The last home game of the season has come around again and once again we’re perennial strugglers.
I’m stating the obvious there, of course, but it got me thinking about how the fans should react during this game, which I’ll be attending with two of my grandkids, my son-in-law and his father.
The truth is, I’m not even looking forward to it game-wise, although the atmosphere should be pretty good. Assuming we’re putting up a decent show, that is.
Which is the part that worries me.
The headline question I’ve asked should of course be a no-brainer. You support the team through thick and thin, particularly during the game.
But let’s say we are losing early on.
Then what?
Do we keep blindly supporting a team that might be taking us down?
Or should we voice the disdain that we apparently near enough all view the hierarchy in?
That’s my personal dilemma.
If we are indeed losing and looking as poor as we have mostly done through the season, especially at home and keep blindly supporting, we won’t be making a major point in the most powerful way we can ie chanting loudly for Lambert/Lerner/the board out.
That’s the part that gets shown on the news and chanting/protesting after the game has finished doesn’t do it, in my opinion.
And the whole lot of them will have basically gotten away with it.
I already know what most of the responses will be.
“You can’t create a negative vibe when the team needs us in such a dire situation”.
And those responses will be correct.
Even Lambert knows it and actually said it in a recent interview.
Football fans support, no matter what. It’s what we do.
Indeed, I can’t see myself protesting during the game.
But I’m wondering if it might be better for the club overall, if I do, in that it might drive the message home to Lerner and Faulkner.
What a state we’re in for me to even contemplate such a thing.
wot about gus poyet guys 🙂 Sunderland style is easy on the eye and effective, he managed to produce same as at Brighton and he managed to sort out a rite mess left by the madman
Wasn’t he Oohah’s choice from day one after we parted company with the M word?
Oohah the oracle.
as long as he cleans the showers up afterwards !!!
Yep always rated poyet he coukd do well with money behind him. But not Zola nice guy but that’s it
Don’t rate Poyet at all.
Spent £20m last Summer and his two big signings have been complete flops.
A very lucky win at Stamford Bridge could keep him up, not a CV I’d be lingering over if I were Lerner.
One win and one draw in twelve prior to the Chelsea miracle.
Talk about out of the frying pan…
…they’re not safe yet.
i would like to see poyet with steve clarke. great attacking manager with allegedly one of the best defensive coaches in the country. they were at chelsea together too. cant c it happening tbh
I’m probably an old cynic, but just how many clubs feel that they DESERVE better, and to be in the top four or so ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27253371
Do Man U stage a protest because they’re only fifth or sixth this season ?
I know that the football at VP has been shyte, but are we in danger of just crying out for sugar daddies and sulking if we can’t have one ?
Seriously, does the custodian of a club have to feel obliged to spend a large amount of his own fortune as part of the deal ?
I ponder over that too Vaze. The thing is it goes with the territory. Don’t buy a football club unless you have very deep pockets and are prepared to lavish cash on it season after season. Lerner started out that way, which is probably why fans are so disillusioned.
It’s the luck of the draw really. City got the oil barons. That could have been us or any other club.
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced Lerner will still be the owner next year. Not because he wants to be, but because he will struggle to find a buyer that will get him out of the mess he is in. IF that’s the case he has a real dilemma. More of the same = probable relegation and more damage to his wealth. New manager = pay offs and new player recruitment. If that doesn’t work it’s more damage to his asset.
If he sticks with Lambert he would still need to invest in the squad. Can he trust Lambert to sort it out and not waste more cash?
Maybe the only thing worse than being a Villa fan would be being Lerner!
Do you work for Lerner Vaze? Your voice of reason is far too sympathetic to be real. You just apologise for the current regime post after post. Most of us are realistic, but also expect just a little more honesty and effort from our club.
UTD don’t face possible relegation so wheres the comparison?
All things are relative.
We’re Villa, so feel that not winning many home games and being in the relegation shake up is beneath us.
I have no idea why Newcastle are pissed off with finishing ninth, we relegated them a few seasons back.
As for Man U, they’re used to winning a trophy or three EVERY season, so to finish seventh or eighth is not what they pay their money for.
We’d be fairly happy to have had Man U’s season, as I said, it’s about conditioning and expectation. Mine are pretty bloody low and I’ve still been disappointed this season !
i totally agree with everything u said, but ur wasting ur time sharing with the rest of us because they refuse to see the light.
weekend is almost ere and my stomach is knotting already, i just heard sky tipping fulham 2 beat stoke how do w feel about this ??? also apparently stoke are without their main center backs huth and shawcroft
Has it ever crossed your mind that the teams you’ve mentioned have set the bench mark higher & what the FUCKS wrong with that???
Off topic lads does any one know if any pubs around Aston show the villa games on tv cause got some mate coming on the piss but they ain’t going the game.
the local by me might what area do you live in?
Why not phone the pubs in close vicinity to the ground?
might as well go to the game if your that close to ground giddy lol
He did state around Aston so I thought near the ground,me personally I would get some booze from an offy & doss down in Aston park because you’ll know what’s going with all the expletives echoing from the holte just a thought mate utv
No worries got em a couple of tickets for north stand only trouble is they probably won’t be my mates come Saturday evening after putting them through that. Cheers
I would recommend the King Edward on Lichfield Road for a pint if they feel like leaving at halftime.
If they can stick it out that long lol !
Hull apparently have not scored against Villa for 25 years? I have total faith that Mr Lambert will but that right tomorrow!
Stoke hadn’t won on the road all season until they visited us, so it’s more than possible MATE.
We hadn’t lost 10 homes games etc until this joker lamberk came
He really is a mumbling clown! It’s laughable his still manager…. You can guarantee when he is sacked or leaves the media will say what a great job he was doing and was unlucky to be sacked!
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn
West ham turnover more than us?
That’s just embarrassing, even though they’re a London club.
That said, the figures are miles out of date.
i found this interesting 2 compare ourselves with other smaller premier teams, we need 2 compete more off field, aswell as definitely on field
It’s amazing that WH want Sam out even though he’s done quite well and kept them up. Yet Wev done fuck all to get lamberk out. If we don’t hound him out today he will be here next year