PaulC

Vanessa Feltz is good!

Yes I think he did enough in that 2nd half showing to be given a chance in the starting eleven. We can always change things later on. I like NZog on the bench because he's a impact player.

If the worst does happen this season do you think our **** of an owner will have the decency to apologise to the supporters of this club through TV or Radio media or will we get some half arsed press release from Faulkner and the re-opening of the Twitter account they used during last summer?

Yes he should apologise for loaning the club 125 million or whatever ever amount he has loaned us. If anybody was interested in buying the club and paying off the loans then fine but its a pointless have a pop at Lerner all the time when they is nobody out there who wants to buy the club

Ellis was no saint either. The club won the league in 81, he took over and got rid of Saunders and we went into a bigger dip that what is happening now. He also made a fortune out of Villa.

Come the last game of season of course i would want to be 1 point ahead of Wigan. Any one saying otherwise isnt thinking straight. Gives us the draw and win. Take them both outcomes everyday of the week.

Yes totally agree. You would not want to have to win that last game

Lerner is just a complete arsehole and he has presided over 3 consecutive seasons of failure and misery.

 

The sooner he goes the better.

I don't know why anybody would want to be an owner of a football club. He has invested a stack of money to try and get us into the champions league, unfortunately he saw the money was wasted and then he decided to cut the wage bill because we were living way beyond our means. Ok there's little contact but I think people are too harsh on him.

Would play Bannan over KEA all day.

Oh and didn't he assist at Reading ?

I suppose if you call missing a point blank goal that led to Gabby's goal an assist, then yeah he assisted

That's harsh

The question should be, If the infallible Wigan are so composed and capable, how come they're 3 points behind the worst Villa side ever?

Its definitely not the worst Villa team ever. Don't forget we got relegated to the old third division and the team Graham Taylor inherited and got promoted to the 1st Div in 88 was a very very poor team. just that Taylor was a much better manager than he was given credit for.

From What Lambert is saying about him, it looks like he may start against Sunderland.

If Westwood proves to be as good as Carrick then we are very very lucky.

Wigan have been poor at home. The way they play will leave them vunerable to the pace of Bale, Lennon and Walker I think.

Stats suggest Brad Guzan is the worst goalkeeper in our history but we all know that is far from the truth.

 

That's what I said about Westwood. You've inverted it and said it about Bannan.

 

Ireland has rarely played with Bannan on the pitch, and when they've played together Villa doesn't win much.  You can have no grounds for any analysis whatsoever that Bannan plays well with Ireland.

 

When it's Bannan and Westwood, Bannan is responsible for the more creative passes. That is why Westwood's passing accuracy stats have plummeted from high 90%s to low 80%s since Delph has come in.

 

He's going for the 'hollywood balls' - as you guys call them - Bannan would otherwise be going for. He's not as good at picking a pass as Bannan and I don't think he's comfortable doing that.

You're actually impossible.

I haven't inverted it. Your post reminded me of what i'd said about Bannan months ago. I'm sure I could dig out the exact post if I have to. So unless I time travelled, I haven't just inverted what you said. I was actually capable of forming my own opinion.

 

AGAIN (I assume when stuff isn't numbers you struggle to read it), I mentioned Ireland because it was ONE example that I remember. The point is more general. I'm NOT saying Bannan plays better when he plays with Ireland, specifically. I'm saying that IN MY OPINION Bannan plays better when he plays a more reserved role and isn't under pressure to be the sole creative force going forward. A game where Ireland played is ONE (one. I'll write it again, one) example that I remember.

 

Your final 2 sentences are irrelevant to my point. I wasn't talking about Westwood (which admittedly makes this off topic so I apologise)

 

I prefer Bannan in a more attacking role actually. When he came on against Newcastle at home he played further forward and made a difference. I want to see him the most advanced of the midfield players because as Con says his game is about creativity and he's more likely than anybody else we have to make that telling pass.

 

 

 

That is harsh, if he'd done Ivanovic some serious harm you could understand it, you wouldn't get that for trying to deliberately break someones leg on the pitch.

 

It's not the point though. If you make a bad tackle, most of the time it's a pure accident. He has intentionally tried to harm someone. Not acceptable and 10 games is totally fair given his previous.

