Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur Pre-Match Thread

[mr underhill]

I think you're missing a digit at least

[Phil from the upper holte]

My. Favourite "since villa last scored fact" :-

" The average Baggies fan has sneaked into his sisters room 47 times since Aston Villa last scored a goal"

Applause

[Phil from the upper holte]

Cissoko & Vlaar in an argument with Lambert & Keane post QPR according to the Torygraph.

Any links to this Matt?

Try this: http://fw.to/kqEl3fB

Wonder where they got that from?

[brian green]

The other times were consensual Mr U.

[olaftab]

Villa next on Sunday Supplement after the break as they say! They have just repeated the Ronaldo line....

[Duncan Shaw]

Cissoko & Vlaar in an argument with Lambert & Keane post QPR according to the Torygraph.

Any links to this Matt?

Try this: http://fw.to/kqEl3fB

Wonder where they got that from?

Interesting.  Good article, the first from a national starting to out pressure on him.

[peter w]

I do my own predictions league with 22 people in it. Only 3 people have predicted Villa to lose. two of those are Villa fans (me being one).

[Ian.]

Yeah that was a good article. If he's staying put and it looks more than likely he is I just hope he'll be man enough to try a new style of play, mix it up a bit. He was big enough to admit the young and hungry (cheap, lower league) approach will not work so maybe he'll be man enough to ditch this counter attacking bollocks every single match.

[peter w]

What was said on Sunday Supplement?

[brian green]

I don't think his manliness is the problem, it is his intelligence.   In my humble opinion he is the thickest manager we have had since Billy McNeill.

[peter w]

Yeah that was a good article. If he's staying put and it looks more than likely he is I just hope he'll be man enough to try a new style of play, mix it up a bit. He was big enough to admit the young and hungry (cheap, lower league) approach will not work so maybe he'll be man enough to ditch this counter attacking bollocks every single match.

When he came he came with a reputation of changing tactic to suit the game, even during the game. Why have we need seen a soupçon of it since he's been here?

[rob_bridge]

Cissoko & Vlaar in an argument with Lambert & Keane post QPR according to the Torygraph.

Any links to this Matt?

Try this: http://fw.to/kqEl3fB

Good article that.

Seems most of the national press either ignore Lambert's woeful record or 'sympathise' because he is doing the job in difficult circumstances.

It is far too much effort to think or write otherwise - asking hacks and pundits to do their job thoroughly. Nah. Let's fawn over SteveieMe and how he deserves a new contract.

[andyh]

So, gabby is using the 'tough game' mantra now.
I  am absolutely fucking pig sick of reading and hearing 'tough run of games'. Anyone would think we have just had to play Barcelona, Brazil, Germany, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Ok, so we played some top teams, well, we have to play them sometime, it just happened that they came all together.
If players and management keep,banging on about 'tough run of games' maybe they should just piss off, because they obviously haven't got the fighting or winning mentality that is needed.
And, if the manager is using that reason as an excuse for piss poor performances, then that's why the old adage of a 'team reflecting the manager' is so fucking true in our case.

[Ian.]

Yeah that was a good article. If he's staying put and it looks more than likely he is I just hope he'll be man enough to try a new style of play, mix it up a bit. He was big enough to admit the young and hungry (cheap, lower league) approach will not work so maybe he'll be man enough to ditch this counter attacking bollocks every single match.

When he came he came with a reputation of changing tactic to suit the game, even during the game. Why have we need seen a soupçon of it since he's been here?

Last season I put it down to him realising that these lower league players we gambled on not being good enough to keep the ball.
Now we have some experience and players
Who can pass it around, TC, Sanchez, Westwood, Ron, Richardson and Benteke why do we revert to it? I know it sometimes works, ie at Liverpool but we don't need to do it every week. Sometimes it's as if we let a goal in and then panic and the game plan goes out the window.
TC should be playing high up the pitch and central too. He's waisted anywhere else. I thought that's why we signed him?

[Rudy65]

So, gabby is using the 'tough game' mantra now.
I  am absolutely fucking pig sick of reading and hearing 'tough run of games'. Anyone would think we have just had to play Barcelona, Brazil, Germany, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Ok, so we played some top teams, well, we have to play them sometime, it just happened that they came all together.
If players and management keep,banging on about 'tough run of games' maybe they should just piss off, because they obviously haven't got the fighting or winning mentality that is needed.
And, if the manager is using that reason as an excuse for piss poor performances, then that's why the old adage of a 'team reflecting the manager' is so fucking true in our case.

Spot on.

We have been shambolic.

Just compare our performances to the likes of Leicester, QPR yesterday, Stoke, WBA  West Ham etc when they have faced the top 4. They have a go and sometimes get results. Meanwhile we are defeated before the game starts based on the tactics PL uses. Its fuckin embarrassing.