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5 hours ago, Genie said:

I knew a number of girls in my year at school 14/15 who had older boyfriends 17/18/19 and were sleeping with them.

I think this is where there's a grey area. There's a big difference between a 17 year old lad sleeping with his 15 year old girlfriend and a 28 year old man and a 15 year old. And yes at 14 girls think it's all very sophisticated. I remember one of the girl's in my class when we were 14, stunning, looked a lot older, but she had a 28 year old boyfriend. And as teenagers we didn't see anything wrong with it. As an adult, I think, what a sicko! He definitely knew how old she was as well. 

On 10 February 2016 at 08:55, AntrimBlack said:

It would be crazy to start him. We all know what he does, and that is `not a lot'.

Easing him in would be the best bet, but that is difficult at this stage. He really needs to learn the game, but he shows no sign of doing so, or even being capable of doing so. He is a strange one, bags of pace and skill, but lacking the nous to do anything with it.

He is still very young, so hopefully time and coaching will make him the player we hope he can be.

This for me. Does no one else think he's a bit of a one trick pony? Stands around till ball delivered to feet, dinks it past one or two players down the right, hits byline, cross. That's it. That's all he does. This one move - he reminds me a bit of playing double dragon charac in the nineties. If the game was easy you could just chuck fireball after fireball at your opponent, if it wasn't you were *******. I always assume that's why he only gets 20 mins. Any longer and the opposition will adapt to it and he s basically ineffective. And yes it is strange, because he's strong, pacy and clearly good technically but I have a horrible feeling he lacks any kind of footballing brain, dare I say it for me he's more like a Spanish version of a young Gabby than the next Neymar. Needs to develop. A lot.

15 hours ago, Straggler said:

It was a stupid thing to do and he has let down his team mates.  However I don't think it is just a pinch on the shoulder he is reacting to.  He is playing in an awful team where has been one of the few people really trying to improve the situation.  He has seen the people in charge of the club throw in the towel and still ask him to keep on fighting.  He has seen yet another refereeing calamity from close up, piling up the feelings of resentment and frustration.  He looks pissed off at the world at the best of times, I think the overall feeling of frustration and apathy at the club is hitting him more than most.  Then he has some little prik pinching his neck and he swings for him.  I'm not condoning it at all, a pro should be able to suck all that up and use it as a motivation.  He has also condemned himself to having every defender in the league poking prodding and pinching at him for the foreseeable future.  I'm certainly not for chucking him under the bus for this one though, he needs to serve his time, then come back into the team.

This! He obviously cares and after month after frustrating month he's just snapped over something stupid. Not thinking about the red IMO, just wanted to lash out and Cresswell was there. Stupid, but he's apologised let's move on. It's not like he headbutted someone in the final of the World Cup because they called his sister a ho. 

1 hour ago, Bunnski said:

                            Bunn

Richards - Okore - Clark/Lescott - Cissokho

                            Gana

            Westwood  -  Veretout

                              Gil

                      Kozak - Ayew

So close

Surely, surely the club wouldn't be stupid enough to sell him - loan him to NF - that is a great idea, he gets back up to speed and then can come into the team next season with a load of experience at that level and contaminated by the terrible toxic atmosphere of the current dressing room. But selling him for peanuts, why?!?!?

6 minutes ago, samjp26 said:

For people who think he is a softy, in France it is apparently well known that he is a "calm to the public" character but behind closed doors very stern.

My old boss used to be a teacher and he told me once that the reason he gave it up was because the kids in the country he'd moved to  were so apathetic. When he was teaching kids in England he said they could be right little shits but if you could harness and redirect their energy it could be really fulfilling whereas the attitude in the new country was so apathetic they couldn't even be bothered to play up and give him a hard time. This team remind me of this all the time. They don't give a shit. It's no good shouting at them they don't care, their life is easy, loads of money, no particular attachment to the club, very little interest in each other, every time I see them play I have this image of disinterested teenagers slumped at their desk and staring out of the window. How on earth do you motivate a group like this? And how do we really build for the championship? We need to get rid of this bunch of f wits, but, regardless of the money, if we bring in a load of new players it will take time for them to gel, however we still need to go out and play every week which means it will be very hard for new players coming in not to get sucked into this vortex of losing. And again with Remi, the jury is out for me but I have no doubt that whatever his potential as manager it will be gone by the end of the season if things continue the way they are. Very dark days for us and unless something changes we're going to struggle next season as well. 

