12 cup finals

[Damo70]

I believe Paul Lambert's favourite animal is the Tazmanian devil and his favourite singer is Lena Zavaroni.

[Oscar Arce]

Lambert's quotes are directly from Billy McBingo's 'prepare for relegation' handbook from 1987.
The 'rabbit in the headlights' look was also aped from Lisbon Bill.
Much like the politician who said, go back to your constituencies and prepare for government', master tactician Lambo is telling us all to 'prepare for the Championship' in his increasingly mumbling media performances.

[Irish villain]

We deserve to go down if we finish in the bottom 3 but it will be the culmination of 3 (maybe 4) years decline.

Yes. The leadership of Aston Villa right now is appalling.

[levico]

Well if today is how our manager and players approach a 'cup final' then we are definitely doomed.

[PaulWinch again]

Today's result was a missed opportunity, not a disaster but I don't see where 5 wins come from.

[Lobsterboy]

Today's result was a missed opportunity, not a disaster but I don't see where 5 wins come from.

The first 27 games looking at the league table...

[PaulWinch again]

Then time is up for us.

[OCD]

3 wins and a few draws might be enough. Back-to-back wins against QPR and Reading would be very useful.

[PaulWinch again]

No chance with our goal difference, we need 5 wins for me including nothing negative against QPR and Reading.

[Ad@m]

No chance with our goal difference, we need 5 wins for me including nothing negative against QPR and Reading.

Reading & QPR aren't the issue as they're coming down with us. 

As someone else pointed out I'd rather have Wigan's run in than ours and they've basically got a point headstart on us with the goal difference.  Newcastle's run in is better than ours too - I'm just hoping the UEFA Cup gives them enough distraction to royally cock their league form up.  Southampton will just about crawl out of it and anyone above them I think will be fine.

[PaulWinch again]

It's between us, Reading, Wigan and QPR.

[Ad@m]

It's between us, Reading, Wigan and QPR.

But we've got to do better than all three of them.  For that purpose you only need look at the one expected to finish the highest - given their current form, annual Houdini acts, and much easier run in, Wigan is the only one we need focus on.

I think there'll be daylight between us and them when we come to play them in May.

[PaulWinch again]

I agree but beating two of them would be a start this month. I maintain we need 5 wins, plus a couple of draws and that'll save us.

[olaftab]

11 Cup Finals now!

[LeeB]

Can we not make it 11 league cup quarter finals?