meregreen

I don't measure a man on the way he looks, or eats a sandwich. I prefer to judge someone on their character and their compassion for those less fortunate. On those criteria I will happily give Miliband my vote. Cameron, as with so many Tories, pays lip service to caring for those in need, while at the same time sticking it to them. They are not called the nasty party for nothing. Its a tag thats well earned.

Poor teams have won the cup. Wigan being the latest. Its a long shot that just got shorter today.

If we sign another striker and if that striker is any good, then it will highlight just how mediocre Gabby is. Lets hope we get someone in before the deadline.

Christ, they're falling like ninepins. The cups there to be won this season.

Gabby and Weimann are still on the books. I assume this is one of the reasons we're not replacing them. You can replace them in the TEAM as opposed to the club.

The sheer complacency at this club beggars belief. We desperately need two new strikers to replace the chuckle brothers, aka Gabby and Weiman. Big clubs do go down, wake up Mr Lerner, unlike you we have to watch this shit every week.

In his last season in Italy, he failed to score a single League goal. He isn't the answer to our goal scoring problem. Still think he would be a better option than Gabby or Weiman though.

Win, lose or draw. I would just like to enjoy going to Villa Park again. Watching Villa for 50 years, I have seen highs and lows, but the thought of watching any more of this guys feeble management is very depressing.

Truly awful player. And getting worse.

Who'd buy the useless lump.

Good luck to him, we need a few more though.

To put it bluntly, times have changed. The club isn't really a club any more, it's a private business who you give money to in return of tickets. No one from the club (that's important enough) will realistically meet with fans, listen and action what they have to say. By all means, if enough people do this, then something may happen, but you're going to need 10s of thousands of people to do anything and really, we haven't got the local fan base to do it. Times haven't changed, maybe some fans have though. Funnily enough clubs in 68 were privately owned, and we bought tickets in those days too. The board in 68 weren't falling over themselves to talk to us either. Your right we do need thousands to do something, care to be one of them? You seriously believe we don't "have the local fan base" to do it. It's all about money now, and the fans don't have enough influence financially to hold any weight. In the 60s the average footballers wage was £15-£20 a week. The average ticket was £1.50. Now the average Premier League player earns £25-30,000 a week, the average ticket is £40. Proportionally, 1 single ticket today is 750x less than the wage packet average players earn. It used to take 13 people to pay for a players wages. Now it takes 750 of us. Whereas being in the PL is worth roughly £100m a year in TV/rights etc revenue. No one would care if 0 fans turned up, as long as we stay in the PL. It all comes down to money, it all comes down to Sky, it all comes down to we can do **** all, unfortunately, as much as I WANT to agree with you that people power would work, it just won't. Your way out on your stats from the sixties. Top players earned a lot more than £20 a week. And I used to get in for 50p I'm in total agreement with you on the obscene amounts of money in the game today, and have always hated Skys malign influence with a passion. But I still think we count. Indeed without us there is no game worth a light. We can watch this club die on our knees, or stand up and be counted. Thats our choice.

Thing is, what's needed is a change of ownership, not management. The owner is willing to sell but currently there's no buyer, so what is the point protesting against him? He owns it.But appears to have little interest in it. As for there being no buyer. Who knows what interest has been shown. Its all so damn cloak and dagger at VP. Change of manager is in my opinion even more needed than change of owner. The knuckle draggers have shown that even with a crook in situ, a decent manager can improve results.

Aston Villa wasn't going for somehwere between £150-200 million in 1968. The game has changed, massively. Nothing will change till Lerner goes and Lerner isn't going anywhere for a long time. There aren't people willing to spend the best part of a quarter of a billion on a football club and then some to get us competing at the top again. As frustrating as it is to watch, and it was like pulling teeth at Leicester, you may as well save your breath, because its only being wasted. Rich clubs were around in 68. Its just the figures that change. We don't know what Mr Lerner is going to do. He never tells us. The manager can be changed. I love my club too much to save my breath.

To put it bluntly, times have changed. The club isn't really a club any more, it's a private business who you give money to in return of tickets. No one from the club (that's important enough) will realistically meet with fans, listen and action what they have to say. By all means, if enough people do this, then something may happen, but you're going to need 10s of thousands of people to do anything and really, we haven't got the local fan base to do it. Times haven't changed, maybe some fans have though. Funnily enough clubs in 68 were privately owned, and we bought tickets in those days too. The board in 68 weren't falling over themselves to talk to us either. Your right we do need thousands to do something, care to be one of them? You seriously believe we don't "have the local fan base" to do it.

I was there in 68. Villa fans then were not prepared to sit idly by and do nothing . We chanted" the board must go" at every game. We held demonstrations and held meetings, a big one at Digbeth civic hall. We all loved our club too much to watch it die a slow death. From those actions, change was initiated. We suffered set backs, but the seeds of a better club were planted. Doing nothing, will change nothing. Were Villa fans then, a tougher bunch, maybe they were, but this club is drifting, much as it was back then. An inept board, an uninspiring manager, a group of players, some of which are not fit to play for the club. There are those who believe that doing nowt, except turning up, not rocking the boat, and meekly accepting our fate. is supporting the club. We ALL support the club, its just that some of us are prepared to actively defend its future. The embers from 68 are still smouldering in my belly. Time to fan the flames again I think.

My Granny could score more than Gabby.

That's really not saying very much. His goals per game stat is pretty shit, and getting worse every season.

The thoughts of many many villa fans reflected in this broadcast. Maybe, just maybe, our absentee owner might listen to this and get just an inkling about the fans frustrations and anger at our clubs plight. If you are there Mr Lerner, sack this pillock now. And sell up ASAP.

Like football .

Young was 19 and on the up. Frankly this guy is 25 and after a pretty poor loan at the bog rolls seems to have faded somewhat. Would prefer a better prospect.

I'd say ignoring most facts and just looking at the league table at this moment is pretty stupid. lol, what? Looking at the only thing that really matters is pretty stupid? Some of us would actually like to enjoy some good football occasionally sprinkled with the odd goal. These things do matter, and are not stupid.

Lambert Out fans, bleh, short sighted, none too bright, reactionary. We don't score enough, we all know that but we are defensively sound right now and picking up points. Goals will come, we've a solid base to work from. We're in a solid league position and Lambert's job is very secure right now. So all the Lambert Out nonsense is counter productive. Lambert was honest in his reply to questions. Call me old fashioned, but I was brought up to treat others with respect. Your opening comment was both childish and uncalled for. Make your point and let others do the same. Resorting to petty insults weakens your argument . I base my opinion of Lambert on 50 years of watching Villa. I've seen it all good and bad. What we have at the moment is pretty dire and not good to watch. I'd like to go to VP in expectation of watching a passably decent performance from my club. I've also learnt over many years that there is no such thing as a very secure tenure in this game.

Staying up or going down, been there done that, since I first saw Villa play in the sixties. This is however the worst team on the eye I have ever seen in my time watching the club. Lambert can bluster all he likes. He's had ample time and not an inconsiderable amount of cash to be doing better than he is. I don't need to have posted 10,000 comments to post this one.......Lambert out.

We're 12th Were also shit.