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My only hope is that relegation forces the price down and we attract a decent buyer. It is just mind boggling that he allowed things to get as bad as that article describes them.

Check out some of the incompetence in this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/03/26/aston-villa-ready-to-part-company-with-remi-garde/ Staggering, just staggering. We make you lot look well run.

Shame Villa fans didn't feel that way 7 years ago. Aye, it was nice when the villa fans were really sympathetic towards the Newcastle fans that day. I hope you down 2 or 3 times and never come back. Fuck off. Oh, put your knickers on, maybe yourself a nice cup of tea and calm down, love.

Spurs fans yesterday joining in - and a couple of times actually starting - "Lerner Out" chants, plus a "we want your villa back". I know it's easy to be magnanimous when you're winning, but sometimes football fans realise there's much that unites them than divides them, and the "could have been us" thing kicks in. Meanwhile as this was going on, villa had the stewards heavy handedly taking Lerner Out banners off people. Even the Birmingham mail - about as supine a local paper as you'll find anywhere - has turned on the club. When you're confiscating season tickets from people because they sang about the owner, you're losing control.

Our situation mirrors yours pretty closely in so many ways. In a league awash with fucking money, it should be literally impossible to have a premier league club have a manager's position no fucker will touch with a barge pole, people should be falling over themselves to get it. It takes some doing, that.

Players look nervous as fuck, as well as if they've not been told what to do - it's all very shapeless.

You watch Bournemouth, giving it all they can, not giving up, showing spirit, and then you look at clubs like your lot and my lot, and think, do we really deserve to be in the top flight and these lot not in it?

I'm aware you don't want to hear this, but I'm watching your match, and you look just like us.

I'm really starting to think we might go down as well. *nods seriously*

Three things have happened. 1. Lost all interest overnight. 2. Appoints morons. 3. Ambition ends at not getting relegated. It's easy to look at the players or the manager and think "they're fucking rubbish, they are" but that's only half the story, the air of couldn't-give-a-fuck acceptance of mediocrity starts right at the top and trickles down. What riles me most is that these people running the club have zero feeling for it, they just don't "get it", and as a result, they have no shame, no embarrassment. I hear things like us having our worst home record in our 141 year history, or little things like last night and us winning our first corner - CORNER - in three games, plus all the other records of recent years, and I am fucking ashamed. These people running things have no concept of that. Their only involvement in the general level of protest and disenchantment is to take on body guards (CEO, director of recruitment, technical director apparently all have them now) and confiscate season tickets from people who chant dissent. Confiscate them? They should be fucking refunding them.

We can't even begin to recover from this until Lerner goes. I was just watching some interviews with fans leaving the game on the Birmingham Mail website. The recurring theme was "they've removed the soul from the club, they've killed the identity" and that's absolutely right. We've been drained of ambition, had cretins appointed at all managerial levels and just been parked to "get by" as best we can. We've got a CEO who actually tells us not to just look at the on-pitch stuff, because we've got a great new shirt deal which will still be great even if we get relegated, and a new chairman who openly referred to us as "customers" until at an open meeting the other day, someone stood up and demanded that he stop using that word. I saw most of the games in our last relegation season, 86-7, and although that too was pretty horrible, it at least felt like it was something that could be turned around by changing the manager (which is exactly what happened). This time, though, it feels like the malignant factor is at the top, the chairman, and it won't change until he goes. Lerner's biggest failing is appointing idiots. I can't think of a single person he has appointed who has worked out, not one. When he bought us, I recall reading Cleveland Browns fans warning us about precisely that - he can't make appointments to save his life. Too right he can't.

Rumours are they've sacked one of our mascots (Bella the lion). During the match, she sits on an upturned dustbin, watching it. When Everton scored their second last night, she got up, and theatrically got into the bin, implying that that was rubbish (and it fucking was, believe me). Not seen for the second half. Rumours they sacked her. They've already been taking down banners and taking season tickets off people for singing anti Lerner songs. They're absolutely horrible people.

My brother was at our match at Stoke yesterday. Said that when their second one went in, bloke just down from him sat down, got his Kindle out and just spent the rest of the match reading. I don't blame him. It really sums us up.

Us going down and Spurs winning the league. Jon Bon Fucking Jesus Christ.

The fuck is he thinking? That's actually genuine, too. There you go, that's one of the problems this club has, cunts like that. And he's a supposed 'boyhood Villa fan', the cunt.

Can't see that happening. He may resign but the club hierarchy have long since rolled over and accepted relegation, sacking him would just cost money they don't want to spend. He's not going to be getting binned at any point. He's the only one with a scintilla of an understanding of the game at the club.

Well, quite. Except for when (under Sherwood) we lost 6-1 to Southampton.

You'll have the sharpest-dressed squad the Championship's ever seen. The irony of having Macron shirts - a brand which screams 'Championship' - in the PL and then a decent one when we're actually in the Championship.

Reading Villatalk last week they were discussing Charles N'Zogbia and how he's picking up 65k a week for doing fuck all, and how if he had "any pride" he'd walk away from it and go and play football somewhere else etc etc. Utter fucking nonsense. Football clubs created the likes of N'Zogbia, sitting out long deals picking up huge amounts of money. It's easy for fans who will never, ever find themselves in that situation to say players should forego the extra 100k a week on offer here or there. If we were in that situation and someone was saying "it's 50k a week (2.5m a year) at this mediocre mid table English club, or 150k a week (7.5m a year) and probably a deeply advantageous tax situation at some shitty Chinese club" then I don't think we'd be as adamant about the right choice as we are now that it's not us making that decision.

Do you rate him Brum? Yes, very much so. He seems to have turned around the doubters that there were over the last few weeks. He's found a decent shape for us, he's managed to get a combination of defenders that seems to work (Richards at RB, Cissokho recalled from loan at LB and Okore and Lescott in the middle), and he's got us playing some watchable stuff. The problem is he's currently totally fucked up front. Agbonlahor only fit striker. Ayew banned. I fucking hope he stays, whether we go down or stay up.

To be fair it's not beyold the realms of possibilities you get out of it, Leicester were 7 points off safety with only 8 games to go last season. You seem in good form now, all the teams down the bottom seem to constantly fuck up, and theres only an 8 point difference, its very unlikely, but possible. our one advantage is that we've got nothing to lose, we've been considered dead for ages

Apparently ours next year are by Under Armor. They'll at least look better than the Macron shite.

Good result for us today. Last five or six games, we've started to play how Garde wants us to, even if we haven't got the results we've deserved a few times. Sadly, it's too late. Even more sadly, the CUNTS on our board have pissed Garde off so much, the first manager with a brain we've had in ages will be offski in the summer, I suspect.

It looks like everyone at Villa is switching off, I can see Norwich winning. Villa have been better in the league recently and were definitely the better team until Ayew got himself sent off through the week. I can see them beating Norwich but I hope Norwich win. We are playing much, much better of late, but still can't win games. And I guess Ayew will be a loss too. Kind of nullifies you guys a bit doesn't it? Just a bit. Here is our list of fit strikers at the moment: Agbonlahor. That's it.