weedman

Can someone please explain how he not only didn't get a penalty first half, but also somehow got a fk given against him for being clearly dragged to the ground? Then his yellow card for basically running around the player to the ball? Is he sleeping with the refs wife or something?

4 hours ago, T-Dog said:

A lot of Ajax fans in Lower Holte tonight, including one right by us, moody boy too.

Yeah lots in Trinity as well, literally showed up wearing Ajax shirts and singing their songs! Ballsy 

Did we register him for the PL and/or Europe in Jan? If not he can't play anyway so he's still a way off and if we did he might actually be nearly back!

8 hours ago, CVByrne said:

I'd be very surprised if we collapsed. Spurs are just gamblers and lucky ones. They just let games been end to end chaos and are wildly overachieving on their xG in terms of results. They may drop off a lot while Chelsea may click into gear.

Spurs are just Leeds under Bielsa with better players, they'll continue to pick up injuries due to playing at 100mph and their players being shattered but be involved in some really good games as the style is exciting to watch if nothing else 

Just popped on a spurs forum to see what they were saying about that awful Romero tackle in their game and the majority are full of praise for it. One person even said they love seeing Romero do those tackles and hope he targets Cash next to end his career.

Not one person has pointed out that his tackle was a far worse one on a far more injury prone player than the one they want Cash hung drawn and quartered for 

3 minutes ago, Gompedyret said:

50 PL victories and 500 pages in VT. This guy is going places!

So we need another 10 pages by Saturday to keep the 10 VT pages per victory ratio intact, easy 

Just now, Davkaus said:

There's a Villa player out of frame off the pitch, so it's just Martinez we're looking at, he was pretty clearly on 

Does him being off the pitch still count as the last man? Harsh 

It's mad that there are people moaning about other people moaning that other people are moaning about a player that most are kind of nonplussed about 

4 hours ago, briny_ear said:

Not really sure why he wasn’t given a yellow for his southpaw effort on Ollie. 

Yeah he should have been booked for the initial challenge then booked again for the afters, but let's be honest we all know that's exactly where these new rules will fall apart and the guaranteed yellow for kicking the ball away or delaying a pk will be replaced with final warnings instead (especially if you play for a sky 6 team or Newcastle)

19 hours ago, Deano & Dalian's Umbrella said:

This is complete guesswork but we now have Wilson happy to say that Mings has an ACL injury but not happy to disclose (other?) details which means that Wilson is either worse than me at keeping secrets or there are additional details he isn't saying.

Combined with the official site saying it will require "lengthy rehabilitation" whereas for Buendia, it said 6-8 months which is the standard thing the physio and doctor would tell the manager for an ACL, this makes me suspect that Mings has injured additional structures which need reconstructing.

The most likely candidate would be a collection of structures known as "the posterolateral corner".

If someone has this and the ACL reconstructed together, return to play could be more like 1 year.

I did that on my knee along with having meniscus repaired, after about 14-18 months I felt fine to play again properly and that lasted a few years but my knee gives me constant issues now. Admittedly I never had the kind of rehab that Mings will have and let's just say I'm not quite the physical specimen he is either, so potentially a year out for him 

The worst bit was it delays the start of any meaningful rehab for a month or 2, but after that the recovery is the same as just acl. So whatever the normal recovery time is + a couple of months probably 

25 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

The thing that worried me was Emery said 'we'll send him for the scan tomorrow', not sure if choice of words but I would hope we have a specialist(s) on retainer and get it scanned and being treated and iced etc literally as soon as possible surely waiting till the next day could have a very adverse effect?

Scanned today or scanned tomorrow doesn't really make any difference to the injury, regardless he'll be strapped up and all precautions taken until they know the full extent of it, can't normally get surgery until the swelling goes down anyway

1 hour ago, Dodgyknees said:

They would talk about it, “Newcastle were shell shocked after an injury to a key player and didn’t get their heads up again” would be the line.

No chance, this isn't Bournemouth Vs Man Utd. No-one talked about how Newcastle had a few players out when we smashed them last season, it was all how good we were.

From our point of view we were shell shocked by the Ming's injury and already missing 3 key players in Moreno, Buendia and Ramsey, from a neutral point of view it was a highly impressive and comprehensive victory against a well fancied team

12 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

SSN Super Sunday raving about how Newcastle have "lighted up the league, blew Villa away, couldn't handle them in the last half hour, amazing signings"....

No mention of Villa, signings, or more importantly our guy Mings who is now not going to play, in what should still be, one of the best Villa seasons for years. Though I guess if it was a Rashford, or or a Saka, it'd be the headline of the day, disgusting really, was totally ignored!!

Tbf if we'd beaten them 5-1 and they kept talking about their player getting injured in the 1st half when we were already winning how would you feel about that? 

We're everyone's dark horses this year and Newcastle just pulled off a hugely impressive win, of course that's what they're talking about 

Honestly it's bad enough they're charging for pre season friendlies (when the club we're playing has it available for free) but to charge and provide worse quality that most illegal streaming sites is a joke 

7 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

A " powerful " feeling? ITK?

