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No one is loyal in football when other clubs tap them up..

You've only just paid the compo for your current shite manager... Hughton > Lambert

Going after the Hoot that is! He actually seems loyal though...

Don't even think about it...

Hey guys... Not gloating or anything but I vividly remember being at Carrow Road when you guys were chanting "one Paul Lambert"... Reap what you sow and all that... Also... leave Hughton alone!

When he first started his tactics were 'get Wes on the ball, feed it into Holty or Chris Martin and they'd do the rest'. If i recall Holty scored 30 odd goals in league 1 and as much as I **** love Grant Holt, Wes made lots of chances for him. I really rate Wes, can you sense that? Haha.

Stupid iphone... now where was i? When PL first came here he had time as lets face it we couldnt really go much lower. I'm not convinced Villa will give him time. I also dont think our success was fully down to him. Momentum, fan and board backing for the team and starting in a shit league were all contributing factors. League 1 meant he, IC and GK could afford to experiment with the team. If PL had stayed here we would have backed him even if we'd gone down this year. Not so sure Villa will but that's the risk one takes when moving to a different club.

When PL first took over at Norwich he rotated a lot. Wes was in and out of the team. Our first choice keeper kept changing (until Fraser Forster came in from Newcastle on loan) and our system kept changing until we found Wes's righ position. Thing is though, when he started here he had

If you don't mind I will put my POV across about Villa yesterday and how Lambert set up. Someone (on this thread or another) said that Villa were set up like the away team and I completely agree. When PL was still manager here, we set up to attack certain teams but yesterday it was as if Villa were showing lots of respect to Norwich by sitting back. A few of my Norwich mates feared Lambert would know City's strengths and weaknesses but IMO the opposite happened. He set Villa up to combat our strengths and it didnt work. Our wingers were made to look poor (admittedly when we got on the ball out wide the service was woeful as well) but IMO too much attention was put on them and not Wessi. Lambert needs to get back to playing to Villa's strengths as opposed to trying to deal with the opposition. Attack is the best form of defence as they say.

Media overhyping football matches to gain viewers?! When does that ever happen?

I was really proud that basically all of my fellow away fans clapped Stan in the 19th minute

Yeah I heard the Jimmy S chants. Didnt understand it either? There were gaps near me- I was block GG and right at the front. Are all of your stewards grumpy bastards btw? My mate celebrated our goal like a complete nutter and got told to "quiet down or risk getting thrown out". It was an important goal lol...

Reading, Southampton and Norwich/QPR for me.

I'm glad we didnt give stick to Lambert tbh. I much prefered singing Chris Hughton's green army QPR, Southampton and Reading to finish bottom 3 for me.

Thought a point was the minimum Norwich deserved as even before the sending off we had been making chances and apart from one **** up at the back we looked solid. Villa in my opinion, were solid all over the pitch but as I mentioned last night Little Wes was the one who Norwich looked to for creativity and goal scoring chances. Going down the flanks didnt really work for us today so it was no wonder that we looked at our best when Wessi was on the ball. Vlaar kept Holty quiet and for me he and Guzan were your men of the match today. Great performances from them, oh and Benteke of course. Think both teams will be fine this year. Just need to start scoring goals.

Can't honestly say what team we're going to put out. If it were up to me I'd keep the same team as v Arsenal. It's not quite a 4-4-2 more of a 4411 with Wes playing in the hole behind Holty. It'll be a good game. The media have tried their best to build it up. Bloody 12:45 kick off time :@

Our fan base is really divided about the reaction we're going to give him. Personally I'm of the opinion that he's just another manager now so we should focus on backing the Hoot. No doubt if we do take the lead, our fans will chant "Judas what's the score?" which I'm sure he'll expect. The diamond is a bit of a weird one. It didn't really work for him when he first joined us. Wes Hoolahan was the reason that it worked so well here. Not sure what your knowledge is of him but basically he's a central attacking midfielder who plays best when he's just behind Holty. In his early days PL didnt play Wes much and when he did played him as a wide left winger which just didnt work at all. If Villa have got a player who is good at playing in the CAM role then PL will do alright. If you havent then I can see him struggling. The other thing about PL is that he always kindof struck me as the sort of manager good at building lower league clubs (where we were at the time he took over) but I'm not so sure about his ability to rebuild bigger clubs/teams especially premiership sides. It's only been 8 games so the fact that some Villa fans (the ones that I'm mates with personally and the ones I follow on twitter) have talked about getting rid already is just a sad indication of the way that modern football is heading. Some Norwich fans wanted Hoot out after 5 games which is also ridiculous. At least it happens at every club.

I'm not sure CI. It's a predictable response but it really does depend on which Villa side turns up as well as which Norwich side turns up. If we play anything like we played last week against Arsenal then I really fancy us. I've been to every game this season and apart from Fulham and Liverpool we've done really well- despite having the 1 victory. If we play like we did against the Gunners then I'd say draw/slight Norwich win. Nothing against Villa, it's just that we were so good last week that I'm full of confidence. How has PL got you playing? Still giving the old diamond formation a go?

Evening folks. Norwich fan here. Can ya tell? Haha. I'm coming to Villa Park for the game tomorrow. Really looking forward to it. It's a must win game for both sides in my opinion but maybe just a tad more so for you guys? You're the home team and with the fixtures you've got coming up (ouch!) 3 points is vital I'd say. I went to the Villa Norwich game last year and I really enjoyed the ground. Lovely old ground full of history. Hopefully Holty keeps the Holte end quiet tomorrow. See what I did there?! Good luck for the rest of the season (after tomorrow!) and when we play you at Carrow Road.