After last week’s poor show against Newcastle, where I basically spat my dummy out and couldn’t be bothered to write anything, I determined that I’d try to look at today’s game in a more positive light.
I didn’t really need to as it turned out, because straight from the off the Villa were very good to watch.
We took the game to Hull and played with a really high tempo, something that I’ve often said is our best asset.
We were quite simply too sharp and fast for the opponents; so much so, that they looked a bit shell-shocked, in my opinion.
Just when some of us were slating Gabby and Andi Weimann for a lack of goals, so they turned around and proved us wrong.
Gabby took his goal well with a sharp turn and shot, which reminded me of Kenny Dalglish in his heyday and Weimann did well too, after a nice ball in from Richardson.
So two up at half time (it could easily have been three if Westwood’s free kick had been an inch to the right) and we were cruising towards what I thought was going to be a 4 or 5-0 job.
So what on earth happened in the second half?
You might say that Hull massively stepped up their game, but I don’t believe that was the case.
My money says we totally took our foot off the gas and let them back into it.
So much so, that they looked more dangerous than us.
Perhaps it was a case where our lads had just run themselves into the ground, in which case I’ll forgive them.
But I doubt it myself.
I reckon it was down to Lambert wanting to protect the lead; a poor tactic.
Whatever, there were quite a few positives.
The defence looks pretty solid overall.
Cissokho gives me loads more confidence about our left hand side.
And young Grealish just scares the proverbial out of the opposition.
Mr Potato head had obviously done his research and told the players to take him out.
If the kid can stand up to the “treatment”, I see a great future for him.
The biggest positive of all?
That’s 7 points out of 9.
Better than I expected, if I’m honest.
Why BWS? – does he smoke funny pipes and keep sharks as well 🙂
You heard this one? According to the SKY Transfer centre the noses are trying to sign Ben Arfa???? Is today April 1st ?
Can’t believe anyone watches sky transfer day it’s complete bollocks how they’ve made that into an event to sell even more ads ffs. 99% of rumours on there are complete bollox where the other 1% we all know about anyway. Can hear it now Ronaldo and Messi have been spotted at BMH according to our super dooper bullshitting journalist who got it of twitter!!!!
You really are one boring fecker aren’t you oho aah..
Bet you would prefer the French league where fooook all happens..
Transfer deadline is a great day.. Yes there rumours.. But it’s good to see what’s happening.. Who’s linked with who..
You need to get laid mate
😉
Get laid most nights lionheart. I bet you watch X factor as well
SKY – Ronaldo and Messi to Villa manager Paul Lambert said “Pure lookin’ forward tae workin’ wi’ christian an’ lionel, aam sure th’ wee jimmies will gie 110 percent.”
Lol good one BWS
LoL… ooh ahh no i don’t.. hate reality tv.. everything wrong wth society.. making kids think that fame is the way to make money rather then working hard..
As for you getting laid last night.. think more chance of us spending 30M today 😉
welcome back badger a very fair assessment of the game i watched 2 🙂 . second half hull made changes, reverting from 3 at the backto a flat back four and this stiffened up their midfield. which we had dictated 1st half.
i was very very impressed with grealish the boy really does have the talent, but we av had so many talented youngsters fail after a promising start 🙁 like fonz and moore brothers i hope this kid doesn’t believe the hype, which will come his way. your rite the opposition signaled him out 4 special attention, but he reveled in this spotlight, he sucked them in and bought us free kick after free kick, just wot the doctored order when u need 2 see out time
2 nil is always a dangerous score and its so true lambert didn’t order um 2 defend second half it was fact hull improved and villa were too cautious, went forward but with caution and failed to get number 3, had good opportunities, delph shot wide, when grealish was better placed 2 shoot or square, hull scoring made a edgy end but the added experience and better quality lerner had allowed us 2 use saw us home
please please stay badger don’t allow urself to fall into the dark side again stay positive
Nath, good post mate.
I’ll stay positive as long as there’s something to be positive about.
If we’re total gash, I’ll say so too 🙂
Southampton look like they are going to sign Centre half Toby Alderweireld from Atlético Madrid so hopefully that should see an end in their interest in Vlaar, happy days.
Arsenal being linked with Vlaar!
Great. CL football, last big pay day, if true he’s hardly likely to say no is he?
Hang about I thought Wenger didn’t do players over thirty? So although they might offer more per week we could we offer him a longer contract. Perhaps there is hope.
Vlaar will hopefully go to arsenal if rumours are true
We have a really tight back 4 why you so keen on seeing it undermined? Who’s going to replace him Baker, Clarke?? Deary me no.
Why do you want Vlaar to go.. and who is going to come in to replace him..
You dont have talk some shite at time mate..
Its comments like this that make everyone think you’re either a troll or genuinely have no idea what you’re on about…..
I’m hearing from my sources that we’re on the verge of signing Defoe.
Can’t see it but all the same would be very nice.
More like you have been on the ‘sauce’
only thing i have been on today is your daughter
I don’t have a daughter.. but anything that gets you a little tickle in ur pants.. pillock..
According to the Express Cleverly wants £1m from Man U to come to Villa (or anyone else for that matter) all a little bit too Stephen Irelandish for my liking.
I’m hoping Everton come in as reported & snap him up they’ll pay his wage demands,I hope all our resources today aren’t wasted on this player.
