Injuries Still Making Life Difficult

Sometimes a dose of realism has to kick in. And whilst we do not want to blame injuries, the ones we have, are having a massive effect on the club. We are without our club captain, Petrov. We are without the man bought in as skipper, Vlaar. We are also without 3 players who have been skipper in the absence of those two, Gabi, Dunne and Bent. For the game againest Spuds we were without 3 of our 4 strikers. We were without our 2 most experienced centre halfs and then one of the replacements, Baker, gets injured with the score at 0 0. How would Spuds cope without Gallas, Vertonghen and Dawson, without Parker, Bale, Adebayor and Defoe?? Because the players we have in those postitions were not available to us yesterday. in fact I defy any team outside the top 4 to lose 3 strikers, 3 centre halfs and the club captain and still function normally. For example imagine Redscouse without Suarez and errrrr . . . . anybody else they care to name as striker. Then take out Agger and Skrtel and Carragher. And then take out Gerrard. And for good measure take out Downing as well because we are also without N'Zogbia. Our kids beat their strongest team. Imagine what would have happened if they had the injury problems to cope with that we have. That said, Lambert must still be able to set up a team of players of this quality (young as they may be) to at least defend. We have conceded 3 goals in one half against Bluescouse, Manure and Chelski. We have conceded 4 goals in one half against Spuds, Southampton and ManCiteh. And we have conceded 5 in one half, also against Chelski. It was good to hear the Holte (those that were still there after the 4th went in) spend the final 10 minutes singing Paul Lamberts claret and blue army. The ones that were still there at the final whistle were the diehards who know how to support a football club and can see the challenges faced by Lambert and our young Lions. Those of you who failed to turn up or who threw in the towel at 3 or 4 nil. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You are not Villa supporters in my eyes. Up the Villa. The 19th minute.

VOTH you've always been up yr own backside mate but to call anyone who can actually see the mess Lerner has us in 'not Villa supporters' is just so patronising. We pay our money then we can leave when we want (although I've never left a match early in my life). There are always excuses and reasonsbut we are **** and a laughing stock. You applaud the support when we're losing four nil at home and meanwhile everyone one else asks 'why'. Vital Villa Prozac available here.

Yup Ox, our thinness if you can call it that, was a worry when the window closed and we've paid for it, especially in terms of Vlaar not being available to be the more experienced head amongst the young defenders. But again you're wrong, we haven't sold anything of value, we've sold players who wanted to leave and then we've let leave players we couldn't sell who were on ridiculous wages giving us very little in return. I do however agree again, that our youngsters won't benefit from the lack of old heads to see them through, we needed a better balance, but there's nothing wrong with the direction as long as we get that balance right.

Voice I love you :-)