Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[peter w]

I thinkwe shopuld all find some big feck off lotteries that are offering £300m or something all buy a ticket and attempt to win the thing. Pump about £150m into Villa, and watch us take the Championship by storm.

[ROBBO]

On another thread i looked back to the dark days of the third division when most players were home grown and you could improve with a bit of finannce and a good manager. Now it would be impossible, you are right in saying that we need not only new owners but owners to finance some serious spending in the next twelve months if we are to survive as a premiership side let alone a top four side. I still believe the present squad is capable of much better but not under Oleary. I honestly believe that any mature avid Villa supporter could do better that Oleary at present.

[peter w]

Fully agree. You watch the team and it hasn't been right all season. The christmas spell aside we have been hit and miss. Now, we've lost the hit and are just miss. Just look at the defence. The defending is abject. The players we have here are better than a relegation scrap. If we had gearge Graham in do you think we'd be defending as badly with the same players? If you had Graham Taylor even, do you think this midfield would not know how to work, and pass to a Claret & Blue shirt? and deliver a football to a forward? Look at the forwards. He doesn't know his best two. Its baros and one other. Chop and change. Then he persists in trying to play potentially our best finisher, Phillips, deeper because he's convinced he canplay the Sheringham role. He hasn't got a clue, Phillips should be playing off the last defenders shoulder. He's making him ineffective.

So, bollocksed up the defence, no idea how to make a cohesive midfield unit, and is plain guessing with the forwards.

Messing it up big style.

You just have to look at how we try to play to see that we are set up all wrong. There is no Plan B, its just fingers crossed that it comes together.

Yes, we need major investment, no-one is claiming otherwise, but the bunch of players we have now are directionless on the pitch, which makes us look a lot worse than we really are.

[ROBBO]

Doesn't it puzzle you a little bit that we are at the industrial heart of the country, fortunes have been made, you would think that there must be life long Villa supporters out there that have the business acumen and the finance to take us on but they never show themselves.

[peter w]

Never really thought that was too important to be honest Robbo. It comes across as a 'tart with a heart' kind of scenario. I would prefer to steer away from local businessmen/supporters as they may have more front than investment clout.

Bill Kenwright is a case in point, he was being criticised left right and centre at Everton until they struck Gold with Rooney. Whoever it is needs to be someone with a lot of spare change. They tend to be multi-millionaires/ billionaires.

If the Comers were the owners and it was Doug approaching them, he'd get as short a shrift as Ranson did and rightly so.

[JD]

Friday at last. I'm glad we are playing when we are this weekend, as I won't know the score until Monday morning, so I can enjoy my weekend for once.
The kids team I coach have their first grading game this weekend, so I will be concentrating on looking at combinations for them and not worrying about Villa. I have only trained them twice, so it's going to be interesting, but I bet it won't take me as long as DO'L to find their best positions and find a settled team.  :smt002

[dave.woodhall]

This thread needs some Flintoffian quick scoring.

[ROBBO]

This thread needs some Flintoffian quick scoring.

Yes a lofty six against the stripeys would be handy.

[JD]

I wonder if Mssrs Cairns & Son can help us out with the wonderful bat named Excalibur.

[ROBBO]

Oleary could get run out this weekend.

[peter w]

I would say thae he wouldn't make our defence look any worse. But he'll just be propping up the goalpost with his arms crossed.

[peter w]

This thread needs some Flintoffian quick scoring.

We'll have no backhanded snidy comments from you daylight dandies thank-you very much

[ROBBO]

G'day Pete, seems you and Chris will have to sought things out in the old way of settling disputes, either pistol or sword, the former is preffered by those with a good eye and a steady hand and you can get it over quickly. The latter suits those with an aggressive streak and a mean nature not for those that feint at the sight of bloody, can get very messy. Have you noticed the sudden surge of female posters, this is very worrying as I have perceived some of our more serious male posters becoming somewhat distracted you know what I mean sentences with double meanings and little sexual inuendos. Why is it that serious minded males
go ga ga when women are around. Even noticed Woodhall getting involved
along with his cohort Fletch. Fancy involving yourself with someone who puts their main interest as shopping. I really enjoy this time of day when you can literally say anything you want without fear of interuption or contradiction.

[JD]

Rightly so as well Robbo. Keep the Colonial sprit alive and all that.  :-

I can imagine Peter and Chris having a sword fight, like Monty Python's Holy Grail. Chris saying "come back you coward".  \/

[ROBBO]

Rightly so as well Robbo. Keep the Colonial sprit alive and all that.  :-

I can imagine Peter and Chris having a sword fight, like Monty Python's Holy Grail. Chris saying "come back you coward".  \:D/

I can imagine them meeting up at the pub and agreeing all night over a few beers. Oh the wonders and safety of the internet. JD i take it that you will go straight to the results on Monday morning and take the hit between the eyes i'm more of looking at H&V first to look at the comments to prepare myself.