Aston Villa Banter Archive September 01 2011

01 Sep 2011 15:47:23
why are most people doom and gloom when we have signed two good players from spurs, these idiots that are more than quick enough to say we are not good enough or we havent brought right are wrong, villa has a excellent youth academy and over the next five years we will be producing some quality young players that will want a chance ten times as much, rather than wages ten times as much. United did it back in the 90s and look what platform they have built for themselves.

I prefer to think that the contributors who comment on the strength of the squad have a large dose of realism rather than being or full of doom and gloom. Hutton & Jenas may be good players, however, we still have a weak squad and are missing a couple of players. What happens if Bent gets injured and he is sidelined ? where do we have a proven premiership striker ? ok Gabby can, on his day, but he isn't going to bag us 20 goals a season, but I hope he does.
There is no doubt that the academy is producing some good prospects but do we have the time for them to make the grade, that's the 64 thousand $ question. You would be hard pressed to justify the ability of the teams we fielded against Derby and Hereford as being of the necessary quality to compete with the top teams in the PL. I hope you are right and that there is enough time for the youngsters to come through the ranks and make good premiership players, my fear is that time is not on our side.

The alternative would be to convince Trevor Francis to come out of retirement, that way our boss could get away with playing just one up front.

01 Sep 2011 09:53:36
boys although its clear to everyone concerned we need another striker i have been really impressed with gabby so far he looks a much more complete player and seems to have got a bit of pace back and is now getting the ball down and taking people on the big concern for me it the moment is how big eck can get the best out of ireland and n zogbia as if these 2 started turning it on the aint many better on their day add to this jenas and the form of delph and we are looking strong in the middle personally if and when we are all fit we would be more than a handfull for anyone in the league this would be my starting 11 playing 442


given
hutton
dunne
collins
warnock
delph
ireland
jenas
gabby
nzogbia
bent

subs-

marshall
clark
petrov
albrighton
heskey

If everyone brings their "A" game then we should do ok, I'm a little worried though at the lack of any height in the midfield and this could cost us

All pretty much run of the mill crap mate

01 Sep 2011 00:27:02
its all f'in over now and we've failed to make our team stronger, last few days let young and makoun go and brought in hutton and jenas, whoopty f'in do, after letting all our best players leave the last 3 years, lets once again fight relegation, should be a fun season. weve got some brilliant young players but how long till they move onto bigger clubs that have got more promise?