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Texas_Mike

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  1. Not a bad assessemnt from Warnock. It was a goal kick although it happened so fast I can see how they missed it. We made such hard work of defending but I think Palace ran and chased and made it hard. I wish we had started 4-4-2 and as I think we might have scored eary on and put doubts in their mind. Good draw..... but a lonh way to go yet
  2. That sentence alone invalids all that you have said or indeed might say in the future. General you, Villa and the team are not letting anybody down. Some villa fans let themselves down but to everybody else have a very Merry Xmas.
  3. I too would like to see a more subtle and classy line of options available.Nothing to do with the club shop this but more woth the general selection available to the fan that doesn't want to ram their support down the throats of people they are around. I have to rise above the level of the average Cowboy fan!
  4. My biggest disappointment is that all of our momentum is lost. We may be out of Europe in 1 week and all the players that we should have been trying to sign will have another reason to look away. We had the world at our feet last December and now it is back on our shoulders. Happened so many times before. we all could see what was needed to be done 8 months ago. Why the people that can make actually make it happen cannot is totally beyound my understanding. Up the Villa!
  5. Well that was shit. Sidwell replacement for Barry - No chance. Defence made too many mistakes Midfield no creativity Forwards - nothing, not 1 shot on target. Pre season, yes it is. But how big a club are we? Chelsea are over here beating AC MIilan and Inter Milan ib their ore-season. We are piss poor against nobody. No depth. AAARRRGGGGHH!!! Come on MON plllleeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeeee!
  6. Do you think this will make MON wake up and start signing coz it is obvious we have no depth. It was obvious before but after this it is so friggin obvious
  7. A thread that will be looked back on in years to come as a classic :oops:
  8. We miss him IMO because 1) We seem more isolated up front 2) We are scoring goals on the break and not through sustained pressure where the ball is held up and worked 3) Thank god for Mr. OG 4) Our set pieces do not look as dangerous 5) We have limited options - MON prefers no-one up front From a results perspective we are doing great but how great will it be to have him back. Hopefully it will be like a new signing and he will be all fired up also.
  9. I know we don't comment on others in this thread well don't then General. Well done on the transfers. I admit a few weeks ago I hit the panic button. I beg your forgiveness and promise never to allow such thoughts to get into my head again.
  10. General I wasn't going to say anything more on transfers etc becuase I think it was beat to daeth last weekend. However after the papers suddenly sensationalized your comments, I just want to say.... keep doing what you are doing. It is great for everyone concerned. Some people are suggesting you say less, others that people that question what is going on, etc should be ashamed. Well I would like you to be available to any question or comment and if you don't like it or don't want to answer you do as you see fit. Here are my comments in a thread about the 30 million. It is how I feel so my request to you is to keep going through thick and thin, you are one huge asset to all concerned. ____________________________________________________________________ The Generals remit (as he would say) is to interface with the fans. Many fans had questions about our ability to being in new players. I was one of them because my head started to hurt when I looked at what MON appeared to be doing (or not doing). All the general did was confirm that money was not the hold up and used the 30 million as a way to get his point over. NOBODY with half a brain believes we are suddenly going to spend that type of money on 1 player. However the press do not have a brain at all and took the comments out of context for the benifit of headlines. It was probably 1 sorry ass reporter and the rest followed like sheep. The general should keep on going like he is. It keeps me coming back, to suggest he should keep his mouth shut or maybe only talk about 'how many tickets have we sold' or 'can we tell Sky to not move our games' would remove his worth. I hope that the fans message about transfers went from GK to Randy and right onto MON. If nothing else MON will have seen the 30M headlines and maybe it will make him up his sights a little because it is clear (as it always was) that what we do with new players is 100% down to MON.
  11. please don't enter discussions with other posters in this thread. The mods don't "censor" it (despite the temptation, on occasion). We let all views be put to the General. If you disagree with a poster, that's fine, but we want the General to see the range of views without the thread getting caught up in discussion between posters. Thanks. Blandy
  12. Thank F**k for your last point, I thought you were losing it to begin with. That is 100% the crux of the matter. Please do not criticize fans who care so much to express their opinions, it is what you are here for and the ones that are true followers are the ones posting (because they care). However you have confirmed my fears, MON is 100% in control of transfers and everybody else is standing around watching and waiting. Can Randy please call MON again and tell him players are important no matter what the cost. We are playing a dangerous game here in what appears to be bargin hunting English talent only. Why does MON seem so conserative with AVFC money when other managers want to spend, spend, spend? this I do not get becuase most Managers want to build a team no matter what the cost and it is the owners that cut then off when they want to go too far, MON appearrs to act like it is his money. Do you share these comments with Randy and MON? I would love MON to get a real flavor of the concern that is buidling because he is a great coach and it would be so sad to see the fans turn against him. 2 or 3 injuries and a loss of form will kill us General. Time will tell who is right, please let it be you, Randy and MON. This is one time I want to be so wrong in what lies ahead.
