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    Ratings & Reactions: Sunderland v Villa

    in C:Sunderland a

    Posted

    1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said:

    Didn't play particularly well and didn't have to.

    3-0 away from home without breaking sweat. 

    I feel bad for Sunderland fans, but it's another good night for us.

    Incredibly, 66 points is the 6th highest total in any season in our 143 year history.

     

    What's incredible about it? For the majority of our 143 history it was 2 points for a win

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    January transfer window 2018

    in Villa Talk

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

    Ok as many wernt happy with my Vauge ITK regarding Ulloa I did some more digging. 

    Apparently he is a very sensitive person. Takes criticism badly and really needs to be loved. So he wanted the view of an Argentine that had played for Villa of how the fans would treat him. He was suprised that an Argentine had never ever played for the club. This made him uneasy. He then contacted his hero Maradonna who once wanted to manage the club and was turned down. Diego didn't have good things to say about how he was treated as felt he was right man for the job. 

    So finally he scoured the internet for fan forums and came accross VT. He noticed how quick certain players could become scapegoats after a few bad games and there was no turning back from that. This frightened him and his mind was made up. He could not move to Villa. 

    Hope that clears everything up. 

    Oscar Arce?

     

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    Henri Lansbury

    in Other Football

    Posted

    We buy Lansbury, Hourihane and Hogan because of their performances in the first half of the season and then play them in different roles. It's madness, they are playing against the same opposition but are being made ineffective by negative tactics.

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    Abel Hernandez

    in Villa Talk

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    22 minutes ago, Genie said:

    Villa look like a desperate club with a rich owner willing to spend big. I'm not surprised the player and his agent have asked for silly money.

    That's exactly what we are, we have to get back to the PL as quickly as possible

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    Transfer Speculation Summer 2016

    in Villa Talk

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Gary Thomas said:

    I think he will do well and there are more important areas to focus on IMO.  Gollini has made one error in the last two games and we conceded a fluke goal - and the communication with Elphick was partly responsible for that.  Last night he also made some terrific saves that prevented goals.  Our forwards also missed chance after chance and our midfield didn't do its in in the second half - they are just as culpable and they are the areas I would like us to focus on.

    To be fair, the size of that guy they brought on it would have been an achievement to have missed him. He was a right lump, he was so knackered after the goal celebration he never left their half after it.

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    The 2016 Takeover Thread

    in Villa Talk

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    15 hours ago, NurembergVillan said:

    People 1.1m vs 520k (Birmingham is second only to London)

    Canals 35 miles vs however many Manchester has. Debate it if you want. (Birmingham has more than Venice)

    Michelin starred restaurants 5 vs 0 (Birmingham has more than any UK city outside London)

    GDP $121bn vs $92bn

    Parks 571 vs 135 (Birmingham has more than any other city in Europe)

    Dry days 123 vs 100

    Pre-Raphaelite art (Birmingham has the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the world)

    Motorway connections 4 vs 2

    Universities 5 vs 3

    Schools 434 vs c.200 (Birmingham is the largest Local Education Authority in the country)

    "Preeminent" collections of literature (Birmingham Library has 6 of 8 collections nationally designated preeminent)

    So yeah debatable, but a debate that someone armed with these facts would win.

    One other thing to throw out there is that with all the canals and motorways there's likely also a hell of a lot of bridges too.  Never know what you'll find living underneath them.  A word of warning for any local billy goats.

    This is spot on, I have lived and worked in Manchester for the last 35 years and it is not a patch on Brum, you could fit M'cester inside Brum and rattle it. The restaurants are all franchises overpriced and not a decent one to be had. The pubs are disappearing and those that are left sell overpriced fairy liquid. The transport system is a joke they are ripping up all the streets to put in trams diving the cars out but also inflating the price of the parking meters. What M'cester do better than Brum is PR

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    The RJW63 Official Jack Grealish Appreciation Thread

    in Other Football

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    He's an ordinary player elevated to a higher status because he's "one of our own". He has a poor attitude and is ill-disciplined. He makes too many bad decisions when using social media that his intelligence is also questionable. If there is any talent to be revealed then he needs to show it in the remainder of the season or he's just another Luke/Stefan Moore, and destined to be back at Notts County.

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    Aston Villa Protest Group

    in Villa Talk

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    2 hours ago, MikeMcKenna said:

    Pity so many of the 'faces' of the old protests have been so anti. Many of same people are the ones who always used to complain about Apathy. Nothing can be done to unite fans anymore, just have to respect the differing opinions - nothing else we can do now. 

    Mike, I've said this to you on Social media, do not under estimate Villa fans love of the shirt. I'm from the generation, like yourself and Dave Woodhall who bought £5 shares in the club and went to the ground and painted the turnstiles and the barriers. We've seen worse than what is happening now, but we never walked out on the team and that's where I can't and won't support any walkout. My love affair with the Villa has outlived any other relationship I have had, and for supporters of the walkout to accuse non supporters of Apathy only underlines their. lack of understanding of what being a Villa fan is. David Bradley says in the video that Aston Villa chooses you, be honoured that it has chosen you and stand by Aston Villa in it's hour of need. The team is struggling, it needs support more than any time in the last 25 years, show them that we stand together, the shirt and the fan, the only 2 constants in any football club. Just because some of us don't want to turn our backs on the team at 74 does not mean we are not hurting but we are not dead yet and we should be last ones to write obituaries about our club,leave that to those who thrive on despair. You have the right to walk but don't be surprised at the numbers that don't, this is Aston Villa not Liverpool, we are not interested in ticket prices of £77 for 500 people,a totally ridiculous protest where over a season they now pay more for their football than before their protest. We have to stay in the Premier league and that means winning football matches, we won't do that without the support of the fans. I have always believed that Villa fans are unique and the support the team has had this season has confirmed that, don't follow the fashion of in game protests stick with team, fight like lions, wear the claret and blue with pride and stand side by side with the shirt when it needs you most. UTV VTID

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    Leandro Bacuna

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Just now, DCJonah said:

    He was booed because it was his shit play that led directly to their 3rd. He wasn't a scapegoat he's embarrassing performance was the worst on the pitch and contributed big time to a humiliating loss. 

    I know exactly why he was booed, but no-one booed Lescott for the 1st, Bunn & Okore for the 2nd, the whole back 4 for the 5th and sixth. When a team loses 6-0 at home measuring who's was the most embarrasing performance is pretty futile.

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    Leandro Bacuna

    in Other Football

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    5 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

    But it's not about 'helping' them. Fans are intelligent enough to realise that when you're 3-0 down and looking appalling, you're not going to come back.The team was way way way beyond the point at which fans could help them. It just became about registering disapproval. Which was entirely warranted. 

    Agreed, but boo the whole team then, don't create a scapegoat for the collective's poor performances.

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