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Small Heath losing. Unfortunate accidents / medical / horrific administrative errors or mishaps involving small heath scum. Finding out I have the house to myself for a bit (2+ hours), PES + EVE online. The odd glimpse of the white triangle when fit birds forget about it in short skirts(Don't lie everyone it's pre-programmed instinct and it's impossible to stop yourself unless your a bit strange) A new bags of weed Old films (I'll tell you what does not make me happy, the fact that while in theory it's possible I am no where nearer creating a cloned version of Grace Kelly aged 22. The DNA collection and subsequent testing of the machine needed are, well I'll be brutally honest here financially crippling at the moment.) If I am unhappy but my Mrs is happy then I feel I am on the way to happiness, it can't be that bad if she is OK, if you see what I mean. Making models and gluing things to things and getting fibre optics to finally work. Leaving hospital once they got the glue off (Not really ) Villa winning of course, that's easy but when combined with SHA losing is basically giggles in a box all week

Good point, top bloke but it was never going to work with him and Ellis. Considering the money problems JG did great.

Revenue / Villa on TV everyday / It's not all bad news. Won't happen but the exposure we would get would be incredible. The only reason he took the lime light was there were no players bothered enough, Rooney could have snatched the limelight by scoring 4 against the German's but there was more chance of him snatching a purse to be fair. Beckham's fault ?..not really.

Bradley did very well with the players at his disposal in the WC. Not saying I want him but this must be taken into account I think. whoever gets the job will get a good squad of players, most of them have hardly played so I would have thought they would have something to prove to us (and themselves).

It will be very interesting, the restrictions are off hopefully gone for tactics and selection of the team so we might see something a little new. Fingers crossed we get the 3 points as it's super important first game.

What's Venables up to these days ?

Does he live in the US at the moment though ? Would be good on many levels IMO. Be nice for him to come back to VP as well, last time he was there he nearly got his head took off (he did deserve it that day IIFC)

So just because people dont like O'Neill doesnt automatically mean they have a direct replacement in line. If someone bangs on about a problem for long enough, I don't think it's unreasonable for others to expect some kind of solution to be suggested. Otherwise you're just part of a bigger problem. Martin Jol for me. Much better manager than O'Neill on every single level. Better coach, better tactics, better in the transfer market, better knowledge of European football, and less likely to behave like a teenage girl with PMT. Even if you're right about all that, there's still the tricky problem of him staying exactly where he is. If we ask him I think he would jump at the chance, Ajax have money troubles and lets be honest the Dutch league is a complete waste of time and money. Championship level at best IMO, this is kind of backed up by the fact that most of the people I work with watch MOTD and are proper clued up on the Prem. I even work with a guy who with his mates go to watch Newcastle 3 times a year by boat. they support Azzette FFS, yes it's that exciting. A season ticket costs a few days pay over here.

That will be an excellent move for all parties involved. Blackbrun have made a offer for a un-name striker who is a proven frontman Sky Sports Not Heskey then.

I am in the same boat, it's all getting a bit silly now. I feel like I have been promised a PS3 for xmas but I have a sneaky feeling that the box been wrapped with a nice big bow is Ker-plunk or buckaroo and not the home entertainment system previously promised and agreed.

Set up a Facebook group Another way, there are 30 k + members of VT. We should all set up fake accounts on Gmail and email them 2 or 3 (or 30) times a day to the "sports desk", just make the stories up and flood their system. In fact all footie fans should do it so a Facebook page could help, they deserve punishment for the BS.

About a week after he caves some birds face in again. :cry:

I'm just worried. I can't help it. I know what you are saying is correct but there is also another side to it, to progress we need to improve faster than at least 1 of the top 4 and all of the rest, that's the bottom line. For all the great wins we had we had some proper shockers, I flew over to watch the Chelsea game at VP and yes it's nice to beat them but look at the away fixture result. Getting to Wembley is good as you say but the squad as a whole is fundamentally not strong enough to do it for the whole season, if it was we would have had to get the open topped bus out of retirement but we were inevitability tired and devoid of ideas. I, as many others know what we need to do what we desire but we are nowhere near currently. Chelsea midfielders score more than our strikers and no one seems to think this is a problem. I just want a scrap of good news, that's all. Selling our best players every year is driving me mad, once that's sorted i suppose I will cheer up.

could you please clarify what you mean? Do you want us to sign him or what No I dont want Villa to sign him. Villa need to spend money on much better skilled players..which wont happen with MON in charge but that is another story. Only I said was that I think he was quite good in the World cup consider he played for a very weak international team. And he was better than many of the so called superstars from England and France during the World cup. Oh bugger off, MON has signed plenty of players better skilled than Tsabalalala. And I'd wager that come the end of the window he will of signed a few more! Sorry..I wasnt clear on what I meant. My intention was to say that MON wouldnt spend money on much better skilled FOREIGN players. I am tired of the old british players because MON is an absolute joke on the transfer market. He sign british players for over the top fees and then give them over the top wages...plays it safe and boring..we end up with "kick n´run" team and tactics. It has given us three sixth places yes...but we have had a good chance to improve on that before yet it has been missed out as I see it because MONs reluctance to look abroad for great bargains to lift the squad. id rather we signed good players and don't care where they're from. Signing players because they're foreign is as bad as MON signing players because they're British. That is the usual defence from MON fans..."doesnt matter where they come from"...I dont believe it for a second! Yes..we all want great quality players to the club. And where do you find them? In every corner in GB or abroad? I think that it all are proved when you look at the World Cup and when you look at all the top clubs in Europe or in England. Clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City struggle to find players good enough for their teams that comes from England. They need to be exceptional because the foreign players they have are highly skilled on many levels. I think that Villa needs influences from abroad to make our team get another dimension to the gameplay. We are dull to watch. I am a Villa fan to the bone, but last season when I looked the team most of the games got me to yawn after 20 minutes...and I honestly couldnt look the whole games through.They show glimpse of good plays but usually Villa are boring and very predictable. We have a great weapon in our defence and also in our speedy attackers Young/Agbonlahor. Lux, agree with everything you have written. It's like watching one of them old Hamlet adverts at the moment, this is the team that bought British just when everyone else didn't, this is the team that waits in the market for value when there is no value in the market, this is the team that goes for 4th and buys Hesky, this is the team that plays 442 when everyone else is changing, this is the team that put 20 M on Red and the ball bounced into the road, this is the team that buys players and never plays them....and so on. God i'm fed up. Looking at the people we are linked to is enough to make me feel ill. If these players are the answer I am scared to death what the actual question is.

