Aston Villa v Southampton Post-Match Thread

[Jimbo]

The more browbeaten Lambert gets, the more incoherent and unintelligible he becomes.

[Ducksworthy]

The signing we most need is the one we will never make. Regardless, please someone at the club ask Steve Stride to come home?

[Apyadg]

The signing we most need is the one we will never make. Regardless, please someone at the club ask Steve Stride to come home?

Can he play at left back?

[Tuscans]

Lambert is using what he has, unfortunately 6 or 7 players arent really all that good. Its out of the managers hand what players do in terms of making the right choices with a pass, a shot etc

McLeish did better with, essentially, the same team.

Really....Collins, Dunne, Warnock, Hutton, Cuellar, Petrov (half season), Heskey :-) etc

Warnock and Hutton are still available, but TSM2 won't even let them train with the first team never mind have a game, despite how shit the rest of the team is.

Also, wasn't he already our manager when we sold Cuellar and Collins?

But if I was manager I would of sold them and I think if some people are honest enough they would have done too. Lamberts has taken a risk with youth, yea it isnt working so we hope and pray he brings bodies in to help.

If he doesnt then im with you

[myf]

is that 5 wins in 37 league games? no goals in three home games. sleepwalking to the championship. not sure how we'll escape this

[eamonn]

Bradford lost at home to Oxford today if that makes anyone feel better/worse.

[Ducksworthy]

The signing we most need is the one we will never make. Regardless, please someone at the club ask Steve Stride to come home?

Can he play at left back?

He can't exactly do much worse...

[Apyadg]

Bradford lost at home to Oxford today if that makes anyone feel better/worse.

The inevitable conclusion is that we're more shit than Oxford.

[Steve R]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.

Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.

It's a bery disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.

The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.

[Californian Villain]

Lambert is fine it is the journeyman players who want the money but do not put in the effort for it that are the problem.
Where is Ron V?? Still injured?

How exactly can you say "lambert is fine"? Seriously. He's been a complete disaster!

Agreed. PL has been abysmal and must walk or be fired by monday morning.

[CBAV06]

Every other team will have an awful lot of money too. Complaints about lack of funds from people not going to the game isn't going to keep the team up. If you make less than everyone at work and you all get a 25% raise, you still make less than everyone at work.

It takes a very special kind of person to come on here and blame the supporters.  Well done.

When that shoe fits people wear it.

Business 101 is really that easy.

[aj2k77]

So in 19 days we are going to recruit a new manager who is going to sign the right players to keep us in the league?

Really?

Stupid

If we have no money anyway signing players doesnt matter.

We have what we have, we get up and go again.

For me it's now down to who you think can keep us up. Can Lambert inspire this team to be more than the sum of it's shitty parts. The signs say no.
I dont like or dislike Lambert. I just want to stay up and so far this season the performances suggest he can't do the job for us.

[Brian Taylor]

The old lady struggling with her bags outside sainsbury's. The young lad say 'Can you manage, love?' 'No way I want the Villa job' she replies.
Old one I know!

[Risso]

Get a grip you bunch of tarts. Try looking at the game with a bit of objectively rather than an opportunity to air the usual rants.

Even in the first half where Southampton bullied and pushed us around and found space they barely threatened a goal. At half time we had 3 shots on target to their one. We contrived to be a goal down by virtue of hesitancy borne of low confidence and the kind of refereeing decision Halsey specialises in.

Second half we seemed to address the things that were going wrong. There was only one team in it for 45 minutes but again pressure led to players snatching at the kind of chances Southampton weren't close to creating.

It's a bery disappointing result, we are in a bad position. But it is not half as hopeless as some would make out. If we can build on the postive things we did today results will improve. If we can add a few players in crucial areas then better still. We have a big fight on our hands, but the position is far from hopeless.

The players need to get what happened over xmas out of their system. As at Swansea there are signs of it happening.

One drawn game (in which we were shit, lest we forget) and we should forget that we haven't scored a league goal at home in how many games, and conceded 18?  Wake up and smell the coffee, this is the worst Villa team in 30 years, and Lambert the most useless manager.

[Kent Villian]

Half way through the transfer window, no players signed & 6 points lost to our relegation rivals (which WILL prove significant come May) - trying very hard to 'Keep the faith' but this was avoidable & just makes no sense to me??