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I'll just quote the one pic. Absolutely beautiful. I would love to own a Patek. Perhaps one day.......

Unfortunately younger people have never known better. It is understandable that the O'Neill brand of kick and rush is warmly remembered as it is an oasis of 'success' in their short Villa supporting life.

I think that the shit we have endured in the past 4 years has misted over just how bad the O'Neill football was. Now if the standard of football was like it was in 1992, we would all be purring.

As proved on VT. There are plenty of morons about! I'm a moron! I didn't renew my season ticket on the back of any rumoured takeover, change of manager, or possible signings. Curiously I renewed because I support Aston Villa. Strange thing to do that.

Pretty low for his position. Cue the peanuts and monkeys comments.

Careful. Arnie might terminate you for such talk. Yeah, especially if he was German. But then meregreen might raise you an anschluss

No more booms please, because the busts are unpleasant. Things feel better economically, and we are slowly being dragged out of the mess. If slow and steady continues for the next few years, that will do me. At least until Labour come along and screw it up completely again. Dream on. No party is likely to resist the temptation to stoke another property boom. Rising property values increase the value of mortgage holders' (banks) assets, increased equity feeds back into the economy through loans secured by that equity, and increases demand. I can't think of a party with a history of avoiding such temptations, and at present the temptations are greater than ever. And that was my beef with the last government and governments in general. It is the responsibility of governments to take care of all the people, particularly the less well educated and vulnerable. The money in the form of credit card limits and 120% mortgages that were being thrown at decent people who lacked the education to understand what they were getting into was, in my opinion, criminal. But it fuelled the boom of "no more boom and bust", and the 'caring' party that were in government at the time showed that they couldn't care less.* *A tory government would have acted in exactly the same way, but nobody ever describes them as 'caring' any way.

No more booms please, because the busts are unpleasant. Things feel better economically, and we are slowly being dragged out of the mess. If slow and steady continues for the next few years, that will do me. At least until Labour come along and screw it up completely again. Remarkable. I suspect that if it were a Labour government presiding over the same type of economic recovery as we have at the moment, you'd be claiming that things were getting screwed up again (at least that's what your post - especially the last sentence - implies). Thanks for confirming the recovery On what I would be 'claiming' you are wrong, as simple as that. I have complimented Labour on a number of things, but not their total mismanagement of our economy under the Blair/Brown regime. If you think that they did a good job, that's fine.

Is the bit in bold necessary? I know for a fact Lambert has had dialogue with the agents of top quality players, but unfortunately RL has refused to sanction deals for these types of players. Lambert also convinced Benteke to sign a new contract, do not underestimate Lambert's ability to attract top quality to this club. The only way we will progress is going for these types of players, hopefully in the summer we will be doing so. Attracting Hernandez is possible IMO. So you know for a fact that Lambert has been wasting precious time that could have been spent on setting his team up for the next game, on talking to agents of players that he knows from the financial parameters that have been laid out for him that he cannot afford? My car is due for change. I drive a £40k BMW and can replace like for like. I dropped into the Maserati dealership and the sales guy sorted out a delivery time on a Quattroporte for me. I went back to my boss and he laughed in my face. The bastard.

I sense a David Vine fan......

Did you ever try one?

No more booms please, because the busts are unpleasant. Things feel better economically, and we are slowly being dragged out of the mess. If slow and steady continues for the next few years, that will do me. At least until Labour come along and screw it up completely again.

I was there to sign, paying cash, around £38k if I recall. The sales guy pissed me off so badly that I just walked out and over the road to BMW and bought the equivalent on the spot. It was the best thing that Audi ever did for me, because once you have driven a BMW and felt the difference, you don't go back.

Audi make damn fine cars. I found that their problem was that, while they charge similar rates for servicing as BMW and Mercedes, their customer care is diabolical. With the latter two, if you buy one of their cars, then they give the sense that they have a duty of care towards you as an owner, whereas Audi's attitude appears to be 'we've had your money, f*** off until you're ready to buy again' Or maybe that's just Birmingham Audi.

Yep, not many gangsters get convicted. If ever they got close to charging them, they should just grant him and McGuinness lifelong freedom if they give closure on a number of cases, starting with the Birmingham pub bombings. But it would never happen, because they are a pair of weaselly protection racketeers, hiding behind a nationalist 'cause'. I can't imagine that these two individuals are particularly well liked south of the border either.

Cover picture from the First World War forerunner to 'Nuts' magazine - 'Kernels'

I'm actually okay with this idea. ish I can't help feeling that if they drop Saturday we may be celebrating yet another drop in 12 month's time. And that is a prospect that has me salivating That said, I think that they will get the point that they require. Doncaster are going to get tonked at the Crisp factory.

Tim Sherwood is too annoying for words. Maybe, but he is probably more qualified than some of the Carlos Kickaballs being mentioned on here

Tim Sherwood is the 4th best manager in the Premier League since his appointment, and he is about to become available.

I had a private maths tutor when I was 13/14 and she had the most amazing tits. I was completely transfixed by her and often had to wrestle with a difficult algebra problem while contending with a raging hard on.

Done. Any guy who travels 355 miles round trip to watch the crap that we have to put up with could ask me to help him bury his missus under the patio and I would be there with a spade, so a little signature is nothing. A little bit of semi-related trivia. The Chief Executive of Hampshire CCC is a Villa fan, although he has never been to Villa Park!

Hasn't he had a net spend of over £20m per season? That's more than enough not to be in a relegation battle.20 million is nothing other than Newcastle and Stoke no one spent less this season I'd check your stats mate that isn't true at all Here is the table for net summer spending - Spurs sold Bale for £90m so they spent £92m. Fellaini skews Everton's spends too. And they brought in Barry and Lukaku on loan who are on salaries we couldn't get anywhere near. Of the teams below us in that table Hull signed Jelavic and Long in January, whilst Fulham spent about £10m on Mitroglou. The facts may not be exactly as Mick stated but we're certainly at the arse end of the spending league. I m not talking about net spend I m talking what we spent on players like inwards like we got 1.5 million roughly for bannan so our spend was about 19 million which is very little compared what hull Cardiff Swansea etc smaller clubs are spending and showing more ambition Perhaps Paul Lambert felt that he already had the right players in place. Most of the 'big spenders' made one or two 'major' signings.

villa was like dougs wife, to lerner villa is just his little tart on the side Interesting. Using the rationale that you spend more on your mistress than your wife, you could be right.

If we go down and stay down for a couple of years, then he would stand to lose around £150m

I pledge my entire £61.50 to team rebuilding.....