Galway Lion

Just now, Vive_La_Villa said:

This game needs a Doku.

Both teams have to go for it this half. Got a bad feeling about this City haven’t scored here in PL for 5 years.

Nerves can’t handle a last day of the season shoot out.

Just hope we aren’t bemoaning the stupidity of Carlos come 10 o’clock tonight. What the hell was he thinking?

We deserve CL as we’ve been top four for three quarters of the season.

1 hour ago, Tayls said:

Spurs will draw with city and we’ll lose next two. They will also beat Sheff Utd quite comfortably. They’ll go above us on GD I reckon. 

Nice and positive as usual.

1 hour ago, VillaAlex said:

Richarlison out for rest of the season. 

He’s playing through a calf injury and having an operation when season is over. He will play in the last three games.

16 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

I’m really not trolling. You are all very stupid people if you genuinely believe that.

 

Maybe you’re all delusional, I don’t know. I’m off to bed though so continue to chat shit amongst yourselves.

Well past your bedtime now anyway!

Usual suspects making their return for the match reaction tonight. Boring no marks, couldn’t be bothered to read past first pages.

Bet we don’t hear from them after Tuesday!

Winning a trophy would be the icing on the cake. However the funds brought in by qualifying for CL will help the club grow more over the next few years.

Just look across the city at our neighbours and see what happened to them. They went all in on winning the League cup , took their eye off the relegation battle and are now in the third tier of English football.Didn’t turn out to well for them did it?

So qualify for CL and let the best manager we’ve had build us an Empire built on rock. UTV

Can’t understand how people are being so dismissive of Spurs getting a result against City.

If they beat Burnley, which they will and we lose to Liverpool the night before they face City, it will be their cup final. Win and they’ll only be one point behind us going into the last game.

Their home record against City is excellent so even a draw could possibly leave them with an opportunity to pump the worst defence ever to grace the PL. 

Its clear to see our team is gassed and the injuries have caught up with us, we can only hope the Gods are with us.

Absolutely shocking from the first minute. Passive,poor passing resulting in McGinn knocking ball out of his play leading to the goal. 
Lowest Xg ever.Walking pace in the biggest game of the season the body language was awful. 
Relying on Spurs collapse is our only hope 

Well the Heck crest was registered as a trademark yesterday on the site !

I reckon Spurs will get a win at Chelsea tomorrow. Chelsea now missing Silva and Desai meaning Gilchrist will have to start in defence. Spurs have to go for it now.

1 hour ago, Sulberto21 said:

This thread is entertaining… I see lots of posters are rattled about the lot down the road and their new 60000 stadium. 

Check out the comparison on hedge fund tracker to see the merits of Atarios v Knighthead over the last three years.

Atarios has grown by 48% whereas Knighthead’s has slumped by 60%!

 I know which company I’d trust my funds to be managed by. 
Is all they’ve done is buy some land off a bankrupt council. No plan’s or planning and no investment promised. It’s easy to talk big let’s see them walk the walk.

Mate

I think anyone thinking Small Heath are going to fulfill their dreams of surpassing Villa, just need to compare the past three years hedge fund portfolio results of both companies.

Atarios have grown by 48% whilst Knighthead has fallen by 60% !! Don’t suppose them results will register with the knuckle draggers who have fallen for a flash of nickers.

You only have to watch the way Wagner conducts himself, with his fist pumping comical presentation of their Sports Quarter.Followed  by his cringeworthy lap of honour before their last game. All smacks of that clown who was buying Utd years ago dribbling the ball up to the Stretford End. 
It’s going to end in tears again.

Well having checked out the new Olympic stadium in Egypt built by our owners company we certainly have the expertise to build a mega stadium.

Add to that the expertise on rail and mono rail we have just employed something is clearly in the pipeline.

We paid £7.5m up front with the rest in add on’s which if we have to pay will mean he has more than surpassed our expectations.  
Brilliant bit of business by Monchi and Emery.

Don’t buy into that Small Heath bullshit . Birmingham city centre is already full of empty retail and office blocks.

