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Southampton - 11 shots on target in 45 minutes.

The most ridiculously against the run of play goal you'll ever, ever see.

Update: we are doomed.

We have played well today other than a few outbreaks of defensive shitness. We have missed three sitters and managed six shots on target in 45 minutes which never normally happens The problem is we are so utterly fucking fragile. The manager has the nack of picking the right team but he just needs to keep the confidence there until January. If we can stay in touch till January we have a chance. If not, then we are doomed.

Villa and the mackems. We are the third imo. We are totally finished bar a miracle. There's going to be some grand old clubs in the second flight next season

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/blackburn-appoints-lambert-out-of-spite-20151117103901 Ha ha I bear him no malice, really, though. I thought he was incompetent, but not dislikeable. Unlike Sherwood who was incompetent AND a massive gobshite. However, to see what the Villa job does to a man, check these photos out. Arrives: http://images.football365.com/12/06/800x600/Paul-Lambert-Aston-Villa-Manager-Unveiling-Vi_2776778.jpg Not going too well: http://www.offthepost.info/wp-content/uploads/paul-lambert-650x462.png First day at new school after a nice summer break: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03501/paul_lambert_smile_3501931b.jpg

#prayforblackburn

That's a bullet dodged by about a week for us.

Well, they played well and didn't get hammered. Exactly - W1 D1 L8 and someone doesn't understand us being happy about a point from Man City in the new managers first game? I didn't see the match but I observe our manager - in the job all of six days - has happened upon the cunning plan of fielding more of our better players, something Sherwood never managed, and he media fans never mention.

Usually on the bench with most of our other decent players All Sherwood needed to do was pick our strongest eleven

And I tell you what .... ... I would rather be 14 points off safety with Garde than 4 points off with Sherwood.

There's no doubt we are in a tricky situation, but some of the hyperbole in the media is absurd. Fact is: - we're four points from a non-relegation place. Four points. That's nothing. - we are losing matches, but on the bright side, we're not getting hammered. We've only (I think) lost a couple of matches by two goals, all the others have been one goal. - anyone who watches us with any regularity will know we have some decent players. They're just either getting used badly, or not used at all. Monday great example. Gil and Amavi on the bench, FFS. Ridiculous. Had we persisted with Sherwood for a couple months longer, we'd have been fucked. We haven't, though, amazingly. I am no partisan fantasist unable to see the problems we have, but to suggest the situation is irretrievable when we're a week into November and the points difference is so small, and when there are plenty other shit teams around, all that is well over the top. What Garde needs to do is take the following: Agbonlahor, Richardson, Westwood, Guzan, Lescott, have them shot and throw their lifeless bodies into a very deep quarry. Instant improvement. There's no way Sherwood or anyone would ever get this squad into the top six, but by the same measure, there's no way it should be in the bottom three. For once, and it may be brief, I am confident that we've started to make sensible decisions. You can ask pretty much any Villa fan you want what he thought the problem was - the manager or the signings - and they'd all have chosen the manager. The fact is, the signings have mostly looked decent. Even Jordan Ayew, for example, has contributed more in a handful of matches than Agbonlahor has in a handful of seasons. I really rate Amavi, Gestede is dangerous if you use him properly (though useless if not), Veretout has shown he is a proper passer of the ball, Gueye is a decent Delph replacement, all these players have shown real promise. The problem is they're not going to achieve anything if constantly rotated in and out of the squad as Sherwood did. The whole thing of the British media falling in line behind Sherwood makes me want to vomit. Supporting him for not being able to sign Townsend, Adebayor and Aaron Lennon? How many clubs fans would be disappointed with not being able to vomit up large amounts of money for three knackers like that? Spurs wanted 14m for Townsend. That's *exactly* the sort of witless signing that has got us where we are the last few years.

As a man in his late 40s, I am fully behind any manager in his late 40s who can carry off a combination of smart jacket, jumper, nice shirt, jeans and a pair of Adidas on the touchline. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03158/remigarde_3158676b.jpg He's going to FREAK OUT when he sees the Adidas store on New Street.

Yeah, but in fairness, we are the club who watched Alex McLeish get our city neighbours relegated playing eye-wateringly shit football, then poached him off them. We too are idiots.

@CanalFootClub On Twitter "@CanalFootClub: Info #CFC - Rémi Garde va entraîner Aston Villa. Réginald Ray serait l'un de ses adjoints." Looks like he's coming.

