Ireland. Has there ever been a less committed player?

[lovejoy]

isn't this season enought of a write off Salsa??!!

[OzVilla]

As Dave said, Callaghan was disinterested and made it known as was Hodge.  However, they atleat took some time to come to this position (Callaghan had an excellent debut for us, Hodge was our best player for a long time).

Ireland hasn't looked or sounded interested at any time in his hopefully short Villa career.

Just turned on the news it hear that ''Ireland has made a formal request for a bailout''.

So it seems that's what the Blackburn game was all about.

[Sutton_Villa23]

worst display ive seen from an aston villa player for a long long time

[Nev]

You have to question the wisdom of signing this player bearing in mind his history. Had there been a manager in place who would have been confident enough to "manage" him then fair enough, but that manager wasn't in place. I know Milner wanted out, but were we that desperate to sell? He was the one player I didn't want as part of a deal, and if it doesn't work out, which at the moment appears the most likely scenario, we will have let our prime asset leave for less than his true value.

[Mac]

Apparently MON didn't rate him either.

i've said previously, if the club forced the Milner deal through with Ireland coming in the other direction against O'Neill's wishes is the only acceptable reason for MON to leave.

[TimTheVillain]

I am probably the only Villa fan who feels a bit sorry for him.

He's been shunted out of a club he loved to join a club he didn't want to join, only to end up playing for a Manager he wasn't aware he would be playing for who then says he's a lazy bastard.

Motivationally inept that comment from Houllier.

He's the type of player who'll join Fulham for £6 million and come back to haunt us.

[Nev]

I have held a long standing suspicion that the Ireland thing had some part in MON leaving, I know this may not be anywhere near the truth but until we hear the whole story this sort of speculation will continue.

[Salsa Party Animal]

I don't think the season is a write off especially cups. league meh

[eric woolban woolban]

At the moment, Ireland is about as welcoming as Kim Jong-Il.

[Eigentor]

I think Houllier will spend more time wondering whether Ireland is a postive influence in the dressing room as thinking up possible schemes to trick him into playing well. As things stand, it's possible that GH signed Pires partially because it would enable him to offload Ireland in January.

[gervilla]

As Dave said, Callaghan was disinterested and made it known as was Hodge.  However, they atleat took some time to come to this position (Callaghan had an excellent debut for us, Hodge was our best player for a long time).

Ireland hasn't looked or sounded interested at any time in his hopefully short Villa career.

Just turned on the news it hear that ''Ireland has made a formal request for a bailout''.

So it seems that's what the Blackburn game was all about.

Any more info on this bailout ?

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah sorry what's this about a bailout?

[TimTheVillain]

I have held a long standing suspicion that the Ireland thing had some part in MON leaving, I know this may not be anywhere near the truth but until we hear the whole story this sort of speculation will continue.

Nah, it was the whole Milner to Citeh thing.

No way would Lerner have forced a player onto his Manager.

[gti2win]

I think hes a player that needs to be involved in the play more, today like other games it looked to me like he was constantly looking and asking for the ball only to be ignored which must be frustrating for him like it was for me today, when he doesnt get the ball i think he starts to fade out of the game.

Yeah he needs to work harder but i thought first 20 mins he did ok, then slowly drifted out of the game. Im probably in a minority but selling him so soon would be a big mistake imo, hes clearly talented just needs time and to get his head straight, he looks low on confidence and houllier public slating probably didnt help. 

[Nev]

Lerner might not have...........