VillaAlex

Haha Brilliant day, can't see them coming back up any time soon....

Ancelotti will be no good for us. He has never or very rarely brought any youth players through. He works with sides that are already built. I agree with this, he's a good manager but he's not the right fit for us. His reputation is irrelevant.

Spanish reports are saying Rossi to Barcelona for 30m euros and Bojan going the other way. Can't see it myself, don't know how he'd fit in the side.

Nice to see people are so forgiving. Let's not give him a chance, lets write him off from the word go. It's unbelievable that an experienced Ligue 1 and international player isn't good for the Premier League in the few games he's played in. FFS. How about you give him a chance, he like many foreign players needs time to settle, he's had his good moments and his bad. We judge him next season when he has a pre-season under his belt and has adjusted to the league. Reading the article it suggests his family may be based in Cameroon still so it can't be easy for him living here right now with no-one really to relate to due to language issues. Add to the fact he's had suspensions and injuries to deal with. If people are stupid enough to judge a player on a few games well I'm glad they aren't in football as a lot of players would simply not make it in the game.

Never watched A Serbian Film or Salo, never will. Martys was enough for me. Regarding Lilya the worst part of the film for me was the guy who made her do the roleplay as if she was his daughter, very disturbing...

A very good film, on a major issue. But not a very nice one to watch, not for everybody...

Graham has been excellent whenever I have seen Watford play, he certainly deserves a chance in the Prem. Fair play to him for working his way back up the leagues, QPR could do far worse.

What a ending for Gladbach Shocked the ball ended up in the net.

Yep a simpler way to put it is that he's scored in every game vs a top five club since he's joined us. That's of the clubs we've played.

The game is on ESPN tonight

I read Issue Zero and paid the same amount, as you mentioned the St Pauli article was excellent. I enjoyed reading about Hellas Verona too. Undecided whether I'll get the others though.

I wouldn't call it heat of the moment. A few I know were hoping we'd get battered every week, some even wanted their local rivals to beat us :shock: I'm sure it will be forgotten though, only two years ago they were our number one fans

TRS-T is Big Sam.

Ancelotti's record with youth players concerns me. He's an excellent manager though. Unless he changed his ways, I doubt Randy would consider him appropriate given how we want to make use of our fine academy.

Yeah seems likely he will sign, be rumours of it for a long while now. I'd imagine SWP will leave and Sanchez will be battling for the RW spot. It would be a big signing by City.

Excellent Colombian film about drug smuggling.

It's Stoke v Wigan not the Blackburn game. I'd imagine the latter would be quite a drab game if other results were to go their way.

Mr_Dogg is correct it was meant as a 'joke'.

DotsandCrosses great report, I've been waiting for a Villa fan to do a tactics site as such. Very impressed.

Army of Darkness is my fave of his. Didn't like Drag me to Hell either, thought the ending was crap and was quite a boring film for Sam Raimi.

Where does he say that? Link? And I thought Delph was quality today, added balance to the team with his left foot IMO. Wasn't as good as he normally is but that's because he hasn't played in months. Think he's really bulked up recently. When we signed him his arms were like sticks but now his arms are huge. I heard it on BBC WM.

McAllister said at Villa they rate him as highly as Arsenal rate Wilshere which will be a big boost for the lad. Although that could change if Houllier leaves at the end of the season. Lets just hope he gets a good pre-season under his belt and if NRC leaves he will be the player to replace him

go marching in

FFS Villa Boas isn't going to happen. Sick of people mentioning him. He's at the Champions of Portugal in the Champions League next season with a several top clubs tracking him.

Brilliant thread title