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bad miss from blackburn. headed over from a corner. sloppy marking in the box.

nothing much to report besides very boring game...

miss from gardner from edge of box after good corner from adomah

different manager, but nothing else has changed. Players still look half arsed and dont appear to know what they are supposed to be doing. Tactics completely one dimensional and there never appears to be a plan b How, with this squad, we are 22nd is beyond me... Cant continue to follow this team as i'm sure i could manage the team better

I still feel that the defence and midfield is frail. Take either Elphick or Cheser out and we'll see baker or richards in their place and that worries me. Tshibola is already injured, if we lose jedinak to suspension that means westwood and gardner in centre mid and that worries me A LOT. Up front we have lots of options, but 3 of them will be gone to AFCON leaving us with only McCormack (lets face it Kozak and Gabby arent getting a game). This worries me and if he isnt on form come January, we're in deep trouble! Don't get me wrong, we've done great business in 1 window. But outside of our first 11 we are still a pretty poor side playing in a very physical league with lots of games. There are going to be injuries and suspensions, and when that happens we will lose points. I still cant see us getting into the playoffs. Hoping we are still in touch come Jan so we can pick up some more players and push on.

we had an owner who didnt care - people complained. Now we have an owner who clearly cares and is willing to put his money where his mouth is and people are still complaining... I cant imagine where people get the impression that some villa fans are fickle from...

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But its crap business. Theyve replaced good players with much worse players. Id rather we signed better players if im honest.

As i understood the quote from RDM, it expires at the end of the window. Happy to be corrected thougj.

Didnt you hear? Us villa fans are fickle as fook

Well we know about Barcas buy back clause so no doubt he will be playing for them next season

I had a 6 month spell in villas youth setup in 95/96, does that give me a shout too?

Id cry of we signed any of most of the names on that list and not in a good way.

I thought gils departure was confirmed? Guzan is confirmed. RDM has said Ganas will be confirmed tomorrow, so theres 3. Veretout looks likely to leave shortly also, and Sanchez too. Fingers crossed this means we will see a few 'ins' next week. Im a little disappointed to see Norwich going after Mccormack. Would have liked to have seen him here.

I was thinking the same about rvp But he is also quite lazy and very much a luxury player. Not sure hes right for us

But why no elphick? Maybe the guys who lack fitness and/or he isnt sure about are getting games?

This is very dull for a match thread Are we playing that badly

Pantyman rumours have resurfaced so id say bunn and steer are out too

Gabby and elphic?

I hear the pantyman rumours are back in swing. Guess thatd mean bunn out and steer on loan again?

fairly sure that isnt the same Colin Jackson... ;-)

Yeah as we stand i think we are closer to relegation than playoffs never mind automatic promotion. At least 6 players needed for me to make us playoff contenders never mind champions.

Having seen the few preseason games im more convined that we need at least 6 more in. Im not expecting that to happen before the season starts or even really before the window closes. What is clear to me is that if we dont get those 6 before the window closes i dont believe there is enough quality in the squad to compete for a playoff place. As we stand i think we are only just good enough to avoid relegation.

Under Sherwood he came off the bench first game after signing, started the second then spent a number of weeks injured. By the time he was fit again Garde was in charge and wed gone 10 without a win so that was a bad situation to put a recovering attacking player in to so he got left out. Not to mention Garde is a very defensive manager. Black as we all know was just plain clueless so cant draw any conclusions from him...