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I'm hoping to applaud him when he takes off his Man City shirt half way through the game to reveal a Villa shirt, promptly accepts a pass, skins 3 City defenders and megs the keeper, before kissing the badge and vaulting himself into the Holte End to embrace the fans. Or i'll likely just ignore him. I bare him no ill will. We can still boo Barry though.

I keep hearing that Hathaway could never do Catwoman, but that's what people said about Ledger and the Joker so i'm still pretty hopefully. Bane is a terrific character who could definitely be done right in Nolan's style. They've done well.

Surely we can get D.Bent on the shirts instead of just Bent.

This is absolutely fantastic news! My fingers and toes are crossed. Exactly what we need, and even better proof that Randy is backing Houllier in and still willing to invest in the side.

Delfouneso almost made himself a legend there.

We're in a relegation battle and Sam Allardyce is unattached. The sooner we get him in the less likely we are to be relegated.

Loved the all round effort today. If we play like that for the rest of the season we can stop all this relegation talk for sure. We bossed one of the biggest teams in the world at their house for 60 minutes and probably deserved more than what we got. It wasn't perfect but all of a sudden being an Aston Villa supporter doesn't seem so hard.

That **** hurts so much.

Excellent half! We're well on top at the moment. The ref can get right **** with the cards though.

Nowhere near a penalty. Surely Collins with his eyes on the ball is allowed to go for it?

If MON was going to leave, he could have done it a bit **** earlier. This season was always going to be a nothing season considering we didn't have a manager appointed until a few weeks in. The trick here is to avoid relegation while GH settles in then allow him to do his work. He surely has to be given a few seasons (provided he doesn't get us relegated) to make it 'his' team. I blame MON and Randy for letting it get to the stage where we had a manager walking out a week before the season started. That shit could have been sorted out months before and they are both equally to blame for the relationship breaking down. If they had a good relationship and were both more professional about the matter, everything could have been laid on the table a lot earlier on and we'd have had a new manager in with a whole off season to sort out the team.

Not to mention the recent 'send it to a country with a very dubious recent human rights record' rule.

Adelaide Oval is getting upgraded to a 50,000 seater anyway because from 2014 they'll be playing Aussie Rules footy there as well. The new members stand is absolutely beautiful and is top class, so looking forward to see what they do with the rest of the stadium.

Just posting in one of the two threads to air my absolute dismay. Qatar? Really? Had we lost to the Americans I would have been disappointed but understood. Qatar is a **** joke. Same with you dudes, had you guys lost to Spain/Portugal, fair enough I suppose, but Russia? I can't help but feel the ExCo is going to look very stupid when we get closer to these world cups and some of the dodgy shit that they are getting up to is revealed.

I think the US will get it because of the dollars they can put into football, but they've had it relatively recently, it should be shared around.

Haha! Already has one really nice ball to his name this half. Let's hope this is the game where he really finds his feet. We're going to score for sure, they'll have to score again if they are going to win this.

It's not just conceding a free kick, it's conceding a free kick in a dangerous area because he lashed out at someone who had fouled him earlier. There was absolutely no need to hack at Diouf like he did, ESPECIALLY that close to our goal. If he'd conceded a 50/50 free kick while going for the ball we could hardly be angry, could we?

Has Ireland even been on the pitch at all? I'm watching a dodgy internet stream but I can't remember him at all.

**** Warnock that was really, really shit. Get him off.

I absolutely loved the kit when it was first released but for some reason i've really turned off of it now. What is the material like? Is it similar to what we had on the last few shirts with nike? I still might get one if they ever make their way to Australia.

I really agree with that kind of law Levi. Someone can be driving safely 10 km/h over the speed limit and get booked, while someone driving erratically 10 km/h under the speed limit is more likely to cause the accident. You rarely hear of people getting pulled over for speeding here, they usually caught on speed cameras and have their ticket mailed out to them. A speed camera doesn't have the ability to judge as to whether you're driving safely or not, it's purely based on your speed. They justify this stance by pointing to the proportion of accidents where speed is a factor, which according to the official statistics is basically every accident. The speed cameras are revenue raisers and don't do as much to stop unsafe driving as more police on the street would.

If a few fundamentalist terrorists are tortured to save any innocent lives then i'm completely okay with it. Provided torture is only used to gather vital information to thwart terrorist plots, the ends justify the means in my eyes.

I have an awesome one at work that I look at every day to remind me of this thread. I'll take a photo next shift.

Well i'm about to ask and i'm 7.5 years in, but we were only 16 when we started going out and we've recently built a house so I didn't have any spare money for a ring. Do it when it feels right.

Minecraft is terrific. I've probably played more Minecraft over the last few months than I have any other game in my life. If you have some spare time and you like a sandbox style game, it's definitely worth your while.