Aston Villa Banter Archive February 01 2016 to March 02 2016

02 Mar 2016 12:04:04
Never thought I would see the day when a Villa side played like a pub team week after week. Breaks my heart.

{Ed025's Note - villa are a great club jack with a great history, the prem needs teams like the old villa and i hope you get back up soon as i think its past the point of saving this season, best of luck for the future mate but i feel you may need it while lerner is at the helm..

02 Mar 2016 12:55:04
Thanks Ed. You're a Gent.

02 Mar 2016 18:41:21
Yeh thanks from me as well Ed.
I have been a bit quiet on here the last couple of weeks, I am lost for words Ed, been supporting villa for 60 yrs like lots more on this site and finding it hard to take in such a decline, shocking mate.

{Ed025's Note - it can only get better dave, i can empathize with you because as an evertonian for over 50 years we have seen clubs getting investment while we have been overlooked for years mate, its so frustrating when clubs with little or no history are getting these billionaire owners and can buy top players, the good thing for you is you have the stadium in place and a strong fan base, im sure you will get back up sooner rather than later when you will have new owners who will bring the pride back to the villa and i wish you all the best..

02 Mar 2016 19:38:05
Thanks for that mate, I am sure you are right.
Everton then, we go back a long way our clubs, I think I am correct in saying it is the most played fixture in the football league!
I wish we had a Ken McNaught at the heart of our defence now Ed.

{Ed025's Note - a great player dave, but i would fear for the rest of the defence now mate if he was in it..he would of ripped their heads off the way they have been performing this season, your missing a great leader like him..

02 Mar 2016 20:01:58
For sure Ed.

01 Mar 2016 21:17:02
At home and we play a defensive team and still 3-0 (I've given up looking) . Ridiculous, Remi is clueless so are the players.

02 Mar 2016 08:51:50
And let's face it, Sherwood had done a better job then Garde has done,

02 Mar 2016 10:41:07
Explain how sherwood done a better job?!?

03 Mar 2016 16:55:08
Sherwood kept us up and at times we were entertaining, actually appeared to give a crap. Garde is a robot.

03 Mar 2016 18:05:31
We had a proven goal scorer then and two midfielders who could play the ball forward! Sherwood didn't do so great the start of this season.

01 Mar 2016 20:16:40
Lost for words.

01 Mar 2016 20:40:53
Another drumming on the way, these players just haven't got a clue,

29 Feb 2016 09:30:24
Just when you think it can't get anymore embarrassing the frenchman is waving the white flag higher and higher! Very interested to hear what the legend that is flackie has to say about the articulate and intellgent Garde? And please mendax do check my grammar for me, haha ;)

get rid of the entire management team, bring in moyes and we still have a chance of staying in the prem!

29 Feb 2016 09:48:39
Legend?
Ahh thank you

29 Feb 2016 12:52:57
Not your grammar I was worried about mate
I genuinely didn't understand the context or structure of the sentence (No, I'm not being sarcastic, honest)

28 Feb 2016 20:59:24
After a long and very hard think I've decided not too renew my season ticket after years and years and thousands of pounds spent on my beloved Aston Villa I think like me there will be hundreds if not thousands in a similar dilemma you can class me a glory hunter if you like but I've been there when we was in the old 2nd division so for me I know hand on heart that I'm not just fed up, angry and annoyed with the way our great club is being run so too you Learner and Co up yours you toxxxrs for ruining my weekends with my friends and fellow villa fans i have been and always will be villa till my last dying breath.

28 Feb 2016 21:30:40
Daz, I understand your feelings.
But. As I've said before, in my opinion, to really enjoy the good, even great times, you have to endure the bad.

28 Feb 2016 21:42:35
There's bad then there's the down right ugly Flackie It grieves me coming out of grounds week in week out feeling depressed and angry mate as I've said been their in the old 2nd division so know how the bad times feel but this time round it even worse than that I'm not saying I won't go next season I'll just choose my games.

28 Feb 2016 22:13:05
I was there with you through tough rough hard times mate, and feel the same emotions week after week with you.

I just personally wouldn't give mine up.

28 Feb 2016 22:35:27
Lol you must be a saddist then Flackie :)

29 Feb 2016 07:00:50
No arguments there mate

28 Feb 2016 07:33:40
A very good point Alex, and more evidence that heis the wrong man for the job! He told us all 3 weeks ago that they were all fighting together then we lost 6-0 to Liverpool (our worst home performance in85 years) then hetold us that they were not fighting together but he still picks the same team and formation and people on this site decend.

28 Feb 2016 09:43:09
What are you on??

28 Feb 2016 10:12:10
Decend?

28 Feb 2016 12:17:06
Didn't realise our squad was so deep that we had a decent choice as to changing the whole team!

28 Feb 2016 13:30:58
All he says is right and correct, we are all wrong

29 Feb 2016 08:19:33
Flackie and mendax the grammar kings and its seems the managers of these sites, haha prededicted top ten finishes at the start of season ; ) and lost internet whilst typing, sorry! So I and every football expert are wrong and afew of you are right?
So tell me flackie and mendax what I have said that is false? You are not proving me wrong and reading all posts Every body and anybody who says anything that goes against what you say you shhot them down? Shall I point out some of your spelling mistakes and poorgrammar? You cannot deny what I have said because I am not the only one! Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp, Thompson, keown, collymore every single football expert! And the ex villa players/ legends Merson, Teale Mountfield, so what are you on Flackie?
And just to confirm that you think Remi is articulate intelligent with excellent tactis (your the only person in the world who describes in in such way, maybe you live with him;) where is the evidence of this? Why has out team not improved, even a little bit?
And are you denying that before the Liverpool game Remi did not say to the press on several occasions that everyone was fighting to the end then we lost 6-0 and you criticise me for saying that he is hopeless and the wrong man for Villa!

Haha wake up mendax and flackie and smell the morning coffee, haha and just let other people give there opinions, I have just relayed facts and never said change the whole team! Vertout and Westwood have been shockin and a change in tactics (from someone who according to flackie is tactically astute? Wouldn't hurt would it, throw micah up front for the ladt 20mins and try to something, just sitting back and watching us lose week after week makes no sense especially when we make the same mistakes!

29 Feb 2016 13:13:02
Blimey mate, you are prickly
Me and Flackie managers of the site? ha ha ha
I hope so, maybe we can ask for a salary
Did I predict a top ten finish? I seriously doubt that.
I have no real interest in proving you wrong; just in sharing my opinion if yours is interesting enough to prompt mine. Thinking about it, you should be flattered
Anyway, you have an opinion; Flackie has an opinion, they are all slightly different and putting loud exclamation marks after expressing yours does not give it any extra validity. Neither does quoting Carragher, Collymore and all the other talking heads who are a little bit thick but get paid to say something. Consequently, they open the flapping holes under their noses, cross their fingers and hope that something loosely connected to the question they were asked pops out.
Keown? An expert? Don't make me laugh.

