Mantis

Hang on, you're saying Wednesday is a must win game (which it is) and yet at the same time you're saying we're pretty much out of it?

Didn't think it'd take long for people to be calling for the sack. Also, how does this affect the SF?

This is nothing like Stoke. The only things that are similar to the stoke game is the actual result and the fans getting on the backs of the players.

I think you'll find the performance was very very embarressing too. It was hardly an embarrassing performance. We drew ffs not lost. Are you embarrassed to talk about the match to anybody because it was so embarrassing? I agree. Now if we'd been ahead for most of the game and only drew because we let in a late goal then I'd be embarrassed. What I'm saying is that if the roles had been swapped round today I'd be pretty pissed off right now. Fact is we fought back from 2-1 down and managed to salvage a point from a hardworking Wolves side. Not really good enough though, is it? You may be happy to settle for average performances like today, but its not going to get us into the top four anytime soon. No, it's not good enough, but it's not like Spurs, Liverpool or City are always "good enough" either. I'm not happy to settle for the performance but I am happy to settle for what we got consider how we almost lost it.

I think you'll find the performance was very very embarressing too. It was hardly an embarrassing performance. We drew ffs not lost. Are you embarrassed to talk about the match to anybody because it was so embarrassing? I agree. Now if we'd been ahead for most of the game and only drew because we let in a late goal then I'd be embarrassed. What I'm saying is that if the roles had been swapped round today I'd be pretty pissed off right now. Fact is we fought back from 2-1 down and managed to salvage a point from a hardworking Wolves side.

If the players aren't as defeatist as some of the posters on here and Gabby is fit again we should be able to win this. Same squad as today with Gabby in for Heskey (if he's fit) and L Young in for Collins, with Cuellar being shifted into the centre.

It really isn't.

He's absolutely right.

I don't really expect a team that loses to Hull to get 4th, or a team that loses to Pompey and Wigan either.

100% yes. Heskey at his best is Carew having an average game. Carew doesn't have average games. He's either woefully poor (lazy) or excellent. Recently we've been seeing his excellent side.

Over the past few games I think it's been made pretty clear that Heskey is the one who should go this summer and not Carew.

Yes, we should be happy to be drawing against relegation threatened teams (in their first season in the prem and with a fraction of the budget that we have) at home. Given what happened in the game and how close we came to losing, a point isn't bad.

Wow, by looking at most of the comments in here you'd think we lost. I'm quite glad we got what we did considering we could have had a demoralising defeat on our hands. If results go our way today and we beat Sunderland in the mid-week fixture then it's not all that bad. We're level on points with Man City, 1 point behind Liverpool with a game in hand (soon to be 2) and 2 points behind Spurs.

I can see us scoring again at least once and I don't think Wolves will score again. They're gonna sit back and defend for the rest of the game.

You must be mad. Heskey only ever scores sitters when we're all over the other team and at least 2 goals up. :shock: But even then, he doesn't always put them away (a la Reading).

Ash and Jimmy should definitely play a more attacking role than usual for this game.

Let's just hope Reading Carew turns up today. Still, even if he doesn't, we've still got Young and Milner.

We will start poorly, I can almost guarantee it.

Agbonthewhore. My sides are splitting.

Surely we can break them down. Burnley played really defensively against us didn't they?

Scoring is only a problem in the league.

Never knew that. I didn't even know Pukka Pies made them. I'll tell you what though, those Shire Pies are the best. You can buy them in Tesco and I've got a load in the freezer. Always tuck into a couple when Villa are on.

If there aren't any balti pies then it almost isn't worth going to. I find this website useful http://www.shirefoods.com/football.html Although for some reason Villa aren't on there.

Normally (at least this year) the games where we have started incredibly poor (Blackburn, Burnley and Reading) we have gone on to win and dominate the game completely.

I'm always thinking about the next Villa game. I tell the weeks ahead apart by who Villa are playing that weekend.