MessiWillSignForVilla

At least they'll get to play another Tyne-Wear Derby when they end up having to play Newcastle U23s in the Checkatrade Trophy

Hughes only had a year left on his contract, whereas Grealish still has a couple seasons left.

I reckon there's a pretty good chance of that. It's at Millwall and their form is just as good Fulham's recently. Also, Fulham have Blues on the last day, I wouldn't put it past Blues to go into the last day needing something to stay up and getting it.

How the hell are some of Cardiff's players only just getting yellow carded? Could've sworn Bennett and Gunnarsson were already booked or should've been.

Would love to see that again, looked a penalty for me.

So like watching any Villa midfielder for the last 8 years?

What do you mean get away with it? He's been suspended by Sky. Using your comparison to how a pundit would react to a player spitting, what would happen to them that means Carragher is "getting away with it"? Would that player get sacked? Or just get suspended like Carragher did? He's been punished already, and may still get further punishment, I fail to see how in any way he's getting away with it.

There was a supposedly a march planned, then the board had a shady meeting with the group planning the march (which seems to be a fairly far-right, hooligan group) and suddenly the march was off with this fan group now threatening to attack anyone who marched, whilst they also went on odd political rants about "leftists" and "antifa". I think someone linked an article from the Independent about it a couple pages back, it's a pretty interesting read about how dodgy the board have been in effectively trying to silence the fans. Yes, the pitch invasions aren't going to help, but what else can they do when it seems the board pretty much bribe fans not to protest? Having said all that, as much as Gold and Sullivan are knobs, the coin throwing is completely unacceptable and dangerous.

Whilst it would be bad for us, I kind of hope Cardiff do win tomorrow, as it could mean Wolves' lead could possibly only be 3 points when they kick off next Saturday, would be interesting to see how they'd deal with that pressure. Seems to me like they're a bit complacent at the minute after everyone knew they were promoted back in January.

Bruce got it all wrong today. Yes, it was always going to be tough without Adomah and Grealish, but we made it even harder for ourselves by replacing them with a RB and a midfielder whos best performances for us have come as a DM. Tuanzebe wasn't a big issue though as Elmo had a decent game and is a decent enough winger, it was more bringing in Bjarnasson, we had no drive in CM, Lansbury would've been a better option IMO or even throwing in O'Hare. Hogan upfront in the team we played today was never going to work, he doesn't get involved in the game enough when we try to soak up pressure, Grabban or Davis would've been a better fit today. Would love to know what has happened to Green, last I saw he was regularly playing for the U23s but he seems to have just disappeared again, did he get another injury? Onomah looks less interested with each game and has been getting shitter and shitter, I think it's time to stop letting him get in the way of developing our own players and leave him out of the team, maybe it will give him a kick up the arse to start putting some decent performances in too.

Except for the last 6/7 games, in which he's gotten 4 goals and generally looked a nuisance e.g Blues?

Can't believe that Kodjia has been left out again...

Nice to see he still has a soft spot for us, always liked Amavi, it's a shame it didn't work out.

He clearly rattled the Blues players from the off as well considering Gardner shoulder barged him as he came on and he then put in two huge tackles/fouls within two minutes of coming on.

If we ever get back to the Premier League, I will never complain about refs again, they're so awful in this division.

What's Grealish ever done to Sheffield Utd? Apart from complaining when an obvious throw in for us wasn't given?

Is this the first time we've worn blue socks this season? Always prefer our kit with blue socks.

The only other game they've lost away was their first of the season against Blues. They must hate Birmingham.

The performance definitely reflected the score, we were on top of them for pretty much the entire game with maybe the exception of the start of both halves, but we were a bit fortunate too, as we only had 6 shots on target, and the one that didn't go in was spilled for Snodgrass' first goal. Saying that though, Hogan, Snodgrass' 2nd and Bjarnason's goals were all good finishes and Hourihane managed to thread his goal through a load of players, so it's not as if Bristol's goalie made a load of mistakes, just saying it's not often almost every shot on target goes in.

FFP is based over three seasons, which means next year the £80m loss we made in the 2015/16 seasons will no longer be counted towards our FFP considerations (as I believe the relevant seasons next year will be 2016-2019), which would more than make up for that £16m difference.

I've only been watching for the last 5 minutes, but we've been all over them. It's early in the game, possession is meaningless at this stage.

Reading? Brentford? Middlesbrough with 10 men? Hull? Edit: Also if we want promotion, we should be beating a team in 4th, and at least giving 2nd a good game to try dislodge them. Also to add, stop acting like this is just about the Wolves game, the "half decent" was clearly in reference to all the other games we've been shit in.

Yes we did, because our last four wins have come against shite teams that we should have been rolling aside with ease - which apart from Burton and Barnsley to a degree, didn't happen - so if we wanted to be actually challengers this season, we needed to show we could beat good teams, but we can't, so no promotion for us. And as for beating teams we need to beat, what about Cardiff? Brentford? Bristol City? Middlesbrough? Reading? I'd say if we wanted promotion we should be beating at least 3/4 of them, yet we still shut up shop and didn't get a sniff. And you seem to be conveniently be missing the point about how an actual promotion challenger, Wolves, would not play this way at VP, because they'd try beat us and take points of a fellow challenger. If we'd won today, we'd be 1 point off top, instead we're 7. Sure it's a long season, but if that's how we play the moment we face anyone half decent, that gap is only going to get bigger.