Fulham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

"We keep going" is the new "terrific".

If I hear him say that one more time......  The only direction we keep going is down.

I think all managers come out with cliches because they must finding doing interviews boring.
If I was a football manager I would love swearing and shouting at millionaires all morning, travelling and watching games most evenings of the week, then on a weekend jumping up and down going mental, then afterwards getting half pissed with another manager drinking fine wine.
But having to talk to dickhead reporters would bore me, win or lose I would just want to say `Oh fuck off you stupid tit with your questions.`

[PeterWithesShin]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

[Risso]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

That's basically what "we pick ourselves up and go again" translates to anyway.

[damon loves JT]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

I would go with a Nik Kershaw medley.

[PeterWithesShin]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

I would go with a Nik Kershaw medley.

Wide Boy for Richard Dunne, The Riddle for why we struggle to create chances when Bent is on the pitch, Wouldn't It Be Good to win three points. And some Dancing Girls for me.

[KevinGage]

It's easy to blame Lerner -and certainly he deserves a large chunk of the blame.  Maybe even most of it. 

But McLeish had the guts of £18 million to spend last summer.  Lambert spent £21 million this summer.

That's more than many sides who are targeting European places and beyond.

Lambert could have signed 2/3 big players for that amount - or rebuilt  the squad with cheaper players.  He chose to go the latter route -and there is logic to what he's looking to do, selecting younger hungrier players who want to be at Aston Villa, who want to make their name with us. Rather than big name players who see us merely as the latest stopping off point. 

I have to be honest and say that I haven't been blown away with any of his signings so far- either the more experienced ones from abroad or the ones from the lower leagues. 

The bedrock of Tottingham's success in recent years was the likes of Lennon, Bale, Huddlestone and Dawson coming in from lower division sides and eventually going on to be big first team players for them. Thing is, those players always looked too good for the division they were in, and had a number of top clubs after them.

I'm not sure the likes of Lowton, Bennett and Westwood were plying their trade in a division below their talents.   Time will tell, I guess.

I am fully prepared for the worst this season, we have the look of a team who will struggle.  Even if we stay up, what are our realistic goals in the future?   We seem to have the same status now as the likes of Coventry and Southampton a few years ago, happy just to be there. 

Everything about the club seems to have been downgraded, from player acquisition to the kit and we've had numpties a diverse as Assou-Ekotto, David Sullivan and Charles Green lining up to have a pop at us in the last 12 months.

A shite state of affairs.   

[Chris Jameson]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

I would go with a Nik Kershaw medley.

Do you only use the hits of Bread when it comes to entertaining Jimmy Savile's long dead mother?

[PeterWithe]

I'd hate to have been in the trenches with some of you lot, its not great at the moment but the potential of this team is there for all to see, it just needs a little patience from us and a little tweaking from PL.

[damon loves JT]

What else is he meant to say? "Yes we're struggling and i'm worried" or "we're a bit shit at the moment"?

I would go with a Nik Kershaw medley.

Do you only use the hits of Bread when it comes to entertaining Jimmy Savile's long dead mother?

Yes, that or Billy Ocean

[Risso]

I'd hate to have been in the trenches with some of you lot, its not great at the moment but the potential of this team is there for all to see, it just needs a little patience from us and a little tweaking from PL.

Tweaking?!  The situation is a bit more serious than that.

[PeterWithe]

Nope, the defense needs strengthening through the transfer market or Dunne returning. The midfield should, on paper, create chances, the forward options are strong.

I think we'll click and be comfortable.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'd hate to have been in the trenches with some of you lot, its not great at the moment but the potential of this team is there for all to see, it just needs a little patience from us and a little tweaking from PL.

Trenches? Parts of this thread read like an audition for the concert party.

[paulcomben]

I'd hate to have been in the trenches with some of you lot, its not great at the moment but the potential of this team is there for all to see, it just needs a little patience from us and a little tweaking from PL.

Trenches? Parts of this thread read like an audition for the concert party.

Indeed. What about the inescapable fact that the stats are way worse than Eck managed...?

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd hate to have been in the trenches with some of you lot, its not great at the moment but the potential of this team is there for all to see, it just needs a little patience from us and a little tweaking from PL.

Trenches? Parts of this thread read like an audition for the concert party.

Indeed. What about the inescapable fact that the stats are way worse than Eck managed...?

Bet you £50 we finish the season with more wins, points and goals than we had last season.

[damon loves JT]

Or as TSM might have put it:

There's a man, a real pace-setter, coming after me
And after him there's someone better
And after him there's me