Mark_1989

That does sound mad. We would be below Bournemouth and they could go on and beat Everton.

We absolutely can say poor signing! He was bought to score goals and keep us up. He’s returned 1 goal and we are likely to go down. He hasn’t done the job asked of him. Poor signing.

In no way can you compare him to Douglas Luiz, even at the start of season it was very clear there was a footballer in him. Samatta job is to score goals. I can only judge him on what I’ve seen. constantly offside. awful touch poor runs Heading ability bar LCF poor. Doesn’t impose himself on defenders. Poor signing.

Why?? For not pretending all is rosie in the garden? Calling out a player for being poor is allowed. Man United 2nd goal v us, yes was Mings error but that only comes about because the ball comes into the box and Samatta bumbles around with it in the first place. Poor player who we have carried.

As long as the championship doesn’t worry him then I guess that’s ok? Or maybe that there lies the problem, he can’t believe his luck that he’s playing for a team as big as Villa? He was signed to try keep us in the league yet we are carrying him every game. I appreciate new league, language can be tough however that has no influence when he’s missing headers so badly and not even hitting the target. His touch looks hopeless and his run behind the defence even worse. Don’t get me wrong I hope he comes good in the Championship but think he’s been a disaster tbh.

Utter sh*t. Panic purchase looks a miserable bastard too...jack, Dougie and John must look around and think who’s this guy. Not good enough for the chump league let alone ours.

**** samatta off

Brilliant first half

How’s everyone’s nerves? Win tonight and it’s on...

More like a first leg of a semifinal - win the first leg, draw the second then beat West Ham

people on here saying overturning 4 points in 3 games is too much are purely saying that as a coping mechanism. With the fixtures falling the way they have it’s 100% achievable. What we need to do is take care of our business, something we have been pathetic at doing all season, but the past year counts for nothing if we can just string 3 results together. I just pray that the boys come good I feel there is optimism in the squad and they can do it. Come on the boys!!!

Not sure that’s true in the slightest.

Whatever league we MUST keep dougie

Very very good again. Intercepted some big plays. Can move the ball forward quickly too. Whatever the outcome of this season we need to keep him. He could be the lynchpin in the middle when jack goes.

Completely agreed .the original post is very bizarre.

Problem is we know we won’t keep the nucleus of a team. Right now I’d expect Middlesbrough to be stronger than us in the championship next season. We will literally be back to square one with fewer weeks to prepare.

Good job Luiz wasn’t annonymous when cleaning up a defensive error.

I swear VillaLad is a troll never seen as much nonsense from one user than this guy

Ridiculous!! - you’d have a situation where rival fans would turn up pretending to be supporters of Aston Villa etc or other clubs. Be even more caotic. Blues fans or Sheffield United fans For eg. wearing Villa shirts outside VP. Crazy idea!!

Agreed he’s a troll.

You probably forgot the times he use to panic, zero clue with formations lumpInt 5 attackers up top all standing 5 yards from one another. Long balls aimed hopelessly. a personal favourite moment of his tenure was the Bradford debacle. if your getting excited about one game v Liverpool then kinda strange.

Have a day off - we might have been bad but no way as bad as under Lambert. We’ve been naive yes, spurs, arsenal, liverpool etc playing well but getting nothing from it. Yes we have been poor Southampton and Bournmouth and likes of Brighton and West Ham at home but we’ve played well at times and come up short. a promoted team will always swing from good performances to bad ones due to inconsistent teams hence being a relegation threatened team but to say we’ve been worse than some of the lambert stuff I fail to see.

Sounds like the driver is having you on

I would hardly say either them have re grouped and come back a success. Newcastle now have optimism with likely new owners but their team is just as bad as ours and they dislike Bruce - except for a few fortunate wins they could easily be fighting relegation and West Ham utter shambles too.

Agreed - this notion of starting again is a coping mechanism strategy. Sounds great but in reality never happens like that - just a way for people to kid themselves and try to feel better about life. In no way to I want to go back to the swamp of the EFL again. This would make me angrier than the previous relegation as I truly believe we would have every right to be aggrieved. VAR truly F’d us in many games along with a scandalous decision away at palace and then to not have played 38 games would be unjust. Yes we have been very naive in many matches and Smith has made some bad calls but to go down this year I’d be very aggrieved.