  13. General Tonight I am really frustrated and have to get it out of my system. This is not specifically aimed at you, I appreciate all you do and understand 100% the progress that has been made since you and Randy arrived but I also believe you toe the party line when when it comes to transfers. Maybe you know a lot more than we do but you must think as we do - WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? The Barry saga only adds to this but regardless where are the players we need in other positions? It is not this hard to sign players, it is not this hard to get existing players to re-sign on longer contracts. The way I see it now is that unless MON can to pull the trigger on 5 or 6 signing ASAP with at least 3 of these being quality players we are going backwards. You cannot lose Barry, Mellberg and Bourma (now Sidwell is also hurt) and not go backwards without major investment. My frustration is I see no sign of this. No bollocks about working hard .The time for talk is over; the time for action is now. I don't care if we pay 10 million for a player MON values at 8. Where is the ambition to go and sign a promising player from overseas. Yes it is a gamble but sitting on our ass is a bigger gamble. We do not appear to make offers for anyone that excites. In fact could you please tell me how many offers we have actually made apart from Bentley. I know you are going to be upset because you care also but but something is wrong. Please do not let us sign 4 or 5 journey men at the last minute to fill out the squad, that will be such a let down. We need players that the top 4 need, we need to get them when we can (like Ashley Young but before you say see we got him - we only did it after West Ham had agreed a price and he turned them down becuase he didn't want to go them - he would be their player now if he wanted and we would have been too late. Thank god he didn't want to go to them. I don't blame you or Randy unless you are thinking the same as us but are saying nothing to MON - effectively watching Rome burn General. If this is so then you and Randy are accountable. This is what I would do if I was Randy. 1) Ask MON for his 6 top targets 2) Take the Check book off MON and send him off to Spain with the message - don't worry about finances in transfrer we'll deal with it 3) Go out and sign the buggers - no messing, no haggling 4) Get a list of the players MON wants to extend contracts for 5) Go out and re-sign the buggers 6) Let MON coach us to a successful season If we don't move soon we are so screwed. I pray I am wrong, I pray we are just getting our ducks in a row. If we have no plan, no quality in the pipleline, no replacements for the quality leaving or hurt, I am going to be one disappointed fan and so are many more who live a lot closer to Villa Park than I do. Don't tell me I am wrong - SHOW ME! So ask yourself General, are you fiddling while MON burns down our dreams or am I going to feel stupid for questioning him when the quality signing suddenly appear. I would give anything to get down on my knees and ask for forgiveness from you, MON and anyone else. Here's to a great season. I still beleive, despite the rant. It's lonely here in Texas!!!
  14. Sorry to hear this. I know this is what Villa (Randy & MON) will do but I thought I'd say it anyway. Bourma is in his last year of contract, I hope the club will give him a new contract and enough time to recover. Business is business but sometimes doing the right thing at times is more important. Every supporter will be 100% behind you on this, we all like Freddy.
  15. Shit... someone nailed Ron Saunders to a cross???
  16. "but it is NOT just a matter of calling up a Club and Player and offering a wad of money....if it were that simple, we would have a bunch of players!" General with all due respect it might be that easy. I may be wrong but MON appears to be very cautiious with his dealings and I suspect he will not easily make an offer that cannot be refused. Why walk away from Bentley if he is someone we want. 1 offer, 1 refusal, a statement we offered a fair price so we wallk away. Throw some extra cash at them and see how they react. Don't worry about PR, we all know the score. The issue is purely driven by a lack of transfer spend. I think 99% of Villa fans know we aren't spending on transfers because MON is not asking. You do have a gem in him, many a manager would have tested Randy's pockets to the limit. I just want him to test Randy a little more than he is. Keep it up General..... our club is better and you a part of the reason. Just don't take you off the goal (a better team) - it could still go wrong.
  17. General What is the hold up in sorting out Bourma a new cotract. This has been talked about for many months now. In January he is free to sign with other teams. If I were him (or his agent) I would now wait and see what other offers come my way. It doesn't seem right that we wait until the last moment all the time. If one of the bigger teams show an interest he'll be off like Mellberg when in my opinion he should be now sitting on a 3 or 4 year contract. Next up is Ashley Young. Are there plans to tie hiim down to a new long term deal before it's too late here also. Sorry to be negative but the season is upon us and we appear to have done nothing proactive in these areas. I really thought we would be set by now. Someone should be sorting these things out in the off season.
  18. General Given the long list of players we need in almost every posiiion (as a supporter) do you find it just a little alarming that we have failed to sign even 1 person and yet we are only days away from pre-season training?
