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Agree. I am looking forward to seeing how these players improve under a good head coach. Its exciting to think about. Hopefully the club will move swiftly and we can get back to looking up soon.

Some of these are pure gold.

I think Douglas Luis sees the writing on the wall or has had a hint from the DOF that Gerrard wont be here holding him and the rest of the players back for much longer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63254878 Van Gogh's Sunflowers back on display after oil protesters threw soup on it "One of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers paintings has been cleaned and is back on display, after climate activists threw tins of what appeared to be tomato soup over it." ----------------------------------------------------------------- This kind of vandalism is completely counter productive to addressing the climate crisis and shows a profound ignorance of what art and Van Gogh in particular actually stand for. Whats next go and vandalize the cave paintings at lascaux to make a point? Pull down stonehenge? These kind of antics are a distraction from the actual issue and I wish climate activists would reconsider this kind of protest.

So true. Its Brexit. Its why I am now a single issue voter. I vote for whoever will get us back into the EU. Thats it.

Indeed. Although to be fair The Times Radio youtube channel is pretty good. From a parliamentary historian "to have such contempt for the civil service , parliament and voters is unprecedented"

Great news! Very very happy with this. We cannot afford to replace Douglas Luis.

No need to prepare us!

So in summary: criticism of Gerrard is an angry irrational mob mentality. criticism of fellow villa fans is an insightful measured mentality. got it.

I have such an admiration for the Ukrainian people standing up to Putins evil. Incredible. Ukraine is like a nation of bloody heroes.

Well thats depressing. I guess we have to sit through another game of crap football before Purslow gets his finger out. ffs.

Deano is not my first choice as Gerrards replacement but if it meant Gerrard leaving immediately, yes. i would also welcome the return of the deano "here comes the money" meme

Outside of Zidane I would be concerned if we brought in a manager who has not managed on the premier league before. The step up is so big I don't think we can afford the risk again.

I think the deceit behind the budget makes it worse. It was never going to be funded by entirely by debt (which would be bad enough) , its was a backdoor to cut to public services. Nobody voted for that.

Amusing music spoof.

We can worry about the players once we see how they are when coached. All I know is these are very good players who I am delighted to have at the club. They have almost all got worse individually the past 12 months. Thats not a coincidence. I am excited to see how Buendia & Countinho & Ings & Bailey play together once they are given a plan by premier league level coaches and manager. Its going to be great to see. Lets hope is very soon.

Sometimes I miss my people so much.

Just not interested. Wake me when the club takes the obvious step of hiring a premier league level manager to coach our talented players.

Bloody hell Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng really have proven to be utterly incompetent. I think the Conservative party owes the country some kind of correction here. Whoever all the Tory powerbrokers are they need to start calling in favours. This is doing real damage to peoples futures including Conservative voters futures. She needs to undo everything but the energy bill subsidies and eat crow.

In a lighter moment I thought this zinger was pretty good from Andy Zaltzman paraphrasing: "The world is still waiting for someone in Russia to do the decent thing and do to Putin what they did to his great uncle Ras"

Yeah she is well known in the USA as a Putin paid propagandist. She has zero credibility.

If Belarus was really going to attack Ukraine US intelligence would know and Joe Biden would tell us, he did last time. So I think we will see it coming if it does.

I have faith these are intelligent professional sports business people. This isnt a vanity project for them its cost them a lot of money. They want to grow their business. You dont do that by driving away your customers.

To be fair to him (with us anyway) he had a yearly rolling contract. Which kept his severance compo at a years salary. No idea how much West brom has to pay him. Surprised they binned him tbh. I dont know who they can get who is better. Its a pretty small and unimportant club. Dont know which other proven Championship managers they think they can get. edit: Carlos Corberan I guess?

looks like it. infuriating.