briny_ear

Happy happy happy. Best news was about Downing doing 90 minutes & looking OK by all accounts. Also pleased for Heskey - 2 goals in the last three games. Maybe he is coming good at last.

Bring on the semi-finalists!

The point is Fellaini does it far more than any other player in the prem and he does it constantly. He is either a cheat or a shite footballer. You'se choose.

Do I really have to choose? No reason why he can't be both. 8)

She said she basicalled ignored the other two players, but who can blame here after Cuellar's match yesterday!

Bit harsh on Beye - he was as almost as good as King C!

^^^LOL

I think he should stay. But I also have a stronger and stronger feeling that he can't take us any further, and that other clubs have overtaken us this year.

If you really think he can't take us any further, surely the only logical position is to want him to go now? What's the basis for wanting hoim to stay?

Unless you're saying you're happy to be 5th/6th every season?

Sled fast on his way to becoming a Villatalk legend?

The man who asked for Martinez to be our manager 3 hours before his side conceded 9 goals! :winkold:

ER, I think you mean 9!

9-1, eh? Wigan must be a soft touch. Can't wait for them to come to Villa Park.

Oh, hang on... :cry:

Burnley are good at Turf Moore. That is no bloody excuse. We should be beating these teams home and away if we want top four.

Typical Villa.

Yes, just like Everton, Man U and Man C did.

Bizarrely, the only team to have beaten them at Turf Moor is Wigan.

If that is what you believe I am not going to have a go - and to a certain extent agree.

The thing I want to ask is why you refer to "your" ?

Anything to do with the Villa is mine , ours etc...

So who are you and where are you from

"tonesinkent" rarely posts on anything other than NRC and makes clear he is a friend of Nigel (or maybe his brother is).

I've never had the impression he is a friend of Aston Villa.

If Collins and Dunne are both out, that will put the strength of our new back four set-up to the test. Clark maybe, or I wonder if Warnock could play CD?

"The performance was well below what we expect. We have watched the game again and we have told them we are very disappointed with the attitude, application and way we went about our work. It just wasn't good enough.

"There was an unwillingness to get the ball down and play. We didn't try and get it down. We managed it about twice during the game, which is totally unacceptable from our level."

Blimey...

...and the Academy team crept away with their tails between their legs...

Almost certain Collins and Petrov will come back in. I don't agree and sends out wrong message after our best performance in a long while. It should be a case of the men in possession of the shirt get to keep it till they mess up otherwise where is the incentive for the likes of Luke Young and Reo Cocker?

So you're already arguing with a decision that hasn't been taken yet? :winkold:

Excellent. This should be a sticky.

Anybody got any more info on the story that the commentator revealed - Deadly Doug went to Anfield rather than Goodison by mistake last weekend?

The commentator just said that Deadly Doug went to Anfield by mistake last weekend I haven't heard that before - did I just miss it?

C'mon Delf ! get our sixth!!!

We really really really need to turn this dominance into goals. Same old same old, I'm afraid.

We have scored one you know!

GoalS = plural 8)

This is working for me http://www.iraqgoals.net/ch7.html

We really really really need to turn this dominance into goals. Same old same old, I'm afraid.

Cuellar looks to be having an excellent game - hope that's not a curse on him now.

Well, a year ago the winner of this title would undoubtedly have been Petrov, so it just shows there is hope for Heskey to settle into the side and show what he can do for anyone who has a bit more patience than a hyperactive gnat.

For the amount of money he has spent over the last three years I would expect to finish at least 5th/4th this year. Anything less I would deem to be an underachievement.

I would say that other clubs - Spurs, Sunderland, to mention but two - have spent heavily over the past three years but they can't all have a right to fourth/fifth place just because of the spending they've done. Also, you have to take our spending over the past 3 years in the context of the woeful spending from around 2000-5. The last 3 years has really just been re-stocking the larder with essentials.

He actually destroyed Celtic in the end giving Balde, Hartson, Sutton really long and expensive contracts before he left which Celtic are crippled by today. He is a good manager but not a great.

Nobody outside of British Isles has heard of MON or think he is a top manaegr they know the top managers like Wenger, Fergie, Hodgson

Yeh, after he left they won the SPL in 05/6, 06/7, 07/8. Clearly, utterly trashed.

financially crippled they can only compete with championship clubs for playes like Fortune and Fox

Well, by the look of things, there is no chance of him repeating that with Villa! Are you sure that Celtic's financial situation is entirely down to MON? Sounds improbable.

He actually destroyed Celtic in the end giving Balde, Hartson, Sutton really long and expensive contracts before he left which Celtic are crippled by today. He is a good manager but not a great.

Nobody outside of British Isles has heard of MON or think he is a top manaegr they know the top managers like Wenger, Fergie, Hodgson

Yeh, after he left they won the SPL in 05/6, 06/7, 07/8. Clearly, utterly trashed.

May I just point out that the question in the thread title:

Are we expecting too much ?

is entirely different from the one in the Poll:

Can we go any Further under MON ?

You could answer Yes/No; Yes/Yes; No/Yes; or No/No to these two questions, so what exactly are we being asked to debate?

Can't vote on these grounds.

EDITED for the 2nd time. Damn this messageboard formatting.