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SMith can't keep losing games and expect the owners not to swing the axe. Four consecutive games now in all competitions. disgrace a general rule for sacking managers should be 5 defeats and/or in the relegation places. Well Smith could be ticking both boxes by 10pm tonight. I expect the owners to fly in on a helicopter and sack him in the tunnel if we lose.

I think Villa fans would love to see Gazi going on solo runs more often. he's got the talent but doesn't seem to have the belief he can go past his man. St maximum and Traore have supreme confidence in themselves it takes a strong manager to take them to one side and teach them to make better decisions when to hold or give but do it at the right time. Remember Ronaldo when he came on the scene with those riddiculous high step overs. lucky he had Ferguson to tell him to cut it out or he would of ended up like david dunn.

Vardy hasn't scored in 11 hours of football and iheanacho always scores against Villa. I just can't see where the results Villa need are coming from. I'd possibly go with the set up that got the 1-1 draw in the first leg of the cup match. We played well apart from the usual gift from luiz. Drinkwater must play and he must be fit to last the 90 by now. He's been here since Jan and had plenty of game time.

huddle....on the pitch....in front of camera's? of course not the same thing at all is it

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I can't bear to read anymore articles on the cup final. All I'm reading is fans saying "I'm proud," we will stay up because of the huddle absolute bollocks. 1)losing should be embarrasment, nothing to be proud about. even more so when you have a "proud" history of filling trophy cabinets. b) the huddle. a lame PR stunt. Phil brown did it and got pelters. Gerrard did it "we must not let it slip lads" what happened? he slipped against chelsea and then lost. 3) the pressure is really on Smith now. It's just press and guess all season. go to sheffield and try and park the bus lose. talk about going toe to toe all the time....lose. rotating the team lose. still doesn't know his best 11. still doesn't know his best formation. e) Not one big scalp all season. Smith has even admitted it he doesn't think we can get anything out of the big teams. This is waving the white flag. What would have happened at wembley if we were playing manchester united? another proud defeat? 7)the corner that wasn't a corner. why wasn't the whole team surrounding the linesman with temple veins bulging like Keane Stamn, Beckham etc surrounded D'urso? screaming obcentities in his face till he was forced to get VAR to look at it. instead like good little boys they all jogged back to the half way line. to take their beating like a good victims. 4) question marks over mings. this guy is getting away with poor performances with the old mythical "he's a good leader" possibly this could be the causing the divisons in the squad? This guy getting so much praise and england call ups when he can't do his job properly. His tackling stats are shocking. This would cause massive resentment on site let alone a boot room full of massive ego's. not to mention his off the pitch "projects" he's constantly involved in on twitter. To stay up you have to fight hard and fight dirty. not be like tony mowbary make friends with open football and go down and never be seen again. the huddle should have happened after tottenham and arsenal. look at Rhodri's yellow card blatent foul to stop a breakaway. Why isn't luiz doing that at wolves away? shove him back in the under 23's and let his work permit expire. he's a deadarse. When wolves and sheffield united hit the ground running in their first seaons back in the prem and we make such a pig ear out of it and 90% is all our own doing.........well it makes me sick to my japs eye

This huddle is soooooooooo for the camera's! It reminds me of Phil Brown when he did the same routine at half time once for hull. Why not say that stuff in the dressing room? I'm not buying it. We show flashes of what we're capable of yesturday. Anwar El Gazi incredible wing play....in drips though! he can beat his man and deliver and win headers . So why do we only see once or twice a game? he is the key to staying up. We all know Grealish will sweat blood for the jersey but the other players need to step up. especially Gazi we all know he's capable of these moments. The other thing when we started getting phsical with them they didn't like it. I cheered louder for Nkamba's "munch" on Silva I think it was than for the goal. but it must have been 70mins in. An aggressive start to the game would have had the city players thinking about self preservation ahead of the madrid game. We were close to taking it to pens. a post away. Which is the only way we could win. A decent effort. but not a great effort.

probably just a tinder date.

yeah a match day steward like his old man.

If we get humiliated tomorrow I expect Edens to sack smith in the tunnel.

liverpool look knackered. watford have lost delafeou first half looks like he could be out long time. Thats as massive as us loosing Grealish.

