The performance against Liverpool was good, no one should deny that. However it was ONE good game in a season of dross and mediocrity. It will mean nothing at all if we fail to beat West Brom. One thing it showed from Lambert’s sharp comments afterwards was just how much under pressure he is. One game does not justify the ‘project’ at all unless he backs it up with a body of evidence.
So then we had the James Nursey piece in the Mirror today defending the ‘progress of the project’. However it was these words that I thought said everything about the modern Aston Villa.
My criticism of SOME fans’ unreasonable expectations
These words come from the mouth of Faulkner and Lerner. Their greatest trick was to convince a large number of the Villa world that relegation struggles and comparisons with Norwich are a ‘transitional’ moment.
How can it be unreasonable for a club of our size, history and ground to think that 10th is satisfactory. When Mark Ansell told us that we went rightly so, wild, why is different now with a want/stay away owner ?
How can it be unreasonable to think that we should be competing with Everton who also have large debts and a high wage bill but made the right managerial calls over the years ? I am sure no Villa fan has unreasonable expectations of top 4 or the PL title this season ?
So I wonder what the the club think is unreasonable (all local journo’s have become a mouthpiece of the club or they lose their access), is it unreasonable to expect a few home wins etc ? Is it unreasonable to expect better buys than a 32 year old midfielder who is average at best but cheap.
Or does the odd good result against some of the better teams negate the crap ?
BTW as I work on projects and I am sure many of us do they usually have these elements
– a definitive end result
– Cash allocated to it
– Clear targets at each stage
– engaging all the key stakeholders to get to the ends
– All successful projects need good communication
Can someone please explain where Villa have done any of this ?
Again if we work in projects and you see a total switch in some of it then usually it means the project has failed.
Until you cough up the cash to change things, your going to have to learn to deal with it or simply be miserable with what time you have left.
As for talking about “The good times”, although the football we play at VP isn’t so sometimes, the actual day as a whole is. Especially the away games, buzzing atmosphere, but you wouldn’t know because your on here at home whinging about “that misplaced pass” etc.
Are your good times the days when we won the league, the same year Ipswich and WBA came 2nd and 4th respectively?? Similarly the times when your Lutons and Oxfords were in the top tier?? Look where these clubs are now compared to where we still are……
On average we have always been a mid table club and we still are. Nothings changed there so I don’t see your points.
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Its plain and simple Helenius you ever will, your in another world, if at any time you would like to come back to earth let me know, I can help you. Vtid. Just take a peep at the picture its called the Villa Tavern you can have a drink with me any time you want.
Used to drink int he Villa Tavern when it was run by the bluenose Gary, had sky sports etc. Then he got chucked out, some toerags took it over and it went downhill quickly, has it recovered now ?
Yes Robo my lad and his accountant took it on, turned it around and doing fine , she runs it but he holds the licence, they have had it now for 4 years. Packed on match days no charge on door.
What and let you depress me in person, I thought you’re meant to enjoy a pint? 😉
You talk like we have always been a top 4 side in the top tier. You’re remembering the good few successful occasions and think every year is how that should be, when the facts are, on average we are and always have been a mid table side……Why cant you accept that??
Of course we all want better, in both players and today’s football but the clubs philosophy has never been to spend tens of millions every season/window, the time Lerner did we were still an average side…..
Angering myself with seeing the likes of Clarke, Westwood, KEA, Weimann, Tonev etc play got me nowhere so I’ve now chilled out and actually realised, looking through history that we are and have always been and average top tier side bar a few successes, therefore we are on track to keep our trend as mid table status and until oil barons take over, we always will be the same brilliant Aston Villa.
UTV – CLARET BLUE ARMY – VTID
Helenius my growing close friend, I was born under the shadows of Villa park 75 years ago, I have been told by my family that have gone to the happy hunting ground don’t let Villa die, and do what ever it takes to improve the club, that’s what I’m doing , its going to the dogs, I have to voice my concerns otherwise I’ll get sent below, we are in trouble at this moment in time, I just want you to see them happy days that I had. 🙂 🙂
Helenius, you speak a lot of sense.
Not many of these have as long as a memory as the bank manager, Lerner’s first ‘project’ to get a CL spot under MON was disastrous financially for the club.
That’s all forgotten now and we should be in fourth or fifth with the clubs spending £40m-£50m on a player, never mind a Summer.
Football has moved on but we haven’t been left all that far behind.
Whew! Haven’t been here for a week, and it is so refreshing to come on and find the world is still spinning on its axis, night still follows day, and Ian (armchair critic) Robo is still moaning and whining about the Villa. The bloke sucked-up to the ghastly self-publicist O’Neil with hardly a fucking word of criticism. If this website is his idea of ‘good communication’ God fucking help us all.