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Offline Ads

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2016, 08:14:48 PM »
If Gabby had put away that simple chance at Palace when 1 on 1 , if Guzan had lumped it rather than rolling it, if Richards hand not missed sitter of the season against Sunderland, if we'd have held on for 5 more minutes against Leicester. Who knows. Before the surrender there were a number of ifs and buts.

It's been coming, 5 years in the making. If we'd have stayed up, we'd only be back here again without change at the top. We have lack direction and a driving hand at the wheel for too long.

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2016, 08:18:58 PM »
Yes Ads you are right, if we would have Delph and Benteke we would have just about survived like we have in the past, then this mess would have been put off for another season. This clubs needs a revolution.

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2016, 08:21:15 PM »
If Gabby had put away that simple chance at Palace when 1 on 1 , if Guzan had lumped it rather than rolling it, if Richards hand not missed sitter of the season against Sunderland, if we'd have held on for 5 more minutes against Leicester. Who knows. Before the surrender there were a number of ifs and buts.

It's been coming, 5 years in the making. If we'd have stayed up, we'd only be back here again without change at the top. We have lack direction and a driving hand at the wheel for too long.

The lack of direction goes on doesn't it?  Hollis is happy to admit he knows nothing about football, Brian Little is only an advisor.  Even if Lerner doesn't sell, the infrastructure at the club really needs sorting quickly.  We really are in the shit aren't we?  Never has a pre-season been so important for Aston Villa Football Club.

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2016, 08:21:45 PM »
The problem begins and ends at the door of wherever in the States the bunker is in which Lerner is holed up.  This was a relegation waiting to happen and over a period of years he has done nothing to prevent it, instead brought about the inevitable by either personally selecting or sanctioning a succession of botched appointments both in the boardroom and the dressing room.   

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2016, 08:29:52 PM »
If Gabby had put away that simple chance at Palace when 1 on 1 , if Guzan had lumped it rather than rolling it, if Richards hand not missed sitter of the season against Sunderland, if we'd have held on for 5 more minutes against Leicester. Who knows. Before the surrender there were a number of ifs and buts.

It's been coming, 5 years in the making. If we'd have stayed up, we'd only be back here again without change at the top. We have lack direction and a driving hand at the wheel for too long.

The lack of direction goes on doesn't it?  Hollis is happy to admit he knows nothing about football, Brian Little is only an advisor.  Even if Lerner doesn't sell, the infrastructure at the club really needs sorting quickly.  We really are in the shit aren't we?  Never has a pre-season been so important for Aston Villa Football Club.


As i said the reason we got relegated was simple, so's the solution. Someone who can score in the championship is not that hard to find. Midfielders who can win the ball, dominate games - this is not a type of player who is rare. We had Westwood, Grealish, Gana, Vertout, gil etc. Not a  single player who can put his foot in or posessed of a bit of bottle amongst them. Buy 1 or 2 this summer and i'm sure some of those named will flourish playing with them

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2016, 08:35:37 PM »
Thank god it's over. Let's just hope and pray we have new owners pretty soon with a bit of drive an ambition that'll take us back to the PL where we belong. These last 6 years have been humiliating and a total stain on the club's history.
Hopefully this time 12 months we're going up as champions.

Offline Ron Manager

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2016, 09:31:38 PM »
The answer is simple. If you keep selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones then sooner or later you get relegated. Getting rid of delph/Benteke/cleverly, although not in the same class as the likes of Young Barry and Milner, was the final tipping point that turned us from mediocre to terrible. Add in the bobbins bought from here and abroad to replace them and there's your answer.

Benteke and Delph both wanted to go and Cleverly was only on loan......as you should be aware of!

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2016, 09:40:43 PM »
worst shite ive seen in 50 wankers

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2016, 09:54:38 PM »
The problem begins and ends at the door of wherever in the States the bunker is in which Lerner is holed up.  This was a relegation waiting to happen and over a period of years he has done nothing to prevent it, instead brought about the inevitable by either personally selecting or sanctioning a succession of botched appointments both in the boardroom and the dressing room.
Although I agree we need rid of Lerner I stand by my opinion he has been very badly advised, re Fox and others.

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2016, 06:23:32 AM »
The answer is simple. If you keep selling your best players and replacing them with worse ones then sooner or later you get relegated. Getting rid of delph/Benteke/cleverly, although not in the same class as the likes of Young Barry and Milner, was the final tipping point that turned us from mediocre to terrible. Add in the bobbins bought from here and abroad to replace them and there's your answer.

Benteke and Delph both wanted to go and Cleverly was only on loan......as you should be aware of!

Doesn't matter why you sell them, you still don't replace them with noticeably worse players. We sold Benteke for 32m and replace him with TWO strikers for the total of 14m Both obviously not good enough. We then presumably used the rest of the Benteke and Delph money to waste on the likes of Gana and Vertout. Both clearly not of the required standard. What happened this season was inevitable even taking away the players piss poor attitudes. Even with them applying themselves we'd have still been in the relegation places but probably relegated a bit later,

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2016, 12:49:14 PM »
Losing and not replacing Delph was massive for me.
We've spent the entire season playing sideways and backwards!

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2016, 01:15:54 PM »
Losing and not replacing Delph was massive for me.
We've spent the entire season playing sideways and backwards!


Sideways and backwards was some of the better stuff we played - the comedy defending has been off the scale this season!

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2016, 01:19:16 PM »
I very much doubt that the third goal we conceded at Sunderland will ever be surpassed in its levels of utter incompetence.  It defied belief.

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #28 on: May 16, 2016, 01:21:41 PM »
True Des but we ran it close a few times. Bournemouth at home when they scored following our throw in etc

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Re: The Aston Villa Football Club 2015/16 Season - Annual Review
« Reply #29 on: May 16, 2016, 01:22:33 PM »
worst shite ive seen in 50 wankers

Is that the title of the season review DVD?

 


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