Onelinedrawinguk

Manson, your mad, how much has it cost you to keep changing?

I'm happy with MON, if for any reason O'Neill left then i'd happily take Mourinho.

I wouldn't trust any world manager to understand the current situation and manage our growth, i think MON is 100% suited for the job.

I'm also astounded that some factions have so little belief in our manager when our owners back him to the hilt. Surely the conviction of such a collection of intelligent minds should easy some worries.

Pro Evo is the better game IMO.

And on the PC, we get the luxuries of Kitserver, Ballserver, Faceserver, Stadiumserver and so on

I've just not been impressed with FIFA in many years.

Due to my PS2 deciding to call it a day on Saturday, I'm now having to look at getting a PS3. So I'll probably be purchasing PES2008 for that rather than the PC. FIFA... I'll give it a try at some point, but I expect to be unimpressed yet again. Not had a good time with a FIFA game since FIFA '99.

Who know?, EA could prove me wrong... but I'm not holding my breath.

MJ, Buy a 360, by all accounts PES is goin to be better on that than the PS3 simply because the developers have ironed out the problems they had with the 1st one, while PS3 dev's don't have that luxury.

General

One comment about the catering..

Is it normal for the kiosks to be closed about 10 mins after H/T?

I wanted a Coke and couldn't get one..

It was a sore throat from all the cheering that did it..

Is that part of the licencing law?

They had vending machines in the trinity to re leave this problem.

Brilliant to see you write like this JC.

I think this has been done before but:

To the tune of That's Amore

When the ball hits the goal

It's not Drogba or Scholes

It's Maloney!!

etc etc any ideas?

I heard this song earlier on the radio and actually starting singing 'shaun maloney' in the 'thats amore' bits. but i couldn't think of the middle bits.

I like your attempt, should try to get it going at some games, i was thinking more of:

When the ball,

Hit's the goal,

It's not Lampard or Scholes,

It's Maloney.

I just think Carew's struggling for fitness after that injury in pre-season.

General Krulak here:

4. Not sure what you mean by a "feeder club"...as an "official" affiliation. Obviously we have many affiliations and many teams who provide us insight into their players.

General, would it be possible to share with us who these teams are? Many other big teams make it public who they are affliated with ie. Man Utd - Antwerp and Arsenal - Beveren.

I think Davis put in his normal performance today, when on the ball looked nifty. When off it, might aswell be sat in the stand. Reo-Coker did indeed tear him a new one in that 2nd half.

How crude do the jokes get in here?

There's a reason that i didn't post the punchline. Has anyone else heard it?

A friend of mine told me this one in the pub a while back.

What's the difference between a Pope and Madaline McCann?

Hi General,

Just a quick question really, regarding potentially club owned Media outlets. Someone in a thread has raised the rumour that we could be in line with having our own Villa Channel in conjunction with Setanta Sports and i was just wondering if this is something Randy has looked at.

Also are there any plans to bring back 'the villain' radio station?

Here's to beating Liverpool on saturday.

Many Thanks, Tom

Here.

Your nutters, it costs money to change Gamertags, and you and manson have done it twice.

"Firstly, I felt that Luke Moore can do the exact job that Harewood Harewood will be doing"

Are you a not-so-clever person?

No offense but really?

Wouldn't you be better to ask Martin this? Ring him up or something?

He's not reading this you know.

Edit: Wahey! I got an answer in before it was deleted

Gizmo, he was referring to someone else, not MON.

Slurp, Slurp,

i disagree with a fair few points, mostly because the last time i checked, the transfer window was still open.

Another point is, how on earth could Luke Moore do the same job as Harewood? totally different types of player, Harewood will replace Carew to give the opposition the defence a continued athletic battering, while giving Gabby (And LUKE) the chance to nip in and take advantage of changes, not in a milion years would you get Luke performing the same job as Carew or Marlon because he isn't built the same way.

It is also very much MON's style to have Two big strong forwards, supplemented by skillful, quick goalscorers. Just look at his Celtic side, on occasions he had Hartson and Sutton with Larsson and Bellamy.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion of course but for the site owner to come out with an article like this sets a precedent for the whole site.

Sorry, what's this all about?

EDIT - I now know he's referring to JC's front page article.

I still have a VCR but rarely use it. It's just incase i want to watch anything from my ever deminishing Video collection (i've slowly swaped my VHS for DVD version and currently only hold stuff that isn't available on DVD)

I don't use it for recording either as you can get most stuff off the interweb anyway.

I'm dumfounded that this question even needs to be asked!

onelinedrawing, if you are looking for a fancy game with all the names and kits but far far far inferior gameplay, then fifa is better on the 360. If you want gameplay, pro evo is by FAR a better game with better graphics.

