Villa one of the topics on talksport now.

[Lambert and Payne]

If we are in any sort of crisis it's because of two things:

1/ O'Neill quitting days before the season started having not bought a single player all summer, and
2/ The huge injury list we've subsequently endured. Cast your mind back to the summer and never in your wildest imagination would you have expected to see a pretty regular Villa midfield of Hogg, Bannan and Clark!

Despite having had to throw in loads of kids simultaneously, I've seen signs that we'll be a far better team under Houllier, longer term. He's shown he's not a manager who will have his favourites and play them regardless of performance, unlike O'Neill.

We'll prove those Talk Shite tossers wrong..

Exactly what i was thinking but beat me too it

[garyshawsknee]

Im not usually one to come across all paranoid and say that someone is Anti Villa,but just hearing Mick Quinn has confirmend that he is. Not sure if its because he played for Coventry,but as he's a Liverpool fan he obviously has a dislike of GH. Fair enough if you dislike them,but at least show them respect you fat piece of shit as GH has achieved more in the game than an average player from the 80s ever did.

[Ads]

Fatty Quin is very anti-Villa. It must go back to his Coventry days as you say.

[Billy Walker]

I was listening to this this morning and arrived at the same conclusion (that Quinn has nothing good to say about Villa).  I can only conclude that the constant stick Villa fans gave him must really have got to him.  Even in the O'Neill days he was constantly belittling and writing Villa off.

It was interesting how he was quick to defend Blackburn's new manager but not Houllier ("Past it" was Quinn's assessment of GH - despite him being the same age as the likes of Hodgson and Redknapp.)  The media in the UK is a pretty strange beast when you think about it, it's strange how they seem to arrive at a common consensus over certain things.  In this instance I've seen very little positive stuff written about GH - I hope he proves them all wrong with us.

[Villa'Zawg]

Our record since GH joined us is appalling, that's what is driving the consensus. He needs to win some games before you'll see any positive stuff written in the press.

[Billy Walker]

You have a point Villadawg!  Results are the bottom line at the end of the day.

[WikiVilla]

Fairly dour assessment on Gillette SS now too
Merse, Solako, Stelling etc all fairly down beat and saying we're in grave danger of being sucked into the R battle

[jonzy85]

Hard to disagree with them isnt it?

[Irreverent ad]

Fairly dour assessment on Gillette SS now too
Merse, Solako, Stelling etc all fairly down beat and saying we're in grave danger of being sucked into the R battle

What a load of crap that was! No mention that we have had Petrov, Reo-Coker, Delph, Heskey, Agbonlahor etc out for long periods.

It is better for sky to talk about us possibly getting relegated that Wigan! What do those brains of britan know?!!

We will be close in the next few weeks. BUT look at our fixtures in Feb, March & April. We have some very winnable games.

Everton are ONE point ahead of us having played a game MORE. Yet they could possible make Europe and have a squad that could challenge the top 4 if they started better.

Where is the consistancy?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

You have a point Villadawg!  Results are the bottom line at the end of the day.

Not according to the MON-haters! He was slaughtered by many on here, even though results tended to be good.

GH is trying to make us play a different style of football, which will inevitably lead to some bad resulsts along the way. Let's take it on the chin and look forward to (hopefully) watching some good passing football.

[davevillan]

Its easy to look at results/table and pass judgement etc.
The bottom line is we were dropped in the brown stuff by our ex.manager leaving as he did. If you look at it positively we are only 7pts off 6th place this season, and with all our injuries/off field problems, thats not far away.
Once we get everyone back, with the new players hopefully to come next month, we will be in a much stronger position, and aiming for top6-8 is not unrealistic.
To say we are in danger of getting sucked into a relegation battle demonstrates a lack of knowledge imo.
Remember mon's first season when we went nov/dec/most jan without winning, then with the purchase of young/carew, we went 9 games unbeaten at the end finishing comfortably mid=table.

[cdward]

Fairly dour assessment on Gillette SS now too
Merse, Solako, Stelling etc all fairly down beat and saying we're in grave danger of being sucked into the R battle

In fairness they were responding to a point made by Cuellar that we can still finish top 4. The point they were making is we are closer to relegation than top 4, and with the current set up of younger/inexperienced players, the signs that we will be clearing out quite a few players in January, and the point that Randy seems to have closed the transfer fund (nothing spent on players in 2010), they have a fair point, that coupled with some of the displays (Arsenal first half, Liverpool) who can blame them.
Villas future currently looks bleak not bright.

[myf]

Fatty Quin is very anti-Villa. It must go back to his Coventry days as you say.

He is a fat ugly cock of the highest order.

[Pete3206]

Renta-gob's like Quinn may grate, but he has a point.

Blaming O'Neill for everything that's gone wrong won't wash. The current manager's organisational skills are, in my opinion, questionable to say the least.
We are losing too many games and relegation is very real possibility. Even members of the current squad realise this.

Marc admits it's brown trousers time

[Zhong Yi]

You have that overweight red faced helium headed scotsman, in his playing days the only thing that could be associated with quality football on his part was his surname which was the name of a county that could play football.
Then you have an ex yorkshire cricket player who is employed to give us his expert analysis on Manchester United and Barnsley football clubs.
Another ex cricketer telling us about all things football with his irriating mancunian accent.
Some lunatic semi scouser evertonian who frankly I have no idea what he is talking about.
In the afternoon, Pinky and Perky, two cockney sounding spurs fans  who attempt to tell humorous stories but fail while talking about Spurs, Spurs, Spurs and Spurs.
And what do they all do 90% of the time ? Talk on the phone to Spurs fans about Spurs, bloody Spurs fans going on about Harry, Harry this Harry that, hurry up Harry come on, oh yes they are all on first name terms with Harry arent they, like they bloody know Harry personally, probably know him so well they will be going round Harrys house on xmas morning and having a glass of sherry (just dont tell the aformentioned helium headed scotsman theres sherry about, or he will turn up too and they can all get pissed on Xmas sherry and talk more about Spurs Spurs and bloody Spurs) . 

Im off to listen to some nice calm classical music on radio 3 now.

I couldn't agree more with some of these opinions, including listening to Radio 3. My own opinion is that H & J as they like to be affectionally referred to are so piss poor un-funny it is downright criminal. Not once have I laughed at any of their so called clips of the week. It is my opinion that thye are two up there own arse Londoners, playing it their own way in the comfort zone on a working class radio sation...

As for talkSPORT, I was a dedicated listener for many years going back to about 1997, when it wasn't even talkSPORT in these years some of the presenters they have had on the station have been despicable and clearly biased on one subject or another. Step forward James Whale and his asshole of a sideckick Ash, Danny Kelly, Mark Green, Mike Mendoza, Mike Dicken (RIP) and of course self proclaimed Shock Jock "tell your kids you love 'em" Jon Gaunt. Despite its Villa connections with the likes of Andy Townsend, Ray Houghton and to an extent Stan Collymore, the station has long sounded like an on air equivalent of The Sun newspaper.

In the defence of Adrian Durham, going back to the Gregory era, when Villa occasionally topped the table, he was pro-Villa and has never  come across as having something against the club, he winds people up for sure but he does know his football. Actually at the early days of TS he was pretty well respected for his input into developing the various football shows on the station it is only in recent years his persona has been shaped to resemble a numpty. Why he has allowed this to happen is a bit weird.