Holteto7500 are saying he wants £60k a week and I can’t see randy having any of that so hopefully that’ll be an end to any Cleverly deal.
Yes mate I’ve red that, obviously he’s got a greedy fucking agent I hope the deal falls flat on its arse.
Mornin all
JD I hope you’ll be surfing the net til the window closes mate as I can’t be arsed too busy at work.
I’m off work today so will do my best to see if I can get info on players in.KEA has moved back to feyenoord on a 3 year deal as you probably know.That makes room for an extra midfielder to come in.UTV
Hallelujah!!!!!
Arnold Oosterveer (Ron Vlaar’s agent)
“There is no truth in any of the rumours. He still has a contract with Villa for one year so he will stay there. There is nothing happening with him today.”
Woo Hoo happy days!
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/9/1/6092445/ron-vlaar-aston-villa-transfer-rumours
Vlaar going nowhere whihc is good news and, reading between the lines, there’s probably new contract talks in the near future. Oohah it’s going to be such an awful day for you!!
BWS – just beat me to it but have posted link for others to read. How long can Sky keep spinning the rumour of a move to Arse? 🙂
As long has he’s staying put then who cares mate, let them carry on. Read somewhere he’d be their 4th choice centre back anyway, at 29 would he be happy sitting on the bench? And going by Wenger’s past record with over 30’s it’d be a short contract, again the last thing you’d want at that age.
Apparantly (being reported in several places) Cleverley wants a £1m pay off from manure to take a wage cut in a move to Villa.. Easy to criticise but he’s enttiled to ask for compensation if he has a contract and will lose money if manure ‘break it’ by shifting him out of the club. It’s no different to CEO’s or other senior managers ‘losing their job’. Wasn’t there an example of this in a recnet transfer window – but can’t remember which player it was.
yes there was recent example of it, the player you’re referring to would be Peter Beardsley.
Yea, one Mr Stephen reland the w****r, he wanted £2m and look what a disaster he was. Sorry mate but if he don’t want to come f**k him, he’s shite anyway.
How could I forget that 🙂
agree its not like hes ronaldo ffs. At best he is as good as what we already have which isnt saying much
Cleverly wants Everton loan move but UTD want permanent Villa move who will win?Ide rather we moved on if this is true as I wouldn’t want a player who didn’t want to be at AVFC…UTV
agree i dont want the ueless twat even if he did want to come to us. sick of us bailing utd out
Jay Dee reported that after meeting with Roy Keane at the weekend, Villa now his preferred destination. I can’t make up my mind on this one.
no wonder keane failed miserably as a manager if thats the sort of player he signs poor judge of player
Them type of players can take a running jump for me, if he’s good he wouldn’t be moving, fuck him off. I bet who does come in we never believed it.
agree bill
Cleverley smells of the Stephen Ireland shenanigans all over again, by the sounds of it, he thinks he is bigger and better than the villa. Please don’t let this be the excuse for us not looking at anyone else…… Come on Mr Fox do some wheeler dealing. !! !!
TC would be a disater for us utd should pay us. snother djemba djemba just coz he played for utd dosnt mean hes any good. sick of them taking our best players and then flogging us their shit ones. Lerner is so knieve its untrue
wots the story, some were saying earlier about milner. if theres a chance 2 av milner or this Cleverly, it would be miner every time. i heard from my contacts over here lmao cleverly wants 2 be loaned or paid off. its in the local press, also they utd are trying to shift aload 2day up2 10 players
utd are desperate to get rid of players today as theyve signed falcao on loan ffs. If they cant get top 4 with the money theyve spent they need shooting. If we are in for TC we should wait it out till a minute before deadline ends as utd will bend over backwards to get shot of him. I think utd should be paying us to take the usless twat of their books. Maybe a swap deal with vlaar who knows.
loaning players when you can spend 60 million on a player is ridiculous cheating w***ers
if everton thought he was thst good they wud buy him
this falcao transfer stinks hes gonna be on 300k tax free dough talk claim, wots this fair play bulshit, villa for 2 years couldn’t pay 20k really fair innit . also they couldn’t beat burnley weekend and they had a 60 million player and in burnleys total history they have spent 60 million 🙁 totally fair play
they aven’T spent 60 million in their total history sorry iam breaking in my new phone 🙂
They have world class players but not a wc team. But all the quality they have shud guarantee then top 4 at least. Utd can pay more coz ffp is weighted in their favour as they have probably tge biggest turnover in the world
Aaron Lennon on his way to Bodymoor??
absolute bullshit
Is he lost? Bloody sat-navs!
just heard on talksport cleverly is likely 2 join villa nooooooooooooo i don’t like this. only a loan. he is not worth the transfer fee 8 million and in his last 12months
i can’t find anything out on villa, other than this cleverly ppl start posting ur gossip brb soon want loads of whispers of i hope jaydee is camped outside training groound gates with all the reporters do lol
I really hope we don’t start jumping through hoops to get this useless prick,Milner would be fantastic but I’m not holding out for that to materialize.
Man U are simply clearing the decks and offloading the shite and getting the wage bill down in order to finance their rebuilding, now come on this lads played in the CL, played for England and if the f **ker was any good, well £60k a week good then why aint your Bayern’s and Milan’s looking at him?
And Red Roy can f**k off too, didn’t he bring a load of Man U washed up dross in at Sunderland? He on commission or something?
commision sounds right imo
milner is wanted by liverpool and city said hes not for sale. another bs rumour