Aston Villa v Crystal Palace post match thread

[eric woolban woolban]

Blackpool a tempting 15/2 to win on Sunday.

[Villa in Denmark]

The only positive I can draw from today is that it was the easiest way I'll ever turn £25 into £75.

0-0 at 2.0 after 30 minutes.  Easy money.

Now having boosted my bank balance again, can Paul please FUCK OFF!

[VillaAlways]

Lambert out (pissing in the wind )

[supertom]

Blackpool a tempting 15/2 to win on Sunday.

Wonder what the combined odds of them to win and Fonz to score would be?
It almost seems written. Honestly, if it got Lamberk the sack I'd almost be willing it to happen...Almost.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Boring boring Villa, utter Fucking drivel, 0 goals over Christmas and New year is a disgrace. Fuck off

[Jimbo]

The gormless fool has to go. And Lambert.

[Jon Crofts]

Didn't follow the game but I know exactly what happened

Shocking team selection I thought

We're definitely the most boring side in the league - and by some distance I think

How did grealish do?

Most boring in the league?  You silver tongued cavalier you.  Most boring in Europe would be fairer.

[Malandro]

This morning I watched dam busters which I thoroughly enjoyed this afternoon I made a treacle glazed coke ham.


Oh and watched a game that was poorer than the Sunderland one and that is fucking incredible

[Boz]

Back four and Sanchez were good today. Everything ahead of them was shit. Grealish was lively when he came on and made a difference again.

Benteke will struggle to hit double figures this season. This leaves us two problems. One he's not offering us enough (and it's 50% the teammates and manager being shit, and 50% his attitude in games). The second is, that if we want to sell him on our terms, and being a selling club this is how we survive and evolve, he's not going to get us the sort of fee we'd like. In his pomp he could probably get us 25-30 mill which is enough to significantly rebuild your side and move on. At the moment we'll struggle to get half that. He's potentially World class but I think playing for Lamberts Villa is gradually turning him into the next John Carew. A player who will intermittently be unplayable, and never quite get the move to a top club he could be capable of. He's getting ruined here and in retrospect for his own sake he probably should have pushed for his move 18 months ago. 2 goals this season, though both class, is not nearly good enough.

Gabby, Weimann and Cleverley were atrocious. Bacuna isn't good enough.

Benteke looks like he's given up. No service and doesn't drive at the defenders like he used to on the odd time he gets the ball. Lambert has totally destroyed Benteke as a world class striker

[ChicagoLion]

Back four and Sanchez were good today. Everything ahead of them was shit. Grealish was lively when he came on and made a difference again.

Benteke will struggle to hit double figures this season. This leaves us two problems. One he's not offering us enough (and it's 50% the teammates and manager being shit, and 50% his attitude in games). The second is, that if we want to sell him on our terms, and being a selling club this is how we survive and evolve, he's not going to get us the sort of fee we'd like. In his pomp he could probably get us 25-30 mill which is enough to significantly rebuild your side and move on. At the moment we'll struggle to get half that. He's potentially World class but I think playing for Lamberts Villa is gradually turning him into the next John Carew. A player who will intermittently be unplayable, and never quite get the move to a top club he could be capable of. He's getting ruined here and in retrospect for his own sake he probably should have pushed for his move 18 months ago. 2 goals this season, though both class, is not nearly good enough.

Gabby, Weimann and Cleverley were atrocious. Bacuna isn't good enough.

I was thinking about this , his attitude right now would certainly cause a manager to think about dropping him, but because there are so many consistently poor performers out there why single him out.
This is just a symptom of having such a poor manager.

[Goldie.7]

Even Westley cannot sugarcoat that dross!

[kippaxvilla2]

It's coming to something when the fans of Crystal Palace sing;

 "your grounds too big for you"

[Risso]

In the last 5 games, we've failed to score against West Brom, Swansea, Sunderland and Palace.  It's really not good enough from Paul, and he should be relieved of his duties forthwith.

[rob_bridge]

Lost: 1 Football Club. If found please return to Villa Park, B6, Birmingham

[pauliewalnuts]

And the worst thing is, he's untouchable.