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konsa give it away cheap. just give it back to elmo ffs

deeny was right in front of goal

chill out we are still in the game. one moment of brilliance will win this never going to be 90min of domination especially with tinkerman smith

wesley is doing fine. it's nil nil away from home. a point is decent. run that clock down boy!

wesley should of put that away. lansbury was fantastic in the build up.

always going to be an ugly game today. one pattern of quality play will decide it. Will it be Gerrard or Jack?

I like wesleys new attritude of "if I lose the header I'll go for the 2nd ball and if I dont win it I'll comit a tactical foul" #improvement

jota needs to help elmo out dealing with deulofeu. he's the danger today.

These guys earn fortunes and can't do the basics. If you think El Gazi should get plaudits for his double step overs but constantly cost villa goals by not tracking his runners and not get pelters you're in dream land.

It was an ugly win but we got the job done. The thing that pleased me the most Grealish holding the ball in the corner james milner style, ball boys with their time wasting, even Henry lansbury came on and lauched a no nonsence tackle and powered the ball out of play in injury time. This is the side of the game I accused Smith of not utilising enough to see games out. So seeds of improvement? I hope so. El Gazi and Trez were awful today. scared to beat their fullback. el gazi tucking in hiding when elmo had the ball. Elmo played really well he received loads of ball which he can't always use very well but he kept being involved and roughed up cantwell who was a pest all game. Grealish was immense as usual. Conner knows where the net is. Wesley.....the work rate has improved but he's still not doing what strikers are meant to do. attack the ball, shots on target. I agree with the guy who posted previously the front 3 are atrocious!

Norwich much like villa are a nicey nice team. I expect us to win or draw. Watford especially deeney will rough up our back four. Delafeao one of the best dribblers in the prem he will run riot. I will be amazed if we get anything there.

Smith doesn't know what to do. this is why i'd sack him now so the new manager bounce would have the 3 winnable xmas games. one week smith goes to sheffield to park the bus. then comes out in the press and says its against my beliefs I shouldn't have done that. So next game we "go toe to toe" with southampton. we started off ok but heads drop after the goal and the players quickly become a disorganised rabble. Its obvious the solution is somewhere in between. especially at home go all out attack for the first goal. come out the blocks flying. get that early goal........Then park the bus. The fans will be happy with the high tempo onslaught from the kick off, a couple of counter attacks whilst we run down the clock for the rest of the game, and of course the most important thing the 3 points. The problem with nice guy dean is our version of parking the bus doesn't include tactical fouls, time wasting and basicly being frustrating. Smith is in dream land if he thinks anytime soon it's going to just click and we will pass and move our way up the table.

If the black players walked off the pitch I believe this would end the racism in the stadium. (im not saying it would end the issue of racism across society just in stadium) "reporting it to the ref" and a few tannoy announcments isn't going to have much impact. just walk off. However I believe not one of them has the bottle to do this. theyre too comfortable making the big money to upset the apple cart and are happy to put up with it, can use it as an excuse for a poor performance etc. It's up to the black lads..... Just walk off the pitch mid game. same with the gay players. happy to take the cash and run. The power is in their hands.

Blow poch out the water and get him in. He lives in the UK at the mo so make it worth his while offer him a nice package, The bundelige and what ever the spaniush league is called is the equivalent of the SPL a boring non competitive event. These silent board people make me sick to my jappa. At least learner came out with biblical shuminte bollox once in a while to amuse us. One minute they're the richest in the world. the next they can't afford to buy Jack Butland.

If we act now we are an attractive proposition. we're in the semi of the cup and have a transfer window in front of us. A big name like poch or Benitez would jump at the chance of adding some more silverwear to their CV. (especially poch who has won a grand total of f*ck all so please tell me why clubs like man utd and mardrid be interested) After the watford result I really think smith is a dead man walking. We are desperate for that new manager bounce and with two winnable games up coming? I'd swing the axe now. Ellis would be straight in there. There's no room for sentiment now. It's either sack smith or loose grealish in the summer. so thanks for the memories deano.

If McGinn had been rested untill 100% fit he wouldn't have sustained the serious injury. I always thought McGinn reminded me of bryan robson. in more ways than one it seems.

Dont really want to go off this topic at this crucial time but how many worldies did mcGrath score? Back on topic: Shearer destroyed us on match of the day. purslow should have been in qutar watching liverpool last night (camera panned to poch during extra time) blowing huge ammounts of smoke.

