villaajax

4 hours ago, useless said:

Transfer window closes in nine days

Goalkeepers
van Domselaar, Leat, Poor
Central defeinders
Turner, Corsie, Patten, Parker
Fullbacks
Mayling, Pacheco
Midfielders
Staniforth, McLoughlin, Blindkilde, Nobbs, Dali,
Wingers
Lehmann, Hanson, Gregory
Strikers
Magill, Daly, Mullett

That's twenty players, but three of those are goalkeepers, and two of them including one of the keepers are seventeen year olds, in fact as it stands a quarter of them are twenty or under, and also bearing in mind that at any one time last season we usually had five or more players injured, so seems we're still a little short in terms of numbers, hopefully we can strengthen a little more in the coming days, if not have to hope injuries aren't as bad this time, maybe we've got some academy players that can play a part too, I know that Megan Shaw went to Spain.

Should have signed Esme Brugts like I said
I think Ash Weerden at Ajax would be a great signing, although I'd hate to take away from Ajax considering they need as much help as they can get after letting half the team go.
 

9 hours ago, skarroki said:

Then I've had "the ladies have that Lehmann don't they - phworrrr" kind of 'conversation' at which point it's difficult to explain to them she's a great player and a good brand ambassador because those things get batted back with the exact kind of archaic banter you'd expect.

I must admit, I some times feel a little awkward being a man attending games by myself because I've heard other guys saying the same things. I even had one guy sitting a couple of seats away from me with his phone out recording Lehmann every time she ran past. He was purely there to record Lehmann running around.

Why not any of the good towns in Oxfordshire?

3 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/28/rfef-asks-uefa-to-suspend-spanish-teams-luis-rubiales

He must have some dirt on a lot of people to get this much protection.

Familiar dinner guest for Freya Gregory and Maz Pacheco...

Ajax

My Dutch nan was a fan and would always watch them on TV. She would have watched the golden age of the late 60s / early 70s with Cruyff leading the way.

I wish my local team, Oxford United, well, but ultimately their results don't affect my weekend like Villa's do. I'd be very pleased to see them get promoted this season but if they got relegated, I wouldn't lose sleep over it...

More importantly, a clean sheet for van Domselaar.

Did I mention that we should definitely sign Esmee Brugts? She scored one of the goals of the tournament so far, then scored the same goal a second time.

1 minute ago, bickster said:

Not any more both use the standard internationally recognised mile (1.609 kilometers)

They used to be different

But just don't look up the differences between an Imperial Gallon, a US Dry Gallon and a US Liquid Gallon

Found that out the messy way when topping up the gearbox oil in the Mustang...

AVWFC season tickets are only £1.50 more expensive than my dentist checkup this morning

Still no word on wether Lehmann has re-signed as I'm sure her contract was up? Though she was sharing the news about the season tickets going up for renewal / sale on Instagram so I'm taking that as a hopeful sign.

That's good news, I'd hate to sit so far away from the pitch with an athletics track in the way

1 hour ago, colhint said:

Daly just got WSL player of the year WSL golden boot and equaled   the most goals record of all time.

She's not going to be a bit part player.

As a Netherlands supporter, this is bad news to me.

A friend at my previous job would say "Up The Spurs" instead of 'bye'

On 10/06/2023 at 17:16, villaajax said:

I'm not sure how I'm going to top this. Perhaps I'll get caught on Google Earth one day?

Drove past the Google Street View car the other day. It's on!

I like the elements of the badge, it's pretty much what I voted for, but it doesn't look or feel right... I wouldn't write it off, it's just that it could have gone back to the drawing board.

If we could sign another Dutch player, I'd go for Esmee Brugts of PSV. She's the future of the Netherlands national team.

This is a statement signing if you ask me. I know Netherlands didn't have a great Euro 2022 but I think van Domeslaar was our stand out player. Hampton is a brilliant goalkeeper and I wasn't sure how we'd replace her. This is how!

I managed to get three signatures on a shirt in the few games I went to this season.

Rabjohn, Hampton and Pacheco. Can we please chain Pacheco down?!

Still got my 1997/98 home shirt

17 hours ago, Tayls said:

Page 4566 of this thread. 

How very dare you speak that way about Metallica. They are THE greatest band on Earth. 

You've misspelt Motorhead

On 09/06/2023 at 16:12, NoelVilla said:

Yes that is him.

I'm not sure how I'm going to top this. Perhaps I'll get caught on Google Earth one day?

Safe standing stand but we got told off for standing...

Any idea when season tickets go on sale?

4 hours ago, il_serpente said:

My wife broke the glass front of one of the shelves in our refrigerator door.   Of course you can't buy just the glass and insert it, you have to buy the whole shelf.  So I look it up on line and the manufacturer wanted something like $700 for it!   A freaking plastic shelf with piece of glass in it!  I do some searching and find it from some place for just over $300 and order it.   A week later comes the e-mail saying it's out of stock and back-ordered, and the estimated ship date is in 2 weeks.   Every 2 weeks since February I've been getting an e-mail saying there's been a status change and the new estimated ship date is in another 2 weeks.

Finally had enough and cancelled the order and found it elsewhere for $400.   Still highway robbery.   We bought a 2nd fridge for our garage a few years ago, and it cost us 1/2 of what a damn shelf cost for our main fridge.   Absolutely bonkers.

Surely a piece of reinforced glass that size would be realtively cheap from a glass supplier?