Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[SamTheMouse]

Look, I know it's a bit trite and is the sort of thing people often come out with after a few bad results or iffy performances, but the thing is, it's actually true: the squad we currently have is Championship standard. Literally. Vlaar, Gabby and Benteke are guaranteed Premier League level players, maybe Delph too, but nobody else is. Quite simply, Lambert needs to buy some more talented footballers. If he can't find them, then he should be held responsible, and if Lerner won't pay for them, then he should be held responsible.

Either way, something needs to happen in this transfer window, because the powers that be are playing Russian roulette with the club's future and sooner or later they will lose and we'll end up playing league games at places like Oakwell and the Keepmoat fucking Stadium.

[aj2k77]

Lambert's just been on 5Live with Pat Murphy:

Stats mean nothing, the result is all that matters.
We're on 20 points, a good position for this stage of the season.
Villa has a great fanbase based on past success, but this is modern football, things have changed.
It was you chanting 'Lambert Out' wasn't it, Pat?

We are nearly into the ''can't compete with the ''insert shite football club who are currently outperforming us'' category.

I sense he knows he's been found out and the excuses will start to flow.

Injuries.
We can't compete.
Downplaying transfer fee's.
Lauding of the Chairman.

The fat lady is preparing herself. Thank god.

[eastie]

The only big club below us he could possibly mean is sunderland .

[Phil from the upper holte]

Positives: scored a goal, didnt lose, we're not Fulham
Negatives: everything else

On the face of it that's not actually a bad result considering, and that's what's so depressing.

Pretty much what I was going to say. The worrying thing is some of the players in the swansea side have touched the ball over a hundred times and the player that's had the most touches in our side is Guzan and he's the fucking keeper

[pauliewalnuts]

I can't help but think that when your assistant starts trading insults with fans, and you start coming out with stuff like that interview tonight, we are approaching the beginning of the end.

[eastie]

The words spoken by Lambert are worrying and tone is dreadful. I am sure he will explain himself in the next few days.

He is a prickly one - i remember him having a go at the press at Norwich once and didn't he ban kendrick last season for criticising at one point - he doesn't handle criticism well.

[Monty]

See, I think the opposite. I think his words are the words of someone who is completely safe. 'Only 18 months into the project' implies that he and the chairman have had long chats about how long it would take. Good for them. I just don't want to watch another performance like this. It's too horrible. We have no reason to exist as a football club at the moment.

[Jon Crofts]

The words spoken by Lambert are worrying and tone is dreadful. I am sure he will explain himself in the next few days.

He is a prickly one - i remember him having a go at the press at Norwich once and didn't he ban kendrick last season for criticising at one point - he doesn't handle criticism well.

He'd better get used to it then.

[Jimbo]

You can imagine Lambert trotting out the same shit to Lerner on his transatlantic telephone call.

The sad fact is that Lerner will swallow it.

Lerner: Ok, thanks, goodbye, Paul.
General Krulak: What did he say this time, sir?
Lerner: Gee, you know what, I haven't the slightest idea. I'm cold, throw another $million on the fire, General.
General Krulak: Yes Mr Lerner, Sir.

[eastie]

I can't help but think that when your assistant starts trading insults with fans, and you start coming out with stuff like that interview tonight, we are approaching the beginning of the end.

Much rather we were approaching the end rather than the beginning of it.

[Villafirst]

Absolute garbage. It's heart breaking to see what we've become after 7 years of the joker Lerners tenure. Bright future? I can't believe some posters on here trying to be positive about such crap.

[PeterWithesShin]

The only bigger club below us he could possibly mean is sunderland and if he thinks they are a bigger club than villa i find that quite sad.

Didn't he say big clubs rather than bigger? Either way it's a shit thing to say mind.

[pooligan]

Lambert is fast becoming the new DOL  oh dear

[caster troy]

I can't help but think that when your assistant starts trading insults with fans, and you start coming out with stuff like that interview tonight, we are approaching the beginning of the end.

I hope 'the end' doesn't come too late to save us.

[mr woo]

I would like posters to say something other than "same old shit". Swansea are a good team and in context of where we are now this is a good result. We just need to get some confidence back into out team.

Sorry me old mate, but Sunderland last year aside, I can't remember a single dominant home performance since he came here. Even when we win we are generally outposessed and win by a solitary goal desperately clinging on by our fingernails for the last ten minutes.

Cardiff at home this season; after we scored their arses fell out of it.

I'm honestly not trying to be a smart arse but we we're actually outposessed 56-44 in that one too. From what I remember, we only looked safe when we got the second....with 6 minutes left.