Villarocker

Sunderland, Cardiff and Norwich will go down. We'll scrape 15th place and survive by a few points. Just don't want the same shite next season, or the season after that and so on.....

You have to judge a team/players/management over the whole season. If indeed we do finish with less points than last season, I think it will inevitably mean a rethink about who should manage the club. Although I stated the above, if we don't get new owners or better investment, we do have to consider keeping Lambert, simply because he's kept us up with minimal funding for the last two seasons and I don't bank on anyone else being able to do that with such limited funds, and players. If a new owner comes in with money to spend from the off, I'd prefer to see someone else spend it. I would love to know what our goals per game stats are with and without Benteke in the team. Also, like to know our goals conceded with and without Vlaar. Those two, along with Guzan, are the focal point of our team imo.

If we win any game at all I think it will be the Hull game as they will have their minds on the cup final at the time we play them.

Can't see us getting anything from the 3 away games so the 2 home games will be huge.

Does anyone know the true identity of Hairyhands yet? Maybe it's Culverhouse or Karsa? HH did say he was a Celtic fan and I think that might point to Karsa.

I was dubious about Lambert from the off and based purely on how he picked players out of position. However, you can't help but wonder how any other manager would do with the same funds and players. If there's so many against him, why isn't there a poll of potential new managers yet? I'm not over supportive of Lambert but I just can't think of anyone who could make us better with what we have.

Definitely relying on other teams now. Can't see us going down because others have too many points to make up. But, things need to be addressed to avoid this shit for a fifth successive season.

Well, with the beast looking to be out for the start of next season, and with Lerner's and Lambert's approach to the transfer market, the nightmare might end in May of 2015 when we go down. Sounds dramatic but, as others have said, persistent struggler's always go down eventually.

For me it has to be Rambo vs Millwall. For goals against us I have always recalled a screamer that Neil Ruddock netted against us and I think it may have been in the same game? I've had a lot of beer since then so forgive me if I am wrong!

Holt should not be preventing the game time and development of the likes of Helenius, Bowery or Albrighton. It's a ridiculous signing to have made.

It was a great result yesterday and we should all be grateful for that with the three games we have ahead of us. I don't think we can go down because it's clear that there are easily 3 worse teams than us. But, I still think we will struggle to get to 40 points.

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Whilst on this subject, how obvious was it that Hoolahan wished he could have joined the Villa, by not celebrating his goal.

Don't know if anyone else said this but did you see him when he was waiting to come on? His stomach was so big he looked like a surrogate mother!

Justifying his selection ahead of Clark atm I don't know. I don't see why Clark was benched. Same for me. Clark was better of the two whenever Vlaar has been out and Baker was still a liability today for their goal.

Hairyhands seemed to be in the know from the coaching side or PR side of things. He also confessed to me that his team was Celtic. Wonder who works that close to the players/management and supports Celtic?

I don't think that we should be surprised at the cloak and dagger stuff that's going on at the club. I stopped believing/trusting what comes out of the club after General Krulak left this forum in the way he did. What surprises me is, just how long will it be before the fans take a stance against what is going on at our club? What will it take before the fans say "right, that's enough. I am going to do something about this"? Regardless of what anyone thinks of Lerner, the way the club has been run - together with the pathetic three/four seasons we've been forced to endure - surely it cannot go on being accepted for much longer? Do we have to wait until the club is relegated, which looks inevitable if we continue as we are. It would be interesting to know just what it would take for fans to say "enough is enough".

I'm sure the records show that every manager to relegate Villa has been Scottish. Just get an Englishman in, Randy, and we'll be alright.

10 games left, of which you can probably say we'd expect to lose 4 for definite. Means to get to that magical 40 points we've got to take 12 points from a possible 18. Not beyond our reach but when you think we've taken something stupid like 9 points from 13 games then it becomes a bit scary. Just got to hope we beat Norwich and make things a little bit easier for ourselves.

Lambert needs to sort the team out because the way we're going we could end up being dragged right in to the relegation fight. If we fail to beat Norwich and then lose the next three, which is very possible, we could go into the last 6 games from a bottom 3 position. The last game is almost a write-off so that could leave us needing 11 or 12 points from 15 just to get to 40 points. The way this team is playing there's no chance of that. I am fearing that we might just get to 35 points and that's going to leave us praying for help from a lot of other teams.

Hope so much that he proves me wrong but I have a feeling that Benteke is the kind of player who only shows his true self when there's some kind of reward awaiting him. New contract, move away etc. I bet he will be outstanding the year before his contract is up for renewal if he's still here then.

For me it was more a case of "I told you so". I watched it with my family and me and my brother were both saying we would concede in the last minute, it was THAT predictable.

His mistakes today we're replacing Westwood with Sylla - should have been Albrighton as we were in the ascendancy - and the Bertrand with Bennett - still hasn't learnt that this kid is not up to it and Clark should have been on instead. The subs killed the game for us. However, you can't blame the manager for the poor forward play. 3 vs 2 and Benteke finds their defender = shocking.

Seriously wondering if Benteke's only ambition was to earn 40 grand a week. Even if he does get picked for the World Cup squad he's only going to be a sub at best, in this form.

Two failed attempts to clear it but it doesn't help when your Captain sits on his arse and then your right back turns his back on the shot! Can't understand why Clark wasn't brought on in place of Bertrand.