Have the club accepted relegation?

[Monty]

As an aside, with all clubs getting £60m isn't this just going to inflate all asking prices for players? So the pecking order will not change much, but 2m players will cost 6m?

It may take a little time for it to ripple through, but that's exactly what I expect to happen.  And watch what happens to wages at the same time!

Indeed, not to mention increased competition for buying players from abroad, and bigger wages that average Premier League clubs will be able to offer our better players if/when we go down. Now is the time to buy players, the last chance we have, and it's being passed up.

I remember when Cleveland Browns fans were warning us about Lerner. In the early, benevolent days they looked ridiculous - now we see what they meant.

[David_Nab]

Have enough goals in team and we could defend better we would have won against Swansea and WBA.

Need to tighten and god help me but play like Stoke ,win ugly now

[stubbsyandy]

we must give ourselves the best chance by doing the only thing we can do and get behind the team once again.

The crowd was fantastic on Tuesday. How'd that work out?

I agree, we have given fantastic support but we HAVE to carry on doing that. There is nothing else we can do that is positive, and we need positivity right now or we are truly sunk.
Imagine the young and less experienced players, how will it help them if we do anything other then cheer for them.
Whatever issue we have with the management of the club at every level, its what happens on the pitch that counts right now.
This is where we are and nothing will change before the end of the season off the pitch. All I am asking is we continue to give the team our support. There have been severral games where if we had taken our chances we would have won, les hold on to that and who knows, if they start going in we could get something yet.

[john e]

For the comments about overreaction, at exactly what stage is it ok to react? I think once the manager is saying 'we're not spending money avoiding relegation, in case it doesn't work' when you're 4th bottom in the league. That is the right time to get fucking pissed off and depressed with the running of the club.

massive overeaction,
 evidently we are going to do a Sheff Wednesday if we dont buy this window.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

To all FANS its time for action

I'm not so sure, I think we should keep it as a Secret Affair.

[AV82EC]

To all FANS its time for action

I'm not so sure, I think we should keep it as a Secret Affair.

Applauds.

[Ads]

I have been living in a cave the past few days and have only just read this.

I am not sure I can be bothered to make the 420 mile round trip to Millwall, I am not sure I can be bothered to go on Tuesday against Newcastle or again, as it is clear there is just no fucking point.

Lerner and your management cronies, you just defy words. I am completely bemused by it all. I am staggered that there is not interest in protecting his investment. I said a few weeks ago that relegation would lead to oblivion and it seems it will.

This squad would struggle to be promoted, it will lose the few bits of quality it has and potentially sink further.

Why is Lerner doing this? We know he is a moron, but such abject behaviour, giving up and accepting relegation? Why?

We are the most badly run and ramshackle outfit in the land.

[Lastfootstamper]

Reading this has really riled me. I sent a link to my dad also a big Villa fan. We live pretty close to Paul Faulkner so I wanted to see what he thought about penning him a letter and poking it through his letter box. This was his response, which is hard to argue with:

'Yes I saw this last night and it is reported in the papers today. I don't think a letter will make any difference because the plan is:

1. Lock down on all expenditure so there will be no signings or loan players As soon as season finishes a fire sale of the big earners with no relegation clauses in their contracts i.e. Dunne, Given, Bent, Warnock, N'Zogbia, Hutton, Ireland Agbonlahor i.e. what Blues are trying to do now with Butland, Davies etc 
3. Get best prices for the other players who are or might be good enough for Premiership or another European League - Vlaar, Benteke and Weimann for certain and possibly Clark - though I don't rate Clark that highly
4. Don't sack the manager or the coaches - leave that to the next owner to decide and pay for  - see below
5. Try everything and anything to get somebody/anybody to buy the club asap once relegation confirmed - Lerner will be prepared to take a hit on his loans to the club just so he never has to come near the place again but he's got the problem that any prospective buyer will wait for all of the above to happen and then buy as cheap as possible and run it like a Notts Forest or Derby County - living on past glory whilst kicking around the Championship and Div 1 from year to year
6. Faulkener is a complete irrelevance to all of the above because his job is simply to execute what Lerner decides -and tells him to do  he has no authority to make any decisions at alll - AVFC is a private limited companyin which all the shares are owned by Randy.
7. In the meantime leave Lambert to fron tall the press and media with the rope around his neck waiting to walk to the trap door - just as they did with McLeish before him

So personally I wouldn't waste the ink on a letter to the tea boy.'

Isn't this the plot to "Major League"? Also, what happens should we stay up?

[pauliewalnuts]

Surely the best thing to do isn't to start refusing to buy anything in the ground, refusing to go to games, waving banners etc etc - all things suggested in previous pages - but to get behind the team, to show the board that whilst they may be thinking of going down without a fight, we aren't.

[David_Nab]

So we won't spend to stay in the league ..so IF we got down and IF we get back up does Lerner think ,bearing in mind extra TV cash other clubs got we are not going to have to spend then.Guys a prize muppet.

[danlanza]

Support the team is all we can do, and just hope we stay up. Every other poster has covered the lot so not a lot more to say.
Just support the team.

[hilts_coolerking]

What's Mr Woodhall's take on this? He's a Lerner fan...

Really? In what way?

In an inexplicable way.

[ktvillan]

That statement from Lambert is pretty depressing.   I still can't understand why, if what he says is true, he isn't pursuing the option of loan signings? And I don't mean Jermaine Frigging Jenas neither.  At least it will bring some fresh impetus, shouldn't cost too much in wages, and will not impact on us if we get relegated.  And it would look they were at least trying instead of just bending over and allowing the relegation dildo to be shoved up their shitters. 

But what can we do, at least Doug was there to see the protests and have a go at, this clown might as well not exist.

[Concrete John]

we must give ourselves the best chance by doing the only thing we can do and get behind the team once again.

The crowd was fantastic on Tuesday. How'd that work out?

We won 2-1.  I'd take that for the rest of the season.

[Chris Jameson]

For the comments about overreaction, at exactly what stage is it ok to react? I think once the manager is saying 'we're not spending money avoiding relegation, in case it doesn't work' when you're 4th bottom in the league. That is the right time to get fucking pissed off and depressed with the running of the club.

massive overeaction,
 evidently we are going to do a Sheff Wednesday if we dont buy this window.

On the other hand there are some who believe we will 'walk the Championship'.