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?
oh dear oh dear.
see what I was saying about confidence, 2-0 down and we’re playing time wasting tactics, nobody apart from gabby wants the ball, I remember saying this time last season I appreciate they are young and inexperienced but these guys need to man the fuck up and take some responsibility.
What’s wrong with just simple pass and move ffs! Our three centre mids have just stood still all game, just hopeless.
agree that referee is a nooooob wants 2 go back ref school, all 50/50 challenges arsenal way ~ if u needed conclusive evidence benteke wants out want his game for 45 mins hes never once run down channels ever made a nuisance of himself, he needs subbing and flogging if money is tight then he has 2 go. gabby has ran everywhere right left and benlazyteke stands on halfway line
He’s not doing himself any favours with wc coming up and his dream move to arsenal is a long way of.
Just like the first game. We got 2-3 big calls, they got every single little call and Villa players were getting yellowed for lesser challenges that Arsenal weren’t getting fouls called for.
scared, no passion.
Another fine night for Lamberk, everything going as expected. Only thing left is for Arsenal to stick in a couple more, the typical gormless Lamberk walk back at FT to a chorus of boos and then the weekly post match mumble. Aston Villa you make me sick
Lamberk will say when baker went off we had to defend with 10 in defence instead of 11. We did well fist half hr but we go again mumble mumble
Oh dear, it is the reincarnation of Martin O’Neil.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfers-grant-holt-3019664?
We Shoukd never have sold Heskey IMO !!
Silence is golden…..la la la
Have looked much better 2nd half. At least playing a bit
Arsenal are doing a man city too complacent
Another defeat lamberk set us up not to get hammered yet again. Arsenal were in first gear. Begs the question why didn’t we start like that we are a one half team again
So Grant Holt having a medical tomorrow at Villa Park for a loan deal to replace Kozak according to Sky Sports, twitter… Everywhere else. Guess we got that experience he wanted.
if that’s true I would welcome that ~ hes not blessed with loads of skill but he will bring strength passion hold up play yes I am happy with that ~ we aven’t held the ball up front 4 all season
holt, really? last time I saw him play I knew who it was who’d ate all the pies.
much better second half ~ but arsenal may finish 3rd but if they keep that ref they may a chance 2 get 1st or 2nd biased fucker ~ I want 2 see how many 50/50 challenges went 4 arsenal ~ one gunner had a runy nose stopped play for 10 mins but they only wanna 2 stop when they lost ball ~ I managed 2 walk when I broke my leg drag him off rant over
Why did we start playing in second half when 2 down. We Shoukd be playing like that at home for 90 mins ffs
dunno second half we had no choice but 2 attack ~ a more basic 442 second half and benteke showed up more ~ we need some signings holt would work 4 me as a loan ~ if benteke can repeat the second half every game now we will be safe / but a repeat first half we are in shit cos gabby was running about and benteke was a statue
Holt, ugh.
Well be careful what you wish for guys – there is your experience. Why Helenius is not worthy of a start, or substitute, I will never know.
Exactly why not take gabby off for Helenius when you know the last 10 mins was just hoof in to the box.
I see your point, but I thought Gabby was lively today. I personally would have kept him. Delph, I thought was a little questionable at times though…
Seemed to play with a hell of a lot more desire 2nd half. I know you could arsenal switched off, but at least there looked a bit of fire there. Bacuna showed a lot of guts. Let’s hope that will give Benteke a bit of belief going forward.
After the second goal they stepped off the gas. That said, our goal came from the first spell of us actually having a go at them. I don’t like losing but it’s a hell of a lot easier to take if we have a proper go. In the quest to avoid getting stuffed that has largely gone missing from our game. That’s up to Lambert to sort out.
did anyone congratulate benteke after his goal it didn’t look like it on telly i have noticed the last couple of games he could have been played in but the pass was never made maybe there is a problem in the dressing room
I wouldn’t read too much into that. Although I thought I saw Bacuna giving him a hug? Everyone looked like they just wanted to hurry things along, including Benteke.
Grant Holt the saviour, blimey. Lamberk sinking to new lows even I thought he couldn’t reach, we really are the Wigan.
yes we should ooah. we approached the game like scared lambs.
again confidence, once we’d scored the players started to play, clear we still lack quality but I wasn’t expecting any points but I do expect and appreciate a good effort if nothing else, if we play with that mind set from the start for 2 halves against the teams we should be beating like palace, sheff utd and Fulham we’d be winning them not playing like a bunch of pussies.
like I said they need to man up, take responsibility and grow some balls on a regular basis like they did come the goal, proves they can do much better if they try.
Agreed but last 20 mins papered over the cracks like the city result did arsenal just took their foot of the gas tbf
No Oohah, that’s not true mate, they was put on the back foot for a while, Let’s give Villa the benefit of doubt on the one, they played better for once.
That one,
Yep but had to wait till we were 2 down why didn’t we start like that!!
-sigh-, more garbage that “this and this” papered over cracks. Getting quite boring. Few if any should be stupid enough to think 20 minutes papered over anything. We always knew Villa had fight when they went down, because Villa always go down, it hasn’t papered over anything… My word…
just herd that were now going for grant holt who cant get in wigan frist team
what is going on were now going to get to 31 yaers who are both crap he either does not know what he is doing or learner is selling and dont want to relase a lot of money to move us away from the relaged spot
holt has loads of experience and hes a massive headache 4 defenders hes a loan ~ gabby needs help up front. helenius isn’t the same type as holt the way villa play we av been lacking a player 2 hold the ball up field ~ all season its been bouncing of benteke
Why have we only got him on loan. Surely we can afford a 31 yr old Wigan reject
He’s had a falling out at Wigan.
And why would you wanna consider Villa permanently signing Holt? You first question why we don’t get players in on loan, now you want Villa to permanently sign Holt instead of a loan? Holt’s to cover Kozak, it’s not like we’d actually go for him if Kozak was truly injured.
errm I thought we had a bit of bad luck, first goal down to Lowton, 2nd down to Luna, one minute In the game players took their eye off the ball, after that Villa was fighting for the first time in month’s, that is the type of game I like, I have to say if the other games like that we will be OK, not saying that change is needed in managership it still on the cards for me. OK Benteke do you think he was playing to get out of Villa park? I do.
Delphs fault the second goal, dwelt on it, tripped over, gave em the ball……GOOOOOOAL
first half he was auditioning 4 the part of invisible man second half he showed up but I think we need another target man in case ~ he wants 2 go ~ some1 said already when he scored nobody went up 2 him 2 congratulate ~ if he can repeat second half keep him hey if not dump him sell get shut
Trust him to score to play himself into the jan window. Good for us in the short term. Think we will get battered on sat
Where do you come up with this garbage? Play himself into the jan window, he’s not leaving in January. Was never leaving and won’t leave…