26 Feb 2016 17:43:08
I am assuming if Remi Garde performs a miracle and keeps Villa in the Prem you would want him to stay, but what if/ when you go down, do you want him to stay?

26 Feb 2016 18:01:33
Hi ed!
I do, I think the guy was promised the earth, and got given f**k all!
I think, given time, and (dare I say) backing to create his own team, he will be brilliant for us.
He is very intelligent, articulate, calm he is tactically astute, and nobody's fool, ask grealish.

I don't think we have a hope in hells chance of staying up anymore, but, I think we have a greater chance of promotion next year with remi.

{Ed001's Note - he was very highly rated in France, I know that much. There were a lot of people telling him not to take the job.}

26 Feb 2016 18:30:15
Very true.
I bet he wishes he hadn't!

27 Feb 2016 10:29:38
I know you can't go on one game but that Liverpool result really knocked the stuffing out of me in terms of faith in the coach (I lost faith in the players a few months back)
Gonna sit on the fence with this; I just don't know
Let's see what happens today. I think Garde has played his joker in outing the players and criticising the players publicly
If we win he will be lauded as a tactical genius, if we lose he'll be lambasted as naive and a lot will be on here saying I told you so
When all is said and done though, he has been badly shafted by the board.

27 Feb 2016 10:40:34
It's a good point, but I don't blame him really for the scouse result.
I think he was totally let down by the players, with a no show, they laid down and died.
Was nothing he could do really.

The 'I told you so' possy totally wind me up!

27 Feb 2016 11:51:17
No Remi has got to go, should never have been employed in the first place and if he is that highly rated why was he employed by French tv for 2 years, Newcastle pulled out of a move for him, he probably bored them to death! If he is intelligent and a good manager then why hasn't he won more games, the xmas period was vital for villa and he had no idea how to manage it,! Players clearly don't respect him and I have not heard anyone in football apart from Wenger say anything good about him! He tried tobuy Martins? and Debuchy did not want to come so sorry but not all the clubs fault, yes he should have been given funds as a club we desperately need some quality players but do we really want Remi Garde and our recruitment to sign more donkeys for villa? Can we honestly say the team has improved with Garde? I think we have got worse and I have not seen improvement in any of our players, even the players from france which is the reason he was given the job in the first place, bring Moyes in now and we have a fighting chance of survival, otherwise we are lost with this clown and WE WILL NOT GET PROMOTED WITH GARDE! He is lost in the prem but will be clueless in the championship.

27 Feb 2016 11:59:46
The trouble with that argument Flackie (and I understand why you say what you do) is that it sort of makes it difficult to judge a manager. i.e if the players play well, has the manager done a good job and when the players put in a performance like Liverpool is it solely the players that are culpable?
I suspect the answer lies somewhere in the middle
Like I say mate, I'm confused.

27 Feb 2016 12:13:21
I don't think it matters what the fans want. I think remi will walk away in the summer due to the way the board and players have hung him out to dry. I would personally love to see him given the chance to develop a team of his own. I fear though that villa will not be a premier league team for at least two seasons but when we do return I'd love to see remi at the helm.

Villa82, I'm not certain but I think he chose to take those 2 years off. I've no doubt that he was approached for numerous positions during that period. As for the Newcastle job my understanding is that he wanted his specific coaching team that he wanted to join him at villa but they were told no by their respective clubs. The big difference is that villa told him that in time they would be recruited and then realised that they had no intention of standing by anything they promised.

27 Feb 2016 15:55:56
It's a fair point mendax.

But I honestly think the players have give up, and accepted relegation after the Sunderland game. So hard to blame, and judge remi on this season.
He has been sold a lie. And wouldn't if blamed him if he had walked after January.

Villa82, open your eyes mate! To aimlessly blame the manager everytime is one dimensional, look at a bigger picture.
And cpmm84, well said mate

27 Feb 2016 16:41:53
Really tough call here Remi or not? Unfortunately how can we judge him too harshly as we have not seen what he can do in a transfer window and with a set of his own players playing his way! Balance this with how many overseas managers have been successful in the championship? Can we afford time for him to build a squad and adjust to a very new league? I would prefer a new and well versed manager but won't be that disappointed if Remi stays! Ouch was that a splinter!

27 Feb 2016 17:27:59
Well I have not heard of him being offered any other roles and all the football experts agree that he was the wrong man at the wrong time! I have nothing against the guy, he just isn't the right man for us and has been negative from day one and in typical french style was waving the white flag in December! We need Tom Fox, Almstadt, O'Reilly out a. s. a. p and let Hollis bring in an experienced manager Moyes, Hughes and let them rebuild not just the team but the coaching and recruitment has needed serious improvement for a long time and get rid of all the poor players, wWestwood, Clark, Guzan, Gabby, Richardson, and there's more, its unbelievable!
But Remi has not improved the team thisIis my point about him, and he has no experience of a, building a squad and b, the premier league! ! Players have got worse not better, we constantly give the ball away and make child like mistakes tactically we are poor and have no style of play, no passion no desire the lack of quality is not Gardes fault but surely good coaching and management would improve the team and player's individually but it just gets worse and worse, is Remi not at all responsible? ? Sorry but disagree!

27 Feb 2016 23:44:07
Villa 82, I have never seen a post off you with any word of optimism or have any good word to say . Also iv never seen anybody get so many disagrees, surely post after post, seeing all those pop up, must make you think that maybe you might be wrong ( sometimes) up the Villa.

28 Feb 2016 00:26:16
Steady on! He talks in facts and absolutes! It's us who is wrong!

28 Feb 2016 07:28:23
So what about every football expert in the country? They all wrong to? I was with 20 loyal fans yesterday who all agree and the facts don't lie! Do you read vitalvilla or any other website? Haha you think i am negative? Have you listend to Remi Garde? He knew we where down in December! And where are all the disagreements I don't see them, do you listen to radio, watch sky? Look at the results and more importantly the performances! It is you that is wrong, well there seems to be 3 or 4 of you supporting Garde and blaming the club mainly Lerner but Lerner owns Aston Villa and wiped off 100million of debt owed to him through interest, funny none of you mention that?!

