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Yep. Lets hope they dont get the jitters either.

They are giving barely anything. Strange what happens when the pressure comes on eh. Edit another well done QPR.

Steam was coming out of my ears for the first 2 sentences bef0re i realised

Kadan is going to have to develop his game i think to stand a chance. As you say its one trick. Jimoh was poor tonight but he has everything in his locker. The 2 i rate the highest though are Rowe and Borland. Rowe has everything to be a fullback. Borland will only fail if he doesnt get any bigger. He is so so tidy with the ball . Makes it look easy but in reality its so hard to pick the right pass nearly every single time at 16 years old . He does. He is a tough cookie that i think would be doing even better if we had a big midfielder next to him. Alcock is technically good but playing 2 x 5'7 midfielders just isnt sustainable..

This is their 3rd permanent since Beale i think. Gerrards other mate , then the rocker and now this bloke. To be fair this one has managed to steady a quickly sinking ship. Their record at home for an age was indescribably siht.

They are spending around £10 mill on compensation for him. Emery was a bargain.

We looked like a real team a couple of months ago. But despite the core of the team remaining the same we seem to have regressed back to being somewhat disjointed all over and very porous at the back. The talent is there ,but its not gelling when they play together. Some terrible defending this evening and some wasteful play in attacking positions. Maybe we are missing OReilly and Kellyman as the conduit between midfield and attack

Him and Tyrone turned 31 last month. Digne and Moreno will turn 31 in the summer. I like Diego alot but we cannot afford literally and figuratively for players to regress all at once and lose a half yard of pace. If we could sell Diego and bring in someone like Ronnie Edwards from Peterboro who is already battlehardened from 150 appearances and still only 21 then that might be a way to go. That said. Playing cb for us can be energy conserving . Maybe i will leave it up to Unai and keep my gob shut

One word of warning about Olise. My god he is technically gifted but i don't think he is the bravest..i remember him playing up against JJ and JJ absolutely dominating him. By the end of the game he didnt want to know and seemed to have gone into himself .

A.matchwinner as much as Ollie Saves are the equivalent of shots on target BUT goals prevented is the equivalent of goals being scored. Its the most relevant stat out there for me, and if you are backing it up with commanding your box and commanding the space behind your teams high line then surely it means you are the best at what you are asked to do. You then add in most time on the ball in the whole of the Prem which allows Villa to conserve energy . The greatest.

To swap attention to Nassef his wealth has gone up by 410 million dollars in the last 9 days ! Largely due to his Adidas shares going up strongly.

You could at times play Morgan at 10 and then JJ / Buendia and Diaby/ Bailey either side of him with Ollie / Jhon up front. Or in a 433 JJ left mid and Morgan left attack. That would be frightening to be fair as they could easily swap positions .

Over Emerys tenure he has 30 points less than Villa. Block the central passing lanes and they are not effective. And he is one of those divs that do not bend from their philosophy whatever that is. Ask Emery what his philosophy is and i think it would be simple. To win no matter what.

Nice. I love the bit where Appleton says that he had a small side and didnt know how to mark the oppo effectively and Rogers said ' put me on the biggest player and i will do the job ' . He was 18 years old then. Bodes well . As he isnt just big. He is also strong for his size and knows how to use it.

He never uses the word deserve that so many coaches do these days. Not interested in xG. He knows that the team that wins deserves it. Its key for us for the no excuses culture. For other coaches like Poch it just gives an excuse to kick the can down the road. That ' things will get better' .