Have the club accepted relegation?

[Ross]

Nobody is asking to spend £50m.  What about fucking loan signings?

I'm upset and fed up.  Wished I didn't care like them, but I do.

[hilts_coolerking]

I've decided that gallows humour is the only possible reaction under the circumstances. 

[Irish villain]

Fuck 'em. If only. If only they knew how much we're hurting right now and have been for 3 seasons, not just Bradford, but 3 fucking seasons.

And many have tried to stay positive in those three seasons and went out on a limb to stick up for these scumbags destroying Aston Villa.

I don't like the word scumbag but when I see a billionaire destroying the club that has been a constant source of escape (and mostly enjoyment) for me then I will use it liberally.

Fuck off the lot of them.

[Ross]

The worst is he could give lambert some money. This is his policy. He really just doesn't give a shit anymore.

[Irish villain]

The worst is he could give lambert some money. This is his policy. He really just doesn't give a shit anymore.

See the article on the mail website? Lerner's fortune soared to £3bn this year.

[Billy Walker]

Nice that his job is safe ..which he found out whilst having a nice break in NY taking in sights in between us losing to a relegation rival and a 4th division team ..cheers Paul.

I can't help but feel the piece was written like that to provoke that kind of reaction against the manager (not blaming you for reacting like that, by the way).  It's not Lambert at fault here for three years of piss poor leadership it's Lerner and Faulkner - they deserve both barrels. 

Faulkner needs to address the fans before the end of January.

[robbo1874]

One of two things will happen. We'll either scrape through and stay up just, which is what I think will happen. Then with the new tv deal money, they'll spend a decent chunk in the summer and we should then be in a lot better shape next season.

Alternatively, we go down and spend a couple of seasons in the championship and re-build from the bottom up. Finally get rid once and for all of the remaining couldn't give a toss high earners. It's likely most of the recent signings will be on contracts where there's relegation clauses if we do go down. We re-build sustainably within our means and be in a lot better shape when we do go back up, with a still young but more experienced squad who actually want to play for the club and taste success.

I'd much rather it was the former, but the for me the latter wouldn't be the end of the world. I've seen us go down before and it was painful but not the end of the world and we came back a lot stronger for it. The to of us doing a Leeds/ forest/ Sheffield Wednesday if we go down is wide of the mark in my book. We'd be far more likely to do a west ham and come straight back and be in far better shape to compete the season after. It is a bit depressing talking of villa in the same terms as the likes of west ham, but I think that's more realistic of where we are now than comparing us to the likes of spurs and Liverpool where we were a few seasons ago.

That's the reality as I see it.

[Pete3206]

Shambles

[Ross]

How did it come to this?

[bertlambshank]

Randy Lerner you are a ******.
Paul Faulkner you are a ******.
Paul Lambert you are a ******.
Feel better now.

[*shellac*]

Lyrics of Napalm Death's new single?

[bertlambshank]

Lyrics of Napalm Death's new single?

It's off the new Dido album 'The death at B6'

[kippaxvilla2]

If the carrot of £60m per season guaranteed income for three seasons isn't enough for us to invest in the squad now - moderately then I can only assume that going down with any more costs on the balance sheet would see us go into Administration - that is the only logical conclusion I can draw from this utterly conservative and ludicrous approach.

[Pete3206]

Good news, the flags have arrived for the Newcastle game

[bertlambshank]

Very good.