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Well looking at the suggestions on this thread Captain Kirk gets my vote, followed by Mainwaring. Ah I can see Jonesy in the defence now... they don't like it up em!

**** me is there anything right with our club?

The Balti pies.

After seeing his performance pre-season I say start Baby Brad and give him the armband. The way he barked out orders and encouragement, organised us defensively pre-season we actually looked a decent outfit.

I think the Peace Cup showed that Cueller and Davies can, given time, play together.

For me one of the problems if Friedel. Again the Peace Cup showed it's painfully obvious that Baby Brad should be number one. His constant organising, barking orders at the defence, along with his agility and dominance remind me or a young Schmeichel, and with him there showing defensive leadership Cueller looked a different player.

For me, Guzan HAS to start now.

I was speaking to a girl I know who's a Celtic season ticket holder a month back and again last night about MON and she says this all souunds like his last 2 seasons at Celtic. She said then his tactics were bizarre, his signings scratched heads, his subsitutions baffling, and his stubborn loyalty to certain players when it was obvious their form was way off frustrating, and the style of football shifted from good attacking football to ugly long ball play, and she admitted that the fact that apart from Rangers the league was so weak covered alot of cracks in the Celtic set up.

He's had long enough to build a squad with strength in depth and yet after all this time its still on the ground.

That's the problem. It's not on the ground but up in the sky, Wimbledon style. When we were playing shit last season he could've made it rather easier by using Barry and Petrov more. 2 players good at ball retention and passing and instead he got the team hoofing balls up to the front me. Now he had Delph and Petrov yesterday, use them to their strengths, aka keeping the ball and passing. Central midfield is a major problem cos he won't **** use them properly!!!!

For me it matters not who he brings in, as long as this shit non-league style football carries on we won't push on at all.

I know that you know - Django Reinhardt

Thing is it doesn't matter what he does in the transfer market, while we continue to play this **** awful one-dimensional brand of football and the tactics and substitutions continue to begger belief we can have Barcelona's team out there and we'd play shit. The man has to either get up to speed on his tactics or frankly piss off.

No Plan B my lord... in every respect.

Do you know what is really starting to piss me off the most about O'Neill? Its his one **** single tactical change that he has up his sleeve, take a full back off, stick a winger in his place and bring on another midfielder. Can anyone remember a single **** occasion when this has actually worked for us? It is simply the most pathetic desperation tactic I think I've ever witnessed and he pulls it out every **** time.

The debates have raged many a time over his decisions in the transfer market but nobdy seems to talk about his **** shite tactics.

Oh and I'm sick to death of us playing hoof ball, of Ashley Young lying on the floor crying like a **** bitch and then getting up to over hit another cross. I could go on but frankily there was so much shite on display today to talk about I would be here all night, that was a disgrace of a performance.

It's his new trick. Last season it was take the left back off and move the right back to left back and play whoever at RB!

He's the messiah dontcha know?!

This is the first time I will say it...

I want Martin O´Neill out. Todays performance showed me that he has taken the club as far as he can with two consecutive 6th places.

The team lack almost everything at the moment and I dont trust his tactical knowledge and I certainly dont trust him on the transfer market. His coaching ability is tops...but that is not enough in Premier League.

I was embarrassed today...

Wigan Athletic made us look like a joke. They had brilliant creativity in players like newly signed Gomez...absolutely brilliant crossings and passings from Figueroa and also a lethal striker in Rodallega. How a club like Wigan can find and attract those kind of players is beyond me...no..I correct myself...how a club like that can find those players..yet Villa misses out again and again. This small club found Esteban Valencia..and sold him with great profit in the summer. They rebuild and find new gems...

It is time Martin...I am actually sad to say...but it is time to leave. The gameplay is awful..the energy was shameful and the whole attitude in a opening day game suggest that they all have lost it at Villa Park!

Spot on. I've held my tongue and held my patience with regards to MON since Blackburn Away last season, but it seems like nothing has changed. We're worryingly short of ideas and the transfer window - in terms of preparing us for the new season - has been a disaster so far.

Yes, there's still 2 weeks till the window closes but the season has already started and we're not ready. That's not good enough.

I thought losing Martin Laursen would be tough, but that we'd unearth someone to have a go at filling his boots. I was wrong.

I thought Gareth Barry's departure would see us add more steel and mobility to our midfield, maybe even change our style of play. I was wrong there too.

Tactically inept, and lacking in motivation. Very, very worrying.

I can't argue with any of that. We were found out last season and he did **** all about it. Why should the stubborn **** change now?!

They always say that the spine of your team should be strong. Well our spine is as weak is ****. Get some steel in there, some balls. Like many have said this is not based on one game, we played some gash football for most of last season, and we have been found out big time. MON needs to sort it out and sort it NOW!!! The hoof hoof hoof just doesn't work!?! I've said so for so long I sound like a feckin broken record!!!!

Against all sense of logic, stats, form I've gone for top four.

Reason? I thought 'ah **** it, why not!?'

Realistically, before signings and Peace Cup I told friends we'd finish 8th. Now, after seeing the younger players show great promise, and confidence growing in the players generally, I realistically think 5th.

But the delusional ever-optimistic in me says top four... ah **** it, why not!?

IN honour of John Hughes, who has died earlier today from a heart attack whilst out walking in NYC, I recommend-

Ferris Buellers Day Off

The Breakfast Club

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Uncle Buck

Home Alone

Weird Science

John Hughes RIP

General,

Once again yourself, Randy and all involved in this club prove that the myth of Americans being clueless, just out for the green stuff is ridiculous. I have American family (my brothers wife is from Uniontown PA and her uncle works for the FBI at their HQ in Washington, and her aunt and cousin died in the Pentagon attacks on 9/11) and for me, your fellow countrymen and women have always been honorable, and have a real fascination and love of colonial history and a passion for upstanding that history,whilst being proud of your American roots. The way Randy, yourself and fellow American members of the Villa family have conducted yourselves has been no surprise to me, in that you absolutely have engulfed yourselves in the clubs history and have loved every bit of what we represent, and will continue to as well.

Villa are in very safe hands with Randy at the helm.

God speed a full recovery to you big man.

Guzan, Clark, Cueller, Albrighton were brilliant.

NRC played well, busy as usual, he just cannot pass to save his life. Sidwell, Licach played well. Same Shorey. Heskey was decent. The ones who was a bit of a let down were Carew and Young, for me.

Good goal from Juve.

What a **** joke. NRC taken out from behind and the word removed of a ref gives nowt. a foul just outside and its a pen to them! grrrrrrr!

Immense from our youngsters tonight against a regular Champions League team. Admittedly a dirty cheating moaning diving team.

My veetle feed has been immaculate. brilliant feed.

Cueller is looking the central defender we hoped he was. See what happens when a player plays in his natural position?!

I would think there'll be a minutes silence and black armbands wore tonight by both sides. Sir Bobby was respected globally and managed Porto successfully.

Well I'm hoping that the players will take courage and confidence from the win and second half performance from the other night. Win lose or draw tonight, just do us proud boys.

Sad news Nobby bout Sir Bob. Why couldn't it have been that sack of shit Freddie Shepherd heh!?

Decent Geordie fans like yourself must be so **** off with the embarassment of your club atm.

Marc Albrighton. The future now.

Albrighton was great in Moscow. Why the kid didn't get another chance til now is beyond me.

I know it's a preseason but we look just so **** useless, bereft of ideas apart from lumping it forward. We are just **** clueless!!?!

Christ do we need to get some players in and take a proper look at our style of play.

Pre-seasons really don't bother me resultswise, but the style of football is still cack.