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Set yourself small easily obtainable targets, ie join a gym, go to the gym, lose 4 pound, start a course, take up dancing, learn to play an instrument. Setting and completing these targets all helps to build your self esteme, which is always hurt in these situation......

Or

Save a coupe of hundred pounds, get the best ho' you can find, take her back to your shared place and knock the back end out of her till the house rocks, your x will then feel the pain.

Keep Downing please, he has been brilliant this season and I think it will be Young that leaves in the summer .

This and tbh it wouldnt surprise me if Young went in this transfer window. The story on Sky is all based on the assumption we need the money to fund Bent, which is wrong IMO.

GH "What we need at the moment is to keep the morale, keep the confidence and make sure the next game we can limit the damage because we have some big, big games coming up."

Just gets better by the quote, can you imagine the team talk? I can, in widescreen, full colour.

Hes gone, :winkold: and take kato with ya, who is more to blame, imo.

If we dont back him and Randy doesn't sack him, which is most likely from Randy's past, then surely we are helping ourselves get relegated. We have to put our opinions to the side and back the Villa NOW, were bigger than any manager or any player, lets show the lot of them, we support the Villa!

On Carew, could be awsome on his day but has far to many bad days and moods, sort of Stan Collymore type figure, perhaps a bit more reliable. Either way he never done enough for me, could never understand a fans obsession with him, at least for what he done on the pitch for us.

First of all, IMO hes the wrong man for the job.

However...... atm Villa are in a real mess and need us, at least for the next 3 games, to support him and the team.

Lets put it this way, are the players more likely to respond to cheers or boos when they walk out at Villa Park. Its sad its come to this but unless some things start going right for us, starting with a bit of support from all us fans, then its gonna get alot worse before it gets any better. Up the Villa!

Albion are playing very well, organised. Di Mat will have the measure of GH on this one im afraid. 1-3 to the baggies. :oops: UTV

lol, It was a derby and if we are all honest that team we sent out today was short of experience but my god they gave blues a game. Good luck to em, rather sha, tham than some clearings in the woods from...........

Its a colour, its a name, it can be your life but at the end of day,,,,,,,,,,,,,its just a **** game. UTV

Ps we should have won, either tell gabby to play up front, in the middle, or buy a player that will......

Stakes are high, are they to high for our kids? Im not sure tbh, Bannan and co need to keep their cool and not fly in, that goes for a few of the older ones as well, Dunne, Warnock......Not sure what the scores gonna be but i can see the ref playing a big part in this, bet there aint 22 on the pitch at the end.........2-2.

George Best was 5' 9" and weighed about nothing. And tackling then was ten times worse than now.

True skill will beat brawn nine times out of ten.

Well darren fletchers likened him to Scholes , Iniesta and Xavi so why not throw George Best in there as well

He needs to grow his hair a bit, dye it black and put a few pounds on. He reminds me of Maradona.

"I asked him what was the matter and he said it was because we were losing. I told him it didn't matter but he said, 'it does matter, I don't get beaten, I am the best'. I asked him if he meant he was the best in the team.

"He just wiped away his tears and said, 'I'm the best in my class, best in my school, the best ever and this game isn't finished yet'. He went back out and won us the game."

Clicky

An excellent "little read", reminds me of a few comments in Oh My Lords book.

Mr "mjmooney" thats my signature.......u b*****d! :winkold:

It sounds like Bannans rise is of no surprise to quite a few people in the game.

I just hope the powers that be sign this kid up for as long a possible NOW! Not sure how long a contract can be but i would hope to keep him on a 5 year contract, renewed every year for at least another 4 years.

Bannan, rumour has it that he passed the ball so well in training, at Body Moor Heath he actually split a Hadron! Local's claim to have heard the bang in Kingsbury!

Bannan and Gardner will be the best combination, IMO, if Gardner can regain his fitness. Bannan looks like a very good player indeed, a little rash at times but his vision and range of passes are a breath of fresh air. The one pass for Downing split Man U in two, it was hard to spot on TV let alone from 5ft something high and 35 yards away, its this type of ability that cannot be trained into players, their born with it.

