Fan reaction to impending Relegation.

[ozzjim]

It just shows how much we desperately need a couple of forwards though.

We lack so much pace in our side too, that even when under pressure we take an age to get out.

Without buying well between now and August, next season will be excruciating.

[Pat McMahon]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Agreed. Thus far this season I have thought Richards is a precious, useless twat. Today, sat near the dugout, I actually gave him respect for talking to the fans who were having a go at all and sundry on the bench. All I heard was his assurance that the players were giving their all.

[peter w]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Agreed. Thus far this season I have thought Richards is a precious, useless twat. Today, sat near the dugout, I actually gave him respect for talking to the fans who were having a go at all and sundry on the bench. All I heard was his assurance that the players were giving their all.

Not sure. What good can it actually do? Are those fans going to walk away and think "fair enough"? If you're at the point where you think shouting at players is helping you or the team, then you'll still be shouting that they are shit the very next time there is a poor performance or series of mistakes. I'd have preferred him to just acknowledge them and walk away.

[Pat McMahon]

That video is toe curlingly embarrassing for the fans.  I have to assume there were no police left otherwise how was he allowed to continue. 

Because the nice approach has got us an amazing 1 victory this season.

Yeah, the problem is not enough people calling the players twats. I hear it's what makes Bayern Munich such a successful team.

Having top class players who have a vague notion of what they are doing, knowing their own roles and having a fucking clue what the game is about makes them successful. The peripheral stuff from the terraces is  just that, peripheral.

[pbavfckuwait]

Stated a while back in the AGM Protest topic, that although there is no main target to demonstrate against, i.e. missing Randy, that the outpouring a demonstration may give, would maybe and I only say maybe stop what happened yesterday. Next thing which as far as I am concerned is a dam sight worse than giving any over paid player stick will be fighting between ourselves, you can see it coming.

[Jimbo]

Stated a while back in the AGM Protest topic, that although there is no main target to demonstrate against, i.e. missing Randy, that the outpouring a demonstration may give, would maybe and I only say maybe stop what happened yesterday. Next thing which as far as I am concerned is a dam sight worse than giving any over paid player stick will be fighting between ourselves, you can see it coming.

Agreed. Any demonstration doesn't need to have definable goals. A lot of fans feel frustrated at watching their club fall apart. A well organised and peaceful protest won't suddenly make us win games, or get rid of Randy Lerner, but it might be an opportunity for fans to unite, get their grievances off their chests and at least feel like they're doing something, however ineffective it might be. The alternative will be more ugly scenes like yesterday, as individual fans take it upon themselves to act.

Already we've got Villa fans sneering at other fans for trying to do something as their club goes from bad to worse. It will be very sad to see fans turn on each other as this disintegration of Villa continues, because right now - apart from a nice ground and some decent corporate facilities - the fans are the only thing the club has going for it.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Me too.

We were sitting behind the dugout and the blokes who were having a go at the players were a couple of rows in front of us. They started by banging on the back of the dugout to try and get players' attention. Most of the players pretended they couldn't hear and didn't turn round. Except for Lescott, who turned to the fans, looked at them like they were pieces of shit, sneered and turned back to the game. At least Richards showed some guts and tried to speak to the fans. If we'd have lost yesterday, there would have been some real problems.

Sobered up, Pat?

[Des Little]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Me too.

We were sitting behind the dugout and the blokes who were having a go at the players were a couple of rows in front of us. They started by banging on the back of the dugout to try and get players' attention. Most of the players pretended they couldn't hear and didn't turn round. Except for Lescott, who turned to the fans, looked at them like they were pieces of shit, sneered and turned back to the game. At least Richards showed some guts and tried to speak to the fans. If we'd have lost yesterday, there would have been some real problems.

Sobered up, Pat?

You must have been sat by us then. It all started when the fans saw Guzan and Lescott playing some shit game involving throwing gum rather than take any interest in the match. From what I saw it escalated from there.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Me too.

We were sitting behind the dugout and the blokes who were having a go at the players were a couple of rows in front of us. They started by banging on the back of the dugout to try and get players' attention. Most of the players pretended they couldn't hear and didn't turn round. Except for Lescott, who turned to the fans, looked at them like they were pieces of shit, sneered and turned back to the game. At least Richards showed some guts and tried to speak to the fans. If we'd have lost yesterday, there would have been some real problems.

Sobered up, Pat?

You must have been sat by us then. It all started when the fans saw Guzan and Lescott playing some shit game involving throwing gum rather than take any interest in the match. From what I saw it escalated from there.

Yep, and Guzan appeared to be laughing. That's what wound a lot of people up.

[PeterWithe]

I know it's probably not the sensible option,
but when a player(Richards) has interaction with supporters after an abject display I always think the better of him for at least not just running away and hiding

Me too.

We were sitting behind the dugout and the blokes who were having a go at the players were a couple of rows in front of us. They started by banging on the back of the dugout to try and get players' attention. Most of the players pretended they couldn't hear and didn't turn round. Except for Lescott, who turned to the fans, looked at them like they were pieces of shit, sneered and turned back to the game. At least Richards showed some guts and tried to speak to the fans. If we'd have lost yesterday, there would have been some real problems.

Sobered up, Pat?

You must have been sat by us then. It all started when the fans saw Guzan and Lescott playing some shit game involving throwing gum rather than take any interest in the match. From what I saw it escalated from there.

That's what a mate of mine reported, the ones on the video weren't having a go at Richards, it was Lescott and Guzan they were pissed off with for the 'chewing gum game', when you are getting paid as much in a week as a lot of fans get in a year is it really that much of a fucking chore to actually watch and take an interest in the game?

I'm well aware there are many more important problems but attitudes start to become questioned.

[ez]

That's fan footage and social media for you.

[Walmley_Villa]

There is a massive discord between fans and players, not sure if that is just the modern game, the Premier League or just Villa.

There is no sense of everyone being in it together which again points to no chance of us getting out of this downward spiral for a good while.

[kippaxvilla2]

Maybe Garde should stop the team bus at The Adventurers on Tuesday night and make them walk the rest of the way to the ground.  Didn't Clough do that once.

[Madferret62]

Having watched the reaction of a few individuals to the players boarding the coach yesterday I'd likemto say one thing. GO AWAY.  When wil fans realise that amount of money earned bears now relationship with performance. The oft trotted out line "I pay my ticket so I can say what Inwant simply doesn't wash. Do you really  think that calling Micha Richards a ****** helps, do,you really believe telling Bacuna he's useless motivates him?
Look very carefully at your ticket, no where does it saya win iis guaranteed or that entertaining football,is a given. Losing is part of the game, relegation happens. Those pitiful few hurling abuse yesterday need to get a grip.

If you want t to be angry be angry with Sky and the Premier league swindlers who have stolen our game, who are taking it out of the reach of ordinary workingclass fans. Be angry, but abusing our own players is downright silly, please stop it it, itbreally, reallly isn't helping.

[ez]

Maybe Garde should stop the team bus at The Adventurers on Tuesday night and make them walk the rest of the way to the ground.  Didn't Clough do that once.

I did the stadium tour a few weeks ago. Apparantly the players meet at villa park and Garde takes them for a meal in town somewhere and then back to villa park for the game.