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Loads of effort, but we need a bit of luck.

Agreed, but also Gabby could do with pushing up onto the last defenders shoulder a little more as he's a little deep for a frontman.

Final ball has been poor too, but much happier with how Eck has sent them out.

Ireland starting to pull the strings now!

One shot every two minutes played. 10 shots on target, 3 on target, the rest from Petrov! Keep it up lads, but I still have that awful feeling that Fulham just haven't woken up yet but will be so different in the second half!

Solid start and the Mexican commentary team is increasing my enjoyment 100 fold.

"AGBONLAAAAHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!"

Is it followed by "has not touched the ball..."?

It doesn't take a lot to get them excited it's **** fantastic

That scuffed attempt from Collins just brought a MASSIVE "Coooooooleeeeeeaaaaaannnnnsssss" out of them.

I know what you mean. I'm watching it on tv and have the choice of Arabic or English commentary. I swear they're watching different games!

Gabby needed to bury that, but really good start from us.

My concern is that Fulham haven't begun to start playing yet so we have to make these chances count.

Solid start and the Mexican commentary team is increasing my enjoyment 100 fold.

"AGBONLAAAAHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!"

Is it followed by "has not touched the ball..."?

Carlos is getting forward too today. In fact, all 10 outfield players in the Fulham half. Eck must be terrified!

Good play from Zoggy there. Him, Albrighton and Hutton look up for it today!

Decent start from us. Let's see how long we can keep attacking for....

Away kit based on away kits the 1960's

Home kit to go with it

That away kit is absolutely brilliant. Would buy both of these and the yellow one in a heartbeat. The badge design is perfect too imo.

You should send them to the club (for all the good it would do).

Macron announce new controversial home and away designs plus, due to pressure from the fans, a third Zebra kit

However, if neither Faulkner nor Lerner give a shit about the football standards at our football club, and solely want to run Aston Villa FC as a business then that's fine. I will just have to go back to watching Cheltenham Town every week instead of wasting any time/money watching our great club go nowhere.

The fact is that of course Aston Villa IS a business and should be run as such. just like Daniel Levy at Spurs manages to do so well. Randy's business skills are baffling however. I believe he's recently spunked a shit load on the Browns (that's a weird sentence if taken out of context....), but seems quite happy to alienate the paying fan base here at AVFC, thus ultimately hitting himself in the pocket. Missing out on places in the league costs us money too, so not sure what the 'Eck his game is!

If we were picking from the championship I'd probably take Darcus Howe off Burnley's hands.

Not the real kits but 2 more away ideas

That is an awesome kit and love the badge too. Really good work.

Gregory's Claret & Blue army

Interesting choice with Gregory. I'd have gone with Little or BFR I think.

Cheski fans chanting Jose Mourinho's name against the Boggies may have helped seal AVB's fate. Perhaps we could chant for a former manager against Fulham if it has the same effect. Now what was Dr. Moser Venglos' song again....

What's all this talk of Rafa?!

Bookies have him as favourite to be the next Villa manager, not that the bookies are ITK or anything.

I'm not gonna lie. I wouldn't mind rafa. I said that in the summer too.

*dont shoot me down. Still depressed McLeish is our manager*

If I woke up tomorrow and found Rafa had been installed as our new manager I would actually be delighted.

So happy, that I would probably do a little dance like Cameron Diaz did in her Spiderman pants in Charlies Angels, only for me to catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror, after which I would have to sit in the corner of the room thinking about what I had done for the rest of the day... :oops:

Very little of this would be due to FSW mind you, just the removal of le Ginge!

David moyes may as well pull up a chair and sit next to defoe and miguel

He is never going to be Aston Villa manager

Moyes is 3/1 to be the next Spurs manager - same as Rafa is to be ours. Wonder what made the bookies shorten their odds so much?

Not that it means anything but McLeish is now the favourite to be the next PL manager to go on SkyBet at 3/1. He was at about 20/1 over the weekend, although I'm aware this was partly because AVB was clearly the favourite at that time. That said, I have no idea why he jumped ahead of the likes of Coyle, Redknapp and Kean who were all ahead of him even yesterday.

Wow really, I thought it would have been Martinez to be the favorite to go next, losing to swansea at home..

FWIW, the bookies have Rafa as the favourite to be next permanent Villa manager at 3/1, and Eck is indeed favourite for next sacking. Unsurprisingly AVB isn't even featured!

I thought Roeder left when experiment GED was terminated

Still here and is chief scout I believe. Although a disastrous long term appointment, had a 45% win ratio at Newcastle and has previous in dragging Newcastle and Norwich away from the relegation zone. Must be better than Eck for the last 11 games?

We all know that following Fulham's win at a piss poor Wolves today, Eck would have shat himself and is frantically working out ways of getting a 0-0.

Gah!! I'm all up for giving the job to Roeder for the remainder of the season. Surely can't be any worse!

Ashley Young with a really good finish. Man United are doing a proper smash and grab here!

With Wolves getting tonked 4-0 at the moment, and making Fulham look like Real Madrid, I think AMc will be safe in his job until the end of the season by default. By this I mean that RL will probably think that the likes of Wolves, Wigan, Blackburn, QPR and Bolton are that bad that they won't overhaul an 8 point (plus massive GD) advantage to send us into the bottom three, so why risk a change.

Having said that, he better be drawing up a shortlist for the day the season finishes and none of this bollocks about not going for someone that's already in a job!

Whilst I don't want McLeish, surely the example of wolves at the moment will indicate he wont be sacked unti lat least the summer. No Decent manager will leave their position to come to us at this stage of the season.

Exactly. Eck is going nowhere until the season ends. The only saving is grace is that the teams below are pretty rubbish, I believe a few have got to play each other, thus making is pretty hard for 3 of them to overtake us.

That is THE only saving grace however, and RL needs to be making his shortlist now.

Lord knows what that would look like though... :shock:

With Wolves getting tonked 4-0 at the moment, and making Fulham look like Real Madrid, I think AMc will be safe in his job until the end of the season by default. By this I mean that RL will probably think that the likes of Wolves, Wigan, Blackburn, QPR and Bolton are that bad that they won't overhaul an 8 point (plus massive GD) advantage to send us into the bottom three, so why risk a change.

Having said that, he better be drawing up a shortlist for the day the season finishes and none of this bollocks about not going for someone that's already in a job!