We're shocking at home. 9 times out of 10 we blow it with a loss or scraping a draw after the classic 'Villa go a goal down straight away syndrome'.
I can't stand watching our home games anymore because we're so poor. Clean sheets are a thing of the past and we just don't perform. Even when we get on top of a game it's usually because we're a goal down! The odd moment of happiness against a side like City means nothing now. Liverpool and Everton and even Newcastle shouldn't have left with all 3 points. Apalling doesn't even begin to describe our home record.
The lack of a genuine class playmaker has cost us big time. We've got nobody in midfield that can produce magic or unlock a defence. The likes of Delph, Westwood, KEA and the rest prove every home game that they aren't good enough. Headless chickens with no goals in any of them. What has Delph ever done in a Villa shirt? Headless is a compliment.
Thank God we're away next game, in fact I'd take away game after away game until we run out of them. We might actually get some damn points on the board. We finally get a striker that is feared by other teams and it's five years too late. He may need a few games to get back to his best but it's clear he's way too good for us.
Weekend is ruined and the annoying thing is I just knew we'd lose before the game started. Everton are a very strong team and even a pub team would beat us at home. As soon as the penalty was missed that was it. Gabby missed another chance to rank along with the millions he's missed down the years. All in all we're just 5h1te at home and the fan exodus yet again was a miserable sight.
Another home game, another let down.
posted on 26/10/13
It's woeful mate. Aston Villa used to be a club that was feared. Now we're a joke. 3 points from five at home and 0 goals scored in three of them. Yes, Everton, Spurs, Liverpool and City are good sides, but it's not good enough. We have Cardiff and Sunderland at home next - if we don't win both of those I'm going to stop watching us.
We used to spend some money on good players, now we shop in pound-land for players because our owner doesn't have the money to run an established football club. And unlike sides like Swansea and Everton, we don't buy well either.
Overtly loyal Villa fans will accuse me of moaning and I admit I do moan because I support Villa and want to see them do well and it's sickening how much we've gone backwards in three or four years. Another relegation battle seems on the cards. Lambert is a stubborn g.it who turns down chances to get established players like Barry and Kiyotake (a playmaker) and buys rubbish like Helenius and Westwood. Yes, he got it right with Benteke but that's one transfer. He signed a good centre back in Okore but just our luck he's injured for the season.
Just frickin hate supporting this club at the moment.
posted on 26/10/13
Benteke alone will keep us up this season but he's gone next summer. We're never gonna compete with the peanuts Lerner is handing out so Lambert will shop at Poundland for 'hungry players'. That's all good because you want players that will give there all but by God you need a bit of magic and inventiveness to make things happen on a pitch. The fact Lambert never got a creative attacking player in the summer especially after last season is insanity.
We're a team set up for counter attacking away football. Away that's understandable, at Home it's unacceptable. Even with a 5 man midfield at home we'd still struggle to score because or midfield is just full of cloggers and headless chicken. Not one of them can pass with vision or even score a sodding goal.
Utterly poor is an understatement. We we're so hard to break down under O'Neill but the lack of a genuine top draw striker and a top playmaker then stopped us reaching the next level.
Now we've a top draw striker finally but a shaky defence and an unbalanced midfield. Still a class playmaker eludes us after all these years. Why don't Villa managers like playmakers? Why must a player that can pick out a killer pass never bought?
Absolutely sick of this season already.
posted on 27/10/13
Load of rubbish. We played pretty well today, against a very good, experienced Everton side. Problem was we didn't put the ball in the net when we had the chances. But we were creating the chances. Against Newcastle we weren't. And today we were more than just a counter-attacking side.
We've a fair way to go, and have new players still finding their feet. But I think we've got a decent season ahead of us.
posted on 27/10/13
posted on 28/10/13
Everton signed Barry and Lukaku on Loan good buys.
We would probably have been better doing same
posted on 28/10/13
instead you loaned simon dawkins last season