Aston Villa v Norwich City Post-Match Thread

[Tom_Mc9?]

I don't care if it's JUne or July. I have concerns about the way Lambert is sending the team out to play. OK?

Alright, don't get arsey.

[VillaAlways]

This is easily the worst Villa team since '87, and we look like relegation fodder. Any team, doesn't matter who they are, sell their best players and replace them with lower league rubbish is going to struggle. Lerner hasn't got a clue about football, and the man is dragging us down to the Championship. We were absolutely abysmal today, and absolute embarrassment to the club.
What's the solution? Well we've just got to struggle onto January and hope that idiot Lerner opens his chequebook for some panic buying.

I'm sorry selecting players from the lower leagues was Lamberts choice not Randys, and Lambert said as much in an interview.It's what PL did with Norwich successfully.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Arsey's OK, I don't have a problem with him :-)

[Tom_Mc9?]

I don't even know who I think we should go for in January. Someone who can pass would be a start.

[Chrisupnorth]

The big worry is that I don't think there are three worse sides in the division.

[VillaAlways]

The big worry is that I don't think there are three worse sides in the division.

I don't think there's one at the moment

[Tom_Mc9?]

At least we're in the business of having shots this season, which is a bit different to last year. I thought we should have put Ireland on. Benteke and Guzan good, the rest poor today.

[saunders_heroes]

This is easily the worst Villa team since '87, and we look like relegation fodder. Any team, doesn't matter who they are, sell their best players and replace them with lower league rubbish is going to struggle. Lerner hasn't got a clue about football, and the man is dragging us down to the Championship. We were absolutely abysmal today, and absolute embarrassment to the club.
What's the solution? Well we've just got to struggle onto January and hope that idiot Lerner opens his chequebook for some panic buying.

I'm sorry selecting players from the lower leagues was Lamberts choice not Randys, and Lambert said as much in an interview.It's what PL did with Norwich successfully.

It's clear Lerner wants all the top earners out of the club that's why we have to sign players from the lower leagues. I thought that was pretty obvious.

[eastie]

I don't even know who I think we should go for in January. Someone who can pass would be a start.

What quality player would want to come though, we will probably have to pay top wages to attract top players and I shudder to think how few points we will have by January.

[Chrisupnorth]

And we less equipped for the battles that are ahead.

[andyh]

As has been said earlier, that midfield is the worst I have ever seen. Basically, it seems to me to a combination on 4 players are all the same. They are 'tidy' players. They can receive a ball, shimmy and lay it off, sideways or backwards, but not one of them can tackle, head, spray a pass or run with the ball. Not one of them can dictatate or drive a game.
Nowm you can possibly get a way with a single tidy player in a midfield, but bloody hell, not all of them.
Mortimer, Townsend Richardson et al.
They would be turning in their graves

[olaftab]

Really didnt understand the decision to hook Benteke for Bent today - from that moment we had no outlet whatsover and we rarely got out of our own half

This decision was incomprehensible. With Benteke there we had hope. Can hold the ball up win headers and has physical presence that would worry them. Bent on the other hand ....

[paulcomben]

Reading and Wigan are winning. When will Villa next be out of the bottom three? Sad times. Randy, where the hell are you?

[saunders_heroes]

And we less equipped for the battles that are ahead.

When we've had poor seasons over the years I've always been positive we'll pull away from trouble because we've always seemed to have 3 or 4 top players you knew would eventually come good and drag us to safety. This time feels different. There's no one in that team with much class and leadership, only kids from the vastly overrated youth system and lower league rubbish. Lerner is responsible for our decline.

[PaulWinch again]

As has been said earlier, that midfield is the worst I have ever seen. Basically, it seems to me to a combination on 4 players are all the same. They are 'tidy' players. They can receive a ball, shimmy and lay it off, sideways or backwards, but not one of them can tackle, head, spray a pass or run with the ball. Not one of them can dictatate or drive a game.
Nowm you can possibly get a way with a single tidy player in a midfield, but bloody hell, not all of them.
Mortimer, Townsend Richardson et al.
They would be turning in their graves

I wouldn't even say Delph and Albrighton are tidy, just not very good at all.