The Official Aston Villa FC thread

[m3sye]

Box 2 box midfielder ?
How highly would you rate him against other CM's in the prem?

[Bluebarge]

m3sye said:

Chaps
We (lfc) are being linked with Delph a lot

What's general sensous in him from people who watch him week in week out?

Gets injured a lot. Has been good this season but never really lived up to his potential before then. 95 games, 3 goals and 2 assists are not stats to get too excited about. Wouldn't be too gutted if he left at the end of the season. Don't think Villa will off-load him now - we need to stay up rather than needing immediate cash.

[m3sye]

Bluebarge said:

Gets injured a lot. Has been good this season but never really lived up to his potential before then. 95 games, 3 goals and 2 assists are not stats to get too excited about. Wouldn't be too gutted if he left at the end of the season. Don't think Villa will off-load him now - we need to stay up rather than needing immediate cash.

My worry with us looking at him -
Those stats for someone his age and role are nowhere near good enough

[m3sye]

Expected result chaps? anyone on form we should be wary of?

[Lurking Lawyer]

m3sye said:

Expected result chaps? anyone on form we should be wary of?

I'm not expecting anything out of this fixture.

Given that we do tend to play better against the better clubs though, on the counter-attack rather than having to make the running ourselves, one never knows....

[Black can man]

Sorry chaps but this popped up on my Twitter thing.

[Spanna]

Black can man said:

Sorry chaps but this popped up on my Twitter thing.

No good showing it to Richardson!

[The jiffle king]

I omly see Villa on MOTD said don't have much view, but I wondered why you're not scoring? Lack of quality up front? No possession?

I recall the Villa who were top 8 every season and you seem a pale shadow of that team. Sad to see after the start to got.

[Bluebarge]

The jiffle king said:

I omly see Villa on MOTD said don't have much view, but I wondered why you're not scoring? Lack of quality up front? No possession?

I recall the Villa who were top 8 every season and you seem a pale shadow of that team. Sad to see after the start to got.

Consistently poor business decisions during the O'Neill era led to a rocketing wage bill (90% of revenue), players being bought at inflated valuations, not played, then being shipped out for a big loss. The owner, having spent like a kid in a sweetshop, then pulled the plug (which is why O'Neill left) and has been steadily stripping cash from the club ever since. Villa now have a squad built on a shoestring, with limited quality in key positions. Benteke is decent but not long back from injury and not firing; his planned strike partner, Kozak, has been out for over a year with a broken leg and is unlikely to feature soon; another signing, Helenius, hardly featured after suffering a serious illness and has been shipped back to Denmark; Weimann is not good enough, Agbonlahor is lazy and only scores when he can be bothered and the ball is played in front of him; Delph hardly ever scores and needs to work a lot harder; NZogbia is on and off the boil and often runs down blind alleys.

On the plus side, the defence has got a lot stronger and Carles Gil looks like a decent signing and may provide the creative spark needed to get the goals going again.

But the basic problem is no money and an owner who has lost interest and can't find a buyer.

[BRMMA]

Pretty depressing time to be a Villa fan, though with how the club has gone over the last few years it was inevitable, should be even worse next season once the few good players we've got have left only to be replaced by some average championship 'prospects'

[NoNeed]

I'm starting to get worried and after defending Lambert for so long I feel a but stupid now, shirley he has to go.

[Zero7]

Going down without a fight, 2 wins in 22 matches, shocking stat.

[Challo]

Watched them recently on the tv and the midfield 3 just seem to be going through the motions. Plenty of passes for passing sake, not forward balls. Cleverly, Sanchez look very very average.

[NoNeed]

In All the matches I have watched this year we have lacked passion, it seems like nobody is bothered, nobody cares. We need somebody who can give the team a lift someone prepared to roll their sleeves up and say come on lads lets have a go. We desperately need somebody who loves the club to wear the shirt, like Ian Taylor did.

[jbswagger]

BBC 5 live saying Lambert has gone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31431649

Edited by jbswagger on Wednesday 11th February 20:40

[Fittster]

Any decent manager should be able to keep this group of players up.

[Kiltie]

On MotD this evening, they showed a clip of a fantastic individual goal.

The AV player took the ball all the way from his own half.

Does anyone know the details of the goal?

I wanted to see if I could find it on YT for a friend.

Thanks.

[Goughie]

Kiltie said:

On MotD this evening, they showed a clip of a fantastic individual goal.

The AV player took the ball all the way from his own half.

Does anyone know the details of the goal?

I wanted to see if I could find it on YT for a friend.

Thanks.

Dalian Atkinson v Wimbledon. 92/93.

[Rosscow]

Crikey, you know your team is having a bad season when we're in the middle of February and 30 odd posts covers the season so far.

Chin up boys, you can only get better now that Scottish tt has gone!

Just don't appoint Tim Sherwood.....

[BRMMA]

Glad Lambert has gone, can't understand why so many fans want Sherwood in, i don't know what he has done to deserve his standing