Spoony

I was enjoying this thread and was going to make my first post to tell you about my breakfast, but then I read the above and my day (and appetite) has been ruined. Good day to you.

I would get rid of him. We need to clear out this type of player and start again. All the players not being of a high enough quality is far more palatable than them obviously not caring.

Not only that but we've been shit for years. This is barely news, we're just finally reaping the fruits of our labour which we should have reaped a few seasons ago.

I suspect that it is in his contract that he plays CB. Sherwood and/or Richards were talking about playing as a CB rather than an RB when he signed. He took a big pay cut and I'd have thought, in exchange, he got the captaincy and the position he wants. I'm pretty sure he said at Man City he didn't want to play RB as well.

Ask the players whether they want to be here in the championship next season, if they do then keep them, if they don't then bin them for as much as possible in Jan whilst we can still get a decent price and not activate unfavourable release clauses

Depressingly, this made me chuckle

I really don't even feel like a Villa fan anymore. I don't expect us to fight, I don't expect us to score, I don't expect us to get any points and I certainly don't expect to be entertained. Therefore, I won't watch any more games this season, on TV or otherwise. It's getting to the point where I almost ironically cheer opposition goals or our awful mistakes that we make time and time again. I hate almost all of the players, I hate all of the board, I hate what this league has become and I hate what football has become. The ONLY redeeming thing about this club is you lot but that really is it now. The players are overpaid pretenders who do not deserve jobs and I don't even know how they can look themselves in the mirror and be proud of themselves or ever want to show their faces in town without being overburdened by how embarrassing they are at their jobs. The board are just completely killing us for Lord knows what reason because it certainly isn't protecting their pockets. They have totally wiped out this club and we are going to be dead and buried for some time as a result. It's hard to actually support a club that I pretty much hate everything about now. I'm just completely done with Villa until this board are all gone and there is actually something to love about the club again.

I hardly feel like I can support this team anymore

Does this team even want to stay in the league?

This window will not save us. Let me refresh some memories: With the exception of Darren Bent, we always do dreadful business in the January window. We will not be able to make the signings required to keep us up. The January window is almost pointless.

Richards > Clark, Lescott, Okore And I don't particularly rate him, but therein lies the problem.

No because we've already got Cleverley. JK. Let's not go down this road again...

From top to bottom. On the pitch and off it. Nothing more needs to be said really.

Has completely failed to lead the team during this spell.

That actually worries me because if they're good enough for the PL then they will leave once we are relegated.

Unfortunately have to agree with this. Might not have been the case in the past but he just cannot catch or save anything. There is no worse keeper in the league.

Apologies if this has been covered, but if I quote a post containing a quote, then what I quoted no longer contains the quote contained within the original post. This used to happen as standard (my post containing all quotes in the tree) but now I have no idea how to include previous quotes :S. Any ideas?

At QPR he'd have more chance of being in the PL next season.

Changing managers is now completely pointless. Until Lerner et al go, nothing will change. Put Mourihno in and it'd be the same sodding story. Levelling any blame at Garde or even talking about his performance detracts from the people who have been consistently to blame all this time. Managers are nothing but a scapegoat.

Relegated

This opinion baffles me. Everyone goes on about how awful our players are but then come back to blaming the manager. How? The players are all completely awful and the club is rotten to the core. Garde is the least of the problems. He's almost totally irrelevant in the scheme of things and in the sum of how **** we are.

This is the problem. They are such losers.