Why would athletics go there instead of the Alexander stadium? It’s the home of British athletics. NFL don’t think so, maybe the odd game.There won’t be any World Cup or Euro’s in England for the next 25 years at least.

If it smells like bullshit it usually is bullshit. Look how much debt Spurs and Everton have taken on for their new stadiums. 
Gullible and deluded fanbase being sold a dream usually end in tears. Tears of laughter in our case.

Best I heard yet from a six toed sister fiddler. Heck and NSWE got wind of Small Heath’s mega stadium and regeneration, realising they’d been beaten to the punch so cancelled our expansion!

They reckon Atarios are pulling out of buying into us because of it and want into Small Heath instead. What do you reckon?

Not convinced myself as he also says he has it on good knowledge from a family member of Bellingham that he will be back at Blues in four years!!!!!!

17 minutes ago, WHY said:

Awful today, he was a big reason we didn’t win. I’m a massive fan but he’s not a right back. 

Has absolutely no attacking quality at all. It slows down our attack as he just holds the ball and passes back or inside. Not helped defensively by Bailey today who seemed very quiet.

54 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

I don't think he's in a position to really comment, as soon as a bit (not a lot) of competition in the form of Ings came in he went to shit and lost all his confidence and basically said he can't have a competition and needs smoke blown up his arse constantly to be confident and perform.

Wtf have you been smoking?

16 minutes ago, jackbauer24 said:

Sorry, whilst I understand the rationale, I will NEVER accept giving up before a ball is kicked. Emery's lineup may have been impacted by injuries and suspensions but it doesn't explain all the decisions on TOP of that.

No Pau, Bailey, Tielemans when available. Bringing on Chambers and kids to replace seniors players. We may as well have just played all the kids such was the approach and set up to that game.

I'm genuinely fuming that we are all so ready to accept this approach. Not taking risks with likes of Watkins and Ramsey might be fine, but to simply rest players in the Premier League (unless against WORSE) opposition is, frankly, pathetic.

I get it, I really do. But I do not like it and will never like it. They rested players against us to some degree because they have bigger games coming up and put out a team they still (correctly!) thought could win. We simply gave up. Based on how that went, a draw wouldn't have been out the realms of possibility if we'd approached it with integrity.

I imagine Martinez's illness got a lot worse when he saw the team sheet.

The team did well enough in the main, but they could play that match 100 times and never get a point such was the difference in quality. We were set up to fail and obviously lost.

I never want to see a Villa side throw a game and that's what thar effectively was. You rest players against worst teams and perhaps mess it up, but you don't surrender like that.

So for all the good he has done, that has to be a VERY POOR for Emery and I never want to see that approach again.

Just look at the bigger picture. Brentford and Lille far more important games than going full pelt against these cheat’s 

3 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

We really are clinging onto this season. All the xG stats from recent games since Forest has us behind opponents. Even Luton 

We'll get found out soon enough unless we improve our performances 

You’ve already been found out a long time ago ! Know what I mean?

Get Luiz off now . Booked, cost us the second goal and just casually walking around. Disgraceful performance by him. If he gets booked Saturday that’s two games out .

17 minutes ago, GlobalVillan said:

Really? No McGinn, Kamara, Watkins, Bailey or Torres away to the treble winners?

I don't think it's even possible to overstate the changes tbh.

Can’t play suspended or injured players. I’m sure you’re aware of this? Brentford and Lille are the bigger picture here.

35 minutes ago, DakotaVilla said:

Errr no. That’s why it’s an incredibly sub optimal stadium in the modern age. I guess some may see beauty in what is basically an architectural mess but I’d suggest that they’re probably at least partially blinded by claret and blue tinted glasses. 

Strange that as it is nearly always at the top of people’s lists of favourite away day grounds. It’s not soulless like most new grounds.

Strange there’s no comments from the usual suspects about our CL chances now the superior Tinytotts have caved in. 
I thought we were told they were flying and we had to settle for fifth at best? 
Or maybe they just beat a tired ten man team like they destroyed nine man Liverpool in the last minute.

Internet must be playing up In Leeds and Dakota!

Keep the faith, we’ve got injured players to come back.