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For all the laughs and jokes Chelsea are a young, naive yet talented team. Apart from around 20 minutes (down to 10 men), they've outplayed us 3 games this season. We need to be really on it (crowd included) Saturday night to beat them.

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Trump (if he wins) will fly to Kyiv and Moscow. Draw a line on the map and end the war with the threat of direct American involvement if they don't. The next few months dictates where they line is drawn.

Morgan Rodgers success has been extremely telling. Unai clearly has a game plan and very specific attributes he looks for, then can mold that into a good player. I expect Moreno / Rodgers out of the blue type signings who might not be the "best players" but attributes fit perfectly into our style.

Wouldn't be surprised if he turned down Liverpool. Whoever goes there next is going to fail. Even our Lord and savior Unai was (unfairly) perceived to have failed after following Wenger, Moyes same after Fergie etc. Same will happen whoever follows Klopp.

I normally sit in the Holte, but sat in the corner of the lower north near the Trinity as it was my sons first game. They started many of the chants which the North stand caught onto, and in time I think will give a good full ground atmosphere. Normally, the North stand waits for a really loud Holte to get involved, whereas it was more proactive yesterday. Give it a few months I think it will be a vital bridge for a full stadium atmosphere and not just the Holte starting everything. Full credit, keep on going!

We should've kept Danny Ings.

He will stay unless offered the Barca or Real Madrid job. Think that's what Guillherm Ballague said that in a podcast a few months ago.

Apologies if mentioned elsewhere. We've cancelled out their advantage of Burnley and Sheffield at home with our 6 point advantage. It's literally down to: Who can take the most points from: Villa: Chelsea, Brighton, Liverpool, Palace, Spurs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City.

The problem is. All 3 of those 50/50 calls would have been given at Anfield or Old Trafford.

Yep - that's why I firmly believe Diaby will be the second coming of Christ next season. Bailey was beyond awful last year.

The winner of the Conference League only gets 2 million less than getting into the group stage of the CL (this year, not sure next year as it's expanded). Obviously going deep in the CL is massive money. As per below, it's now vital we qualify for the CL group stages, or go deep into the Europa / UECL each season to maintain an extra 15-20 million. That's just prize money. Add in at least 1,500,000 for each home game.

I can't recall exactly where; it might have been Guillem Bllague; but someone said quite categorically - Emery would only leave Villa for Real or Barca, with Athletico Madrid a possibility.

Bournemouth game is absolutely everything. 120 minutes of football, players emotionally and physically tired. Bournemouth are a really decent team as well. Win this, we are mentality monsters and get CL.

Looking ahead to next season - works for us to have both Newcastle and Man U in European competition. Really will stretch their squads. Most of the Conference League who plays man united will treat it as probably their biggest games ever, it won't be easy for them.