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  1. 8 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

    Not sure how I feel about players playing fasted.

    1. Very dangerous to their health

    2. Will surely affect performance.

    From what I know, you can make up for days "unfasted" outside of Ramadan?

    Obviously a tricky situation though.

    Personally, was my MOTM today.

    I have no problem with it. It's not dangerous at all, it may affect his performance, in which case we must manage that. 

    I hadn't considered this before, but now realise that must be really difficult for professional footballers as many fans like me wouldn't understand that they were fasting. 

    I should imagine he was gasping for a drink after the game!

    Given the circumstances I thought he played well, he was lively and kept running at defenders. 

    Tuesdays game is in the evening and by my calculations he'll be able to eat and drink during half time and the  during second half. 

  2. I'm much more confident going into the playoffs this season with Smith than I was last season under Bruce. 

    I joked from about March last season that we would reach the playoff final and lose to Fulham, and so it transpired. This season I'm not sure, I can see us going all the way. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

    Close to 42k there today for a meaningless game for us in all honesty. Incredible support 

    It's not meaningless though, if we get spanked here it wouldn't be very good for confidence. A win would help to continue the momentum we've built up. 

  4. McGinn was like a man possessed. I have not seen such a gutsy performance from a Villa player, it was phenomenal. The amount of times he burst into midfield and beat several players and moved the ball on was incredible. He contested everything, and won everything. Wow. 

    The first half was like a bad dream, very frustrating. Alot of credit goes to the players today for digging in and finding a way to win. You could see how hard they were all trying.

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  5. Looks like his style of play is starting to take shape. He is capable of getting the most out of good players although our style of play is heavily reliant on Jack's creativity in the middle of the park. I think our big squad weakness is that we have nobody else that can really play that role. 

    That's not really Smith's fault but it is a worry. We're weak at full back and out wide as well, although Kodjia came on today and did well.

    I said while he was at Brentford a while ago that I thought he would do well in the Premier League, let's hope he gets that opportunity with us. If we keep churning out results like that, he will. 

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  6. It sounds like anxiety to me. Which everyone suffers from. To be obviously so anxious and still achieve what you set out to do is amazing. It's also brave to share your experiences of anxiety. 

    It's so easy to be hard on yourself. I became aware of a book a while ago called The Chimp Paradox. I bought it for my wife, who is a worrier. She didn't apply it chapter and verse but it was a good tool for understanding anxiety and worry. She called her chimp Bepe 😀

  7. On 20/03/2019 at 22:57, villa4europe said:

    got mine ordered, not sure what it does...guessing its like a google version of alexa which if im honest i've also got thanks some deal somewhere meaning i picked one up for £10, i never use it

    i take it i can do something like link my spotify to it and say "spotify play miley cyrus" and it will play a banger

    Aye, it's a Google assistant more than a useful speaker.

    However the Google Home infrastructure is cool, you can hook up Google Chromecast audios to any audio output devices that you have, as well as Google home devices and group them together. You can activate these with your voice. For example, "Hey Google play Led Zeppelin on downstairs speakers." Then all the grouped devices will play music in sync, activated from this little pod thingy. It's cool because you don't need to shell out loads of money on new hardware if you already have decent speakers around, you just hook up a Chromecast audio. 

    That's how I intend to use it, I was delighted to be able to get this because I'm doing up my house with this in mind. I'm just trying to figure out how to get a Google home attached speaker in the bathroom ceiling. I like the idea of casting audio books whilst on the crapper. 

     

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