villaluke

57 minutes ago, TRO said:

Encouraging and Honest

not sure if you know but that was from august but funny enough hes done a new interview today 

pretty sure they all go to penalties apart from the final.

3 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

My team would be: 

Heaton

Guilbert Engels Mings Targett 

McGinn Nakamba Luiz

Trezeguet Wesley Grealish

Subs: Steer, Elmohamady, Konsa, Taylor, Lansbury, El Ghazi, Davis

 

i understand dropping  Hourihane but how can you not have him on the bench?! 

playing now you can view the match here https://faplayer.thefa.com/home/womens-super-league 0-0 at the moment. 

20 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Nice comments from Farke about us. He’s always come across as a top guy. 

what did he say? 

27 minutes ago, useless said:

Hopefully they don't, as things stand a draw tomorrow will be enough to lift us out of the relegation zone. Although either way we need to stop making excuses and go and get the three points.

whos making excuses it was only 2 games ago that we won!

i dont understand why Bolton have been given 14 days extra but not bury? seems they given Bolton longer because they are a bigger club? 

1 minute ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

The fact that he’s not even in the squad and is at New Street implies to me that we might have a striker coming in in my opinion 

Smith said hes in light training so cant see us signing anyone now as we can only sign free transfers. Also think we would of had to register our premier league squad by now? 

6 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Just seen Kodjia at New Street, had my photo taken with a couple of other fans, I think we might have a striker coming in

what do you mean? 

is it to late to join? 

3 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

We have much to learn.

Lesson number one from this one - in this league you have to take your chances, We were the better side, we had 22 shots on goal, Trezeguet should have scored twice, Grealish had a simple header, Wesley could have had one, Taylor had a good chance and we created umpteen half chances - Bournemouth were clinical. 

I thought Heaton's decision to dive at the ball in the opening minute might have been a little rash, I'd need to see that one again. Luiz's mistake for the second was foolish - that's all they needed.

Beyond those two moments, the centre backs looked reasonably solid against two quick, physical strikers, the two fullbacks played well and deserve their places right now, Luiz has a poor first half, but was playing much better in the second, even before he banged in his superb strike, Mcginn was industrious as ever and maybe should have done better with the chance he hit straight at the keeper - but - El Ghazi isn't having a big impact on games thus far and Grealish has given the ball away more often in the last two games than in any other game I remember seeing in his career - he's maybe in need of a bit of a reality check - Wesley did some good things today, but you don't get the feeling he's always on the edge of a goal - we're toothless in many ways - Grealish, McGinn, Trezeguet and co might get five or six each this season - that's not going to be enough and much of our hopes will rest on the big man's shoulders - we need more of the good stuff.

With all that, we played well, we were the better team - undone by some knowhow in terms of being clinical and what the BBC called being "streetwise" but you and I would know as cheating. I thought some of Bournemouth's antics were disappointing to say the least. The diving by Bournemouth was horrific - now I'm not putting on my holier-than-though robes here, we're more than capable of turning a challenge into a free kick - but I don't think I've ever seen a team so often have a player run into a defender, thirty or forty yards off the ball and go down. They had 172 players go down injured in the ninety minutes* - and each of them seemed happy to stay down - Wilson appeared to be stung by a wasp on a number of occasions. Billings should have gone in the first half for one of the four fouls he committed after his yellow - and Martin Atkinson was the usual dickhead we've come to know and abhor. The thing with that is, we do know and Bournemouth will have known that too - and Bournemouth played Martin Atkinson a whole lot better than we did. Lesson two - learn to use the referee.

I'm caught in two minds:

On the one hand, we've played well, we were better than Bournemouth despite the result and if we learn some of these lessons quickly, we'll be fine. We were better in the second half than the first and this is a team getting used to each other. There's some talent - I thought Trezeguet showed some real promise and Luiz could become an excellent footballer. There are some good signs if we can find that little bit of sharpness and edge.

On the other hand, we've had good spells in two games and got no points, we host the seventh best team in the country on Friday, followed by a really difficult trip to Crystal Palace who are very good at home - no points from four games is a very real possibility - and if it happens, everything will seem more difficult and bleak.

I think there's probably something in both - I'll be hoping for a point or two from our next couple of games - and preaching patience if they aren't there.

Also, and I realise it's uncharitable on the back of a defeat, but the sooner this tinpot town and it's arseheap, flouncing team run out of Russian money and piss off back to league 1 the better. It's not a small town fairytale, it's a seaside petrochemical vanity project with a ground smaller than the Holte End. Bah humbug.

