lapal_fan

Brilliant player, keep him at all costs.

He has to play a little more conservatively when Kamara is out, and that just means you take a little of his flair away. 

Still a good player, but he's not going to be able to affect attacking as much without his insurance policy behind him.  

We'll be in 4 major tournaments next season, we need as many quality players as we can get to go deep into 3 tournaments. 

One of Eze, Olise or Semenyo (from Bournemouth) please.

I think we're 4 good signings away from a title run, when you think we've got Emi B, Tyrone, Ramsey, Kamara coming back sometime next season.

A quality RB so we can keep Esri at CB and challenge Cashy. 

It would take another worldie season, against freak FC, but we'd be in the challenge.

On 20/04/2024 at 12:54, T-Dog said:

 

**** off Lescott, you bowling ball headed freak

Yea yea yea, good player...

Anyway.. why have I not seen an otter gif for 2 pages?

Let'sfocus on what's important here

23 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Probably, and this depends on the sauce, 7-10 years. 

Those are rookie numbers.

My dad still has a bottle of daddy's brown sauce from 1993.

6 minutes ago, R.Bear said:

Let me put it this way. If an away tie against Lille intimidates us, we have no business being in the Champions League.

How are we intimidated when we've been knocking it around the back for 30 mins?

Forward passes haven't presented themselves, so we've not taken chances.  We now have a half of football to play at 0-0.  

Intimidated

Played alright, they're not baiting into our trap and this feels like the Arsenal game. 

Think that's part of our plan to see how they turn up and pick our way through if possible.  If not?  Just be patient and hit them like we did against arsenal.

Apart from the goal, we've been fine.

Shots fired (you'll have to click on the Motherwell Tweet to see why John has put this). 

2 hours ago, villaglint said:

Our stadium empties when we are chasing a last minute winner or hanging on to a narrow lead.

At Brentford it’s 3-3 with 7 mins added time. At 85 minutes people are streaming out, guy next to me says he can’t believe people are leaving now. 90 mins comes up and then he gets up and leaves! 
 

I get the traffic is bad but who cares about an extra 20 mins at home. 

Yea, me and your missus were happy with that extra 20 mins!!!!!!!! 

Just jokes innit.  I wouldn't touch her with yours..

another joke. 

Thought it was very telling the stadium was 75% empty when the whistle blew, that's the kind of thing that sticks with you as a player.  They're so close to winning a title and yet the first sign of adversity and the fans down tools and leave.

I'd like to think Villa fans would still be backing the squad having got this far.  

The perfect home performance vs the perfect away performance. 

Against, City though (without Rodri, shame they don't have any good subs  ) we dominated for 90 mins, to the point where Haaland had two relatively saveable shots in the 20th min, and that was is it.  Zero, zilch, nothing.  Man City have 100+ financial legal issues, meaning this collective team of quality players shouldn't even be on the same pitch together and we made them look like the Dog & Duck under 10s.  

I was also incredibly impressed with the 3-0 vs Newcastle last year, and we absolutely battered them too. 

The only reason this is a question is because we - somehow - only scored 1 verses City.  It could have been 4/5. 

City for me. 

Lots of praise from AFTV here;

I really have a lot of time for Digne.  People wanted him gone in the summer because of money.  He's had to have time on the bench because of Moreno coming in and looking a little flashier, but he's come back in and made LB his own. 

Isn't wonderful having two legitimately good players competing for places?! 

He deserved his assist and I love his attitude. 

Worth every penny of his contract. 

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Why declare with Rhodes on 178 not out?

I went down there with my lad and his mate thinking we'd see 810-4 beaten and we'd just got in after we declared

Saw 2 wickets, but I think if we hadn't have declared when we did, we wouldn't have a chance at winning.  The wicket we're playing on is so far over the pitch, getting 4s is really easy and if you bat towards the Hollies, you can run 3 pretty safely.

It feels like a draw kind of game!

5 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

After two tons and a double century, warwick's number four out for one.

I bet he went back in and destroyed the dressing room.

imagine how long he'd have been sat in his bats,.just to face a few balls for 5 mins 

6 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Never even heard of the guy that scored 256, but hope he keeps it up (kw gif).

Alex Davies is really good and has been for some time tbh, surprised you've not heard of him!

