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Tantamount to bully boy tactics right there I don't see it like that. He has actually had another option, improve and put out a side worthy of Aston Villa. He has consistently failed to do that and we look as bad as ever this season, despite him having the best squad he has ever had. It deserves repeating time and again; 19 games; 2 wins and 7 goals. I am not sure how anybody can even begin to defend that.

A point would be a good result.

I quite like the arena with the female guards flashing their beeeeewbs for no real reason. Slogged through about two and a half hours of that to level up to 10 to get me the Bushman. I do like the game, but it really is just a prettier Far Cry 3 in the Mountains.

What are they good players based on? Benteke has scored goals (for the same manager) in one season - next to sod all else. Delph has played for Villa and produced next to nothing. Sanchez wasn't even heard of until the World Cup; same as Vlaar really (a Dutch guy I know ridicules him from his time in Holland; I've always said he's wrong). Okore has this season come back from a bad injury - having previously played in Denmark. Guzan now looks a good keeper... one that was released by Aston Villa. In short, there's absolutely no basis for this "we should be at least 10th/12th" message that people are saying. None at all. None of these players have achieved this in the Premier League. None. I just don't understand where people are getting this "should be at least 10th" stuff from. I think the time has come for Lambert to go, but some of the chat on here is as if we're bottom of the Premier League by a significant margin with no hope of getting out. We haven't been in the relegation zone all season - and unless Hull beat Man City away, we won't be in there having played Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool twice. If we don't see an upturn at all by the end of March then I'll join in with this panic. Until then, though....? Hilarious that people think there is "no harm" in protesting and creating an even more toxic atmosphere by the way. How can that even be the case? Compare those players with their equivolents at Swansea and Stoke and ask yourself is what they have any better? The answer is no. This squad isn't full of world beaters, but then you don't have to be particularly impressive to do ok in this league, such is the lack of quality. I base my assessment of Benteke, Vlaar, Okore, Delph, Sanchez Guzan on what I've seen them do at the Villa, internationally and weighed up against their opposition. Lambert has spent a lot more than Mark Hughes and Laudrop/Monk in his time here, I actually think he has spent and recruited by and large pretty well when spending £4 million level sums. Gil looks decent, I liked what I saw of Kozak too. But the tactics he deploys, the obvious lack of coaching we see, the inability to improve all feeds the poor results we see. I don't need bold or italics to say that losing 48 out of 99 games as Aston Villa manger is not acceptable. I don't need to use bold or italics to show that winning 2 games and scoring 7 goals is unacceptable. The results and the awful performances speak for themselves. The manager should have been sacked in May and should certainly be sacked now before the time to reverse our slide to the second division cannot be halted.

I think we should be 12th 10th because the likes of Benteke, Vlaar, Delph, Sanchez, Okore and Guzan are good players and that spine is no worse than a number of clubs and capable of far, far more. Lambert has been restricted in what he can spend, as have Swansea, an significantly smaller club, yet we can't compete on the pitch with them. It also doesn't explain away Lambert tactical inefficiencies. How do we play? What is our means of breaking a side down? Why has there been no improvement in two and half years in style of play or quality of football? We have gone from ineffective lumping to ineffective square passing. It's nowhere near good enough and that is down to the manager that is clearly out they're depth.

Its looking likely to me. The run of form we have been on for the past 38 games is relegation form, as its yeilded just 33 points. Worryingly though, our form is actually getting worse with the past 19 returning just 12 points. Extrapolate that across a full season and you have a side with 24 points and 14 goals. The worst side in the league, Leicester, should really have humped us 5 or 6 and we could have had no complaints. I am not sure where to confidence comes from that we can get the results we need against Hull or Stoke.

