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Undoubtedly not, just like an amputee can't help having one leg. But you wouldn't play that word removed at left back, either.

He's an odd one and does come across as a regular jessie. What was the game - maybe a pre-season - when he got fouled toward the end, was screaming like he'd been set on fire leading many of us to think he'd got exploded ligaments or something and would be out for weeks or months and he was back in the starting line up next game? Said it all that he was so badly hurt he was able to go and sit on the bench and explain how the other player's sleeve had Chinese Burned his face.

A scapegoat is a person or persons unfairly blamed...

He's doing an OK job as a placeholder until we buy an actual footballer with the requisite attributes of an striker in January.

Can we set up a Change.org online petition. "To Dean Smith. Change your .org and get **** rid of Taylor from the squad and give his place to Hause."

Maybe I'm being a little too demanding of the manager but I'd prefer it if he saw what we see before us and made the changes quickly enough to actually make a damn difference.

I really, really hate Taylor because he is really, really **** shite. No use nor ornament in defence and the dragging anchor when we're going forward. And Smith is MON in disguise when it comes to subs. DS: Keinan was great against Brighton. JT: We starting him Saturday, then? DS: Are we ****. We're going with the guy that doesn't close down and gets muscled off everything and bitches and sulks half the game. We'll toss Keinan on at the end for five minutes, regardless of how we've played for the other 85 mins and regardless of the score. JT and every other ****: Um, OK. You're the boss and the expert.

That's it, Smith. Put Keinan on for a totally ineffectual Wesley with 4 minutes to go.

**** Taylor AGAIN.

Pathetic again.

Horrible. Absolutely **** disgraceful. This is the Villa I came to hate and thought Smith had taken us away from.

Absolute words removed. Playing like absolute words removed. Throwing another one away.

I applaud it. It's the kind of ruthless, born-winner mentality we've been missing.

Me too, I've no interest in seeing Villa players called up to play in games I'll never watch and which they may get injured in. I'm happy with them playing so well for us that they, as the press hacks would say, "are knocking on the door of an international call up" and "making themselves hard to ignore" and then "just missing out on a callup" or "unlucky to not get minutes".

99% sure I heard the whistle before Lansbury put it in.

No it isn't. It's a lazy cliche that ignores a thousand variables.

That's a sick burn post quote. The depressing thing about it is less just how wildly inaccurate it was and much more that it was THREE **** YEARS AGO. And we've only just got rid of the ****. £5m, three years of wages, 10 appearances then farmed out wherever we could. Sad symbol of many parts of our recent journey. The good news is we can be much more confident there will be no replication of this kind of shite, we are now recruiting much more cannily.

Well, if someone did that it would just be weird, wouldn't it?

Bruce in the dressing room at HT: "Don't say it." "Well, lads..." "Don't say it" "...that's shut a few people up"

Rightly dropped and the right response from him. And I agree he's earned a start next game. It's Crewe. Next league game, though, he's back on the bench.

I'm of that opinion. I absolutely wouldn't start him next game and he didn't deserve a start in this one. It may be resentful and off the bench is how he should be engaged. And I have to say, I gave him shit for the first two games because he was poor. He came on with a point to prove today and when he wakes up in the morning with that chippy head on, I'd start him every time.

I think so, too. Much as I and we justifiably revere Mellberg and Laursen, Mingels is shaping up as a class above. I mean, really, have you ever seen two CB slot in so easily as they have and perform at the level they have? Mings from January and Bjorn since, well, it looks like he's been here since before then. We all knew how good Tyrone was but Jesus H. Tittyfucking Christ we really had absolutely no **** idea just how good Engels is. The bonkers thing is he looks like a high jumper rather than a football CH. Massively athletic and, at least as far as the opponents are concerned, sickeningly strong. I actually think he's a bit of a freak in football terms. Genius football IQ like McGrath, disproportionately strong despite his large size and a passing ability most pundits would, because they're stupid words removed, preface with the facile, "For a big man he...".

Loved it. Wesley came of age as a Premier League player. The Scouse commentator used the phrase "he's ragdolled the centre halves" and it's been a very, very long time since we had a CF who genuinely did that. And better than that, we've got CHs who ragdoll CF. Haven't seen that since for a while, either. Our season starts here, I think.