And let's not forget most people on here where predicting a top ten finish at the start of season, haha ;)

28 Feb 2016 09:06:02
If Remi had come in with us mid table and money to spend in January then I think he would have been a brave gamble and an exciting choice. Coming in as he did was more reckless with us on our end knees. Pearson or Moyes or of their ilk would have been a safer bet and probably would be going forward. Moyes at Preston and then EFC on a shoe string gives him credentials that Remi can't live with. I expect with the club structure, up for sale etc would put off many like Moyes but our name and size may tempt someone new for the challenge. Roll on the summer as this lingering demise is too painful to stomach! VTID.

28 Feb 2016 10:52:27
Every football so called football expert in the country thought Leicester would struggle this year
I'm not using that as an argument for Garde; I am using it as an argument against quoting "football experts"

28 Feb 2016 19:44:20
Let's be honest even fergy couldn't get anything out of our lot. I like remi but worry for him the championship. Pearson would be my choice. I just wish someone would stand up and say we are down so let's enjoy the rest of the season instead of going through the we still believe bs. Facts are 37 points may be enough so 7 wins out of 11, I don't think so.

28 Feb 2016 12:29:46
What manager could do better with that squad? Lerner cashed in on 2 players and spent that money on how many? Most clubs would buy what 2or 3 players for that money. don't get me wrong we need a squad but that's all our transfers were squad players.

23 Feb 2016 19:00:01
Since it is such a rare occurrence, I thought I would share something my missus just said that was vaguely funny. I was sitting in front of the telly browsing the Interweb and she says 'what are you looking at' I say, ' just the Villa fixtures' and she says 'blimey, are they already up for auction' .

23 Feb 2016 19:21:43
Oh dear!

23 Feb 2016 00:39:51
well people i asked you all whether you would not go to the newcastle in protest an you all shot me down so what do you think of the planned protest leaving the game at 75 mins? i for one will be up for it your silly banners an lerner out songs are a nonsense because he's not at the games an he don't even watch it either so how do you think that will make a difference he can't hear or see your protests. i still say missing a whole game would hurt him more as the only way you hurt a billionare is taking he's money away he will let you shout what you like just as long as you pay him! Now heard villa are doing a inquest to what's gone so wrong well end of the season i would sack all the board apart from the new guys just come in to sort this mess out and for me sack remi garde he lacks lower league knowledge and has no passion go an get nigel pearson i would dare these villa players to show him the lack of commitment they show garde! Garde just wants pitty i want results these players need a strict hand not a guy who sulks at the liverpool game he done nothink he's team is still better than bournmouth wba an sunderland an norwich he needs to grow a pear.

23 Feb 2016 18:30:54
What's walking out after 75mins achieve compared to the silly banners and Lerner out songs u talk about? Uve still paid your money for your ticket and probably had your pie and pint at half time. so Lerner still gets his money and don't care when u walk out!

24 Feb 2016 13:07:44
This ain't fifa16 mike.

24 Feb 2016 13:07:44
This ain't fifa16 mike.

25 Feb 2016 00:25:26
How can we complain that, we don't like what we are seeing . That the team have no confidence, then withdraw our support, with 20 mins to go . I don't honestly think that will help the team at all . let's protest about the board, but withdrawing our support is not helping . In 50 plus years iv seen more downs than ups, but you have to show the players, good or bad that your with them all the way .

25 Feb 2016 16:04:43
These players are no good don't deserve support, they need to show the fans they will fight for AV, worst villa team I have seen,

26 Feb 2016 14:17:44
Yes I will definitely be walking out as we really need tom fox and his cronies out of villa park! they are a joke and not even qualified for the positions that they currently have, and anyone who employs Remi Garde deserves to be sacked, no prem experience, as negative as you can get and he has already destroyed the confidence of our best young player (Grealish) oh yeh and has the worst win percentage I have ever seen! most people don't blame Remi though, really?

22 Feb 2016 17:55:26
Bloody hell the first team lose 3-0 to the under 21 team in a training session .
Looks like we should blood a few of the youngsters, I no they wouldn't probably win any more games but i'm sure they would run their socks off and show more commitment than the pile crap that keeps turning out for us.

22 Feb 2016 19:08:17
It was a training session!

22 Feb 2016 20:27:24
I don't think that's an excuse!

22 Feb 2016 22:31:28
Was not a real, proper or actual game.

Was TRAINING!! Ffs

Why do we need to find something in everything!?

22 Feb 2016 23:15:52
If u think garde didn't want the first team am squad to win this game u are deluded. Shows how bad we really are

Total embarrassment to call these villa first team
Robbing a living
Robbing us fans
Total disgrace.

23 Feb 2016 07:12:24
Your right, and he wanted that under 21 team to roll over and die. How silly of me.
Of course he wanted everyone to fully commit to a training game, hard tackles and injuries.
Of course we all know that he wouldn't of tried knew tactics in it, things never used before, as there is no need as they all work so well in prem.
Silly of me to not realise that he wouldn't of used training to actually train.
this match is unimportant, irrelevant and not even news.

23 Feb 2016 10:02:19
Surely it wouldn't of done the first teams confidence any good if they had any left anyway losing to under 21 side?

23 Feb 2016 11:50:58
It was a training session.
Most the back five didn't play, and four players in 21 team had first team experience.
Ffs, why are you looking for something that isn't there?

Was not a serious game, was a training match

23 Feb 2016 12:30:10
OK your right, we haven't got a serious team at the moment anyway, just a joke of a team!

23 Feb 2016 18:40:56
FFS.

23 Feb 2016 22:25:33
Every training session every player in that squad should be working their socks off to improve to get this great club out of a dire situation.

A practice match should be treated like a cup final for all players involved as they want to earn a place in the starting line up to help us get out of this mess!

Personally I think we're already down and playing the younger lads could give needed experience ready for next year when the vultures have picked at our relegated squad.

23 Feb 2016 23:06:14
And your name is realist!? Lol

22 Feb 2016 08:35:10
Ha ha
Lambert
Should have put your glasses on
Firm believer in Karma
You got yours
VTD.

22 Feb 2016 12:45:42
Blackburn being beaten means absolutely nothing to me, one way or the other, regardless of who is in charge.

22 Feb 2016 13:17:50
Makes me laugh that people blame lambert for this!
We wouldn't be bottom right now if he wasn't sacked

22 Feb 2016 19:46:51
I never liked Lambert but Jesus!
Getting satisfaction out of him losing a game, presumably because he said he was chuffed to get the bullet and end his misery under Lerner, is pretty desperate stuff.
Nobody could blame him for holding that view, surely?
I'd have been chuffed to get out of it as well.

