rodders1986

Reaping the rewards of not playing alongside the likes of Herd and Warnock.

Him and Ahmadi bring the best out of each other. Proper footballers!

We have finally got an absolute bargain after years of duff.

Build the team around this guy and Ireland.

Must have watched a different game.

All I saw was a guy running round like a mad man, chasing down his first touch, giving away constant free-kicks, standing off Ben Arfa for the goal and giving away another stupid foul in the minute that Guzan made a top, top save from.

I admire his work rate but come on, that wasn't a good performance,

He can **** off.

I've not seen anything from Gardner to suggest he will be anywhere near as good as his brother, let alone our Steven Gerrard. Shame as with all the hype about him I was pretty hopefull but he wont be the last youngster to come through our ranks and not live up to the hype.

He just about sums up our entire youth products, OVERRATED!

If Lerner honestly thinks these young players our Villa's future then god help us. All we've heard for years now is how great our youth system is, well where's the evidence? None of them other than Gabby and Gary Cahill have amounted to anything of note. A team packed with our youth team graduates are easy pickings for the opposing team, and that's one of the main reasons why we've been so weak these last couple of years.

Our club is going nowhere.

What complete drivel

If it was so easy to create top class players then everybody would be doing it. Look at the amount of players we have brought through since 2000 and contrast that with other clubs in the premier league. Just next door, how many players have Birmingham brought through?

Then you have the likes of Chelsea, UTD and Liverpool, how many world class players have they produced, Becks, Scholes, Giggs,Terry, Owen and Gerrard?

Off the top of my head our academy has produced :

Cahill - made us £5m and is an international

Luke Moore- made us £3.5m and is a PL player.

Ridgewell - made us £2m and is a PL player

Steven Davis - made us £4m and is a PL player and international.

Gardner - made us £3m and is a PL player

Whittingham - £500k, best player in the Championship.

Hitzlsperger, made him a German international bundesliga winner.

Then we have Gabby,Bannan, Albrighton, Clark, Herd, Weimann all contributing members of the squad and not to mention the countles numbers of professionals we have produced playing league football.

Do you realise how difficult that is?