Archie

Andread played well, with intelligence and committment, as usual. He is a true Villan and a good back up.

I like the guy, last sason he scored two crucial goals, and he would deserve more consideration, imo.

If you are sure that you want Delph in the starting XI we could play with this formation, without Gabby: .......................Guzan....................... Lowton.......Vlaar......Clark........Bennett ........................Delph...................... ............El Ahmadi....Holman............ ......................Ireland ............Benteke.........Bent (Weimann)

He scored his last goal in premier in November 011.

I thougth the same thing unless I saw him live at Craven Cottage. He pushes forward but he absolutely does not mark the opponent on his flank. Poor Holman should do double job to cover Riise whereas Lowton was always out of position. Maybe he'll improve but for the moment, imho, is not a player of P.L. level.

I do not know how some fans can blame Paul Lambert for this awful first part of the season, it's beyond me. What happened is quite clear to me: for financial reasons, after the huge amount of money thrown away by his predecessors (Delph is one of the most overpaid players in the world, and so is Dunne to make only two examples) the board asked him to rebuild the team and he is doing this. The problem is that the players coming from the Academy (Bannan, Albrighton, Delfouneso, Baker even Clark) were promising but have stopped their process of growth, and, apart from Benteke and Holma, the new signigns seem still not ready for the Premier League or weakest that they were expected to be. But the last that we can blame for this situation, that has deep roots and causes in the previous years is our young manager, that has just proven at Norwich to be able to play an entertaining attacking football in Premier League (not based on long balls tactics that we are used to see at VP) with players of the lowest divisions. We must stay behind the team in this difficult moment, together we can stand, divide we'll be relegated.

A last thing, please, sorry to trouble you, but this new version is very unfriendly to me. . . How can I go to Game played from the home page? I don't find the way for this subforum. Thanks in advance.

Thank you, now I see what's happened. The thread has been moved from the Villa to the Game played section, but it also remained on the Villa section unsensitive.

In the Villa section this thread doesn't show the new posts, can anyone intervene? http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/topic/7442-prepared-for-fulham-the-best-away-trip/

The result and the game were very, very disappointed. It was the first time that i watched the Villa at the stadium this season, and the team gave me the strong impression to be much weaker than I thought. The defensive movements are quite ridiculous, the two CB are very inconstant alternating a good thing to a blunder, the full backs push but absolutely don't defend, and Holman must do an hard work to protect the right flanks where Lowton is always out of position against a still strong Riise. Apart from this, the trip to Craven Cottage has been great as usual. Not too many stadia are indicated with a sign amongst the trees. The walk across Bishop park is an experience in the experience. Nice to see the two sets of fans mixed with fair play.

With the Italian contingent, we are laving for Fulham, that is always our favourite away trip. That beautiful stadium with the superb Archibald Leitch (the same architect of VP) facade in red bricks, the Cottage itself, the tranquil streets around the ground, the unique location in the middle of Bishop Park and alongside the river, the nice pubs around Putney Bridge, the walk alongside the river Thames from the tube station to the away End, and the nice relationships with their decent, loyal, not glory-hunter fans; all these things make Fulham a beautiful day out.

The English book of the son of one of our mates reads the following: I think his is a good school, isn't it?

After seeing some Norwich's games, I have to say that with (more or less) the same team and that awful defence Paul Lambert was a magician to obtain the results that he obtained last season with the canaries. Attractive, attacking football and a safe spot in the table. I wanted him, he was my first choice as anew manager, and I'm faithful that he'll do a fantastic job with us too.

One of our mates organised a reception in order to celebrate the batism of his son. It wasn't easy to find a resturant called Villa in the region where is living (a country vilalge near the Adriatic sea) but he succedeed in this enterprise. The food was fantastic and the wine too. We proudly displayed our 80' Villa satin scarf. There was a beautiful 80's atmosphere with music and this magazine featuring THAT game. . .

http://www.telegraph...sal-demand.html Reading this article i didn't understand one thing: if it's Lambert that walked out from Norwich, how can he demand a fee for breach of contract? On the other hand, I have read that the it's the Norfolk club that prepares to sue him for unfair dismissal, whereas he said that there was a clause in his contract according to which he could talk with other club? So which is the truth? Thanks in advance to everyone that could help me.

I manage to see Villa about three times every season, but for every game I spend more than for a season ticket in Italy, so it could be taken in account!

If I should express my mood with an idiomatic expression, I'd say that I'm over the Moon. . . chester. After various years of poor football and bitter disappointments, now we have a little series of five games in which: - we have won three, lost one and drew one, wheras we were accustomed to winning one game out of ten, more or less; - we have scored 11, more than two for match, whereas our attack was one of the most sterile of the whole Country; - we try and win the games, home and away, starting to build the play from the back, whereas we were used to play defensive tactics with the only aim to draw 0-0 (and defenders limited to bell the ball clear like 40 years ago). With Paul Lambert all changed. I love our manager, I would have liked him at Villa since he was at Norwich, and I think that in sole three months he has just done a fantastic job, a sort of copernican revolution of our style of play and approach to the game, even if we must have patience as Rome wasn't built in one day (Brian Clough would say: I wasn't called for that job). . .

If this a dream please don't wake me up, I'm sooooooooooooo delighted. . .

This is the last Villa of my collection, I have just received after waiting more or less one year, but it was worth waiting!

Yes, Andres has been very unlucky so far in his finishing, but he deserves to ply in the starting XI with Bent or Benteke.

I don't remember a comeback like that, from 1-0 to 1-4. But in this disaster I'm at 100% with Paul Lambert.

When I was a kid they had the likes of Kevin Keegan and Mike Channon, incredible forwards, but for me Southampton will always be synonimous of Matthew Le Tissier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtJeN96-6fw How I'd like to have a guy like him in the Villa.

The most incredible thing is that it took only two games to him to transform the team from a boring, unwatchable, defensive formation that played long balls with the CB that limited to belt the ball clear to an attacking side that starts to build from the back and plays an entertaining, exciting, passing football.

It took only two games to Paul Lambert to transform the team and show his fine football, a football played as it has to be played, avoiding long balls, starting to build from the back, with brave, pace and technique. And with a bunch of promising, committed and not overpaid youngsters. No doubt that we have signed the best British manager, the possible heir of Ferguson.

I have seen some games at Sport Cafè, Piccadilly, but there is much confusion and probably, as I read, The Baring is the place.