delboy54

We should have had an extra 2 points after the debacle yesterday

We should have had 6 points off man yoo this season

We should have beaten Sheffield utd at home

Etc

Etc

Could have, would have and should have.....it always comes down to that, I hope we don't come to regret what happened yesterday...

Only ever watched a couple of episodes as I dont have access to sky or HBO or whatever it was on.

However I am reading the first book in the series and the first half, approx 400 pages, is deadly dull scene setting stuff, hopefully it gets better.

I agree with some comments and complaints about the author explaining to the minute detail the colour of someones armour or flag etc, and it is pretty tedious to be honest. However, it is nothing compared to Tolkiens Lord of the rings novel, where the description of some hobbits clothing goes on and on seemingly for pages and pages of drivel....

Wise comments above as normal from Mr TRO.....

We do seem very prone to other teams refusing to lie down when we are winning and fighting back. This has always been a "Villa thing" from the decades that I have been following the  Villa. Yet it seems to be happening more frequently now. Opposition now know that we can be "got at"...

Two idiotic things from the game, all 3 goals came down from their left hand side and were identical and Dougie should have been subbed well before the final 2 minutes to prevent the ref from giving that yellow card.

People keep saying we will learn from this, well so far I don't see a lot of evidence that we are. Scoring goals is difficult but we need to be able to see games out by having a defence that makes it more difficult for the opposition to score against us.

Please could someone clarify for me, so this booking means Dougie cannot play in the next 2 premier league games, I.e. is still ok to play against Lille on Thursday?

Or does it mean the next two games I.e Lille (h) and Arsenal (a)?

At the end of the season if we dont qualify for CL next season (either in 4th or 5th position), we are not good enough "the league table doesn't lie".

However if we don't qualify my fear is that some of our players will be looking to join a club that has qualified for CL....

I am sure the scouts from Lille are watching this game with interest....

I think that most footy fans want consistency in refs. It shouldn't matter who is playing who.

I work with a Leicester fan who has a ST goes to all away games as well. Good level headed conversations about footy with him.

Texted me yesterday on way home after the loss at Brissol city telling me some of the Leicester fans were booing their team....

I think rumours will start being spread by Heck  himself, that prices for ST's will rise upwards of 20% for next season....

Then the ST prices will be officially announced at only a 15% increase and Heck will take the credit for the "smaller" increase than was rumoured...

I have got tickets for the Villa West Ham game at VP. Never seen womens football live before.

I am taking my daughter who has been with me many times in the upper Holte to see the mens footy, the wife who was seen only 2 games of footy in her life, one of them was the 6 - 1 win against Sunderland a few years ago.

But.....I am also taking my 10 year old granddaughter who has seen Ipswich play a couple of times, but never watched a game of womens football and it is her first time at VP. She also supports Liverpool as all her friends at school do as well. I think I have failed as a grandparent......

I really hope that I can convert her...if not she can walk all the way back to Cambridge 

6 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Don’t worry - retirement will be for 90+ when we get there

Yeah my daughter has just turned 31, she will have to work to 131 before she can get the state pension

Thanks for all the advice guys. One more week to go now!

I do (did) enjoy my job and that is so important. After all you spend near enough 1/3 of your life at it...

Yes TRO good advice and thanks Mental and physical health is important and I need to look at this as a new chapter in my book of life.

I love my grandkids, but they do drive me mad though sometimes!!!

Following the Villa is a good outlet for me it's just the 2hr drive there and back can be a bind occasionally especially if we lose...

Got a few things I want to get involved with such as volunteering at my local hospital and helping out at Cambridge Technology museum. Just need to ease my way into a new part of my life now !

Cheers lads, this is a great forum, some comments from many of you make me laugh out loud, and where would we be without timely Kenneth William's pictures and the ongoing saga of The best English Breakfast ....

I have also been rewatching the original series of Star Trek.

Always entertaining to see if Kirk gets to kiss one of the women in each episode and how long into the episode it takes him!

