brummie

That's because he's an average footballer. Desperately average. Another overrated Villa youngster - just like that Albrighton a couple year ago, Delfouneso, Bannan etc. Even Agbonlahor. If you're going to pick on one of the younger playres we have and highlight his averageness, you've picked on totally the wrong one. Weimann has been superb for us at times this season.

That lot, on the whole, can't write, so don't be expecting to find internet chatter from them.

I didn't post it there, one of them copied and pasted it from here. They were all calling me bitter. Amusingly thus season on there I have seen a couple other Villa fans make *exactly* the same point there.

What is his thng about midfielders at right back? He was obsessed with it at our place. It was Gardner, Reo-Coker, sometimes Milner even at RB, and then when he finally bought TWO right backs (one of which he then never picked) he started playing a centre back there (Cuellar). Also ninety percent of his 75th minute (Sidwell on) substitutions would include changing things at right back. It's like a nervous tic for him. He can't help it. All the things he did with us, he has done for them. Except the winning lots of matches thing.

Truly pathetic defending for our own goal. We can play some decent stuff and have scored some belters this season, but defending like that means we are always up against it.

Is your car clean, mate? It's been scrubbed back to its primer. Just four wheels and an engine left of it.

Here I am. *waves* Like I said, Martin pretty much never got any results in March for us, and I can see the same thing happening for Sunderland. They are not in as much trouble as we are, but they are still right in it. seen their upcoming games ? I hadn't, actually, but have now, and I can see them getting next to nothing from those. Say what you like about MON, you might like what he does, you might not. I liked some stuff he did, but there were a lot of things I didn't like as well, and one of those was week after week, teh same starting side, and the yearly knackeredness in March and everything going to shit. He will never, ever change,

Here I am. *waves* Like I said, Martin pretty much never got any results in March for us, and I can see the same thing happening for Sunderland. They are not in as much trouble as we are, but they are still right in it.

And breathe ....

I think I might have to turn it off. I am absolutely shitting my pants. Shitting it. stay on , and give us commentary- while we watch qpr vs the idiots. No, I can't. Shaking like a shitting puppy. Can't be doing with 45 minutes of this. Am going to wash the car.

I think I might have to turn it off. I am absolutely shitting my pants. Shitting it.

In what kind of world do profits from player sales get excluded, though? It's like saying "well, without her breasts, she'd be an absolute munter". It is almost all money loaned to Lerner, in any case, and they halved the losses according to these figures. In the world where you cant include them more than once. You cant assume player sales will keep you afloat forever, our losses didnt cease to happen overnight so i assume you will post similar figures should you go down? How long before Randy says 'fuck this shit'? Spent around 10 years with the arse end of the NFL at the Cleveland Browns, but he left as soon as he could. I think he's said fuck it already, look where our cost cutting has landed us. I'd imagine your figures were helped enormously by selling one player for £35m. I honestly think that's the best piece of business ever. re selling players to get the figures looking nicer, our problem was that too many relics bought by MON sucked their contracts dry and walked out for nowt. Cuellar, Reo-Coker, Beye, Heskey, the likes of them. The difference between us and, say, Spurs, is that Spurs maintain the quality and value of their squad cleverly over a period of time. We have been the precise opposite, and it is that which has contributed most to where we are now.

In what kind of world do profits from player sales get excluded, though? It's like saying "well, without her breasts, she'd be an absolute munter". It is almost all money loaned to Lerner, in any case, and they halved the losses according to these figures.

FWIW I know there is still a lot of ill feeling after our relegation day at Villa Park, but I reckon a similar thing could have happened elsewhere too and that many Villa fans didn't join in. I've always had a soft spot for Villa and I hope if anyone down there survives it's you lot. Cheers, mate. To be entirely honest, if we do go down, it will be our own fault. All we needed in January was a bit of experience at CB, and we didn't get it. Mistifying.

I certainly would not write Sunderland out of this yet. MON / March. Not a happy combination.

I don't think I will be able to put up with the aural creamery of Tyldesley and co, so I might have to watch it with my headphones on, blasting exceptionally loud krautrock into my brain.

Oh, and our last game of the season? Wigan away. I shall say no more. Mostly because I start to fill my pants just thinking about the possibilities there.

That's my worry. Sooner or later we have to start getting better results. Our next two matches are Reading away and QPR (who I think are doomed) at home. If we win those two, then I think the momentum will see us ok. Win one, draw one, and we'll still be ok. Anything less and we are screwed. I am still backing Lambert, though. I had hoped we'd be able to disinfect the club entirely without going down in the process, but I suspect we may have to go down first. It is remarkable how much good will he still has. There's barely a bad word said against him from the supporters.

That's debatable tbh. I don't know enough about Cisse to have an opinion on that, but I will say that Benteke works really hard for the team, and always puts a decent shift in. Something that Bent never really does, hence him not getting much time on the pitch.

A new one? There are so many possible pet hates in that picture . Honestly, if I started listing all the things I hate about that picture, I'd still be going come Friday morning.

I love it when brummie pops up and predicts the future for them down the road Not a prediction, really, just a reflection that he traditionally has an awful march, as the players he's played all season, week in, week out are knackered.

I think they will lose at qpr- then Norwich is massive, they will then lose to man utd and chelsea- possible 4 defeats on the trot, could put them in serious trouble by the time we play them. They're certainly far from safe, and if his March hoodoo turns out to have persisted (and your suggested results are entirely possible) then they could quite easily get dragged into it.

I admit, it is hypocritical for me to moan about the huge amounts of money that gets chucked at some clubs, when for four years recently, we spent more money on transfers than 90 percent of clubs in the league. Slight ramble, but I was in a low-grade card shop the other day, here in Warwickshire, and they had this display of revoltingly garish football club calendars. They had Liverpool, Man United and Man City. Now, call me cynical, but I imagine, say, four years ago even, you'd have to travel at least 80 miles north to find anywhere selling Manchester City merchandise. That's no longer the case. I walk around my local towns and frequently see people wearing Man City shirts / scarves / yada yada whatever. I would imagine that a few years ago, these people would probably have latched on to Man United. Then again, I live a 15 mins drive from Coventry, and when I walk around, say, Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford Upon Avon, places which (esp the first two) you'd expect to be in the natural orbit of Coventry City, I never, ever see people wearing Coventry shirts or scarves. Literally, never. But I very frequently see people wearing Villa colours. Also, I very frequently see a lot of other Villa fans getting on the train down here when I take public transport to matches. Were I a Coventry City fan, this would annoy the shit out of me, in the same way Man City fans annoy me now. I guess, the lower down the pyramid you go, the larger the choice of teams more successful to which plastics can attach themselves (even teams who haven't won anything for years). I sometimes think football is just cyclical. We are currently in a period of being shit, but it won't be too long before we have a decent period again. The same goes for Newcastle, Spurs, Everton etc etc, lots of clubs. What won't change, though, is the fact that to really consistently do well and win stuff (Man United are a slight exception here), you need a rich sugar daddy. Spurs getting into the CL this year won't be enough, they need to do it year after year. See also, Everton, when they made it. The FFP stuff, if you actually look at it, looks more like a bunch of measures made to defend the status quo, rather than encourage challenges to it.

I see it is March. Martin never wins matches in March.

Was thinking that myself. When was he last on/posting? I'm here. I've had lots of other non-football related stuff going on, but think I have emerged from it relatively unscathed.