How would you feel....

[Toronto Villa]

I like Albrighton and am glad he's playing better. But honestly though he's standing out because those around him have been so poor, and we are crying for anyone at all to step up.

[paul_e]

Personally I think Albrighton's approach to crossing is the correct thing to do.  If the forward are moving for him by crossing into the channel he aims for he turns defenders to playing towards their own goal.  The key is that you need to have strikers in place to force the defenders to play the ball.

[Jon Crofts]

After that post match interview with Pat Murphy, I'm not so sure anymore, he's out of his depth and beginning to sound a lot like O'Leary.

[onje_villa]

Christ after reading the transcript, its a depressing mix of realising how much Lambert is accepting of our mediocrity and how little hope we have of Lerner shaking things up...

"I knew the first few years would be tough..."

Bloody hell, just how many YEARS of this garbage are we going to be subjected to?

[Jon Crofts]

The 'project' is called 'Project Throw In'  You wait and see, in a few years time, a Villa player will throw the ball into the field of play to another Villa player, it will be worth waiting for.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm sorry but his lack of awareness is terrifying, 'stats don't matter' and 'the first few years would be tough'. Paul the stats do matter, you need possession to win most games and we are an absolutely atrocious side. It simply isn't good enough and neither are 90% of our players.

[Dave Clark Five]

The 'project' is called 'Project Throw In'  You wait and see, in a few years time, a Villa player will throw the ball into the field of play to another Villa player, it will be worth waiting for.

There was one throw in today that was a short one to Weimann. He had to dive to head it.

[SoccerHQ]

We just look like a bunch of blokes that have just turned up at 2.50pm outside the ground or taken from the Holte end and asked to play a game of football without even meeting or training in the week.

There is nothing good at all about our football, no decent passing, no awareness, panicky clearences, schoolboy errors from throw ins, it's embarrassing as it's happening game after game.

Training at Bodymoor can't amount to anything more than general fitness to remain competitive at premier league level otherwise we'd be seeing these deficiencies corrected eventually.

[pauliewalnuts]

I like Albrighton and am glad he's playing better. But honestly though he's standing out because those around him have been so poor, and we are crying for anyone at all to step up.

I think there's probably a certain amount of truth in that.

When Albrighton came back in, we still looked woefully uncreative, but we were at least woefully uncreative in different ways.

[DrGonzo]

I've been right behind Lambert but having witnessed another horror show today I am beginning to wonder whether anything will change in the near future.  The team that started today contained at least 5 of Lambert signings.  Ideally another 2 would have probably given us a stronger team (Vlaar and Benteke).  The questions are: should he be allowed another window to try and bring in greater strength? and, are his signings the limit of his ambition or the limit of the board?

If the former then it might be time to bite the bullet and let someone else play with Daddy's piggy bank and if the latter....well fuck knows to be honest, it took a while to get rid of HDE, didn't it?

[rob_bridge]

After that post match interview with Pat Murphy, I'm not so sure anymore, he's out of his depth and beginning to sound a lot like O'Leary.

I was really glad when we got him. He now seems to have shot his bolt. I may be wrong. Sunderland and Sheff Utd - let's see how he does.

[supertom]

After that post match interview with Pat Murphy, I'm not so sure anymore, he's out of his depth and beginning to sound a lot like O'Leary.

I was really glad when we got him. He now seems to have shot his bolt. I may be wrong. Sunderland and Sheff Utd - let's see how he does.

If he loses the Sheff Utd game I'm not sure there's any coming back from that, short of suddenly going on a winning run in Barca-esque style.
Which won't happen.

[Matt Collins]

Lambert didn't get sacked when we were marooned in the bottom three and getting bear 8-0 and over two legs by Bradford

He's not about to get sacked when we're thirteenth, no matter whether his assistant manager swore at a fan or not

[TonyD]

January is going to be a big month.  I reckon things will improve. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Yesterday, of the 27% possession we had, we only managed a 55% pass completion rate.

That is staggeringly poor. I don't understand how we can manage to be so inept at the basics