Early Post Match Reaction - Maxim Report

Hopefully the team see this as a wake-up call. Shows how our form can disapear towards the end of the season and something desperatly needs to be done. Hopefully the players and coaching staff can do something about it in the future. So fustraiting because we are a far better team than that performance and we are repreating last seasons mistakes. Unforgivable. We MUST not lose for the rest of the season.

This is last seasons 5-1 at Liverpool, did we learn from last seasons mistake of not rotating and running out of steam, erm, that would be a big no, will we learn, again no, not unless we change the man in charge

Fonz had a nice run past three players. Sidwell played pretty well in the first half. Ref missed Milly getting smacked in the face. Chelsea fans were very friendly before the match (maybe they knew something I didn't). Bolton on Saturday, three points please.

agree evo, fonze will be a star one day, if only after his run he'd be able to score, that would have been SOME goal!

Tired team. Play the same men week in week out, have four centre backs to choose from, two right backs, blah blah. Sorry Martin, whose tactics are these? Am not blaming the players. But I think O'Neill's lack of rotation and same old same old substitution 'policy' is getting beyond a joke. I'm not laughing today, anyway. I want MoN to be better than this. He's going to sacrifice Villa to his bloody minded stubbornness. Please learn lessons Martin. Or ...

My heart goes out to the Fonz the guy looks like he knows he has to score to even be considered for the next match.He deserves a few starts along with Sidwell.Warnock is rubbish,if I were English I would be praying Cole recovers for the world cup.

My heart goes out to the Fonz the guy looks like he knows he has to score to even be considered for the next match.He deserves a few starts along with Sidwell.Warnock is rubbish,if I were English I would be praying Cole recovers for the world cup.

Shape up. They know whats happened. To be honest i was waiting for a drubbing. Now we need to get behind the club we love. Tonight mon must be sitting back and thinking what to do next, hes not stupid actualy one of the best managers in the world. Its just one game in a season. Me? Ive just been intervewed on a local french radio station. Probably the most embarsing 3 minutes of my life

He`s not one of the best managers in the World - what a crazy thing to say after such great stuff

Completely agree ant1ant1 - this is last seasons liverpool 5-1, shows that lessons just havent been learnt. That isnt moaning, belittling, negativity. That is a factual observation. I said before for all the good of martin o neill, (and i still beleive that), if he doesnt learn that the modern game requires a rotation system then he will never take us further.

Gutted. Need to get some real quality EARLY in the tfer window.

Do you really want Mr O'Neil spending more of our money on players to decorate the bench with

Pking, where have you been all season how on earth can you say Warnock is rubbish, wake up the lads absolutely quality. MoN is a world class manager, why else would he be linked with Manchester United and England, and all this wineing about messing up January windows has to stop, its complete rubbish, this is not champ manager this is real life. Its not as if we are sitting back while everyone else is doing business, and frankly I would be extremely disappointed to see us splash cash like City its a ***** poor way to run a football club. Not every player we bring in is going to be a star but look at the players MoN has bought in? Milner, Young, Petrov, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Big Brad F. I agree we have a lot of bench warmers but get real. I agree we havent learnt our lesson from last season, but I also think that we have had so many important games its been hard to not play our best players, look what happens when we introduce players like Sidwell. Bottom line is Martin is a world class manager and villa are a team with a bright future, if MoN continues signing player with the level of success he has had so far I will be a happy Villa Fan.

For us Villa fans its hard to reflect on THAT non performance and see any positives really. Warnock is quality and some of those crunching tackles shows he has heart and one of only two on the field that showed that. Fonz has to be the other who is trying his best in what little playing time he is given. IMHO a massive summer coming up for MON. The current team needs further investment and if not added to then with MON in charge we will stand still or even worse, go backwards! Brad snr is getting too old now (soz but he is) and we need someone like Hart (on loan to you know who), D Bent for goals, a n other top creative midfielder who goes forwards and isn't afraid to shoot aka Lampard (Petrov just isn't doing it for me and hasn't for a while now). Defensively we can shut out teams with a full and fit back four who play in their position so no new faces there. If we have a policy on playing at least one youngster in the team each match then this would also bring on fringe players and give us rotation like we desperately need. I love this club but if these areas aren't addressed then we will never become CL material. MON isn't for every one but I can see now why he does get some flak. Over to you MON, prove us wrong and restore our faith. The best way is with POSITIVE results for the remainder of the season! BTW, a great shout that the squad give up their weeks wages for Acorns as THAT display wasn't worthy of getting paid.

Guys i suspect what we REALLY needed today was Nigel Reo-Coker back in the middle... at least that guy would have ran like a machine and got at chelsea, and he would have lifted the team a little more than Petrov, who while a good player, isn't a great captain

mattyh1986, "look what happens when we introduce players like Sidwell." It's not the introducing him that is the problem. The issue is that he hasn't played enough and therefore isn't up to speed. You can't expect players to be excellent as soon as they come on after sitting on the bench for 6 months. If MON played and rotated 16 players then they would hit form at different times and offer different tactics etc. rather than having 11 and playing them till they can't run anymore.

ant1ant1, I totally agree mate, he´s taken us as far as he can. Time to go. His lack of tactical knowledge has cost us to many games, AGAIN !!!!

Lads - it'll be a different story at Wembley!

It's quite interesting to read these posts. Warnock has never convinced me defensively, Big Brad is to be blunt, crap and Cuellar is easily our best RB defence-wise. Go figure. ant1, name the replacement please.