villa89

Levels of expectation I suppose.

This. The Dingles and tesco bags belong in a relegation fight/championship. Their fans know that and so aren't asking for their manager to be sacked. We have a squad more than capable of a top 8 finish but down to some important factors, none moreso than our clueless f*("wit of a manager, we too are in a relegation battle with the dregs of the league. We don't belong down there and the fans are right to complain. We love the club, we expect (and deserve) better than the shite we are being served up.

FWIW I don't think Houllier should be sacked now.

Houllier to last the season and keep us up. Moyes to resign as Everton manager at the end of the season realising that he cannot achieve anymore than he already has. Moyes to take over as Villa boss in the summer. We can but dream.

Houillier really needs to sort out this mess but I for one am not sure he's up to it.

SKY News's coverage of this is pathetic.

Its not a **** film!

SKY News's coverage of everything is pathetic. Tabloid Shite.

Even if we had won today it wouldn't have justified the nonsense that happened midweek. Nice to see Houillier has done absolutely nothing about our inability to defend set pieces. What a **** clown that guy is.

I thought Bannan played well and tried his best. Everyone else was shite. Heskey, Petrov, Bradley stood out as having particularly shit games. If he was resting Young and downing why bring them on when we were 3-0 down. Talk about stupid...

and this is against a side that are top of Serie A.

That means nothing anymore. Serie A is nowhere near the standard of the premier league or La liga. It close to being on a par with the german league IMO.

Mike,

Out of interest if you met another country's HoS say POTUS for example, would you call him Barack or Mr President?

If it was me I'd call him Barack because that's his name, He isn't my president*. Just like Alex ferguson is Alex not Sir Alex or The pope is Benedict (or Joeseph) not his holiness.

*For the record even if i was american I'd still call him barack just for the craic.

Maybe its because we don't have a monarchy in Ireland but I don't understand why anyone would like the idea of a monarchy. The head of state should be elected not appointed though succession. Also the idea of someone being royalty simply because of their (inbred) family history is ballz.

The game was decided by the turnovers. The Pack let the lead get to them and dropped far far too many balls. It was a good superbowl though.

Friedel shocking for both goals. Walker apart from his goal was poor, his crossing was terrible. Petrov is finished. Downing cut inside too much, needs to be played on the left wing. Ash is not a striker and gabby is not a winger. Ged seems blind to these glaring issues...

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This is what Ged will probably play:

-----------------Bent-----------

---Gabby------Young-------Downing-

-----------Petrov--Makoun--------

--Clark--Dunne-Collins-Walker---

--------------Freidel-----------------

, should have put money on it.

This is what I'd play:

-----------------Bent--Gabby-------

---Downing-------------------Young-

-----------Bradley--Makoun--------

--Clark--Cuellar-Collins-Walker---

--------------Freidel-----------------

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This is what Ged will probably play:

-----------------Bent-----------

---Gabby------Young-------Downing-

-----------Petrov--Makoun--------

--Clark--Dunne-Collins-Walker---

--------------Freidel-----------------

Friedel 9 - MOTM - Made some great saves and wasn't at fault for any of the goals.

Dunne 5 - Caught out terribly for the first goal. Made one great tackle but looked shaky

Clark 6 - Did okay but the lad's not a left back.

Collins 4 - Didn't command well and someone needs to tall him he's not zidane when it comes to passing. He's slowly becoming the new mellberg with all the aimless hoofing he does.

Walker 5 - gets caught out defensively too often and can at times be too eager to get forward.

Downing 7 - Did well but needs to learn to use his right foot because he cuts inside far far too often. Good pass for the goal.

A Young 6 - Had a good effort off the crossbar but overall didn't influence the game enough or create any chances. If he's going to be playing up front he needs to do more. He should be on the wing IMO.

Albrighton 6 - Not at his best

Makoun 9 - Looked the business 8)

Petrov 6 - Huffed and puffed but was outclassed by J2M

Bent 7 - Took his goal well and had a decent work rate. Not his fault we couldn't create any chances for him.

4-4-2, this should be interesting...

£35m agreed fee apparently for Carrol

Where's that picture of the panic button...

This is what I'd go for and setup to play like we did against Citeh.

--------------Friedel

---Cuellar-Dunne-Collins-Clark

------Petrov-Reo-Coker-Downing

Young---------------------------Agbonlahor

----------------Bent

Liverpool made 30mill bid for Carroll?, Torres surely gone?

£30m for Carroll, makes Bent look like bargain of the centuary.

ballz

Great win considering the amount of changes made. I like it when squad rotation works.

Bollocks if baker is suspended then we might have to keep warnock.

Friedel

Walker Dunne Collins Baker

------- NRC --- Makoun

Albrighton--------- Downing

Heskey ------- Gabby

That's what I'd go for but I think Ged will play a stronger side than that.

So this game isn't on telly its just moved to 1pm cos of the Filth?

The kid looked very good last night, although wigan are not exactly a massive test. Hopefully he can step up and we can ship out warnock.

Easiest away ground to make a debut in the PL I reckon, no fans, shit team and great away support, pitch played ok

Have to agree with this and also mention that wigan are absolutely dire. 20 goals in 24 games is it?