Gingerlad Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 On another day this couldve been easliy 4 or 5 -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 At least we went for it and showed a bit of bottle in a crunch game. GH actually got the subs right for the 2nd game in a row so credit where credit is due. If we can take a point at least off City I'll be happy then Wigan is a must-win game. It's performances like this and Chelsea away that makes me think we will be fine but then it's performances like Sunderland at home that make me peer anxiously over my shoulder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straygoat Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Fonz has got to start unless we buy another striker. We looked a consistent threat when he came on. I said it after the Newcastle shambles and I'll say it again - Carew should not play for us again. He gives us no movement up front, isn't as good at holding it up as he used to be, and seems to have lost at least a yard of pace. We may as well put a shire horse up front. Gabby looks lost out on the wing, but perhaps GH is trying to get him to remember how to play facing the defence instead of with his back to them? Gabby seems to have turned himself into a target man...he doesn't look dangerous doing that. Maybe that is a downfall of him only having Carew and Heskey as 'elder statesmen' to learn from in training. I agree with the comment about Petrov and NRC too - they can't boss the midfield and it costs us. Hopefully, Makoun will adjust to the pace quickly and we can have him with one other and it'll make a difference. I'd have no problem with us letting NRC and Petrov go in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banger75 Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 We should have won this easily. If Gabby scores in the first 10 minutes, and JC's header drops in instad of hitting the bar, SHA are ruined, and we go on to win easily. But it was not to be, and in the end we were lucky not to lose after the ugly giraffe nearly snuck one in. we will be bottom over the next couple of weeks, but we will come home strong. Makoun would have made a big difference IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 McLeish said: "We have come a long way in a couple of years in terms of these games and the results. "Had we been a wee bit more clinical we would have seen it through. "When it was 1-0 we really had to turn the screw but Villa came back into it. "I felt we played some really good football. "Collins' shot wasn't even on target, it hit one of our defenders and went in. Everything that could go wrong did with that goal did." LOL at the Collins bit..mccleish remember we hit the crossbar 4 times.. we would've dominated the game if we had put them away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CockneyVilla Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Does Ridgewell have a brother?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 McLeish said: "We have come a long way in a couple of years in terms of these games and the results. "Had we been a wee bit more clinical we would have seen it through. "When it was 1-0 we really had to turn the screw but Villa came back into it. "I felt we played some really good football. "Collins' shot wasn't even on target, it hit one of our defenders and went in. Everything that could go wrong did with that goal did." LOL at the Collins bit..mccleish remember we hit the crossbar 4 times.. we would've dominated the game if we had put them away. haha, did he see their goal! shit free kick by gardner that deflected off about 4 players straight to johnson. jammy **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilbertoAVFC Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 How Dunne has so many MOTM votes is beyond me. He put us in trouble so many times! Carew can do one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanky Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Although he nearly cost us at the end must mention Friedel's top class save against Derbyshire when the score was 1-0 that kept us in it. Still earning his playing right as number 1 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivaashleyyoung Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Carew and Petrov? Dead wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa_shere Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I thought we played very well, always looked like scoring even when we went 1-0 down. The trouble with Villa as always is not taking their chances. We created so much but failed to put the ball in the net. Thought albrighton would have attacked murphy a bit more but had a decent game nonetheless. Their goal was jammy as it gets but we always knew that is SHa were to score it would be from a set piece. Collins must has given the ball back to blues at least 6 times during the game, very frustraiting. 22k attendance takes the piss, as if they cant sell out! there was probably more poice than SHA fans at the stadium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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