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Eh? Massively surprising, a team which has won 4 of its last 51 league matches (a period taking in three seasons) celebrating a goal to salvage a point. What do you really expect? It's nothing to do with you, it's about being happy to get one point more than expected. It's about throwing away leads with goals past 85 minutes in 5 of the last 6 games and then finally managing to salvage something instead. As for the manager, RDM has totally lost it. Yesterday was hideous, playing five forwards and one in midfield in the second half. Totally lost it. I'd take Bruce right now. He can at least organise us. The squad is way, way better than the current position, a modicum of organisation would at least benefit from that. The way things are at the moment, it's like he's wildly changing things every ten minutes in the desperate hope things will get better somehow.

85 min v Sheff Wed 86 min v Huddersfield 87 min v Forest 88 min v Brentford 89 min v Barnsley :-( If we hadn't conceded all those late goals, we'd be third.

Di Matteo hovering over a trap door at the moment.

I thought he was brilliant today. Really impressed.

You should have been out of sight. That first hour was the worst we've played in years. Against forest the other week we had 29 shots and still managed not to win. It was our turn to buck the statistics this time Have to say, Benitez is a proper manager who will get you up no bother whereas Di Matteo seems to be making it up on the hoof

No but you can't get annoyed when shite clubs beat you. Which they will, more than you like. i suspect we're all used to that

According to the BBC we've spent 59m and you've spent 57m this window. Next down the list is Norwich with 11 or so. What I don't get is the sort of sniffy reaction this spending has got. Are we supposed to just accept our new status and stay where we are, or aren't we allowed to do whatever it takes to get back?

Ive been watching for 5 minutes, its utter gash. They make me ashamed to be a football supporter.

That's awesome business.

Adama - comes on in last 20 minutes, makes one or two runs at opposition, culminates in dead end as completely unaware of other players on the pitch. Gets injured. Spends four months getting fit again. Repeat.

Agent a tricky fucker by all accounts.

How do you work that out? I agree with you re us not going up necessarily, but I don't see how you can say that about our signings. Scoring goals was a grotesque failing for us last season. I'd say Kodija and McCormack are players signed in precisely the right positions. Whether or not they will turn out to be the answer, I don't know, but they are being brought in to address a very clear weakness. Our biggest failing last year was the total inability to defend. Amavi - Chester - Elphick - De Laet is much better than last year (when Amavi gets totally fit) and three of those are new players (and the other missed almost the whole season through injury). Jedinak is a signing which also should plug a massive weakness, but we could do with one more midfield addition. Like I said, the actual players may or may not work out, but we're definitely addressing the areas of the pitch where we had big problems (errrm, all of them).

You're telling me.

Our midfield showing exactly why we've signed Jedinak. Weak as fuck.

I see you've conceded a penalty. Was Ciaran anything to do with that, per chance?

I used to love that side, in many ways they were better than the title winning side of ten years earlier. Atkinson and Dean Saunders, what a pair. I was at Selhurst for the goal of the season but the one I will always remember was the league cup semi final against tranmere, his header as he hung in the air for about a minute, and the old wooden Trinity Road stand feeling like it was going to explode.

That's gutting. That was a brilliant side he was in.

Benitez is one of the best managers in Europe. Getting him to hang around and work in this league for you was a coup, no doubt about it. Trust him. There's no way he's going to fail this season.

We were alright, but it comes straight after one of the worst displays I've seen in 40 years - I thought it was THE worst the morning after, but on reflection, I'd say it's in the worst five. We just need to purge our squad of certain players. Richards is one of them. Chester is a good signing to replace him (sorry, but Clark plus 1m for Chester is a properly good deal) Our (unable to stop being a gobshite on twitter) chairman says we've got three players signed and to announce imminently. One will be Jedinak, almost certainly, I've no idea on the other two. We basically need someone with presence in midfield, we've needed it for five years now, and Jedinak would fit that bill. Didn't Jedinak start today for CP? he did And did the "throwing the shirt into the crowd, applauding all four corners of the ground" thing after the match, too.

We were alright, but it comes straight after one of the worst displays I've seen in 40 years - I thought it was THE worst the morning after, but on reflection, I'd say it's in the worst five. We just need to purge our squad of certain players. Richards is one of them. Chester is a good signing to replace him (sorry, but Clark plus 1m for Chester is a properly good deal) Our (unable to stop being a gobshite on twitter) chairman says we've got three players signed and to announce imminently. One will be Jedinak, almost certainly, I've no idea on the other two. We basically need someone with presence in midfield, we've needed it for five years now, and Jedinak would fit that bill.

Amazed they sold him to us.

I genuinely think that is the worst performance i have seen since I saw my first match in 1975.

Well, that's maybe a little bit excessive.

Just spotted this. Jesus. Really? I've had more excitement out of watching planes fly over our house, watching Channel 5 and thinking about death than I have out of Villa for at least five years now.

After the silence of Lerner, it is refreshing to a degree to have our chairman communicating on twitter, but this whole endeavour is so bound to finish in tears, it's untrue. He's been telling us stuff like being very close to signing a midfielder (before Sat, prob) and going on about what we look for in a player.