  19. Just shop here. I seem to think it was free shipping http://www.worldsoccershop.com/shop-by-team-aston-villa-fc.html Sorry to answer for the General but it was where I purchased mine from last year
  20. Great post General. Addressed all my concerns and then some!
  21. General we hear you, the worry is that you do not hear us guys that have been around awhile. Very shortly we will know if the approach adopted by Villa vs. the approach taken by others (i.e. make very loud sand bold tatements of intent) is successful, I will be the 1st to say you were right if we do not get screwed here but if Barry leaves underpriced with not so much as wimper then you will have lost the battle.... not the war but 1st battle to break the so called big four. Good luck, we are 110% behind you.
  22. By coincidence this is the latest out of Man Utd... from Sunday Times This is us and his is how I would love Villa to react. MANCHESTER United are so determined not to sell Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid that they would let him rot on the sidelines rather than cave in to pressure should the player and the Spanish champions try to force through a move. The hardline stance was spelt out by Sir Alex Ferguson and comes directly from the Glazer family, who control United. For United’s American owners, standing up to Real has become a point of principle and they are understood to have echoed in private the vow that Ferguson has made publicly - not to allow the Spanish giants to “ride roughshod” over their club. “The thing people miss the point about is that I’ve had a couple of meetings with the Glazers,” said Ferguson. “Their attitude is ‘to hell with them’ (Real). They would sit a player in the stand. There’s absolutely no doubt about it. They’d do it just to prove a point and not to give in to these people. They’ve got balls, I can tell you. I’ve been delighted with them in that respect.” And from From BBC..... (professional and clear) AC Milan have rejected an approach from Chelsea for permission to talk to coach Carlo Ancelotti about the vacant manager's position at Stamford Bridge In 2007, he signed two-year contract extension to keep him at Milan until 2010. Galliani added: "The fact that our coach is sought after and esteemed pleases me a lot but Carlo Ancelotti will remain Milan's coach."
  23. General Not wishing to beat you around the head with this topic but if this is the forum to take the pulse of the supporters then here goes. I don't want us to take the high 'professional' ground with Liverpool. Yes for sure when we are looking at players conduct our selves as Randy would like but we are the ones under attack here. Liverpool's manager and captain are openly appraoching Barry. What did Rafa say "if you your captain wants to leave it is unfortunate but get over it". Why the hell can't we say iif we don't want to sell a player that is under contract then you get over it beacuse under no circumstances is he coming to you and by the way here is our offer for Gerrard. Isn't attack the best form of defense (not spelling!). Take a leaf out of ManUtd book last season. One of their players wanted to go Liverpool and they said no. The player wanted to go, Liverpool wanted him but Fergie refused to sell to a rival. They even went to court over it but Fergie won out in the end. He was protecting his turf. That player is now in Spain! Right now I would rather you tell Barry he can't leave, his contract can expire in 2 years and then he can go where he wants. I don't care if he is unhappy. I don't want an arrogant rival pushing us around. Coconuts Gerneral is what we want to see and I don't mean the ones that grow on trees. As has been said before, today it is Barry, tomorrow it will be Young. I tell you, it is the way it has been for years, learn from the mistakes of the past. Keep up the fantastic work and remember coconuts good sir.
  24. You know General the more I think about it the more I really am pissed off by how Liverpool have acted in all this. they have shown us no respect. First of all there are the leaks a couple of weeks ago of their interest and now they appear to be back stirring it up again. I am pissed becuase of the timing, their season is over but ours is very much still going and yet they show no consideration to being disruptive influence on our team. If you think about it, it is in their interest to unsettle Barry and have us miss out on Europe becuase the odds of him leaving will dramtically increase if we do. Will someone within Villa make a statement of their displeasure, I know MON has said a couple things but soemone on the Board. We are not buidling a team for ass-holes like Liverpool to cherry pick our talent WHEN they feel like it and they need to be told as much. I was not a fan of Chairman Doug but he would have stuck the middle finger up at them and slapped a ridiculous price on Barry's head. As someone said today Barry, tomorrow Young. The board need to send a message - DON'T MESS WITH RANDY!
  25. Following on from the Barry comment, I also hope Villa play hardball with any club that wants to buy our players. Look at the noises that are coming from Porto (20 Million for a RB), any player we are interetsed in the price quoted is always high. Curtis Davies and Ashley Young took us forever to close the deals. I fear that MON will say Barry has been a good servant to the club so if he wants to leave then he can. Someone needs to say OK put the price on his head is 25 Million, so lets see who is still interestsed. If they value Barry at 10 Million, then a return bid of 1 Million for Carson and 2 Million for Crouch should be perfectly acceptable to them.
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