Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[Tony Erdington]

Credit where it is due, they've started to show they're getting their marketing mojo back, this is a pretty good campain. I think it also looks pretty cool graphically. Yes, yes, shame about the kits etc etc, but at the very base level, these ads will be annoying every single nose who sees them.

Like it, I think the new kit is at it.

and agreed it does show we are showing we are Premiership.

[adrenachrome]

That's disappointing - on first look I thought the slogan was "SHUT up Birmingham"

Same here. Am I being incredibly stupid in not getting the 'Suit Up Birmingham' slogan? What does it mean?

[Phil from the upper holte]

Is it time to bring this thread back? I think so I've not been this worried since last season

[JD]

Nice to see the comfort blanket is back. After we conceded the first goal tonight I thought that's game over. I'm worried that we will never score another goal.

[Deano's Mullet]

Nice to see the comfort blanket is back. After we conceded the first goal tonight I thought that's game over. I'm worried that we will never score another goal.

Lambert isn't. Theres goals in this side apparently.

[Malandro]

I feel like burning my 'proud history bright future' scarf. Or did Randy mean bright future when he fucks off?

[Legion]

Worried is a bit of an understatement at the moment.

[levico]

When Lerner extended Lambert's contract I knew we were doomed for the drop but didn't know it was going to be this season.

Now all is revealed.

I'm beyond worried.

[Malandro]

Its psychological torture. The things that have happened since O'Neill left have been incredible. Complete madness and I must admit it bloody gets to me.

Bugger off Lerner.

[aj2k77]

Monday I didn't keep track of the game, just checked the match report afterwards to be honest, expected a loss to 0 and that's what we got. I don't think we are particulary inconsistent either, what is it? Worst home league record in Europe over the last 3 years, least points picked up over the last 3 years combined etc. We are consistently shit and the Chairman rewards his clueless lieutenant with a bumper 4 year pay day.

It doesn't even beggar belief anymore, I expect us to play badly and I expect us to make appalling decisions top to bottom.

[saunders_heroes]

The most frustrating thing about all this is that no matter how much we moan and protest there's a feeling like nobody's taking any notice of us. We have a chairman who is thousands of miles away out of sight and mind to the fans of the club, and a CEO who talks like a politician and never answers any direct questions from fans. Years back we at least got the impression there were people at the club who actually listened to the fans concerns and took them on board to some extent. Now it's like we're just banging our heads on a brick wall. Perhaps that's why there's been so much apathy from the fans over the last few years. We've put up with so much shit when in years past we'd be protesting till we were blue in the face.
We need to start voicing our concerns at Villa Park and not just sit there and accept the shit Lerner throws at us.

[Drummond]

I'm not worried. There are far more important things to worry about.

I am pissed off though, if only because football is slowly but surely eating itself and I don't love it any more. Except when I drag my 43 year old body out to play 5-a-side on a Monday night and relive those magical moments from my youth when I didn't have the turning circle of an aircraft carrier. Though I do worry I may have a heart attack.

[dave.woodhall]

The most frustrating thing about all this is that no matter how much we moan and protest there's a feeling like nobody's taking any notice of us. We have a chairman who is thousands of miles away out of sight and mind to the fans of the club, and a CEO who talks like a politician and never answers any direct questions from fans. Years back we at least got the impression there were people at the club who actually listened to the fans concerns and took them on board to some extent. Now it's like we're just banging our heads on a brick wall. Perhaps that's why there's been so much apathy from the fans over the last few years. We've put up with so much shit when in years past we'd be protesting till we were blue in the face.
We need to start voicing our concerns at Villa Park and not just sit there and accept the shit Lerner throws at us.

That's modern football. The finance and increasingly the personnel are from abroad so the mood of the supporters is irrelevant. Take Manchester United - their protest numbers and resources are unmatched anywhere but it's not done them a scrap of good.

[peter w]

But where are the protests? Its been quiet around the ground and we've never put Lambert or Lerner under pressure from the terraces. If we turned then ante up then there would have to be a reaction. the press would be all over it and we're only newsworthy at the moment for negative reasons so a good crowd/manager spat is just what Sky would love. I think Lerner would listen. I genuinely don't think he realises the genuine groundswell of opinion growing against Lambert. We haven't got started yet, nowhere near it, but when the boos get started at home then I think it will break teh apathy that has set in. I think Lambert has until we go 1 down against tottenham.

[Legion]

A song for Sunday:

Our football is shite,
Our football is shite,
We're Aston Villa,
Our football is shite.