Aston Villa v Sheffield United Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Proud History, Bright Future, Murky Present.

[Tony Erdington]

utter bolox, actually left before we scored. that was Sheffield utd, what would a descent championship team do to us. we are a laughing stock with lerner. he just appoints on the cheap. Don't tell me he supports AVFC cuz this is a slow death.

Where does this club founder members of the football league go, with lerner only one way.

[MarkM]

I was looking out at the city and the M6 from my seat in the upper Holte during today's game and couldn't help thinking that I must be feeling like the prisoners in Alcatraz prison looking over at San Fransisco and freedom from the prison yard.

Awful performance today, PL should go now!

[danlanza]

You putting up the bunting? You sound happy things are the way they are and you can stick your finger in the face of others claiming you were right all along. Others just wanted to give the project a chance. You never, ever did. That's the bit you are missing entirely.

"The project" *buries head in hands*

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23362207

Exactly. The "project" was a lie. Cutbacks wrapped up in ribbons. Some of us didn't fall for it and got stick for saying it.

Ah yes, some of us...you mean you two. It doesn't what you call it, the measures needed to be taken. Or maybe you think Lerner should have stuck with MON and sent us into oblivion? Neither of you have a solution other than being critical of everything.

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To be fair Toronto Villa, its not for hilts_coolerking or saunders_heroes to find the solution.

There are, or there should be, people at the club to sort this out.

Sadly, even if they are at the club, they are not doing their job very well.

Lambert should offer his resignation tonight or tomorrow.

I dont think Lerner would accept it though.

Sad times.

There will be no resignation or sacking. Lambert is doing what Lerner wanted. Exactly what Lerner wanted.

What's that? Accelerating the already rapidly declining reputation and standing of our club? Both doing a great job.

I would tend to agree with you there.

[Tony Erdington]

also just watched Arsenal v Spurs, bloody great football. we are light years away from that. Not so long ago we were mentioned in the same breath as spurs and citeh

the future is bleak very bleak

[danlanza]

Proud History, Bright Future, Murky Present.

Exactly. A murky present.

[Brian Taylor]

No doubt that we are a big club. It is just a shame that those in charge are seemingly happy for us to be very mediocre, at best.
As long as we are in the premier league everything is fine as far as they are concerned, from what i can see at the moment.
I would love for there to be some "Grand Plan" but at the moment i am struggling to see it, i am just trying to see through very dense fog at the moment, hoping beyond hope that the fog clears and all is well.
At the moment i think the fog is just going to get thicker and thicker.
I hope i am so wrong.

Big?? Grand Plan? Complete deluded bollo..New Team New Manager..New sh*te! Complete and utter sh*te!!!

[Chipsticks]

utter bolox, actually left before we scored.

Were you in the lower Holte, middle of block L5 and left around 65 minutes? Because if so I saw you and leave and couldn't believe my eyes.

[Witton Warrior]

No doubt that we are a big club. It is just a shame that those in charge are seemingly happy for us to be very mediocre, at best.
As long as we are in the premier league everything is fine as far as they are concerned, from what i can see at the moment.
I would love for there to be some "Grand Plan" but at the moment i am struggling to see it, i am just trying to see through very dense fog at the moment, hoping beyond hope that the fog clears and all is well.
At the moment i think the fog is just going to get thicker and thicker.
I hope i am so wrong.

Not far off how I think things are.

I have to question what football teams, not just ourselves, outside the Sky 5 or 6 are actually for any more.
At the start of a season we are now certain we will not win the League, highly unlikely to get a Champions League place, hoping we don't get a Europa League place, and now we seem to have been let in on the little secret that we actually will not win a Cup either - so what is the actual point of turning up?

[itbrvilla]

Why do we seem to wear the tag of 'big club' like a fucking albatross around our necks?

Big club? Us?

Are you for fucking real?

I suppose you think forest are a bigger club than Man city and Chelsea also? We've done fuck all of footballing significance for almost 2 decades. Get real.

[Legion]

Historically, yes they are.

[Toronto Villa]

so if a rich Arab bought Walsall and they won the league they'd be bigger than us too?

[danlanza]

No doubt that we are a big club. It is just a shame that those in charge are seemingly happy for us to be very mediocre, at best.
As long as we are in the premier league everything is fine as far as they are concerned, from what i can see at the moment.
I would love for there to be some "Grand Plan" but at the moment i am struggling to see it, i am just trying to see through very dense fog at the moment, hoping beyond hope that the fog clears and all is well.
At the moment i think the fog is just going to get thicker and thicker.
I hope i am so wrong.

Not far off how I think things are.

I have to question what football teams, not just ourselves, outside the Sky 5 or 6 are actually for any more.
At the start of a season we are now certain we will not win the League, highly unlikely to get a Champions League place, hoping we don't get a Europa League place, and now we seem to have been let in on the little secret that we actually will not win a Cup either - so what is the actual point of turning up?

The Sky 5 or 6 is exactly right WW. The rest of us are there to make up the numbers in the most over rated most succesfully marketed league in the World. Things will not change soon either, i don't think.

[itbrvilla]

so if a rich Arab bought Walsall and they won the league they'd be bigger than us too?

if they were consistently competing for trophies filling their large stadium weekly and attracting the players then yes they would be. Historically we'd have more trophies until they do what everyone else is doing and overtaking us, but reality is they would be bigger. 

[brian green]

Couldn't agree more Lee.   My younger son (the one who isn't Damon) phoned me to tell me that we had bought Bent.   I thought it was the crap Bent because my son got to know all the Ipswich youth team when he was doing his Football Stories series and became good mates with the less good Bent.   So I replied great you will have a mate in the dressing room at Villa Park and he said "No, we have signed the good one".   That was the last time I felt that we had punched our weight in the premiership.

Apart from that we have a track record of being cautious and careful.   Our first reaction to Richard Dunne getting crocked playing for his country was anger.   Then when we thought we had upset the ROIFA we backed down and said sorry.   I am not saying which reaction is correct, the anger or the acceptance you just don't do both at the same time.   Likewise Mark Delaney injured playing for Wales and Dwight Yorke playing for away and Savo gobbing at the fans and Stanley Victor behaving like a complete knob and David Unsworth being allowed to leave after only one game for us and Stylian having his big charity game in Celtic colours the list goes on of us doing the nice thing the correct thing the good mannered thing but never actually asserting ourselves.

This latest fiasco of Lambert's interview will be kicked into the long grass by the club but we shall always be branded as the club that hates the FA Cup.   The motto beneath our Lion should be changed from "Prepared" to "Careful".