FC Groningen vs Aston Villa

[Quiet Lion]

Yeah I know it was only a friendly, but it was just the same old shit.

Please god not another season of this - I cant take it

[john e]

Some of you are missing the point, pre season friendlies are all about fitness that's all

It will be another two weeks before we are playing shit and losing for real

[supertom]

I have a real feeling that this could be the year it finally happens - unless we buy some seriously decent players.

There's just not enough quality there. They look like they've never met, too.

I'm getting that feeling too. Crap players plus crap manager is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to rely on Benteke to drag us through, but that's if we're lucky enough for him to hit the ground running when he gets back and stay fit.

The midfield is shite. Honestly besides Delph, there's not a CM at the club I'm really satisfied with. 2 signings of good standard are required. Not too mention a couple of good fullbacks.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Yes, it's a friendly. Blah blah blah

But if that didn't sound out more alarm bells i'm not sure what will. Hard to recall a more hapless, shapeless, toothless performance. And bearing in mind the last three seasons that's some statement

No positives other than, it's finished

[sirlordbaltimore]

You start a game with three strikers on the pitch (even though none of them did anything) and you end with none on the pitch

Genius!

[PeterWithesShin]

Zog, Richardson and maybe Hutton for his attacking play are pretty much the only players to get any credit from that game.

[Gregorys Boy]

Wonderful, can't wait for the eh, highlights?

[ciggiesnbeer]

Yup and sorry to say but I think we loaned out the wrong reserve keeper.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Then we have to hope that we can overcome how absolutely, unquestionably, fucking useless Lambert is at picking and organising a side.

I stuck with Lambert through the first season and a chunk of the second, but I am increasingly starting to think he's an absolute chancer and genuinely doesn't know what he's doing.

The worst thing about the lack of a takeover is we're stuck with bloody Lambert. You only have to watch us to see he hasn't got a clue. Even crap League One and Two teams have a set up, look like know what they're doing. We forever look disjointed and like we met for the first time 5 minutes before kick off.

[tomd2103]

Reading your comments it would appear that bringing in Roy Keane has not had the desired effect.  In fact nothing's changed in any way.

Shite players will always be shite.

Have to agree.  I really can't see why there is an expectation for players who have not been good enough for the past 2-3 seasons to dramatically improve. 

[saunders_heroes]

4-1. Not good.

[PeterWithesShin]

I have a horrible feeling that we won't win the league this season.

[supertom]

Zog, Richardson and maybe Hutton for his attacking play are pretty much the only players to get any credit from that game.

I'd go along with this.
I'd also add it's slightly worrying that on the basis of pre-season, Alan Hutton is one of our better players. What the bloody hell have we come to?

For me Zogbia has to play every game whilst we're missing Benteke. He's the only one who looks like he might make something out of nothing.

[pauliewalnuts]

Reading your comments it would appear that bringing in Roy Keane has not had the desired effect.  In fact nothing's changed in any way.

Shite players will always be shite.

Have to agree.  I really can't see why there is an expectation for players who have not been good enough for the past 2-3 seasons to dramatically improve. 

See also the expectation that players we made spend the last year playing frisbee and FIFA instead of actually training with us are going to suddenly turn it around.

Darren Bent looks fat to me. If he grew a beard he'd be a decent Luther Vandross doppelganger.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I have a horrible feeling that we won't win the league this season.

I have a horrible feeling the next league we win will be League 1.