlos Cuellar in wrong positions meaning teams could exploit this, how many times could we pass the ball without an aimless hoof forward - saw none of that Saturday

It's such rubbish statements like this that are irritating. That is 100% total and utter bollax, we've had many better performances under O'Neill. It was **** West Ham, a garbage team. I can think of a certain 5-1 thumping of SHA being a fine performance. The 6-0 against Derby and 4-0 against Bolton that preceeded it weren't bad either. That's overlooking the wins we've had over United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. So best performance of the last four years? Oh do shut up. Wins over SHA,Derby and Bolton.....not exactly Europe's elite is it.... That said, thats the first time ive left in Villa Park in 2 years having been genuinely entertained, no **** centre halves at RB, no Right back at **** left back, a winger who actually takes a full back on. Its the first time in 3 years ive seen Petrov make a forward run and get on the end of a cross a la Taylor, Lampard, Gerrard, he never did that under O'Neill. We passed the ball, we looked bright, we could had 6, we blooded some kids who have been knocking on the door for 2 seasons... so totally agree with original poster

We can watch a few first team debuts for the new signings...............................................ah

James Milner can run the 100metres backwards in 8.35 seconds whilst flicking the V's at Usain Bolt