That unrealistic expectations thing is fucking bullshit. Yeah, Paul, that's right, expecting to maybe win more than four home league games a season - something we'd done in every single year of our 140 year history until you changed that - was totally unrealistic. I can honestly say over the last five years, the expectations of Villa fans have been lower than at any point i can remember in the last 40 years. That's why so many of them stuck by you for so long, you gigantic cunt.

That went well last time. I seem to remember a great result against us. Apparently this evening we have looked "well organised". Not heard that for a while.

Come on, Kevin Mac, yet again our caretaker manager.

Wenger looks entirely unbothered. I've looked sadder than that when I've got to work and realised I've left my sandwiches at home.

I was irate listening to that analysis. Just completely avoiding any mention that he just might not have been very good at his job. Nothing about him playing a centre forward who can only do one thing - head the ball - for 90 mins with no wide players at all, or picking one actual CM to play Swansea. And that was just yesterday. I've seen more shocking "tactics" in the last 10 matches we've played than in the previous 10 years. Lambert and McLeish were fucking useless, but their main problem wasn't the fact they didn't understand basic concepts like "when you're 2 up away from home but under the cosh with 25 minutes left, what you don't do is take off a defensive midfielder and put on a striker who is struggling to settle in" (Leicester away). Shocking. How is it even possible for a manager to win once, first day of the season, and have stats like P10 W1 D1 L8, get the sack and not even have a mention of how it came about? It's like when you inevitably end up sacking McClaren, it'll be how you've got unrealistic expectations, and not one of these cunts will point out that you're second bottom (or whatever) or just been knocked out the FA Cup by Gosforth Paper Boys XI or whatever humiliation you've undergone.

Jenas: "Their net spend was 5m which says it all" Well, it doesn't, it doesn't point out that we raised 45m in sales, so he actually spent 50m. I hate the English football establishment. They practically urinate on fans, they pay us so little respect. In that MOTD mention, there was not a single word uttered about Sherwood's performance, not one.

I can see why Souness would back Pearson :lol: Souness and Pearson are two men who'd bite the balls off each other then have a pint calling themselves real men. If there is one club whose fans have a right to be sick to the tits of the conveyor belt of shit, stuck in the past British managers, it is us. Well, and you.

It absolutely doesn't. Honestly, trust me. It is Sherwood's bizarre tactics that fucked it up. Five at the back at home to Stoke, one CM against Swansea yesterday, 2-0 up at Leicester 25 mins to go, under the cosh, brings off a midfielder, puts on a striker. Lose 3-2. I could go on, trust me. Utterly clueless. The summer signings, though, most of them are pretty well thought of by the fans. The clearest case I have ever seen - anywhere - of a manager failing to get the most from what he has. We often say the same thing here. Doesn't mean our squad is any good. I think you have some decent central defenders and some decent wide forward players but elsewhere I don't see a lot of quality. Your team seems unbalanced like ours is. The team is unbalanced because he sends it out that way. The squad is decent, but thus far this season, it has been set up truly ridiculously. Out of interest, who do you consider your main striker? I was looking at your squad list and the best I could see would be Agbonlahor out of position? Actually, for that matter, what do you see as your best 11? Probably our best striker is Kozak, who is ostracised under Sherwood. If there's a weakness, it is up front.

It absolutely doesn't. Honestly, trust me. It is Sherwood's bizarre tactics that fucked it up. Five at the back at home to Stoke, one CM against Swansea yesterday, 2-0 up at Leicester 25 mins to go, under the cosh, brings off a midfielder, puts on a striker. Lose 3-2. I could go on, trust me. Utterly clueless. The summer signings, though, most of them are pretty well thought of by the fans. The clearest case I have ever seen - anywhere - of a manager failing to get the most from what he has. We often say the same thing here. Doesn't mean our squad is any good. I think you have some decent central defenders and some decent wide forward players but elsewhere I don't see a lot of quality. Your team seems unbalanced like ours is. The team is unbalanced because he sends it out that way. The squad is decent, but thus far this season, it has been set up truly ridiculously.

It absolutely doesn't. Honestly, trust me. It is Sherwood's bizarre tactics that fucked it up. Five at the back at home to Stoke, one CM against Swansea yesterday, 2-0 up at Leicester 25 mins to go, under the cosh, brings off a midfielder, puts on a striker. Lose 3-2. I could go on, trust me. Utterly clueless. The summer signings, though, most of them are pretty well thought of by the fans. The clearest case I have ever seen - anywhere - of a manager failing to get the most from what he has.