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  1. MarkLillis
    This is how I always think of Villa. I’m used to it now. We are everybody’s fall guy when a team need a win…. West ham you are welcome
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    I think this theory has a ring of truth about it. Maybe some managers are more risk averse than others. Take Graham Potter for example he probably would be happier than SG to take a risk on unknown CB.
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    You realise that you can’t pay any attention to what fans on forums say…..don’t you?
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    Just can’t understand how everyone knows so much about Bednarek? Just how does a Villa fan know how he played during his time at Southampton? Im a regular at VP and I can’t make my mind up about OUR players……..let alone an obscure Polish centre back that plays for another team.
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    So you’re not a “glass half full kind” of guy then….
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    You say most of that is in jest but generally it’s is spot on the mark. Your not doing yourself justice with regard to the accuracy of this appraisal. Well said
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    The word shambles is not a very good description of how we operate in the transfer market under this regime. Of course we have been a shambles in the past....
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    Tell him we are just spending the money we got for a relatively untried academy graduate.That’s inflation for you…
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    Not being a Southampton fan I haven’t paid much attention to this guy. Therefore I really have no idea if he’s a good footballer or not. If he signs for Villa I will watch him more closely and make an opinion then.
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    Like him A lot!
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    Agreed professional football without a plan…..? We would have lost by far more. Plan that didn’t work most definitely. If he didn’t have a plan then he definitely hasn’t got a plan b which as we all know is every football managers ultimate downfall. We are really in the sh@t
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    It’s not just Villa who have a large percentage of entitled fans…… Leeds Man Utd Arsenal I could go on……..you can talk to Baggie’s fans who think their club is well known for an attacking brand of football based on a couple of seasons in the late 70s Or West Ham fans who think that they should only see a certain brand of pure passing football when their team plays. All fans think they deserve a good team with a good style of play……it’s normal for a fan to think like this.
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    Thanks for listing Carneys highlights.These have come during approx 20 first team appearances btw. I can’t be sure but I think Gareth Barry was in the frame for England by then. But Carney has hit the post I guess
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    What I have to say is that if a player has something special you see it. You see in the first few touches of the ball no matter how young they are (in fact the younger the player the more fearless they are).Gareth Barry or Jack are good examples and you could tell very early on that Lee Hendrie would have a good career. I have yet to see it with this boy. Good career maybe….great one highly unlikely.
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    This is the after effects of our horrendous decline in the past decade. Nobody relates Aston Villa with having a good team anymore. We are not considered capable of getting it right by the majority of (dare I say it….) knowledgeable football fans. In fact I find it hard to convince myself we can!
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    This is the truth…..they don’t back their own side…. they put pressure on them their intense desperation to achieve something like past glory (which cannot be possible in the current climate IMO)
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    Very lucky not to drop last year. Ive said it before and I’ll say it again there is always a sense of desperation around Elland Rd especially in big matches. it effects their players and until they can attract the standard of player that can cope with the atmosphere there during important matches they will struggle.
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    Just don’t buy it.Any of it! Replica kit is always overpriced and generally not good looking or particularly flattering for most blokes. it’s been a rip off for years. Agree with the point (sorry can’t remember who made it!) that kids prices should be subsidised so that we would have more young fans able to run around the playground or park in our colours.
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    Then one year later sign for Man City because they paid his release clause and “he needs to play the highest level he can” Pep will then proceed to play him in approx 20% of the seasons matches….
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    I was just beginning my love affair with football and Villa. I hadn’t attended a live match (Dad was unemployed which was not unusual in 1982) but watched anything I could on TV and played every chance I got. I was actually on a Coca Cola super skills(remember them?) class at my local park and the coach finished early so we could get back to watch that game. I don’t remember much about it tbf Nigel Spink coming on and doing a lap of the living room followed by a very strange press up type celebration in front of the tv when we scored before being told to settle down it’s only football! At the time I thought Villa winning stuff was normal…the naivety of youth eh.
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    I have to say I want Leeds to go. Elland Road has an incredible atmosphere but the way they are it actually works against their side in important fixtures IMO. You can almost feel the desperation through the TV…. Everton would be good for the spectacle but i think their fans have really rallied round once they realised how much sh@t they were in.They will get a result against Palace. However I think actually will be Burnley and that will be……dull.
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    He was great for us! One of our best ever players without a doubt. However he is now playing against Villa, he’s not “one of us” he’s a player…a player that swapped possibly legendary status at his boyhood club for a bit part play in a trophy winning franchise. If they win of Sunday it won’t be an Aguero moment there will be nothing special about it and the rest of football will forget what happened by the start of June. However an Aston Villa player scoring a winner or an equaliser will go down in Liverpool history in the same way as Bosco Jankovic is fondly remembered here. UTV
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    I think that level of refereeing will improve as soon as we start quizzing refs after the final whistle.Like players and managers are. They should be interviewed about the key decisions in the game and asked for their perspective. We will soon see which refs are actually in control and know why they have made the decisions they make. It’s too easy for them at present no matter what there performance is like they are protected from the aftermath of their mistakes by refereeing pundits who watch replays and think of excuses for them. Make them defend themselves in the full glow of the media after all they are happy to take centre stage during the game!
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    There is a lot of opinion out there on Steven Gerrard.It’s understandable that as he hasn’t exactly set the world on fire (like Howe at Newcastle that people feel underwhelmed. However the PL is an unforgiving league and a new coach will make mistakes and they will be punished.I think we have suffered from Gerrard and his teams “teething” problems this season and hopefully next year will be better. We aren’t the only fans to maybe expect to much from a new manger in his first season….Talk to a Wolves fan about Bruno Lage they are confused as to whether he is the right man or not too!
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    Did great work for us!
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