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All to play for second half, if Bailey had just taken one step forward we’d have gone 1-0 up, Lenglet nearly cost us though in not holding the line, thankfully we have the world number one in nets.

Feel like it’s there to be won if we can get a bit more intensity out of Diaby and Bailey but it’s on a knife edge as we could easily concede and lose.

I’m sure it was gusto who got sent off against us earlier in the season for a very similar challenge on Digne

Usually when a player comes back from a long layoff there’s a period of getting back up to speed and rustiness.

Not for De Bruyne, looked like he’d never been away and changed the game.

8 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

I wish TNT would make their mind up which one of our badges they are using. They've used both today for the table

You can’t really blame them though, we can’t make up our own bloody minds on it seemingly 

Warrington Town’s goalkeeper scored a 97th minute equaliser in their National League North match, second time he’s done it this season already!

Does Eddie Howe expect the rest of us to feel sorry for them or something.

’oh poor us, we want to improve and buy every player under the sun but we have to abide by the same rules as everyone else’

Yeah no shit moron, lots of clubs would be out there buying players if it weren’t for FFP, Newcastle aren’t the only team with means.

The longer he’s in that job the less I like him.

49 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

Hold on, they've spent £400 million and they are midtable in the PL.

I'm not sure if that us good business at all...they are the new Chelsea but with an inferior manager.

They’ve had significant injuries and other selection issues for most of the season so far

5 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Referee has now insisted the trainers come on for a player who didn't want treatment and is now forcing him to leave the pitch. That's not within his remit surely?

 

Perfectly reasonable though given that he’s feigning injury to waste time, clearly 

Adidas, finally. As someone who wears a lot of it already just take my money now.

Would be even better if it turned out to be Adidas Originals specifically but guess that’s a step too far in the dream.

The overuse of the word ‘moment’ in football now.

I’m sure it started with the influx of foreign managers and the broken English they’d speak in during the early stages of their time in the UK (understandably of course) but it’s now used by all and sundry.

’So and so are in a good moment currently’ , ‘we had lots of good moments in the game’ - maybe it’s just me this bothers.

From Wayne Rooney to Tony Mowbray, smacks of a total lack of plan in my view. I’m sure he’ll keep them up because he is at least a semi competent Manager with a lot of experience but I don’t think he’s built a reputation on playing ‘fearless football’ and his teams either seem to blow hot or cold in the main.

If there’s any merit in the players actively wanting Rooney out then you’d imagine they probably wanted Eustace back in (not that the ‘brave’ new owners would even contemplate publicly acknowledging that they messed up in sacking him in the first place of course) and will Tony Mowbray satisfy them? Time will tell of course.

It wasn’t that long ago Gervais was almost universally lauded as being a comic genius.

He hasn’t changed, society has, which ironically enough was kinda the point he was making repeatedly during Supernature.

36 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Not even Will Evans?  

Goal machine this season but yeah, no

Wasn’t it a bit weird over the summer too? He basically skipped pre season entirely and was seemingly on holiday in Barcelona, unless I’m completely misremembering.

2 hours ago, MrBlack said:

Ha, seems so! Now I wonder if there are any starlets at Newport we fancy that we can put 100k on and pocket the 2.4m ?

As someone with a keen interest in Newport I can safely say that’s a no.

31 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Has he really deleted all Villa related content from his socials ? If that’s true, what a baby! 

He did that months ago 

1 hour ago, Tom13 said:

I actually think he's quite a good passer technically, but the amount of passes he plays which are intercepted, especially at PL level, shows he struggles with concentration.

Beast in the air and physically, but always has a mistake in him.

I remember his debut at LB he was awful, then played LB at Villa Park soon after and was skinning players and everything.

Yeah his debut was horrific, Brentford away I think wasn’t it? 
 

It’s the most over the top reaction I’ve ever written on here following a player debut, I honestly thought he looked like a raffle winner that night but fair play to him, he got better and became a good squad member for a time, able to step in and cover when needed and there aren’t many with a winning goal at Mould Trafford to their name.

Not sure where he goes from here but I hope he carves out a career at a decent level, Championship most likely unless he fancies a go abroad.

Good for him, hopefully he can restart his career now though that’s likely to be away from Villa you’d suspect.

Amazing story, the double bull he threw yesterday was just taking the piss, and the attempted 180 when he only had 182 left, got balls of steel for a 16 year old.

£200,000 secured and a chance to increase it to £500k tonight, whether he looks 16 or 40 he’s going to be very popular in town on a Saturday night now.

Mental to think he could be doing this for the next 30+ years, that’s a whole heap of money right there for doing something you love and which frankly, you don’t need to adjust your lifestyle too much to accommodate.

22 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

Safer, but much less significant - get through the group stages of the Champions league once and you'll make the money that the new North Stand would over a decade. TV money is king to the point where unless you're the absolute top of the pile, stadium incomes aren't a great differentiator. I dunno, it feels that maybe the incremental growth of matchday revenues will now take a back seat to the opportunity for Champions league qualification and a doubling of our TV and sponsorship revenues. I'm sure we'll come back to the stadium - but for now, perhaps they're just concentrating on the extremely juicy lowest hanging fruit?

In fairness, that approach fits in a little bit with the post-Gerrard approach - something clicked and we went from looking for slow but consistent growth and being a developing project into getting the best we can to win right now - perhaps the prioritisation of revenue streams fits into that. I dunno, I'm just fishing for something that makes sense.

 

 

Maybe the owners are privy to far more information than the rest of us with regards the Super League that hasn’t gone away, maybe it’s now or never in terms of being a top European club to gain access to the new top table, maybe that’s had an impact on the perceived quickening of timetables and also the halting of the redevelopment.

I dunno, just spitballing but the recent legal announcement on the super league seems to have been followed up with an unexpected and reserved reaction from those involved in driving it all, given how brash they were first time around maybe it’s actually going to happen in the not too distant.

14 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

lost 2 CL finals and broke records in finishing 2nd, that's an indication as to how good they are

so why haven't they won the league cup more than once? is it as simple as they just prioritise those 2 competitions over the other 2, or are they not very good at cups? or do they think the league cup is beneath them? all 3 of those would lead me to suggest they've underachieved 

if you say man city since klopp was appointed have won 50% of the 3 domestic trophies on offer then you say liverpool are the 2nd best team for most of that time span yet they've only won 12.5% of them, same as man utd, chelsea, arsenal and leicester have won 8% of them

this Liverpool team is too good for that to be the case and it not to raise a question as to whether or not they should have won more

and we seriously saying that pep's man city are so much better than klopp's liverpool that 11 domestic trophies (in one year less) to 3 is met with a shrug of the shoulders? 

One of those two teams has been found to have broken the financial rules over a hundred times. The other has not.

I’d suggest it’s fair game to not be too critical of any team for not winning many trophies during the ‘City era’.

How much has Rooney cost them I’d be interested to know, 3.5 year deal they’ll have had to pay up, plus the back room and coaching staff he will have brought in (assuming he did bring some in), you’d think given their financial woes it’s going to hamstring them somewhat further.

Ah that’s a shame, it was fun whilst it lasted though! 
 

Slightly worried they’ll entice someone decent like Cooper but hoping they look for another ‘big name’ and give it to Sol Campbell or something.

Just need QPR or Sheff Weds to put some results together now, fingers crossed Wednesday can make the man advantage count in the second half