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Let's not paper over the cracks here, we've been very poor again. Gabby needs to come on for Marc, with Ash going back to his orthodox position.

No defensively we've been excellent.

We've had to be, because we cant get hold of the ball and keep possession for any length of time. When the defence does pick it up there is no out ball for us with everyone playing so deep to cope with the pressure we've been under.

Let's not paper over the cracks here, we've been very poor again. Gabby needs to come on for Marc, with Ash going back to his orthodox position.

Randy, I'll do the job for 50k a year and get some of my mates in to play on cut-price wages to get your wage bill down.

Couldn't be any worse than the shower of shit we saw tonight.

"I've seen one or two players that I think might make the club better, but whether we can go and do anything about that, nothing has been said.

"With two days left after Sunday (until the transfer window shuts), a lot can happen in those 48 hours as you saw last year when we signed Richard Dunne, James Collins and Stephen Warnock within the last couple of days.

"The timescale isn't a big issue I don't think."

Interesting stuff from K Mac :shock:

Yeah he said something about transfers on BBC WM Radio as well, the other day.

"Nothing has been said".

Hardly sounds promising.

An utter embarrassment. Nothing more can be said.

You said we were organised away from home, we were not at Chelsea.

You didn't say we were organised away from home apart from Chelsea.

I never said we didn't have a good away record, your the one that has said that.

You need to realise what your saying Dundee.

Fair enough, we were generally organised away from home under MON apart from Chelsea away last season.

Happy? :|

It's gonna be a long hard season. We need a manager ASAP to give this lot a serious kick up the arse. The players might all like KM but that won't get us anywhere.

At least under MON we had some semblance of organisation away from home.

You mean like away at Chelsea

Best away record last season bar Chelsea and Utd if IIRC.

Carry on with your bollox though...

Were we organised at Chelsea last year, yes or no?

No. If you are using that as evidence that we did not have a good away record under MON then fill yer boots, but I'm out. No point having that argument.

At least under MON we had some semblance of organisation away from home.

You mean like away at Chelsea

Best away record last season bar Chelsea and Utd if IIRC.

Carry on with your bollox though...

At least under MON we had some semblance of organisation away from home.

What can you say about that? Abject.

I share your concerns about this deal Blandy.

It's left me with a bad taste in my mouth. We've lost our best player, got a player who really doesn't want to be at Villa, which won't help the wage bill (which we've all been told must be slashed), and the board are hiring players when we don't have a manager.

It is entirely possible that the next manager will not rate SI at all. It doesn't quite make sense.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/8903282.stm

Forgive my lack of a very short link, however this article clearly states there will be a further statement regarding the vacant post today.

Maybe MON has had a change of heart. "The return of the Messiah!"

Wouldn't be the end of the world if Sven came, did a decent job at city leading them to their highest finish in years and did a better job with England than the clown currently in charge.

He is only interested in attention, money and getting his leg over.

I'd like Jol, but can't see it happening. If he appoints Bob Bradley then that's a sign that we are no longer interested in competing at the top end of the league.

Rubbish.

You know how he would perform do you?

Oh FFS. My OPINION is that given he has no European management experience, he is exactly the kind of coach we don't need at this important juncture and would be an unambtious and uninspired appointment.

We need someone with proper experience who can continue to build on the relative position of strength MON has left us in. We don't need a manager who will lead a slide back to mid-table, as without any money it will be difficult to get the club back on the rise again.

The problem we have is that we don't appear to have any money to pay compensation to another club for their manager, so Jol would appear to be out of the question.

That leaves us with numpties like Sven, Bob Bradley (who?) and Curbs.

This appointment is a defining moment of Lerner's owenrship of Villa. If he gets it wrong it could lead to more instability, worsening finances and years of stagnation.

I'd like Jol, but can't see it happening. If he appoints Bob Bradley then that's a sign that we are no longer interested in competing at the top end of the league.

You've slipped back into juvenile name calling, which is the usual sign that you've lost the argument again.

I'll take the precise words of the player himself over those of a keyboard warrior if it's all the same.

:oops:

I have a twice-yearly trimming policy, which works for me.

No-one wants a bawbag that looks like Terry Waite's allotment.

Right, just got back from the hospital, the doctor has decided to induce the missis tomorrow!

So i should be a dad come Monday morning...wish me luck people!

Good luck to you and missus Wiggy. Prepare for you life to change forever! (for the better).

The Cup.

You don't add to the honours list by coming 4th.

Milner has refused to commit himself to Villa, despite repeated attempts to get him to do so.

IMO that is what MON means when he says Milner has "intimated" that he wants to leave.

The manager has rightly got fed up of the procrastination from Milner, a player who now doesn't want to play for us after being here five minutes, despite Villa and MON helping him to play in a WC.

Milner is bleating about it, but he could have sorted this out six weeks ago by stating his intentions clearly to the manager instead of playing games. Jim has played this one all wrong. Villa at the very least deserved some honesty from him about his intentions, after the way we have helped develop his career. Maybe he's gone all Billy Bigbollocks after his one good season.

Milner can p*ss right off. Villa gives him the chance to shine and play in a WC and this is how he repays us.

The £30m will come in handy though. No player is bigger than the club.

The real worry is that this shows how much of a joke the league has become thanks to the new Man City. No club will be allowed to build a team. Citeh will just come in a hoover up any talent, like Rangers and Celtic have done in Scotland for years.

We are truly a third rate club now in terms of the type of players we can buy and hang on to. You have City (who can afford anyone and pay the wages to get them), then the Sky 4 and possible Spuds, and then us and Everton.

Depressing but it's somethign we will have t get used to.

Between 6th-8th.

So since we did have the bubble and windfall taxes they must accept their part in the budget crisis, namely that of securing unsustainable pay increases in public pay. So I felt they should acknowledge this and accept the 5% pay cut on the chin especially given deflation of 7% this year.

How can you blame the unions for securing pay increase for their members? That's what unions are for.

If the pay increases were "unsustainable" then that is the fault of the public sector organisations who agreed to the increases, not the unions.

Don't like the checks or the new sponsor's logo. Worst shirt for a while IMO.