slowandlow

average performance but a win nonetheless lost way too many headers too bothroyd and beye looks a poor, poor player to me marvellous goal from gabby altho i was down the other end so i didnt get a proper luck at it carew needs to get in the box more like he did last season

another win after an average performance, cant complain too much!!! (altho lik last season i dont think its sustainable)

staunton was cb mainly i think (and shit anyway) post 2000

In fairness he got injured around 18 months in and when he got back wanted a move to Germany and was dropped for the season and then when he got back in the team under DOL he looked like getting to his best again until he was sacked for a stupid reason. What non-English guy didnt want to have a go at Beckham at the time he wasnt getting back to his best imo, scored against charlton and that was about it 02/03 he was abysmal when he played, for example in the first derby he was skinned up for one of the goals (maybe horsfield??) i dont deny that he was excellent 00/01 and when he played in 01/02 but he was a bit of a liability after that, either playing shit or throwing his toys out of the pram

cant complain about dodgy songs too much some villa fans used to love singing about cisse's family by no means loads, but a fair few

if it was generally who was better then it would be southgate with ease imo, however, over the whole of this decade i would go for mellberg alpay only had 18 months of good performances imo, after that he was either awol or shit

ashley young has more quality imo, but he needs to cut out the diving, hobbling, moaning and petulance, so i prefer Milner

exactly, which is why we cant play with 2 centre midfielders in the middle as we dont have great players. 442 worked a couple of years back cus either petrov or nrc normally played on the right, but they always drifted in and were very narrow so it was pretty much three in centre midfield anyway most of the time milner hugs the touchline, so even tho he does track back well, he does not ease problems in the centre

our results over the last year have been far better in a 451 than a 442 and our personnel are a lot more suited to 451 so i would say that formation suits us a lot better and 451 away in vienna involved heskey upfront on his own, so it was effectively 460 formation. 451 is better for us, but only if you dont end up with heskey on the field

we also got turned over and outplayed by wigan in a 442 at home but got a battling victory away to liverpool with a 451

i agree to some extent i would always play 442 given good midfielders, but our midfielders just arent good enough to get away with just 2 players in there - we have been dominated in centre midfield every time we have played 442 for ages

none of our centre midfielders are good enough to get away with just 2 in the middle - with our current personnel it should always be 3 in there otherwise we get dominated in midfield

Petrov is good in a 451 but not good enough in a 442, like all of our centre midfielders to be honest seems like a no brainer to me to play 451 with the personnel we have even tho personally i prefer 442

i used to think he was shit at scoring cus he was wasteful in front of goal but in reality he doesnt score cus he never gets any chances cus he is always too deep if he ever plays in front of a fit Carew again my head will explode

i would be interested to see why anyone would choose Heskey. Not a piss take by any means, i would genuinely be interested to hear justification for why someone would pick heskey over carew

8th-10th for me as well as it stands

my bluenose mate told me they have an excellent deal for the forthcoming season for watching the big 5 games (top 4 + Villa) tickets for each home game plus a complimentary programme for just £250 lol, bargain Wolfman is such a **** hypocrite when he starts banging on about pricing the normal people out of the game Supposedly its so much as it guarentees a ticket but i know there were 1000s of spare tickets in there end against us last time so i assume it was a similar case for against the Big 4 as well. **** jokers

cuellar been a monster, reo coker excellent second half

magnificent goal

get in lovely finish

been better since MON was rightly sent off for being a hypocrite

MON needs to stop moaning at other people diving when we have one of the worst around in our own team

i agree on the Ashley Young comment - it really pisses me off, always diving at moaning at the ref when it doesnt go his way; he needs to cut it out, particularly when he sometimes dives when in an excellent position to do something

word removed of a defender had a kick at albrighton then like loovens on edu during the old firm

lol dreadful defending from davies