FC Groningen vs Aston Villa

[silhillvilla]

Cole, Senderos, Richardson, Luna, Tonev, Sylla, Bennett, Lowton, Helenius , What a rabble.
Lambert is the very definition of a man rearranging deck chairs on The Titanic.

[SamTheMouse]

Still no Cole?  Looks like Richardson will be playing further forward in his absence leaving us woefully short at left back.  It's a disgrace that Lambert has signed been here 2 years, signed 3 or 4 full backs and yet Hutton and Stevens are probably the best two full backs at the club.

Cole is injured.

Might as well make a keybind for that sentence.

[Louzie0]

Cole, Senderos, Richardson, Luna, Tonev, Sylla, Bennett, Lowton, Helenius , What a rabble.
Lambert is the very definition of a man rearranging deck chairs on The Titanic.

It's at times like this that we could do with one of those really cool ships that eat others, like Stromberg's.

[Locko]

I'm sorry to say this but, there is nothing, absolutely nothing to look forward to.

I just wish Mr Lerner and Mr Lambert would go as far away from this club as is possible.

Any enjoyment I derived from the game has gone. Villa has become a supermassive black hole of anti-joy tirelessly devouring any pleasure I used to get from the game. I've lost all interest completely, it's all so interminably fucking tiresome. Lerner please just piss off sharpish (and take Lamberk with you), even the most clueless arsehole couldn't fuck up on the same scale as you. It's said a fool and his money are easily parted and by that measure Lerner is a colossal fuckwit.

[olaftab]

and we celebrate  another season in the premier League with vigour at the final home game against Burnley.

SIX POINTER!

No I am confident that our team will at most need just a point from the game. Remember we have Roy Keane in our changing room and Darren Bent is back and a Swiss international at centre half. What could really go wrong with our mission?

[Goldie.7]

Damn their second goal was a beauty just saw the highlights. I missed the entire first half due to good luck.

[Tayls_7]

At this rate, Lambert's "McLeish" moment may well be approaching. I'm going for the Hull match.

I don't want to sound like I am having a go at you here - I am not, I've seen lots of people say similar - but I can not believe anyone really thinks this way. At least if that means a McLeish moment as the point at which his sacking becomes inevitable.

Look at the wider picture.

The owner, having not bothered to pay much attention for two years, has finally admitted he wants out and is trying to sell.

Thus far, we have no buyer, but now it is all in the open, the owner doesn't even have to pretend to be interested.

As a result of this we are in a "deep freeze" situation, whereby he will spend as little energy, attention or money on the club as he can get away with.

That is why, now the CEO has had enough, we have a CFO being both CFO and CEO, and it is why we won't be getting a new CEO in a hurry - the owner wants out, he's trying to sell, who would take the job in the knowledge they'll probably be out when we get sold?

And why is Lerner going to go to the bother of finding and paying for a new CEO when he's had enough?

That is why we are doing nothing, absolutely nothing that suggests anyone is looking beyond the extremely short term.

We've signed three free transfers. Why is that? It is because they're free, they don't involve spending money. We've stopped talking about ambition. Why is that? Because we don't have any - the owner wants out, what does he care?

So, given all that, why does anyone think Lerner is going, at any point, to sack Lambert? Lambert's record on paper the last two years screams "sack me", so why hasn't he been sacked?

Because Lerner does not want the hassle of having to find a new manager, and because he does not want the expense.

I genuinely think that while Lerner is here, Lambert is the safest manager in the premier league. He just has to keep things ticking over. He's not going to be expected to do any more because there is a total lack of interest and organisation at all points above him at the club.

Managers get sacked because they fail to meet expectations - Lambert is working under *no* expectation. There isn't a CEO to be breathing down his neck any more, and there isn't a bothered, interested owner there, either, and that is why there will be no d-day for him this season.

An excellent observation encapsulating the ongoing situation. Retched but painfully true.

[Witton Warrior]

At this rate, Lambert's "McLeish" moment may well be approaching. I'm going for the Hull match.

