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I know it's not going to happen but i'd quite like us to go and do a job on Norwich and steal a few of their players, weakening them in the process. I'd happily take Brady and Redmond, who along with Grealish and Traore would give us a lot of options on the wings / wide forward positions. Plus i'd take Timm Klose off them in a heartbeat, quality defender whose height would make up for the fact that Elphick is so obviously a dwarf.

So I won... Yay.

URRGHHH!!! What the hell is that abortion of a line up!!!????? Reminds me of that scene in The Fly where Jeff Goldblum turns a chimp inside out.

I'm in digital marketing... not sure what I should be laughing at?

Pearson. Just like Quint, he's a necessary evil...

No chance in hell we'll go for another foreign manager. The board would be mad to take that risk again plus the media would hound him out even more agressively than they did with Garde. My verdict of those on the list: Outstanding: Nobody I'm not excited about any of the options, but then what do I know! I thought Garde would be amazing and Ranieri would get Leicester relegated!!! Good: Moyes / Pearson Moyes' stock may have fallen, but let's face it, if it hadn't we wouldn't stand a chance of landing him. He still has enough about him to do a good job with us. Pearson but only if (and it's a very iffy if) we can get his back room staff. His record with Leicester was very good, plus he seems strong enough to deal with the bad apples in our squad. Ok: Dyche / Rowett Both very promising, young managers, but not enough experience for the job in my eyes, therefore would be a risk. Nobody else is worth considering in my eyes. Brendan Rodgers is IMO unrealistic, so Bruce is probably the best of the lot and that says it all.

Thick as **** players + social media = This And Micah (sadly because I thought he was smarter than this) is the stupidest of the lot! It's been happening all season: Bacuna posting his sunbathing pic, the Lescott's car fiasco, Richards' argument with Ian Wright etc etc. We clearly didn't have a media relations advisor briefing the players under the old calamitous board, but surprised we haven't fixed this with the new guys coming in. Perhaps they're happy to let them hang themselves but I can't see the PR doing the club any favours.

Sign him up!!!

Fox should be sat in stocks outside Villa park, with baskets of rotting fruit handed out to all passers by.

Someone wake me up when our defence learns how to track a runner or do a simple bit of man marking.

Skarroki, let me get this right, you want exactly what you've put to happen? You actually want your 'who's left' scenario to come true??? Well I mean, Jesus, you must be banking on one hell of a recruitment drive my friend because that squad, that's a baby seal being clubbed to death twice a week right there!

Sorry Mike, I feel as though I've taken you down with my negativity there, I didn't mean to. Yes 15k at Liverpool did get a very positive reaction and who knows what we might achieve with a 74th minute walkout. I don't think it is a bad idea, more that IMO I'm not sure it will be enough - not on it's own or done just the once. Just to respond to the people who've asked what good will doing anything do to someone who is trying to sell. You're probably right as far as money goes, Lerner has probably cost himself much much more through his own incompetence than us boycotting a game ever would. However don't underestimate the power of humiliation. Being the object of ridicule week in week out can make someone a much more willing seller, i.e. accepting less than his current asking price. Plus it raises our clubs profile - you might not think that it does in a positive way, but potential investors will see just how desperate Lerner could be to sell and see it as an opportunity to get a better deal.

It’s tough Mike. I like the thought that’s gone into the whole 74 link, but my fears (similar to posts above) would be that: It’s been done. The scousers did it and, as someone has already said, for a far greater cause in the eyes of many. It’s hard to orchestrate people who’re already in the ground and sat down. The scousers only managed to get 15k fans to get up off their backsides and leave on 77 mins and we all know how much they love a bit of attention. We’ll get a fair few leaving, but how will it look any different to what happened on Sunday? I've racked my brain trying to think of a worthy idea. I had one which was about trying to get fans to fly the Villa flag upside-down (a sign of distress). Everything from holding scarves upside-down at kick-off to placing them around the ground, but it would take so much time, effort and expense to get everyone aware and enthused to actually do it. It needs to be something simple, easy to do and impactful. Dortmund and a few other clubs have recently done the whole tennis ball thing, which hasn't been done here in England. It’s good in that it delays a game and possibly results in a fine to the club i.e. Randy’s pocket, but it doesn't really link to our cause – it might lose it’s relevance. I think at this moment in time, the only thing which will really resonate is a full scale boycott. It’s got a message behind it: You won’t spend your money so we’re not giving you ours – the customer is always right (linking to Hollis’s line about us) – this isn’t worth paying for etc etc. It hits Lerner hard: Forget the season tickets which are already paid for, the loss of normal ticket sales, spend in the ground etc added to the sheer humiliation will be more than enough. It gets headlines: imagine the stadium completely empty or at least with so many empty seats it looks like a reserve game. It’d be very hard to do, but put simply, doing anything less isn't going to have an effect. Now there is apathy in abundance – we need to harness that apathy and use it to show our message, show that’s what Lerner has created. It’s easier to get people to do nothing than something! We’d need to pick a game, a high profile one which is on the tv and then go all out in communicating the boycott: You get Collymore and a few other high profile ex-Villa players to help spread the word You picket the ticket offices in the weeks and games leading up to it Hand out collateral in the ground – just a really simple message telling them not to come to whichever game it is. Bombard social media / get every forum, villa group etc on-board Going one step further, you could organise an ‘alternative game’, get a few ex players to put on an exhibition game somewhere else at the same time and use it as a way of attracting the fans there instead, season ticket holders get in free etc. But that involves even more effort which I don’t think is realistic. Until we're capable of galvanising ourselves into action of this sort, we're powerless to affect what Lerner is doing to our club.

