romavillan

in what way does he seem to be losing the confidence of the players?

crazy, we win away at chelsea and then get humbled at home 48 hours later. still, we're 8 points of 7th and 8 points off 18th. personally i don't think we'll finish 7th, but i don't think we'll go down either. was a big shame not to follow up the chelsea win with a good result at home but it's not the end of the world. i think they need a bit of a rest and then pick themselves up and go again. ireland coming into form will be like a new signing if he can perform well consistently.

**** YES **** off all of you who wanted ireland out.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GET THE **** IN

thi sis so hard to watch it's scary. we need to get our foot on the ball and start pressing higher up the pitch again...

COME ON

too deep

bannan and bent please

i feel sick

yeah the way the other results are going we need to nick this, looks like we can do it too. the fonrt 5 need to get some more confidence and have a good go at these chunts. dreading the introduction of lampard and torres though...

jesus, he might play a blinder today, he had a good half against arsenal that showed he can be an asset. yeah this photo makes him look bad but i really could not care what he does off the pitch as long as he starts showing what he is capable of on it. if he does that he is an asset.

i couldn't give a monkeys what he smokes or drinks as long as he plays well for us to be honest. he's probably fuming at his bird for being such an idiot as to splatter him all over twitter like that. he played well against arsenal and if he plays to that level or better he's an asset.

Yeah that'd be great.....another 45 minutes without a goal. if we lose this 1-0 but play like this for the rest of the season we'll be top 8 comfortably doubt there are many people who thought we'd have more possession and more chances than arsenal in the first half No we won't as we won't score anymore goals for the rest of the season and will lose every game. You need to score goals to win games and stay in the Premier League. Aston Villa have managed one in five games. you fuggen joker. troll.

Yeah that'd be great.....another 45 minutes without a goal. if we lose this 1-0 but play like this for the rest of the season we'll be top 8 comfortably doubt there are many people who thought we'd have more possession and more chances than arsenal in the first half totally, we actually look like a decent footballing side so far

Yeah that'd be great.....another 45 minutes without a goal. why have villa fans got this reputation of being negative whingers?

yeah ireland injured. good first half from us, apart from the penalty. we can get something out of this game if we can keep pressing how we did in the first 45. shame for ireland, he had some good touches and was gettingin goalscoring positions. hopefully wee barry can do some more of the same second half. we look a LOT better than against liverpool, we should stick to this shape for a few games. let's hope heskey stays injured

yeah the culture is well ingrained in all their playing staff, however, our line up could get something out of this game, it's got pace and width and if ireland has a good game a bit of guile too. UTV!

just do not get your logic at all. hoping we get stuffed is bonkers.

Utterly ridiculous post. Don't go then. Why is it? Ill support the team but our manager is so shit im not expecting anything at all. I bought a ST before he was appointed and im not wasting money. Iv sat through 90 minutes before and watched us get smashed 4/5-0, as long as I think we tried, played okay and gave it go I have no problem, but to watch this is unbearable. If we go 2-0 we aint coming back from it, no point sticking around. I'm actually hoping this ends up about 5 or 6 nil so we can really get on McLeishs' back so he pisses off no matter what i think of mcleish, i always want us to win.

Well the guardian is totally worng. There is no way he will line up with a 4-3-3 against Arsenal. You need to pull Nzogbia and Allbrighton back so they are almost secondary full backs so its basically a 4-5-1 which will inevitably become a 6-3-1 after about 10 mins Guzan Hutton Dunne Collins Warnock Allbrighton Petrov Clark Delph Nzogbia Agbonlahor well 4-5-1 when you don't have the ball, 6-3-1 when the ball is near your box and 4-3-3 when you have the ball tonight is a good night to have a go at arsenal, they will line up with 4 centre.backs again. so two make-shift full backs, one of whom is 19 years old. if we have a fluid front 3 with gabby sometimes wide and the others adapting to where he is and have a real go from wide we might be able to get something out of this tonight. course, we'll have to GET the ball in the first place...

i think we might rue letting him go IF we let him go this season. as has been said above him, albrighton and zog were the best players for us for 30 mins in the first half. i don't think you can say he gets a place ahead of bent and gabby, but he could be used as a sub with 30 mins to go if either of them aren't firing and create something or score.

i reckon both of these things are related to be honest, i saw the conversation between dunne, collins and warnock too. dunne looked to be both pissed off and confused, to say the least. if the players are not REALLY clear in what they have to do then the way they work together is compromised. there was no good movement for the player on the ball as a result of this, so limited options going forward, so we give it away a lot. this is something MON was very good at, making sure that every player understood exactly what they should be doing. give them simple instructions and don't confuse them, the results are his direct and attacking football. the down side as we all saw was the one-dimensional and predictable stuff when we weren't in a situation that suited playing on the break. today we were woefull apart from some stuff fonz and alby and nzogbia did. it was only little flashes though and as a group we looked clueless and gutless, second half most of them looked like they didn't want to be there at all. i've been trying to reserve judgement on AM. it's hard to see what, if anything positive he is doing with this group of players though. you can't even say we're hard to beat or tight at the back.

piss poor. bannan giving the ball away. no ideas, all look shit scared. only positives were fonz (apart from the miss), some flashes of what the zog can do and albrighton. the rest need to **** get a grip.

yeah, the group as a whole has problems i reckon, not much team spirit going around. fonz and alby are running themselves into the ground but there's more than a few which look like they couldn't give a monkeys

if we get anything otu of this it'll be daylight robbery. poor.