Villa Low In Confidence.

Am feeling low in confidence aswell and People Like McMuppet and refs dont help

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Why should confidence be low, confidence amongst the supporters has at times this season been higher than anytime in the last 30 years, something is not adding up here, I still have a problem as to where the cause of my nagging doubt lies, fantastic manager, good "NEW" players, crowds up, everything up beat.... am and a nag......

I am getting tired of hearing 'we can play better' I haven't seen much evidence of that so far. A few months ago MON was telling us Gabby needed a rest but he had to play him, well with Young, Moore and Maloney he now has all the options he needs. Gabby was awful against the Arsenal and I was amazed he started yesterday (Luke wasn't even on the bench), and sure enough Gabby was poor again yesterday and who did MON bring off? Young. MON must be an absolute footballing genius because I can't understand what it is he is trying to do at the moment!!

It was like going back in a time warp to the DOL era. Liverpool didn't turn up yesterday and as always when teams don't perform against us we don't bother pushing the game. If MON is going to use Carew as a target man then it makes sense, to a non footballing genius like myself, that you need someone within 5-10 yds of him running onto the balls he wins 9 out of 10 times.

Welldone Tommy you saved us a point. Bardsley, like Hughes is average. Cahill and Mellberg solid defensively but poor distribution. Bouma solid but also not the best use of the ball. Barry, Petrov and McCann all grafted but had no options in front of them. This meant often going back to the defenders, who as I have already said distributed poorly. Gabi needs a rest (as he has done for about 10/12 games). Young always checked back on to his right foot instead of taking the ball past his man and would be better suited to the role that Gabi is currently playing on the right. Carew won everything and held the ball up brilliantly but was never offered any support. We have stopped scoring goals since Luke Moore was injured. Get him back in alongside Carew. Barry back out left. Petrov to play the holding role with Berger in front of him. Give McCann a break. There you are problems solved.

was hard to find any positives from yesterday, was a dire dire game apart from from big john, everyother player looked poor , people have mentioned gabby should have been on the bench i agree and was very surprised to see Luke didnt even make the bench and am a little puzzled as to why davis wasnt also on the bench , he was our top scoring midfileder last year , is he injured????/ we were very unenterprising yesterday didnt even attempt to try and win the game Really am behind the team and MON but performances like yesterday dont offer even a glimmer of hope would have played 4-4-2 yesterday same back 5 (bomua was the pick of the bunch yesterday) middle davis moore, mccann, barry thought stan, gabby and ashley didnt hold or create anything yesterday and gave the ball away far to cheap, thought mccann was poor as well but the best player at getting into the opposition, barry did at least try and did ok up front ashley and carew or possible swap with luke and ashley Luke Moore is our best finisher at the club and given the right support would be a 20 goal a season striker

When I posted my moans I thought you guys might have a go at me. But no you agree, which in one sense I'm glad about but in another I was hoping you'd cheer me up! I hope MON is up to the task of a managing a premier club because whoever you buy they tactics and choice of player has to be right. Have the lads played well in front of any capacity crowd yet? The fans started well and were beaten into submission. My Liverpool mates were equally appalled by Liverpool. Come on the Villa (at least Man City WHam & Charlton didn't win)

I`ve had my reservations about MON for a while but i must admit that yesterday wasn`t typical of performances overall this season,we have generally played at a much higher tempo and passion,i`m just sick of all the excuses and how " we`re gonna get it right " i haven`t seen any improvement on our set-plays ( attacking or defensive ) and the team needs shaking up at times,we may be a club " on the up " off the field but don`t see much on it considering money spent,please give me 40 points and we can evaluate in the Summer,but we`re no way out of it considering Charltons run-in.

Olly gave the ball away almost every time, he needs to stay late in training for some passing lessons. After that our midfielders get tired chasing after the ball, then when we go forwards we wonder why none of them support the attack. As bad as we were, should have been a pen. At least we got a point playing badly, rather than playing well and loosing.

Well said, Thegreatdando, could not have put it better myself. The fixture list has been really unkind this season, long breaks between games and bad cup draws have added to the pressure on us. The Christmas period was a nightmare having to play Man U 3 times. I believe we need to get rid of the dead wood ASAP in the summer, this may mean saying goodbye to a few favourites. Interesting to see Spurs last night, you have to take your chances against the top teams - we've found this out repeatedly this season. Looking back, the keeper situation probably lost us 6-9 points IMHO. Be interesting to see MON's team selections for the rest of the season, does he give Moore and Davis a go?