23 Feb 2016 09:42:42
Sorry both
Disagree
Who bought in the possession goal kick
That still haunts us now
It ruined Guzan
I even saw Bunn do it against Liverpool
Lambert had less of a clue that tactic less Tim
Look at his buys
Benteke apart
Lowton, Bennett, Westwood, bacuna, Bowery Richardson
Kozac (never given a chance) Cole
Bloody awful.

23 Feb 2016 18:43:15
I can't believe this but I am actually going to defend Lambert.
No I'm not, this is just a total waste of my time.

24 Feb 2016 08:46:17
Hi Mendax
It would take someone to defend lambert
As after his time at the villa it was evident he
Couldn't defend
I posted earlier about Mcliesh
Being used by the board
Take ya money and run
He has again
Egypt
Is there football there
Is there grass there
What does a pale skinned ginger Scotsman
Thing he's doing working on that climate
Ah must be the money.

24 Feb 2016 12:54:25
Can't see the wood through the trees?
Jesus

24 Feb 2016 12:54:25
Can't see the wood through the trees?
Jesus

20 Feb 2016 17:07:19
{Ed's Note - We have posted a new article entitled, Jose To Man Utd Confirmed By Inter Director, Bullard Claims He Was Given £15k A Week Extra By Mistake By Hull And Much More

19 Feb 2016 15:59:47
having read the resignation by he former receptionist none of it really surprises me. You can tell that lerner stopped caring a while ago. THe whole sending people early makes sense as those up the top would rather protect their own wallets. We will become the next Portsmouth if we don't watch it.

19 Feb 2016 21:49:46
Acrington Stanley were the first league team to lose status, AVFC could be the next. Portsmouth survived!

What a pile of s. t Lerner has made our club.
Players that don't want to play because the manager criticised them. Don't the poor dears have any pride? Of course not, they just want the money.

Is Lerner prepared to let AVFC go to the wall without a fight?
Day by day he is reducing the value of the club yet still he wants £200m. There is no value to the players and none would get a place in another prem club and only a few would get in the champs.
We are witnessing the total destruction of a once proud football club by a to55er from America.
RIP my ASTON VILLA.

19 Feb 2016 12:53:57
Might get slagged for this but I for one agree with Collymore I don't condone what he's done in the past but what he says says is how it is we are rotten from the core if everyone has the bottle to say how it is instead of being YES men then we might not be in this predicament VTMLDB.

19 Feb 2016 13:41:41
What a load of crap.
He says things to get a reaction, he hasn't got a brain to engage. Don't get sucked in to the argument 'at least I say it as it is. '
The guy is a Neanderthal that would create a fight in a corner on his own in a round room.

19 Feb 2016 14:18:45
What bugs me about Collymore is that he hardly burst a gut when he was playing for us
It was all there for him to make himself a legend and he tried as much as Bacuna.

19 Feb 2016 14:54:38
Exactly.

19 Feb 2016 15:11:20
Have no time for Stan, self obsessed and only think of what a great waste of potential and money he was at VP! Ignoring what he said but thinking f when Graham Taylor and later on Martin O'Neil said when they took over. I think, as was then, there is a real issue with chaos at every level and lack of autonomy and leadership expected by mangers like GT and MO'N? I recall GT and. MO'N both wanting to know on first name terms some of the most junior staff? Perhaps those days of football management have gone.

20 Feb 2016 12:56:04
Flackie you might not agree with what he has to say but I do, Our club as we all know is rotten and with air play time he has his right to voice his opinion as you do too I'm just saying I agree with 90% of what he says yes as Mendex says he could have been a legend at B6 but as we all know weddings do not always work We can't always be right can we?

20 Feb 2016 14:12:44
I think I'll agree to disagree regarding mr collymore.

18 Feb 2016 18:31:52
I don't like the Klingon, think his attitude stinks, his 'professionalism' is an embarrassment and his lack of a football brain is comical, but, I do agree with him on one thing, Stan collymore is a complete tool.

19 Feb 2016 08:47:48
Someone has already mentioned it but this is meant to be his club. never put a foot wrong with the fans of his other clubs!

19 Feb 2016 09:42:29
Which one Klingon or wife beater

19 Feb 2016 17:33:25
Klingon mate!

18 Feb 2016 02:08:45
hi villa fans right he's a idea instead of moaning how screwed up we are at the top with lerner an co why don't we try somethink last home game of the season which is newcastle a nothink game why don't we all not go leave the stadium empty! The only way you will get your point across to randy lerner is to hit him in he's pocket its only one game but it will show him we mean business! you can hold your silly banners up all you like but he is in america he don't watch nor here us only way you hurt this guy is in he's pocket! liverpool fans tryed somethink similar and guest what it worked 70 min they left empty stadium next day the board backed down! Also might give him food for thought as he thinks about season ticket prices for next season! NO MORE SILLY BANNERS OR CHANTS HE isn't HERE HE can't SEE OR HERE YOU! THE PLAYERS don't LIKE US THE BOARD don't LIKE US SO WHO ARE WE SUPPORTING? COME ON PEOPLE YOU GOT TO BE CRUEL TO BE KIND GIVING LERNER MONEY IS JUST ENCOURAGING HIM!

18 Feb 2016 04:42:14
are you trying to say for the newcastle game don't show up?

18 Feb 2016 11:33:20
I reckon by then NUFC will also be down! If not they will really tear into us after our compassion towards them when they went down 'who's your next saviour Ant &Dec! ' Can't see a mass stay away for the last game and the payers parade at the end will be interesting! Not sure any of the brave enough players will have WAGS and kids tagging along?! I still think main protest and banners should be towards the board in last day!?

18 Feb 2016 11:46:00
And achieve what in the process?

18 Feb 2016 12:06:06
Will make me feel better for one and not just passively roll over and take this lying down! I am sure RL wants to get permanently far from B6 but any delusions the rest of the board harbour they will stay with any new owner should be short lived. Until last day and last day still happy to party though!

18 Feb 2016 15:07:31
I haven’t seen his personal bank balance recently, but I I don’t somehow think that Lerner is down to his last dollar nor, for that matter, needs to pay for his weekly shop off the back of Villa’s income. According to the 2016 Midlands Rich List (not sure why he’s on it since he is never seen in the Midlands), Lerner is worth just shy of a billion quid, so I can’t somehow imagine that the experience of one of his lackey’s delivering the news that a few thousand Brummies walked out of a Villa game is going to make him choke on his caviar. In order to dramatically effect Lerner you would need to persuade most fans to stay away completely, thus impacting the value of the club ultimately to the point of worthlessness. The danger of that is that you could then end up in a Bolton-esque situation whereby you are selling off the car-park in order to pay the wages and, in the meanwhile, Lerner’s billion is still sitting pretty in the bank. If he closed our precious club down tomorrow, he would still have a billion in the bank and that’s why he doesn’t care. I agree with Flackie that we should at least try and restore some pride to the club by being the best supporters we can be to the last game of the season, and then the best supporters in the Championship until we come back up again.

