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Another Bad Day At The Office
Article By JimmyB17 Comments »Dec 26, 2012
Despite the rather pessimistic title, let me first of all wish you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
So then let’s get straight too it. Tonight was an awful result and I think for me personally it was more hurtful than the absolute kicking we get from Chelsea. I had looked at the fixtures of Stoke, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Wigan and had predicted 5 points from 15. We have had two very very poor performances, however IF we do manage to beat Wigan that will mean we got 7 points out of 15 and suddenly December doesn’t look too bad does it?
Quite simply there are no positives to take away from both games. The Chelsea game I honestly thought a 4-0 or maybe 5-0 loss. In fact I even posted on Facebook stating anything but a heavy loss should be considered a good result. Obviously the final score was embarrassing for all concerned. I thought the Spurs game would be very difficult for us. We were playing a club that has come on in leaps and bounds, and in Bale they have a genuinely World Class player and he proved that in a fantastic performance. What concerned me was that in the first half I think I am right in saying we had maybe one shot on goal compared to their 11 and we were the home team. I think we were all expecting a grand response and what we have got is a reality check has to how far we are from the best.
I think is paramount now is that we spend wisely in January, but we REALLY do need to buy. It mustn’t be the grandiose panic buy of a couple of seasons ago, but we do need a central defender, an attacking midfielder who can link up the play and another striker. (A winger wouldn’t go amiss either). January will be against us there will be a number of clubs in a similar position, but hopefully we can edge them out.
We always knew this season would be a roller-coaster and we have reach the trough of the track and what faces us is a slow ride back up to the top again, but as I have said before. More than ever now, we HAVE to stick up for the club. Many will see these 2 results at the proof we should sack PL I still maintain he is the right man for us. Give him the time and we will get there.
Being a fan is about supporting your club through the rough times as well as the good.
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Well Well Lambert,s Lemmings lets have your excuses to why Lambert should not be sacked.You wanted him You got him now look at what as happened.Look forward in a couple of years going to The Bucks Head.Because if Lambert is allowed to carry on we will be in the Blue Square North.
I have been a Spurs fan for 40 years. I have always viewed Villa as at least our equal historically and still consider you a big club. However in the last couple of years you have really begun to slide and I would not be surprised to see you relegated for the first time from the premier league. Whilst I thought Spurs were very good tonight I have to say you were awful. Good luck for the rest of the season you’re going to need it.
Terry seriously, you call yourself a fan when you come to gloat when we need our fan base the most. Seriously is that the best you can come up with?
Your telling us what being a fan is?..ive being going since 71,dont need you to tell me..tell you what it isnt about..blind loyalty!. If somethings wrong(lambert) fix it..
Only since 71 try being a fan for as long as i have some 62 years mate then you may have room to talk.
Right then, lets calm things down and don’t feed the trolls. Neither comments are particularly helpful. Terry fair enough, you have a couple of years on me as I have been a fan since 78, but lets not get into a swinging competition here. In first instance Terry your comment is just inflammatory so it will be taken for what it is. The same with the ‘real’ terry. We have just had two bad results. I said I would be happy with 7 points from 15. That is hardly ‘blind’ loyalty. We are in a fight. Simple as that. If you want to cry sack PL fine, That is your prerogative. I respect your POV and ask you do the same.
I simply state IF we beat Wigan 7 from 15 would be fine. If we don’t beat Wigan then its squeaky bum time. I think we will be ok. We are still in the Carling Cup so lets at least get some perspective please.
I think villa are going down this season. Been going down and down each season I can see the drop
The years was with martin oneill sorry to say it
Beat Wigan are you having a laugh there is no team in the league afraid of us as they knowthey are going to win by a large margin.I will say it again Lambert should never have been appointed and should be sacked first thing in the morning.He as now proven what he knows about football you could put on the back of a postage stamp and it would still be blank.
Get martin oneill back lol
Lambert is not the issue, no manager in the world can do a better job in this situation! We have a huge amount of veteran players injured or unfit atm and i think lambert has done the best he can with the players he has got! There deffently has to be some changes made against wigan though. Shame Delph cant play coz of his 5 yellow cards, but if Gabby is fit then we will have some pace upfront along side Benteke. I would also like to see Albirhgton start, as well as Ireland and Charles too if he is fit. Westood is a great passer but he looses the ball a little to much for my liking. We need Vlaar back realy bad also! God i just hope we can hold on this season…
I call troll
Dreadful wasn’t it? So, how much did Paul Lambert cost? He has managed in the Championship before, so ought to be OK there.
Have to say I totally agree with brainfry regarding Lambert, he is widely respected throughout the game as a manager with a proven record of getting average players to perform excellently as a team delivering attractive attacking football. Already this season we have seen passages of play far more exciting than anything produced under Mcliesh or Houllier, and I wholeheartedly support his policy of playing some of the really talented youngsters we have, (something that even O’Neil was far too reluctant to try, indeed he actually sold at least a couple of top quality young players we could do with having now!) The problem for Lambert is that he is currently so bereft of even the few quality experienced players we do have through injury or illness that he is having to pick virtually all youngsters, and that’s when you get the kind of results we have had these last 2 games, where you go a couple of goals behind against a really top quality side in good form and then the inexperience of the youngsters mean they are more likely to let there heads drop, to loose their composure, and get some what overrun. I thought we came back brilliantly at the start of the 2nd half yesterday, and if Benteke could have kept his composure and just slid a simple 7 yard pass to Ireland unmarked in the penalty area instead of rolling it 4 yards behind him, then it would have been 1-1 instead of 2-0 as it was a few seconds later, and we might even have gone on to win the game. Lambert is currently not able to pick Bent, Gabby, Nzogbia, Dunne, and most notably Petrov and Vlaar so his options are limited, and he is doing as good a job as any would with what with what he’s currently got available. In the likes of Beneteke, Clarke, Albrighton, Lowton and (in my opinion) most especially Bannan and Weimann (not forgetting the potentially top class Gary Gardener when he returns from injury) we have some of the best youngsters around. Lambert knows what he’s doing, and I confidently predict this season we will finish safely mid-table, have a trip to Wembley (and who knows what could happen once we’re there?) and Lambert will go on to produce one of the best Villa teams we’ve had for decades, playing the type of football we can all be proud of.
Sounds like you work for villa
Great reply there
I have been a fan since 1971 too…must be the vintage! Anyway, I HAVE SEEN UPS AND DOWNS, but this is a real ‘downer’. Lets cut to the chase. We have been going downhill since MON left and LERNER stopped writing the cheques. The ‘kids’ you talk about are 24 (going on 25 in most cases). They haven’t much PL experience simply because, in most cases they AREN’T good enough. There are exceptions…Weinner, Benteke and Lowton might make really good PL players eventually. But the rest? Bannan is in and out yet he is being described as a messiah by some. The central defenders (with or without vlaar are NOT good enough…thats why PL has resorted to playing 3 of them!! I still haven’t worked out how we managed to beat Liverpool, but these ‘stuffings’ we’ve had haven’t suprised me one bit. Bounce back against Spurs…. do us a favour! As for the ‘experienced’ players making a difference….yeah, they made such a BIG DIFFERENCE WHEN THEY WERE FIT, DIDN’T THEY?? In january we need half a new tea, at least. It won’t happen, of course, andwe will stuggle all the way to the bitter end. Pray that wigan don’t beat us, pray that bradford don’t beat us, or that we get chelsea in the final……the spurs fan WAS right. We are as big as them, historically, the lot. So WHY ARE WE MORE LIKE ACCRINGTON STANLEY IN OUR THINKING NOW!???