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If you watch the Cutler interview on YouTube he explains how he coached Martinez, they look at the opposition and he gives a great insight into how it works , not just the goalkeepers. https://youtu.be/ePaNACr-IEU

Well he may have introduced the tech to the club but that maybe just something he has seen somewhere else and copied. Our corners, throw ins and free kicks have been poor for season after season. I'm guessing most of McPhees work is done away from the players looking at how our opponents go about setting walls up and their defensive positions. It's getting this over to our coaches and players that's the hard bit, he needs their ears and their valuable time.

If it wasn't for Gerrard freaking it may not have been solved. There's only a few variables and distance to wall is one of them.

Jesus that was a heavy 3 hours , brutal but you can see it was as close to real as you could possibly get. Everyone should be made to watch it. 9/10

See your point but the gamble was taken when we employed Gerrard, he was a massive risk that we should not have taken. Thank God the owner stepped in when he did and pushed Gerrard out, the damage he could have done with more time (selling Ming's, Ollie and upsetting others,) and possibly a relegation battle is unthinkable. Newcastle took a similar gamble with Howe ( he was more proven than Gerrard ) and that appears to have paid off but we have a long way to go and I'm happier with Emery and where we are than 3rd with Howe.

The Recon group need a new project

Flying pigs United's mine, his rants so funny , especially when he goes off camera to smash something.

We should buy him

It's better for him he doesn't go to the world cup, he will learn nothing there and risks being blamed for England's inevitable failure. Stay at Bodymore heath and let's push for top 8 this season. UTV

Reckon we will see a few changes for this game from Sundays, Archers or Ings to start. I think we will beat them, 2-1.UTV

Going against the grain here but if we play like we did today he could cause huge problems for the opposition. Maybe he starts on Thursday, with Archer , Samson and a few others that were rested. I'm sure Emery will have something up his sleeve to surprise Manure.

Yep, my MOTM. So pleased for him, hard season for him and he still pulls it together. He might not be our captain but hes a natural leader, strong as an Ox and will not be intimidated, bullied or pushed about.

Wow, we have a proper gaffa.

Just watched a player improve over 90 minutes, started ok and slowly got better and better, should have shot though.

Unbelievable team performance, players in space wanting the ball, shooting at the goal! Bailey was a real handful , Watkins was back to his first season form. I just can't believe what 5 days in training and a match plan has done to us. You can still see some old trates creeping back into our play but my god we aren't going to be in a relegation battle now, give us a few months and we should see what the next few seasons hold for us. UTV

Watched the first half. He's a lovely player but he's prone to show boat a bit and gave the ball away needlessly a few times when over doing it. He's always available for the pass. Penalty he won was great movement from him, he's a real handful at championship level and you can see the defenders hate to be isolated with him. He needs to develop more awareness His skill and technique is undoubtedly very high.Not good enough.......yet. Needs more time on loan..

Difficult first game would be a big understatement. Hopefully we don't get beat but if we can keep it tight then who knows, 1-1 draw. Larga vida Emery's Villa.

Looks like he plays for the fun of it , last time we had a player like that we replaced him with 3 players. Judging on that performance and if he gets more games this season then he's going to be a first team player for us next season ( leave him at Cardiff this season)

We don't know it but it's not hard to work it out , watch the interviews, its clear he was approached and interviewed by the owners and not Purslow. What does this tell you? It tells me they don't trust him to pick a manager, or maybe he was busy doing an important commercial deal....

Even without the USA Russia are going to struggle. The battle lines have been drawn and Europe has backed the Ukraine, if Russia wins then Europe loses. Russia is loosing 700-800 troops a day, play that out over a few months and add in the injured and they will run out of troops pretty soon and have to remobilse more civilians from a more influential group of Russians. He will lose, Russians will defeat him. The real worry is who will replace him. For the world to be safe Russia has to be a stable democracy.

Purslow presented Gerrard has his choice, they trusted his judgement and that he had undertook due diligence, he clearly hadn't. Purslow wasn't given the option with Emery, it's clear he was overlooked and had no influence over his appointment, like it or lump it.

I'm sure this happens but not all landlords are this short sighted. Completely removing section 21 and giving landlords no feasible way to get ownership of a house back will just remove more houses from the social housing section of the market, at least in places like Birmingham. There should be a set frame work with time scales given for the landlords and tenants. Tenant leaves a house, say 6-12 months after the landlord requests it. And other rules to protect them from bad landlords and landlords from bad tenants. To me it seems the government is trying to move the responsibility for their lack of building social housing onto the private housing rental market. It's easy for people to then jump on the bandwagon of 'all private landlords are bad' so let's take away their hard earned capital and their rent based income. God help any remainer who's a labour voting cyclist and a landlord, burn him , he's a plant based witch.

SAS Rogue Heroes BBC iPlayer, 3 episodes in, great characters, plenty of action and a decent sound track, 8.5/10 . Steve Knight written all over it, another massive hit is my guess.

Living in Brum it's easy to forget that most parts of the country have very little experience of immigration, not to the extent that we have. Walk around Birmingham and it would be hard to guess where in the world you are and i love it, vibrant. The stories of these immigrants should be told, where they are from, what they have lived through, why they have battled across seas to come to the UK. What they offer the UK, asylum seekers that have become Doctors, Nurses, cleaners ....The BBC should be educating the people on what a terrible world we live in and the determination and courage these people have shown to get to our country.

He's gonna be a villa legend, the type of manager we should have got Summer 2021. I can't think of a Villa manager as successful as Emery, maybe Gerard.....Houllier? Our most important signing in the last 40 years.