Will Sylla & Dawkins help Villa stay up?

[SamTheMouse]

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.

[UK Redsox]

They won't be a factor (not, that that's their fault)

[robbo1874]

I think if we'd got Robbie Keane until the end of the season (I know it would never have happened) we'd be comfortably away from this nonsense. As it is, we've got what we've got and we have to work with that. If we stay up, something I still hold hope for, it will be by 1 point or by goal difference.

I'm realistic, however, and don't think it is likely.

It's sad. Sad, and if anything reflective of Birmingham in general. Tired, spent and accepting it. We need to rediscover some pride, some panache and some fight or we'll be regretting it for a long time to come, and not just in football.

It won't be by goal difference.

[prmort]

No, no they won't.

[supertom]

So I've spent the last 2-3 weeks ill, unable to get out of the hotel I was in to vent my spleen about how shite we've been. Now I return to England and my laptop just in time for the window's end and find we've done chuff all. A spurs cast off and a French second division player. Sylla actually rang a better because I think I signed him for my Pro Evo master league side a few years back. That's about all I know of him.
Is it enough? No.
We desperately needed 2 or 3 inspirational signings. Some quality, some eperience, some leadership. We've got none of that.

Frankly (spleen explosion...) Lambert and Lerner need to go ASAP. Lambert's just becoming clueless. He's as bad, if not worse than McLeish. McLeish did the same things when he signed. He talked the talk, he vocally addressed problems we'd had from the previous year and said he'd address them. He didn't of course. Lambert to me, has made more promises and failed in all counts.
Teams around us have done business. Newcastle have made some potentially brilliant signings. QPR have strengthened and if the add a cutting edge to the new resoluteness, they'll stay up. Wigan always seem to escape. Maybe they won't this year who know's, but we're in trouble.

Bon Voyage Premier league football.

[DerHammer]

Why is yes even a choice?

[Jimbo]

This pair have been bought in preparation for the Championship, not in the hope of avoiding it.

[andyh]

as others have very eloquently said.
Its not who they are, its who they are not.

No for me.

[Malandro]

a 25 year old, unproven crock and a player that will take three months to adjust. (Who will probably turn out to be a mixture of Heskey and the Green Mile guy who is scared of the dark)

Down.

[ktvillan]

I've no idea but it's highly unlikely given the levels they've been playing at previously.

[Dave Clark Five]

Best of luck to them is all I can say.

[JB1811]

Have I been i a coma for several weeks, and missed these new players playing several game & stinking the place out?
 
How about giving someone a chance before writing them off as being useless.

We may still go down, but i would rather we had bought these two than spent £12.5m on Samba @ £100,000 per week and could still go down and heading towards going bust!

FFS give them a chance!

[DerHammer]

Have I been i a coma for several weeks, and missed these new players playing several game & stinking the place out?
 
How about giving someone a chance before writing them off as being useless.

We may still go down, but i would rather we had bought these two than spent £12.5m on Samba @ £100,000 per week and could still go down and heading towards going bust!

FFS give them a chance!

The Metro made me laugh this morning when they described Arry as the master wheeler dealer!! Master what?!?!?! Am I missing something here? What Master Wheeler Dealer spends £12.5m on an ageing defender & gives him £100k a week? He's done the equivalent of going to a sweet shop & buying a small bag of penny chews, handing over a £50 note & saying keep the change!! Master wheeler dealer? Master bellend more like

[rutski]

no, they wont help as we arent going down anyway! 

[JB1811]

Have I been i a coma for several weeks, and missed these new players playing several game & stinking the place out?
 
How about giving someone a chance before writing them off as being useless.

We may still go down, but i would rather we had bought these two than spent £12.5m on Samba @ £100,000 per week and could still go down and heading towards going bust!

FFS give them a chance!

The Metro made me laugh this morning when they described Arry as the master wheeler dealer!! Master what?!?!?! Am I missing something here? What Master Wheeler Dealer spends £12.5m on an ageing defender & gives him £100k a week? He's done the equivalent of going to a sweet shop & buying a small bag of penny chews, handing over a £50 note & saying keep the change!! Master wheeler dealer? Master bellend more like

I'm sure 'Arry must have said to Odenwingy something along the lines of "come on down, once you are here they will have to let you go, I'll get it sorted for you."