Jay.P.A

Spot on, my team wouldn't be very defensive at all haha. Would be very exciting though on the attacking front. We really do need a top quality DM. We also need great winger - and that should be Benrahma IMO.

and if Grealish goes, I'd go for; Benrahma McGinn Luiz Eze Buendia

For the midfield I'd want the following; Buendia McGinn Luiz Benrahma Grealish Lack of a DM, i know - but we would cause some serious problems for teams with this midfield. Entertaining AS ****!

Depends on the Januzaj loan.

Let me get this straight - we can loan Reina, Drinkwater, AND JANUZAJ?

His talent is world class. There's not too many players who can do what he does with the ball. You'll see that in time. You recognized it early, but Jack will go on to do great things.

Pure bollocks. Was great versus Burnley - and who's been good the 'last 4-5 games' before Burnley? FFS

Slow? He's probably one of the fastest with the ball in our entire squad!

Polish coming here, taking Wesley's job.

Announce Mings ffs

Cannot stress how great Luiz will be. This man, has got a set of bollocks on him. The only player in the squad, apart from Grealish, who always wants and shows for the ball. Great control on the ball as well, and really good energy levels. I think he will only get better - and cannot believe he is only 21. As we get better this season, so will he. Was extremely unlucky with his chance on the weekend, on another day he scores it with ease. Classy.

Survival is, and always has been the aim. We got half a season to go.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL all conjecture.

'Back to where we belong' means the upper echelons of this league - not just to become another number to stay in this league mate. That's what I meant. Poor example that - It took years for Leicester to start playing with a philosophy and they went as low as League One. They've got the personal in to play how they want now but it didn't happen overnight. Leicester' first season back: During the 2014–15 season, a dismal run of form saw Leicester City slip to the bottom of the league table with only 19 points from 29 matches. By 3 April 2015, they were seven points adrift from safety. This could have brought a sudden end to Leicester's seven-year rise, but seven wins from their final nine league matches meant the Foxes finished the season in 14th place with 41 points. They finished the season with a 5–1 thrashing of relegated Queens Park Rangers. Their upturn in results was described as one of the Premier League's greatest ever escapes from relegation.[44][45] They also became only the third team in Premier League history to survive after being bottom at Christmas (the other two being West Bromwich Albion in 2005 and Sunderland in 2014), and no team with fewer than 20 points from 29 matches had previously stayed up.

Yeah but you're wrong like 90% of the time. Look at all your posts from last season for example. You wanted Smith out this time last year and he went on to give us some of the best football we've played in a long time, a historic winning streak, feel good factor around the club and promotion - all this after he had a very bad patch at Xmas.

Could really give two fcuks about that stat - could be misleading as well - give me stats from where the shots were taken from. I'm willing to bet money a big number of them would have been taken from outside the box. Think some of us have to remember we are a newly promoted team who will concede shots. We still don't have the worst record in the league, btw.

So you're basically saying Smith out? Lol ffs.

Because him, his team, and the top dogs at Villa are changing the whole culture of the club. I'd rather we have good attacking football from the first team down to the youth team rather then defensive, dour crap. Don't want to sit back deep, win the ball and then hit it long to the channels or to our striker. That's not a long term strategy. Not for our club - not if we want to be back where we belong.

So performances are null and void to you? Would you rather we played like complete shite against the top boys and still lost? There were definite positives in some of our performances this season. We've just hit a bad patch under Smith. Half the season gone and we are where I think most of our fans expected us to be - in the bottom half of the table. Two wins takes us to 13th, and we've got a better goal difference then all the teams near us in the table. It's not panic stations yet as we've still got the second half of the season yet to go.

We've literally just about crawled into the relegation zone. People need to chill out and not get OTT about a few bad results. I've seen more then enough this season to see that we've caused the best teams in this league big problems. If we sack Deano, and bring in another manager who loses 3 in a row, what then? You going to call for his head as well? Deano needs time. Only been in the job just over a year and has performed miracles. He's not going anywhere - even if we get relegated he'll be the man to bring us back up. You have to remember this is his first year in the PL as well as many of our players. This is rebuilding job - and we will be better in the second half of the season.

Sorry Villalad21 but you've been killed here in this thread

Whoa - why brings you to that conclusion? Ridiculous to say that.

Last time I saw Grealish when I was at VP, I was at the players car park with my nephew and we were getting a pic to take with him. I'm 5'8 and he was definitely taller then me. I'm sure he's 5'10 at least.

Not free kicks though mate. Open play goals. It's not the same at all.

Can see the logic, but with Jack on the pitch and McGinn who win a lot of free kicks, you'd want Hourihane in the team to take a set piece for Mings, Engels, Wesley to get on the end of and stick it in the back of the net.