Vancvillan

25 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Brb, putting my life savings on a Reading equaliser.

Milky Bars are on you unsurprisingly.

Wagner is more exciting, Bruce has the experience. 

Though if experience is so important, wouldn't it be great if we could find a manager who had experience of taking a team that was relegated from the PL and motivating them to finish 2nd behind Newcastle? Because there is one available. 

Also, where did the monthly optimism thread go? 

25 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

Are you reading these?

It's a travesty that I can only like this once.

29 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I bet Jack could get the car on his head! 

Unless VT hates Dad jokes, this isn't getting anywhere near the amount of attention it deserves.

I'm sure it's been mentioned already but we already had someone who burst onto the scene circa 2006, doing great things, exciting the crowd, full of passion and an ankle tattoo.

The early promise of a bright future was followed by an understandable (or at least explainable) fall off to mediocrity on the stats front (less money because of divorce / recession, less goals because of being on the wing) before diving into the depths of depravity and becoming a symbol of everything that has gone wrong with Villa over the last few years. 

There's no real point to this post other than to say that Gabby is the Quantum Leap identity of Randy Lerner and I claim my five pounds. 

I'm fine with this. As long as he's prepared to go the extra Mile for us.

6 hours ago, briny_ear said:

The newspaper story seems a bit bizarre to me. Are we supposed to believe that Xia only realised Sheffield Wednesday are promotion "rivals" a few hours ago, so had to pull the plug on an agreed deal at the last minute? If so, it's not a great development.

I worry about whether there are proper decision making processes in place at AVFC just now. Tony racing round the world, hyperactively tweeting his thoughts to all and sundry and pulling the plug on deals done by the manager  at the last minute isn't going to add up to a well-run club.

You think tooo much 

Just now, lexicon said:

100,000 times 52, then times 5 is 26,000,000 is it not?

That'd be if they had 5 years each.

6 hours ago, lexicon said:

According to wikipedia, they've got a total of 5 years left at the club between them and they're on at least 50k a week each - that's 26 million quid to pay them up in full.

NERD ALERT: I think 5 years between them at $50k each would be $13m.

Either way, that made me vomit in my mouth.  Shameful.

Edit: $ means GBP. Stupid Canadian keyboard.

16 hours ago, VILLAMARV said:

If Gardner had been bought by Lambert instead of coming through the academy we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation.

This probably sums up a fair chunk of why I think we should give him time - I really do want him to succeed. Based on his performances for Villa it's purely sentimental.

Thankfully I'm not likely to be the manager any time soon.

Ah, cheer up you bunch of morbid bed wetters. Come May 2017 we'll be top, Gresford will be England captain and you'll only refer to Big Libor as "The Czech Dixie Dean". 

(I know what you're thinking. Of course I'm pissed. I had to put together a sofa bed tonight.) 

@choffer and @NoelVilla - if you're heading to Vancouver and have any questions, fire them my way.  I've been living here for ten years, and love the place so much that me and my business partner made a book about it (www.soit.is).

New owner, new start. New division.

Anyone know anything about him?

Money aside, it's at the point where I'm guessing most fans would turn the job down.

If you've ever wondered what the eye of a shit storm looks like, come on in and check out the view. 

And for those of you who made it all the way through that article, the Samaritans can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123.

I disagree - I think if Bernie wins the popular vote from the primaries / caucuses, the super delegates will fall in line.  Otherwise they risk splitting the voter base with either losses to an independent or a low turn-out from the Sanders followers. 

If the turn out is low, the GOP could well win - even with a nutcase like Cruz or Trump running, which given the situation with potential Supreme Court appointees would be a nightmare for the Democrats.

12 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Back four of:

Hutton - Okore - Lescott - Richardson

Genuinely, has there ever been a worse Premier League back four? I'm being serious, can anyone name one? I guess Derby must have had a few that year. Any others?

Swindon 93/94. Take your pick of any game. I lived there at the time so went to a few games. Jumpers for goal posts.

I got embarrassed for the Robins while watching Andy Cole and Beardsley tear them a new one on their own patch. I think they hit seven or eight past them. 

When we played them at VP they had a third choice keeper in nets. We won 5-0,and it was the only time I ever felt bad for an visiting team. 

What I wouldn't give for that feeling again.

7 hours ago, markavfc40 said:

The players are going to have start to stand up and be counted. We are in deep mire and this for me now is last chance saloon if we are to rescue our season. I know there will still be 24 games left after Saturday but I think we all know that if we don’t start to turn this around now then we aren’t going to.

 

It is going to be wet and windy on Saturday I just hope the players come out with the right attitude and go straight for the throat of Watford and give nothing less than 100%. On paper we should want it more than them.

 

I am loathe to make a prediction but I will and am going for a 2-0 win and the start of hopefully clawing our way to safety.

 

This post is worth a like purely on the words-to-good-old-fashion-footballing-cliches ratio. Not a dig at all - I really enjoyed it.

At the end of the day it's a game of two halves and the lads need to go our there with their hearts on their sleeves. I'd be over the moon with 2-0.  

Prediction: 1-0 Villa.  Gill with the cheeky lollipop, Gestade second post with little eyebrows in the 89th minute.

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

True, but i'd honestly like to believe I'd view certain things above money.

What if you were managing St Mirren?  Lambert isn't a Villa fan.

I get it - but your original post opened with "Impossible to keep this squad up, absolutely impossible." Apologies for making this look poster-on-poster, it's nothing personal - you're one of many people who think we're down with no hope after 11 games have been played, but I can't get my head around that kind of dedication to being doomed.

And agreed on Richardson. He shouldn't even earn a wage as a footballer, must be blind and never gives 110%.  

Gabby leading the line? I'd love to hear your reasoning (genuinely).

Personally I'd rather give Libor a go - the big man might not be fully match fit but unless he's been on a diet of Big Macs and Monster Munch while sitting on his couch all day nailing 20 Lambert and Butler, he surely can't contribute less than Gabby has recently.

FWIW I'd give Ayew a go before either of them.

Your move Randy.

Add Micheal Oakes to that list. If the rumours were true you could hang your whole wardrobe on there.