Mixed Emotions For Lambert

I would have preferred Given on for Delph rather then Bannan.

Id have preferred Bent on for Bannan - spend £3m on one substitution. Or perhaps a clone of Eric Lihaj. In fact imagine a team of 11 Eric Lihaj (s). We would need extra liability insurance.

Not happy with the amount of grabbing Clark is starting to do in our box, he is going to cost us 3 points on of these days with them antics. On the other hand Benteke scored a stunning strike, Gabby showed why he needs to be involved more instead of supplying the ball from the wing, N.Zogbia looked a different player, although like Lambert said he needs to shoot more, although I would prefer him to look up and pass the ball rather than run it past the keeper.

Yeah, it was a cracking strike from big Benteke and Gabby took his goal well too. Great to see NZogbia finally show some class in the Villa shirt, hopefully he can find some consistency now as well as Gabby. Not all bad if these boys can start to step up on a regular basis but we still need signings and fast. PLEASE THIS WEEK UTV

Fairly happy with the point, but it should of been three. Looks like Bannan has been busy on here voting himself MotM....Lol Pride of Lions Exactly what I was thinking about the Bannan votes!

Bannan should be in the north pole helping santa.

even at half time I told my dad that we might sneak a draw out of this one if we were lucky. There is no confidence around the club and we NEED strength recruited for the middle of the park. I think it may even be dawning on Lambert, although 6 months later than anyone else with a brain realised, as instead of sitting there looking gormless he has started reacting angrily and kicking bottles etc. When Bannan came on as a sub and was put in a defensive enforcer role I knew what was going to happen - he would be directly responsible for conceding possession over and over again and WBA would ramp up the pressure even further. Pardew is in the papers today demanding to be able to recruit 2-3 players BEFORE their game against us but we will just sit on our hands until then with the same net result - a draw if lucky, but probably a defeat. We can't even win games with a 2 goal start so we certainly wont get anything from games we play badly in (which happens to be most games so far this season). There is a glimmer of hope though - GENTING are not renewing their sponsorship, the 4 year £16million deal that gets thrown at us whenever we say Faulkner is **** at his job - as they don't want to be associated with terrible relegation fodder such as us. Lerner clearly doesn't listen to the fans, media pundits or ex-villa legends but he will crap himself when he stares at the black holes that are appearing in the clubs accounts as the weeks go on. Relegation = -£70million and an un-manageable wage bill, Failure to recruit a good enough standard of player/lack of investment in the team = reluctance of sponsors to associate themselves with the inferior standard of product on the pitch. Lerner wont back the team so it is understandable that fans, and now even sponsors, are reluctant to put their money in as well. The whole relationship is symbiotic - If the chairman looks like he cares and puts money in, the fans will turn up for games and the whole club looks more attractive to sponsors, and even more money flows in to the clubs coffers. Pretty straight forward really. Are you listening now Lerner and Faulkner? A couple of clueless prats I would trust to be banker in a game of monopoly running the club I love. Laugh??? I nearly bought the drinks. UTV

heavy d its not like we fans are asking for Randy to splash silly money, we just want these younger lads to have some leaders added to help them develop ffs, there are free transfers low fee's nowadyas out there for players, but Randy will not let Lambert add due to the wages which he mis managed so we all have to suffer for HIS mistakes!

Understand what you're saying heavy d but, could it just be that these overrated players are not as good as they/we think?? MON managed to get a lot out of the likes of Dunne and Warnock but they've been sparcely used by everyone else. Ireland was a 1 season wonder that looked good on Randy's EA Sports football manager and Bent would never get into my team when we've got Benteke, Gabby and Wiemann and I can see entirely why he's on the bench. He gets injured every time we bring him on anyway. Bannan is a Scots thing and it's the only thing that I can properly justify criticizing him over although I reckon that he'll be out the door if PL had better options. It's not like there's a lot of choice at the moment which is down to Randy. PL can't turn water into wine.

am I imagining it, but Lambert always has mixed emotions after a game