blunther

It's like a bloody episode of Black Mirror. Nothing exists these days unless you wave your bloody phone at it. What happened to just experiencing something?

Oh, ace! I got my info from VillaTalk - shoulda known not to trust that lot

I don't think he can play against Leicester as he wasn't registered for the first leg...

Fair play. I kind of like how he rips the piss out of us when he scores. I just wish he wouldn't score so bloody often. Rivalry like that is what footballs about. We'd love him to bits if he was one of ours. Very good striker.

Just wanted to say after they started time wasting at 0-0 I tried to count how many times the referee had to signal to hurry up and stop timewasting. 14. Fourteen times and not one yellow for it. Absolutely spineless refereeing from an utterly useless referee. The timewasting bastards got what they deserved!

I don't care about Watford's form... what I care about is we need five or six wins to stay up, and if we don't get them against Watford at VP and Bournemouth away then I don't see where they're coming from. Four points absolute minimum needed from the next two, otherwise we're deep in the shit.

Feel sorry for the poor bugger that paid £42 for my ticket for that!

Not sold out yet then.... My season ticket is on resale and still hasn't gone yet!

I've changed my mind on this, get him in the team straight away! Liuz needs a break to work on his sloppiness. There's a player in there, but he needs time. Hopefully he's another Nyland.

This guy's earned a chance. I turned the match off against Wolves when he came on as he was just hopeless last year, but he's proved that he's got what it takes. Good for.him, he's obviously worked hard instead of sulking and it's paying off. Let him at it for the rest of the season.

Looked really promising to begin with but too many mistakes in him. Sloppy free kicks in dangerous positions, sloppy passes, sloppy in possession in dangerous places. He's too much of a liability at the moment unfortunately.

Problem with that is he's currently third choice. Presumably if we got yet another keeper in who got injured, you wouldn't want Nyland playing then either, in which case there's no point having him in the squad.

Prize where it lies is such bullshit. Two tickets to a future match. What a crap prize. The way he hit that he should get a **** contract.

We're a striker away from being sixth the way it is this season.

If we won by three we'd go above them. Our GD is pretty good.

Free hit. Let's smash the bastards! Win by three and go above them.

What a difference this guy makes. Five or six times tonight he held on to shots and crosses that the previous 58 keepers would have flapped at.

Big win that. Could've had more. Could've conceded. But a big win. Not sure on Smith's game management at the end. I thought Trez and Nakamba could have helped after 60 mins but we won 2-0 so I guess he was right! That's why we were right to get rid of Bruce. Absolute anti-football until they were were already two down. Mings not great today I didn't think. Konsa very good apart from that mad slice. McGinn also off the pace but we'll forgive those two a dodgy game or two, especially when we still take the points.

Right. I'm gonna turn off and take the nipper to the park.

Pride Rewards - I've not spent any in three years so have a few thousand, and there's absolutely nothing there for me. Transport - Not much the club can do about this maybe, but I live about six miles away and now need to leave at half twelve to get a parking spot, and I'm lucky if I make it home by half six. That's getting ridiculous. I live on the train line and would like to get the train, but the waiting time to get on is also ridiculous. I'd walk but it's taking your life into your hands now it's dark at night. Help us out lads. Some more car parks a bit further out going straight onto main roads, or bribe WM Railway to chuck an extra six-coacher or two on half hour after the final whistle.

Good God this. Can we stop with the walk out music as well? Stop drowning out the crowd.

I don't think anyone really moans about linesmen getting an offside call wrong if there's a gnat's pube in it. It's the clear daylight ones people moan about. That could be checked, very quickly, by somebody watching from a decent angle, once, in slow motion. If there's an obvious mistake then overrule the linesman. If it comes to the point you have to start drawing lines and it takes three minutes just go with the on field decision. Three minutes again yesterday for the goal to be given. I celebrated Trez's goal a bit, but it was half arsed because you just don't know if it's a goal. It's shit. And I'll be singing **** VAR even if and when an opposition goal is finally ruled out by VAR. I think that's important that we get the message across that we hate the system, not just hate it when it goes against us.

I think by the end of the season after everybody's been hurt five to ten times, goals will be celebrated like the awarding of a penalty. Still a cheer, but not going mad as there's only an 80-90% chance of a goal being awarded. Then a secondary cheer at kick off, not dissimilar from a converted penalty. Gone are the times of hugging random strangers and ending up five rows down with bruises all over your legs.

There doesn't seem to be any accountability. Why do the VAR officials not have to justify their decisions in this sort of instance? We know who the ref was yesterday but genuine question, do we know who the VAR official was? Are we given that information. I can't find it but it might be published somewhere. Is it an actual referee? If it's not a referee, how are they the ultimate arbitrator of decisions above the referee on the pitch? If it was a referee, which one? Kevin Friend in a box somewhere **** us over? Also, if it's judges to be a 'clear and obvious' error then the referee on the pitch has failed to do his job and there should be repurcussions for that too. Such a crap implementation that half of.me hopes we go down so I can enjoy championship football without this shit. Really struggling to find the motivation to get a season ticket if we stay up, as without being able to fully let go and go mental when we score, what's the point? £500 and a lot of hassle getting to and from matches to just be disappointed and angry every time. I can't be the only one.

**** VAR. Totally killed the atmosphere, even though it had about the minimum impact due to scoring straight after. I went to walk out but got talked round thankfully. But I didn't celebrate goal two at all. Obviously went mad for the last second goal but still with the 'oh no this won't count' going through my mind. Complete ruiner. Also, if we're being picky, their goal.. why did that stand? It was not a free kick. The goal came from that phase. Surely the resulting free kick is a phase of the goal. Anyway, complete farce as usual. Nice for us to get a win we didn't really deserve though. They looked like they had the extra man at 11v11, and it only looked even when they went a man down. They still went through our lines far too easily and always looked dangerous on the break while we were too predictable with our passing. Only Grealish was making passes which weren't completely telegraphed. But we have a manager that will see that too. It's good to have a game we can learn from whole also getting three points.