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Mainly unboxing videos now, but a few blogs about my beloved Villa.

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Win a prize, cos I have a cold

I've an awful flu-like chest infection right now, so there are two boxes waiting to be unboxed. I'm frustrated. So for now I am giving away a prize, which is great if you love Star Wars! Subscribe to my channel to be in with a chance of winning! www.youtube.com/c/denjamediauk

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From Leicester to Leicester

It was the 14th of February this year, when the Sherwood love affair with Villa started. The following day saw the first signs of Sherwood's influence, when he visited the dressing room at halftime to help inspire the team to a 2-1 win over Leicester in the cup. Before that, we were heading for yet more disappointment - with another frustrating first half performance, the sort we were used to under Lambert. But after leaving his seat in the stands and giving a morale boosting talk, a different V

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Dark days are coming

I've seen some really bad things happen at Villa, in my time as a fan. Losses in league cups to lower league teams (Scunthorpe, Sheffield United) but I have never felt so deflated and depressed as I do at this moment. Don't get me wrong, Bradford deserve their massive achievement 100% and I wish them all the best for the final. But whilst this is their finest hour, this is also my clubs darkest hour and I am not sure we can pull this around in time to save our premiership status. It is

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From: Darren Bent V.2

It's become a matter of great discussion, about how important Darren Bent is to our future prospects and success. For what it is worth, if we had Young and Downing supplying from the wings, I would have Darren Bent in the team every single week. The problem is, we do not create the chances Darren thrives on, and thrived on under the attacking threat from both Downing and Young. Simply, without the ammo, Darren is less of a threat. In my eyes, we cannot risk playing somebody who offers so l

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    • Hwang not back for another month either, possibly Cunha misses the game against us too. Good time to be facing them. 
    • I really hope Ramsey is available for Wolves, but no need to rush him back into the starting 11. Zaniolo has played very well in his last two sub appearances, first in that horrendous defeat against Spurs when we only had 10 men he looked the only decent player on the pitch and then scores an important goal against West Ham to salvage a point. Even when he was struggling earlier in the season (understandable as he was new to the league) we won 5 of the 7 games he started this season, 3 of them against top half teams. We cannot seem to beat top half teams this calendar year so it's time we changed something in the lineup to make that happen.    Emery hasn't been getting his starting lineup right recently, we need to beat Wolves and if we start the match with the right players in from the start I think we will. Put Zaniolo in the 10, play Bailey and Diaby either side of him behind Watkins, and maybe even play Tim instead of Tielemans alongside Luiz so that Luiz can go forward a bit more. An attacking lineup but one that is very capable of blowing Wolves away. Then in defence stop playing Konsa right back, play him centrally with Torres, bring Cash back in who has been excellent, and play Digne instead of Moreno. That is our best and most balanced back 4.   Rogers and Duran aren't at the level yet to be starting games for us, have them on the bench and bring them on later if needs be. Zaniolo and Diaby deserve to be in the team and will win us games. 
    • Yeah, best to look at Gabby as two different periods V1 - he was unplayable at times and scored so many critical goals for us - and Gabby V2 post MON where he completely shat all over the fans and the club.  It’s hard not to detest him after he downed tools during our darkest days but still deserves some credit for what he did before MON left. 
    • Fair point. 5th is probably a utility player that can replace chambers. Or if in a real pinch we fast track Feeney. 
    • Screw made in small heath
    • It's probably because before he joined we couldn't score a set piece for nuggets then first week he was there we were scoring overhead kicks off a throw in
    • That 'last season results' line is giving me anxiety. To drop to 1ppg from here would be such a shame.
    • It's crazy to think that even that probably wouldn't be enough for the title 
    • My old favourite Sangare Danillo, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi Realistically other than Sangare, I would only want them on a real deal. What I have been up to is looking at Midfielders not listed as DM's to see if I can pick out anyone who could be DM for us or even a hybrid like Luis is, the only player that stood out was Caqueret from Lyon who apparently...... is available for a fairly low price. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/maxence-caqueret/profil/spieler/395237 https://fbref.com/en/players/f81ef10d/scout/365_m1/Maxence-Caqueret-Scouting-Report   On my travels I also saw Gravenberch's name and thought, well you have done sod all since going to Liverpool. I wonder if they would do a deal on him.  



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