Marka Ragnos

Are there retroactive bans? This is a punch VAR team missed.

If Forest go down, I wonder if Morgan Gibbs-White would be stuck? His contract is still pretty new. 

Dogso 

If Forest do go down, I hope there’s a fire sale. So many excellent players — I’d love to see how Unai could shape some of them.   

10 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

I agree with a lot of this, but, "we learn from it". Do we? 2-0 seems to be a dangerous score for Villa. 

I agree. But what other choice have we, really? Some kind of mentality thing, that. Reminds me of Luton a bit this year -- and Luton have more of an excuse than we do. This have got so close to sewing up games then utterly blown it several times. At least Unai has a very isolated moment to study this weekend. The horror show took only nine minutes. What happened in those nine minutes should be pretty easy to work out, one would think. Seems like we need a proper right back. For all the shit Cash catches, missing Cash hurts us badly. He has saved us many times.

Very, very disappointing, but not the end of the world. It's been a while, but I don't think I've seen more over the top fan reactions in my 11 years on Villa Talk. Yes, we were absurdly stupid for just under 10 minutes, but shame will get our players nowhere fast. We learn from it, and we go on. I can't believe some of the psychotic shit on the match thread today. Truly felt embarrassed for people. Jesus. It's football. 

I still think we’ll win this. It’s looking bleak, but I think we’re going to spring back.  

I literally blink and our dreams are crushed. TF!

Just now, allani said:

BBC describing Ollie's goal as "a scruffy, scruffy goal".  Looked to me like a great and very accurate cross and a pretty decent header into the corner of the goal.

Don’t forget. We’re “having a wobble” after an “incredible” season as we prepare to genuflect and Spurs pass us by. 

Just need to keep chopping away at the bus then set it afire and watch it burn.  

3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

The irony from the " resting " is that it almost seems like they aren't as sharp or used to playing with each other lol

Same if I take a few days off exercising. Hard to get going again. 

2 hours ago, Ceemo said:

Yeah Palace would be a very good comparison in that certainly under Hogdson they didn't seem to be very much a big risk-taking side. David is a better striker than what Palace have at the moment though and Lille are better defensively for sure, although it hard to compare the two leagues. The French League certainly this season has been very, very defensive on the whole and so Lille are not only ones in that aspect.

You look at Lille in Ligue 1, and they have scored just 39 goals from 27 games but only conceded 24. They have had a couple of 3-0's and a 4-0, but generally their games have been tight. In Europe, in what was a easy group, they scored 10 from their 6 games but only conceded twice. They beat Sturm Graz comfortably in the knockout stage and so haven't really had a challenge in Europe. I'd expect them to come to Villa Park next week and sit back with a low block and soak up the pressure and counter with the front 3. Paulo Fonseca is a serious coach and Emery will have his work cut out for him.

This is incredible stuff. Thank you, seriously. It's fascinating. Sounds like we're up against a dangerous and very implacable opponent. (But I am also trying to work out how someone could know so much about French football, live in Ireland, be Villa, and ... have a Cleveland Browns avatar? )

4 hours ago, Seat68 said:

It's difficult to explain, I guess a lot of it is over exposure and his boogie woogie piano farting over a lot of appearances on Later. 

Is there something about boogie woogie piano that grates with intelligent football supporters from the Midlands?

On 03/04/2024 at 16:38, Seat68 said:

A bit of balance to the Squeeze chat. I love labelled with love, they probably have 5 other songs that I would say the same about. But Jools Holland spoils everything. 

 

Disclaimer. I acknowledge that my music taste is at best a bit shit. 

What is about Jools Holland that rubs so many of you the wrong way? It's funny to me. Can't imagine giving a shit either way, but it's interesting to me -- some aspect of music culture I just totally don't get. Was he sort of overexposed in the UK?

Old close friends of mine ... They started the band as a kind of joke "goth" sort of Love & Rockets act, tbh, but have turned out to enjoy themselves.

1 hour ago, Mantis said:

Oh yeah I forgot about our progress in the Conference League. The fact that we've been able to successfully juggle that as well is again, ridiculous.

16 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

I'd rather be pessimistic/ cautious than to deal with heartbreak.

I hear you. I understand. It's football. But I'm going to let my heart be free and breakable. How many times have we been able to embrace such incredible possibilities as Villa supporters? I don't want to look back and feel like I let a glum outlook seal me off what the excitement of others, even at the risk of looking a fool (which I do anyway everyday). It's only football. 

13 hours ago, Ceemo said:

Very good side. Press very well and play very controlled football. They aren't particularly an exciting side and aren't going to hammer you as well as unlikely to get hammered.

Any Championship or PL clubs whose style or recent form reminds you of Lille? Crystal Palace?

20 hours ago, Leeroy said:

Look, I’ll get criticism for reproaching Emery, of course I will.

I enjoy reading oppositional perspectives on VT. Not saying I agree, but you and the @Delphinho123 etc of VT keep it interesting. I thought Emery was taking a pretty radical approach to the lineup that did make sense to me. It was an awful situation. I don't think Martinez was malingering, I really don't. I don't think he's like that.

6 hours ago, tinker said:

I don't think it's about protecting them from the emotional stress of defeat it's about minimising the chances of injuries being aggravated and physical exhaustion. City rested their best players and won, we haven't got that depth because we play by the rules. ...

Seems such a reasonable point, esp. when looking at the whole Villa context 360°.

Too, as I've said elsewhere, giving some of the younger players prime time in a big game probably increases their market value, too. My guess is that goal by Jhon last night will give him about £3m-£4m in increased market value, a factor we can't afford to ignore. 

57 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

Oasis Wonderwall

Ugh. Not a fan of them, but ironic given Zaniolo's un-wonder wall performance.

15 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Do they really play that nasily whiny song at the end of their games?

That place is a shithole. They are bunch of cheating spunk-trumpets and I can't wait until all of their trophies are stripped.

 

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