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?
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vlaar plays
Well that’s a slight glimmer of hope,how long he’s on the pitch is another question.
5-3-1-1 when defending, 3-5-1-1 when attacking (haha). Back to the “hope we don’t get battered and maybe score 1 on the break while defending like hell”.
Yep agreed lamberk would be happy with a 2.1 defeat and then say we did well to lose by only one goal to the champions elect mumble mumble and next game we go again
He’s claimed twice now he fears the sack so I’d guess he’s trying as hard as he can for Villa not to get romped as of course any owner of any bottom 12 club would be far happier with a 2-1 defeat than a 6-0 defeat and could see why a team like Villa lost to Arsenal.
Saddened I think your right about Villas PR machine and the contempt shown towards fans. BUT it’s happening because certain fans accept the mediocre football and continue to hand over money to Lerner. Why would Lerner or his PR team change when so many Villa fans show no desire for change? Lerner will accept gates of 30,000 and Sky money why should he change? Lerner out
As I’m working away from home and country had to give my ticket to my lad, hope he doesn’t hold it against me for long……….
Arsenal at 1/2 is printing money, def worth a few quid.
0-4 Arsenal
i think our side will be hard 2 break down / but they av 2 keep the ball, be brave ~ arsenal will panic if they don’t score early 🙂 fingers crossed benteke needs 2 perform hes the key along with vlaar ~ set pieces vital
Lmao this has a big defeat all over it, arsenal must be pissing themselves at our tactics.
Can’t fault the lads effort though Adam.
Yeah they’re quality off the ball! El ahmadi is a clumsy fool giving needless fouls in dangerous areas.
And there it is! The meltdown starts.
I’ve given up on Villa and now use them to make money. It’s really quite easy, bet on them to lose every week and over the course of the season there’s a profit to be made. Now that’s taking a positive from a negative, Lambert will be impressed.
Truly does amaze me how we’re not 19th like last season, when last season Villa actually tried playing football and this season… We play 5 at the back and tell the 3 midfielders to sit as deep as possible. Really shows how bad the EPL has become and how any manager with the slightest ounce of intelligence can finish top 10.
True don’t forget on us having 30% possession either but like lamberk says possession is overrated it’s the score that counts. Well lamberk we are getting stuffed on both fronts
Here we fucking go ref get your abacus at the ready.ffs
i can see this being at least 6
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.