Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[OneIanTaylor]

I agree JD.

[JD]

Thanks OIT.  :oops:

[ROBBO]

Do we have any news on injuries? it is a watershed game, if Villa lose Oleary will be sacked almost immediately, if we win it will make us safe and he will stay until the end of the season, to me it's almost a win win situation.

[JD]

Robbo, I've heard that DO'L is training them this week and I believe that the whole team has gone down with apathy and indifference, due to having to think about going to training and they may be able to play Saturday, but will only be able to babble bullsh*t.
Apart from young Milner, who is too tired to play this weekend because he was up until 8.30pm playing on his Playstation last night.   :-

[peter w]

O Leary's training them? Bloody hell hasn't that been part of the problem all season? What are the injury details? Anybody have an indication on who may be back for next week?

[JD]

Morning Peter. I have heard no news about the injuries/illnesses etc yet. All is very quiet at Villa Park, apart from DO'L claiming that the Academy get to much credit for bringing on new players.  ](*,)

[ROBBO]

I had hoped this game would be shown live over here as the cameras no doubt would be following Olearys body language very closely. I try to be optimistic but watching our experienced defence last week i think Fulham could run rings round them. Someone said on another thread that Delaney puts steel into the back line and I agree, our captain desperately needs an experienced central defender along side of him as his confidence is at an all time low. You can literally see panic written all over his face.

[JD]

I would seriously look at playing Bouma in central defence with Mellberg and put Samuel at Left Back (hopefully he will deal better with Boa Mote's pace).

[peter w]

Morning JD, morning Robbo. I think the Fulham game is on live here so it will be a very nervy 90 minutes. The crowd reaction will also be important. need to get behind the team, and I'm sure we will, but if things start to go wrong, then you'll see plaenty of shots of Brezhnez looking unhappy and one degree up from dead. A bit lijke O Leary I suppose. The defence really does need something done with it, but it doesn't look like it will change. Ridge may just have had a very bad game at Everton so he wouldn't necessarily be overlooked. Maybe it is time for bouma to have a go. Maybe Cahill. Mellberg looks a shot player now that Delaney has gone from his right hand side. Hopefully, someone will enlighten us in a few hours exactly how the injury situation stands.

[ROBBO]

G'day to all I get the same coverage as you JD and i think we are missing out this week, let me know if you get coverage. I would like to know how Pete can get coverage in darkest Islamabad and we can't, must be something to do with the influence Bin Laden has these days.

[peter w]

Not sure why Robbo. We ESPN that is based in India, and they're huge on Prem football in Asia. So on Sat there is the early kick off live, the late kick off live then ESPN has 1 3 oclock kick 0ff. Its sister channel Star Sports has another, and a South African channel SuperSports will also have a game.  So, its on one of them.

[ROBBO]

It appears that the games against the unspeakables and the stripey filth are early kick offs which all seem to be shown live over here so fingers crossed. If and when you return to Brum I expect you to still log on at this hour to keep JD and myself company.

[peter w]

Still have a minimum 2 years here so I'll be keeping you company for a while yet.

[ROBBO]

I am I admit a tad less worried about this season after seeing the filth get hammered at home surely Bruce should tender his resignation now and save any further embarrassment.

[Legion]

I'm still worried. Please placate me!