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tom_avfc

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  1. Stick at least an extra £1 onto a pint. Pretty sure £5 is the cheapest pint you can get in the lower Holte and assume that’s standard around the ground.
  2. The info on the official site seems to suggest you get a pre match and half time drink and a programme. Assuming that you can get a pint pre and post match as part of this that’s potentially the best part of £15 of the £25 per match that a fair few people would be spending every week regardless. Whether people would want to pay £10 - £12 a game for a slightly better concourse is then the question. Not really my sort of thing but it would be useful if people could see what they were actually getting each game for their £25 rather than a rushed out article on the website.
  3. They have had an awful run of games to be fair. Us in 11th are the lowest team in the league they’ve played since the turn of the year. Had some decent draws against Man United, Newcastle, Brentford, Brighton and Liverpool and then a load of losses to teams you’d expect them to lose to. Also had no Zaha or an unfit Zaha for a lot of that run. Arsenal, Spurs and Fulham the only teams they have left to play who are above them in the table. I think they’ll be fine and would have been fine if Vieira had stayed to be honest.
  4. Isak has only played 9 games though to be fair. Looks a good player albeit he does miss a few too.
  5. The wide view of it I’ve seen has a line drawn from his shoulder down. Not sure how they can be massively accurate with where the line is drawn (ignoring whether I think a player leaning forwards should be offside anyway). If that line is marginally inaccurate then the decision is potentially wrong. The ball also appears to be already in motion from the player passing the ball. At the speed the players are moving if the frame is marginally out then that offside call is completely different. Basically, I have no trust in pausing a camera and drawing a few lines on it to get a decision right, particularly given those involved in the process. The semi-automated decisions seen in European competitions sit much better with me. Everyone was in position for kick off as well so I’m assuming the linesman wouldn’t have given it. If he’s a foot offside I’m not sure it takes the time it took for VAR to overturn the goal either.
  6. It’s one of those where if there was no VAR then everybody would have just said he was level and moved on. There was no more in it than that Wesley offside against Burnley. Having to wait a couple of minutes while the officials micro-analyse a screen shot which isn’t particularly accurate in itself is boring. As you say we’d be fuming with it the other way around so even when it’s in our favour I have no issue in saying that those sort of decisions are half of the problem with VAR.
  7. This isn’t the plan though. It was infuriating me how many times people wanted the ball playing to our full backs deep in their own half with nowhere to go. Just because a player is in a bit of space doesn’t mean that the pass should be played. We were far more effective (and our goal came from) getting the full backs high up the pitch and playing the ball in behind the defence. A few extra passes in the middle of the pitch to allow for an overlap and then an incisive pass is perfectly understandable. There was one point when the groans were particularly loud after a period of about 7 or 8 passes in our half where Douglas Luiz literally had his hands above his head clapping to encourage the players. I just hope that eventually more fans get used to this style of football because the constant calling for long balls is tiresome.
  8. I hope anyone posting seriously about us going down recently feels suitably stupid today. Three losses in a row when two of them are the top two teams in the country and people overreact. At least this thread can be locked soon enough.
  9. You’ll get charged eventually. Used it a couple of times and it can be slow for the full charge to go through. I assume it just puts £1 on initially. Really good system though as it seems to be bringing down queue times massively in the lower holte.
  10. This thread is ridiculous. We’ve just lost to the two best teams in the league and people are using that to suggest that we’re going down. Results since Emery came in have been more than I expected and had we not wasted the first third of the season without an actual manager we’d be up there with Brighton and Fulham in my opinion.
  11. And that’s just what they’ve actually declared. You can probably double that if their alleged rule breaking is confirmed.
  12. It’s never a penalty. If the ref/VAR are going to make that decision then players are going to continually dive. If pundits like Gary Neville are going to call that clever play then players are going to continually dive.
  13. Gets the ball with 3 defenders in front of him. Full back makes no attempt to overlap. Runs at defender and gives the ball away. Fans hurl abuse at him. Next time he gets the ball with 3 defenders in front of him. Full back makes no attempt to overlap. Bailey passes sideways/backwards to keep the ball. Fans hurl abuse at him. He genuinely must love the freedom of playing anywhere but Villa Park. Hes not very good but I’m not really sure how many players would look good being asked to do what he is 99% of the time.
  14. tom_avfc

    Unai Emery

    We’ve been booed off under him already. Pretty shocking “support” if you ask me.
  15. How many chances do Chelsea and United create compared to us? I’d imagine it’s vastly superior. Get a top class goal scorer is easier said than done. Watkins has his limitations but is vastly underrated by a large proportion of our fan base.
  16. Couldn’t agree more. Never gets the credit but always takes the blame.
  17. To be fair he blocks it if the guy shoots for the far post. How a professional keeper gets beaten at his near post there is beyond me.
  18. We were hardly holding on. They hadn’t had a real shot until we gave them a goal from the penalty. We didn’t play very well but we were coasting to a pretty easy win until dendoncker’s moment of madness.
  19. They scored because one of our central midfielders gave the ball away and then got himself sent away giving the penalty away. Their second we switched off at a corner and Olsen let the ball straight through him. I don’t think they had a shot on target other than the two goals. I find it hard to blame the back 4. Olsen isn’t very good but his is an individual mistake rather than an issue of unfamiliarity in the back 5. I’d be questioning why we couldn’t create much against a league 2 team more than resting the back 5.
  20. tom_avfc

    Unai Emery

    We were playing Stevenage. Arguably our worst player on the pitch was a player who has started every game since Emery came in (Bailey). The vast majority of the players on the pitch cost us substantial amounts of money and have played a number of premier league games in recent seasons. One of our players almost single handedly gave away the game when we were 1-0 up and Stevenage hadn’t had a single shot on target.
  21. Whilst I kind of understand that reasoning against some of the top teams I don’t think the risk of his defending is massive against USA when we’re struggling to create any chances. He’s a brilliant passer and crosser of the ball. By all means start with another right back but when the issue is a lack of creativity and you have players like TAA and Foden on the bench then use them.
  22. I’d have thought TAA would be another obvious sub to make in a game like last nights. We were crying out for some creativity and we have Foden and TAA sat on the bench. I do find some of Southgate’s tactical decisions almost as baffling as Gerrard’s. If the initial setup doesn’t work then I don’t think he has a clue how to change it up to get a performance out of them.
  23. We have now yes. Quite why Brook and Stokes started going so hard so early is beyond me. How many dot balls have there been from huge swings and misses? Need a gem of an innings from someone now.
  24. Needs someone to play a sensible innings. We’ve pretty much needed a run a ball from the start and wickets like that Brook one are ridiculous with that being the equation. Its a difficult pitch to bat on but a run a ball with the batting lineup that we have shouldn’t be difficult. Just play proper cricket shots and put away any bad balls. The last thing needed here is Moeen and Livingstone to chuck away wickets searching for big hits.
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