dickyhell

The problem is not the home fans, the problem is what is happening on the pitch and that is caused by what has happened to Mr Lerner. 

You have a fearful team that is not quite good enough and often a passive and nervous atmosphere at VP.

That is why we get more points away from VP. 

You can rely on the teams around us to be well organised, we, even when we have had decent results look like we can unravel at any time.

2 loses from the next 2 and we will be down

It seems to be tweaked slightly but yeah at HT against Newcastle we went with this kind of formation.

Deserves credit for finally getting it right but at the same time it shows what a big part his decisions had in such an awful season.

I guess from your comments we probably view PL in the same way, ie not totally convinced but pleased he seems to be getting it right most of the time. We were a wondergoal away from losing today.

Yes he got it wrong with KEA and gets it wrong every time he puts him on the pitch. The problem is that he has gambled withour Premier League ststus.

We will find out about Lerners intent for the club this summer, if he sells Benteke then just forget any chance of glory until new owners.

He stopped playing 3 cb's and played with attacking width for the first time.

Was that when he setteled on the current formation 4-3-3 although he does tweak it a bit.

Obvious good manager is obvious

Hilarious.

Fantastic win. Thank god he finally saw sense at half time against Newcastle.

Deserves credit for our improvement for getting his decisions right recently.

Lets hope he's able to achieve the bare minimum he should this season.

What happened at half time at Newcastle?

It was a boom shakattack roadblock of a goal

Yes didnt some young men run around Villa Park with a European Youth trophy and then a few years later some of those same blokes ran around Villa Park with a much bigger Trophy.

Still too close call any of us Norwich Newcastle Sunderland Wigan Stoke could go on a good  or a bad run, we need at least 6 more points.

Apparently there are a few problems in the dressing room at Sturke.

Sidwell was not good enough for us as aTop 6 team, he would or should walk into our midfield, that is how far we have fallen

the defensive record is as much to do with the shockingly weak midfield as the lack of experience at the back.

Just read a few pages back, how any one cant see that this is a massive achievement for our club, deep down in the heart of football its about blokes going out to play as a team, being proud of thier team and supporting thier mates. Our boys did that against a load of globally scouted primadonas from Chelsea who thought that all they needed to do was fly in thier superstar and the trophy would be theres.

Well it didnt work out like that, we were more of a team and a few lads showed real promise, for a few others this might be the biggest night in fottball and they will remember it for the rest of thier lives, remembering it wearing a Villa shirt.

Most of us would swap places with them right now.

Jack is special, no doubt and there is no doubt that he will be given his chance. It is a massive step up though and pickning the right time is crucial.

Very very proud of the way our lads handled themselves tonight. UTV

Lambert is not blameless, he is complicit in the gamble with our PL status, unacceptable.

Worst signing Martin O Neil obviously, can you imagine any one else spending that sort of money and leaving us in a worse state- W *n* k*r

fantastic result by the lads, we look like we have some real talent-brilliant

The most complete performance was the Lpool 5-1.

The most incredible atmosphere was the Manure LCSF second leg, my ears were still ringing the next morning

The greatest achievement Rotterdam- obviously

Special mention

Bournemouth  3rd division 

QPR SF replay at Highbury Brian Little walked on water

SHA away we won 3-2 phew

having a player that has scored most of thier goals injured hardly helps their cause, Graham is not exactly prolific.

Yeh I was i the same Gaff as Magic, we were half way through the 2nd Tangerine Dream Album man, and this cat starts spinning the umbrella in front of the lamp like really spinning it fast, some cat shouted he was hungry and Randy said he would nip down the shop to get some munchies, never been seen again and a lot of guys had a real bad trip man and there is some bad Karma coming his way dude.

all this game proved is that we are not totaly useless but we are pretty ineffective.

This is a must win, they are either the second or worst team in the league, so if you cant beat them where are you.

We desperately need the points, because anything but 3 points cements us in the relegation zone and we will not climb out from there. 

Thanks Mr Lerner

Relegation trends

Playing pretty football with no end product- Tick

Getting lots of bad refereeing decisions going against you- Tick

People saying if we play like that every week we will be OK (in the aftermath of another defeat)-Tick

Manager saying we have 10, 9 8 7 Cup Finals. - Tick

Complete absence of leadership to be found any where in the club, player, manager, owner. - Tick

Lose at Reading and we are Down-?

Can you tell me when they said "they'd top load - spend up front, then reign it in"