Seriously i know what im talking about, I've been championing PES for years(from when it was ISS on the SNES), i've had it on my PC every season it's been available on said format and on PS2's and i still play PES5 (xbox version) on the 360. It just that PES6 is literally garbage, it's half done and you get too many people online who don't play proper football, they use the old tactic of fast wingers, then pass, pass, pass across the 18 yd box, then tap-in.

I hope they get nxt seasons right, cause this year i actually found the DS version more enjoyable than the 360 version.

Oh, and it has nothing to do with kits and names, cause i normally patch my PS2/PC version anyways.

I think there was a review done by Rev?!? maybe when PES6 first came out for the 360 which i think summed up my feeling. I think for once the PES team stood still instead of the EA team.

While for the 360, Fifa is currently better imo than PES6, it breaks my heart to say that. It's just PES6 is awful for the 360.

Name one player of note we have been beaten to recently? And I dont mean crap that some rag has spewed out but actual facts.

The transfer I told you about, Ashley Young, for instance. Spurs and West Ham as well as a few others were interested and we won. Why? Take your pick of reasons. West Ham offered more money and Spurs offered European football but he still chose Villa. There's your precedent.

Will all players choose us? No. No club could expect that. Not even Man Utd. So what?

Also, I'm not aware of any player choosing the number of fans in the stadium as any incentive to join a club. Thats ridiculous. They do whats best for their careers and families and thats it.

Ashley Young joined us because Aidie Boothroyd advised him to because he was a young player, i somehow don't think the likes of Parker and Barton will need advise from their current managers

No one has said we will miss out on all players, but people like me are responding to people who seem to think its absurd that a player would choose Newcastle or West Ham over us.

We are all competing for players, we have our plus points but so do the other two clubs.

Martin O'Neill has a big reputation, as does Sam Allardyce

If i was a professional footballer with no ties to Aston Villa, i personally would probably join Newcastle as it all stands now

The opportunity to play alongside the likes of Owen, and the opportunity to play in front of 52,000 soon to be 60, every week would be a big factor, as it is too many players who comment on how great it is too play on such a big stage as St James's Park.

Also some players would consider West Ham, the chance to live in London as a plus point, but the fact West Ham are prepared to offer the likes of 60 grand + out to players is another bonus.

The opportunity to play under Martin O'Neill and to train in top quality facilities would also draw me towards Villa

Each team has there deluded fans, as we saw with that West Ham fan the other day, but there is not a big enough gap between us, Newcastle and West Ham, to think we should have some divine right to sign the likes of Barton if we want him.

you'd be deluded if you did join them then, Newcastle are in shit loads of debt and will make a couple of superficial signings to appease the fans for half a season.

Name one player of note we have been beaten to recently? And I dont mean crap that some rag has spewed out but actual facts.

The transfer I told you about, Ashley Young, for instance. Spurs and West Ham as well as a few others were interested and we won. Why? Take your pick of reasons. West Ham offered more money and Spurs offered European football but he still chose Villa. There's your precedent.

Will all players choose us? No. No club could expect that. Not even Man Utd. So what?

Also, I'm not aware of any player choosing the number of fans in the stadium as any incentive to join a club. Thats ridiculous. They do whats best for their careers and families and thats it.

Nobody Maz, anyone MON has wanted as long as they've been for sale we've signed them.

That Parnaby story was Small Heath Bollox, they did it for a whole when they first came up, claiming every signing they brought in had been a villa target.

It's brilliant how fans work....

Newcastle and West Ham go out and buy players - surely they must be buying too rash and too soon! Villa will end up with the best ones

Villa rumored with Jason Koumas - I wonder if his reputation on here got a little bit higher than it would be if he was linked with Birmingham or Derby

Villa linked with a troublesome NRC - surely MON will cure him just like he will cure Carew's scoring and settling problems

Who have newcastle and west ham signed?

and who said anything about Carew being our Goalscorer? From the day he joined i've known what to expect from him, a glut of goals is not what Carew's reknowned for.

What's Carew settling in also got to do with it?

To say Carew is one of your fellow country men, you don't half bitch about him. I'm bloody proud to have big John Carew at our club and i honestly believe he's settled.

With Aliadiere seemingly on his way to Boro, do you think we can discount the Luke Moore to Boro speculation?

No we can't because boro are losing two strikers in christie and viduka.Aliadiere only fills in one of the striking positions.We don't have to worry i reckon.Moore wouldn't choose to leave villa for boro and mon himself said he isn't trying to force anyone out and that he it would be great to keep the club's promising youngsters.

Dio, Diomansy, Diomansy Kamera will take up the other Boro striking position i reckon.