smg

48 minutes ago, nick76 said:

 

There are obviously a few club exceptions but I always laugh when people talk about Anfield like that, even Klopp has commented about it before, even recently 

 

 

Pleased I made you laugh.

59 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Nope.

You?

Nope, quite happy with the progress the club is making looking forward to continued development in the next couple of seasons that could allow us to have a serious impact on the Champions league rather than do a Newcastle this season. Patience is the key.

6 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

The good news is it'll take about 10 mins to tell if we're still playing at a snail's pace.

That happens, I'll be turning the game off. Not watching another painful death by a thousand cuts.

Looking for a new team then ?

2 hours ago, Pinebro said:

Players gave them nothing to get behind in fairness.

Can't expect it to be rocking when they are so passive

2nd half they showed some fight and crowd responded.

I have said this before the Villa crowd is Reactive NOT Proactive, loud when things on the pitch are good silent when they are not. This is not good for the players. The crowd has a huge role to play in getting the team going at difficult times in the game. The crowd at Anfield is a good example of how this works.

13 hours ago, Ponky said:

Absolutely top drawer young keeper. Has all the attributes but also maturity beyond his years. Will be Australia's no 1 soon enough.

I think if this goes through it will be a loan back deal until next season. Sitting on the bench watching Emi won't do much for him or us.

Training with him and the coaches on a daily basis might however .

4 minutes ago, Rodders said:

We're toast and fill finish 6th or 7th. Can't score, can't defend and losing to these evil rocket polishers is the pits. God I despise every single person associated with Newcastle. Hope all their fans die in agony

Sorry but that last comment is a disgrace. 

45 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Ugh. I’m not feeling confident and it’s going to get ugly on here if we don’t win. 

Some people on here would love that. How many sets of fans turn ugly when their team is in the top 5 of the premier league ?

26 minutes ago, Nigel said:

Bloody hell the Newcastle natives are not looking forward to this!

 

Just had a look they are worse than us for negative comments.

1 hour ago, Pinebro said:

At least he is better than Chambers. Just.

He's massively better than Chambers.

8 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Must win for me.

We don't want to fall into the mentality of suddenly thinking draws at home are acceptable and get into that routine as that WILL cost us top 4.

Newcastle have been terrible away from home all season bar that massive win in Sheffield. 5 away points all season and we're getting stick for our away form, we accumulated more away points than them by mid September.

This game being so close to deadline day helps us aswell as have to think they're not going to risk Trippier or Almiron if they're seriously going to sell them 24 hours later to pay the FFP bills.

I'll go for 3-1 this year.

They are not serious about selling them.

just seen Howe on MOTD not so sure now

22 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

We're 7th in the away table which is higher than Chelsea are in the home table, fyi.

Fyi …….

40 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

BBC - Villa take Chelsea to replay.

What champions league placed Villa take mid table Chelsea to a replay? Are they having a laugh

Or recently improved Chelsea who have just got into the Carabao cup final are held to a draw by an Aston Villa team who have faltered in recent matches and are generally seen as being s**t away from home ?

32 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

We were rubbish. 

Sorry didn’t watch but we didn’t lose so are still in the competition. We could have been brilliant and lost would that have been better? Really don’t get how some followers like to consistently trash the players individually or the team as a whole. Let’s look on the bright side only 4 days before we can slag them all off again.

Just now, Leeroy said:

Yes but it goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks. Why he'll never be a top striker sadly. Top strikers might have 1,2, maybe even 3 off days in a row but not 7-8 games of no shows like Watkins.

So we have a question to answer. It has been said numerous times on here that the team have generally been poor in the last 7-8 games, is that because Watkins has been shit or has Watkins been shit because the team have been below par ?

2 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

Sure but he's streaky. When he's off form he's horrendous.

Kind of what “off form” means generally 

2 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

Worst player on the pitch in the first half, fact!

Doesn’t make him shit, why do you choose to ignore the goals and assists in previous seasons ?

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

He needs to do alot more, been quiet lately.

Doesn’t make him shit though.

1 minute ago, Leeroy said:

Genuinely starting to think Watkins is actually sh*t.

Please grow up !!

Just now, Herman22 said:

Amazing that a Villa player goes down with a head injury the ref doesn’t stop the game. 

We are becoming such victims.

11 hours ago, useless said:

Martha MacPhail made her senior debut last night, and is probably going to have that taken away, with only league games left if we're disqualified, I'm not sure if there will be many more opportunities left for her this season, unless we have an injury crisis, such a shame. Sunderland should have known Martiz was cup tied and said something, maybe they did not in the hope we would bring on, potentially resulting in them being reward the win to their benefit, so i would just let the score stand.

I asked earlier what other ways can we  come up with to justify not being thrown out of the competition and you offer this, we should not be thrown out because a young player is going to have her senior debut taken away. You then go on to better this by blaming our opponents , priceless .

Are there any other ways we can come up with to justify us not being kicked out of the competition for not complying with the rules ?

2 hours ago, useless said:

Still think the player has a responsibility to raise the fact she has already  played in the competition for another team.

29 minutes ago, S-Platt said:

There is previous to this we lost to West Ham in the League Cup on pens in 1999 but they fielded Onoyimni who was eligible.  Won the replay I know this as went to both games  

Seems Reading got kicked out of the tournament in 2014 for exactly the same thing .