Also looking on wiki of the leading female roles that were in the original series, some famous actresses appeared, cannot believe that they are old grandmothers now.....mind you I am nearly 66 years old and can recall the original series being broadcast in the late 1960's.

As the ideas ran out it did get worse and I can see why it finally got cancelled.

I enjoyed deep space 9 especially the interplay between Quark and Odo.

The next generation has dated slightly for me but still is good

Voyager was spoilt by the character/actress Janeway.

Enterprise was ok some duff episodes

Picard ....wow Patrick Stewart is looking old now . Still a great actor and the best Captain.

But I am not a "Trekky"........honestly!

2 hours ago, nick76 said:

Thought the outside of Everton’s new ground looked good but the inside looks pretty dull and unimpressive 

 

I hope if we ever had to move to a new ground it would look better than this.  I mean it’s only going to hold just under 53k as well and I know that’s not the be all but that internal part is uninspiring and soulless.

Not been to Goodison park but I guess this new ground has got to be better. But it does look like all the other "new" football grounds, a bit soulless.

What is the point of playing friendlies and not experimenting with new blood and new formations etc and playing the same old players?

Oh I forgot we have Safegate as England manager

I would like to change tack, I hope this is in the correct thread. This is my take on a potential future.

I work for an American faceless corporation and all they are interested in is "the bottom line", returns for shareholders I guess. They view their competitors as the enemy and will do anything to discredit and destroy them, they view it as a war without bullets and killing people.

Now expand this model to the wider picture. The EU is a competitor to the US, what better way to remove that "competitor" by allowing it to be destroyed by a non competitor I.e. by Russia both financially and materially. This will be done by the US disengaging from NATO and then stopping the supplying of Ukraine with weapons. First Ukraine will fall then the Baltic countries will get over run, Hungary will join Russia, then Poland will be absorbed again and then the dominos will fall. In my opinion Russia will not use nukes and the EU, well what is left of it, will not want to be seen as carrying out a first nuke strike. The European countries will be subsumed by Russia. It will be a blood bath and much hand wringing by the US, but they will be quietly happy as a competitor will have been removed.

After all, the US made a lot of money by sitting on the fence in the first and second world war before being forced into taking sides.

This is just my current pessimistic take on things, especially if Trump gets in again. The US will just sit back in splendid isolation and watch while Europe gets torn apart again.

I hope others on here can put a more optimistic spin on the next 25 years. Maybe the Villa might have beaten man yoo again by then or even the FA cup......

I live in Suffolk surrounded by Ipswich fans, many of them are convinced that Mings will one day return back to play for them

On 15/03/2024 at 10:09, Milfner said:

Probably the back 10 rows I'd say? I'm on row 20 and will very rarely stand up all game.

I am in row 27 Upper Holte K5 and NEVER sit during a game, just feels wrong.

I become much more engaged with the game whilst standing compared to sitting, mind you I feel knackered after the final whistle - feel like I have played for 90 mins

I really must find the time to start  listening into this gem of a program

Just now, sidcow said:

Join the patients committee at your local Doctors Surgery and made sure to recommend all procedures are designed to benefit people with lots of time on their hands and make life as difficult as possible for anyone who works. 

Well, that's what the retired people of Hall Green appear to do. 

A mate of mine at work suggested that I go shopping at the supermarket at the busiest time and try and pay with a combination of vouchers (some of them out of date and the wrong brand of supermarket) and cash (mainly coins) and not quite having enough to pay for the shopping. Meanwhile the queue gets longer and longer with very annoyed customers .

It what oldies do isn't it ???

Just checked in to Star City Holiday Inn Express and there are at least 6 cars in the carpark with Netherland reg plates and a couple of Ajax supporters checking in.

Thought it would easier to fly than drive....

I have just noticed that Wet Spam are playing tonight at home but 0-1 down from the first leg. Let's hope their game is a full blooded end to end match and goes to extra time. Don't care about the result as long as they are knackered and pick up some injuries.

And we win 9 - 0 in normal time