bradarmstrong_

Probably one of the worst set of strikers we've had for a long time. The whole squad actually just looks really poor to me.

Rotherham at home, zzz

Noses ahead again now. Would love to get them in the next round.

Please stop the team sheets already.

Why did Van der Vaart leave? Thought he was class for Spurs.

Just seen somebody with a blues tattoo on twitter. It includes the club logo, a bulldog, the sty itself and the carling cup. Wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzrxxaNHlg

My bluenose Uncle told me last weekend that he's content with just surviving in the championship now

They weren't a top 4 team with Bale. No chance they will be without him.

This is what we like to see! Midfielders getting on the scoresheet.

Why would he get booed? He signed a new contract..

There's probably a video of them online somewhere.

More likely to be 120-150k per week. He moved for big money and was a regular in the England team wouldn't be on 80k I would be surprised if Young is on more than £80-90k a week, I think people do tend to exaggerate how much players earn because of the absurdly ridiculous amounts the very top players get. Most top team will only pay £100k+ if they are confident they will be a guaranteed starter and going to be an integral part of the team. I would imagine the top teams in England (bar City and Chelsea) only have two or three players on £100k+. I mean look at Arsenal who almost lost Walcott, one of there most important and best players, on a free transfer as they weren't willing to cough £100k per week. At Villa I'd imagine Young was on somewhere between £50-60k, was offered ~£70k to stay and offered ~£80-90k at Utd. I just remember it going round in the press at the time of the move that he was getting a figure in the 100k+ region. He won't be coming back here anyway, if all the bomb squad leave who will be our highest earner?

I'd get 15 Westwood. Same number worn by Barry before he got number 6 and Gabby wore it for a brief period as well if I remember correctly? Like the thought of Westwood having a few years wearing 15 then moving to number 6 and captaining us.

More likely to be 120-150k per week. He moved for big money and was a regular in the England team wouldn't be on 80k

Is it strange that I actually feel quite sorry for him? We all loved him a few years ago then new managers come in and he's just cast aside. Cruel game sometimes besides the money I guess!

Pretty obvious we still need another CB then. Clark didn't deserve a new deal after his performances last season.

Karl Henry joining QPR..

Traditionally there is a North-South divide with Villa in North Birmingham and Blues in South Birmingham. But because we are the bigger club, we have a lot of fans in South Brum but they don't have many fans in North Brum. Well on FIFA we have 82,989 fans and they have 22,706 fans so maybe 3 times bigger? Another example, Blues have 41,000 facebook likes and we have 1,300,000

5 points off 9th this season. Top half should be manageable if we can get a few more players in before the window shuts in. Mind you would take 15th again if it meant a bit of silverware!

I went to school in Droitwich about 20 miles south of Birmingham. I'd say of the kids who liked football over 80% were villa fans. I remember when we had football training pretty much all of us were wearing villa shirts. As to having friends who support other teams I think it's fun to have blues fans as friends, nice to remind them whose on top! Especially when we go through rough patches and they cannot stop giving out the stick and guarantee last season we were finally going down then come May you hear absolutely nothing from them.

Robbie Keane.

Apparently toon are in talks and he's keen on a move.