I'd rather SMith got sacked then Jack Grealish leave Villa because we went down. and having to go to all those horrible northern grounds again like Rotherham. Don't want to be a yo yo club like albion. want to survive and consolidate and push for honours. sick of waiting. Grealish is the best player I've seen down there. I've seen merson Yorke mcgrath carbone daley ashley young milner saunders atkinson and lee hendrie all the hyped up lads like Luke moore etc. Grealish will probably be a world superstar like Bale and roberto baggio soon. I'd sack smith in a heart beat I want to watch Grealish captain Villa in the prem and win trophys. I don't care who the manager is.

The only way Smith is going to get 4 points from the next 2 games is if he can get Mings fit in time. We can possibly do without McGinn. But Mings needs to be on the pitch and Taylor needs to return. Heads drop without mings. Then in Jan he needs to buy two or three experienced Prem players. I've gone on record before to state we should take townsend and Benteke from Palace. If he doesn't get anything from norwich and watford I expect him to be sacked. a new manager will come in and...tweak the squad by adding two or three premier league experienced players.

JT would be suicide. More inexperience to add to the bunch of rookies. IT's ok for lampard he's got Premier league experience in every position in his squad sprinkled with some talented youths.

Smith has to get a minium of 4 points from the next two games or he should resign without taking a penny in compo if he truely loves Villa. and if the board are as ambitious as they claim they will go all out for Poch. IF everton can get anchelotti then surely we can get a big name. I personally wouldn't have a problem with Big Sam however this would prove to me the board are no richer than Tony Xia. So therefore its Rafa or Poch

Booed off at half time and full time and rightly so. Embarrassing. Villa need all their influential players on the pitch to get anything. That means HEaton Mings McGinn and Grealish. lose 1 and you struggle. We are two down. Mings makes mistakes but his influence gives us a fighting chance. Heads dropped today. El Gazi should have been hauled off in the first half. Pathetic performance. A player who looked like Christiano Ronaldo last season running with the ball, but unable to understand basic tactics (ie where to be when he hasn't got the ball) The two brazilians were as usual total waste of shirts. Wesley fights but is crap. Luiz doesn't want to be here. Why didn't Engles pull Ings down and take the card to keep us in the game? Why not start Lansbury who it is surely last chance saloon? Why not start Kodjia who banged in a hatrick midweek. Why wait so long to bring him on? These group meetings in the 2nd half on the touch line before any decision is made. pathetic. Grealish 5 men on him and no one sprinting to give him a short range option. Southampton Have serious fire power in Ings and Long. both small in stature but excellent in touch and attitude. sainst winning 3-0 and ings chasing down guilbert right up his arse for a lost cause. fantastic. Long a pest all game. REdmond looked like a world beater today. We are up excrement creek without propulsion unless we have a new manager bounce or spend 50million on some proven prem class in Jan

This is MUST WIN for Smith, especially with Poch and Anchelloti available. Fortunatly deano has decided to get some punches in for this battle with his toe to toe rallying cry which has brought a cresendo of hell yeah's from the fans.King Kodj must start! Southampton are the unacceptable face of modern football....new stadium one minute...out of business the next, they're famous for being a feeder club for liverpool and not much else and what is that badge all about? a tree hovering over water? absolutly ridiculous did someone on drugs make that up?

Why do it then? It's not as if it was away at the Bernabeu.

sorry but these are the worst set of wonder kids I've ever seen. Really it should of been 9-0 to Villa. None of thse bottle jobs will ever get a shirt at liverpool thats why they were all crying at the final whistle. Their one chance at playing at beiing at a premier stadium and they flapped it. One or two will probably end up in and around the lower leagues the rest will be on the track at halewood. Even the so called boy gernius harvy elliot was in Taylors pocket all game. What kind of idiot plays premier league football with fulham then gives it up to play for liverpool youth team? he really is a mong. If we had a few more players with win at all costs attitude it could easily have been 15-0. Kodjia was as infuriating as usual jogging back slowly from an offside position whilst we were building an attack waiting for him to get back. his appauling attitude changed when he got his goals. Luiz always looking for a safe ball back to the centre halves rather than move into space in front of him. Lansbury done bits. great to see chester back. The 2nd half seemed obvious to me Klopp had called deano's mobile and a gentlemans agreement had been reached not to do any more damage. Trez had about 6 chances on his own to make it a cricket score. Good to see the hapless Wes break his drought.and good to be in the hat. bring on oxford