brummie

His 11th club, including loan seasons. He's only 25, too.

It wasn't until I just looked at this thread that I remembered you haven't got a manager, it seems like ages since Pardew went (although it obviously isn't). I do wonder, though, when things go this quiet on a manager front if you're not actually being softened up for something really underwhelming happening.

Hope it's a big un. only joking, obvs

It is a surprising turn of events. Think he's the loyal type, plus the club spent the first three years he was with us nursing him through horrible injuries. Not too sure I'd have harnessed my career to the spluttering wreck which is Villa this season (I am reluctant to harness my free time to it, even), but it is nice to see a bit of loyalty when the league is full of Scott Sinclair or Wayne Bridge types.

Very well taken I don't know how to react to scoring twice in the same game. I feel a bit like Nelson Mandela when he came out of prison, struggling to adapt to a changed world.

It really is a weekend of FA Cup shocks.

Crikey, that was a belter. "We're Aston Villa, we score when we want" sing the fans, ironically

What a fool. Why a fool? He's trying to win the assist league. I am pretty sure he'll have zero assists this season so far.

class that like. Meanwhile back in Newcastle we're pissing and moaning about people holding up an A4 piece of paper. Bit OTT given recent beheading events, mind.

What a fool.

Rumours Paul Allen (the Microsoft one) in talks to buy us. PLEASEMAKEITTRUEPLEASEMAKETHISHORRIBLESTHITHAPPENINGFORANYLONGER Will clearly turn out to be nonsense, and we'll get bought by some local bloke who has mortgaged himself up to the hilt.

Is he really only 50? He looks about 10 years older.

First four years, he was great. At least we thought he was, but we didn't know how closely to the edge he was leading us financially. At the start, he'd always be over for matches (easy when you've got your own jet, I suppose), but also at away matches, too. He would turn up at Scunthorpe on a tuesday night in the league cup. He had one of the board members, General Krulak, start posting on the main forums. He used to tell them how they were there through thick and thin. We heard how Randy had a Villa tattoo on his ankle. He totally "got us". Then towards the end of the Houllier year, he lost interest over night. A lot of people have said it is to do with his divorce, and he then hooked up with a new woman who didn't like his football distraction. At the same time, said board member, after four years of posting on the forums all the time, just disappeared without a word. At that point, the spending stopped, and when i say stopped, i mean the brakes were really slammed on. The wage bill became the most important thing. We're constantly told how we can't compete with other clubs on wages now. We wanted Lukaku on loan to play alongside Benteke, for example, but couldn't afford his wages. So he went to Albion instead. We couldn't compete with Albion on wages, FFS. Albion. Then he had some sort of brainfart and appointed Alex McLeish. Something I will never, ever understand. It is up there with 9/11 as one of those things that make me think, "I still can't fucking believe that happened". Since then it has been all austerity and misery. Plus a huge serving of stupidity. Delph and Vlaar allowed to reach last year of contract, for example. Putting up with Lambert delivering at the very least 6 periods of results so bad that they would have got any other manager sacked, but he is still untouchable. After four league games at the start of the season, he gave Lambert a new four year contract. Four fucking games, one of which was at home to you where we didn't manage a single shot on target and you had 65% possession. Also, we played another game in that spell, at home to Orient in the league cup. We lost. And failed to score. So, really, it isn't very impressive. Oh, and at the start of the season, he said he'd sell us. He made this statement, which is just fucking nuts, it is so weird. Ellis was a cunt who ran the club like a corner shop. Lerner started very well but overnight lost interest. In a way, Ellis was like the Tories. He was a cunt, but you knew he was a cunt and would shaft you. With Lerner, we expected more.

This just made me laugh. https://twitter.com/LabattsAndLime/status/556492766679928832

Yeah, but it was a stupid fucking idea which nobody was going to get behind. "Don't go to your seat till the eighth minute" to protest Lerner's 8 years in charge. Flawed on three counts. One, the first four years were decent. Two, people have paid 40 quid a pop, eight minutes is a lot to miss (well, yes, it should be, I mean, but actually is not, on account of watching us this season being like HAVING SOMEONE PUNCH YOU IN THE EYEBALLS FOR 90 MINUTES). Three, the club told everyone they'd turn off all the tellies in the concourse to the Holte end which usually show the match as soon as it kicked off. Fucking stupid idea. Would your fans get behind a protest though if it was planned right? Yes, if it was done properly, but this was a fucking shit idea from the off. I have just been looking in on a few villa forums. One of them has a poll showing 95.6% of people wanted him sacked. Look at this, from the Irish Sun this morning (the time since goal is clearly 90 minutes behind now). We are becoming a laughing stock and the chairman is just sat the other side of the Atlantic, watching his Two and a Half Men box sets instead of our matches, totally unarsed. Also, I am no Ellis apologist, but he's 95 years old, and still goes to every match home and away, 8 years after selling up. The current owner just does not give a single shit, the fucking idiot.

Yeah, but it was a stupid fucking idea which nobody was going to get behind. "Don't go to your seat till the eighth minute" to protest Lerner's 8 years in charge. Flawed on three counts. One, the first four years were decent. Two, people have paid 40 quid a pop, eight minutes is a lot to miss (well, yes, it should be, I mean, but actually is not, on account of watching us this season being like HAVING SOMEONE PUNCH YOU IN THE EYEBALLS FOR 90 MINUTES). Three, the club told everyone they'd turn off all the tellies in the concourse to the Holte end which usually show the match as soon as it kicked off. Fucking stupid idea.

Yup. Although the person who wrote "1 games" needs to be executed and have their corpse thrown off a bridge somewhere.

Just the 8 hours 42 minutes since our last league goal, then. Five league games in a row without scoring. One goal in our last seven league games. Still, Lambert is doing "an excellent job", so say most of the media. No conception of what it is like as a paying supporter to go and watch your team play for very nearly 9 hours and not score a single fucking goal. Next week, Bournemouth in the cup, who will beat us, get your money on it now, nailed-on. Then Chelsea and Arsenal. So I am going with that becoming 7 games without a single goal, and one goal in the last nine. But he still won't get the sack because the fucking idiot chairman does not give on tenth of one single fuck.

I bet there isn't.

Ginola when he played for us was the most un-arsed footballer I've ever seen. Signed by Doug, on his yacht in the south of France. Not a word to the manager until he rocked up for training.

Bring back the old one.

Have to say, you were monumentally lucky with Pardew's exit. I still can't believe how that sequence of events happened. You lucky bastards.

And he did the Charles Insomnia thing, too. To be fair, N'Zogbia is a lazy, useless cunt who generally looks week in, week out, like he needs to catch up on his sleep, so he may have had a point.

Twice? Really? I honestly didn't know that.

Brummie you've basically doomed us to MCleish there like. Not at all. I'm saying you're right at the start of this process still, and pretty much every club has moments of terror when certain names crop up, but you'd have to be extremely unlucky to find you have the only chairman as fucking steeeeeyyyyyoooooooopid as ours and end up flabbergasted by an appointment of such insanity.