West Ham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Villafirst]

That was utter rubbish. Lerner is ruining our club. In the last two years he's made one cock-up after another. His intentions were clear when we sold Young and Downing. Very little of the £35M was reinvested and we're seeing the results of that now. You never hear a word of his ambitions for the club or his down right ignorance towards the fans. Look at how we're now perceived in the media - Savage isn't the only one who's tipped us for relegation - the club is in tail spin towards the Championship having been on the fringe of the top four 2 years ago. Relegation this season would be a disaster with the new £3 billion SKY deal starting next year which dwarfs the current revenue. If he doesn't allow PL to sign anymore players before 31st August, in my opinion were down. Any new signings need to be quality not bargain basement aquisitions, but I can't see that happening.

[claret and blue blood]

We need a winger and a striker minimum, Lambert must know this, and I guarantee we have in Paul Lambert the best guy possible to pull this club out of the nosedive we have all witnessed over the last two years.
What we have to do as fans (and he constantly refers to this) is get behind this young side and support them through this period.
Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

[Shrek]

For fucks sake, some people on here haven't got a clue, it's one game we are not going down.

Paul Lambert lost 15 games last season where we only lost 14, so let's all relax abit, I think we all said we'd rather have a few more losses instead of draws for a few more wins.

We have to accept we are a midtable team now.

[nick harper]

I really don't think any of our young players are good enough at this level. The club are desperately hoping we will produce a production line of talent but in reality you are lucky if you get one or two per decade,

The squad looks desperately thin to me. Minimum requirement is a left back, a central midfield leader to replace Petrov and a striker to give us more options up front.

[Chipsticks]

We need a winger and a striker minimum, Lambert must know this, and I guarantee we have in Paul Lambert the best guy possible to pull this club out of the nosedive we have all witnessed over the last two years.
What we have to do as fans (and he constantly refers to this) is get behind this young side and support them through this period.
Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

We're Aston Villa. We moan when we want.

[Matt Collins]

People do like a good whinge. Did anyone expect Lamber to have turned it around in a couple of months. We've a pretty poor squad overall and don't seem to have much cash.

Luckily, there are quite a bit of pretty average sides in the league too. I'll be worried if we're still looking like this after 6 games.

I do expect us to lose against Everton next week for the first time in ages though.

[ACVilla]

We need a winger and a striker minimum, Lambert must know this, and I guarantee we have in Paul Lambert the best guy possible to pull this club out of the nosedive we have all witnessed over the last two years.
What we have to do as fans (and he constantly refers to this) is get behind this young side and support them through this period.
Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

It's this sort of blind faith that nearly got us relegated last season.

We are relying on unproven youngsters, not good enough youngsters and players who have been poor for the last few seasons. And Darren Bent.

I stated in the pre season prediction thread that our squad is one of the worst in the league and when I saw the starting XI yesterday I thought to myself "is that really all we have got".

[ROBBO]

I really don't think any of our young players are good enough at this level. The club are desperately hoping we will produce a production line of talent but in reality you are lucky if you get one or two per decade,

The squad looks desperately thin to me. Minimum requirement is a left back, a central midfield leader to replace Petrov and a striker to give us more options up front.

Agree with this, many have believed the young players coming through will be good enough when with all clubs  not many make the grade from juniors to seniors. It would be interesting to see the survival rate as a percentage.

[john e]

I really don't think any of our young players are good enough at this level. The club are desperately hoping we will produce a production line of talent but in reality you are lucky if you get one or two per decade,

The squad looks desperately thin to me. Minimum requirement is a left back, a central midfield leader to replace Petrov and a striker to give us more options up front.

yet are worse performer yesterday and for the whole of last season was the one who cost the most,

 i'd take all the youngsters we have rather than the overvalued and overpayed likes of N'zog, Warnock, Hutton, there must be 20 mill we payed out there, thats without even adding the ultra experienced Heskey who thank goodness has gone now

all this 'we need experience' stuff, we have it, its sits on the bench or cant get a game most times because its shit

[Pete3206]

Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

Is there anybody who isn't supporting the team? Post match threads are reactionary and supporters often air their frustrations and disappointment after a result like this.

[john e]

We need a winger and a striker minimum, Lambert must know this, and I guarantee we have in Paul Lambert the best guy possible to pull this club out of the nosedive we have all witnessed over the last two years.
What we have to do as fans (and he constantly refers to this) is get behind this young side and support them through this period.
Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

It's this sort of blind faith that nearly got us relegated last season.

We are relying on unproven youngsters, not good enough youngsters and players who have been poor for the last few seasons. And Darren Bent.

I stated in the pre season prediction thread that our squad is one of the worst in the league and when I saw the starting XI yesterday I thought to myself "is that really all we have got".

i realise football is all about opinions,

 but my opinion is the exact opposite of this

[Chipsticks]

Some of my fellow fans embarrass me with their constant desire to moan and this goes back to MON's days.
SUPPORT YOUR TEAM !

Is there anybody who isn't supporting the team? Post match threads are reactionary and supporters often air their frustrations and disappointment after a result like this.

I think it's quite fair that we support the team fully at the game, though can vent frustrations on here.

[ozzjim]

I think the formation will be changed about a bit over the next few weeks to be fair. Lambert changed it week to week at Norwich. Lets not get too down.

[brontebilly]

For fucks sake, some people on here haven't got a clue, it's one game we are not going down.

Paul Lambert lost 15 games last season where we only lost 14, so let's all relax abit, I think we all said we'd rather have a few more losses instead of draws for a few more wins.

We have to accept we are a midtable team now.

We won't be a midtable team if there aren't at a minimum 3-4 decent quality new players brought in. We will be going down as leaving aside the lack of quality in the squad there is a distinct lack of leadership and fight in the team. We have inherited the dreadful trait from last season in that if we concede first we disintegrate into a rabble. Do people honestly think Gabby after two shite
disinterested seasons is going to improve us much?

Paul Lambert surely wouldn't have moved to Villa unless there was some level of funding available so yesterday might well be a welcome wake up call to him and particularly the board. To think the majority of the forum were turning up their noses at Grant Holt coming in. He is the kind of character we need in the team. Robbie Keane even too. Players who won't accept losing to piss poor teams like West Ham.

[Mister E]

West Ham were more than happy for Villa to dominate possession. One up front, especially Bent was never going to be effective. They stifled the supply line, which was hopeful through balls from Ireland and there was no alternative plan.  Jaaskelainen may as well have stayed on holiday.

Our lack of shots on goal is one thing we simply have to change and improve on. I don't have the stats but over the past two years I'd bet we have been amongst the lowest shots on targets of any team in the top two divisions.

Well, yesterday we apparently had 13 to WHU's 8; however, most of ours were from distance.