brummie

Guzan Bacuna - Baker - Vlaar - Bertrand Westwood - El Ahmadi - Delph Weimann - Benteke - Agbonlahor Is our line up. I don't understand why the only player who has looked even half decent of late - Albrighton - is on the bench. Not to mention how Westwood keeps getting picked.

Jesus, reading stuff like this, I can see why you get so annoyed by Pardew. This sounds like absolute bullshit management speak.

I think both Mike Ashley and Randy Lerner look like owners who are not going to go out of their way to advertise their willingness to sell, lest it affect the purchase price, but would gladly do so if someone offered them enough. Lerner has gone from attending matches home and away (he was even spotted at Scunthorpe in the league cup) and having a Villa tattoo on his ankle, to attending once or twice a year at the most. Mind you, having seen the luke warm sick we get spoon fed week in, week out at home, i don't really blame him. Ashley looks the same, gradual disengagement, with an extra flourish of poor decision making to keep it vaguely interesting.

I know this is how it works, but I have read this whole thread and had a right old chuckle. You wouldn't all be so miserable if you had any idea just how incomprehensibly feeble we have been for months now. We haven't even gt a particularly good away record anymore, either. It's weird Brummie, when I watched your lot play Liverpool you looked like a decent team, with plenty of purpose and attacking intent. Lambert seemed to have set you up to play 1-2's in the channels with a view to getting in behind and playing balls into the box. We do that. We play for 30 minutes here and there, put in a good performance. Then we just go to shit. There's no way, for example, we're capable of playing well for 90 minutes. Not 90 consecutive minutes, anyway. Maybe across four or five games, then we'd have a chance, but of late we've been abysmal. I've started to think lately that Lambo doesn't really "do" tactics. If we concede a goal or two, he'll go totally gung-ho to get back into it. Sometimes (like the two matches against Albion, one away where we were two down inside the first 12 minutes, and the home one where it was two down in the first 8 minutes) it works spectacularly well. Other times, though, he just goes mad, makes a few subs and sets us up with five up front and no midfield. It's usually entertaining to watch, but it is a bit nuts. Our problem at the moment is the midfield. He just doesn't seem to be able to permutate a selection from our options there which will work with any regularity. If you set out to attack us, then it could be a decent game. If you don't, then I suspect it'll be like watching two bald men fighting over a comb.

yep. He's very likeable in many ways, too, but he's a terrible, terrible loser. You'd think he'd be well used to losing, given the 600 unsuccessful Arsenal Champions League campaigns he has overseen, too. I remember when Hull City won at the Emirates in their first ever top flight season. They were well worth the win. Nothing even remotely lucky about it. Wenger gave the most ungracious, self-centred, delusional post match interview I think I've ever seen. It's one thing to hate losing, but it is another entirely to be quite so graceless when it happens to you.

What happens if they score off the rebound? Well, if it's like a shootout pen, it counts as a miss and the red card is applied. Too complicated. Anything that involves changing the laws of the game is wrong. As proven by this last-man-on-goal nonsense in the first place.

I don't understand why any fan of a team not regularly in the CL in this country would want anything other than the English teams in it to do as badly as possible. Them doing well just increases the enormous financial have/have not gulf that the CL creates in the first place. It is totally, totally not in our interest, no matter how much know-nothing idiots like Clive Tyldesley think otherwise. Also, I want the list of English teams to have won the big cup to remain as exclusive as possible, but I shall whisper it only on here.

Ha ha ha. Your dad would proper batter my dad. Ear biting, head stamping, the lot. No bother.

I know this is how it works, but I have read this whole thread and had a right old chuckle. You wouldn't all be so miserable if you had any idea just how incomprehensibly feeble we have been for months now. We haven't even gt a particularly good away record anymore, either.

I hate it when they do that. It is cheating. John Aldridge was always terrible for that, the cheating cunt.

Offered a cheap ticket and a lift up for this one today. Shook my head so vigorously, I think I've given myself some sort of brain bruise.

Weimann looks like he mostly enjoys manhandling pints these days. Worrying.

Why on earth do you say that? We're fucking rubbish. We're better away from home, but even so, we're 10th in the away form league, so it's not as if we turn into Bayern Munich as soon as we hit Spaghetti Junction This will be 0-0. Nailed on. As for mocking people who go, fair play to you, you're all nuts. My mate is going up on the official coaches. Honestly, I think he's mentally ill. I won't even watch it on telly. No way are those cunts going to wreck my Sunday dinner. It's bad enough when they shit all over my Saturday afternoon.

To be quite honest, this is a nailed on draw. That's if Ron Vlaar is playing. We haven't won a game in which Vlaar didn't play since December 2012. He is the difference between an almost passable defence and one which looks like a load of ADD schoolchildren running around in circles. I'd take a point right now. In fact, I'd take a point from every match between now and the end of the season right now.

Honestly, that is my take on football summed up right there. I was thinking myself earlier today, "fuck, we're at Newcastle this weekend". Then i realised it is the weekend after, and I swear, I am not shitting you, my spirits soared. I felt a weight lift from my stomach, and a surge of adrenalin. Brummie has woken up from his coma after that horrific injury in late 2001. Err. Yep. I think.

Ultimately, as an outsider, you're 9th. Nobody is going to get sacked for getting you 9th. Not in modern football, with the lowered expectations it means for all but a handful of clubs.

An eminently winnable game for both teams, even more given you're less shit away than you are at home. Less shit, yes, but we are currently 10th in the "away matches only" league, so we're not exactly Bayern Munich on our travels, despite the media banging on about it all the time.

That's us covered. What about your lot?

Honestly, that is my take on football summed up right there. I was thinking myself earlier today, "fuck, we're at Newcastle this weekend". Then i realised it is the weekend after, and I swear, I am not shitting you, my spirits soared. I felt a weight lift from my stomach, and a surge of adrenalin. I wouldn't back us to beat anybody. Anybody. We played quite well for half the match at Cardiff last night - the worst side in the league - and still managed to avoid winning. I'm totally sick of this season. I'd happily freeze the table as it is right now, and just fast forward to the summer. Nice world cup to watch, no more of this shit to piss me off week after week.

Look on the bright side. Who have you got next?

i wouldn't be worrying about that, mate.

Meh That sinking feeling in the stomach just now as I realised we have a game tonight. If Vlaar isn't fit, we're screwed. Last time we won a game without Vlaar in the side - December. December 2012. Away at Anfield.

The on-screen graphics are like something from ITV in the mid 80s. Is this what happens when you ship off BBC Sport to the Mancs to handle?

One of the most ineffectual players I've ever seen played for Villa. Genuinely, I can't remember anything he did for us EXCEPT when he was warming up as a sub (waiting for MON to stick him on on 75 minutes) at home to Hull, the ball went out for a throw, Sidwell caught it, chucked it to Warnock who threw it quickly to Milner who lobbed the Hull keeper who was picking his arse crack on the edge of the area, all the time in the world. Totally, totally anonymous for us.

He looks like he needs to get a few more early nights.