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That's not the way we play ...............I'll get my coat.

saves them getting injured....if one don't get you, the other one will.

Does anything surprise you anymore?

and they might get one.

Sounds like the Eurovision, song contest.

Hope your right. We have won 3 league games in 9, so it's a little bit longer than that....not a crisis, but certainly not representative of what got us to 4th place......fortunately Spurs are also having a bit of a dip in form, ironic since their win at Villa Park. We seem to have gone a bit indifferent since the Spurs 0-4 reversal, with only the Arsenal and Bournemouth games, showing the league table form....sure injuries are conspiring against us, and the players left fit, are being drained, but we have to keep going. I hope we can find something, for the last big push.

I think it's fair to say, most fans expected more from him. Will he follow a similar path to Bailey?....not sure, hope so, if he doesn't improve, we have wasted, some dough. I think the biggest worry is, he doesn't look a threat....scores some great goals, but it's like a token gesture. I also wonder where this blistering pace, is?....he was supposed to have. I guess, we will just have to wait and see, if he finds some form from somewhere, that has prompted us to part with a record breaking fee.

We'll upset Jude again, if we get through.

I get your point, and its valid......but I hope you get mine. There is no point, being good on the ball, if you can't get it, in the first place.......playing without the ball, is an important part of the game. The good players, do both......win it and play it, convincingly. I trust UE and Monchi to go after those that can do both. There was a similar debate, when we signed Kamara.....saying its hard to get players who can do both. We not only did that, we got a french International at a tender age, with no transfer fee, from his home club....what a coup, just about perfect. My point is.....if we don't know what we are going after, we can't get them.

I think the eye test says......is it? He has scored some good goals, and had some good moments......but he has also had too many quite passive moments, where he has offered no threat....and looked like a passenger. It's not always about just scoring, and that is difficult to say, to get context......it's more about being a constant threat and nuisance...where the opposition are constantly on their toes. I don't think he offers that with any consistency..........................yet. Hoping he has a better, next season.

I think he can.....but its the rest of the pig, he's struggling with.

Unai Emery, would push the cleaning lady......thats what top coaches do......Drive their staff.

All the good ones are like that....I am staggered anyone is thinking different. We have moved on from the midfield thug.

"Stagecoach"......to add to all the other coaches.

Maybe the players have been having one?

Argument about what!....don't say football.

Positive news... but he needs a pre-season, out of the cauldron. Think we have missed his intensity and bit of aggression.

so I've got a "scorchio woman"....sounds cool, I mean scorchio.

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but let's hope, it doesn't become a political football game....with a reason for inaction. Conservative Government, and a Labour council, spell Silo. Maybe I am being cynical.

good question.

It's certainly a way, but I am not sure its the right way, assuming it could change the profile of the fan base....for the worst. I am not an expert on this, just posting my pennyworth. It doesn't seem to my knowledge ,it's a way the Germans look at it....With Munich, and Dortmund, I am told have cheaper, prices and less expensive Beer, No wonder they have huge crowds and I guess the maths spell huge volumes. I fear, doing it the way, you suggest, would diminish, not enhance the atmosphere.....it could be in danger of creating a ground full of "Prawn Sandwiches".....people who could take it or leave it. I guess Chris Heck has forgot more than I know, about Marketing....but Chelsea, is a completely different environment to B6.....He needs to be careful, with his ambitions. I am getting to an age, where it doesn't really matter, I have had 60 odd years of Supporting Villa, and I will continue, until my health, says no more.....but I have witnessed, many , many years where the club, would have bitten off your arm for a full house....Even the greatest season 1980/81 was c 30-35,000.....very up and down in terms of volume/attendance. I am now supporting Villa, with a full house, every week.....He wants to be careful not to kill the goose who lays the golden egg. Folk tell me it takes time to build a squad, and yes I know......and it takes time to increase entrance fees without being avarice....to keep raising prices too quick, could lead to unrest, and an inevitable reversal of feet. The intrinsic nature of a fan, with a battle hardened loyalty, that is not easily put off, by a run of bad defeats, are not easy to come by...Chris Heck, should be aware of that....some corporate fans are here today and gone tomorrow, its business....but the business, wants the buzz of the lay crowd....kill that, and there is no corporate interest. He needs to be careful, what he wishes for and his aspirations of us fans with a perceived bottomless pocket.

Some of the things you say are true, and some are questionable. It is acceptable that we are WIP and still rebuilding....and yes it takes time. The expensive haircut, as you put it, at least had the presence of mind, and the personal profile to secure our only dedicated CDM.....and boy do we miss him. Dean is probably right, you do need many windows to shape a squad.....but did we need many windows to sign a CDM?....which is a legitimately crucial position in a team. Are you suggesting defensive minded players, have an inferior talent when playing the ball......if so, I suggest, your bar is set low......I might also say, if you can't win the ball back, how can you play it?, unless you just passively wait for errors. Defensive minded players, who can play.....are not all as expensive as Rice, they can be, but not necessarily , Kamara wasn't, and the "haircut" secured him.....sure they are hard to find, maybe because all the best teams have them......we too are aspiring to be one of those. Paradoxically, We had a better record last season than this.....maybe we have focused more on the offensive side, this season.....and with the personnel available, maybe that was prudent. I am not criticising Unai Emerys style......IMO he has chosen a way this season to win games, with the players he has.....perfectly, acceptable to me. All I am saying is moving forward, we need to be harder to play against, and concede less goals.....that way, again IMO we will become more consistent, and more convincing, in our play. I am hoping in the summer, he strengthens us, with that in mind. Ps I make no apologies, for banging the drum, for more defensive Nous in the team....as and when we can