I don't want to sound like I am having a go at you here - I am not, I've seen lots of people say similar - but I can not believe anyone really thinks this way. At least if that means a McLeish moment as the point at which his sacking becomes inevitable.

Look at the wider picture.

The owner, having not bothered to pay much attention for two years, has finally admitted he wants out and is trying to sell.

Thus far, we have no buyer, but now it is all in the open, the owner doesn't even have to pretend to be interested.

As a result of this we are in a "deep freeze" situation, whereby he will spend as little energy, attention or money on the club as he can get away with.

That is why, now the CEO has had enough, we have a CFO being both CFO and CEO, and it is why we won't be getting a new CEO in a hurry - the owner wants out, he's trying to sell, who would take the job in the knowledge they'll probably be out when we get sold?

And why is Lerner going to go to the bother of finding and paying for a new CEO when he's had enough?

That is why we are doing nothing, absolutely nothing that suggests anyone is looking beyond the extremely short term.

We've signed three free transfers. Why is that? It is because they're free, they don't involve spending money. We've stopped talking about ambition. Why is that? Because we don't have any - the owner wants out, what does he care?

So, given all that, why does anyone think Lerner is going, at any point, to sack Lambert? Lambert's record on paper the last two years screams "sack me", so why hasn't he been sacked?

Because Lerner does not want the hassle of having to find a new manager, and because he does not want the expense.

I genuinely think that while Lerner is here, Lambert is the safest manager in the premier league. He just has to keep things ticking over. He's not going to be expected to do any more because there is a total lack of interest and organisation at all points above him at the club.

Managers get sacked because they fail to meet expectations - Lambert is working under *no* expectation. There isn't a CEO to be breathing down his neck any more, and there isn't a bothered, interested owner there, either, and that is why there will be no d-day for him this season.

But the point is the "Mcleish moment" = the Bolton match when we turned - after a season of misery and negativity - we all know what is happening with Lerner. Lambert has not had that "moment" yet - away from home it has come close but when VP turns it will be different.

The man has no idea, he is bereft of ideas and is adrift just waiting for the new owners to sack him.

We are in serious trouble even before the season starts.

I love the Villa, I don't give a toss about Lerner or Lambert, we will be here decades after they are gone but the damage being done could easily last that long. 

[silhillvilla]

Randy Lerner is a fake. The tattoo, the talk of being a good custodian. The general krulak nonsense.
What a nonsense and piss take out of everyone.

[Louzie0]

Randy Lerner is a fake. The tattoo

It's a transfer?
The wimp!

[silhillvilla]

Randy Lerner is a fake. The tattoo

It's a transfer?
The wimp!

Maybe it washed off and he lost interest ?

[Louzie0]

Randy Lerner is a fake. The tattoo

It's a transfer?
The wimp!

Maybe it washed off and he lost interest ?

Gosh, Silhillvilla, we could clean up in the Desperate Olympics.

[bertlambshank]

Glad I was working to miss that tripe.
Do we have any money to spend,if we don't I think we should sell Bent to Japan,they like tons of whale meat.

[*shellac*]

Can we request to play league football in Armenia? 

We might have a chance to win something there. 

[pbavfckuwait]

So the sunbathing must have been nice in Texas, a nice little coach trip to Chesterfield and the cafes of Amsterdam are rocking, that is what we have found out from pre-season, because as sure as hell these supposedly professional footballers have not been near a football, there is still no movement, the only forward pass after the halfway line is a hoof, twice yesterday I saw our defense play a ball straight across our own penalty box, something you are taught as a 5 year old not to do.

Talk we only need two maybe three players and we will be fine, I do not understand where this is coming from, we are at least 6 players short of a mid-table team, hoping that there are always going to be 3 teams worse than us, seems to be Learners mantra for the last 3 years, this year I think it is going to run out and I hope it costs him a fortune, what he is doing to Aston Villa at the moment is a fucking disgrace.

Cant sack Lambert as no one else would come in, maybe that's true, but keeping Lambert is just sleep walking to disaster and when the fans turn, and that's when not if, Villa park will be a horrible place to play, for Villa no one else.