Enda

The "no resale value" is a hugely over-rated argument. Norwich (or any other club) will try and get as much as they can for a player they're selling. If Holt had resale value (say £3m worth), we should be willing to spend about £3m more to get him. So the price would go up by about £3m. As for signing him or not, for that sort of money I'd rather Robbie Keane.

Our lowest attendance last season still exceeded their stadium's capacity.

I've never met Paul Faulkner, or heard him talk about football. But how are you so sure he agreed with Lerner? Never been in a position where you've told your boss "Listen, I have reservations about this..." but had to publicly back their decisions?

Not to mention shite for those of us who live on the other side of the ocean.

Give them a chance. Not saying it'll work out, but we're like a cup final to Macron. They might surprise us.

Poor Chris. It's not fair that he was ruled out just because of McLeish's bad hand-writing.

Steve Staunton, too. As mentioned, in the last five or ten years there's been Kevin Doyle, James McClean, Seamus Coleman, etc. Maybe Enda will be like them and turn out to be a ~£10m player, maybe not. But seeing as signing him cost only as much as employing Emile Heskey for a month, it wasn't a bad gamble.

BBC Football, when he signed.

Worst footballer I've seen regularly play in a Villa shirt. And that includes me, aged 8.

QPR have three matches left. Chelsea, Man City and Stoke. Because of our slight goal difference cushion, they'd probably need to pick up four points from these games. That'll keep us up, I think.

The last Celtic man we had in charge did a good job, all things considered. We just needed to rein him in a lot more than we did. The current troglodyte in charge is a Rangers man, and it has been a disaster. And they're in administration, the bastards. Clearly therefore our next manager must be Paul Lambert

Nah, this is wrong. The religion of the Arab world wasn't even founded "thousands of years ago", and Jews and Muslims mostly got on very well (notable exceptions aside) until after WWII. Throwing in a "Oh a Jew would never sell to an Arab"-type comment is off-topic, bigoted, and historically stupid. Stupid? Well I think they deserved to be called on it. But your point is fair enough, so I'll shut up about it.

You're both **** tools. Why am I a Tool? For thinking Jewish people are usually better with money? its true most of the time though. RL's religious beliefs have absolutely zero to do with AVFC. The performance and management of our club is embarrassing because we've made terrible choices that have us flirting with relegation. It's embarrassing that Bolton at home is the biggest game of the season for us. These have absolutely nothing to do with Randy's religion. Bringing religion into it is as stupid as bringing race into it.

You're both **** tools.

I'm needing to get to cork from dublin, i'm sure it's easy but what's the best cheapest way? Have to search the family roots..dad lived there most his growing up life, moved from dublin. Assuming you're going from Cork city, the best way is the Aircoach. It's about e20, doesn't stop at every third house so is fairly quick, and is comfortable. The train is about an hour faster but is twice the price unless you can get a good deal.

In case anyone is thinking of travelling across from England to the Chicago game, have a check at the prices from Dublin. I'm a poor student going across the Atlantic a couple of times a year, and I've always found Dublin cheaper than London or Frankfurt or Paris. And Aer Lingus have the nicest planes, too. (PS Expedia is yer only man.) scottb51 and usvilla - how do matches in America work? Will the Villa fans be in a certain section? Basically, am I better off buying tickets from AVFC than Ticketmaster?

Birmingham Mail I'm living in Michigan, so Chicago is a five-hour bus away. Definitely going to this.

Not half-bad for a kid who "literally can't run."

------------------Given---------------- Stevens--Dunne--Williams---Devine Coleman--------Clark----Carruthers -----------------Ireland---------------- ---------Drennan------Burke---------- Could happen. Some day.

Hi General, My new kit that I ordered off the official website arrived here in the States this morning. $72.50 including shipping. As noted by a few fans on the New Kit thread the shirts this year are a size larger than in previous years. These are both "Medium". It's the same with my Medium neon-blue kit from a couple of years back, others have reported the same thing relative to last year's kit. If I want to exchange my shirt for a smaller size - the size I thought I was getting based on previous AVFC shirts by Nike - I will have to pay another $15 in shipping (i.e. send shirt back to B6 AND pay for shipping out the exchange shirt.) I appreciate that this is not a huge issue for the Club but from my point of view this is pretty crappy. I buy the new kit almost every season and they're always Medium. This year Nike (or someone else) has gone and changed the sizes and now I'm out an extra $15 as a result of it. I would not have had this problem had I bought from a high-street store but I wanted to buy directly from Villa to give them the extra profit. This exchange policy really discourages fans from doing that. Could you look into sorting something out on the official site's exchange policy or, at least, ensure that size changes are clearly highlighted for future years please? Best, Enda

Around February I told myself I'd stop complaining once we stayed up. This season is easier to accept that way. I'm writing this season off.

Understand that nobody likes renewing their ST after a poor performance, but I have to completely disagree with the bolded bit. Do you remember what things were like with David O'Leary and Doug Ellis? Doug Ellis who chased two very good managers away from the club and was so tight our players feared we'd miss matches because our bus would break down. In contrast under Randy Lerner, off the top of my head, we've had: 1. The return of European football to Villa Park 2. Ashley Young, £9.6m 3. The restoration of some of the club's tradition with the mosaic and the Holte 4. Proper interaction with the fans 5. Sponsorship by acorns 6. James Milner, £12m 7. Stewart Downing, £12m 8. Darren Bent, £24m None of the above would have happened under Ellis. Fair enough we sold Milner but we wouldn't have signed him at all under Ellis. We've had a shit season, no question about it, but it's certainly not Randy Lerner's fault.

You're forgetting that it's not just Wigan below us. To go down, we'd also need Brum to beat Fulham and get a point at Spurs, and Blackburn to beat Man Utd but lose to Wolves (or something weird like that) and Blackpool to beat United as well. Not going to happen.

Apologies - I know this is going massively off topic but I don't understand why the IFA (who are the Northern Ireland Association - right?) would reject this proposal when it appears to readjust things in their favour? I imagine they realised that it a compromise with no benefit to them. About 50% of the population of the North feel Irish so might want to switch allegiances. FIFA offered the compromise that people from the south could play up there too. But approximately 0% of the south feel British so nobody would take the offer up.

Off-topic again here but BOF I don't think the current scenario is all that unfair on the North. Irish people are Irish; British people are British; it just happens that there's a mix of them in the North. So the Good Friday Agreement said "Right, if you want to be British you can have a British passport and if you want to be Irish you can have an Irish passport." Fair compromise, democratically endorsed. Nordies who feel Irish (and who object to claims that they're British) can play for ROI. Nordies who feel British (and who object to claims that they're Irish) can play for NI. I think that's a fairer outcome, particularly from the unionist stand-point, than the rugby scenario where nordie Brits can only play for Ireland.