Geoffery Paine has submitted the following, which is very much in the Terry Jones vein.
It’s a bit depressing, to be honest, but seems to sum up the feelings of many Villa fans of late, including my own;
Well, we are a joke.
West Ham have agreed a fee with Manchester City for Joleon Lescott.
We know villa wont pay the ninety thousand pounds a week wage he gets there so we missed out again.
No Wells either, he’s going to Hudderfield.
All Lambert wants is a poor midfielder called Hoolahan and I’m sorry, but I think we are going to get
relegated this season.
Why are we not going for Defour instead of a poor player who cant get in the Norwich first team?
What is going on at the villa?
Have to disagree that Baker is weak.
He may be limited but his no holds barred play is what gives him a shot in the side. His combative displays against sides have been one of the few positives at the back.
Baker battles but has limited ability, for me Clark has got it in him somewhere, but as he proved against Citeh at home last season, he thinks he’s better than he is far too often.
Agree, he’s had some really good games and then he’s had some poor ones. I do think he needs Vlaar as he needs leadership but he’s got the ability to be a starting CB one day for Villa, next to someone like Okore who can give him direction. He himself isn’t a leader but he’s the no nonsense CB we’ve wanted for a while. It was all about finding someone for next to him.
It’s much like Davies when he was at Villa and now at Hull. He was solid with leadership next to him, and he is again raved about because of his ability, but he also now has someone to lead him in Bruce or Chester. Plus he has quality in front of him in midfield, but there are talented CB’s that need leadership and I believe Baker’s one of them.
Nah not a fan of bakers.he’s a better player alongside vlaar.without him he looks fucked.
Thanks for your concise and erudite thoughts Giddy lol !
You must be on it already, I’ll be joining in at 5:30pm.
lamberts not become a bad manager since entering villa park ~ the villa job is a massive one, so much was wrong with the whole squad, combination of too many managers bringing in their players, its a mess of a squad ~ a better manager than lambert would av struggled 2 sort out the mess. u can’t just kick some1 out the door and bring new ppl
lambert needs 5 transfer windows minimum sofar hes had four i think ~ seems like we av move backwards hopefully the summer recruits improve it does take time even 4 top players 2 adapt 2 the speed of the premier.
lamberts speech haven’t been a problem only now when its not going well ~ gives small minded ppl ammunition 2 drag us back 2 the playground
Nath now im questioning your state of mind you must be pissed give him 5 more windows.aggborough here we come.ffs
How many more players should he be allowed to sign though? We’ve used 21 players this season in the league, 13 of them he signed… 6 have been academy graduates which include Clark, Baker, Gabby, Weimann, Herd and Albrighton (realize Weimann and Herd was bought technically), Guzan’s going on his 6th year at Villa, including a 1/2 a season loan spell to Hull and Delph’s going on his 6th year here. So it’s not like he has these players that don’t know Villa. The one’s he didn’t sign have been here for over half a decade. He’s gotten rid of the players that were bought by other manager’s so that isn’t an excuse.
“Small minded people”? He claims the same thing over and over AND DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING. Small minded people follow every word he says and insults anyone who questions him. The guy seems clueless, it honestly doesn’t take a genius to figure it out and there are a lot of small minded people on here, but not everyone who questions what he says because he changes NOTHING are small minded and can actually put up a reasonable argument.
guzan had been released and lambert offered him a new contract so he wasn’t a villa player
Funnily enough im not but there is no way through out the 90 tonite will i be sober mate.i’l have an IV shoving the piss into me.
no he must be given 5 windows 2 get ur players in, hes had 4 i think with this january sales inactive so i would load up the guns and sharpen pitch forks end of the season
So you have faith in him?we have the shittest home form imaginable,tactics & some useless players but he’s going to turn our fortunes around.hasn’t 18 mths of him opened your eyes yet.maybe when we’re relegated you’ll be saying he’s the man to take us up i suppose.plse god give me strength.
I think that we have to stick with him, can’t keep changing manager all the time.
People were calling for OGS but he lost at home to West Ham !
Obviously there some on here into their championship footy.
I am leaning more towards him going now..
Doesn’t matter how much transition you are in.. you can not get knocked out by three teams from leagues below you inside 12 months.. two were not even in the Championship..
The over all standard of play is rubbish.. painful to watch.. it has got worse not improved..
Tactics is another issue.. the plan B versus Bradford was to stick Bent Benteke Gabby and Weimann all next to each other with no width and hoof the ball in from the back.. it was something out of a Sunday League game.. was an eye opener..
Even in the Sheff Utd cup game.. Baker got injured in the warm up.. instead of bringing in a natural CB.. PL moved Lowton to CB.. a player who has struggled this season and is trying to find his feet at RB.. which meant moving Bacuna to RB.. again a player who is trying to settle into midfield after a spell at RB.. why would you do that rather than the simple thing..
