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Vancvillan

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  1. @Jas10 you think we'll finish top 4 but you're not "very optimistic"? You have high standards sir.
  2. yeah can't hold the keep in the six yard box, just begging for trouble
  3. TIL (according to the BBC) that Cooper is only 44? Got plenty of time for another top job and to progress from here.
  4. You may refuse to believe it, and I commend you for that. But it doesn't make it true. I think Leicester were a long way from being the paragons of sportsmanship that year.
  5. They have some tidy players but they also willingly singed Ben Mee. Honestly won't think about them again until April, and then it'll be for maybe 48 hours at most.
  6. Agree with your sentiment but I'll buy you a balti pie the size of Jimmy Hill's chin if you can name one such player we could actually afford, and who would also be happy playing second fiddle to Ollie. I think we'd like a lot of things, but market demand far outstrips supply unfortunately.
  7. Respectfully I'll ask you this - who were the last team to win a competition that Villa were in where you said "I'm glad they won that, such a nice bunch of lads"? Don't get me wrong, I've been happy for teams who won things we weren't in for, but the reality is that a determination to win at all costs is both a huge advantage and very unappealing to the opposition.
  8. We've gone from Fash the Bash to Duran the Madman. Let's just hope his away record at OT doesn't match. He probably would've done well in the Wimbledon side to be fair. Doesn't shy away from anything. Easy to forget how young he is - the fact that he always backs himself is encouraging.
  9. Annoyed at him tbh. The drop from him to The Donk is a big one, more because of playing style than ability. Think we have enough without him to get through Sheff Utd and Burnley at home. I think we'll miss him at Old Trafford though.
  10. Was behind enemy lines reading RAWK earlier. They were saying what a bellend Emi is, but a fair few pointed out that: A. You hate him if he doesn't play for you, love him if he does B. He's a master of the dark arts, and they've had plenty of players (Suarez, etc) who have done the same. Pretty much sums it up for me. World's best keeper, our best player, and the most important man on the pitch for us this season. I'll forgive him pulling that little shit's shirt.
  11. Internet randos commenting on one side of a relationship can't say much with any certainty but my opinion: 1. @KentVillan above is right 2. She's not the woman of your dreams, right now she's two or three personalities and you don't know which one is the real her 3. She's nowhere near rock bottom yet but that's likely where she needs to be before she looks for proper help. There will be a lot of collateral damage along the way, and you're in the firing line being close to her. 4. Assuming she gets help and goes through a long process of healing and working on herself, she'll be a different person at the other end. You can't just "take the bad bits out" and be left with all the positives.
  12. I have a sneaky suspicion that his overlords are looking for steady hands to hold on to European football until a more glamorous option comes along. Complete speculation though - maybe their plan is to upgrade the squad depth significantly, which is what would need to happen for them to really compete at that intensity all season.
  13. Promoting the U21 manager is such a lower tier club team thing to do. Sure, if Southgate and his entire team walked on the eve of the Euros then maybe? But we need someone with something resembling success at club level. There should be several dozen names about Carsley.
  14. Assuming Southgate leaves after Euro 2024, who would you like and who would you bet on? I think I might have a cheeky punt on Eddie Howe, who I think might be out of work by then. Not my dream appointment but think he could do a job since we have a deep squad and his tactics usually require it.
  15. Have been thinking about this a lot. It's actually a pretty deep question. Unpopular opinion - if he has his beliefs and doesn't try to push them on others I'm fine with it. I guarantee that for every supporter, a decent number of prem players, staff and management hold certain beliefs that the supporter would find objectionable. I guess that I've got to the point where I accept that I regularly work with people who might have differering opinions towards race, religion, immigration, sexuality, etc but we can get a job done. Would we be happy with a nationalistic British player? A socialist? A Marxist? A neoconservative? A hardline Catholic or Muslim? An Israeli who supports their governments actions? A Palestinian who does the same? It's all so tiresome.
  16. He was with us three or four years and I think made that many appearances on the bench but never actually played? I applied for that job but Kalvin Phillips beat me to it.
  17. At home this season they're 3 wins 3 draws, 2 losses. Away we're 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. We've played three of the top seven teams, they've played two (loss against Arsenal and draw with spurs). So pretty similar and they're missing a lot of key players. Think we win this but doubt it'll be one to watch again.
  18. For context, I was in my early 20s and on a 1 year working holiday visa in Australia when the below happened. My girlfriend of four years was talking about marriage a week before I let my friend move in on the couch (he'd been evicted and was planning on leaving town anyway). A week later (Christmas Eve) she told me she didn't know if she loved me any more. A week after that she said she needed time away from me, so we went our separate ways for a couple of weeks. Met back up and she told me she wanted to break up. She went back to the UK, I stayed in Australia. I soon heard she was now with my friend. Three months later she called me and said she'd made a mistake and wanted to know if she could come back out to see me. I told her I'd moved on and met someone else. That someone else is now my wife, we have two kids and this year celebrated our 20 year anniversary. I had a lot of questions for my ex that didn't get answered during those dark months, and it took a while to realise I'd never get them. Fast forward to now and I hadn't thought about that situation in years until reading your post. Not saying yours will play out the same, but accept you won't get the answers you deserve and move on with your life. Maybe she'll come back and maybe she won't, but waiting will just block other chances to do other things.and be happy sooner.
  19. https://collecttrumpcards.com/ Scroll down to Get The Suit. You're welcome
  20. There is 100% something else going on here and it has nothing to do with Emi Martinez. If she's cut off all contact then honestly you're better off taking care of yourself. Your 2025 self will thank you for it. It sucks, but it gets better every day and it's not like a death where it sits with you forever. If she contacts you then you can talk, but she needs to be open about what really upset her. Let her talk. Don't feel like you have to solve anything, just listen. And then decide if what you've heard is enough - be compassionate but remember that your own mental health is more important than anything.
  21. VT in agreement for 9-10 of the starting eleven? Villa fans in disbelief when Don Emery checks the official UEFA website and plays Swinkels in nets.
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