18 Feb 2016 18:38:54
Are we seriously saying that we are that fickle and glory hungry that when things don't go as we want we stay away, turn our backs on the team and give up?
Is that not the point of being a supporter? It's more than being a fan.
I agree things are crap, worse than we deserve, or ever had nightmares about.
But if we stay together, through this, won't the success around the corner taste even better?

We should look at Citeh. In old second division, still crowds of 35k+
(How some naive villans dared to sing 'where were you when you where siht?' To them the other week is beyond me!)
There is the blue print!
Boycott?? No thanks. This is my religion, in my blood.
Rough, and smooth.
Disagree, laugh, say what you want.
I will go, always, INSPITE of the powers that be.

18 Feb 2016 20:00:13
Lol, you can only say that now you have a decent car!

Fully agree though mate.

18 Feb 2016 20:11:42
You only agree as you get to ride in comfort now

18 Feb 2016 20:44:37
The problem with the talk of Boycotts due to Lerner (who I loath by the way) is that you are, in a way, defining the club by the owner. The club should be defined by the fans, the club is an idea that will endure way beyond Lerner's tenure
I'm with Flackie and Mr Wisdom. We need to be as good fans as we possibly can under the circumstances, endure the disappointment of relegation and savour the sweet taste of our return when it happens.

17 Feb 2016 14:26:51
I for one hope lescott doesn't start the next game.

17 Feb 2016 19:30:30
I for one hope the Klingon empire call him for national service

17 Feb 2016 19:50:22
Lescott totally mystifies me. Unless I have missed a few things, he seems to have been pretty much the model professional at all his other club; he then comes to Villa, supposedly the team he has supported all his life, and acts like a total.
you can fill in the blanks. Baffling.

17 Feb 2016 10:04:13
I know this is as likely to happen as tom fox falling on his sword but anyways tim cahill has left his club in china and its being reported he is a free agent, don't know how true this is but if it is, got to be worth a punt, i know it's clutching at straws but what else is there left to do?

{Ed001's Note - he has been released but is looking to stay in China. They get paid a hell of a lot more for playing there.}

18 Feb 2016 04:45:01
also if he's a free we can't sign him as don't you have to have players registered by the end f tranfer window?

{Ed001's Note - no, but they do have to have left their previous club by the end of the transfer window, which he didn't.}

16 Feb 2016 21:37:38
No sunny break for the lazy sods.
well done Remi.
Extra training could be good for them.

15 Feb 2016 20:55:42
OK we lost badly well if your a true supporter we should all be behind our players no matter what
Av till I die.

16 Feb 2016 13:01:34
The team gave up? There's only so much we can do, we support an idea that is Aston Villa, sadly the hierarchy and team care more about their pay cheques. Honestly I hope grealish gives a **** because those on the pitch on Sunday showed no fighting spirit.

16 Feb 2016 13:56:45
You think he gives a stuff?
Our last heavy loss, he went on the lash!

16 Feb 2016 14:30:09
I'm sorry, but I can't get behind that s*** I am a true supporter and if they truly did the best they could do, I could except it, but there is no excuse for laziness. Not with the money these guys get paid.

If I even got paid half what these gents get paid, I would be running around till I passed out.

16 Feb 2016 22:59:56
I hope grealish cares, I might him when he was 17, he seems nice enough. If anyone cares I hope it's him.

15 Feb 2016 12:21:39
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14 Feb 2016 21:56:45
Bacuna needs to be dropped, period. Smiling all the time. making awful mistakes, and he's spending more time playing with his bloody hair dos than he is on the training pitch.

14 Feb 2016 22:36:08
I've never understood what he brought, Lowton was better than him. Bacuna when bought was seen as a tricky wide player, half the time he can't even make a good pass. He was one heralded as a great free kick taker, he scored 3 maybe?

15 Feb 2016 08:29:14
Never liked when individual players are booed as have seen some talent in the past leave and then set a place alight post villa. Where would you stop with our current lot! Have never liked Bacuna and have never seen any potential. Looks a championship or lower European side player at best. This season Gana had driven me mad with his lack of presence. Started well yesterday for 10mins but then woeful again. Veratout I forget is on the pitch but I'd that because of lack of errors? Never forgot Cowans was on the pitch! What has happened to Gil! Once a great hope of silky movement beating players and baring down on goal! Just count how many times he is now negative going backwards and side ways! His first touch and ball control has no place in the speed of the Prem. Westwood again will not be out of place in the Championship! Worst collective set of players which promised so much in July I have ever seen at villa. At least we knew 86/ 87 lot were very bad and never flattered to deceive. Looking forward to next season. VTID.

14 Feb 2016 18:49:34
Just been watching a re-run of the post-match comments from Sky Sports. The most telling one being that usually, when a team gets relegated, other Premier League managers are looking to make offers to a few of the best players. In our case, there isn't one player they could name who another Prem League Manager would even consider making an offer for .

14 Feb 2016 19:33:53
Yeh WW, I saw the same remarks they came from J, Carragher.
And I must say I have to agree, we are a very poor side and anyone thinking we can stay up needs to wake up to be honest.

14 Feb 2016 21:04:42
Going down is one thing; going down with a whimper is quite another.

14 Feb 2016 22:24:09
I am at a loss for words Mendax.
I am done with them all, they are an embarrassment to the shirt, the club, the supporters and should tale a long hard look at themselves.
I would be ruthless and clear them all out and start again.

14 Feb 2016 23:53:49
Who'd take them Dave?
Don't forget also that the geniuses behind the scenes, like Paddy Reilly, who bought this lot are still there (HOW? ) and would no doubt be involved in buying the replacements.

14 Feb 2016 18:17:20
Ok, I accept it. Not only is she singing, she's nearly finished her encore.

14 Feb 2016 20:49:27
The acoustics from Leicester must be great tonight - I can hear her quite clearly over here in Stafford Flackie.

14 Feb 2016 17:56:30

I know how he feels

14 Feb 2016 17:36:00
Villa supporter since 1957. Very upset that this once proud club has been turned into a pantomime over the last few years. What idiot appointed McLeish and then gave Lambert a new 4 year contract after almost taking us down two seasons running. Complete clowns.

