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Not top 6 but unbeaten at home in 17 games. One of the hardest away days in the league for any team. Stop moaning and forecasting doom every 5 seconds and then maybe you might enjoy the season a little more.

In hindsight a decent away point but always gutting to lose a lead so late on.

After today (so far) is Rodriguez now better than Benteke? Want to make sure I'm up to date with all the experts

Villa are terrible. Good time to play them

FFS Guly, no tackles made. Get him off Nigel, his body language isn't good enough Sent from my iPhone using tapatalk

Villa 2 down.

QPR, Reading and Villa to go down

Rodriguez, Clyne, Yoshida, Gazzanigga? All hand picked by Cortese as well I take it?

Exactly, no Chaplow as a third CM and no Lee on the left. Shocking selection

Pro Adkins propaganda!

Such a superior squad who had already lost too many games and had found themselves languishing in 22nd place. Yes we had a very good side but one which was beaten often under Pardew and of course Wilkins. People will still write off Adkins achievement though, anyone could have done it apparently.

I'm not really the one who needs to make sure I'm not presenting things as fact. That's the whole point of my posts to Pilchards. If he change his mind before the Sunderland game, fair enough but still hasn't answered why he said he was back in the first place. Same principle as with Billy Sharps situation....presented as fact but seemingly not

After he said he was back he then said Chelsea game after sunderland game came and went

Some of the money was poorly invested on the evidence to date, the fact that we still don' have a number 1 keeper is criminal. However, most of what was spent has improved us and has given us enough of basis to continue to build at this level. This club hasn't had a premier league quality squad since about 2004, lots of rebuilding and mistakes to be made along the way.

And we have improved with each one, but two promotions in two years left us with a squad with too many players not capable of helping us this season. When we have our best 11 out, I don't think we are a bad side at all. The second that we have injuries, it becomes problematic and in this sense, we still don't have the squad depth which is right for the prem.

I missed some of my last points of that post off so have edited now. As you say, all opinions etc but I do think that we are of course much better off for the money spent and have a fighting chance in the league. We were never going to overhaul a league 1/NPC squad in one window but 1 or 2 more additions in the right areas should push us to another level.

Surely a bit of a contradiction there Krackers? Should be 10th-14th because MAYBE different players would have made a difference in certain games. I don't think we got all of our targets in the summer. A wide player like Phillips and Lens and a much touted CB didn't come off as an example. Rather than focusing on what we did do, it's what we didn't do which has hurt us the most IMO I agree with SC, 30M whilst a lot is not enough to expect to position ourselves above established prem teams and to not be in a relegation battle

Good players are expensive.

Sound advice

Can't be arsed to find the post but you certainly did allude that billy had told you himself. Maybe don't suggest that people should learn the facts before criticising those who do know......as you clearly don't yourself. Re Lallana, he's back, he's out for two weeks, less than 10 weeks, be back soon.....you don't know do you?

When you look at it over a handful of games, yes but luckily the season is more than 5 games long.

You're all over the place mate. One minute Billy is telling you himself, the next its a mate of his. And on the HCDAJFU thread, you did post that Lallana was back. Why did you do that?

Are you a club official then?

^ indeed. Seems another more suited to playing off a big striker to add to Lee and Mayuka

Don't know whether you should take it with a pinch of salt......surely depends upon who you heard it from