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Is it, QPR and Newcastle have them in their contracts? I find it highly unlikely that information regarding any players contract is widely known, hardly a selling point at the time of putting pen to paper.

If Newcastle go down who is going to offer Sisokko... and the others 75k a week? QPR have a whole load of unsellable players, not because their no good, they just have huge weekly wages that no one can or will match, as per Hutton and co for us. The whole game has gone mad, someone is going to pay this season, 3 teams have to go down and as it looks now QPR are in the last chance saloon and Newcastle are raising the stakes to a whole new level, if they lose against us their whole club is at risk........Hopefully the press vultures will move on form us.

BB has been a remarkable series for me, everyone I know, that has given it a chance have remarked at how it has grabbed their imagination. Netflix subscribers will rocket once this gem goes main stream.

Lambert's remit was to rid the club of high earners and try and keep us in the premier league without the panic buying that brought players like Hutton and Ireland into this club. If we go down, which looks likely to me, Lambert will get the chance to bring us back up, next Christmas will be the measuring stick. He rebuilt Norwich from the ground up and that is why he was brought to Villa. The likes of Newcastle and QPR are risking their whole existence to try and guarantee premier league football, if the gamble doesn't last at least 2 seasons they are in deep financial trouble. Mr Lerner has not got the money or the time to be more hands on with the Villa, we have to be self sufficient and this has to be achieved soon, very soon....... Hate mail is received by 99% of managers, as someone else as pointed out, the press smell blood. UTV

Well done Bradford......

Season ticket holders would drop to around 12-15k, Saturday 3pm the crowds would be around 30k-33k, midweek, late kick offs......20k.

We need to get good results tonight and against Newcastle. Show the selling teams we aren't that desperate to buy and gives any potential new players the added bonus of playing in a cup final.

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

We will pick up points during these games though, no pressure on the team to get anything makes a difference, as shown against Liverpool. That's not to say were going to win them all but a win and a draw would make a difference.

Borough fans on their forum seem to have a good opinion on him, only read the first page but all seem positive. A few even comment he may need another season at their level, they was probably right and he may yet get it. ;-)

Handsworth, if you can get the invite.

If Vlar starts then i would start with 4-4-2, we need to protect our full backs, other teams are doubling up against them and if we play a 5-3-2 we look exposed in that area. I have a feeling we are going to win this one, 3-1 to the Villa.

Think we all get your point, why don't you just leave it at that and get on with a normal healthy life? Not much value in trying to change opinions, especially over a public forum. Lambert's made mistakes, everyone does. Some of his players may turn out to be crap. We need Vlar or Dunne back to steady the ship, let the team build some confidence and show, over a full season what they are all about. If we escape relegation it will feel, to me, as good as winning the league. That's what footballs all about UTV

We need a director of football or a managing director of the Daniel Levy type. They would not have allowed the signing of Ireland, we had no manager at the time and he would not have allowed AM to sign N'Zogbia. We already knew he was was a problem with him and the blues situation, anyone with an ounce of football knowledge would have known the issues surrounding these type of toxic players. Managers come and go, a Managing director stays and overseas the financial side of the football business.

Vlar plays in the middle of the Clark and Baker, no Delph .......3-1 to the villa, no vlar...we lose, see ya in the Holte.

Newcastle are in a right mess, their captain wants out, lost there best striker.... they look odds on to me to be right amongst it all.

They were all shit, having no midfield didn't help him at all, he looked shell shocked. The amount of pressure on these players is immense, good players can turn into bad ones and bad players, with strong nerves, can be look good. Booing him, or any other player for that matter does no one any good. As for a concert being the same as a football match...... you don't support a band, you don't watch them every week and you don't have a vested interest in their success.

I think the Dale Stephens transfer (and any other of our transfer targets) being dragged out is down to our apparent desperation to get players in. The selling teams would be mad not to try and play the situation to their advantage. We must have agreed a fee in the summer, its my bet this fee has changed........

We need 4 players, two central midfielders and two central defenders, I reckon 2 with top level experience and two with potential. I do not expect any Brazilian or any other flair player, exactly the sort of player we do not need.

He needs a chance, a season with our support and Lerner's. The reason we are this mess is down to the poor overseeing of previous incompetent managers (PF) who have systematically brought toxic players. When their mess is sorted we can build again, until then its going to be long hard road. People are still singing his name and that shows how much we have all learnt over the last few managers, we are no longer fickle. UTV

Are the coffee shops still trading with tourists? About to book but need to know first.

Lescott on loan ain't gonna happen, hes at the end of hes career, were building for the future with a young team, sink or swim that's the way its gonna happen at the villa. As for Lerner...he don't get involved with the month to month let alone the day to day. He gives us money when PF asks, upto a limit.

Na, Ellis.

Vlaars better than Collins or Carlos and Benteke is a great buy at £7m. Can't see were Lamberts gone wrong tbh, Westwood, lowton are better than we had at the club and Bennet, the jurys out. We need a combative midfielder and a central defender to make up for the injuries we have picked up. On the subject of injuries, i think its a credit to Lambert that he hasn't given this as an excuse, its a major reason why we have started to flood goals in, Vlaar then Baker are both key players for us, when they get back we will be a much harder team to score against. Could you imagine the fuss candle face would make if QPR had our injury list?

We all need to get behind the team from the off today, its great singing for the last 10 minutes of a 4 nil defeat, it would help more if it was for the first ten today, maybe the whole ground will join in and drag our injury ravished team of young players across the finishing line. UTV