14 Feb 2016 16:26:51
Worst home defeat since 1935 over the last 3 seasons all records have been broken I hope your happy you yank (Replace the Y with a W) . Bacuna seen smiling when where 6-0 down I hope beyond all hope I don't see him out NO FIGHT NO SPIRIT NO HOPE Bye Lineker and Co and hi Minehe VTMLDB.

14 Feb 2016 16:15:20
Doh ray me, the ft lady is getting ready to sing.
What the hell was that today.?
From the start they were giving the ball away.
No fight, no sprit, no balls.
There is no chance of this team even staying in the championship and a drop next season looks likely.
Would you stay if you were Garde? Who will take the poison chalice?
We are all saying it but it has to be said that Lerner has shafted us the supporters.
Our worst home defeat for 83 years, in my lifetime.
Not a single player worthy of the shirt.
R. I. P. my Aston Villa, fu. ed By a useless Yank who promised that he would look after AVFC.
Hang your head in shame Randy Lerner.

14 Feb 2016 15:28:39
I can't do this anymore.

14 Feb 2016 09:35:23
i know I shouldn't but i best most of you are thinking it, but a win today and we are 5 points from moving out of the drop zone - dare to dream my beloved claret and blue.

11 Feb 2016 22:15:33
Moyes seen at villa vs Norwich any views on this one.

11 Feb 2016 23:36:46
Utter rubbish.

11 Feb 2016 23:55:27
For me remi has to stay, he has impressed me, last 5 games joint 3rd on form, players starting work, veretout impressing gana coming alive a english spine bunn lescott westwood agbonlahor more importantly premiership experince would be a backward step if this was not left to devolpe and be funded!

12 Feb 2016 19:33:03
westwood is poor, bunn is a number 2 Lescott is passed it,

12 Feb 2016 21:18:53
That's it, keep positive.

13 Feb 2016 22:02:09
so its wrong to be truthful.

14 Feb 2016 09:02:37
I'm not saying I totally disagree with you.
I'm saying, for now, these are all we have, so either try and support them, help them and be positive.
Or criticise, moan, find fault and complain.
Choice is yours!

My feelings are, and I couldn't give a flying wnak whether you agree, or not, is that positivity breeds positivey. So in same thinking negativity does the same.

We are still in this league, yes it's going to be hard, almost impossible now to stay up. But if we all fight, stay together and push in same direction, we could just do it.

Then, after the season, is when we fight the board, the quality, or lack of in playing staff, the investment from Lerner.
Doing this now does nothing, moaning, knocking the players confidence now does nothing except bring on the inevitable, mistakes, mistakes mean relegation.

But as you have already said, it's up to you!

14 Feb 2016 17:10:34
today proved what I said, we have been down since Swansea game.

14 Feb 2016 18:30:11
Give yourself a big pat on the back!

I bet you sat there waiting for the 'I told you so!' Typed in waiting to press send!

What a joke!!

09 Feb 2016 23:21:28
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09 Feb 2016 15:47:05
Amazing. Due to Lerners lack of proper investment over the last 5/ 6 years and the resultant drop in attendances due to crap performance on the pitch we are to be faced with cut backs across the entire site of AVFC.
Is this Lerners way of getting back at the supporters?
How will he ever be able to sell the club following cutbacks that will affect the academy?
Staff to lose jobs, marshals reduced .
What has Lerner done to our club?
If he had invested the right amount of money over the last few years the crowds would still be filling VP as the results would have been so much better.
I don't trust Lerner or Hollis one bit and only hope the Mervyn King can represent the faithful in our hour of need.
Please will someone come along and buy our club and get rid of the ar. ho. That Have been put in place by the most stupid owner in the whole football world.

09 Feb 2016 18:09:31
Why are we as supports wasting our emotions, energy and effort on these guys? We can't effect them, change them or even turn there heads.
We should all be concentrating on encouraging the players we have, as we have them regardless of what we do, say or shout about.

If we are to stay in this league they need us to stand together, we should support these guys inspite of the crap at the top.

These guys 'running' this club are temporary. Our existence, status, and integrity is at state.
During the rest of this season, what will a protest change, what does these angry posts bring, other than negativity?

United we stand, United we should fall.

A time and a place, not now, not till after May now.

10 Feb 2016 12:08:26
Spot on Flackie. Back to my comments last week regarding the futility of walking out of and and not turning up to games - for which I believe I was royally shot down in flames from some quarters of our brethren .

10 Feb 2016 19:21:01
We should, excuse the irony, really be the twelve man.

If we stand as one, sing our hearts out, and try to be the incredible supporters we once all used to be at vp, we might actually help. Might give them the lift they need.

I hate what is happening to OUR club, it's not Lerners, it wasn't dougs, it's ours. They as someone once said, are the stewards.
What happens off the field, between now and the end of season, (and let's be brutal, probably after) we can't change.
But we can possibly affect what happens on the pitch at vp.

That's all that matters.
If, and it's not yet a when, if we go down. Let's go down fighting, but fighting the right battles.

My dad always says something, sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war!

08 Feb 2016 17:58:18
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08 Feb 2016 12:02:35
Great result Saturday
Who knows could we do it?
Our luck is changing the goal mouth scramble in the second half and the ball went out would 8 weeks ago ended up in the net
Okore or Sisoko's mis hit clearance that went over the bar also would have flew in

And love him or not
Gabby you were awesome
The goal, your clearing headers from corners and tracking back tackles (it was never a foul) bloody great

Great to hear the fans singing
Remi Gardes claret and blue army
He acknowledged the fans for doing so
I feel the fans have a connection with Garde
That hasn't been there since Gregory, Little and O'neil
We have both been shafted by the board

Come on villa

Come on Remi same again.

07 Feb 2016 01:58:35
Gabby today showed fight that the whole team have lacked all season i honestly think its far to late but let's at least put up a fight. now why didn't gabby celebrate when scoring? answer is an this is he's own words we shouldn't be down there and iam pead off with a few who have let the club down i can tell you he said he's going to try he's guts out to try an keep us up! love this villa fan and villa legend! so nice he stopped an spoke to me at the petrol station shows what a nice guy he's is! #Fightlikelions.

07 Feb 2016 04:04:47
I know he's not everyone's favorite player but he will always be a legend to me. If we can stay up I think he will have a huge part in it.

06 Feb 2016 17:53:05
That was some game, well done gabby. And well done to the Klingon.

Dare I believe?!

06 Feb 2016 20:44:53
Really pleased with Gabby's performance found his lack of celebration interesting! So many on the Holte have given him stick on phone ins etc Norwich look doomed, wish this was October or November.

07 Feb 2016 00:31:20
Don't do it Flackie. A flame of optimism flickered in my heart after today's game. Thankfully Mrs Mendax was around to stamp it out pretty damn quickly!
She's only thinking of me.

