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  1. lapal_fan
    And the handball should have been given..
  2. lapal_fan
    Shearer says our should have stood because of the time Sheffield had to pick a pass once they had the ball. Micah agrees too.
  3. lapal_fan
    Really like Wilson from Fulham. If we're after a smart and technically competent player in the British space, he's an option for me
  4. lapal_fan
    It could be useful, but the way it's being implemented is completely wank. The on field refs are scared to do anything, so often don't because they have the comfort blanket of VAR. The biggest fall down is that the system is being operated by an equally incompetent team of people (as we've heard from the "matey mate mate" sound footage of their first official **** up). I love the European implementation of offside checking, it's fast and sleek, why can't we have that? Half of the goals being chalked off because of fouls, like the Everton one today, are nonsense. It's barely a foul, never mind a clear and obvious mistake by the on field refs.. goal should have stood. We've seen 2 penalties not given for handball in 24 hours (Baldock and Oodegard). It's just not fit for purpose and it's actually taking way more out of football than it is currently putting into it. At least before VAR you could say "well the ref only had one look at it, in real time", now we have 5-10% of an actual game being studied whilst players muscles cool dow, potentially risking more injuries, the crowd fall flat because they don't know whether to celebrate and whatnot and the refs seem even more inculpable than they ever have done. It's just really shit. Until they can use it properly, **** it off.
  5. lapal_fan
    If only the keeper had time to get up and be involved again
  6. lapal_fan
    Noooo
  7. lapal_fan
    This is the best point I've seen, raise the tempo a touch, be braver in the passes, and we'll be golden
  8. lapal_fan
    The only time to start panicking in a game like this, is if it's 0-0 after 85 mins. Chill out. They maybe should have as a booking or 2, but who gives a shit? We're dominating a team who 5 years ago had Billy bastard Sharp score a hattrick against us. We'll get a few more chances, Unai will make any necessary changes, try and enjoy this. It doesn't get any better than the situation we're in, so try and enjoy it.
  9. lapal_fan
    This will happen when teams come to VP and park the bus. If we're overwhelming favourites, get used to it.
  10. lapal_fan
    We're playing well, everything going well. Chill out and enjoy.
  11. lapal_fan
    Digne should be earning enough to have every ref in our back pocket..
  12. lapal_fan
    Has Ezri Konsa quietly become our best player? What a player!
  13. lapal_fan
    Heart pounding, salvia producing, anxiety ridden, hands shaking, nervous wreck I am! And I **** LOVE IT
  14. lapal_fan
    The light show looks wank
  15. lapal_fan
    A very entertaining 3-3 draw until the 90th minute, when a parachuting Andre Green nods in a McGinn back post cross to win us the game. It feels like we've not played for 10 international breaks!
  16. lapal_fan
    Lol, imagine going to a Costa, when you could have gone to Vinyl Man Bag No Frills Coffee Independent, just off the Iwascoolwhenpunkexsistedbutnotmuchelse road? Get some socks on, ya clearing in the woods.
  17. lapal_fan
    Think Sheff will be a good game for him. They're not the most athletic team and JJ's natural atheltism might help him out in the game. Also, it'll be a traditional British way of playing football against Sheff Utd, which I think will leave large gaps for JJ to take advantage of.
  18. lapal_fan

    Matty Cash

    lapal_fan replied to paul514's topic in Villa Talk

    Like everyone, I like Matty. I have recently found myself questioning his role in the team and have noticed some progressive passes not being taken and him taking the safe route by going backwards, which can halt our progression. That said, I also remind myself that I thought McGinn had definitely reached his ceiling as a middling Prem midfielder towards the end of Gerrard's time, and he's now one of the best players in the Premier League. Sometimes things can change and I think Matty has definitely earnt that time. Ultimately, if there's something he's not doing Unai and the coaches want him to, it'll be coached to him.
  19. lapal_fan
    And whilst those bird souls don't really understand, they're still thinking "you dirty, little bastard".
  20. lapal_fan
    Thought he had a decent game. You can tell 2 things; He was desperate for his goal and after he scored it, he seems much more relaxed. First half was mixed, a few times he tried to blast past his man, but overhit the ball and it went out for a goal kick. Cash is quite slow at picking a ball sometimes (maybe part of the plan) and didn't make many risky forward passes, which meant a few occasions he had Zani and Diaby looking at his with distain Once he got his goal, he kept things simple and was more metronomic in his passing, which gives us a better rhythm. And judging from a few performances last night, some of our non-first team players held onto the ball longer than they should have, meaning opponents could get into position quicker and essentially lock us down. But yea, really glad for him - the next task is scoring the winner from the bench in a Prem game, that's when we'll start to see him fully integrate. At the moment though, he does have a list of reasons as to why he's not at his best, I just hope we get to see that before the season ends so we can make a proper judgement on him.
  21. lapal_fan
    It was a two pronged thing, but Chambers was very slow actually getting out to his man, he was more interested in getting back to the corner of our box. Dendonker was the player who was way-too-easily cut inside of before the shot happened. But Chambers could have nullified the attack had he actually showed any desire to close the player with the ball down.
  22. lapal_fan
    What's our annual wage bill? I'm assuming if we take out Digne's wages it'll drop from about £1.6 billion to about £100,000 a week?
  23. lapal_fan
    That's what they call, a golazoooooo!
  24. lapal_fan
    Probably already been shared, but thought the analysis was pretty good, bar the little comparison to Leicester, as we've seen over the last page or two.
  25. lapal_fan
    Those delivery bikes/drones running off electric are surely more environmentally friendly than going to the shop in an average ICE car with 1 or 2 shoppers? FWIW I don't use delivery services like Deliveroo or anything, although our weekly shop is delivered. But again, that's more environmentally friendly than me driving to the shop.
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