omariqy

15 minutes ago, Spoony said:

Christ are Villa fans ever actually happy? Who gives a shit what happens right now. Just enjoy the moment eh. 

It’s just one fan tbf. I’m not even sure he’s a fan.

7 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

All the "new" teams that qualified for CL this season like us look better equipped to do well than we do:

• Stuttgart - 2nd in Bundesliga on 73 points from 34 games, GD of +39, lost only one of their last 16 league games
• Girona - will finish 3rd in La Liga only behind Barca and Real and ahead of Atletico, 78 points from 37 games, GD of +32
• Bologna - probably a bit more like us, 67 points from 36 games (2 to go), but only lost 5 games and GD of +24
• Leverkusen - goes without saying, unbeaten in all competitions, GD of +65 in their league, insane

 

There is a lot of work to do just to beat these teams let alone the really top ones like Real, PSG and Bayern. We need a really good transfer window and in particular to target players with elite mentalities because the players who played today don't have that at all. 

 

It would be a real disappointment if we qualified for Europe's top tournament for the first time in 41 years to just get embarrassed. Especially given we're one of the few teams to have actually won the damn thing.

Jeesussss

US Office and Only Fools and Horses are the two that I can watch again and again. Red Dwarf and Blackadder are up there too. 

59 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said:

Hmmm, I think life in occupied Gaza was pretty bad prior to the Hamas attacks tbh - if I recall correctly it was the West Bank that was relatively wealthy (for the region) and generally peaceful, with lots of Palestinians that worked in Israel.

But even that wasn’t a great life. For example I believe Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank had different legal rights; Palestinians committing crimes would be tried in a military court whereas Israelis committing the same crime went before a civilian jury etc.

It’s clearly a conflict where both sides have done lots of bad things to one another, but I think in the last 15-20 years Israel has been the worse of the two. Lots of the complaints people have about Israel are still valid, even if there’s also a lot of bad faith criticism to go with that.

I mean just watch any documentary prior to October 7th. We don’t even need to focus on Gaza. The Nakba 76th anniversary which is referring to the catastrophe of what happened was this week. It goes way beyond October 7th. I’ve always maintained that I completely understand the context of Israel being founded and how Jewish people have been persecuted throughout history and continue to be. It never gave the Zionists the right to do what they did and we are living with consequences of it now. There’s a reason why so many holocaust survivors and their family members are staunch critics of Israel. 

41 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Likud - words removed

IDF - words removed

Hamas - words removed

Iran & it's proxies - words removed

Egyptian Government - words removed

 

All have a proportion of blame for the plight of the Palestinian people

Spot on

18 minutes ago, magnkarl said:

One placard?

I suggest you head down to London and have a walk around the Pro-Palestinian protests. Here's a few from a quick google, since you seem to think it's a small problem.

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I don't see anyone confronting these people if it's a tiny minority, I rather see people joining in. Who called Israel a beacon of hope?

Again, Pro-Palestinians show an almost uncanny ability to deny that their side is doing anything wrong. They don't want to be confronted with hostages, terror, toppling the only majority Christian nation in the ME(Lebanon) and the general "#¤% Palestinians have caused throughout this saga. Israel is obviously not a beacon of hope, but it is by far the most democratic, tolerant and progressive state in a sea of undemocratic fundamentalist nations barring its most recent right wing idiot government.

Pro Palestine is not the same as pro Hamas. I was talking about the placard another poster was referring to. I’ve been to many of these protests. Many with the Jewish voice for peace. We’ve already discussed what intifada means to these people or what to the river to the sea means. Most are not using those slogans like you want them to be using them for. Of course there’s gonna be a minority of idiots and racists etc. In that large of a crowd. Israel is the very definition of a fundamentalist nation. I hope the irony is not lost on you. It was founded via terror and terrorists. Let’s not pretend the right wing stance is a recent thing. I want peace for both. End of. 

Oh what a beacon of hope Israel is. The people in Gaza should be grateful. Lots of generalisations going on in this thread and lots of forgetting of the numerous war crimes Israel commits on a yearly basis, even before the occupation. 99% of protestors are anti Hamas but suddenly they are all pro Hamas. Using one placard as an example.  Glad I don't go on this thread that much anymore. 

If anything I imagine there’s more dead than what’s quoted

Despicable human 

If we can do well then it’s more likely that 5th place also becomes a CL spot. Which is eminently achievable for us.

On 11/05/2024 at 18:41, omariqy said:

We are not spent. These boys still have another performance in them. No Europe to worry about and manage. We’ve been trying to conserve energy last few games. No need anymore. 2 games with a nice break in between. We just need a point realistically.

 Believe

50 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Come on, mate.  

Sheff Utd current form in 2024: DLLWLLLDDLDLLLLLL

A nice D would cap that off…

2 hours ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

Play Iroegbunam please, he surely deserves his chance?

I’d say he’s played himself out of contention 

There’s war and then theres this. 

7 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

They might not have the attitude but they're physically spent. 

I don't think it's crazy to predict we won't get another point. 

We are not spent. These boys still have another performance in them. No Europe to worry about and manage. We’ve been trying to conserve energy last few games. No need anymore. 2 games with a nice break in between. We just need a point realistically.

31 minutes ago, useless said:

Would be brilliant if we could secure Champions League qualification, seventy points, and for Watkins to become the first Villa player to score twenty league goals in a season since Peter Withe, all in one night against Liverpool this Monday

Better

I don’t get the mood on here. We lose one then we are doomed, win one and we will coast to the title. I thought we were done against Brentford and we’ve managed to get 7 points in 4 games - 1.75ppg. Even if you count Brentford then it’s 1.6ppg. Realistically we should win one of the next two. I think we only need one point. Yes we are **** but we were **** v Brentford too. I’m hopeful Zaniolo and Tielemans come back in Monday. It will make a world of difference. 
 

Something else to mention. Both against Chelsea and Brighton we adopted a strategy to conserve energy. We don’t need to do that anymore with no Europe. 

Quite depressing reading 'well your grandad voted for Hamas so that's why you're child died' 

Rather than Hamas came into power because of a state that was founded via terrorism and has spent 70 years cleansing your people from their homeland. 

I do enjoy how this is framed as either starting on Oct 7th or 2006. Like nothing happened before then. 

It's more like a 4 day blip. 

Yup heading out with the Villa flight package so minimal time in Athens unfortunately