The FA Cup.

[adrenachrome]

As I stated in an earlier post 10 teams play with so much fear in the Premiership - fear of losing. Fear of losing the exorbitant loot dished out by broadcasters. Happy to be an also ran in an ever increasing farcical competition.

What suffers for these - why the Cups.

Hull are the one relegation candidate who play without fear. Probably as everyone thought they were doomed before a goal was kicked. I suppose wansea too if you think they are in the mire.

Look at Albion now the grass is less green. Fear. Sunderland. Fear. Villa Fear. Fulham, Norwich and West Ham world cup winners.

This rings true to me.

From the Factory of Sadness to the Fear Factory. The franchise is fucked, no fear.

[London Villan]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Good news is big Sam and moyes have come to our rescue today. The media twats will go bother them instead of us.

[silhillvilla]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

Agree, and even if a minnow got in, what is the point ? Eg. Wigan in the CL this season would be a bit silly.

[eastie]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

Agree, and even if a minnow got in, what is the point ? Eg. Wigan in the CL this season would be a bit silly.

Probably the reason uefa would never allow it to happen - they want the big clubs .

[dl9]

Good news is big Sam and moyes have come to our rescue today. The media twats will go bother them instead of us.

My sentiments exactly. Spot on that man. Fair play to me old kickers Sam & Davo who have cleverly deflected the spotlight from how shite we am.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Something I've noticed this weekend is just how many stadiums have been nowhere near full, it appears that a lot of fans have also de-valued this competition.

[pauliewalnuts]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

We took the cup seriously yesterday, look at the line up, it's not as if we played the kids.

That wasn't too far off our strongest available team.

[Des Little]

Why can't cup games be included on season tickets? Or at least a nominal charge for ST holders? We pay enough as it is, surely our one extra cup game a year can be thrown in?

[olaftab]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

We took the cup seriously yesterday, look at the line up, it's not as if we played the kids.
That wasn't too far off our strongest available team.

The line up was our strongest possible bar Guzan however Lambert's words a couple of days earlier surely had an impact on how our players approached the game. This was obvious to those who were at Villa park.

[olaftab]

Why can't cup games be included on season tickets? Or at least a nominal charge for ST holders? We pay enough as it is, surely our one extra cup game a year can be thrown in?

How do you do that? We may  have one home game or 4. I wouldn't be happy to pay say a nominal charge of £50 for what could turn out to be one game.

[Damo70]

Why can't cup games be included on season tickets? Or at least a nominal charge for ST holders? We pay enough as it is, surely our one extra cup game a year can be thrown in?

How do you do that? We may  have one home game or 4. I wouldn't be happy to pay say a nominal charge of £50 for what could turn out to be one game.

To be fair, I used my Villacash so for me and my son it sort of was included in our season tickets.

[pauliewalnuts]

Trouble is if there is a champs league spot for the cup all the massive mega rich clubs will take it even more seriously, meaning there is even less chance for the also rans to have a bash at it.

I just wished we take the cups seriously.

We took the cup seriously yesterday, look at the line up, it's not as if we played the kids.
That wasn't too far off our strongest available team.

The line up was our strongest possible bar Guzan however Lambert's words a couple of days earlier surely had an impact on how our players approached the game. This was obvious to those who were at Villa park.

Really?

There didn't even seem anything particularly controversial in what he said, to me it sounded like the same old shit managers say every year.

[Des Little]

Why can't cup games be included on season tickets? Or at least a nominal charge for ST holders? We pay enough as it is, surely our one extra cup game a year can be thrown in?

How do you do that? We may  have one home game or 4. I wouldn't be happy to pay say a nominal charge of £50 for what could turn out to be one game.

The one game was a joke. Make each cup game discounted for ST holders. I usually go with a dozen or more ST holders...there were 2 of us yesterday. No one gives a monkeys.

[olaftab]

Lambert please shut your gob in the future.
All it did even if his comments were out of context was create negative headlines for the club and worse put the thought into the players mind that they had an excuse to lose today.
Yet another embarrassing loss for the club under this manager, we've had a few in his 18 months here.

Watching them today I honestly think they came out to play because they were obliged to do so. They had no idea and no wish to do much more than run around for 90 minutes and take a shower and be on their Saturday night out. It was truly a disgraceful day in the history of our club.

I find it hard to criticise their attitude or effort due to the fact I genuinely think most of them just aren't very good.

Not very good may well apply against League opponents but this was a not very good third division team so I don't buy that. They were simply going through the motion.