McGregor1888

"Turning on the team." The very expression sickens me. If any of our overly-sensitive brethren intend to turn up at Villa Park on Saturday with the mindset of turning on the team as soon as the slightest thing goes wrong I would urge them - for the sake of Villa - to do the decent thing and not turn up. We need 110% backing from the first minute to the last. The likes of Baker and Bennett need to know that they won't be jeered should they make the slightest mistake. Get behind them and make them feel like the best players in the world. It's one thing pecking away with negativity on internet forums, sapping the positivity out of people who want their team and manager to succeed. Bringing that mindset to Villa Park in order to deflate fellow fans and team alike is another thing entirely. Moaners, whingers and bottlers stay at home - leave the mighty Villa to the rest of us.

This just reads as the bitter whining of someone desperate to find a scapegoat.

Anything to have a pop huh? i took the video and was filming it at arms length with one hand at that point when whilst watching the reaction but not through the video cam at that time!! it might have been a little shaky but so what?? it demonstrates he has lost the fans. You are first person to have a go at the video!! appreciate the fact that i recorded and was able share this on here with everyone who didn't go the match like yourself!!! If people like Matt Kendrick thought like you do about all but 10secs of at Stadium Roof then it will been classed as garbage and not made Evening Mail's top story on Sports Section right now. How does posting up a bunch of pissed up teenagers singing "You don't know what you're doing!" to the self same man they serenaded less than two years ago help the Villa cause? They're not the brightest lot are they?

Our game against them will be massive No excuses if we can't pick up a result. Swansea are in just as much free fall as us. Thankfully we're away from home so the "leave ten minute early" brigade won't be sapping the life out of Villa Park with their odd way of supporting the team.

Things wrong with our club? The sizable minority of fans who crack under the slightest bit of pressure. The sizable minority of fans who turn on our own players when the going gets tough. The sizable minority of fans who make Villa Park a daunting place for their own team to play in. The sizable minority of fans who love to talk our club down. We're three points off eleventh spot, have five games left to play yet we have supporters among us actively want to throw in the towel. Do us all a favour and just don't bother turning up to Villa Park until next season you're sucking the life out of the players, your fellow supporters and ultimately our great club. Grow a backbone the lot of you or get season tickets elsewhere. The biggest obstacle to us getting a win v Southampton won't be the ability of the players or the selection our manager picks on the day, it will be the atmosphere in the stadium and the mood of the fans. If Tonev plays, get behind him. If Gabby plays, get behind him. If Holt plays, get behind him. It's not rocket science. Lift the players out of this and support them. Watch the Liverpool fans today, take a note out of Crystal Palace's support yesterday - positive backing helps. If you don't think you can do it or if your heart isn't in it simply stay away from Villa Park until next season. The time to talk about the Chairman, the manager and so on is after the final whistle of the final game - until then get behind ASTON VILLA and help us to get as many points as we possibly can.

The answer is simple: for our next home match everyone get behind the lads and create a positive atmosphere like the Palace fans did for their team today. There's too many folk around here that want to talk Villa into relegation. Lift the players and the club instead of sucking the life out of all of us all.

Haven't they won their last nine games. Yes - I just feel they look they are running out of steam.....very lucky v west ham last week... If Villa were facing Liverpool you'd be saying the exact opposite about Liverpool!

One thing that I've learned over the past few years is that it is impossible to predict Villa results yet year in year out we get the same tedious doom and gloom predictions. My favourite example of this happened at the tail end of the Houllier season when the collective soothsayers of this forum predicted, with know-all certainty, zero points from Villa's final two games v Liverpool and Arsenal...*sigh*...

Some people will find all this incredibly hard to understand.

Would you have had Graham Taylor sacked in 1988-89? Yep, I think you would have. Put down the pitchfork and give the manager a chance to build something.

This is absolute rubbish and quite frankly sums up your whole opinion. Points show how we've done over 38 games. The league table shows how we've done compared to everyone else. More teams doing worse than us this season is not an indication that we've progressed. It's nothing to do with us how poor other teams are. Absolute nonsense. Apparently spurs are currently 3 points off their best season in the prem at this stage. However they were 4th at that stage, now they're 7th. Do you think they were happier then or now? Don't go confusing the poor lad like that, his head will explode.

Lambert's the man for the job and, in three years time when he is being linked to moves away from the club, the self same people who want him out now will be pleading for him to stay and labelling him "traitor" should he go. Such is the warped mentality of the football supporter.

Saunders, Taylor, Atkinson, Little and Gregory all had to face our booing home support at one point or another too. Thank heavens the internet wasn't around back in the mid-seventies when Villa had a right old struggle in our first season back in the top flight. Thank heavens the internet wasn't around when we lost 0-2 at home to Blues in SGT's first game in charge. Thanks heavens the internet wasn't around towards the end of Big Ron's reign or Little's reign...it's no different now to then.

Get behind the team and see where we are once the final whistle of the final match has been blown - the time to analyse where we are as a club is the close season. The "stature"of our club dictates we should be spending as much money as any other big club competing for trophies. I think you mean the "stature" of our owner? (Who has less money behind him than the owner of, say, Leicester City.)

