brommy

Exactly this, I agree. Anything else is irrelevant or superfluous.

I'll take a 10 year average as a better indicator than just 5 years. In any case, why should a team finishing with poor form on 60+ points deserve to finish below a team finishing with good form on 50-something points? Even if a team's form is good or poor in the earlier or latter parts of the season, they deserve where they are in the table after 38 games. Unless you think games in the second half of the season carry more weight than the first? Perhaps 4 points for a win from game 20?

The average points to finish 4th and 5th in the Premier League over the past 10 years is 68.8 and 64 points, respectively. We're currently on 60 points - with 6 games remaining. Virtually every team has differing form over a 38 game season, so why would us finishing on a point total around the average for 4th or 5th place be down to other teams 'messing up' this season, when the average points per position table doesn't show that?

You're welcome. As the next stage in his Villa life, we bought my son a half-season ticket for Christmas. He'd have been 7 years and 4 months. It was fortunate that a seat next to my wife and my forever seats in the Holte became available (otherwise he'd be sat next to strangers), although that situation was bought about by the sad death of another season ticket holder. My son passed his half season 'test' so we were happy to get him his first full season ticket, beginning a couple of weeks before his 8th August birthday. I was hoping an expanded Villa Park would lead to the relocation (through choice) of a few Holtenders to a new North Stand, which would enable my still too young grandchildren to sit with or very near us. No such luck yet!

It's a fine line for me. I'll boo opposition players and incorrect decisions by the ref, but I don't join in with personal or overly offensive insults. Kind of like booing the villain at a pantomime is acceptable but shouting the actor is a clearing in the woods, isn't.

@alreadyexists As it may directly affect you, I feel it's right to point out that, with the way you worded 'you can decline once, is that right?' followed by 'ah right, three separate occasions', - it is actually twice you can decline because the third time would see you removed from the waiting list. I wouldn't want you and your son missing out in the future, based on a vague memory of being able to decline three times. I note you said you're waiting for the right age. My son went to an occasional game aged 5 & 6 and was ready and fully focused on games for a season ticket when he was 7 (a seat he's still got now aged 26), although I do appreciate there can be differences in circumstances and children.

Poor bloke. I bet he replayed that unfortunate moment over and over again. Amazing that HDE thought it was the right thing to do. What a Muppet.

So the 'cant be offside from a corner' overrides the player actually being offside (forward from where the corner was taken). What got me wondering was the habit over the last few years of placing the corner ball almost outside the arc and almost a yard from the goal line. Easily enough distance for VAR to draw an offside line, should the ball be played forward to a player on the goal line.

I know the upper tier blocks nearest the Holte End of both the Trinity and D E stands are reserved for the LG, as I regularly watch those blocks fill up noticeably late (a few mins before k.o.). Presumably they have made the most of the hospitality and then had to walk around from under the Holte. Not sure about the lower D.E. as it's less in my eye line from my Upper Holte seat.

It is said 'you can't be offside from a corner'. Picture this scenario - the ball is placed on the very edge of the corner arc, a yard back from the goal line. The corner is 'taken short', passed forward to a player stood on the goal line in an offside position (the player has received a forward pass with fewer than two opposition players closer to the goal line). Would that be called offside or does 'you can't be offside from a corner' override the technicality of this offside?

About the poor website?

Just a few weeks...

So is the plan for rebuilding the North Stand.

The block, was it in the upper tier and closest to the Holte End?

I remember that like it was yesterday. I still can't believe one person involved in arranging the festivities at Villa Park that day thought it was a good idea, let alone it making through any planning meeting. Crazy.

Hopefully you ignore the funny looks and keep up the support.

I'm in my fifties and have sat in the same seat for every game since the Holte End Upper was completed in December 1994. It's about one third the way from the front and fairly central. I don't claim to be as loud or frequent as the fans towards the back of the Upper Holte, but I do join in with most of their songs, in the hope it will encourage more fans in the stand to join in. On Saturday against Brentford, I was informed by the bloke in front of me that I was clapping too loudly. Slightly shocked, I think I muttered something like - 'Well that's what I intend, that's the point', which I admit wasn't the most succinct response. It's not my future intention to moderate the volume of my support, but I'm curious - has anyone else had someone complain that their support was too loud?

Especially after game week 38.

Also, wouldn't a 10 metre by 4 metre label tied to the rear rotor, seriously impair the performance of the helicopter?

Don't be daft, that's Digne's 0.01% annual pay rise. It's capped because numbers don't go higher.

I understand your concern but couldn't that be an argument that they are now due less 'spawny' results?

There's not that much room around the pitch - currently an ideal distance in my opinion, unless you advocating a smaller pitch or throw-ins taken from the third row.

NUFC apparently stating, or 'leaking', they are not expecting any further punishment for Tonali, reminds me of defence lawyers who attempt to influence sentencing by stating they are not expecting any custodial sentence to exceed any time already spent on remand. I wonder if NUFC will appeal for any punishment to be concurrent and not consecutive to his current ban and will the punishment depend on a persuasive payment.

If that's not a penalty, why do defenders bother tucking their arms behind the body? If that doesn't constitute handball, why don't defenders make themselves bigger by having their arms out whilst pointing?

Is she a brunettie or a...? The Daz is low or ...?