If he can keep his confidence up and string a few games together like this one then hopefully he can become a great player for us, a Gordan Cowans for the next 10 years.....? I hope so!

I'd play the 3 of them together, think it would be pretty good at holding on to the ball.

Well if we did the ground covered by them all would be phenominal, who would make way for them all though, Downing, Young or Allbrighton?

We seem to have options that have come from thin air...... Perhaps this was always Lerners plan, perhaps MON disagreed..........Ireland seems to have lost his fight already!

Bannan and Gardner will be the best combination, IMO, if Gardner can regain his fitness. Bannan looks like a very good player indeed, a little rash at times but his vision and range of passes are a breath of fresh air. The one pass for Downing split Man U in two, it was hard to spot on TV let alone from 5ft something high and 35 yards away, its this type of ability that cannot be trained into players, their born with it.

If he can keep his confidence up and string a few games together like this one then hopefully he can become a great player for us, a Gordan Cowans for the next 10 years.....? I hope so!

Reckon Spurs will get to the knockout stages and could do well from there. However, they aint gonna be in it next year and thats what will be going through the heads of Bale and a few others. Chelsea, Man City, Man U and Arsenal are the ones to fill next years CL places. Can anyone argue against that?

I wouldn't be opposed to him going out on loan to a bottom-half Prem club.

what you mean like us? Or rather where we might be heading if we can't sort things out quickly.

:? If we do end up in a battle at the bottom then a young player like Bannan should be kept out of the firing line. i dont think we will.

I would like to see him loaned out as well, sign him up for a few years first though, ffs.

"Like two bald men fighting over a comb"...lol

Lets just hope Capello does a decent job with England, cus if he dont, old arry's off to manage em. lol

Watched the highlights last night and thought Bale was outstanding again, he is a turning into a great left winger. The defense looked easily turned though which could be a problem, not a bad result all in all.

Hope Spurs do well in the CL to be honest, reckon it could be the last chance for an "outside team" to get into the top 4 for quite some time.

He has always struck me as a cool head, very laid back and could always pull out a smile, perfect for us atm, should calm the ship.

I wonder if its a rolling contract a per MON's?

Anyway welcome to the Villa!

Steve McClaren? :shock:

Ashley Young ran his bollox off, he also had the Everton defense on their heels at important times and his vision for the goal was the difference between the two teams, hes nips it for me as MOTM. The defense were all awsome, as last season.

Everton played well and will be around the top 6 this season.

We looked deadly with A Young playing everywhere (my Motm) and our two wingers.....well this allbrighton plays with no fear, the west ham defenders s**t themselves whenever he had the ball.

Luke Young needs to stay, Milner played well and gave it all but nothing spectacular.

Why have our players suddenly woke up and pulled a performance together like this? I was a MON fan and tbh still am but the players today showed they had problems with him.....UTV

10-1 on kev mac.....if we stuff west ham and Vienna and get something from newcastle then i cant see how they would get rid. FWIW we have alot of players with plenty to prove, i can see us winning a few of these opening games.

I have a strong feeling Man city will be meeting our price soon. some will see it as bad others will be happy. UTV.....£30m for Milner.......lol. "Deal me another hand"

Looks like its over Man City depsite all their money, have failed to bully us out of our player. This is an important message to other clubs who might also attempt the same strong arm tactics.

Make no mistake about it, Cooke will be scratching his head over this one. lol. Well done MON and the rest of the management team, you play a mean game of poker. £30m or .... off!

If he does leave for Man City where is he going to play? He has the makings of a great middle of the park player but ain't really a good crosser or great winger. Is he could enough in the middle for Man City? I don't think so, not at present, in a season or two perhaps he will be. Its a big mistake for him to go atm. Next season would make far more sense for all concerned, IMO.

FWIW i think when a fee is agreed with man city another team will match that bid that makes far more sense for him to leave us for.

If City are willing to meet the £30m asking price, would they offer it straight away? I doubt it, they will leave it late. Im sure MON will just stick to his guns.