Will Sylla & Dawkins help Villa stay up?

[JUAN PABLO]

He can play anywhere ?    Is that center back Paul ?

[Simon Ward]

Sylla can juggle a football! Surprise, Surprise!

[eastie]

A great story said lambert ?
He was at spurs 6 years and never played a first team game, was a flop on loan at orient and went to america where even lichaj looks good - whats so great about that story paul?

[DerHammer]

Paul Lambert reckons new signing Simon Dawkins has the potential to "surprise a lot of people" during his loan spell at Villa.

Dawkins is ready to go straight into the squad for Saturday's clash at Everton after joining on a temporary basis from Tottenham Hotspur.

The 25-year-old arrives in B6 as something of an unknown quantity, having played all of his competitive football over the last couple of seasons in the MLS with San Jose Earthquakes.

Having tracked the attacking midfielder's progress during his stateside spell, Lambert believes he can be a surprise package for the claret and blues.

"He is a good player, Dawkins," the Villa chief said.

"If you look at his story, it is a great story, going from Spurs to San Jose.

"For the last couple of years he has been excellent over there and the MLS I think is a very underrated league when you look at it. "He will give us something a bit different.

"Dawkins will be a surprise to a lot people - just the way he plays the game.

"I think he will create things that can happen.

"He can play anywhere, which is good. He has had a spell out in America where he has been incredible.

"The lad is on loan and an unknown is sometimes a good thing because a lot of people won't know him."

Does that include Lambert?

[Damo70]

Hopefully in years to come, as mid season signings they will be bracketed with Dennis Mortimer and David Platt. Also, after helping to kickstart a wonderful march up the table, next season they will be part of an entertaining young team challenging the top four whilst QPR are in the championship and in administration. Well, we can hope, can't we?

[JUAN PABLO]

Havent got a problem with signing Dawkins , as long as it was the 5th signing after a CB , experienced midfielder and even a LB.

[JUAN PABLO]

Hopefully in years to come, as mid season signings they will be bracketed with Dennis Mortimer and David Platt. Also, after helping to kickstart a wonderful march up the table, next season they will be part of an entertaining young team challenging the top four whilst QPR are in the championship and in administration. Well, we can hope, can't we?

The thing is , if we go down , it will probably keep QPR up.

[PaulWinch again]

It's not a great story it's a pretty standard one for players who don't succeed at the top level. He will however be part of the story of the demise of Aston Villa under Lerner, he'll be last the player we signed before we were relegated.

[Edvard Remberg]

Only reason we will not end bottom is if some other club gets points deducted. Then we will maybe finish 19th

[Summers]

Well they'll try. S'all we can ask of them.

[Doorbell]

I've voted yes mainly becuase I refuse the adopt the "we're already down so might as well stop caring" attitude which is gripping the site.  We don't look good but 1 lucky win from nothing could turn our season around and at the moment we're not adrift, if in 10 games time we're still down there and struggling then I'll start to change my tune but for now there's too many points to play for.

My sentiments exactly and why I voted yes also.

[neo_Villan]

I doubt they'll even play. Sylla might get on the pitch at some stage. But no, they won't help us stay up.

The words "managed decline" come to mind.

I'd be extremely suprised if Sylla isn't thrown straight in. Dawkins will probably start off as an impact sub.

[Boz]

On their own, they can't keep the club up, but as a part of a squad willing to fight for every ball and give their all they could be a factor in Villa escaping relegation, but as a straight yes/no answer, it must be NO

[paul_e]

A great story said lambert ?
He was at spurs 6 years and never played a first team game, was a flop on loan at orient and went to america where even lichaj looks good - whats so great about that story paul?

I think the great story thing is a reference to the injury troubles he had, from the summer of 2008 until March 2011 he pretty much never had a run of more than a month or so when he was fit, which led to him losing his contract with Tottenham and missing out on a number of trials with other sides.  Most comments regarding it seem to reflect that he worked his arse off training with tottenham for free in an attempt to prove he could stay fit and make it, earned a new contract for 2 years and went on loan to be very successful in the US.

You have to give him some credit for that level of determination.

[sonlyme]

A simple yes or no, will these 2 inexperienced players be enough to help the team stay in the league?

Personally feel like Lerner has lost the plot and told Lambert he can have £2 million and a loanee to keep Villa up.

Gotta love this referendum question. 'A simple yes or no'?

Alec Salmond will be wanting you to word the Scottish Independence question given this form.  And should Cameron get into difficulty over Europe - you can expect a call from his lot too.

It's democracy, but not as we know it.

So tell me - when did you stop beating your wife?