{Ed007's Note - Just take it one game at a time but that was a massive win for you lads today. It's all ifs and buts and hindsight's a wonderful thing but you wouldn't be in this position if you had changed manager in the summer.

07 Feb 2016 09:58:55
Haha mendax!!
Try living with my Mrs, as you know I live in Leicester, and she was born here, so with them top, and flying, and us. Well!!
This season has been quite painful!!

And ed, I totally agree!

07 Feb 2016 11:13:27
Ouch.

07 Feb 2016 20:26:04
If i were you flackie i'd move now, as come the end of the season she might become quite unbearable.

07 Feb 2016 22:05:44
Become?!

05 Feb 2016 09:34:29
Our new signing really is going to help just where we need it. Sorting out the parachute payment when we go down. He'll know where to invest it, just not on human beings who can kick a ball.

04 Feb 2016 12:22:36
We've signed Mervyn King
We will pay him lots
And we will see no rewards.

04 Feb 2016 14:36:17
Do we now have the real Kingvilla?
Are they both the same person?
Future King, past bank of England chief, present prime minister.
If nothing else we have some very notable supporters but they have no influence over the most stupid owner a football club has ever been unfortunate to have.
Could Mervin still have the keys to the B. O. E? Could be our only solution.

04 Feb 2016 15:54:53
At least King is a life-long Villa fan and not just another financial suit. Hopefully he will also bring some emotional input and energy to the mismanagement structure - I'd certainly have more faith in his ability to help dig us out of a hole than the rest of the management muppet-show put together.

04 Feb 2016 16:25:59
Now don't get me wrong I'm glad to have a lifelong villa fan with proven knowledge on the board. The reason for the sarcastic post stands purely on the basis that this should have been the case anyway. Arguably this will help in the long run, but what we needed was new players first and foremost. Both sides of the club need sorting that I grant you, but we need to perform on the pitch more than in the boardroom right now.

04 Feb 2016 20:03:26
No player signed for the pitch in January, another suit signed for the boardroom
Sums us up perfectly
What a shower we have running things.

04 Feb 2016 20:12:00
So now with a King and a Prince we surely can charge the rest of the board with Treason! King on board is sound for finances but not sure if he could be cover for Rudi nor Kozak?

03 Feb 2016 11:06:56
So if Garde does walk, is it too late for Pearson to save us.

03 Feb 2016 12:49:44
its too late for the dude off the cross that turns water into wine and walks on water to save us. can't see garde walking before end of season but i don't think pearson is the right man for the job, then again who would be?

03 Feb 2016 18:09:56
Interesting that the Leicester side that royally turned over the scousers last night comprised 7 of the players who were at the bottom of the league this time last year plus Huth, Okazaki, Kante and Fuchs who cost a combined total of just £15.6m in the summer.

03 Feb 2016 21:12:35
Here's a thought on Pearson that has been bouncing around my head
That Leicester are where they are now suggests they got out of trouble last year in spite of Pearson rather than because of him?
It's just a thought.

04 Feb 2016 09:54:56
A number of those Leicester players joined last January. Strange though as poeple don't join a team in 20th place.

03 Feb 2016 08:13:18
Awful ref
Defo penalty
That was blatant
Sisoko's was given against him
Collins and mark noble should have had 2 yellows each according to Howard Webb and Robbie Savage
Load of rubbish you cannot get booked for a push hen the ball is out of play
Does that mean on a throwing you can push somebody over
It would be interesting to see the pinch marks on Ayews shoulder and behind
But Ayew you are a nob you let the team down
Bacuna grow some mate you bottled every tackle and stay behind at Bodymoor Heath and learn how to beat the first man on a cross

Remi you acted with the dignity of a gentleman

Full support for Remi on Saturday

As for the board let's have a look in the blue seats trinity road and give em a two fingered wave.

02 Feb 2016 21:39:47
And as long as Randy Lerner stays at our club our club won't do nothing we won't get no decent players nor will we win anything neither will the club have 40000 thousand fans again in the ground for a long time to come. I'm a old football fan from 1980 era and we saw good times at Villa and we won cups and trophies and we also won The European Cup So we got to be proud of what we achieved in the years gone by and now we will all have to see what happens but I say our club is doomed as long as Randy stays there and keeps the club.

02 Feb 2016 20:58:17
If Randi and the owners don't give our manager any money then all I can say is our club deserve to go down and get relegated and it will serve randy Lerner right as he is a disgrace to our club.

02 Feb 2016 20:27:45
We could have won today, stupid by ayew.

02 Feb 2016 20:35:20
We ain`t lost yet, have some hope.
Not playing too bad to be honest.
Fingers crossed.

02 Feb 2016 21:54:47
Ooooooppps.

02 Feb 2016 19:20:30
I can't help but wonder where is any of the board through all this, not one has come out with a statement as to why we never signed anyone apart from the obvious no one wanted to sign for a nearly relegated club why wasn't RG given the funds as promised to sign at least a striker instead of refusing to pay the money out on transfers or loan deals? well I guess they are hiding waiting for it all to calm down hoping it will all go away then try and fob us off with will bounce straight back WELL how about not going down in the first place you bunch of morons? . (I hope he dont) but RG will walk once he see's what his budget is for the summer and how they have no desire or ambition then we will end up with a two bit yes man of a manager. The smell of relegation is in the air VTID.

02 Feb 2016 13:02:30
Taking my emotional hat off and trying to analyse the pings on at OUR football club.
Hollister has come to restructure the overall club.
Is this to make it a viable option for a buyer to encourage offers?
What can he sell off?
What expenditure can he cut?
Will he be looking to find another site for a training facility and selling?
Even worse could he be looking to sell Villa Park?
Brighton sold the Goldstone ground and built a new stadium on the outskirts of Brighton.
Whatever is planned by Hollis and Scrooge you can be sure that it will not impress us the supporters.
The only way costs can be cut is to move out of the ground, unless a major investment comes in to rename Villa Park.
Our future is definately fragile but something is happening that none of us will want to see.
What do others see regarding the situation?
I have no comments to make about the transfer failures as it has all been said by everyone on the site, if only the board would read some of the posts on this and every other public site they may see the emotion of thousands of supporters.
.

02 Feb 2016 16:09:36
I remember, my dad is a big Brighton fan and was one of the supporters club members who helped get rid finally of Bellotti.

Although the Amex is a miles better ground than the Goldstone was it took a very long time of grounds sharing and zero success to get there.

They'll probably sell off Villa Park and make us play at Bodymore, holds about 15k doesn't it?