In the time there so far our midfield has become worse.. it was the KEY area to improve this summer and we failed dramatically..
i was all for the plan and thought PL could do well but with what i am witnessing i think he may not be the man to take us forward..
yeah i agree he needs until end of this season, u can’t keep chopping and changing. u end up with a squad thats unbalanced with didn’t ideas. as 4 the players ur rite they are lacking in quality.
lamberts tactic iam not sure about, i tend 2 think players are not taking the tactics 2 the field ~ u don’t believe 4 a minute a guy who played at the highest lvl and managed norwich that passed us of the pitch twice season b4 he came. instructing the players 2 hit long balls (get rid ). could it be the players are not aving options and hitting long balls cos they are lacking in quality and confidence
i agree wot we av been watching is dire but changing now i doubt would help / unless gordan cowans was given the reins ~ we need trust lambert and the dire players
maybe gus poyet if things are no better come end of season
Thank you lionheart i did at one point i think i was losing the plot mate.
I met a guy at the weekend who works for the owners of Sheff Utd – he’s a lawyer and advises on them on their financial investments etc… He told me that he spoke with Nigel Clough, who mentioned a conversation he’d had with Paul Lambert following the FA cup game and he said in Paul Lamber’s words; ‘Managing a football club in the premiership is not all it’s cracked up to be… I’ve got players on 50k a week and I can’t motivate them to want to play.’
Could be an indication of the sickness right at the core of the club with these overpaid fairies, and now we’ve got a manager who isn’t up to the task of managing them. Who knows whether he’s not getting investment because he can’t handle the players, or because that’s the instruction he’s been given.
Who in the villa team against Sheffield is on anywhere near £50k. If you listen to Lambert lately he is starting to get his excuses ready. He shouldn’t have a problem motivating young and HUNGRY players should he.
Reading between the lines, he could be referring to Benteke…
Oh fuck….i was hoping to sign Marlon Harewood. But he has chosen Hartlepool instead. Can it get any worse….probably yes! 🙂
Fuck off Lerner, the Villa is OURS
Giddy Langford see the LEMMINGS are out defending their man but if rumour is right that Lerner is going to be at the game tonight and a drubbing by the Gooners may be just what is needed to get rid of Lamberk and his cronies.
Lerner at the game – I don’t believe you Terry, lets hope he has his sat nab on, as I bet he’s forgot where Villa Park is !
I would say britain mate.
Lemmings lol
should there be a name for the other side of this argument?
I am not that good at coming up with nicknames.
maybe the hire & Fire
brigada 1874 ?
maybe thats awful!
does it annoy you TJ that someone differs from your opinion?
Let me play the devils avocado 😛 on this though.
Lambert is fired tomorrow ..
Lerner puts villa for sale by the weekend
what do you think will happen?
Mate now thats a nickname i can put up with.Like to fire LAMBERK very high like with a rocket up his arse.
lemmings lmao u mean ppl that don’t agree with u
No ppl who upset the digestive system.
aston villa beat arsenal 2nite and in a two horse race its quite possible ~ games against better sides are were villa excel the pressure is off, the world and most of our own supporters don’t give um a chance
screams a shock 2 me 2 1 villa win
No we’ll be stuck in the stalls,our horse is ready for the knackers yard.
lmao thats funny and ur entitled 2 ur opinion ~ i am hoping 2nite is the start of the revolution, my opinion may change during or after the game
Nath your sitting on the fence again sorry to say, do you really believe we will win? Hang on just seen a pig fly past, I don’t believed it. 🙂
wot fence
i think we will win ~ i always think aston villa will win ~ 87 when we went down i thought we would win ~ first game at home 2 spurs i watched head scratching when we was hammered 4 nil and final game we beat hammers 4 nil ( coincidence ) but were relegated i was conifident we would be back ~ we did first attempt runners up 2 millwall so i don’t sit on the fence i am behind a aston villa side thats playing really bad and i av seen us lose 2 wimblendon 7 4 and who can 4get the chelsea thumping
Good god Nath, I was also there, remember if Middlesbrough’s hadn’t have lost on the day we wouldn’t have gone up. I remember running down to the dressing room to tell the players, it was the crowd that told me by radio.
yes we needed 2 win at swindon or bradford and we got a nil nil
That’s the one, remember the team coming back from the dressing room Nath? and the Villa fans clapping the payers.
u remember them days / year b4 we were poor and that squad that was relegated has experience in it ~ european cup winners in spinks and evans , compare that 2 days team and i understand the worry u lot are feeling
but remember taylor came with a reputation he took waford from bottom league 2 div 1 but his transfers were ppl we hadn’t heard of and we trusted him and he got us up and we survived and the nxt season we beat arsenal 3 ,2 with my hero ian mcnally scoring
i av 2 believe like them days
Lescott on £90,000!! that’s ridiculous, if you want us to pay 31 year olds £90,000 a week for 4 years when they probably have 1 good year left in them then were going to be straight back where we started when MON left….In the shit with a bunch of overpaid pensioners. Have some sense, this needs to be done properly, not just throwing money at any decent name.
Hang on Adam I’m a pensioner and I’m not over paid, don’t worry we won’t sign anyone that’s of quality like him,
Bill, ever played in defence? You could be the man for Lambert!
Foxy ran two teams In the festival league years ago I also played, but was a left sided player,iI skill play better than them even now.
Still play better than them even now.
Left sided eh?