Lambert inherited a bad situation from day one. He hasn't created one from what was a more preferable starting point. He has done mission impossible and continues to do so. Now the tide is clearly turning against him in terms of the percentage of fans who want him out, and they'll inevitably get their way in the end. But as for why not everyone thinks the same way. The above might go some way to explaining that. Basically it's all about context. I think that is an exceptionally kind summary of Lambert. He certainly did inherit a poor squad and although he has had £46 million to spend, while not insignificant, its not enough for putting Aston Villa where Aston Villa should be. Lerner is certainly as incompetent as the manager in his stewardship. But, and it’s a pretty big but, Lambert is actually doing less with the squad than they should be. 12-10th or thereabouts is where this group of players should be, but here we are, yet again, fumbling around the relegation spots, only this time more than ever, we actually look like we will be relegated. There is no defence to say that over the past 19 games, half a season of football, that this squad is capable of just 7 goals and 2 wins. Pathetic isn’t a strong enough description. There is no defence for his repeated tactical ineptitude. Our lack of a plan is quite staggering. How do Aston Villa go about breaking other teams down? I go to every game and couldn’t tell you. Momentum in sport is huge and we’ve got an avalanche worth sending us only one way. The hammering we took at Arsenal is the hammering we should have taken against Leicester, who without hyperbole could have beat us 5 or 6 they had that many nailed on chances. We created nothing and that’s not an isolated problem. People talk about the next few games beyond Chelsea, Hull away, Stoke and West Brom at home, the same sort of games we had over Christmas where we failed to score a single goal. How can a manager who has been in the job for two and a half years find himself in a position where he has no system or style or play for attacking the opposition? This is without referencing the number of cup humiliations, record defeats or the litany of negative records the manager has broken. Any other club would have sacked Lambert four or five times over. His record is appalling and if he relegates us, which looks worryingly likely, he will rank as the worst manager in our history, surpassing Graham Turner and Billy McNeil.

It can be worse because you'd hope that the games against Hull, Stoke, Newcastle, West Brom, Sunderland and Swansea will allows us a chance to improve. They're easier fixtures which is obviously an advantage and you'd hope Gil and Sinclair will make the impact we're all hoping they will make in those games. And let's be honest, if it's not going to improve in those games then we're going down. Protesting could be detrimental to the team and mean that improvement has no chance of happening. You say "it can't get worse", well it can get worse. Every game that our current form continues for is it getting worse. And if we protest and get on the team's back then there's every chance of them failing to improve results to the standard we need them to. Gil looks a good player, but he is just one man playing in the same set up that has mustered 7 goals in half a season of football. That is an incredible ask, for him and Sinclair, who also looks reasonable, but has barely played in two seasons, to come and change our fortunes. The movement in midfield and inability to get close to the front man is part of our problems and it stems from the lack of coaching they receive and the tactical ineptness of the manager to muster a plan or way of breaking a side down. We have good fixtures away at West Brom, at home to Palace and Sunderland and we took two points and failed to score. We’ve taken 12 points and scored 7 goals since we beat Liverpool in half a season. That isn’t just relegation form, its bottom of the league and well adrift form. The fact this isn’t isolated, but yet another horrible run of many over two and a half dismal seasons is indefensible. Lambert should have gone several times over and its staggering that he is still here, with his ineptitude matched only by that of Lerner.

Save the funds and sack the manager, who unfortunately just isn't up to it, as his abysmal record proves. I hate it when a Villa manager fails, but that's what Lambert has done. The run of form we're on is very worrying, with just two wins and seven goals in half a season. We're actually getting worse, despite the fact that there is a reasonable number of decent players here. This squad isn't going to pull up any trees, but it should be more than capable of slogging it out between 12th and 10th. There is only one reason why its under performing so chronically.

