Marka Ragnos

Time to bring out the bum.

Our one on ones always seem to end up with one of our guys falling over.

No card????

We're losing duels over and over again. Little aggression. Wussball.

 I believe we will come back and put this to bed, I just have no doubt, personally. Dougie and McGinn need to display a bit more more aggression.

Still have no idea what happened.

I wonder if the Greeks will basically do what Chelsea did.

Ok, please WAKE TF UP now, Villa.

1 minute ago, NorthEastVillan said:

So nervous here. Cracking open the Mythos to calm them down  

I don't get it. I'm perfectly calm myself.

Morgan Rogers sounds to my American ears like some old great British car company.

Does anyone truly ever not act out of self-interest?

On 01/05/2024 at 13:01, blandy said:

You’ve pipped a whole gala of posters to the core issue of the day - apple puns

10 hours ago, mjmooney said:

As @rjw63 will tell you, it's widely disliked by Beach Boys fans, generally regarded as the worst track on an otherwise classic album. Personally, I love it. 

Seemed appropriate, with current campus protests (gives me nostalgia for 1968 etc.)  I just hope this one doesn't become topical: 

 

I know several people who were affected personally by all that at Kent. It was real, as stupid as that sounds? I grew up around there. You can see find a bullet holes in one of the nearby modern art sculptures. A good friend mine's brother who lived in Kent was killed in 'Nam, too. I think he actually volunteered. Just a local kid. That whole family became very antiwar. The shootings at Kent State were very painful. Some of the same BS you hear today from Trumpies is what you heard then in the 70s. Here's my friend's sister's song about her brother. The human cost.

50 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

But but, Sancho actually played some football, it's front page news.

Heard the stat, he dribbled the football more times in that game than he has in his 58 games for Man United. 

Not untrue. That's for sure. I'd like to see him back at ManU with ETH, bringing more harmony to Old Trafford.

10 hours ago, sidcow said:

Who the fook uses Asprin? 

Anyone over the age of 40 should carry about three aspirins (about 900mg) with them at all times. It's a miracle drug. Good for heart attack, DVT, possibly pulmonary embolisms. And plain old VT-tension headaches. It's also said possibly to help with certain cancers. But I keep for emergency use only, as regular use can be dangerous. Crushed into a paste, I know it definitely helps with psoriasis and acne spots, but who wants to do that when you can just buy salicylic acid in cheap skin creams.

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"Aspirin is the one drug I would take to a desert island with me," says Mark Fendrick, MD, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. "It costs two cents a day and its benefits are amazing. And if it had no side effects at all, we could give it to everybody." But Dr. Fendrick worries that the ever-growing list of diseases and disorders that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) seem to combat drowns out information about the risks of this "wonder" drug.

The media’s ecstatic ardor shown towards dortmund last night and today seems revealing to me. 
 

I actually think Dortmund simply failed last night. Yes, it was great to see some players running around a lot, and making some nice dribbles, but ultimately, they got almost nothing for the all the effort.  

On 29/04/2024 at 12:38, foreveryoung said:

Picked my lad up from school today. I was in the mommy group waiting (I know most of them), an overheard one, saying her son, who's 10, still sleeps with her and she cannot get him out of her bed now, she's tried everything. She has a older lad too about 14. Now I know she is a single parent, but maybe it's cause I'm a dad, but I see that as completely wrong, how's the lad ever gonna grow up!

Growing up is overrated

58 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

 

That’s ****ing dope. Weird, too. Never knew it. 

6 hours ago, sidcow said:

And yet we still resist manbags.

Not me. I haven’t had a wallet since 2015 or something. But my man purse is like a skip with a shoulder strap. I’ve got everything in there. An extra mobile monitor, a fully stocked Amazon Kindle, loose aspirins, and I think some small living creatures. 

On 30/04/2024 at 07:12, duke313 said:

I see a lot of Spurs fans not happy with Maddison at the moment.  He's done his usual start the season well, gets injured, and then ghosts the rest of the season as his team gets relegated/loses CL football.  They want him dropped for Thursday, so hopefully he starts 

I don’t want to be suggesting violence, but in a perfect karmically aligned universe, isn’t he owed something?

10 hours ago, BOF said:

Very bad news for Villa today as Timo Werner has been ruled out for the rest of the season. In better news so has Ben Davies, meaning Spurs are beyond bare bones at leftback.

I laugh and laugh, but you know, it’s actually kind of true.  

On 30/04/2024 at 06:26, Davkaus said:

The baffling thing about Man United is we think almost all of their players are shit, and that their manager is a clown, but they're only two places below us  

I don’t think at all think ETH is a clown. I don’t think every manager is the right fit for every situation. They have a few really good players, the younger ones that everyone pretty much agrees on — Mainoo etc. Their big problem is definitely one of terrible, terrible contracts for several years that have made a mockery of their brand and their ridiculously unjustified revenue streams. It’s dragged down the whole operation. I think they need a clean slate. We all know which players should be kept, and they should just rebuild the team from the ground up around those three or four. TABULA RASA. They have luxuries teams like us would do so much more with. That’s what’s so frustrating. You see them wasting piles and piles of resources, and you think it’s a tragedy to see all that wasted on such a shitty team. At least that’s how I feel. What exactly does Martial do with all his money? I know what he doesn’t do! 
 

Don't get me wrong, I really love reading this thread, but it mostly feels academic to me until we see if we're in the champions league or not.

That said, I think I'm being stupid in that. The fact is, CL qualification will affect our needs on the pitch more than our finances (when all is said and done), so it's understandable to talk realistically now about small-scale, clever transfers, regardless of whether we qualify for the champions league.

With that in mind, my basic belief is that we need to keep two great player in every single position, if at all possible.

Fingers crossed, many of our short-term needs for this will be served by long-term injuries recovering. There will always be an X factor, too --- the shit situation (Mings' ACL) or unexpected boon (Bailey's improvement).

There are also so many variables and complications what with UEFA club co-efficients, etc, but from what I can best work out, CL or not, Villa will simply not be in a position to buy nor sell big players this summer and may need simply to tread water.

Not very exciting, but I can't see how we overcome our financial situation this year.

Sell a huge player and our performance may drop.

Buy a huge player and we risk financial fair-play jeopardy.

That, in a nutshell, is AVFC dilemma.

It's going to be a year of economising and making do. The good news we have the best management team in the world to do just that.

On 28/04/2024 at 05:33, ferguson1 said:

Alternatively, tried and trusted formation:

……………...…….Olsen…………………..

Cash…..Konsa……Pau…..Digne

………….McGinn……..Luiz……….

  Bailey..….….Rogers……..Diaby

………………..…Watkins….……………..

This, please. Great thinking there. It will allow for these nice trapezoids we do. Gives us some flexibility yet control moving forward but also a good press.

Cash…..Konsa……Pau…..Digne

………….McGinn……..Luiz……….

  Bailey..….….Rogers……..Diaby

………………..…Watkins….……………..

Cash…..Konsa……Pau…..Digne

………….McGinn……..Luiz……….

  Bailey..….….Rogers……..Diaby

………………..…Watkins….……………..

Cash…..Konsa……Pau…..Digne

………….McGinn……..Luiz……….

  Bailey..….….Rogers……..Diaby

………………..…Watkins….……………..

Cash…..Konsa……Pau…..Digne

………….McGinn……..Luiz……….

  Bailey..….….Rogers……..Diaby

………………..…Watkins….……………..

On 29/04/2024 at 07:37, Pongo Waring said:

This is a tough tough tough game
 

... that we need to win, win, win.