On a sidenote, Misha just posted that their is word in Italy we are after a Brazilian striker, Marcos.Leonardo, " according to DiMarzio " etc

Signed him on football manager, was the only player remotely close in goals to Haaland and ended up selling for £60m to Bayern and he's now linked with City for £200m.

So based on that I've literally never heard of him and would be absolutely over the moon if we signed him 

2 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

I've seen the opposite.

A load of pundits and other fans have said we will be " this seasons team to watch ", The " Dark Horse " and " Villa can get Champions League ".

I actually don't know if i like it because I feel we could be setting up for disappointment, even if we have a relatively good season.

Can't be assed with the trolling if we don't make it either.

Teams and opposition fans are defo keeping an eye on us IMO.

It seems the signing of Diaby stunned a few.

Yeah I'm with you, I've seen a lot of pundits bigging us up for next season now and when people find out I'm a villa fan they've pretty much all said how good they think we'll be next season and what a top manager emery is. I think the casual fan expects us to be right up there next season 

11 hours ago, HolteExile said:

Loads of supporters from other clubs were happy to see us drop. 

Prob for the novelty of it, as much as anything else. And the fact that we stank the league out for about five years before we did go. 

Don't actually mind Lesta. A league title and FA Cup bagged in the last seven years.  And none of this 'mind the gap' nonsense we get from some of our other neighbours. Their fans give us a bit of stick when we play (as it should be). But don't have the obsessive tendencies of the other lot. 

 

It's because it's funny to see a big club fail. We (along with everyone else) laughed at Newcastle, everyone laughed at us, we'd all find it hilarious if spurs found themselves in the bottom 3 even if it was only 5 games into a season, it's just what happens.

There's no real bad feeling when a small team goes down, a Leicester or Norwich or Bournemouth etc, if that teams had some success most people quite like that and will remember them fondly.

If next season we're in the bottom 3 with Brighton they'll have loads of support and we'll have loads of memes and everyone reveling in it, even though they finished above us the season before

4 hours ago, Zatman said:

Was a last minute winner

Duh silly weedman of course it was! I'll edit that now

I'd add the last minute winner v Watford the season we barely survived. They had full on new manager bounce and were in incredible form, had gone from rock bottom to 17th and above us in the weeks prior and took an early lead through Deeney and that last kick of the game, while huge for us would have been totally demoralising for them and they went on to get relegated while we survived on the last day

On 23/05/2023 at 21:35, Mantis said:

March 2009 - the 2-2 draw at home against Stoke where we threw away a 2 goal lead in the last 5 minutes. If we'd have won we'd have been 8 points clear in 4th, admittedly with still a lot of games to go but after that game we went on a 4 game losing streak and would only win 2 more games that season. We haven't really been as close to CL qualification since.

One thing that's always forgotten about this game is that we should have had a stonewall penalty in the last seconds. I think it was Carew clear through on goal with the ball bouncing at chest height and the defender just reached around him and swatted the ball away.

Winning that game would have been massive as not only would it put us clear but it would have justified MON playing the kids in Europe and given us huge momentum, instead we got a kick in the teeth, a load of bad feeling that we threw Europe away for nothing and a damp squib end of the season

1 hour ago, wishywashy said:

Making a "you will offend the snowflakes" argument while you're mad that Carlos has the gall to be happy in the moment alongside someone close to him after 9 months of hell is a bold strategy

Isn't it funny that the people most offended by "snowflakes" and "cancel culture" are the quickest to get upset and offended when someone does something they don't like

1 minute ago, Rustibrooks said:

Is there a table that shows VAR decisions for and against? Specifically penalty decisions?

The holy trinity dude on YouTube keeps track of it 

Are we really arguing Buendia isn't good enough for us because he's not as good as prime Grealish and De Bruyne? One a £100m player and the other arguably the best player in world football?

Came here to see if anyone had a gif of that filthy pass to Moreno in the first half, disappointed

11 hours ago, Zatman said:

The arrogance of our fans mocking the Conference League is embarrassing

We havent played a game in Europe since 2010 and the closest we got in that time was away games at Swansea. We havent even finished top half since 2011

I don't think it's arrogance really, personally I'd love any form of European competition, it'd be a real sign of progress and with European specialist Emery a genuine chance of a trophy for the first time in forever, but I don't think it's right to label fans as arrogant for looking at what's happening to West Ham this season and thinking is it worth it? This time next season would we not rather be in Newcastle's position than theirs? Not in Europe but genuine CL contenders and everyone talking about them

Thursday night European games do impact your league season, and I think a lot of people would prioritise the PL over the conference league as we'd be much more likely to succeed longer term by pushing up the table.

If anything, it's more arrogant to assume we'd be able to compete in the conference league and progress in the PL at the same time than to favour one over the other 

2 hours ago, burchy said:

Capology (I know) has his ‘verified’ salary as 35k, it has him on 11.5k when at Betis.

It doesn’t really matter as he’s a little gem of a fullback, great pick up regardless of his salary. 

Couldn't agree more, it's not my money, I don't care what he's paid, as far as I'm concerned he's at least as good as Digne (I'd say better but early days so far) so their salaries should be comparable and I'm confident he's on far far less than Digne, so it's a bargain even if he's on double that £35k