If Smith is using 1994 for inspiration why hasn't he had the lads training at Cadburys this week, and who's going to be the comedian on the coach? Drinkwater can do the Guy Whittingham role.

Are we going there to win or are we going for a "be nice to Nyland day out?" Just fired up wikipedia! He won the league cup in 2012 beating cardiff (heaton was in the nets for bluebirds) on pens......even more reason to put him in. our only chance of winning is take it to a penalty shootout. He's won the super, the FA cup and charity sheild. natural born winner get him on the pitch!

It's alright taking about 1 stinker but look at how many big finals Reina been in and won. Big game experience is crucial. He's a big game player. Smith wasn't loyal to Jedd Steer this season so why start now with Nyland. It would be sucide to play Nyland.

lose 1-0 doing nothing... or roll the dice, maybe get a 1-1 or lose 2-0 I know what I'd do.

Reina kept the score down.

starting nyland would be weak managment....a sentimental decision which would rubber stamp many doubts I have abouts Smiths managment credentials. dropping him for REina would be a seminal moment in Smiths particulary steep learning curve. It would be like when fergie binned Leighton for the cup final replay. THE turning point in history.

yes please........... celebrate by rolling off the pitch pretending that he's unconscious only for Mings to "revive" him by spraying water bottle into his mouth (gazza 96 style) then he spings up and does the "typewriter" (as a playful dig at the keyboard warriors who criticized him) before kissing the badge and taking a slow walk back to the centre circle. the fans would be going "OFF. THE. NUT.!"

we never get it. Very rare we get the going rate for our players when Everton seem to command premiums for theirs. the benteke figures banded about were 45m went for a lot less. we always get skanked. Dwight Yorke should of gone for £20 million especially considering what he went on to help them acheive. Milner well we ended up taking Ireland as part of the deal who they valued at 4m when 300k was book price for a non runner. Even ashley youngs fee was a joke. English players are meant to cost more? and if you sell the best player the clubs ever produced you need to find someone to do his job. So that means buying Jame Maddisson then? At what point are we going to stop selling our best players and try and do something?

Just chuck him in. Walcot went to the world cup without playing a first team game and look what a player he turned out to be. can't wait to see him pissed up on the balcony of the hilton singing shit on the city

If SMith had the foresight to have a psycologist on the bench they could have performed edmr on anwar and he'd have forgotten about the incident. and played on with aplomb. I just hope he's hired Eileen Drewery to get McGinn fit for Sunday

Like it or not El Gazi is one of Villa's big weapons. you've got to get him up for it. I'm sure it was just regarding making sure he was fit for Wembley next week so he could get his nouri T shirt out again. Maybe the effect of what happened to his old ajax teammate has had some deep rooted effect on how el gazi handles the physical side. I mean he's a big powerful bloke yet seems to limp off after innocuous incidents.

I think Mings can't be excused for the run of consecutive defeats since their "winter piss up" he's extremley ropey in the air and he seems to have so many off the field projects you have to question his commitment to the shirt. go on twitter and he's either giving it the big one about doing up a shithole pub, trying to flog his soccer schools to star struck kids or posing on the beech. and the odd photo having a laugh in traing then the usual apologetic tweet for the latest half arsed attempt at a performance. did he really have tonsillitus last weekend agasint spurs? or did he fancy a weekend off for a chance to nip to b&q for some diamond tiles sourced from spain made from recycled materials? If mings is so good why is the defence so crap? the stats don't lie.

Then you have to go out and buy a new squad and listen to the same excuses, witness the same "teething problems" as we've had this season whilst we wait for the team to gel and when they don't the manager just throws them under the number 7 bus. It would be this reoccuring nightmare again. they all signed fresh contracts anyway, and if purslow has included relegation release's then he's thicker than he looks. he would be crazy to let this happen. keep all the best players and we win the league without loosing a game. I'd sell Jack when he's 28. He'll have been kicked so many times by then he'll be finished anyway, he won't be running past players anymore . his shins will look like slabs of swiss cheese. it would be like watching joe cole when he come to villa.

if jack goes you lose 15k off the gate overnight. I've heard people say if he leaves they're not renewing. easier to force him to stay and photoshop the frown on his face into a smile. just like blues did for hogan.