[valpayne]

I must admit I'm a bit intrigued there's still a lot of negativity about TP here, surely the players are the ones out there so they should take some blame. My opinion for what its worth is we aren't exactly blessed with pace and youth especially at the back. Villa were a one trick pony under lambert defend and counter attack with pace so I'd imagine TP would have been aware of that and set us up to be wary of that factor. somehow however villa played a different game by taking it to us and we obviously decided to all have an off night bar few, that's the players at fault. They obviously got a roasting at HT and were a bit better if not dazzling. However we were heading for a nailed on draw away and another point meaning just two more wins would see us on 37 pretty much over the line I'd say? BUT, One fatal stupid error from BF and that was it. game over  and yes as others have said here, it is really infuriating to lose to them like that. I'm angry, gutted, P****d off but, I still believe without TP we'd be a lot worse off in the league and probably not in the cup still. The guy is a good manager, every football pundit, every fanatical football fan I talk to believes so. TP looks at a team and looks at the players individually then sets up a system that suits that team not the other way round. So what's he changed at the Albion? Well we're a lot harder to beat for starters, we've kept 7 clean sheets in 11 games and only lost 2. Please don't shoot me down but I think that's a pretty decent return and I'm backing us to survive, then, in the summer, I pray we don't do a palace (Mr Peace take note) and get players in that he identifies/needs to start improving our squad and believe me there will be players that he can attract that AI certainly wouldn't have. Lets keep the faith even though I'm, not so secretly worried about the cup game :/ I am however intrigued about our next league match at home against Stoke, Hmm! Very intrigued what will happen there against our number one bogey team in years gone by COYB