Came from Lancs I think, wicketkeeper batsman.

On 09/03/2024 at 20:02, Xela said:

Had 2 of them as a kid - Graeme Hick 405* ones  

They were everywhere in the 90s as well. Not sure what bats people use nowadays. 

 

My lad loves Grey Nicholls (Because of Sam Hain and Harry Brook), but Kookaburra are doing really decent, entry level bats/equipment that seem popular.

GM are good, New Balance sponsor Root and they're pretty good too.

Lots of smaller manufacturers of things too, like H&M (I think!) and a local one for Worcester which I can't remember.

Anyway, the reason I pulled this back up was to say YOU BEARS!!!

I use cruise control when I fancy a nap.

It's tiring on A roads and motorways, and a bit boring.

2 hours ago, magnkarl said:

So, I have two grandchildren ages 2-8. Recently the missus and I have been babysitting a lot as my daughter has to go to work in France twice a week after Brexit made her company move her job to Calais and her husband works shifts. I love the kids, I really do, but it annoys the living heebiejeebies out of me that these two kids are so glued to their pads and TV. I've tried to talk to my daughter about it, but she says it's fine and that everyone is doing it.

So, in order to prove a point we did a test the last two days, I took the little one for the day, we went for a walk to the pond, fed the ducks, climbed on trees, were physically active and had all our meals outside in the garden. We then went on to planting vegetables and we made the 2 year old her own little vegetable plot where she could sow anything she wanted.

The day before this we let her do what she does at home which is essentially to come home from nursery, watch her iPad, get overstimulated, have a melt-down, struggle through some physical play and then bedtime. 

The day where the kid didn't have her iPad, she fell asleep in half a minute, while in the other it took us 1 hour between us. 

How do I bring it up to my daughter that the iPad is rotting my grandchildren's brains? What do parents do these days if they want to be 'different' and not have their kids be so exposed to screens, hyperstimuli and the mental issues this brings? 

Edit: I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man (I am) but what the hell happened to actually spending time with your kids and not have some screen full of short edited cartoons be their babysitter?

I might do a rule that the only shows the kids are allowed to watch in this house is stuff from the 90's - before everything was turned into an acid trip full of short clips, sounds, bright lights and stuff like lululemon..

Like @GeorgeVilla82 said, its a balance. 

Your entire day, is not a typical day for a working adult.  

My day is up at 6.30/7, kids downstairs, breakfast, dressed, make lunches (if I've not done it the night before), school bags sorted, teethbrushed and get myself ready for work.

Finish work at 5, go pick up from afterschool club, back home around 5.30. 

Make them dinner because they're hungry.  If I don't want to do fish fingers again, then it takes longer to prep/cook everything.  Dinner usually served for 6-6.30pm.  They are slow eaters, finish anywhere between 7-7.15pm.  4 year olds bedtime, go upstairs, get ready for bed, read 2 stories and downstairs for 8pm.  9 year goes up when I go down, usually a bit of reading with him for 15-20 mins, leave him at 8.30-8.45.  Meanwhile, my wife has made our dinner and I eat around 8.30-9pm everyday - way too late and not entirely practical. 

So yea, my kids usually want to watch TV or play their Switch/Tablet or PS5 whilst they're waiting around for those things to be done.  So they probably have 1.5-2hrs of screen time per day. 

Weekend we're always out doing something, so not much screen time on weekends.

I very much look forward to the days where I get more time, but with things the way they are - costs for everything from after school clubs etc etc etc etc - we don't and we work full time. 

What I'm saying is, is don't judge too harshly, because there are reasons for the increased TV time and its not usually the parents fault, its a lack of time.  

I'd like to know what your family structure was when your daughter was a child - both working full time?  If not, how did you achieve the day you listed with her? 

I don't want Spurs to beat us to the CL, obviously.  But my God I'd prefer them over Chelsea or Man United.

At least Spurs (a bit like Arsenal) have earned their CL places, by being fairly astute in the market and earning good fees for their players when they move. 

Ty is built for the Prem.  He's big, powerful, quick and dominating. 

He might not be as technically gifted as Pau, but he has the right mentality and physicality to deal with what we couldn't deal with yesterday.

He might not be the same Ty as the one who got injured at Newcastle anymore (who knows!) but I can't wait to have him back.