Vive_La_Villa

22 minutes ago, TRO said:

We are ALL guilty of premature judgement.

The ability to integrate in to the mechanism of a team, takes time.....and we are all too judgmental too soon.....because we feel obliged to be.

Just because we have been watching the game for years, we feel obliged to know......and I think it's prudent to say, not sure yet.

I could get annoyed with myself, for doing it. Many of us are impatient. I know I am, sadly.

 

Speak for yourself mate. Never wrote off a player so soon. 
 

Expect Donk. He was shit from the off  

It’s took him a while to show what he is capable of but on Sunday he looked like the player many clubs wanted a few seasons back.

20 hours ago, MSvillain said:

Playing like this, away from home against a title challenger is just unthinkable 

This is brilliant but if we did this at home the crowd get restless.

55 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Last 4 league games:

Everton - Win
Sheff Utd - Draw
Man Utd - Win
Burnley - Draw

If we play like we did at Arsenal, we'll blow them away.

Different dynamic. We will want to dominate the game from the off so will be more open and susceptible to the counter. There was way to much space given to them in the FA cup.

15 hours ago, ferguson1 said:

Enjoying this ride immensely but the more we improve and grow, I guess the more risk of losing Emery? Jealous eyes looking to take them I suppose. United, Liverpool, Bayern, Barcelona etc. Hope not, but is it inevitable? 

It’s possible but not for another year at least.

14 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Goldbridge saying Frimpong to Manure close. My arse. Why go that car crash club. I suppose +200k a week is an appeal

Man U have been so shit the only way they can sign quality is to give them silly wages. But that’s what got them in the mess they are in the first place ! 
 

Frimpong seems to be loved around here. I’ve never seen him play.

Just now, nick76 said:

I’d just like them (English) teams all through this round, I know one or two highly unlikely but let’s just get this 5th place coefficient thing sorted so we can relax and enjoy the rest of the season fighting for fourth and a trophy.  All five of our teams can still go through, West Ham being the most unlikely by some distance imo, Liverpool have a very tall order but they have the firepower that will either miss 30 chances or score 6 so I wouldn’t rule them out yet and the rest of us, have challenging but achievable games if we are in the right mindset.

Yeh I guess this is what we should all want really. I just really hate Arsenal because of one fan. Very childish I know. 
 

It would be pretty awesome to have champions league secured and to be 2 games away from a European final.  Big game Thursday.

1 minute ago, Jareth said:

I agree, give me certainty as soon as possible. Then if Spurs get 5th we can tell them to thank us.

I suppose we should want Arsenal to win really I just can’t do it ! 

Although city should do them over 2 legs anyway. 

Whilst 4th now sort of in our hands I’d still like to see the following : 

City through, Bayern through, Atletico through and Villa through. 
 

City then beat Bayern and we win our semi. That gives 5th place just in case right ?

5 minutes ago, HeyAnty said:

3-1 i heard

Oh man im gonna have to bet on this as well now ! 

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

If we didn't have those silly results we'd have had other silly results. Or we wouldn't have beaten Arsenal etc

The butterfly effect is real. 

I think we're doing about as well as could be expected

I think we’ve overachieved personally. Amazing effort by the squad.

2 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

I just did, it’s 10/1 … maybe that’s why they do it!?  

Haha sneaky! I just got 12-1 !

9 hours ago, Kingman said:

Nice to see sky already awarding us a 2-0 win against Bournemouth

How can this even happen. A Villa fan working for Sky having a laugh ?

worth a sneaky bet?

I see Palmers overtaken Ollie now for goals and one behind for assists. what a season that lads having. 
 

Both of them are musts for Euros.

12 minutes ago, Cizzler said:

Spent four years at Leverkusen... and the year they sell him, they win the title.

Not sure a Conference League winner's medal will mitigate that... but could soften it slightly!

To be fair his 5 million a year pay rise probably softens the blow too. 

1 hour ago, villarule123 said:

We could be weeks away from achieving the goal Nas & Wes set when they bought the club, CL in 5 years. 

Did they set this goal? I think that was the doc.

Championship to Champions League in 5 years during the times of FFP would be incredible. 

A few indifferent games and misses a game we win and he’s no longer that good  

Dougie is class and will be massive for us in the final few games. He definitely needed that rest though. 

2 minutes ago, rubberman said:

duplicate

Did you just do a duplicate post then delete them both ?  

39 minutes ago, Herman22 said:

Most level headed analysis I’ve seen anywhere. 

 

Yeh quite surprised how humble in defeat they have been. Feels out of character.

1 minute ago, alreadyexists said:

So Spurs have:

Arsenal (h)

Chelsea (a)

Liverpool (a)

Burnley (h)

Man City (h)

Sheff Utd (a)

Very difficult to predict but I would say they’re likely to get a LWLWLW out of that, so probably 9 points… but by no means any certainty about that, just based on what I think is likely. 
 

whereas we have:

Bournemouth (h)

Chelsea (h)

Brighton (a)

Liverpool (a)

Palace (h)

 

With three home games, and going away to Brighton I think we’ll get something like: WDWLW then we’d be on 70pts.

But even if we only win our home games then that’ll be enough to be 3 points ahead of Spurs. BUT then even if we only win against Bournemouth and Palace we’d just need to sneak a draw somewhere else.

Liverpool aside could we be playing all of these teams where they have nothing left to play for? I get that doesn’t always work in a teams favour as the pressure is off but it’s an interesting one compared to Spurs who seem to playing teams with everything to play for. (Apart from Sheffield United and Chelsea).

10 minutes ago, TRO said:

you and the majority of the fan base.

I didn't see this application coming.....so, so delighted.

Yep I thought we’d get smashed too. This is football and why we can’t expect to just turn up next week either. So much can still happen. 

But what a great position to be in.

I was most impressed by his pace to recover. Didn’t realise how quick he was. 
 

He’s been ridiculously unlucky with injuries since he joined us so we’ve never really seen how good he was but hopefully that performance gives an indication of it and he can continue playing same way. 
 

Our biggest results this season have come with that back 4. 

9 hours ago, Pongo Waring said:

 

3 mins in. "Zaniolo murdered Ben White" "Not seen anyone do that to him" - Robbie

It’s Leon Bailey in 20 years time on his left.
 

Respect to Robbie for his honesty there. No sour grapes.