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Nah, normal points for all the races, but 1,000,000 points to the winner of the last race. Rendering every other race pointless.

Would take a draw all day long. And given our last 3 performances, Everton's slightly shaky form at the moment and their extensive injury list, I fancy our chances.

I kind of agree but when we're spending on average about £2m a player I'd expect us to be dominating the possession in most games and at least top 8. Our average points per game is still very low as well. If we'd signed a lot of the players that teams below us have signed in the last 18 months then we would surely be in a better position going forward, after all if you don't pay Premier League wages then you'll get nowhere. This post absolutely baffles me.

And yet bannan used to get vilified for trying "Hollywood passes" There's a significant difference between "trying to pass it forward" and "hollywood passes" I thought he was referring to "low percentage balls" when he said that. My bad. Missed that phrase. In that case I agree. He shouldn't really get praise for that.

I actually agree with Big John for once. I don't think he*'s technically very good. But his versatility is an asset as well as his pace and power. Great player to have in the squad, just not totally sure he should be a regular starter. *Bacuna, obviously. Not Big John, he's very technically gifted

And yet bannan used to get vilified for trying "Hollywood passes" There's a significant difference between "trying to pass it forward" and "hollywood passes"

Yep, which is why I wrote "current"

No it isn't. Summer 2015 is when his current contract runs out.

Best thing about the goal was the second touch. Lovely.

from the man who put 11 men behind the ball at Camp Nou you would expect a better reaction He did the same at Old Trafford at the start of this season. Complaining about West Ham doing it to him is a bit like Graham Norton complaining that something is a bit too gay, isn't it? And even if Chelsea always played amazing football, the argument still doesn't hold up. Should West Ham come and play in the style of Barcelona but get battered? Or should the "park the bus" and get a point? The answer is obvious. Jose should be asking himself why a team worth the amount of money that his team is worth, can't score a goal when they have 39 shots.

Yep, the current badge is a failure on many fronts. Why shorten the prettiest club name in the world to AVFC? Spell out the club's name, dammit. Also, if we are to market the club on an international scale, having "Aston Villa FC" on the badge is vital. Not every football fan or potential football fan automatically knows what AVFC stands for. Major branding failure by the club. Hopefully, they smarten up and redesign the thing, because besides what I already mentioned, the badge looks like a big sloppy mess. I agree. I have always thought the present badge is awful. The problem with the badge is they did it by comittee. They sent out that survey to fans (I still remember filling it in) asking stuff like "Should it be round or a shield?" "Should it have a star?" etc etc Then when they got all the answers they appear to have just chucked it all together and stamped it as finished. It didn't appear anyone actually took a step back and thought "Right, we've incorporated all the ideas that people want, but does it actually look good?" Reminds me of this

Who was it that said that wasn't a penalty by the way? It was stonewall, as they say.

I only saw the goal once, but thought he was at fault for their third. But solid for the rest of the night. Having a great season!

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Oh I think a lot of people did that. I did. Myko is in for a treat for the cover alone

Yep, you'd like to think so. But the extra motivation wouldn't hurt

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I'd still rather Lukaku was knocking on the door though rather than be out for certain.

Maybe the point being made by av1 is that FFP has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of money that Arsenal get for shirt sponsoring from Puma. FFP has its faults, though not as many as people allege, IMO. But Arsenal's deal will reflect their long record of finishing in the top 4 and thus being in the Champions league, getting worldwide coverage, 60K gates and having built up a huge fanbase and so on. Arsenal anyway run their club in such a way as to not be affected by FFP in terms of it making them chave to change their business plan. would they be getting a deal that big if it wasnt for FFP? i would argue that the deal is largely down to market values, say for example liverpool and their deal with warrior, which is inflated due the owner have ties with the brand, man city and their deal with etihad, PSG and their deal with emirates, barca and their intel deal, utd with dhl.... would the deals be this high if it wasnt for FFP? personally i doubt it then as I and Rovers were alluding to the knock on effect is that forget that we cant compete with arsenal financially, we aren't allowed to compete with arsenal financially even if randy started feeling generous again fans of FFP will no doubt say we should copy arsenal's business model and get smarter off the pitch, when we do, and we sign our £30m a year shirt deal, how much do you think arsenal's will be worth? deals like this just highlight for me what a terrible rule it is Why would a company, completely unaffiliated with the club (before the deal obviously) pay way way more for their sponsorship deal just because of FFP? If Man City start getting the scoreboard sponsored by the chairman's dad for £100 million a season then the weaknesses of FFP come into play. But I don't see why Puma would give a shit about FFP to be honest. It doesn't affect them.

Woah. I'm excited

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Like. And Carol (Cheryl). She'd get it.

Ankle ligaments apparently, so potentially quite serious. Not really sure that's good for us though. I'd rather Benteke was fighting for a place with Lukaku as opposed to being more or less guaranteed one.

A league table if we were in Nigeria would be frightening, seeing as we rely on our away form, and in Nigeria, nobody has a good away record!

Especially as Villa winning matches with Bannan in the side WAS evidence that Villa were better with bannan in the side last season. you know, when that stat suited the argument.