02 Feb 2016 16:34:18
that should read 1.5k lol not 15 there's not even a stand!

02 Feb 2016 09:51:43
Why on earth the board think we can just rebound back up? Do they think they can keep players like Gil and ayew? Half of the players will want out, Guzan will stay but Richards lescott and okore will be gone, amavi is too promising for the championship. Veretour will go as will greakish unless he actually wants to stay forever. I mean hell Adams might stay if he gets injured in the summer but someone will want him.

02 Feb 2016 10:26:14
Who's Adams?

02 Feb 2016 16:11:12
I assume he means Adama? But i can't see him staying either unless he's injured until Sept and then we will just sell him Jan.

02 Feb 2016 08:29:43
I have been a villa fan since nappies named after nigel sims i could weep at the plight of our great club which has been bought to its knees by a mind dead yank and his idiot associates. we have gone from being a decent team under martin oneil to the laughing stock of the midlands no one wants to play for us we have too many many grabbers like nzogbia i feel for Garde even though we should have kept Tim i worry for our illustrious clubs future as i can only see Lerner and his henchmen taking us further into the abyss.

02 Feb 2016 08:17:13
The only way to get our message across is to get asses down VP sing our bloody hearts out then AFTER the game protest like hell let these muppets that run our club know exactly how we ALL feel because I'll tell you now they will ruin our great club into the ground VTMLDB.

02 Feb 2016 13:30:50
They already have.

02 Feb 2016 00:05:55
If Randy and his board, have any respect for the people who, have driven this club with their support for years . They should come out with some kind of statement, explaing to the fans what is happening . what their ideas are, why they haven't spent any money . Why the club has been allowed, to get into the state it is . What they intend to do about it, & what we can expect . This statement should be made in plane English, not in corporate speak . The fans, the press, Uncle Tom cobberly and all, have attacked Randy for not speaking up . Now is your time Randy, you have previously stated your love for the club and its history, Now is your chance to let the others who prove they love the club, year after year . Know what your plans are Villa for ever.

01 Feb 2016 23:22:38
So that's it. No signings and no offloading of dead wood. We are now reliant on the squad we have to perform a miracle. Trouble is, from my observation of the City game on Saturday it has less to do with motivation or commitment and more to do with the fact that some of them are actually just not that good at football.

01 Feb 2016 23:09:42
Remi Garde was the best thing to happen to aston villa since o'neils first couple of years
It looks like he is walking
Can you blame him
Been stabbed in the back by the board

RIP my beloved Aston villa.

01 Feb 2016 23:59:48
What is so great about garde?

01 Feb 2016 21:25:06
A bloke with a bible just seen at VillaPark.
Going to read the last rights of a once famous football club.
Seems like The parties over my friends.
Lerner wins.
He has destroyed AVFC.
May his sole rot in hell.

01 Feb 2016 21:41:19
Yep Lerner wins. we lose.

01 Feb 2016 20:49:37
Dubuchy gone to Bordeaux on loan why didn't we sign him 😣: (

01 Feb 2016 21:20:56
mmmm i wonder why we didn't sign him? ££££ lack of for the manager to spend.

01 Feb 2016 18:11:32
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01 Feb 2016 15:40:39
im sorry but today is the day i say i'm out of excuse, i'm out of reasons and i'm fresh out of hope that we can stay up.

and personally this is where as supports the people that go to the games now need to start with making it clear that they are not happy with the way the club is run and boycott games. sorry but the only way to hit this bunch of morons that are "running" this club is in the pocket.

01 Feb 2016 20:55:01
And that will improve our position, how?
If we boycott games it actually gives Lerner an excuse for the lack of investment
What we need to do is fill the ground out every week in the Championship; make it an absolute fortress and help drag the team out of their current malaise against weaker opposition.
Abandoning the team when they need you most is poor form as far as I am concerned
Also, it is easier to show the board how you feel if there are 42,000 of you screaming your opinion at the ground rather than sitting at home.

01 Feb 2016 22:29:38
was more thinking the mans only in it for the cash and no one of any importance is ever at the games so the noise won't help.

01 Feb 2016 22:57:48
He doesn't give a monkey's mate.
As fans, we have to help the team in spite of that idiot
Treat him with the contempt he deserves. But don't do it by punishing the team.

01 Feb 2016 14:29:43
I really cannot understand why the powers that are in charge, let's call them the lunatics, have no ambition?
Surely anyone in football wants their club to be successful, not just make a profit. If they fail to succeed they fail to make a profit.
What do the staff employed within the asylum think about the balls up that the board are creating?
Lerner and his wrecking crew must walk carefully around OUR football club in fear off them having an accident!
Six people destroying the lives of 40/ 50/ 60 thousand supporters. Making a laughing stock of OUR club. Even Vidic chose to retire rather than play for AVFC. What a shambles.
It is no wonder that there are no buyers? We can all see a very badly run club that will need at least £300m to turn it round plus the cost of purchase.
Lerner has not only destroyed this generation of supporters but probably the next two generations.
A faceless wimp with no pride who is prepared to allow one of the greatest names in world football to slowly sink into obscurity.
Lerner you should be ashamed to call yourself a supporter, a business man, an owner, or just simply a man.
GO PLEASE GO, GO NOW.
If you go now you may be forgiven by the supporters, but I doubt it.

01 Feb 2016 15:21:12
I don't believe there was ever any interest in someone buying our club. you don't sell your best assets when your trying to impress potential buyers and he sold snake and benteke! I think it was mendax put up a Cleveland brown fans video. Lerner ruined them and HAS not is, ruined our club.

01 Feb 2016 09:28:40
Cannot see us signing anyone
What a mess
Newcastle Sunderland Bournemouth Watford Norwich all are more attractive clubs than Aston Villa
To much money in football is it still £100 million for relgated teams
As a business would you spend 20 million
To get 10 back
As s fan we would spend £100 million
To stay in this league
Only hope WBA get sucked in and blues stay where they are at least local Derby.

01 Feb 2016 02:17:50
Well chaps, brandy all round in the boardroom, their plan has come to fruition, no one signed (so far) and one or two members hoping remi resigns (he's a gent and their scared he'll tell the fans the truth about transfer policy-or lack of it), old reg hollis will give a rousing speech and randy will stay well out of the way, being our guardian and all that, i understand names already to be spoken to about getting us back up from the championship, well it is with sadness i'm not getting another season ticket until that"ANCHOR"of a n owner and board sling their hook,36years and this is the worst, i hope for a miracle today and we buy or loan players but i doubt it, so good luck to you boys and girls who still have the faith, time to check out, PEACE and for one last time"UP THE VILLA".