The Martin O'Neill thread (with added sacking #2188)

[not3bad]

You can't keep spending more than your income and you can't rely on the benevolence of your owner forever. And to correct the above oft-repeated error - Faulkner arrived with Randy.

That is the mantra but Villa are a club which has a turnover of £100m and television income is about to rise by 60% (2014), so how come they can only sign Football League players these days.

And in the end we have to decide whether Villa's financial position was so uniquely terrible that the club needed to take a huge gamble with relegation to put it right.

If the answer is yes, then those responsible cannot be given the fig-leaf of being called naive, they have to be considered criminally culpable.

They don't though, do they?

Thanks for that reminder that any reasoned argument can be avoided with a quibble.

It's not just a quibble though is it?  You talk about "orthodox opinions" that are wrong, and then spout a cliche that Aston Villa only sign football league players nowadays which is patently untrue.  Also, didn't Villa take on an international scout this summer?  He's hardly going to be scouting at Aldershot is he?

[regular_john]

and signing like Ashley Young from the football league are fine and that was not *these days*

Watford were in the prem when we signed him

[glasses]

I looked in on the main Sunderland forum this morning, and they seemed to have convinced themselves that the problem is that whilst Walford when there with MON, John Robertson chose to retire.

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Clutching at straws, robbo was no Peter Taylor and mon is definitely no cloughie!

I think so too. Although we wondered something similar when Houllier went through a string of bad results, with Phil Thompson's influence being discussed.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

But truly, setting aside all pedantry, one really can't help but feel, after considered observation, that Villa's squad seems rather replete with the sort of cheap players, whose potential one can't help having doubts about.

Are you the Duke of Kent?

[not3bad]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

[eastie]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

It's scintillating , absorbing and extraordinary!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

one really can't help but feel, after considered observation, that Villa's squad seems rather replete with the sort of cheap players, whose potential one can't help having doubts about

Can you do double entendres too ? You could be the next voice on adverts for Crabbies Ginger Beer.

[Mazrim]

Using words that haven't been spake since Victorian times can't hide the fact one is speaking directly through ones mudwhistle.

Believe me, I've tried.
Ruthless, this lot.

[Villadroid]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

It's scintillating , absorbing and extraordinary!

A contributor called Villadroid
Found himself slightly annoyed
Mocked with derision
At his lack of concision
He mockingly snootily reploid

[Risso]

I think his thesaurus is terrible.  And terrible.

[eastie]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

It's scintillating , absorbing and extraordinary!

A contributor called Villadroid
Found himself slightly annoyed
Mocked with derision
At his lack of concision
He mockingly snootily reploid

Very entertaining !
Are you our new Xmas present?

[Mazrim]

A villadroid argued with zeal.
And used flowery speech to conceal
That its really MONs fault.
That there's naught in the vault.
And his shabbiness now is revealed.


Step to me punk and you're gonna get served.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

It's scintillating , absorbing and extraordinary!

A contributor called Villadroid
Found himself slightly annoyed
Mocked with derision
At his lack of concision
He mockingly snootily reploid

Are you John Betjeman ?

[eastie]

A villadroid argued with zeal.
And used flowery speech to conceal
That its really MONs fault.
That there's naught in the vault.
And his shabbiness now is revealed.


Step to me punk and you're gonna get served.

Poetry in motion maz!

[eastie]

You can't argue with the vocab.  It's amazeballs.

It's scintillating , absorbing and extraordinary!

A contributor called Villadroid
Found himself slightly annoyed
Mocked with derision
At his lack of concision
He mockingly snootily reploid

Are you John Betjeman ?

Pam ayres?