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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:41 am

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By Mike Walters | 13/04/14  

Once upon a time in the Midlands, there was a club everyone considered too big to go down.

When fans moaned after a record 10th home defeat in one campaign, the manager advised them to take a “reality check”.

But it did not solve the basic problem: Aston Villa are not very good.

And after the Villans’ dabble with relegation lurched towards full-blown crisis with a 1-0 loss at Crystal Palace, skipper Ron Vlaar admitted: “This isn’t the sort of excitement we wanted at the end of a season.”

After four defeats in a row, and with talisman Christian Benteke crocked, the fans are turning on boss Paul Lambert and unfurling banners about Villa’s dearth of ambition.

We assumed they were safe as houses after they beat Chelsea and wiped the pout from Jose Mourinho’s face last month.

But at the corrugated fortress of Selhurst Park, Villa were so poor their escape tunnel from the stalag would have surfaced in the exercise yard under the ­commandant’s nose.

Honest Vlaar’s rallying call was not just a timely reminder to wake up and smell the coffee - it was a double shot of espresso.

He said: “We need to realise the situation we’re in and stick together. Results haven’t gone our way in the last three weeks and we need the fans behind us.

“We’ve lost four in a row since we beat Chelsea. We have to stop the sequence and change it around as soon as possible.

“The gap is down to four points, the bottom three’re not far behind us and we realise we’re going to need more points.

“I know, and I believe, we’re capable of getting the results we need. Everyone says one more win will do it, but a lot of teams below us won today – suddenly it’s all squeezed together down there and we have to realise where we are.

 

“I can understand the fans’ ­frustration. They feel it the same as us, but we need to stick together now. This isn’t the sort of excitement you want at the end of a season, and we would have preferred to make life easier for ourselves, but the reality is different.

“We have the quality to turn it around, but have to earn the right to change our fortune in the games. We worked hard here and know everything good starts with hard work.

“Of course the injury to Christian Benteke does not help, and it is worst of all for the player himself, but we have to deal with that, take responsibility and not use it as an excuse.

“As a team, we’ve come through a tough situation last season and I’ve every confidence we can get through it again, but everyone must fight for it – starting next week against Southampton.”

If Villa can’t scramble a win in their next three games, the last two are against Manchester City and Tottenham. Surely Lambert is not going to escort his former club Norwich below stairs... is he?

Palace are just about safe now after Jason Puncheon’s 76th-minute winner, celebrated by Damien Delaney, and goalkeeper Julian Speroni’s terrific late save to deny Villa sub Andi Weimann an undeserved equaliser.
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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:46 am

This season has been an absolute nightmare with three or four excellent results thrown in.

Taking 10 points from four games Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool while only managing a paltry 24 points from all our other games tells its own story. I also think wins against Southampton and Sunderland were somewhat fortuitous.

Dreadful year.

The above confirms for me that we are lucky to have Ron at this moment in our history. He's a good leader.
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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:45 pm

Is he one of the Culverhouse fall-out guys?
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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:48 pm

Aye. It was him, Gabby and Delph wasn't it?
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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:04 pm

I remembered Gabby & Delph but wasn't sure re Vlaar.
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Post by Guest Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:13 pm

I don't think I'd put any money on Culverhouse if it came to a set-to between him and Concrete. He'd probably wake up with a tray of hospital food in front if him.
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Post by Guest Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:54 pm

Well he's certainly lost his war on Bodymoor!
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Post by Guest Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:10 pm

Vlaar is a credit to the club and a great captain.
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