Neil Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Good game all in all, took 2 points off them but dropped 2 ourselves. Was wicked to see Barry get Dunne (ba-bam-tish). I really think some better tactics could have nicked the game in our favour, bringing on Heskey is not the kind of tactic I'm talking about. Man that guy is a useless donkey, did he just drop to the floor again at one point when he had a great ball into him which he could of scored from. I'm sure it was him but I couldnt quite see. Gutted I didnt make the game, pony that work was busy I couldnt really get the time off (and work is in Scotland) and someone else got to make use of my beloved season ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunthos Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey came on and was a lot more composed, held it up and found a player, won loads of flick ons to team mates Seriously? I'm not on here to attack Heskey - I think people were way to quick to savage him when he arrived - but I simply didn't see this. At all. His touch was poor, he wasn't in the right position to receive balls... Carew wasn't very useful in this match, but Heskey was still a downgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachite Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Thought it was a great game tonight (Ref deserves a lot of credit...10/10). Unlucky we didn't win if I'm honest, thought we gave it a real good try against a real strong city side. Friedel - 7 Cuellar - 7 Dunne - 8 Collins - 9 MOTM Warnock - 8 Milner - 7 Young - 7 Petrov - 8 Sidwell - 5 Carew - 5 Gabby - 8 Heskey - 6 NRC - 6 That i do agree with, its very easy to pick flies out of certain situations certain players etc, reality is, Man City have got a fair few top quality players, world class players even, everyone of our players had to give 100%+ to stay with them, that was the only way, and we did, its common sense that it follows that class will eventually show, late on the game it was all getting very stretched, we had players that were at that point slightly of the pace, we let them in, but they struggled like f*** for that goal, only because it was late on and players were getting tired did they get it, so no criticism from me there. Could have gone either way, we matched them pound for pound as they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey came on and was a lot more composed, held it up and found a player, won loads of flick ons to team mates Playing april fools when its not april fools day is a joke on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastleBromVilla Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey came on and was a lot more composed, held it up and found a player, won loads of flick ons to team mates Seriously? I'm not on here to attack Heskey - I think people were way to quick to savage him when he arrived - but I simply didn't see this. At all. His touch was poor, he wasn't in the right position to receive balls... Carew wasn't very useful in this match, but Heskey was still a downgrade. He was absolute wank when he came on. Contributed nothing. For such a big bloke he wins fuckall in the air. He has no place in a Villa shirt. Martin, start using Delfounso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 At least their striker sub was even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey kept the ball better than Carew today. He's not good enough for Aston Villa HOWEVER had it been roles reversed, Heskey putting in the performance Carew did, Carew coming on and doing what Heskey did, people would say "Heskey was **** useless as always, Carew did okay when he came on, held the ball up okay, but nothing too much" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Seeing the lineup before hand i wasn't too optimistic but the effort the lads gave was fantastic. Just a shame we couldn't hang on for the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V111A Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey came on and was a lot more composed, held it up and found a player, won loads of flick ons to team mates Seriously? I'm not on here to attack Heskey - I think people were way to quick to savage him when he arrived - but I simply didn't see this. At all. His touch was poor, he wasn't in the right position to receive balls... Carew wasn't very useful in this match, but Heskey was still a downgrade. He was absolute wank when he came on. Contributed nothing. For such a big bloke he wins fuckall in the air. He has no place in a Villa shirt. Martin, start using Delfounso. I tell you whats wank... Its when Carew does nothing, gets applauded then as soon as Emile comes on he's under pressure. Its time our fans realised its better the devil you know and try getting behind him rather than be a complete bunch of uneducated,jump on the band wagon clearings in the woods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villamann Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Heskey was a walking joke . I think he should retire soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undesirable Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I'm sorry that i ever doubted O'Neill's eye for a centre back. James Collins was immense again tonight as was Richard Dunne, those two look absolutely imperious at the back, they won almost every header, 50/50 challenge and their slide in tackles were always well timed. Gabby had another belter, the lad worked hard all game and some of his runs in the second half were inspiring stuff. Milner also worked tirelessly, at one point late in the second half when we had a throw in in city's half he raced across from the left flank to the right to offer an option. If we had 11 players who put as much effort in as Gabby, Milner and the centre half pairing we'd be champions league material. I really think that when Downing comes into the team and Delph gets a little more premiership experience that we could have one of the best teams in the league. Great performance lads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV82 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Whilst you can't fault his workrate I reckon if Carew's general passing/flick ons and hold up play had been better we would have won this game easily - also on more than one occasion Young's final ball didn't impress. Carew was the missing link in my opinion. Nonetheless I'm more than happy with a well-earned point against City. Very impressed by the defence, especially James Collins who pretty much had Adebayor in his pocket for most of the match. Good to see us playing well in a 4-4-2, especially against the likes of City, and again good to see the team playing their hearts out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Really good game, really proud of the effort we put in...shame for us to have clocked off a bit in the second half but why is Heskey so shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 yeah collins has really looked good for us so far. and since he left west ham they have looked alot worse defensively!! if he carries on like this he will be one of the bargains of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
over_the_water Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I'm sorry that i ever doubted O'Neill's eye for a centre back. James Collins was immense again tonight as was Richard Dunne, those two look absolutely imperious at the back, they won almost every header, 50/50 challenge and their slide in tackles were always well timed. Gabby had another belter, the lad worked hard all game and some of his runs in the second half were inspiring stuff. Milner also worked tirelessly, at one point late in the second half when we had a throw in in city's half he raced across from the left flank to the right to offer an option. If we had 11 players who put as much effort in as Gabby, Milner and the centre half pairing we'd be champions league material. I really think that when Downing comes into the team and Delph gets a little more premiership experience that we could have one of the best teams in the league. Great performance lads! top post...well said!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I think Heskey did fine when coming on. One great tackle at the back and the nice back heel flick. Nigel Reo Coker on the other hand.... WTF was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Also must say Dunne and Collins both played blinders. Particularly Dunne, coped with everything all night and capped it off with a goal. Deservant of man of the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 James Collins was absolutely **** immense today, absolutely awesome. As was Dunne. Carew was very, very poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachite Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 dab: Absolutley, Collins has found his true calling and its Aston Villa, him and Dunne, Warnock, a slighlty lesser extent Cuellor, immense, the pairing of Dunne and Collins is a stroke of genius IMO, they could prove to be the most effective back 2 in the country this season. Undesirable: I just get the feeling Gabby has stepped up a level, and watching his pure athleticism tonight, at one point i thought the programme had stopped and was being fast forwarded, his sprint to the ball didn't look real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o'lbs Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 well in the pre match thread I said we should go 4-5-1 but O'Neill got it right by going 4-4-2. It was only when we stopped attacking them they came into it and got the goal. First half we were absolutely brilliant, we worked so hard, towering leapl by Dunne and should of had a penalty when Young was brought down. 2nd half we played too deep and the goal was coming for about 15 mins when Ireland came on. Collins was again majestic. What a buy he was. Ashely Young looked dangerous tonight hope he isn't injured Sidwell looked a bag of nerves in a 4-4-2 but somehow his presence means we pick up points. Carlos Cuellor's distribution was as usual dodgy. Warnock got caught a few times Barry was total gash I can't believe they paid 12m for that lump of lard buhahahahahaha! but I was happy with a one one score line at full time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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