Junxs

That was one of the strangest things I've ever watched lol

Couldn't understand what was being said though, too much background noise

1 hour ago, nick76 said:

I thought Lansbury was released

4 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Bailey, Buendia, Tammy and Tuanzabe isn't a bad way to spend the Grealish money tbh, we'll be losing something special we can't replace, but that could be a much stronger squad.

Not really, I see 2 starters and 2 bench warmers there

2 hours ago, Xela said:

 

I really hate it when they upload videos like this, whatever happened to good old widescreen?

Interesting that Wesley played, wasn't sure if suspensions were a thing in friendlies.. though I do remember someone getting sent off in a friendly before and missing the opening fixture of the season.. don't fully remember but Lee Hendrie comes to mind

@MaVilla Yeah seen these few days ago, quality

Just meant its another option with Young, right foot / left foot for best scenario 

It wouldn't be £40m as he only has 1 year on his contract, don't know who Cahrlie Wyett is but he's talking nonsense

£15m (maximum) would probably get him, or we can take him free next summer

Matt Targett, we spent good money on him and he was fantastic last season. You don't piss off your better players by replacing them with stop gap players.

It's good that he has genuine competition for the first time since he joined us though, think it will push him to become an even better player.

Great thing about Ashley Young though is that he will get minutes as he is so versatile, and good to see he still takes fantastic free kicks, don't think we've scored one since Hourihanes been dropped?

33 minutes ago, Junxs said:

Then to see Jake Lintott lining up against his proper home ground team tonight is frustrating to see.

As a Bears fan I just cheered Lintott taking the wickets of Allen and Moeen Ali.. bizarre

I really dont like how the draft system works, you got all sorts of players who are icons for their respective counties playing for teams in different cities.

What annoys me the most is how the Royal London cup has turned into a joke this season with second xi players playing.

You got Sam Hain who has an average over 50 in this competition away with Manchester Originals (cant understand how its not Birmingham Phoenix!) and he's not even making their team when he could be killing it for Warwickshire in the Royal London Cup.

Then to see Jake Lintott lining up against his proper home ground team tonight is frustrating to see.

I get they want to attract new vieweres,  but they are pissing off their exisiting viewers. 

This franchise stuff doesnt really belong here where we have history and teams over 150 years old.  

47 minutes ago, Rodders said:

at least the main sponsor isn't a betting company, think I will actually buy a kit for the first time in donkey's years

I stopped buying kits when they started having betting logos on them, as I didnt want to be walking around advertising something I despise.

In all the years where I didnt buy a kit, the prices had slowly crept up without me realising 

I was going to buy last years Cazoo kit, as it was the first time for a very long time it wasnt a gambling sponsor... until I saw the price had more than doubled since I last bought a kit so didn't bother .. ~£60 - just cant justify paying that for a Tshirt with some logos on it that will be out of date in 12 months time

Homage to the '82 kit, but didnt we wear white shorts then?

Forget Batigol, we had Samagol

(In before the lock)

7 hours ago, Jas10 said:

 

HAHAHA

How is this the first time I'm seeing this?? 

Hilarious!

10 minutes ago, OLDVILLAIN said:

Yes and thats why we wont be challenging for the top 7 if he is backup

People forget he had scored 6 goals in less than half a season when he got injured. He was very good in one on one situations (something that Davis really struggles with).

How many had Watkins scored at the same stage last season? Dont think the numbers were too different.

If hes fully fit I have confidence Wesley will be fine if called upon to cover Watkins here n there. In emergencies Traore and El Ghazi have the abilty to play up top as well.

Also you have to consider a quality striker costs a lot of money, do we really need that when Watkins is a superfit athlete who never seems to get injured?

25 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Well hopefully we'll find out next season if he's a Championship striker at least. I've a feeling he'll prove to be a damn good one, but it'll be nice to find out for once and for all. 

Even if he never makes it in the PL it would be fantastic if he scores a bundle in The Championship and we sell him for £10m or something. 

Its not his footballing ability I doubt, its just his nouse in the penalty box.

Guilbert put in a fantastic cross begging to be just tapped in with an arriving striker with their right foot, instead he twisted his body in a funny shape and tried to do some kind of diving finish with his prefered left foot and got it horribly wrong. 

Just dont think centre forward is his position, he might want to reconsider where he plays. Its strange becuase his physique doesnt really suit a wide forward position either, though he can be quite decent on the ball.

I can't see him hitting double figures for Stoke in 46 games, in fact I can't see him getting through a full season without some kind of knock either. If hes their first choice he'll probably manage 25-30 games and score about 5 goals

36 minutes ago, nick76 said:

I know your laughing but it’s a valid point, we’ve come to our little area and not bothering anybody but people come over here and have no interest but just to complain. Weird!

Promise you I'm not laughing, I am genuinely glad this got its own topic.

Just wish fish puns got their own topic as well to be honest  

44 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

This is honestly one of the worst threads on VT.

Just be glad, its 87 pages that we've avoided in the speculation thread for a player we will not sign 

Wesley 10x > Davis

At least Wesly scores now and again.

I dont think Davis is Championship striker let alone a premier league striker!

Mark Regan and Brian Little on comms, pleasant surprise! Was expecting Woodplank

it says too many requests when I try watching live, have they oversold this

I read somwhere that coverage starts at 19.15 , kick off at 19.30

1 hour ago, Lord Willard said:

People who say he is good considering he plays for Burnley need to give their head a wobble. He plays for a midtable team that have been very solid. If you're any good you still will shine.

Grealish was with us while we've been poor and he shone and had stats to backed it up.

Buendia got relegated with Norwich yet his performances and stats were still brilliant. 

McNeil is he really an upgrade on El Ghazi? Then you see the price, no thanks.

He has shone though, everytime I watched Burnley in recent years hes been their outstanding player

He's technically very good and is only 21, Burnley had a poor season, but the season before they finished 10th (when we finished 17th) and he played every game.

Like I mentioned before, his stats wont look amazing in a 442 system with a defensive manager, Burnley spend a large portion of matches backs to the wall.

You mention Grealish but aged 21 he wasn't exactly killing it. I remember Bruce would often have him on the bench to our bemusment and some fans were even saying we should sell him. I'm not for a minute saying he's in the same standard as Grealish, but at the same age playing under RDM/Bruce he really didn't have the "stats to back it up" , It's ony the 2 seasons after aged 23 under Deano that Grealish really starting shining - funny how people remember things differently.