Rugeley Villa

7 hours ago, Rds1983 said:

I've lived in both Leeds and Manchester and the idea of Leeds being the third biggest city in the country is wrong. They've done a Greater Manchester to increase population stats by having areas 10 miles away (like Skipton/Ilkley etc) get included. You can walk across the city centre in less than half an hour. It's boosted by having little towns very close to it (Headingley, Horsforth, Chapel Allerton) but the City isn't actually that big. It also struggles as Leeds also has very good rugby league, and cricket close by and Bradford is only 5 miles away.

Their catchment area is huge 

Bielsa made the city interested in football again after years of the club playing second fiddle to other stuff 

Yep third biggest city in the biggest county in england. Their support is and should be big. Easily the biggest supported club in Yorkshire and have a few scattered around the country also. That being said their attendances haven’t reflected this overtime although they sell out regular at the minute. 

9 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

They’ve spent more time outside the top flight in their history than in it. 
 

They’re just an average sized club. 
 

I think they’re one of these clubs that benefitted from a spell of being quite good when the premier league and champions league first boomed in the 90s. So everyone associates them with being that successful. When in fact it was an anomaly

And also the period during 1965-1975 where they were continuously very good although they lost more finals and titles than they won. During that time football was started to be broadcast to a wider audience and Leeds benefitted from that also. 

1 hour ago, tinka said:

Meslier, that is all, the rest are hyped up. 

Got to feel for Leeds,  their a big club struggling , as we did.  Bring far more to the party than Southampton that's for sure.

Southampton are a good club and a fair size. 

Hope Southampton win. Leeds fans are cringey as ****.  Can’t believe the price saints are to win this game .

22 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

Love it. Looks very homely and much more interesting than it does nowadays. 

10 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Most fans just wanted Watkins to get his goal and us not to get bumraped.

We got none out of two

Terrible really rob . Very amateur attitude today. 

2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I hope we draw the biggest teams in it. Real
Madrid, Bayern, Barcelona, Juventus, whoever. **** bring it on

This totally 

The hard bit next season for me will be trying to stay in the position we currently find ourselves in . The champions league will be great win lose or draw. If we do well great , if we don’t do as well great too. Getting into the top 4 and staying there is the hard bit and you have to respect teams that do it on a regular basis playing in the toughest leagues in the world .  Next season I’d love us to be in the top 6 , have a good time in the CL but winning a cup would be next on my agenda. 

Just now, rjw63 said:

this, if they can do it against Victimpool they can do it at palace.

By all means enjoy the game but let’s end the season with a win . 

11 minutes ago, fruitvilla said:

I wonder which strategy we should go for:

1. Strongest team to beat Palace and get 71 points
2. Set up the team for Ollie to get a hat-trick
3. Give the second team a run

OK 1 and 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive

Be professional and put our strongest team out. This game still matters . 

Massively well deserved . Our team has been stretched unbelievably. Big injuries and players running on fumes. Never lay down after a defeat . Brilliant from them .

25 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

To be honest it wasn’t our finest moment that about 20 minutes after they had stood and applauded the half time tribute to the recently deceased fans we started singing the sign on song at them. By the time some fans broke into a rendition of the national anthem I was cringing hard.

The sign on song has had its day. Plus brum is as bad as Liverpool . The national anthem I don’t see anything wrong with though. They boo it so fans from other clubs are going to sing it. 

Yeah it’s a bit tiresome now. I don’t mind the song either but fed up of hearing it. Against Chelsea though  I did have a bit of a moment. Paranoid was playing and I was trinity upper which gave me a view of the surrounding area. It was grey and raining and I just had this moment looking over the Aston landscape with sabbath blaring out thinking yeah man this is where it all started. Felt pretty special. 

They were offended by some of our songs. No surprise there like. 

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

This is why I'm pretty sure on a City win.

City are different gravy but even more so at minute. Both teams form is chalk and cheese .

People on about spurs must win tomorrow. Well city must win also or it’s advantage Arsenal last game .

This is why you keep the faith with this team

Knew we’d have a massive game tonight