ASTON VILLA Vs ARSENAL : FA Cup Final : Saturday 30th May 5:30pm.

I'm out after the game on a friends birthday night out, so celebrating or commiserating, I'll be smashed this evening! Much love everyone.

Up the Villa 

Just had a couple of jäger bombs to calm the nerves

Walcott in so if we play a high line we could be in real trouble!

Villa_Dan wrote:Just had a couple of jäger bombs to calm the nerves

I've just had to nip and and buy 20 cans of Strongbow .... I blame you Dan!

NARLA24 wrote:Enjoy everybody. Nerves are shot already. Pub time at 3. UTV.

Cheers, have a brilliant evening out there in Lanzarote. !

Good luck to the villa, here we go, up the villa.

This manager doesn't know what he's doing. Shocking selections. Shocking tactics. At least he'll get his soundbites in later on.

RhodyVillan wrote:This manager doesn't know what he's doing. Shocking selections. Shocking tactics. At least he'll get his soundbites in later on.

Not sure what you mean? Apart from N'Zogbia it's a decent team selection. Tactics wise I'm not sure what you expected, We've been decent, not good but not awful either, against a team that's been awesome so far.

Ideally N'Zogbia off for Gabby and maybe consider bringing Grealish more Central and ask Delph to go into a role similar to what Ramsey's doing for Arsenal

We've been battered, pal. Think we're watching different games, as I feel this could easily be 3- or 4-0 now.

RhodyVillan wrote:We've been battered, pal. Think we're watching different games, as I feel this could easily be 3- or 4-0 now.

We have, but how much of that is down to how well Arsenal have done, rather than how badly we've done?

Neville had a good point that we've been a little too cautious and that's hurt us but if we would of gone for it and got battered we would of been slated for that.
Sherwoods tried to negate Arsenal and play on the counter, it hasn't worked and hopefully Sherwood can try and change how we play.

Fingers crossed.

Aesorian wrote:

RhodyVillan wrote:We've been battered, pal. Think we're watching different games, as I feel this could easily be 3- or 4-0 now.

We have, but how much of that is down to how well Arsenal have done, rather than how badly we've done?

Neville had a good point that we've been a little too cautious and that's hurt us but if we would of gone for it and got battered we would of been slated for that.
Sherwoods tried to negate Arsenal and play on the counter, it hasn't worked and hopefully Sherwood can try and change how we play.

Fingers crossed.

Lambert did that twice this season and wound up losing 8-0 on aggregate to these guys. Are you saying Sherwood didn't learn from that?

We are playing one of the best on form teams in the prem, and do agree we are being battered, it is not going to be any better in the second half.

RhodyVillan wrote:

Aesorian wrote:

RhodyVillan wrote:We've been battered, pal. Think we're watching different games, as I feel this could easily be 3- or 4-0 now.

We have, but how much of that is down to how well Arsenal have done, rather than how badly we've done?

Neville had a good point that we've been a little too cautious and that's hurt us but if we would of gone for it and got battered we would of been slated for that.
Sherwoods tried to negate Arsenal and play on the counter, it hasn't worked and hopefully Sherwood can try and change how we play.

Fingers crossed.

Lambert did that twice this season and wound up losing 8-0 on aggregate to these guys. Are you saying Sherwood didn't learn from that?

When we attacked and played a High line against a team with pace and guile we conceeded 6 in a game and, if we're honet, Saints are a worse team than this Arsenal. Sherwood had to pick a lesson to learn. He may have picked the wrong one for sure.

It's all over for us, no way back from 3-0 down bad defending.

Bad defending?!?

86 minutes, ONE shot, ZERO shots on target.

THIS is what Tactics Dim's bringing to Villa?!? No thanks! Any marketability the club might've gained since February goes out the door with this performance. Sherwood.is.not.the.guy.

Without Tim we don't have a cup final. We don't have a premier league season next year. But with Tim hopefully we won't have fans like you

Well guys I have had a few beers, but we should have had one free kick or 2 penalties, still up the villa a good end of season for us, still in the prem, and we have got rid of the deadwood of Lambert on wards and up wards, up the villa.

Thank you Lerner. I'm glad you was here to see it. The difference between champions league players and championship players.

Let him buy some of his players, then criticize, it is a miracle that we are still in the PL.

UTV

[quote="Spirit of Bosco Jankovic"]Let him buy some of his players, then criticize, it is a miracle that we are still in the PL.

Agree

Fucking disgraceful, players didn't deserve the support they got today

I feel sorry for the fans today who went down to Wembley, most of the team did not show up, look what we did against Liverpool, it was not the same team, like I said before arsenal are the team on form at the moment, let's see what happens in the next few weeks, o it's back to a few more beers.

Disappointing, from the moment we saw the team selection, the opinion here in my house was that we'd struggle to create in the game. We don't win games when Bacuna isn't there to supply Benteke. We don't win games with little Given between the sticks (apart from West Ham when they were useless and he still conceded a disallowed goal}. Arsenal are vulnerable to one thing .... pace .... so we left out Agbonlahor and played a totally ineffective N'Zog).

Sherwood has done a great job for us since he became manager but he got it wrong today, in fact he started to get it wrong three weeks ago.

Still despite not turning up today we've still had a good family day together and now we're going to watch the boxing on pay per view tonight, to extend and enjoy what could have been a very different day. Up the Villa!

Army villain wrote:Well guys I have had a few beers, but we should have had one free kick or 2 penalties, still up the villa a good end of season for us, still in the prem, and we have got rid of the deadwood of Lambert on wards and up wards, up the villa.

Cracks would have been papered over if we had played well today .... do you see how I'm trying to put a positive spin on things. Randy looked happy though!