tomav84

Interesting that he went out to 26-1 and is suddenly bein backed down to 14-1 Someone is still chucking money on him saw him at 28s when i saw gaztons post and thought 'shall i?' hes back down to 2/1 joint fave now! either everyone started chucking money on, clutching at straws, or somethings going on...

surely its over...

wouldnt surprise me if he wanted a clause relating to man u similar to the one he had with molde regarding prem teams. aint buying the family reasons excuse but fair play to him for going along with it in an attempt not to make us look too bad. just hope lerner had similar 'preliminary talks' with lambert

Think the majority of the excitement is us going into the unknown somewhat. Getting a young hungry manager in and we have no idea the style of football will be played...unlike the appointment made by the board a year ago. Yes this might completely fail...but for once there is as much chance that it would be a complete success too. Personally whilst there possibly has been a slight overreaction, its nice to see a bit of excitement and unity on the forum again!

managed to get 6/1 at william hill 10 mins ago...back down to 2s again now!

so guess i'm not doing much work today then...

problem is that we arn't the most patient bunch are we? personally i think the level of investment required to bring us back to where we expect to be is not going to come in one summer, so yes it will be minimum 2 seasons before we are in the right half of the table. i just hope that he is given the time to do it by both fans and the board my issue is that he is using us as a stepping stone to better things (dont get me wrong, happy to be stepped on if it means we dont have a season like we have just had) but he is leaving molde after only 18 months in the job...he can and will do the same to us. i say get him on a long term deal so when something better comes knocking we get decent compensation excited about this though...liking the norwegian little scamp more the more i hear about him

wondering what this page is going to read at 11pm... Clicky

liverpool will go for all the big names first - all of which wouldnt even give us the time of day. cant see them going for martinez / lambert

this...mainly cause i have a tenner on him at 40/1

not popping the champagne corks til i know who his replacement will be...still not overly confident of lerner and faulkner's abilities to appoint the right man

staying in norwich on sun night...anyone know where's good to drink?

the lap of honour is for the players...the manager never takes part. just sayin...

thanks for the efforts carlos. the team needs a complete rebuild and unfortunately that includes that your good self. gave his all today but sorry there are better defenders available if we actually do a bit of scouting and wouldnt want as much in wages

my faith in lerner and faulkner is so low that i genuinely fear of who the villa manager will be next season. it could very easily be mcleish for a start, but due to this ridiculous criteria of premiership experience i wonder who the actual candidates are. i dont think we can tempt anyone from their current job i.e rodgers or lambert, which leaves current out of work prem managers. i have a horrible feeling he is going to appoint bruce or mccarthy i really do...

So it's socially acceptable then? Did I say it was? I said it wasn't newsworthy, it was an absolutely nothing incident outside a nightclub. I see shit like that every day it shouldnt be newsworthy, but fact of the matter is that these instances DO make the news. play it down all you like saying you see things like this every day (dont know what sort of clubs you hang out in by the way!) but herd kicking the nightclub door as insignificant as it was probably would have had him arrested had the police turned up. its just bad press that villa dont need right now

i think that about sums it up. we havent generally all watched a whole load of qpr / bolton matches this season where as we have been subjected to dire avfc football all season therefore we are so full of negativity that we are fearing (and sometimes assuming) the worst - even though it is obviously unlikely. all my mates say to me when i say i am resigned to relegation that we are not going down and that we are best placed to avoid the drop out of all teams involved...so that is how other fans percieve us, its just that we see the glass half empty after watching such negative football all season.

I agree but for some reason others think that QPR will become one of the best teams in Europe overnight ;-) no one is saying that...i'm just hating the pure assumptions that city are going to beat qpr and we will be fine. yes they probably will...but its 11vs11 on a one off game and by my predictions qpr only need a point to keep them up and send us down. MUCH stranger things have happened

been saying it all along - even when o'neill left...slavan bilic. think he would be brilliant

call me superstitious but cant help but think all this 'were definitely staying up' and 'qpr are definitely losing at city' is jinxing things somewhat...relegation threatened teams can pull all kinds of results out when they're fighting. look at west ham v man utd a few years back

think thats where the headlines get changed to "McLeish sacked" to "McLeish in police protection" should that occur

a draw vs spurs and a qpr loss - qpr draw and its still a 9 goal swing required to send us down. this is assuming bolton win next 2 games too. spurs and baggies do us a favour and we could find ourselves in the dizzy heights of 15th by the end of next weekend

ive just done the predictor as negatively as i could bolton winning midweek and beating west brom, drawing to stoke - theyre safe qpr beating stoke but losing to citeh - theyre down blackburn beating wigan losing to chelsea - theyre down wigan lose to blackburn but beat wolves - theyre safe we lose last 2 games narrowly and stay up on goal difference IMO unless QPR can manage a result away to city last game of season we're safe...rather they just failed to beat stoke though and us be able to enjoy the day at norwich though!

just seen interview on sky sports from dunne who indicated the boos etc affects the youngsters

i think it was less insulting to us when we never heard anything