 

 

I don't really agree because a wreckless challenge like we saw from mcmanaman could have ended the guys career, and that went unpunished. Wheras the Suarez so-called bite didn't even break skin because if there had of been a serious mark there the ref would have show him the red card. So obviously there was no real intent to hurt the guy but it was a stupid thing to do.

 

 

A bad tackle that ends your career comes with the game i'm afraid. You have to make a tackle as part of the game and sometimes that can go wrong. Going out and biting someone isn't part of the game. It really doesn't matter if it broke the skin or not, the intent was there to cause harm, why else would you bite someone?

 

If i was to take a gun and shoot at someone, but miss. Would i get let off because i didn't harm the person? Of course not. If this was rugby he would be getting way more games than 10.

 

Yes you do make a pretty convincing argument there.  On the other-hand if you were a hunter and killed someone because you were wreckless would you not be prosecuted for manslaughter even though shooting is part of the sport. I think even though you have to tackle if you are wreckless in that tackle, end someones career,  and although intent cannot be proved its still worse than a minor bite isn't it, where nobody is hurt.

TBF he would have got away with a much lesser punishment if he hadn't got previous. He's possibly the best player in the premiere league.

Contact the healthcare worker/team/police & say that you are concerned about a vulnerable adult. Those two words should trigger an investigation so make sure as others have said that you make notes etc that can be used in the investigation

Yes the worst thing you can do is stand by and do nothing. You need to report your concerns.

Shame he's vanished - I think Monday night's game would suit him - though you never know what you're getting with Ireland.

Yes that's the trouble, he would be too bigger risk. You couldn't trust him

I can see Wigan getting 6 points before the final day, so they'll be on 37

We I think will get 4 points taking us to 38

We will go to Wigan needing a draw to stay up, they will need to win

I'd take that scenario because I don't think we'll loose at Wigan but I hate it if we had the pressure on us to win there.

4.16 million a year Ireland gets. I agree we are being totally ripped off. The average price of a Bundesliga ticket is just over £10.00 and they will almost certainly have 2 teams In the Champions league final this season Robben gets little more money than Ireland does.

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How do we know we would have done better under those managers mentioned. Anybody can be successful at Man U and Chelsea. The only name mentioned that have done better is Martinez because he has done wonders at a club the size of Wigan

 

That is harsh, if he'd done Ivanovic some serious harm you could understand it, you wouldn't get that for trying to deliberately break someones leg on the pitch.

 

It's not the point though. If you make a bad tackle, most of the time it's a pure accident. He has intentionally tried to harm someone. Not acceptable and 10 games is totally fair given his previous.

 

I don't really agree because a wreckless challenge like we saw from mcmanaman could have ended the guys career, and that went unpunished. Wheras the Suarez so-called bite didn't even break skin because if there had of been a serious mark there the ref would have show him the red card. So obviously there was no real intent to hurt the guy but it was a stupid thing to do.

 

Those stats don't tell you everything. The own goals, offside goals. Theres too  many variables to take those type of stats seriously.

Goals conceded can't be taken into account when discussing the defence?

What about having to go back to 1985 to find a season in which we let in more goals?

Or that our keeper is the only one in the league to have made over 200 saves and even after conceding a record breaking number of goals is in contention for our player of the year award?

This is the worst defence I've ever seen us have, would you disagree?

 

Yes quite possibly is but it was a new defence put together for the start of the season and even in pre-season there were huge warning signs against lesser opposition, so they had to learn and develop the hard way and there have been signs of improvement but unfortunately it doesn't show because we still keep making errors. But there certainly has been an improvement from crosses and set-pieces. We were truly dreadful before. If we stay up we will be better next season.

Personally I would start with El Ahmadi. If we start with NZog we've go no-one to bring on to change the game except for Bent maybe, who hasn't made much of an impact this season at all.

If Wigan produce performances at home like they did against Newcastle and Norwich then I see no reason why Swansea cant beat them. Wigan are poor at home!

I think that's the first post I've read on VT that I seriously have no idea what any of it means or could even mean.

Wish I was more technically minded.

lol, you don't need to know all that though its just going to confuse the issue. Best to stick to what you know and pick up things gradually because it can really do your head in.

Those stats don't tell you everything. The own goals, offside goals. Theres too  many variables to take those type of stats seriously.