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I totally agree with that statement! He's a shocking defender! if we give something away our end you can normally place good money on the fact it was warnock's fault!
Past few seasons it's been obvious about the need for new defenders, though every manager has done nothing about it so hopefully lambert will. I think or offensive midfield needs strengthening as we have lost quite a few of good forwards and wingers. Bannan and Albrighton need to be played more this season to have any hope of them staying and becoming top performers at the club.

The way Lambert is dealing with the transfer window is so refreshing, no more waiting until the final day of the window in anticipation before signing a load of rubbish like Hutton and Jenas.

I also like that he's obviously looking at the positions we're weak in and signing players to fix that. For some reason our other recent managers didn't seem to take that approach!

Agree with that. Remember O'Neill would sign a player to play in another position that he was also OK in. Such as Cuellar who is a centre-back but ended up playing him at right-back. He also signed Luke Young not to play at right-back but at left-back!
Oh we need a centre-midfielder? Sign Reo-Coker! End up playing him on the right-wing and at right-back...

Yeah, it got so irritating! Especially when O'Neill was in charge as there wasn't really any need for him to be playing people out of position.
I have to say though, Mcleish took it to the next level when he started playing Heskey as a winger!

There's been a lot of talk about us getting Guzan back, i'd be really happy with that, I never wanted him to leave in the first place.
At least one centre-back, preferably two, and a left-back are needed, and I wouldn't mind an attacking midfielder/forward. Yacine Brahimi from Rennes who we were recently linked with looks really decent. Apparently he's hinted at a move to Villa and some places are saying that his agent has already been over here.

We don't need another centre-back unless we loose Collins or Dunne because we have Clark and Baker for 3 and 4. We could do with another left-back big-time though.

Lambert said he was only going to sign 1 or 2 though which might rule out a clear-out of all our players... Plus he's signed El Ahmadi and Lowton now adding to Holman. It might be it for us this summer.

Third signing of the summer.

23 year old right back from League One's Sheffield United

Immediately goes into the squad as first choice full back by default as Hutton and Warnock are complete gash, but I think we still need a player in every position across the backline tbf.

What does everybody think about us putting a bid in for Snodgrass? He's better than Albrighton IMO.

I can honestly see more yet! Collins and Dunne have been awful for a couple of seasons now, that on top of the time they kicked off and caused a bit of unrest during Houllier's time here, i've lost most of my faith in them. I just think we need at least one more centre-back capable of going straight into the starting line-up, if neither Collins or Dunne leave, then at least somebody to just challenge them for a starting spot.
If it was me i'd probably be playing Clark alongside a newly signed centre-back!

If Lambert is picking out our weak spots and working from there, then after the full-back positions would surely come the centre-backs. Although I guess we do have El Ahmadi to sit in front of the defence now which will strengthen things up a bit.

It's funny how one of the first things Lambert did was buy a right-back. If you remember when we played Norwich at the end of last season he clearly focussed his attack down that right hand side. He obviously saw Hutton as a weak link!


And if Guzan comes back then i'd imagine he's maybe been promised a bit more football? He played well whilst Given was out last season and I thought it was a little harsh that he was taken straight out of the team once Given was fit again. There was also that time that O'Neill left him out of the Carling Cup final and played Friedel, despite Guzan playing every game in the competition previous to that! And even winning us a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals. I felt sorry for him them as well!
Given didn't have a good Euros, so maybe Guzan would stand a chance.

Heard Lambert is still after a few more players yet. Also heard that Makoun will be given a chance and Hutton is gonna leave! Everything is looking good!

Warnock remember this?
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Warnock is terrible.

He nearly scored an own goal like this in one of the previous games as well.

Heard the Villa are playing well so far!
1-1 atm.

Double on West Ham and Villa after seeing the teams almost backfired! Do you think Holman is good enough to start the season? On the right perhaps with N'Zogbia on the left?

Holman scored the winner today as we won 2-1, so yeah, I think he's good enough to start!