Aston Villa v Everton Match Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

N'Zogbia is utterly clueless.

When he puts in the effort to get into a decent position, he just stops, he doesn't know what to do with the ball.

[eastie]

 We can all blame o neill, houllier and mcleish but the man who should be blamed most for this clubs sorry state is mr randy lerner.

[Goldie.7]

These players haven't got a clue how to play football. Not singling out KEA but when someone passes him the ball all he does is instantly pass it back to them and run forward to nowhere. This is really beginning to piss me off.

[midian]

We WILL be relegated even if we sign 2 or 3 in the week it will not help,I hate to be so negative but its awful!

[Rigadon]

Karim El Ahmadi OFF Bannan OFF Ireland ON Weimann ON

How will that work? They've looked like our only two players capable of trapping a football.

Bannan has been woeful. Completely useless.

Indeed, almost as bad as playing with 10 men I'd say.  Same with Nzogbia. 

[Monty]

Karim El Ahmadi OFF Bannan OFF Ireland ON Weimann ON

How will that work? They've looked like our only two players capable of trapping a football.

Bannan has been woeful. Completely useless.

Indeed, almost as bad as playing with 10 men I'd say.  Same with Nzogbia. 

Bannan has been the only one actually trying to make himself available for the ball. The lack of movement off it is shocking.

[frank black]

37% posession and 1 shot at goal in 45 mins. It's going to be a long hard season.

Fingers x for a miracle of a half time talk.

[David_Nab]

Savage was right we are relegation quality.If ,and it looks very likely we lose this match thats what 1 win in 20 ...FFS.

[ktvillan]

While Lambert may not be at fault for the paucity of the squad, he is surely at fault for the fact that the players look slow and unfit, not to mention tactically clueless.To me this is as bad as ,if not worse than, the Swansea game last season.  We couldn't be less potent going forward if we had Mcleish and his surrender tactics on display.  If you are going to play a possession game you need players who are comfortable on the ball and full of movement.  We don't have them. And anyone who thinks Clark is going to make a top class CB is in cloud cuckoo land.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

N'Zogbia OFF Fonz OFF Ireland ON Weimann ON

Fixed.

[Villatillidie25]

And yet there are people who criticize others for not being positive and optimistic!!! 

We are shit and going down and anybody who thinks anything else needs to take the tinted specs off.  This is an awful Villa side, look at the line up ffs!!  A mixture of very average youth players that will never make it and a few over paid, over rated older pros who couldn't give a fuck.  Oh and Nathan (League 1 player at best) Delfouneso.

Rubbish.

Nobody has said we've been anything but poor so far this season.

Where people differ is in their opinion that one (or two) games is not enough to start moaning at the manager.

The problem is obviously players. Not enough of them, and the ones we have got are nowhere near good enough.

Totally agree. Lambert is a decent manager but has been given basically no money (where was the 20 odd million kitty? - we have probably spent net £5m and our wages are probably lower this season). The players we have are simply not good enough and some are performing nowhere near their ability (i include nzogbia, ireland and bent in particular here but, certainly with the first 2, i cant see it getting any better either).

[eamonn]

Monty, do you ever have anything bad to say about Bannan?! He's been as dire as the rest.

[Chris Jameson]

I'm going to phone Nicky Keye.

[johncvilla88]

ROCK BOTTOM of the table.

[Rancid custard]

it's going to get worse before it gets better...