Delphinho123

Much improved

Thought he was poor tonight.

A really average player in my book. Loses the ball far too often. 

Buendia loses the ball so, so much 

Coutinho has been superb. Because he is superb.

Is this guy f***** stupid or something?

Question. What, or who, is Wagner. 

Do you remember when they said they were going to attack Finland or something along those lines if they threatened to join NATO…

Can you even imagine?! As I understand it, the Fins can put together an incredibly powerful, well trained army in a short space of time. Not only that, their terrain is a tricky one to navigate. 

Putin really is a f****** moron. 

5 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

I thought we all agreed Konsa has been pretty terrible this season though?

( I'd be more inclined to go Chambers as @Zatmanindicated if anything )

Me too. But he’ll go with Konsa as he sees something in him. I think Konsa is having a bad season but let’s not forget that Bednarek couldn’t get into a pretty awful Saints defence. 

8 hours ago, avfc1982am said:

 

I suspect that one chap won’t be on the next episode. 

7 hours ago, SuffolkVillan said:

Looks good to me. 

Fine, apart from Bednarek who shouldn’t be ahead of Konsa. 

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

If its usable they will use it but it will depend on what ammunition they have for it and how serviceable they are.

There is a theory they were left because they took all the decent stuff to Kherson as Russian armour currently has a high failure rate as it's all been in storage for years and not well maintained so that video may be all the stuff that just didnt work

 

Bickster, you seem clued up on this stuff. What’s Putin’s end game here? How do you see this playing out? Where is this war headed?

2 minutes ago, avfc1982am said:

 

So many tanks. That is an expensive amount of equipment to lose. What would the Ukrainians do with that? Would they paint a Ukrainian flag on it and use it against the Russians or just destroy it?

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Nope, a hell of a lot of the experienced soldiers have been wiped out

There really are no big guns that have been held back. The only thinks held back are the newer wonder weapons which are thought by an awful lot of people to be just not very good.

Great. Thanks. 

48 minutes ago, Genie said:

Ukraine have several more gears they can go through if needed, if backed fully by the West.

Have Russia already thrown everything at this (apart from nukes)?

That is my question to somebody far more intelligent than I am! 

Have Russia just sent in a load of conscripts and kids first, holding back the big guns until later?

As daft as it sounds, you look at the size of Russia next to Ukraine geographically and it’s hard to believe Ukraine are pushing them back and winning the war! It feels as though Russia must have something better than what they’ve served up to date… right?

This may have been posted, but..

1 hour ago, villa89 said:

It's done to make it look like a big deal and to increase the footprint of the Monarchy. Imagine if nothing was cancelled and there wasn't wall to wall media coverage of the Queen's passing. That gives people the impression the monarchy doesn't matter. However getting everything cancelled and having millions waving miniature union jacks is just the propaganda you need to make people think the monarchy are relevant and are a good thing for the country. Whether that's actually the case, meh, their are decent arguments for and against.

TDLR; Its just propaganda, plain and simple. That's the only reason sports are cancelled. 

Cheers. 

10 hours ago, Keyblade said:

Given her life you know

Exactly. How many palaces does she own?

For the record, I’m not against the monarch, I’m neither here nor there on it, I just refute the idea that she had anything other than a f****** wonderful, easy life. 

Again, people can show respect and mourn without the need to cancel football matches. I don’t get what that achieves. 

I don’t really see why sporting events are cancelled tbh. 

I couldn’t care less if Villa played this weekend or not, I’m just not quite sure why cancelling sporting events is necessary. 

Maybe I don’t get it. 

1 hour ago, Tomaszk said:

I don't think it's tricky. He's just a wally who doesn't understand what's happening on the pitch.

I wholeheartedly agree. Nothing tricky about it at all. The predicament he finds himself in is his own doing through daft team selection and tactics. It's not like he's had no transfer funds, injuries and had players sold without knowing.
He has had all the tools to be good and to succeed in this job and he's made a spectacular mess of it tbh. 

Liverpool struggling, whilst playing a very similar formation and style to us, is interesting. A lot are putting it down to their struggles in midfield and the ageing personnel in there. Without Thiago and Fabinho especially, they're lost. 
Now, if they're struggling and conceding lots of goals, with the world class players they have, is it any wonder we are? 

The most frustrating thing is, it's such a simple switch up. We simply have to go back to basics and make us hard to beat again. Play a 4-3-3 with only one fullback advancing depending which side the attack is on. Play Luiz and Kamara in front of the back 4, perhaps even with Dendoncker in there and Luiz the more advanced of the three. Make it so the midfielders play as midfielders and not some stupid hybrid full back role. Those 3 in the middle make us instantly harder to beat, especially when we lose the ball in transition. Play two players out wide, or even a little narrower if needs be. They need to be Bailey on the right and I'd argue Ramsey on the left due to his ball carrying ability and his work rate. If that means benching Buendia and Coutinho, then so be it. Perhaps one of those can play in the easier matches.

Gerrard has to change it, otherwise he loses his job. It may already be too late. 

Tuchel, Potter and Poch. You'd think at least one might be interested...!?

5 minutes ago, maqroll said:

A loss v Leicester and he's done.

He really is. 

He has zero credit in the bank and it's come down to a game by game basis. He has to turn results around now. 

39 minutes ago, gwi1890 said:

Exactly no top level manager should be learning on the job, he should have followed the same path as Vieira. Possibly challenge himself in a different country after the Rangers job.

I agree.

The daft thing about the City game is we played well because he finally realised the system he’d used since at the start of the season was daft. It took a star studded Man City team in red hot form to make Gerrard play more defensively with more disciplined full backs and two players who are solid in possession to sit in front of the back 4. 

I fail to believe he would have played this system or picked the team he did if we were playing anyone other than City. 

Hopefully he learns and plays a similar team next match with McGinn the only exception. 

The point I’m trying to make is, it’s embarrassing that he’s stumbled on a system that most people on Villatalk have been crying out for, for months. 

I have no faith in his management.