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I must say I laughed when certain pundits said we could get consecutively relegated as our club was so badly run under Lerner, but Sunderland look to be heading that way under Short. The sale of the club was so important.

This really is a damn shame - can only hope they do not pick up any injuries, cards or general fatigue before our game

Clearly living on the good work of his predecessor. Now we’ve hit a bad patch it’s all gone to pieces. #GroundsmanOut

Call the ticket office and buy over the phone? It sounds like a website glitch.

If he wasn’t bleeding the club dry I would feel slightly sorry for Richards, and others like Rodwell. Almost constant injury has derailed both their once promising (yes really) careers to the point where they should really just retire. Presumably they only continue the constant nightmare of repetitive injury and recovery because they were handed long lucrative contracts. Be interested to see what they do when there contracts run out now that they can’t fool anybody that they are fit (literally) to play professional football.

Wonderful. We're going to sack 2 managers in one season for the second season running, aren't we?

Another brave away draw / loss beckons. Welling up with pride

Asked where he sees Villa in five years' time, Xia said: 'The top club in Europe with the highest number of fans all over the world.' When another fan quizzed him on what would constitute success this term, Xia said: 'Promotion is the first and only priority'. .... You can't really blame the fans for high expectations when the most optimistic rhetoric comes directly from the top down.

Full time was an absolute mercy.

What a f'in come down. I was so optimistic today after the signings this week. Have well and truly learnt my lessons about having expectations about Villa!

Lads, it's Norwich. 0-3 victory.

Time for Tish to step up with a big performance in place of Jedinak.

Poor Tish. What have they done to you!

I Havn't seen that brand of anti-football for many years since the heyday of Tony Pulis' Stoke. Whenever the ball was on the deck we drew a foul, blues lumped EVERYTHING long and eventually we gave up on trying to play it on the ground and started lumping it back, to zero benefit. In light of that, a point was a good result.

Could help reading this in Alan Partridge voice: "Scum, sub-human scum."

Even without audible booing I bet Westwood can feel this level of quite rage in his soul when he plays...

He's a class act. Ran tirelessly on Saturday and looked shattered on the final whistle! He looked quite comfortable either on the wing or up top, although I think we will get the most out of him as a proper striker. He's got that goal poacher touch, like Jamie Vardy.

He was solid defensively. I actually though he could be bombing forward taking players on more, as that how I seem to remember his old performances, but we cant be sure what instructions he was given by Brucey. You could see the confidence coming back to him throughout the game, I think we will see some very good performances from him soon if he is given a run.

Both are beneath the mighty Aston Villa and Guardiola should be crawling over broken glass to manage here etc. etc.

I think it could well be Bruce but glad the club is not stroking his ego by holding no other interviews and not looking at other candidates to find the best man. I feel like under the old regime Bruce would have been practically begged to join by now just based on a glance of the available managers, but we seem to have a bit more sense at least now to not rush anything without a proper process. The same was not true of RDM's recruitment to be fair - Dr Tony seems to think the same as he has tweeted that appointment wasrushed, I just hope they have learnt their lessons and really scrutinise the field this time despite the clamoring of the fans for an immediate appointment.

This is a must win for ___________.

Honestly, we would be lucky to get Steve Bruce. Aston Villa is the closest thing to career suicide going at the moment and has been for a long time . It wouldn't surprise me if Bruce bides his time for another prem league job - he interviewed for England 3 months ago and probably fancies that as his level...he's probably right. Sunderland, Stoke or West Ham will be available soon.

As bad as we've been, it makes a change to finish a game well at least.

Elphick is a poor defender. Jedinak is a poor midfielder. Shame these players were supposed to be the new spine of our team. I can understand why Ayew doesn't bother passing to anyone now.

Let's look at the example of Leceister. Before promotion in 2014 they were average 22,000 at home. After promotion and before the title win the average attendance was already an extra 10,000 fans and a sell out; almost 50% increase. In the title winning season they of course continued to sell out the ground at 32,000. Does anyone doubt that they could happily sell out 40,000 or more now if they had the means? Many of them foreign I'd bet. Success will bring the fans.