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I like Milner a lot, but it should also be pointed out that Capello also rates Heskey...

I have to say The Telegraph is doing some stirling work this year.

When James Milner trains, he works up a bit of a sweat. Luckily for the inhabitants of Cockermouth and Workington, he's decided not to go for a run in Cumbria any more.

Brian Little, John Gregory.... Brian Little, for a time, was a very good manager. But then it started going wrong for him. John Gregory, for a time, was a slo a good manager, but then .... the difference with MON is that we are seeing continual improvement, something which should be lauded, not pilloried, IMHO. If you think the football is "shit" under MON, you must have a very selective JG memory, Mart! John Gregory achieved everything that O'Neill has to date at Villa, with the added bonus of decent cup runs. He also did it working for Ellis, and not Lerner. Cetrainly some of his football was less than entertaining towards the end, but I'd argue that he at least tried to get his team playing well, as the purchase of Merson showed.

Brian Little, John Gregory....

I don't think we're ever "scintillating". Sometimes we're crudely efficient, and we have three players in Gabby, Young and Carew who are exciting to watch when playing well, but scintillating? No chance. When we're playing well it's all about quick balls out to the wings. When we're not, it's the same tactic which is easily negated when Young is off form, or hoofs up to Carew and Agbonlahor. With the money O'Neill has spent, we shouldn't be outplayed by the likes of Wigan, Blackburn and Burnley, but that's what happened. I'd love to see somebody who knows a thing or two about coaching football in the way it should be played given the reins at Villa Park, because under O'Neill we're just Leicester with more expensive players.

The main reason for me is that O'Neill is into his 4th year, and yet here we are 5th, three points off 4th, with a chance to close that on Saturday.... ....still playing shit football.

The main reason for me is that O'Neill is into his 4th year, and yet here we are, still playing turgid football that's dismal to watch. I don't expect us to win every match, but then neither do I expect to see the likes of Wigan, Burnley and Blackburn give us a lesson in how to play proper football. You sound like a Newcastle fan. Look where their "proper football" has got them! Ah good, the old "get rid of a manager and you'll end up like Newcastle" argument. Well it's a shit argument. Randy Lerner is no Mike Ashley, and if he were to get rid of O'Neill, are you saying that he'd appoint the likes of Glen Roeder, Alan Shearer or Joe Kinnear, because I really don't think he would. As for where their "proper football got them" - when did they last play proper football, and what's wrong with looking at where proper football has got the likes of Arsenal and Man U?

The main reason for me is that O'Neill is into his 4th year, and yet here we are, still playing turgid football that's dismal to watch. I don't expect us to win every match, but then neither do I expect to see the likes of Wigan, Burnley and Blackburn give us a lesson in how to play proper football.

i do tend to agree with this. I disagree very strongly that we are "lucky" to have him. He's paid a fortune, and has spent a fortune, and if he were to leave/be sacked, there wouldn't be a shortage of high quality managers wanting to take over. All this talk of us being lucky to have him is distinctly small time. The club is far bigger than any one individual.

Why? Only 17 out of 122 (currently) want him out. Thats a 73% majority in favour. Where is the deadliness in that? Where was the deadliness in Ellis for that matter? How many of his managers did he actually sack?

Because in reality, finding a new manager in the summer would be a lot easier than finding somebody halfway through a season. Next May, if as I suspect we finish 6th or lower, than I think it'll be time for a change of manager. After the World Cup I think we'll see a lot of managerial comings and goings.

Any good? It's one I've picked up at the local video shop a few times, but always put back down again. You know when they put quotes from movie reviews, such as "Blockbusting action at its best, 9/10 - Jonathon Ross" and the like on DVD boxes? Well the one for the Fountain said something about it being "flawed". Now I figure that they always stick the best reviews on the DVD covers, so if that's the best they could find, I reckon it must be a turkey. Oh god, rambling again! So er, what was it like?

Any manager who pronounces the word "enthusiasm" as "enthusisism" doesn't belong in charge of our fine club.

Two - one to the haters, quick, lock the thread!

Playing on a PvE server is for girls. Oh.

Nope, if you were on Tarren Mill, we'd all hunt you down, gut you like a fish, then camp you for a good hour or so. And enjoy doing it!

One word. Nayson.

Oh Lord. Cue epic conversation - wish someone had screenied it..... One of my top hilarious Wow moments. The list in full: 1) Tarj getting one shotted by the ally flightmaster in Stonetalon after me, him and Dan attacked it when we were level 20s. 2) Me and Si diving off a mountain in the Barrens as a quick way down to the river below. Needless to say we died. 3) "Erm lads, I don't think I picked the carrot up. Where's my carrot? Can we go back so I can pick the carrot up? Oh bloody hell, all that and I didn't get the carrot!" 4) Snowballing people out of the Alterac Valley portal so they got the deserter's debuff for 15 minutes 5) Ghost wolfing in the dwarf starting area, so the L1 noobs attacked me and got flagged for PvP. 6) Nayson summoning Dan and drowning him.

I think Zul Farak was my all time favourite instance. I liked the fact that it was all outside, and you could use your mount. The view from the top of the stairs at the altar was pretty cool too.

I'm afraid I think it'll be zero. I'd say Milner probably has the best chance, but then I think he'll only slot in if the first choice player is injured. He seems to be "Mr Utility" for England. I think Warnock needed to have got some playing time yesterday to have any chance at all. I don't think Heskey will start, whether he's a Villa player or not. I can't see him playing enough before now and then to nail down a spot, even though he did quite well in qualifying.

I do indeed!

Good idea Gizmo. I still have that video somewhere, and would love to have it on DVD. Minus the annoying adverts for Coke all the way through though.

I didn't do an awful lot there tbh, other than the famed "Quest of Free XP" and obviously running backwards and forwards to that sodding island off the coast for Molten Core rep.

Umbongo was fecking ace. Loved the whole Jurassic Park feel to it. I remember when I was still in the exploring phase, trying to find the way out of Ungoro to Silithus whilst not agroing every sodding dinosaur in sight. Most difficult! I think part of the reason I like Winterspring so much was that it was the first area that most of the VTers did when we were around the same level. Nays, Sie and Si were always about twenty levels ahead of me, Tarj and Dan while we levelled up, so when we got there we did a lot of stuff together.