Villarocker

The usual after we have scored, for some reason... its called a game of football. its what happens. especially when one team are fighting for their lives. deary me It happens quite often actually, even when we aren't playing a team fighting for their lives. Deary me. Is it that or is it the fact that we take our foot off the pedal and concede easy ground for teams to play in?

What a sitter that was. Why do we still manage to give such easy chances to such shit teams? Villa should kill these off 'cos they are shockingly poor. Let's not make it a nail biting finish yet again lads - PLEASE!! :shock:

Gabby's up for it 'cos he wants to get some shooting practise in before he plays the scum on Sunday

Some decent players there who would definetly improve our squad but none would actually replace Young and Milner so IMO would put us in a worse position. Yeah, good point, but we have Albrighton comin through and Downing could play on the left. Thats my thinkin anyway. So a team of.. Freidal Richards Dunne Cuellar Warnock Albrighton Boateng(Portsmouth) Ireland Downing Berbatov Gabby with Petrov and Big John to come on as first change with also Fonzy and Delph(when fit) behind them would give us good options. Can't see the likes of Coker, Luke Young, Heskey, Beye and Sidwell stayin if they aren't gettin a game, so we'll probably need one or two more signings in the summer as well. I suppose it really depends on if we are playin in Europe next season, which might make a difference to those players stayin or not. Sorry but there is no F+$%*ng way I want to see Berbatov down Villa Park in place of Young, Milner or even Gabby. He would be taking a big step down (for him) from man Utd and if he can't play like he is arsed for them, how much effort would he put in for us?

Come on guy's, give the General a break for god's sake! Villa have a way of doing things and let's just leave them to get on with running the club instead of giving the press something to talk about. If MON goes then he goes. I am sure that Randy would do everything to keep him here if he thought he was STILL the right man for the job. If he couldn't then surely we trust Randy enough to bring in the next RIGHT man for the Villa! Now for my question to keep in line with the rules General. Are we going to be selling our best players in the summer? ONLY KIDDING General!! Seriously, do you think that all of this malarkey regarding MON is because the fans of the "sky 4" in the press are worried about how close we are getting to upsetting their annual success story? I mean, do you think they are showing signs of accepting the fact that Villa are getting closer than ever and are worried that, if not this season, MON will get us there next season for sure? I am sick of all of the negativity about our team in the press and all of the bad refereeing decisions that we seem to have been getting lately. I seriously think we could have a lot of folks running scared and this is another step in trying to stop the Villa bandwagon rolling on. I worry about our players maybe getting cherry-picked by the likes of Utd or Chelsea in the summer. I also worry about MOn and whether he can learn from the things we think he does wrong. But, we have a great chairman and he can't be blind to what goes on so let's stick behind Randy and his gang and back them to make sure that everything is rosey for the Villa future. Whatever this season brings, I believe next season will be better.

Sorry if someone else has mentioned what i am about to say, I couldn't be arsed to trawl through the 14 or 15 pages prior to typing this! I like MON and there is no doubt we have improved on what he inherited 4 years ago. However, as mentioned already, he has spent quite a considerable amount of money to move us up the table. We got there having spent a lot and then he maintained that position having spent another lot of money. If, we fail to finish above 6th then surely you have to wonder how long Randy Lerner will continue to throw £30m into the transfer kitty, season after season, just to stay in the same place, without winning anything. With the above in mind, it may be fair to assume that Randy would tell MON that there isn't going to be as much money to spend this summer, as there has been in the previous three summer's. Now it's time to put yourself in MON's position. Would you really want to start dismantling a side you built, to raise funds for further transfers and having to start afresh, in a bid to try and break into that elusive top 4? I am not saying that he will walk or that the cash won't be there for MON in the summer. I am merely saying that it is possible that these things could happen given the fact we could finish in a position that may only be equal, or even lower, than we have finished in the previous two seasons.

Just wear your trousers low and a hat backwards and you'll be sweeeeeet And start shottin crack Now, I have no idea at all what you mean lol Thats racist :shock:

Black people call each other nigger's all of the time to sell records but that isn't classed as racist is it? I hate the word personally but it seems that whenever a non-white person says it, it is classed as ok, but whenever a white person says it they are classed as a racist and that doesn't seem fair to me.

I like MON but, are you telling me that David Moyes wouldn't have us in at least the same position we are today if he managed us from the day Randy Lerner took charge?

I think it is totally disrespectful of you to call Big Ron a "racist pensioner". The guy played a lot of black players during his time at Villa and shouldn't be judged by remarks made off-air during another team's game!

7 **** 1 says it all Mantis! As much as I enjoyed beating them 2-1 at Villa Park, i would rather have drawn that game 1-1 and lost 3-0 today than to suffer such a humiliation today! Can you seriously see us finishing in the top 7 after today's performance?

hear hear...this thread is utter bollocks....in fact its so much bollocks its double bollocks... .....he will walk away....then after two months all the moaners will be saying ''what a top manager Martin was'' ....love him or lose him....... I love him but I also love my club and it's been a long time since I saw us lose 7-1 to a team made out of half a dozen reserves! The facts tell the full story and if Villa finish outside of the top 7 then MON has a lot to answer for! If we finish outside of 7th then we have gone backwards and MON surely has to face the music for such a poor finish, yet again?

I would imagine that there is only one other manager that we would approach and that is David Moyes. He has over-achieved season after season and is by far the best out there to make Villa top four contenders.

Apart from the fact I love Villa and want us to win the semi final because I am going; I want us to get to the final because i can't stand the thought of it being an all-London wankfest for the papers and the sports channels. I hope, for the good of the game, that Villa and Pompey contest the final.

Watching the Wolves game too. How the hell was that not a penalty in the first half? Dowd was looking straight at it with a perfect view but still managed to keep his composure and remain clearing in the woods enough not to give a pen.

I totally agree with this post. Bent has proven he can score goals in the Premier League and for teams who possibly haven't had as many quality attacking players as Villa have at the moment. I know he was at a decent Spurs side but he never really got a consistent run of games there. I would offer them £12-15m plus Heskey for him, unless we play European footie next season, in which case I would keep Heskey as 4th choice striker. Going for an unproven foreign player would too big a risk at the moment, especially with the wages that a player like that would demand.

I think it's pretty **** obvious that all premiership refs want the top 4 to finish the same as it usually does and they doing their best not to give us anything. It makes you wonder just what kind of "favours" the sky 4 players do for these refs. Or, do the refs gamble their £1000 per game fee on the top 4 being the same each **** year!

Is Downing stilll playing? :?

Why so sure? We have conceded one goal in the league this year.. maybe we have but a third would cut out the nervous end to the gamer where anything can happen

We need a third - thats for sure! I just hope we go after them and not sit back and try to bloody defend the lead for half hour.

**** get in there lol

We just aren't clinical enough and at times we're far too casual. The first touch of some of them is also poor at times but I still think we will have enough to beat these tonight.

I love the way the commentator said it wasn't a beauty contest as the camera showed Kitson Come on the Villa boys

He's done it because he is trying to make sure that we don't lose the point firstly, and maybe nick a goal on the counter with Gabby's pace. Heskey is only on because he will help out more at the back when the ball's are flying in.

That's not gone down well as it lol. He's done it 'cos carew won't chase back as much as Heskey does. It looks like we're just trying to nick something, rather than try to press the game.