The way forward or at least have this in place as an option when the need arises. It's all about the 2 in midfield, get these right and it allows the attack to breath a bit so to speak. We don't currently have the personnel to do this justice but you never know. We need to change something next season in our setup, opposition managers don't really need to say anything becasue we are kind of predictable.

I would love to do what James May did in the Veron, I had goose pimples and hairs standy uppy just watching it. I can't imagine what it feels like, 140 mph feels quite fast so god knows what it's like doing 250 +. All I know is I want to do it. Fantastic.

If we get over the fact that we're going to lose one of our best players, then we'll surely realise that we will come out of this a stronger team? Even if we buy a player that, like Milner, takes one season to become a better player. Surely that's still a good deal? - Milner was bought for £12m. - A couple of years later and he's a £20m player (going for more than £20m). - We could buy Ireland (or another "£10m player"). - A few seasons later and that player could also be worth £20m. All we're doing is increasing the value of our assests and gradually increasing the quality of the team. This is not the way to do things but what choice do we have other than invest to keep them. I am not sure I 100 % agree that we are gradually improving the team, losing your best players does overall long term harm IMO. If we are gradually improving the team then the replacement of Milner will be of similar age and ability when we bought him with a little extra to continue the improvement of the squad. It´s the only way the Villa will convince me now. The talk of Ireland/SWP is great but it does not in any way improve on Milner or our chances of moving up the league. If it did they wouldn't sell them to us.

It's just business, takes time. As it's Man City it takes a bit longer I suppose as everyone who deals with them knows that they are been tossers because they are just that, not because they need to save money or they have a budget of some sort to keep to. It's all about not looking like either side has give in at the moment. Won't be long now I suspect.

Top 4, Fa cup win is hardly going to attract better players the following season is it.

Spot on. Dunno if it's just me but he looks a bit crap these days to be honest. He is so slow it's joke, he looked good playing for us but terrible for anyone else, especially England lol. Be great if he gets pushed to the bench for the season and hardly plays.

Because we are going to win it! You never know That's the fun.

:? how can finishing below what we did last season be seen as moving forward/progress? I have to agree, we can mess about in 6th / 7th / 8th for decades to come and some will be happy with that, I won't..not at all. Unless we get in the CL pretty sharpish we will never get there as the gap just gets bigger and bigger. The position where you finish is the best overall indicator because it takes into account the whole squad / club performance over the season as far as I am concerned. It's all about moving forward and up. If you start been happy with 7 th then it's a short jump to been happy about finishing 12th. If we finish lower than last season I will find it totally unacceptable, yes other clubs have come into money but that would have been factored in in the original plan, if it wasn't then it was not much of a plan in my eyes. If it happened to the Villa with Lerner then they must have realised it could and did happen to someone else so that's no excuse, same as the we can't attract the players without CL, not a valid excuse either as Man City are doing fine getting who they want.

I would say it's as hard as you make it. Maybe we don't even ask ? It's wages that are the main problem I suppose but get the right players in and a full extended VP will be full every week thus paying the wages, don't and it won't be full and this gives a nice excuse to why we can't have the signings we need and around and round we go. Maybe we are leaving it late so we get a shock and awe job with 4 or 5 mega signings but in reality I will be left shaking my head again I fear. With no news coming out of VP it's hard to stay happy as larry at the moment. well we averaged about 38k per week at VP last season didnt we, are the extra 4k going to raise enough in wages to play these top players? I see what your getting at but it must make some sort of difference or man utd would have stayed at 40 k in the late 80's. They are at nearly 80 k now. I was thinking more along the lines of 55-60 k with the appropriate players to fill that size stadium. This is the big shame of it all, we get 38k with players like Sidwell and Heskey in the squad !

I would say it's as hard as you make it. Maybe we don't even ask ? It's wages that are the main problem I suppose but get the right players in and a full extended VP will be full every week thus paying the wages, don't and it won't be full and this gives a nice excuse to why we can't have the signings we need and around and round we go. Maybe we are leaving it late so we get a shock and awe job with 4 or 5 mega signings but in reality I will be left shaking my head again I fear. With no news coming out of VP it's hard to stay happy as larry at the moment.

I see what you are saying but there has to be a better way than this, that's 20-25 M + wages. You are correct, they did improve us at the time but virtually any player with a set of boots would have. Expensive stop gaps IMO and the aiming higher comment will have to wait, if we sign R Keane as THE big signing this summer then it blows it all out of the water and we might as well keep players like Sidwell.