Raymond

Hold on. People pontificating on a football forum might not know the whole story? You go too far sir.

@RMSummerlin

Just a quick observation. You could stop replying........

I enjoyed AC3 well enough. It certainly was not AC2, but that was one of the best games I have ever played. It is like comparing New Vegas to Fallout 3. I will say if I had bought the game instead of getting it through gamefly, I might have been a bit more disappointed. Now I am starting Halo 4 and Dishonored. God bless gamefly. For football games, I have always like the NCAA series better than Madden. It has faster gameplay and is more like real football IMO.

Oh. You mean like he has been doing and shows signs of continuing to do ever since the Lambert appointment? And if he has a chance now to do the "right things", and I would argue ha show signs of taking the approach you have outlined, then why don't you lay off it for a month or so until we see what January brings?

If you extrapolate our start last year we finished with 52 points in 8th place. Remind me again how that worked out?

We need a new midfield. Simple as that. I have been saying for two years as everyone else bangs on about our defense and our strikers not being good enough that the reason they appear not good enough is we have a piss poor midfield. A midfield that can hold the ball and break up play suddenly takes pressure off the defense. If the defense is not constantly under pressure, suddenly those "Sunday league" mistakes disappear. A midfield that can get forward, play through defenders, and make incisive passes suddenly makes goalscorers more potent. If goalscorers know they are going to get more than 1-2 real chances a game, suddenly they relax and stop missing fairly easy opportunities. My real problem with Lambert's spending was he did not address the midfield. KEA looks like a Makounesque signing - not going to slight Lambert for this. Everyone gets them wrong from time to time - and Westwood was a signing for the future we have been forced to play now, even though he has played well. I think we need 4 signings in January with at least 3 of them in the middle of the park. I hope Lambert does too.

Don't understand why you bother. George Carlin said it best. Think of how stupid the average guy you know is then realize half the world is even dumber than that. If you spend your life trying to reason with unreasonable people you will give yourself an aneurism. As for City. We were losing that game for sure, but it was not a 5-0 thumping. We are young and do not contain our emotions well when faced with adversity. That will improve. Our squad will also improve in January. We will be comfortably 10-14 by the time May rolls around. Let the moaners have their doom party. They probably will not have many more chances to throw one the rest of the year.

Time to go get some Christmas shopping in because clearly the fix is in.

It was certainly coming.

This is looking like nothing but a loss so far, but at least they haven't scored.

Two stunning saves from Hart so far. We certainly look like scoring.

This time last year we were on pace for 51 points. Remind me how that worked out again? The difference between this year and last is we looked completely shit getting 15 points through 11 games last year and we have looked decent and really good at times getting 9 points from 11. If we continue to look decent to pretty good on a week to week basis, the points will come.

Jesus.

I think it was a hack job, but it does raise an interesting discussion. It occurrs to me that a lot of sports fans get attached to the players playing for the club sometimes even more than they are attached to the club itself. I have never understood that. I view my sports teams as companies I have invested in. In a regular company, I invest money in the hopes the employees of that company can increase the value of my shares, but I do not give two shits about the employees themselves. I treat villa the same way. I have invested emotional value into this sports team, and I am hoping I am payed back plus interest. The employees of the club are simply cogs in the machine. You lose one cog, you replace it with another and hopefully make a bit of profit off the transaction so you can improve the machine somewhere else. I would not care if they had no names on their jerseys and wore masks. They are not important. The club is, and the club will be here is Big Benteke is here or not.