Well the bloke always seems to be heading for the exit door to various clubs anyway he will probably come back bag a brace then hand in a transfer request in the following window I've seen/heard no hints about him heading for the exit door this season. Even his agent seems to have kept very quiet since last summer.

Epic fail. This news must have ruined your little moment pal.

A great opportunity for young Callum Robinson and zero chance of Christian being sold.

Any other insights into what Lambert accepts?

Even though we may still be 12th? Is this a serious question? Our league placing to me is far more determined by the weakness of other teams rather than a mistaken sign of progress. Lambert is making Brendan Rodgers look like a genius in comparison to the rebuild each have undertaken. Yes Liverpool were at a better starting point and have had better resources than our selves. But Liverpool have had the tougher nut to crack to try and regain top 4 status. Personally I think they look most likely to win the league now too. What an achievement that would be by Rodgers. Meanwhile we plod along and should but great full for the handful of games our team turns up to. What makes it ever more infuriating is the inability to beat teams on 'our' level. We know the players have the talent because when expectation is low and we are well and truly underdogs we excel against the top sides. This is solely in the hands of Lambert to improve results now. Yes, what an achievement that would be for Rodgers. He inherited a squad containing the likes of Suarez and was able to offer him 200k a week to stay at Liverpool. Comparing the job Rodgers has done to Lambert is like comparing apples with oranges. You think cracking top four with a team containing the likes of Suarez and Gerrard is harder than what Lambert has had to do?! Lambert has had to rebuild the squad of club that was sinking fast with some pretty astute buys on a very tight budget. Rodgers would have sunk without trace under such constraints. Do you honestly believe that Lambert is a better manager than Rodgers? Rodgers showed at Swansea that on a limited budget he is at least as good as Lambert was at Norwich. However I really do believe that there are very few managers who could do what Rodgers has done with Liverpool. Rodgers is hot property and is being linked with the likes of Barca. I've not seen Lambert linked with anyone. Lambert is at best a plodder and until he can get his teams playing consistently then for me the jury's out. For us to progress towards the top 8 we may have to bring in an improvement on Lambert. It's impossible to compare them on what has happened at Villa and Liverpool as they have been operating with totally different levels of resources and remits. All I know is that Lambert regularly beat Rodgers' Swansea with his Norwich side, often tactically outsmarting him too. There is an argument that all the groundwork at Swansea was well in place prior to Rodgers' arrival, too. Rodgers seems to have done a very good job, so far, but as others are pointing out, it's a very weak Premier League this season and Liverpool are simply profiting from the turmoil and transition at a number of other clubs. I believe we will grow and develop under Lambert.

You make a fair point. This is a the summer where, for me, Lerner and PF, have to show their real ambition for the club.

Even though we may still be 12th? Is this a serious question? Our league placing to me is far more determined by the weakness of other teams rather than a mistaken sign of progress. Lambert is making Brendan Rodgers look like a genius in comparison to the rebuild each have undertaken. Yes Liverpool were at a better starting point and have had better resources than our selves. But Liverpool have had the tougher nut to crack to try and regain top 4 status. Personally I think they look most likely to win the league now too. What an achievement that would be by Rodgers. Meanwhile we plod along and should but great full for the handful of games our team turns up to. What makes it ever more infuriating is the inability to beat teams on 'our' level. We know the players have the talent because when expectation is low and we are well and truly underdogs we excel against the top sides. This is solely in the hands of Lambert to improve results now. Yes, what an achievement that would be for Rodgers. He inherited a squad containing the likes of Suarez and was able to offer him 200k a week to stay at Liverpool. Comparing the job Rodgers has done to Lambert is like comparing apples with oranges. You think cracking top four with a team containing the likes of Suarez and Gerrard is harder than what Lambert has had to do?! Lambert has had to rebuild the squad of club that was sinking fast with some pretty astute buys on a very tight budget. Rodgers would have sunk without trace under such constraints.

We'll not be struggling to get £20 million for him because he isn't being sold. I reckon Lambert is more likely to be looking for another striker to play alongside him.

But it's about progression and building blocks isn't it? I personally believe if we can make 2 or 3 quality additions in the summer our first 11 will be pretty competitive. The year after we purchase 2 or 3 quality players and then our squad is competitive. Same again the year after. As our squad gets better, the football gets better and we start moving up the table. If being the operative word there. Go back a year and you will find strikingly similar posts. Yeah exactly. Those posts would have been along the lines of Avoid relegation this year Finish midtable next season Push on after that. Isn't that what we've done? Escaped relegation last year Looking to finish mid-table this season Or am I missing something? You are spot on.

I think it's because he isn't very bright. Personal attack because..? I don't think he's very bright. Your evidence for such a ridiculous view?

Thank you i would like not to be mocking this club, but after watching so many of Tonev's shots leave British airspace at a record rate time's are becoming hard. I had a thought that if you live in the vicinity of Bodymor Heath then if you were too see those footballs flying through the air you might be worried about your greenhouse windows. Check out how Liverpool's supporters back their team over the next few games ...you'll be amazed at how positivity and encouragement helps sportspeople to perform.