Does anyone know if he's still going out on the piss all the time though?

if he is then it's attitude if he's stopped and is getting his head down then it's a confidence thing imo

The problem with Garde is that if we continue like this, he ll be ruined by the end of

 the season, in the same way Lambert fell apart at the end it will happen to Remi and then he really won't be the right person for the rebuild.

And back down to earth - just bin all these players off and start again. Too many losers and layabouts - they can all go

I can t help it, at this point before every game I think we re going to win. 3-0 to the villa UTV! (will take scrappy 1-0 victory)

I like Garde, and I can see what he's trying to do. We don't just need sorting out defensively we need a consistent starting 11 who each know where the other is without thinking about it and that takes time, requires team players and an awful lot of patience. Then you can start to swap players in and out. I think he's slowly turning the ship around but we just don't have time for it to keep us in the PL. But at least when we go down we 'll have a solid on field philosophy in place and hopefully won't lose too many players - who at that stage may be performing quite well.  As for being uninspiring we keep playing better in the second half so he must be saying something right.

3 hours ago, New_Jersey_Villa said:

If he does play, let's see if he can improve on the 10 touches he had in the entire first half against Spurs.....

It was 8

52 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said:

After waking up and thinking about it, Buy championship players in January and actually try and be competitive in the championship. Afobe etc. Sell players that don't want to be here to get as much money as possible. No point spending ridiculous amounts of money now in January to maintain our PL status. Not too fussed if they all leave from boardroom level to players. The defence needs a major overhaul the whole back 4 needs replacing. I can't see Richards staying anyway. I would spend whatever budget is given heavily in defensive areas. I presume they have relegation clauses so most would leave. 

This - the one faint silver lining to this mess is that we'll be more or less down by January at this rate. It ll take the pressure off the team and gives us 7 or 8 months to build a team that can boss the championship and come straight back up.

The only thing I can console myself with is that every year Newcastle fans are desperate for us to go down (saddos), well while they might get their wish this year it looks like they're coming with us!

Guzan - not good enough

Hutton - squad player at best

Clark - not good enough

Richardson - not good enough

Richards - as a centre back? Not good enough

Gana - not good enough

Veretout - not good enough

Sanchez - not good enough

Gil- terrible game

Sinclair - squad player at best

Ayew - Alright but not a natural goal scorer, so Not good enough.

And that is why we are utterly shafted

Down. The players just aren't good enough. 

So down...

ffs you couldnt make it up

adama s coming on

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really don't have much of an issue with this interview. Comparing it to Sherwood is a bit disingenuous imo. Sherwood was manager - ie the boss. Your boss slagging you off in public is humiliating and soul destroying. Richards is captain, he represents the group, so I read it as him saying collectively we're not good enough, we need to run more, we need to try harder. The comments about foreign players needing time to settle are fair enough, and I didn't read the language thing as a Sherwoodesque put down. If anything he was bigging up Remi to bridge that gap. I mean everything he's said is true so....time to shape up or ship out lads! 

1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

Deluded ones. Personally I think some of them are in for a rude surprise in July when knights in shining armour turn out to be thin on the ground, and then another rude surprise in August as they begin a 46-game regular season where they expectation will be to win every game. 

He also mentions that no one wants to take the blame for it, which suggests an awful lot of players think 'I'm doing really well and if I was in a better team I d be killing it these numpties are dragging me down'. I reckon that probably applies to a good chunk of our team, and sadly the newer players like veretout and gana. Gana s first interview he was talking about using villa to get a move to a big club and veretout says he s been happy with his performances so far. Then there s Grealish with his hands in the air all the time. That's 3 of the starting 11 right off the bat 

1 hour ago, thunderball said:

This doesn't reflect on Garde at all, Everton are a decent side and were in the groove today, could've troubled anyone. He can't polish a turd in 3 weeks.

This performance will help Garde in many ways, and with January approaching, hopefully Lerner and his management will realise exactly what is required: spend, spend, spend. If Lerner wants £150m plus for his Premier League club, he needs to spend a £100m, because at the moment we are a £40m Championship side at best.

The problem is who will come? We will likely still be bottom by January. No decent PL players high on confidence will switch, nor will the better championship players. I mean even Austin has reportedly said he won't come to a struggling pl side - so basically we d need to try and grab a couple of the best players from a mid table championship team - which won't cut it. I'd be getting vlaar back tbh and trying lescott at lb or seeing if Hutton could do a job there and sticking Richards at right. But that is the only realistically achievable purchase that I think could improve us at this stage :-(

same at about 80