I found your answer for a yes or no to be too simplistic, because the history of IS is more nuanced, but suffice to say, firmly rooted in Anbar province. You want to defeat IS, then you need to fight them there, the same way AQI were forced to go dormant. The two who were executed were old AQ, not necessarily paid up members of IS, but the Iraqi women is no different a product than any number of would be human ordinance from that neck of the woods. If that sounds dismissive, then that’s unfortunate, but ultimately these brutal executions by IS are just a sideshow in their psyops campaign, it gets people quite rightly hot under the collar, but it’s still a sideshow. They (and when we say they, we’re talking about the leadership) were hit hard, went quiet and came back with an inkling of how to show straight, which puts them towards the top of the class in the region. I said they’re an effective army and they are, because they’re significantly better at re-supplying and manoeuvring than the Iraqi Army (but it easier when you’re pillaging from the land and not faced with a bureaucratic/corruption nightmare is the Iraqi Army is)

Doesn't that kind of suggest that the solution doesn't work? Or at least it does work, but in order to make it work are you actually suggesting a complete genocide of everyone fighting for ISIS or that might become ISIS in future, including those that used to be AQ and the modern equivalent of the woman picked up in 2005? In short, I think we need a different solution and yours sounds a bit too close to the final solution for my liking. You're looking at the wrong problem. It wasn't the response to the insurgency post-2004, but what came after it had been crushed. Obama following an election promise is fine, but it left a weak secterian government behind who were too interested in their own patronage and filling their own pockets that a silce wasn't left for the Sunnis. A big mistake was made by not bringing in the Awakening Forces as part of the Iraqi Army. People want to get paid at the end of the day; the same people who were planting IED's for US Marines one week in 2005, were fighting alongside coalition forces the next and getting stuck into AQI. We wasted a lot of human inteligence and good will when Iraq was abandonned. The invasion was a foolish idea, but if you are the one responsible for pulling the lid off of Pandora's Box, then you bare a responsibility to put what falls out back in.

Not doing that at all. Just asking for some precision when debating details (as I was in the original comment). Edit: Thanks for the nature of your post, too. You were given details, which you then limited to get the answer you wanted. The point is that IS are Anbar's finest; Al Qaeda in Iraq, They've been hit and shovelled and melted away and now they're back and don't have to worry about JSOC or the US Marines or tooled up Sunni awkening forces rocking up on their doors anytime soon.

Yes and no. The women was picked up in 2005 and the AQ chappie in 2008, when IS was running as AQ in Iraq. It goes to show the problem you face with these sorts of people; large scale assaults by US Marines, JSOC HVT raids and Awakening forces bled them white, but they didn't die and now they're back. IS have been dropping the ball for a while now though; Kobane was a folly and attempts to try and peel off weaker players in the region like Jordan won't work by creating a nationalist fervor; men filling the streets shouting death to Deash isn't what they had in mind.

Indeed, Fire is something that No One Other than Allah may use for Punishment.” [al-Bukhârî] IS are clearly blasphemers and a Jihad should be called for their destruction.

He seems like a confused chap on that video.

No, we had the full 3300. I can't see them bringing 6,000. They only brought 1800 the other week,

If we got 21k for Blackpool, when there was barely more than 1200 Blackpool fans, then I fully expect that with all the day tripping Bournemouth fans jumping on a bandwagon, that we will end up with more than the We Hate Villa More Than You derby.

Cheers. I really liked BF3, so I will pick this one up.

Worth picking up on the PS4? Are there still plenty of players online to make it worthwhile?

Agreed, although it was more of a problem at the start when I didn't know what was going on. I am liking it, but then I did enjoy Far Cry 3 and its mechanics are the same. Its a very pretty game though.

Any other club would have sacked Lambert five times over by now.

I wouldn't say that anybody suggesting the majority of Muslims support Islamic Extremism is barking up the right tree. However, there is a sizeable minority. 3% of Egyptians support ISIS, which doesn't sound like too many, until you realise that equates to 1.5 million people, which is a worrying amount. 5% of Saudi's is over half a million. That's enough people to cause one or two headaches.

Aston Villa wasn't going for somehwere between £150-200 million in 1968. The game has changed, massively. Nothing will change till Lerner goes and Lerner isn't going anywhere for a long time. There aren't people willing to spend the best part of a quarter of a billion on a football club and then some to get us competing at the top again. As frustrating as it is to watch, and it was like pulling teeth at Leicester, you may as well save your breath, because its only being wasted.

The front cover of the latest issue has Mohammed holding a sign saying Je Suis Charlie, with all is forgiven written above.