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    Not the best news. However we have to deal with it the best way we can. We aren’t the only side with crucial players out injured. We are just the only side that the media will ignore when it comes to injuries. There will no injury hit Villa battling on reports you can bet on that.
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    Ok so the result wasn’t good. However the performance was! I’m with Unai ,this thing isn’t going downhill at all. In comparison with the last month it’s looking up again. UTV
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    We have to make a particular way of traveling to and from VIlla Park so obviously easier that much less people choose other ways. Extra carriages at trains stopping at both stations seems a no brainer but I’m sure there are reasons why it’s not done. Buses to town that can use a match day route which maybe is unavailable to other traffic (like bus lane) for an hour after the match. A specific walking route to down that is clearly signposted and maybe stewarded (overkill maybe)
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    I have never understood why this can’t be done.
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    Since 1910 Wigan - one FA Cup = 1 Portsmouth - two leagues two Fa Cups = 4 Leicester - Three league cups one FA cup and one Premier League = 5 Aston Villa - one league title one FA Cup five league cups = 7 …and of course 1982 if we can’t get it right how can we expect the media to bother?
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    Unai Emery

    MarkLillis replied to PeterSw's topic in Villa Talk

    Any big city club with a large fans base thinks they "should" be winning things. Examples below Newcastle Everton Villa Spurs Even Wolves ffs and they've only recovered over the last 5 years or so. The tin pot clubs know who they are and are very grateful when they are in a run of form and accept more readily when it goes away Brentford Brighton Luton Forest (borderline with these guys as i think they might have a few fans who still live in the 1970/80s similar to us) Palace
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    They really don't like this...... "Get yower oowon academy yow vile b@stards"
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    There was also an overtime ban for trains staff which caused later trains especially to be cancelled. Now whilst i would of definitely stayed and got an Uber home if we were pressing at the end, by 85mins it was clear that there was only one winner. Villa Park is notoriously bad to travel to/from - combine bad result/motorway problems/train problems/and stupidly late kick off times and you get empty seats at the end. In fact you may well of seen similar scenes if we were winning comfortably at 85mins.
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    This is the truth. With the exception of a couple of duds (and even they had their moments) we’ve been signing good players for years. unlike previous regimes I feel completely relaxed about our signings.
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    No I don’t think we are. The extra add ons will only be paid after his performances have more than paid us back. Some of the £7.5m is payback to Citeh for his original cheap fee in the summer when he moved to Boro. Finally Boro have to make some profit over and above the £1.5m they paid for him. if you look at it like that it’s a great deal….one we have to make. Small risk big upside
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    Any decision this version of Aston Villa make will not be forced.
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    Nowhere,but there is some speculation in the media that we may have too. Hence the conversation
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    The profit and sustainability rules mean all clubs are sell to buy.Some just have higher bar and are able to operate at a higher level. Even without the rules you would suggest that most clubs would still be sell to buy as it’s always been. We sold Jack and others to get where we are now. Just like the sale of Andy Gray funded the purchase of Peter Withe.. Sell to buy is a common sense way to run a football club but in this crazy age of state ownership it has to be enforced.
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    If I was in charge of the club I wouldn’t have sacked Dean Smith……ever. The consequences of that are obvious. P.S I was a big fan of Lambert and he wouldn’t have gone either.
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    Whilst I don’t disagree with the general message here i personally don’t like use of the poor. Aston Villa are not a “poor” team and neither have the performances been since the 15th minute of the Arsenal game either. Whilst we haven’t performed to our potential we have clearly been missing important cogs in our team. Poor! Please say it again and then compare some of the performances that have been genuinely poor in our recent history.
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    Cheating is a bit strong I agree….however the effort he’s goes to to cover it up is dare I say unprecedented. I don’t think I’ve seen a player do that before. Its sort of against the grain don’t you think?
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    There’s a quite intriguing theory that promising young players can be coached to become very good players. I wonder if this is part of our plan?
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    “It all started with the lunge into Martinez's chest early on.” It did. I noticed the narrative from the pundits was a very dated response. Basically describing it as Emis fault for playing out from the back,almost like he deserved to get kicked for doing it.He then played a short pass out to Bouba with the resulting freekick which was met by cries of “he’s done it again!” The way football strategy has developed has left many people in football behind and I wonder if the ref on Sunday was one of them…. Did he think we deserved to get kicked for playing risky tippy tippy football?
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    We are Villa fans with burnt fingers.
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    I like watching Spurs. There I’ve said it. Not as much as I like watching Villa but still…..
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    I have a feeling it will pan out like this: They will get another points deduction. The blue half of Merseyside will go into meltdown and loads of others in football too. The appeal tribunal will conveniently award them back the points they lost in the first deduction. It will feel a little like a win and the fallout from the second deduction won’t be as bad.
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    If pundits want to talk about a title race in January then yes we are in it.Although they only reason they actually mention us in the conversation is to rule us out! However the title race doesn’t really begin until the last six matches. Unai knows this hence his “come back in week 32” remark.
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    I think Wilson is a good player when fit. However attitude wise he seems to be living in a Sunday morning football world of aggression and banter. If you are going to talk the talk I guess you have to walk the walk…. For more than half a season at a time anyway.
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    I don't know what his fitness levels are or his form. However a fully fit Zaha playing well for 6 months is a no brainer to me
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    Always liked Zaha apart from when he was playing against us. The type of player that's hated by the opposition. I would like this move but am aware its highly unlikely.
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