Dillon66
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I'm well aware that I'm about to be labelled the oldest of old farts and a boring feck, but the thought of drums and trumpets to generate an atmosphere leaves me cold. Its football, not the bleeding darts.... If the team plays well, the atmosphere will be great....if they don't, it might get toxic....thats how it goes. Its a tribal, passionate emotive game. Manufactured cheer leading shite is for manufactured shit sports like wrestling, baseball and that game in America they have the cheek to call football. I've paid to go and watch...and occasionally vent my spleen. If you're sat next to me and don't agree, fine....have your say too, tell me I'm a dick, I won't be offended, its my 90 minutes of the week where I'm not bothered about family, work, life etc. Just stop trying to make football grounds into some homogenised happy clapper emporium of shits and giggles......especially don't make it like Selhurst feckin Park.
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Shaw had the best first touch of any Villa player I've seen. He could kill an exocet with his instep.....
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Favourite Villa XI .. not necessarily the best XI
Dillon66 replied to MWARLEY2's topic in Villa Talk
Bosnich Gidman McGrath Evans Gibson Cowans Mortimer Cropley Chico Carew Shaw Subs : Emi, Swain, Laursen, Houghton, Parker, Morley, Yorke ....not the best team, but one I would have enjoyed watching -
I hate to break it to you pal, but I'm in my late 50's. My first game was Rotherham in Div 3 (League 1 to you lovely lads). I've seen the Villa go from dogshit to magnificent and all stations in between. Doesn't make me a 'better Villa fan' or any cleverer than anyone else. So I have no clue what you mean by newness and novelty. I wasn't expecting 7 or 8 today - we don't need that many. What we do need, are improvements to the current squad.....in my opinion, we haven't made any significant improvements, if anything the squad is weaker. He's done a great job...for 7 or 8 games. This does not make him Ron Saunders or the font of all wisdom. In fact, I'd argue that the marked improvement in performances since Emery took over, should have made us hungrier to boost the squad given the relatively poor form of some teams. We have an opportunity that we didn't expect, but may potentially pass us by.
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Stop.Being.A.Happy.Clapper..... You.Are.Entitled.To.Have.An.Opinion. Unai.Won't.Think.Any.Less.Of.You.
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No. Buy. Some. Players.
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Not just the money....but if you don't think it played a massive part in his decision to come back to England, you're either naive or being deliberately disingenuous. I'll leave it with you....
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Well he's not here for the weather is he. Of course the wage played a massive part in him being here. Loved and revered in his previous job, I doubt he woke up one morning with a plan to take on Project Villa.
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A little over the top, don't you think. If we are all to kowtow to the only opinion of 'Unai the Wise One' then there wouldn't be much point to forums like this. In MY opinion, the team had other priorities this window....if thats not YOUR opinion, fine.....I'll sleep easy either way.
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I'll be really disappointed if thats our only business, this transfer window ; we've bought a left back for a position that didn't really need strengthening this window and an up an coming kid for the future. Meanwhile, we've binned our top goalscorer with no thought to a replacement......how lovely.
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We're not even remotely interested in this guy despite the shite that gets posted. If we'd even made a bid it would be everywhere.....i doubt our scouts even know who this bloke is.....
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Scott's decent and might be a 'baller'. £25m though ? Do me a favour. Lets get some perspective chaps...
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You must be crackers...
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....but will the bid be a) Tabled b) Launched or c) Slapped in ....these things are important to know
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Looking at today's bench, somebody needs to pull their finger out. To have to put 2 keepers on it is laughable for a PL club. Edit. Sorry to repeat what previous posters said....
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Is this Emery's way of sending a message to the board ? That bench looks gash....2 keepers WTF ?
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Not that mad......he usually misses from 7 or 8 yards out. Why would you trust him from 12 ?...
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He should fit in well then.....
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It would bother me.....the myth of Ings fitness against Watkins scoring record troubles me. We have no 'fox in the box'....relying on willing runners and pressers up front whilst hoping for a few seconds of brilliance from the wing or midfield will win you nothing. Proven time and again unfortunately.....
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Not exactly - he was referring to a player going to Chelsea potentially freeing up another player. Apologies for not having the encyclopedic knowledge of a young kid with the same name who's only played about ten senior games (I googled that)
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If its the Chelsea Bakayoko you're on about (Timoue ?), there are only 2 things wrong with your suggestion ; 1. He's not a winger. 2. He's dogshit - Chelsea are happy to pay him off to get rid.....
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I'm with you guys. If we're that desperate for £12-15m to raise funds for incomings I'd be worried (wages discounted because we have to pay soneone to play anyway). £15m is roughly the difference in PL merit payments from 8th place to 14th or 15th which is where we'll likely end up if we're only reliant on Watkins as our main strike threat. Unless we have someone lined up and we're not showing our cards, the Ings deal makes little sense to me.....
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I'd be very surprised if Ings is interested in moving to any of the clubs that are supposedly in for him. He might get a longer deal than his current one, but theres every chance that his 'new' manager will be gone by the end of the month.....and then there's the inevitable wage reduction clause in the event of relegation. I'd be sorely tempted to stick rather than twist and back myself to force my way into the managers plans (not that I think he's out of Emerys plans).....why would he risk it ?
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Given that he's currently our leading goal scorer this season, our best finisher by a country mile, and that we are not exactly overrun with alternatives, I'm kind of curious as to why people think we should be in a rush to get him out of the door ?
