I'm pretty confident we will win the 2nd leg. Yes we are f**king awful, but we are at home to a league 2 side, something gotta give.

Thank **** Lambert wouldn't interview for us.

Lol villa

He did interview, it was pathetic, but he did interview.

All the fans turning on him big style on a couple of forums Im reading. Hard to believe Randy "I took a shot and I missed" Lerner isnt taking much flack at all.

Interview for the Celtic job about 2 years ago, he had no interest.

So you no longer want him to do well?

This was just a horrible job to walk into. Lambert's work at the likes of Wycombe - Colchester - Norwich should not be forgotten because of this horrible Villa side. If Villa do decide to get rid at any point then Im sure he will find a job somewhere else with better circumstances and will prove to be a success.

Do I not want him to do well? Far from it, I am well aware of what this job was when he came in and a lot of his transfer dealings have geared around that. Although I think he has a lot to answer to for throwing these young lads to the lions like this. I dont know if any of them will recover from this last 4 weeks of hell that only looks like it will go on and on.

He has people in the squad that he can play, even though his objective is clearly to offload them. People like Bent, Given, Hutton, Warnock, N'Zogbia, Ireland, there is no reason why he cant play them while he is looking to offload them. These kids need help now and they needed help weeks and possibly months ago. I have no issues at all with his transfer policy, and anyone who does should probably look higher up the ladder to point their finger.

The 2 full backs are horrendous, Baker is horrendous, admittedly our 2 best CBs are out injured but we have 2 experienced FBs on huge wages just sat there. Bennett was atrocious tonight, he got ripped apart numerous times, positionally the back 8/9 are all appalling, the defence even worse, they need help desperately.

I get the feeling that Lambert is way too stubborn to change his approach and that will cost him his job and will cost us even more heavily.

We have Saints on Saturday and I am dreading it, Lambert, Ramirez, Puncheon, Lallana and co are going to have a field day. No way our defence can cope with their movement and variety. Im just hoping we luckbox it and try to nick something like we did vs Swansea where obviously we could have got beat 5 easily.

Thing is if we do go down(looks likely IMO) I just dont see how we turn it around and come back, all the names mentioned will go, plus Benteke. We will be left with the pathetic Bannan, Delph and co to try to get us back up, be lucky if we dont go into free-fall.

5th most decorated club in English football!

@DoG.

Not fussed how he moves forward with his career tbh, he had no interest when we were **** after Mowbray so im not going to cry over his fails.

yeah but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J0X1fxkQM

The more I read on this the more it becoming clear the buck should stop with PL...

Outside of Villa fans though he will be seen as ill treated and not to blame, just like a certain someone else.

Seriously?

Decimals > fractions

Im used to fractions, I didnt know what the decimal meant, not that big a deal really?

Who were Charlton playing last night and what channel was it on?

I will sit in the corner with my dunce hat on.

Just watched the game and Villa were truly awful, still fancy them to progress to the final though.

We were fantastic until they scored, then the young lads visibly shrank and looked for somewhere to hide, we stopped passing the ball at that point and started lumping it, the change of momentum at that point was visible. The goal in itself was a lucky deflection(maybe a handball though?) that sat up absolutely perfectly for the kid.

From that point on we were the worst Villa team Ive seen in 20 years. Do we really want to get to Wembley, shell out £xxx, and get spanked again?

When the alternative is getting knocked out by Bradford and not getting to Wembley, I'm pretty sure you know the answer. It isn't like Wembley trips come around too often for all but a handful of clubs.

I was thinking more about how a Wembley spanking in front of the world would effect our young lads. But yea for the average fan, spending that amount in this climate to see something that has a very good chance of being embarrassing...

Personally I have been offered a free ticket in the corporate area, and Im not even sure I will take it(I probably will but I have my reservations).

Well, probably less than getting done by Bradford over two legs.

Ask your average fan if they fancy the trip to Wembley, pretty sure they'll take it.

Definite handball.

For the record, I like Lambert and can see what he's trying to do at Villa. It's just all about surviving this season and things should improve from there.

His style is 100% authority and he manages through fear and respect more than anything, which is why he's determined to get the bigger guys out the door and so reluctant to make use of them in the meantime.

Even heard a story that this whole rift with Bent is because Bent refused to wear a yellow bib in training that's given to the worst trainer of the previous week

Chelsea minus the corner line tonight

Yea I thought so too, seemed like he had enough time to get out of the way, but the ball hit his arm in a way that suggested he wasnt expecting it so IDK if bodies blocked his view or something.



Merson hit the nail on the head WRT older players when he said something about the kids wont ask questions they will just do as they are told.

I also was on board with PL's plan at first but now its time to man up and admit these kids need help. Its January, we have a chance to do something about this now, I hope PL isnt going to be too stubborn with his philosophy and will just bring in a defnder or 2 and definately a couple(minimum) proper midfielders.

Its all about next season and I get that, but right now would you bet that Villa will stay up if they dont improve their squad or have a U-turn on older players already in squad? A few weeks ago I was very confident we would do enough, but all along warned about young players confidence if we suffer a couple of hidings...



WRT Bent, Ive heard a few rumours, 1 that hes slept with someones missus. Im just going with Mersons theory + wage bill. Get some money back in for a high earner and bring in a kid that will go along with what hes told.

Bump for NO BA!

bump for nathan ake