jasoncb

I've never seen him pass so not sure if he's any good at it, I assume he's not though. He dribbles like he's wearing concrete boots and his long shots are just awful. Not premiership class at the moment, may need time to adjust who knows but we don't have time if we get pulled into another relegation battle.

With Vlaar in the defense we can manage but without him we are risking relegation. Yes we might have been lucky and got enough points on the board from smash and grab wins but why would you want to risk our premiership status if you can avoid it.

I may regret saying this but Newcastle are looking to loan out Steven Taylor, could this be an option if we can't buy anyone ?

Vlaar was injured last season too and it costs us points yet he still remains the only experienced defender we have. Whilst I rate Okore there is no way you can keep staying in the premiership relying on 1 experienced defender especially one who's injury prone.

Our defence was a shambles, an overpaid shambles at that, I'm glad Collins, Warnock and Dunne went. I find it funny that people are constantly picking out our defence for improvement, a defence that has much improved since last season apart from the last few games where Vlaar has been out injured. Vlaar runs the show at the back, simples, as soon as he'll back we'll be better again - just like last season. First off I only mentioned Collins as i believe we only need 1 experienced head to lead the line (as you said with Vlaar). Now you just proved my point by saying we are relying on Vlaar to run the show at the back so surely an experienced Collins would help the younger players in defense. Whilst you may not have rated Collins i believe he was a dependable player and i find thats what were missing.

It baffles me why he sold Collins, fair enough he was looking to bring in a more youthful squad but NOT THE CENTER HALVES that is just suicidal. If we could only have a good backline I can take some positives out of this mess. Yes we brought in Vlaar but if we lose him we have no experience at the back whatsoever, which is what is costing us right now.

We can't counter attack, we can't hold possession, our long ball game is poor and I haven't seen a through ball for a good few hours. This is not football its just hit it and hope the opposition makes a mistake or one of our team scores a long shot (that's how we won the last game at stoke).

Can't see Lerner spending money now if it can be avoided, he wants his millions back.

The problem is Lambert won't ask for money since it will jeopardise his job, he just gets what's available I assume. There can't be many managers who can work on this budget, even promoted sides spend more than us.

There may have been a Graham Taylor lineup that was worse, but its a close call.

We can't build any kind of form with the current players, we will be banking on vlaar and benteke returning and hoping they make a difference.

The problem is it isn't going to get better, majority of the points we have we have stolen and this run of form has been due for a long time.

Can't stand this anymore, stoke were truly awful and somehow we were even worse.

haha yeah sorry was getting tired and rushed that part a bit

--------------------Guzan----------------------- New Player --- Vlaar --- Okore --- Luna --New Player--- Delph --- New Player-- --New Player-----------------New Player-- ----------------- New Player------------------ I would keep gabby, Lowton, Clark, Kozak, as cover and sell Baker, Weimann, Tonev, Westwood, KEA, and Albrighton. Maybe keep Sylla if he improves. Looks harsh but I am aiming for improving the quality dramatically with the money from Benteke. Edit: Just saw you want names of the new players, will have to sleep on it !

I feel its more the case of him being squeezed out of games and the complete lack of service apart from hopeful long balls in the air (Guzan seems to prefer this every time). Last season he seemed to have so much more space in front of him when he turned with the ball now he's turning into 3 defenders every time. We simply aren't not working as a team and working the oppositions defence when were not counter attacking, if we stretched their fullbacks then benteke would be allowed more space but gabby and weimann never do that since they always cut back into the middle. Albrighton perhaps is the way forward as he did what you would expect from a wide player.

Hey just a quick hello from a villa fan whos residing in Sweden at the moment, originally from the UK (Bromsgrove) and I find this a great place to keep upto events with the club. Anyway thanks for this forum!