Junxs

Not sure a 24 year old can be considered a prospect anymore I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Archer is our top scorer this season and hes only played a handful of games. Natural finisher

Just curious, but is that the same person?

Threw away 3 points today, should have wo that game if it weren't for stupid errors! Martinez, what a time to make your first mistake this season (was never a free kick in the first place though) Both their goals were gifts when we have to beat 15 people to score a goal, can't do that.

Whilst I strongly believe he's not good enough for us anymore, I don't think its an unfair price. He's not that bad, just if he knew when to pass and when to shoot then he'd be half decent. When you think it cost roughly the same we paid for McCormack 4 years ago, it's not unfair value. He does score some important goals. And will be leaving with a 100% penalty record, don't think we can say that about any ex players

Plus he's offside, which I think is the deciding factor. I haven't got an issue with that being called. What I have an issue with is why have they checked everything else first, it's almost like they were looking for reasons to disallow it rather than checking for clear and obvious errors. The incident last year when Bruno stamped on Konsa and got a penalty, that was decided by VAR in less than 5 seconds, why wasnt that checked thoroughly like everything else, if they looked at that like they did the incident last night then that penalty would never have been given! Seems like different rules depending on the team, thats what I take issue with

Was our best player last night, dont think we created another chance after he went off. I didn't notice him get injured, probably Gerrards most baffling substitution so far.

Bit harsh on Bennett as he was a youngster, but the other 3 I'm sure would have been better in the championship than Taylor (as rubbish as they were in the prem). In the championship Taylor would regularly get turned inside out, continuously give the ball away, and had no idea what to do with the ball across the half way line. Truly diabolical.

He's 28, and will still be 28 when the season ends.. he's 15 months older than McGinn for crying out loud. Why are people talking like we're signing a 35 year old?

I did say regular, as in someone who spent at least half a season as first choice.. who do you think he's better than?

Don't know why so many people are getting on Matt Targets back, I think he's been an excellent signing from where we were to where we are now, he was our player of the season last year as well. You need 2 good players for each position these days, so I welcome this addition.. but perplexed to read so many saying we should sell Targett in the summer I certainly feel more comfortable when he crosses the ball than when Matty Cash does from the other side. Maybe I think hes a lot better than he actually is because he replaced Taylor, who I 100% believe is the worst regular left back we've had since I started following Villa in the late 80s.

Bloody Nora! Why???

Hopefully his contract is up this summer and he can go earn a living somewhere else, probably in League 1

Depends on the situation.. If I was staying to catch a game, I'd rather stay walking distance from Villa Park and, if needed, catch public transport later in the day / next day into Birmingham to have a look around. The sheer volume of people exiting a game makes it more appealing to stay at a hotel by the ground to chill - especially if it had all the facilities of a proper nice hotel. Maybe in the future Villa Park will be included as a tram stop making it even easier to get to the city centre or Star City.

Reading the transcript, it genuinely looks like they are talking about the main team not the U23s / u18s. Which would make sense, as the official platforms dont really think they exist anyway, they only ever mention the womens team (apart from the mens team)

Hang on, no media outlet reports the scores for U23 / U18 games. Was it made clear to them that we arent complaining about the premier league results? I dont get the chance to watch the U23s live as it usually clashes with a premier league game or something else that I give preference to and like to put it on when I go to bed.. but they give the score away in the video heading. Theyve completely dismissed these concerns like they dont exist, well on that basis I wont be signing up for it next season. I'm not watching 90 minutes of football when I know the result, if they think thats not an issue then they dont know what football is about.

Exactly, if we're a top 6 club playing regularly in Europe, then 60k should be the ambition

Interesting, I havent even tried to buy any tickets this season as all the noise has all been that its very hard to get tickets, especially as we have 20k season ticket waiting list and priority being given to claret members and mates of season ticket holders. Maybe other fans are thinking this also?

This is a very good point, I never thought West Ham could attract so many fans. I think football is at a very good point right now, with all round attendances at all clubs the highest theyve been in my lifetime - and we are missing out. I think we could easily get 60k for most games, people are remembering bad periods when we couldnt sell out due to having a poor teams and clouding their judgment. Maybe they can design it so in future if the demand does go downthey could convert a part of the stadium into something else, more corporate, or take the seats out of an upper tier and turn it into a go kart track or ice rink with massive screens / advertising boards on the crowd facing walls so it stays hidden.

I never understood why they changed the 102/104/105 buses to x3,x4,X5 and every single one of them go up the express way just past Erdington. They are frequent buses, come every 7 to 10 minutes, why can't half of them use the old route through Aston? Perhaps drop the X on the ones that don't use the express way. A lot of villa fans live in Sutton (and beyond) and many are deterred by having to change buses in Erdington.. and the bus from Erdington takes a detour on match days leaving you with a half hour walk from the cemetery. When I was younger me and my brother's would always catch the bus there and back but the option isn't there anymore really unless you fancy a long walk. Last time I went by train but it was a joke, never doing that again. Going by car is stupid as well, as the traffic is so heavy until you get past the lights at spaghetti junction. It's really irritating as there's nothing coming from the other direction on the roundabout causing a massive backlog. Why can't these lights be turned off on match days so it can be used as a regular roundabout for an hour or so. Seems to be the council and transport companies have no interest in making things easier for the fans, they'd prefer it if people were put off from attending matches it seems

Well done boys, well done Gerrard Glad to see the back of those horrible long throws, we just didnt have the height for them and kept trying them every bloody chance we got

Yeah but Ole is moaning that its offside, not that he was impeding with the keeper. I'm sure they see all the replays pitchside, so he would have seen it back and didn't moan about the impeding, its since been proven from various angles that he wasn't offside.

Not necessarily, the year we lost to Bradford in the semis, Swansea were waiting for us in the final had we won that game. (Swansea beat Bradford 5-0 in the final) England almost made it to the world cup final without playing one of the big boys (getting knocked out by Croatia still wasnt a big boy) It can happen by avoiding the big boys, I'd rather we get easier games and hope for shock results knocking the big teams out so you can avoid them completely.

Did it annoy anyone else that the 2 Chukwuemekas both had "C." before their names on the kit? I mean whats the point, its supposed to distinguish the 2 players, so surely it makes no sense to add another 2 characters as the name is long enough as it is

Seems odd to bring him on for Ings against Newcastle then just completely out of the picture tonight If hes backup to Ings / Watkins then surely he needs minutes tonight; if he isnt then what was the point in bringing him on against Newcastle?

Yeah, it flew in the net after a miskick.. It looked good but I wouldnt put it on any greatest goals lists Everything Wayne Rooney did was over hyped by the media. Le Tissier literally scored 20 better goals than that but no one in the media still goes on about them like they do with Rooneys goals.