At home but where is the comfort?

[olaftab]

Tell you what Dunne, Hutton and Ireland are Villa legends who protested on tactics etc by not giving 100% and Lambert is a complete usless muppett for not putting up with them.

[Monty]

I think by and large Lambert has the right sort of tactics, just a couple of players short of being able to do it properly.

[Ads]

We miss that attacking player, as everybody knows, who can work inbetween the opposition back four and midfield. He would, whoever he is, make a world of difference at home.

[PaulWinch again]

We miss that attacking player, as everybody knows, who can work inbetween the opposition back four and midfield. He would, whoever he is, make a world of difference at home.

He would and it must be addressed in January, we've been waiting far too long.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Tactics.

No creativity
No width
No nous
No patience with the ball, it's either 100 miles an hour or nothing
No Plan B other than lump another forward on and hoof

all of which above i expect the Manager to sort out

[Navin R Johnson]

Almost the same question as why are we so poor at home is why do so many players fail to give their best to the Villa.

I was thinking about this a few evenings back when I was watching Cameroon in the Africa play offs for Rio.   Makoun was excellent, a driving box to box dynamo absolutely unrecognizable as the player who turned out for us.   Maloney is another one.   We were told he wanted to go back to Scotland but plays out of his skin for Wigan.   Southgate, Ugo, Boateng, Craig Gardner, Gary Cahill, Dion Dublin, Martin Keown, Platt, Andy Gray, the list  of those who would rather not have their names associated with Villa goes on.   Even club greats like Mortimer and Yorke can only say a few fairly friendly word about us when they are paid to give a bit of Villa balance in a match panel.   Are we an unfriendly club?   Why do so many players turn nasty on us?

There are of course notable exceptions like Sid and Stanley Victor and Martin and Olof but you get the feeling that to many players we are easy to hate.   Even Stylian chose to have his big charity game in green and white hoops not in a Villa shirt.  Perhaps that is why performances at home are so bad.   Perhaps the players do not particularly like us.

[Irish villain]

Interesting point Navin. I have wondered this myself.

I have also wondered why the 'usual rules' never apply for villa. By that I mean, why is it that we rarely give a team a hiding after a rough result the way other teams do. Why is it that we are the club you want to play against if you are on a bad run of form/have a goal drought? Why is it that we so rarely go on an unbeaten run? I remember the 12 games unbeaten at the start of 1998/99 but few others. Even the likes of Wimbledon used to manage longer unbeaten runs back in the day.

I just wish I could see a determined villa team that never knew when it was beaten anywhere. I've seen good villa teams that were good when things were going well (Little, Atkinson, Gregory and MON), but these sides even were prone to inexplicable collapses (1998-1999 top at Christmas to failing to reach Europe and numerous years with MON when we collapsed in the spring). Even in O'Leary's good year we managed to be in the running for a top four finish with two games to go and got one point from Southampton and United to narrowly fail to even reach the Uefa Cup.

[ROBBO]

Go through the squad and pick with confidence players that are good enough to play in a top half of the table side right now. I came up with five and one of them the manager won't pick for some reason. I f you are happy with a team that will just maintain prem status as long as there are the likes of Crystal Palace in the division fair enough.

[Ad@m]

Go through the squad and pick with confidence players that are good enough to play in a top half of the table side right now. I came up with five and one of them the manager won't pick for some reason. I f you are happy with a team that will just maintain prem status as long as there are the likes of Crystal Palace in the division fair enough.

I don't think anyone's happy with it so I'd suggest you share the magic wand you have that will suddenly turn us in to champion contenders.

[Des Little]

On reflection, had Benteke and Weimann finished two of their three chances on Saturday, this thread wouldn't even be up and running. It's a fine line.

[mike]

My simple minded view is we haven't got very good players.

[ROBBO]

exactly.

[Louzie0]

Absolute rubbish.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

[oldhill_avfc]

We miss that attacking player, as everybody knows, who can work inbetween the opposition back four and midfield. He would, whoever he is, make a world of difference at home.

Milner without a doubt.

Never going to happen though.