How are we perceived?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I just saw a thing on Facebook a report from Jamie Rednapp saying we need goals (obviously) .

Anyway underneath come the comments. Now most of us that use Facebook are aware of the Muppets it attracts but comments were so negative.

Not just from local clubs but from fans all over calling us a waste of space, boring, depriving better championship side's getting in. Saying were the new Wigan. Pretty damming stuff.

Are we that hated?

[Deano's Mullet]

Laughing stock.

[curiousorange]

Most people who find out I'm a Villa fan now respond in the same way: 'Oh, dear'.

Other football fans, I suspect, can't wait for us to go down. They see us imploding and are grateful it's not them. Plus we're not exactly going down in a blaze of glory.

[peter w]

Not hated. The Arse fans I was sitting amongst were actually pretty complimentary:

"they miss Vlaar"

"gabby's put on a bit of weight"

"They didn't deserve that"

etc.

Still shit, mind.

[LTA]

A turd that won't flush?

[Leighton]

Laughing stock.

And rightly so at the moment.

[Steve67]

Lacking leadership, direction and good coaching. Nothing that changing the Manager wouldn't solve, quite quickly.

[cdbearsfan]

Dull.

[London Villan]

Judging by the hundreds of missing Arsenal season ticket holders today we have a reputation that we are dull, boring and pointless alongside playing pretty rubbish football.

[Monty]

Blurrily, through tears of rage, boredom and confusion.

[hilts_coolerking]

Most of my mates who aren't Villa have stopped taking the piss.  It's gone beyond that, to pity.  They can't quite figure out how it's all fallen apart so badly.

[SoccerHQ]

Not hated. The Arse fans I was sitting amongst were actually pretty complimentary:

"they miss Vlaar"

"gabby's put on a bit of weight"

"They didn't deserve that"

etc.

Still shit, mind.

Ones I were sitting next to were laughing at how bad we were.....at 1 down.

I was always up for defending us when bizarrely loads of neutrals were calling us boring during the MON era but not now.

There is no defence for the garbage we're producing week in week out and that's now reflected in the stats and league position.

[curiousorange]

Other fans I know just say 'ah, you'll be alright'. This usually has no basis in fact because they only ever pay attention when we're getting a spanking from a team we should get a spanking from. They don't see nothing losses to Leicester City.

[rob_bridge]

Like Cit-eh of 20 years ago. Loyal and lapsed fans with memories of better times.

Obviously without any sort of succesful rivals.

[Steve kirk]

Only hated by fans of local rivals plus maybe Radio WM, in the main we have become a figure of fun for the football world in general due to all the hellish records that Lambert keeps breaking plus the fact that the club seem hell bent on doing fuck all about it, we have become a club to laugh at and that really hurts