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Having ruptured my ACL I can confirm that an ACL does not always look innocuous. No way its a rupture, maybe a little tear or a ligament tweak, but a rupture of your ACL is painful and you know somethings wrong straight away. With any other team he's fit next game, for us it'll be 6 weeks out with some ligament injury, I'm holding out hope it's not a season ender despite all the evidence of being a Villa fan all my life saying otherwise. Going by our luck he'll probably have to retire
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The matches are just the bits we see, all the other work training or in the gym etc is what the coaches see and if they aren't doing it they aren't getting picked. This idea that if they don't play in games "how can we know how well they'd do" is such a frustrating argument. WE won't know, but THEY will, from training. The likes of Bailey excelled in training, did well and forced his way into the team. Just because McGinn is horribly out of form it doesn't mean that the alternatives are only not being picked because the managers an idiot, if they aren't even playing to his level right now that probably says a lot about them tbh. There are a lot of sticks to beat Gerrard with, but not playing 2 players that the previous manager also didn't really play isn't one of them
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Lots of people don't live nearby as well, I live around 2 hours drive away and midweek games are just a total no go unless I have the full day off work and an either another off the next day or an easy day somehow. That 2 hour drive becomes a 4 hour drive once 5pm looms and days off work is a sacrifice that's only really going to be made for big games, and with the cost of living crisis even then only if you're lucky enough to be able to afford it Edit : in saying that 2000 seats left (mainly singles) a few days before a Friday night game isn't really too bad, I'd imagine we'll be down to the hundreds by kick off as well
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I'm not even sure sky would be that bothered, as long as the games aren't moved to 3pm Saturday (or perhaps the PL will allow a one off 3pm screening due to the circumstances), they'll take a small hit but still get the games on or they start at 5 or 7 or even 9pm. They manage regular night games in Spain perfectly fine. Its a unique situation that sky/PL will be allowed to find a one off solution for. The hit of reduced viewing figures is less than the hit of cancelling games then cramming them in midweek somewhere on the red button if we're lucky. I agree that London games will be in doubt though, although again I'm sure the clubs would agree to swap the home/away games to facilitate them where possible
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He's getting to the international break whether we like it or not. If (and its a big if) we win the next 2 games and play well then suddenly his start doesn't look quite as bad (still not good). That's when we can look and see where we are once the dust has settled a bit on the season by the time the world Cup rolls around which is a far better opportunity to be sacking and replacing a manager if he's underperforming. If we underperform and get anything less than 4 points from the next 2 then we can sack during this little break, although it would be far easier and far more stable if he can keep us ticking over until the world Cup before we replace him or, pie in the sky, if he actually can turn it around and make a success of us. Then we can all argue endlessly about whether he's still rubbish but lucked into a system or if he's the 2nd coming of Fergie, almost hope he fails just to avoid that!
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Literally no-one has said this. People are positive after a good performance and hoping he can improve us over the next couple of games. You're making things up then getting annoyed about it, you should get a job at the Daily Mail!
