Club that cannot stop scoring lets yesterday's man go forth.

[saunders_heroes]

When Bent was carted off at Wigan, I said that was the last time we would ever see him play football for us again and I was right.

It didn't take a genius to work that one out. He's on massive wages and Lerner wanted the biggest earners out of the club. In my opinion it's our wage policy that has plummeted us into decline over the last 5 seasons.

And the prior wage policy that helped us run up £100m worth of debt

Exactly. We couldn't keep that level of spending up.

So we completely gave up.

No, we cut down the spending. If we'd have 'completely given up', we'd be in League One by now.

Oh I disagree. It takes a lot of effort to relegate a club as big as Aston Villa, but Lerner is getting us closer to it season by season.

[Ad@m]

When Bent was carted off at Wigan, I said that was the last time we would ever see him play football for us again and I was right.

It didn't take a genius to work that one out. He's on massive wages and Lerner wanted the biggest earners out of the club. In my opinion it's our wage policy that has plummeted us into decline over the last 5 seasons.

And the prior wage policy that helped us run up £100m worth of debt

Exactly. We couldn't keep that level of spending up.

So we completely gave up.

No, we cut down the spending. If we'd have 'completely given up', we'd be in League One by now.

Oh I disagree. It takes a lot of effort to relegate a club as big as Aston Villa, but Lerner is getting us closer to it season by season.

I don't know. While they might not have the trophy cabinet we have, Newcastle are as big a club as us and people have managed to get them relegated without trying too hard.

[LTA]

https://t.co/LWxVSZepaG

Well said Darren.  Treated like dirt by Aston Villa and likely to have last laugh when Derby take our place in the PL next season.

[Gregorys Boy]

In hind shight Lambert (not for the first time) may have dropped a clanger on this one.  Even given how good Benteke is he cannot do it all on his own.   And considering how poor the other strikers have been we could do with Bent around right now.

[PeterWithesShin]

We had Bent around this season and he was shit.

[Gregorys Boy]

We had Bent around this season and he was shit.

He's barely played for us this season.  I think his top flight days might be behind him, but he is still a natural finisher so given how desparate things we are right now then why not give him a go?

[Clampy]

Not sure how much difference Bent would make to us seeing as we don't create many chances anyway.

Mind you, I think he's entitled to have a pop back after what Lambert came out with last week.

[Duncan Shaw]

On the Beeb highlights, see the 1 on 1 he fluffs after his goal?

[brontebilly]

The only thing that I'm unsure about is whether he was of more value on our bench than farmed out.

What goes against him is, from what I could see, he was massively over weight in pre season.
I suppose its all irrelevant, he's done here.

He was a diabolical sub to be fair, how many times did he score after coming on? West Brom winner but apart from that?

His last sub appearance was a disgrace and he was gone hours later

[Gregorys Boy]

Not sure how much difference Bent would make to us seeing as we don't create many chances anyway.

Mind you, I think he's entitled to have a pop back after what Lambert came out with last week.

Thats a good point.  Just think it might be worth a go.  Also Benteke is the sort who will hold the ball up and bring other players into the game so if he and Bent were up front together then maybe he could create chances for Bent who does make good runs.

[Ian.]

We had Bent around this season and he was shit.

He's barely played for us this season.  I think his top flight days might be behind him, but he is still a natural finisher so given how desparate things we are right now then why not give him a go?

He's had it though, you said it yourself so why have him back?
Our main problem is creating enough chances anyway.

[Gregorys Boy]

We had Bent around this season and he was shit.

He's barely played for us this season.  I think his top flight days might be behind him, but he is still a natural finisher so given how desparate things we are right now then why not give him a go?

He's had it though, you said it yourself so why have him back?
Our main problem is creating enough chances anyway.

I said he might have had it.  But the point is its like Michael Owen during his twilight years, even if he was far off his best, you know that he still has that strikers instinct, and that it only takes a minute for snatch a goal which could win a tight game.  I just think needs must.  If it doesn't work out we haven't lost anything.

[Clampy]

Not sure how much difference Bent would make to us seeing as we don't create many chances anyway.

Mind you, I think he's entitled to have a pop back after what Lambert came out with last week.

Thats a good point.  Just think it might be worth a go.  Also Benteke is the sort who will hold the ball up and bring other players into the game so if he and Bent were up front together then maybe he could create chances for Bent who does make good runs.

With Gil here now, he might have possibly been worth persevering with. It looks like they've fallen out anyway.

[Nastylee]

With them both having a pop in the media, it's all over so this thread might as well cease to exist.

[b23]

Chesterfield lost today  . Darren Bent scored, but he easily could have had another 2 or 3.

The CFC support was magnificent. All 5,000 of them.

ALL the Spireite boys making ALL the noise.