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The problem with that is, Villa fans will holding up similar banners.

Really pissed off. I almost put Deeny in my fantasy team.

Phew, normal service is resumed.

This, with lots of gallows humour thrown in. 'Let's pretend we scored a goal' and songs along that line. Makes for a party atmosphere while still making it clear that the players aren't good enough.

I hope he plays against Newcastle. The fans should get a chance to show their 'appreciation' of his efforts this season.

I thought he retired?

I think this post is about where I'm at. Basically I'd be quite happy to move Westwood on, but there are 15 to 20 players I'd be focused on moving before I got to him.

I'm just wondering what our legal options could be here. I'd love to see us sack Okore, then sue him for the potential transfer fee we could have received. Or maybe we can sack him, but still refuse to transfer his registration until someone pays a transfer fee? Sadly, with the way Villa is run these days our legal advice probably comes from a company with an 0800 number who advertise their no win no fee service on day time ITV.

If we've got largely the same players next year as we have this season, our players deserve a manager along the lines of Kim Jong-Il.

Can anyone think of another job, where you can flat out tell your manager you don't want to work anymore, and not only not be sacked, but continue to be paid? The attitude of our players is just mind boggling. If I go to a game this season, I will be booing until I'm horse. I've never liked booing players, but some of this lost are nothing but oxygen thieves.

Even during the Yorke and Dublin eras we never seriously challenged for the league, but no denying it was nice to be top for a while and dream. There were also some good times under Lerner for the first years, I've got fond memories from both eras, but all ultimately ruined by how they finished. I think there are a lot of modified memories of what it was like under Ellis at the end. I'm convinced that had he stayed longer, we'd have been down years ago. But this is like arguing over whether it's worse to be strung up by your right or your left testicle. I don't care who was worse anymore, I care who comes next and what the future holds. We will be back. I just hope it's this decade.

That's just a matter of time and perspective though, surely? Can just add easily say that in 10 years well look back on Lerner's time and think of Carew, Benteke, Milner, Downing and Young. We deserve better than both, agree with you on that point.

Could still play a couple more games then.

Yeah, we were glowing with pride when we lost 3 0 at Doncaster, got thrashed by SHA twice in a season. Those were the days.

Ultimately I think it'll depend on how many we can get rid off. If players are in contract, and no one comes in for them or they decide they don't want to move, there isn't much we can do. If we can get rid of 20 players, we can bring in 20. But if we struggle to get rid of more than 5 or 6, we won't be able to bring in many more than that.

I know it's not fashionable to agree with anything the club dues these days, but I think they've made the right call. I guess they'll probably cancel the 'Lal of appreciation' after the final home game as well. That's a shame as I was looking forward seeing how that would go.

That's true, but he improved massively after that. Maybe not best in the league, but of keepers outside the top 4 clubs he was definitely up there. How times have changed.

We can't even get relegated properly. And what did Ayew do?

So, trying to follow, is that 2 0?

Visit, it's great! I'm a bit biased, as I got married on my first visit here, but love the country (although I'm first to admit I often hate it as well!). I've spent 10 months here over two trips and seen maybe 5% of what the country has to offer. I've got plenty of top tips and contacts for any villatalkers wanting to visit.

PS, you are making me miss English food (I've been eating rice for for months)

It's 8.30pm, which here means everything is closed. But I'm in my third glass of 'raksi', home brew which can be anything from 20% to 80%. Power has come back now, watching Newcastle game. If we're worse than them we deserve to be sent straight to the conference.

So, I'm in Nepal, there is no electricity and my network is too slow for any site but this one. I'm relying entirely on you lot to follow this game.

Interesting, and something I hadn't really considered. The difference for Villa may be how difficult it will be to offload some our players, given their poor performance and relatively high wages. Do we have any idea what sort of (if any) relegation clauses most of our current squad have?