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That's the only time I've walked away from a 6-1 home victory raving about how good the right back was, unreal performance that night! Ash certainly rolled back the years on Saturday and hope that enables us to give Cash a bit of a break - he's still a quality player and will hopefully benefit from a bit of rotation. Wing back is a hard position to play 90 mins every week to a high standard
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I've been thinking of the captaincy. Mings has improved I think without it, McGinn has shriveled with it, but Emi seemed to absolutely thrive with the armband yesterday. He was back to his best, winding up the crowd, making good saves, and just making the whole defence assured in those last few minutes. I think he should be taking the captaincy full time, his personality just seems ready made to be captain and he's at his best when he's fired up and given responsibility. He's a natural leader in this team
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The big issue with Traore I think is that he spent basically the whole season out with various injuries and niggles last season, teams aren't going to risk big money on someone when there are serious question marks over their fitness. I think had we sold him after his first season we'd have got decent money back for him
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I'll tell you what, if he turns it around from here he'll finally replace Alex Ferguson as the go to for failing managers. Any time a manager is struggling people in 20 years will say "you know Steven Gerrard was only 1 game away from the sack"
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Scenes when we win 4-1 and you can't celebrate because you missed out on million to one odds
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Honestly, trying not to play into the memes but it's just very Steve Bruce. You know after a game where we get battered, 20 shots to 1, 70/30 possession, smashed in all the stats, if that 1 shot was a decent chance that led to a good save the whole post match press conference would be about how unlucky we were because "on another day that goes in". Like you say, if the opposition has tons of chances and spends the whole game camped in our box mistakes are going to happen, it doesn't mean those mistakes cost us the game
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Its the Boris Johnson approach. Never acknowledge any wrongdoing and tell everyone what an amazing job you're doing at every opportunity, anyone that tries to point out your horrendous record can get shouted down by your media mates for being fickle/project fear/fake news. Gerrard will never acknowledge he got anything wrong even if he takes us down, it'll be someone else's fault, the board, the fans, the players, and his media mates will come out and agree and tell us how hard done by he was. Main difference between football and politics is football has a lot of fairly independent news sources which are very popular so it's harder to keep the lie going for very long, but it's 100% what will happen. The likes of Carragher will tout him for every top 6 job going as well once he leaves here, guaranteed
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Midfield a bit light too
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I'd say deciding that 1 out of a dozen possible explanations is the only one to consider despite the fact that he was initially offered a contract when playing every week which he didn't sign. Anyway, I think we can both agree that he should be playing in our midfield every week with Kamara and 1 of Sanson/McGinn/Ramsey and we may never know the reason he hasn't signed a contract yet.
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And I accept that is a possibility, but is it an absolute certainty? Of course its not. By stating You are making enormous assumptions based on virtually no knowledge of the situation. For all we know he fancies himself in goal and is annoyed the manager hasn't given him a chance there
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Like I said, potentially loads of things. Maybe he wants a crack at Champions League so wants to keep his options open. Maybe a big team has been chatting with his agent and indicated that they'd sign him on a free on double his wages if he runs his contact down. Maybe he just doesn't like Birmingham. Maybe he's gotten bored of his Mrs and is looking for an excuse to get out. None of us have any idea into his thinking around signing a new contract. And I'm not even saying it's definitely not down to game time, but I'm saying that none of us can possibly know that for anything close to certain. If it is solely down to game time why didn't he sign last season when the contract was offered and he was playing every week?
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Becuase he was considering a contract offer so we treated him as normal, whereas Chuck made it clear he wasn't signing? Perhaps the noises from his camp was that he would sign it - there were loads of rumours to that affect around the start of the season, when the contract wasn't signed before the season he was benched and only thrown in recently as Gerrard is getting desperate? There are loads of potential explanations. I understand we are all in agreement about Gerrard being terrible at the moment, but that doesn't mean every single thing that happens is automatically his fault. Luiz has had LOADS of time to sign a contract if he wanted to, explain why he didn't sign last season if its only due to playing time?
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There is no way you can possibly know that. He was playing last season and didn't sign. Perhaps he's not playing because he's not signing the contract?
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Tbf he looked like a bargain, his performances dropped off last season but that's easy to dismiss due to fitness reasons as he'd barely played before coming here, but now several months later his fitness hasn't improved it seems which is a worry
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Having listened to the presser it seems he was taken off with cramp so should be fine the midweek. You really have to question why a 29 year old after a full pre season is physically completely shot after 65 minutes of the 4th game of the season which is typically when players are really getting into peak condition. Can't help but think we've signed a bit of a dud here
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He'll play Luiz, but in place of Kamara with Ramsey and McGinn as inverted 8s. Kamara off the bench in the 89th minute up front to try and nick a consolation goal
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That Archer sub is the sort of thing managers do to waste a bit of time at the end of the game, baffling
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I thought that, I know players won't generally do their own social media, but it's clear that they've been told to keep off it for now, for whatever reason. I'm sure the same thing happened before Smith was sacked but can't be sure