Lost us the game and puts us at a great disadvantage for the next 3, at a pivotal time in the season. I actually think that as the pressure builds towards the end of the season, the fact that we've been dismissed as down already by most will see us play with a bit more freedom and we'll pick up a few wins. That sending off could easily be the difference between staying up and going down.

With a proper ref, that handballs gifts us a penalty. Ayew takes and scores that penalty. As a result he's not as anxious and wound up and the red card situation never happens. We go on and win a game we were clearly already well in control of. Small margins huh. :-(

If he goes we're screwed. And I mean prison showers, gang bang, touch your toes, no lube kind of screwed.

If I was a really pissed off football manager who'd be hung out to dry by his board, I think I go a bit rogue and try out some really bat **** crazy formation! You know, one that on the face of it looks mental, but actually there's a bit of method in the madness. I give you the BULLDOZER!!!! On the face of it, West Ham look at our team sheet and think we’re lining up with a very defensive 5-4-1 formation with the amount of defenders we’re playing. BUT NO!!! We actually stick Clark and Richards just behind Gabby upfront, with the game plan to hoof it up to them to (a) flick on to Gabby / one of the overlapping wingbacks, or (b) hold and play in / knock down to Gil and Veretout. By playing those brutes in the gap between midfield and defence it’ll either draw Collins and Ogbonna out and leave Gabby to play on the shoulder, or they’ll sit back and we can aerially own that part of the pitch! Gil and Veretout are probably our best passers/holders of the ball, so tell them to just own that centre circle and move up and down together, with the relative security of 3 central defenders behind them (I did have Snachez in as the 3rd CB but as he is injured, Aly will need to play as one instead). Then we just tell Grealish and Ayew run their backsides off up and down that line (yeah ok we might need to rethink Grealish and stick Bacuna in there perhaps). At various points in the game we stop for a breather and the two up top centre backs switch with Grealish and Ayew – that way confusing the crap out of the opposition! CRAZY BUT AMAZING RIGHT!!! Right? ………… Guys?

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We've never been adrift like this before. Those other times it's (remotely) conceivable that they thought that was enough to help us stay up. This time it's a white flag no question whatsoever.

"GAME OV... ah f*** it, I can't even be bothered to do the line any more.

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Newcastle: Ideally taking them down with us on the last day, plus I think in a strange way they might act as a kind of pacemaker for us in the Championship. WBA: Because they'd be such smug c***s sitting in a division above us.

Clearly we're not spending because Randy has reached the end of his book "How to run a football club - the idiots guide" Chapter One: Splurge the cash and to hell with the consequences! Chapter Two: Hire that French guy. Chapter three: How to lose fans and really irritate people. Chapter four: There’s gold in them thar lower leagues! Chapter five: Feel better about life by hiring people more stupid than you. Chapter six: MONEYBALL!! Chapter seven: Repeat chapter two. Chapter Eight: Close your eyes and pretend it was all a bad dream.

Ah let him have a go first. It's like asking a kid to build a castle out of Lego but giving him a tub of stickle bricks which the special needs kids have chewed on. Every year since MON left we've steadily degraded the squad to the point where we've been left with a load of duds. I mean we were proper **** last year and we lost the few jewels we had and replaced them with 'potential'... potential isn't enough in this league, especially when you surround that potential with complete dross. We were lucky to get Garde, he's got pedigree and amazingly he's up for sorting out this asylum of a club. Just because he hasn't come in and got that instant uplift you get half the time with a new manager doesn't mean ****. Yes we do have some talent left in the squad, but this lot are damaged goods - we're like the semi fit girl that's been banged a million times and gone a bit loopy, it takes a brave man to take her on and believe he can turn her around, but Remi god bless him thinks he can.