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I don't think he's capable

Was there any booing at the end of the game??? I missed the final couple of minutes due to my internet stream fecking up.. I heard the "you're getting sacked in the morning" chant a few times but i wondered if it was the Bradford fans having a dig

Anything happening Randy?

At last a word from our owner.....

Very concerned now, got a horrible feeling Ol 'Arry is signing some quality at QPR & i bet he keeps them up & we'll go down because Lerner & Lambo didn't sign anyone during this window. What if Randy had bought QPR instead of Villa, i could see him not sacking Mark Hughes, not investing in the the jan transfer window & wondering why his team got relegated.. scary times ahead. If Lerner keeps faith with Lambo they have to strengthen this window, i cant believe we would go in the Bradford game without help. do they want to throw it away

Damn the deal is off.... Wikipedia has been changed back to him playing for Toulouse

It's on Wikipedia, so it must be true lol "On the 15th January 2013 Sissoko signed a four year deal with Aston Villa for a reported €3.5 million."

Fantastic game, my favourite of the 2012. Was a little disappointed at first, thought i'd made a massive mistake as the first level was a bit boring but from then on it just got better & better & better. I'm halfway though my second playthough, 1st time using stealth & non-lethal takedowns but this time i'm killing everything with a bodycount like an 80's "Arnie" movie. thoroughly recommend it & at around £20 at the moment.. it's bargain

Much prefer Black Ops 1 multiplayer than BO2. though i did enjoy the campaign on BO2 more than BO1. BO2 multiplayer is a definate improvement on the dire MW3 muliplayer but doesn't compare with BO1

i still play black ops 1 on occasion as i still think it's the best for on-line multiplayer. i got very bored with MW3 quickly as graphically & playability wise it wasn't as good. i'm still on the fence with new black ops 2 as i think it's miles better than Mw3 but not as good as black ops 1. so tend to play either black ops 1 or 2 depending who's online & if no-ones online then it's Dishonored...

i don't think there is a inbetween.. Randy can't/won't spend the money. i would have loved say 2/3 quality prem players to compliment what we've signed but then it's back to the reducing the wage bill issue again. we have to have affordable players now. we could never have paid AJ's wages. that is where we are as a club now unfortunately.

i look at it like this.... PL knows as do most fans that most of the current squad couldn't give a monkeys about putting on the villa shirt & giving their best week in week out. bringing a few Top Drawer signings isn't going to help get rid of the dead wood in the team & we will struggle. We need a whole new team which gives you 2 quick fix options. Learner gives you £100 million to go & buy a team of "household" names, which he isn't going to do (wheather he has the cash or not) after getting his financial fingers burnt by MON or the other option is you buy a team of cheap unknowns & take a gamble In reality we'd all like a £100 million pound team but as it's not possible i'd rather have a team of talented unknowns who will wear the shirt with pride & give a 100% than half a team that can't be bothered. if we do struggle (& i think we will) i'd rather have a team of fighters & tryers than a team with one eye on their relegation clauses. well done PL

Amazing - if McLeish had made these signings, people would want him hung, drawn and quartered. I am glad he has gone but equally I am surprised at the amount of faith people have in Paul Lambert. If Mcleish had made these signings this place would have gone in to meltdown. alex mcleish doesnt have a proven track record of buying surprise packages from lower leagues, lambert has done it very well. that's the difference there's plenty to be excited about from the players who've come in. we've brought in a dutch international feyenoord captain in vlaar, feyenoord's best player of last season in el ahmedi, a striker from a very exciting young belgian international team in benteke, middlesbrough's ex player of the year in bennett, a young leader from crewe in westwood and a very highly rated attacking full back in lowton then there's holman who could be okay, a squad strengthener more than anything but potential there to be a kuyt-light style workhorse who'll score a few goals and be a nuisance, and bowrey who's a really unknown quantity that nobody's expecting anything of part of the excitement comes from the unknown there, and the fact that we'll have so little premiership experience is a concern to some, but that's not really the issue. the problem will be integrating everyone into an already very disrupted squad. we've had more managers in the last few years than anyone else with o'neill, macdonald, houllier, mcallister, mcleish and now lambert all managing the side, and players brought in by each of them for different styles and systems still there lambert obviously has a gameplan in mind. he's not gone out and randomly signed all these players. they'll each have been bought for a particular reason, so simply saying "he's from a lower league club so he's shite" is a bit nonsensical for years we've looked on jealously as other clubs have picked up gems, and complained that we didn't appear to have any kind of scouting system in place. now we have a manager who knows the lower leagues, and has successfully signed from them in the past. he's gone for young, hungry players highly rated by their previous clubs, and added a few older pros as well. maybe not ones with premiership experience, but they're internationals. we've signed 8 players this summer, 4 of them are full internationals, and 3 of them are underage internationals i find it a bit strange that we had people on here complaining that we werent after the likes of charlie adam and scott sinclair, 3 years ago charlie adam was on loan at blackpool from rangers, and scott sinclar was doing nothing at chelsea. christ, swansea signed him for half a million in 2010. there were people on here complaining about not signing players this window we wouldve complained about signing 3 years ago we're now in the position where WE'RE the club bringing those players into the league. the benefits are two fold with that. firstly if even 50% of them are successful, we become a very, very good option for the most promising lower league players. secondly, there's a massive sell-on for those players should they become very successful. yeah we don't want them leaving, but if you can buy someone for 2m and sell them for 8m a few years later, you're in a good place. eventually, you'll get to the point where they'll be staying at the club instead of going elsewhere look, the team isn't going to settle immediately. they're going to need 10 games or so to really get to know each other, but once there's a long term focus at the club in terms of playing style, and everyone signed is signed for that system, then we'll ultimately end up a lot better off than signing "established premiership players" for three times their value, massive wages and no sell-on price ultimately, if someone said at the start of the summer that we'd bring in a moroccan international, a dutch international, a belgian international and an australian international, and some very highly rated young players from the lower leagues, would we have had much of a problem with it? Spot on for me,

Bent & Benteke... catchy i like it, on paper it works well

does anyone know if Randy was at the Everton game?? he ought to have been there... 1st home game of the season, new manager, new players, fresh start, etc speaks volumes if he wasn't there :oops: