brommy

2 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Where the **** are all of you buying denim jackets, is there an 80s shop somewhere?

My guess is Oasis - just near the top end of Corporation Street. They will be buying their patchouli oil cheap from there too.

47 minutes ago, Zatman said:

I thought I heard some boos on TV for Clark that would be only thing I would be critical of

Unfortunately booing sounds carry well and can sound like they are coming from a reasonably large section. Sat in the centre of the Upper Holte, I heard some booing towards Clark. Looking around, I couldn't see anyone booing so, in reality, the booing was limited to a small minority of thousands of fans.

6 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

Thought the "sent you down my lord" was really small time

It was in response to the jawdees singing something along the lines of 'your not very good'. As both chants were factual, I've little problem with either of them.

I thought our support was pretty good yesterday. Understandably annoyed by half time but got behind the lads well in the second half. It got quite loud in the Upper Holte.

Five day city break cycling and walking around Prague in the late summer sunshine. Some beautiful sights.

I'm fortunate to not to have seen any of the Ipswich match but a lack of intelligence was definitely present during the second half of the Brentford match. So many poor decisions by too many players - defenders booting the ball long when not under pressure; midfielders tapping the ball back to the defence when they had time to pick a forward pass; forwards slowing down a possible break, shooting instead of passing and passing instead of shooting. Not good.

39 minutes ago, villarocker said:

Is this guy made of glass or what? 

Definitely what. It's more brittle than glass.

6 minutes ago, KSV said:

At least we won't blow a lead. Leave scoring our goal as late as possible. Only way we win

We've still got 45 minutes to score and still lose, although in fairness, we don't look like scoring.*

* typed because my football predictions are often poor and I really hope I'm wrong.

54 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Next 6 games

H BRENTFORD

a Ipswich

H NEWCASTLE

A Barnsley 

A preston

H WOLVES

Honestly I think we need to be aiming 3 wins minimum from these games

12 points would be good, 10 points okay. Less than 9 points and It will leave us a LOT (probably too much) to do for the remainder of the season to achieve automatic promotion. On the plus side, there has been teams that have had a relatively poor first half of the season and then hit a winning streak to just make the play-offs.

1 hour ago, Davkaus said:

But how do you stop an apple tree from growing in your belly?  

Just to add to what I wrote about me eating apples. My Dad eats about 3 apples a week (core and all) and has done since he was a kid. He's fit and healthy and will be 75 next month.

2 hours ago, brommy said:

I remove the stalk, if any, and then eat the whole apple, core, pips and all. Good roughage and I don't need to look for a bin.

1 hour ago, Davkaus said:

I'm genuinely not sure if you're taking the piss or not.

Not. I remember eating an apple down to the core in my teenage years and my Dad said "What's wrong with that bit?" I said you can't eat the core so he grabbed it from me and ate it. I've not wasted any part of an apple since. I tend to eat a few apples in a week and then none for a month so I probably average one apple per week. That's around 1560 apples and cores I've eaten in the last 30 years!

2 hours ago, AVFC_Hitz said:

On the subject of apples. Am I the only one who eats the whole thing?

I remove the stalk, if any, and then eat the whole apple, core, pips and all. Good roughage and I don't need to look for a bin.

Time to stop worrying. We'll know in the next season or two.

18 minutes ago, Pilchard said:

Erm, didn't he sign one last summer? I wonder why the rush in this one

9 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

Apparently it was 2014. 

I'm not sure if Grealish had 9 months or 21 months left on his contract. Even if it was 21 months as I suspect, the club has been criticised previously for losing players on the cheap as their contracts ticked down. Hopefully Grealish's new contract will be incentive based and he earns well through our success.

4 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I'm not guilty, honestly. That was not my semen on his cowboy boots.

I know who looks guilty!

3 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

I find it odd that a player who scored 20 goals wasn't rated higher. Have Bristol City had lots of goal scorers over the last few years and just been a bit spoilt. 

We had Benteke and were all gutted when he finally went.

I think it is synonymous with many fans thinking like they are playing football manager with their own club. 90% of the transfer fees between clubs seem obscene to me but I accept that my footballing brain hasn't yet caught up with the previous TV rights deal, let alone the new TV deal now in place.

I really hope Villa pay the extra £4m for Kodjia. If we do, we'll have earnt more than 20 times that amount from the increased income to the club. Whether one club has 'overpaid' another club for a player or not, fans don't benefit. It won't mean cheaper ticket prices or better pies at the selling club and most of the time the money isn't reinvested well.

Although Villa is currently a spending club, I accept that some of our new players will turn out to have been expensive, in hindsight. It's the price paid to increase the chance of the club doing better. In any case, it's not my money being spent so, even with hindsight, I've never seen the point in thinking which club has over or under paid for players. Commenting on fees before a player has kicked a ball for their new club seems even more nonsensical.

22nd August 1987 in League 2.

I refuse to acknowledge the opposition or the result.

36 minutes ago, DK82 said:

I'm so confused. Not really sure what is going on.

Up the Villa... 

Gabby?

12 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Fair play to Jack, I thought he would have been first player to hand in a transfer request but looks like he staying until January the very least

Unless he's the only one, or one of a couple of players, performing well in a team that is struggling in the bottom half, I don't see Jack angling for a move this season.

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

I've had stomach cramps on and off since Thursday night, possibly from the heat, I'm not sure.  Anyway I'm still getting twinges so called in sick today for the first time in 18 months or so (Thursday and Friday were my normal days off) and got a load of sarcasm from the manager who took my call.  I feel guilty enough taking time off, the last thing I need is shit like that.

Congratulations! When's it due?

1 hour ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Thanks. 

Should be able to get tickets on the day then for all games. 

With the corrected capacity of 37,000 and a new faith that our team could do well this season, a few home wins could lead to a match day shut out against the bigger Championship teams.

I googled the upper Trinity capacity and subtracted what I found from 42600. From the sheer size of it, I should have realised it was just above 5000 and not 3500. Stupid me for trusting a Birmingham Evening Mail article!