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Is that aimed at anyone in particular or VTers as a whole?

This might be the largest overestimation of a group I've ever seen. You could take 11 VT'ers and get through five or six cases of booze and a couple of carton of fags sure, but physical exercise? Okay, a little bit of an overstatement; we would only need 5 lol.

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert, following his side's 1-0 loss at West Ham: "We started the game really well but never really created as much as we wanted to. I couldn't fault the effort. We will pick ourselves up and go again. There is a long way to go and we'll see what happens." Sounds like a couple of managers we have had recently.

First reasonable post of the thread. Not the end of the world. He wasnt going to make us world beaters in his first competitive match. The play was better, he needs new players and he will get new players You could take 11 VTer's and they could pass the ball around as much as Villa did today. West Ham sat back and let us have the ball in our own half so wasn't difficult to make a few passes and look good. It's what happens in the opponents half that matters and we were very poor. Same as last years; no ideas what to do when we attack. Manager's tactics of playing narrow and trying to go through Collins in the middle. Everyone knows on here we are playing to his strengths when we do that why doesn't PL. Why in the world we didn't play wide and pull him out of position because that's when he makes mistakes. Must of been part of the transfer fee; a parting gift of MOTM.

Gerard Houiller got very similar performances out of similar players and he got slaughtered for it. Certainly more passing that last season but doesn't really matter if all the passing is in your own half or the center circle. I heard before the game we would be attacking; well didn't really see a great deal of that. We can all say it's his first game but doesn't matter same problems are there. We have weak minded players who don't know or haven't been told what to try and do when things go wrong. Trevor Francis may be a nob and a blue nose but he summed us up right "We played the second half as if we were winning 3-0 away from home." Poor, very poor.

PL was right the fans won't wait 40 minutes for a shot on goal; maybe he should have told the players that.

The way we are playing I thought we had brought GH back as coach.

Shame, I've tweeted him a couple of times in the past that he should contact PL for a deal.

Didn't you just say we have signed him? How much you had to drink?

Could we rename the thread to General relegation dicussion. Thanks.

Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick Barry Bannan crashes in a sublime equaliser with a free kick into the top corner from just outside the box

Timothy Abraham ‏@TimothyAbraham Charles N'Zogbia very busy and involved for Villa. Linking up well with Brett Holman. The start of a beautiful relationship.

Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick Delfouneso scampered clear but his curling effort is blocked Seems like we are making quite a few chances.

Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick Holman threads in Delfouneso who fires home, but the offside flag was up. Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick El Ahmadi smashes a cracking shot towards goal with Camp clawing it past the post with a fine save Timothy Abraham ‏@TimothyAbraham Villa thought they had scored when Bannan's free-kick was headed in by Clark but referee (Stuart Attwell, yes him..) spotted an infringement

Bannan is Captain.

Saying that Bellamy has been awesome tonight; no way should he be looking to go play for Cardiff.

Sturridge just scored a very nice goal for team GB.

Poor defending and a deflection made it an exciting match. Don't shoot me but taking Collins off was our downfall. Yes I said it.

Good first half but I feel the artifical pitch is having an affect on a few of the players. Ball doesn't seem to be rolling as well as it does on grass. Lot's of possession but would like to see us break a little quickler; two you forwards not done a great deal.

Yes

Would like us to take a look at Berbatov. I've always likes him and looks like he could be leaving United. He could be the player we need to link up with Bent.

Quite an old article. Yes, I worked that out by the date but does anyone know if he signed a new contract since then? If not then I am seeing it would be a free as it says runs out summer 12.

http://tiny.cc/yl2hhw

http://tiny.cc/7e2hhw Does this mean it would be a free?

Solo or good team work?