 

*I made this number up.

sorry if im wrong but think palace had one of the worst home records last season if not the worst, think they were much better away from home.

22 minutes ago, tomsky_11 said:

VT2 draft finished?

yes all done. 

15 minutes ago, Junxs said:

With all the international mega deals for the premier league, there will be no live content. Probably go back to an audio feed like it used to be before relegation.

i knew it would be audio  if anything but just surprised we haven't heard anything if they will do live commentary this season and how much it will cost etc. 

anyone know whats happening with avtv this season haven't heard anything about it this season?

3 minutes ago, tomsky_11 said:

We've got ours set at 60 seconds. Might need the extra time for some of the later picks.

Most picks will be done within 15 secs. Whole draft shouldn't take more than an hour with picks set at 60.

changed it back to 60 seconds as you say it should be done quickly and to get people to think about it. 

i wil lower it down to 30 seconds but it was always 8.30 i never changed that. 

3 hours ago, tomsky_11 said:

I think both leagues we have set up are now full, unless VT2 is willing to expand to 9/10 teams or we have a late dropout.

@villaluke has everyone who should be in VT2 joined now?

yes i believe so i have also invited AndyM3000 to join. i set up the league as max of 16 incase anyone else wants to join. 

3 minutes ago, screwdriver said:

I've heard all this talk before. I rememeber people creaming their trolleys over jordan ayew. the trainspotter villa fans giving it the biggie saying he's the brother most likely to be a superstar and his dad was the african pele. then when we went down he was "the most gifted player in the championship" yeah right!       and didn't barca have a buy back clause with adama traore.....once they dropped him in the real mans league they tore up the receipt!

So this luiz guy is the new socrates? Just cos pep says so.....and he's never played in the prem?

well pep is the biggest fibber in football. all i hear from him for 3 years is how good foden is...............yet he never puts him in the team? Pep must have a whole squad of great players that he don't trust.

Luiz has got to come in and graft for that jersey. Hourihane is ahead of him in the pecking order.

hes never played in the prem because hes never got a work permit if match fit of course he will be our 1st choice defensive midfielder. 

i think i have sent everyone the code for VT2 league if i haven't can you dm me and i will send you the code for it. 

1 hour ago, MaVilla said:

if one of the "big 4" teams players scored McGinns second goal, they would be masturbating over it for days......

Dont worry i will be! 

8 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

You've certainly hit the nail on the head Dave, along with @Wezbid and I appreciate the understanding.

Half of me was reluctant to post what I knew for the negative reasons that outweighed the positives in posting and kicking off the whole thing - like has been displayed in doses, but knowing what it was and that in mind I still posted.

I know nothing of the player and as such no gain for me as I ain't got a clue who he is!  (FWIW - I wanted Tuanzebe, if we are treading round any wishlist inclination)

I accept the thread was merged as there was no real concrete article on the web that states "we've" made a bid, not a problem. I tried my best the slot in the comment further in without trying to raise too much attention to it whilst equally dropping what I had been told.

I am not part of some savvy inner circle unfortunately - the f**kers still haven't got back to me on my application about joining, yet!

At the end of the day if Villa sign him I might be hailed by some, if we don't sign him there will be a chance I'll be slated. Oh well.  My neck I guess.

 Again I gain nothing from it and have posted here over 13 years, the only other time I got near anything similar was last season involving the whole Grealish saga, but that's about it.

FWIW, if Laeo was to arrive it would be a great statement of intent by the club considering all the other big boys apparantly jumping on board for him. The Portuguese 'M'Bappe' they say.

out of curiosity what did you find out about Grealish last summer? that he was staying i take it? 

2 minutes ago, rodigan said:

Lots to do, but its certainly getting there:

GK: Steer Kalinic Nyland

RB: Guibert Elmo

CB: Mings Chester Hause Konza Engels

LB: Targett Taylor

DM: Hourihane Bjarnasson [LUIZ or PHILLIPS] 

AM: McGinn Jack 

LW / RW: El Ghazi Jota Green [TREZEGUET]

CF: Wesley Kodjia Davies [MAUPAY or AUSTIN]

If you add in us getting most of LUIZ, TREZEGUET, PHILLIPS, MAUPAY, AUSTIN - we're getting pretty close... 

Austin  

 

14 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

Hope those fake quotes start making an appearance again when we start well in the PL. They got funnier the more elaborate they became.

what fake quotes?