Mark Albrighton

Off topic but about your post you allude to, I’ve referred to you lot as “Bristol” a fair bit, mainly because typing the full name out seems overkill and “city” is a bit vague, I don’t want people thinking I’m referring to small heath or Stoke or someone. If your neighbours were in the same conversation, I’d have to change that I guess. No harm intended. I have found just typing “Bristol” looks a bit weird and unfinished. As for calling us “Aston” - meh, we get called worse. I don’t find it annoying but a little bit odd, most people say “Villa”, it’s more natural to say. It would be like calling Leyton Orient “Leyton” instead of “Orient”.

Could be wrong but I think that would require Villa to win their two games and Bristol, Boro and Derby to drop two points each over their respective two games over the Easter weekend. That would leave us with - Villa 75 Bristol 69 Boro 68 Derby 67 With Bristol & Derby having that game in hand, but of course playing each other. So I think that would do it, but we’d need three results to go for us, along with our own. This weekend - Bristol have Reading home and Wednesday away. Boro have Stoke home and Forest away. Derby have Sha away and QPR home.

DDID speaks of a moral victory.

Positive news. Play him for the next two or three games/until his next yellow card. Then rest him. I’d be looking at resting a few of the players in the final game anyway....assuming we have that luxury of course.

Following on from Zatman’s post - Brighton - 33 points Cardiff (h) Wolves (a) Spurs (a) Newcastle (h) Arsenal (a) Man City (h) Cardiff - 28 points Brighton (a) Liverpool (h) Fulham (a) Palace (h) Man Utd (a) The final spot should most likely be decided this week. I would say Brighton really have to avoid defeat, as opposed to winning it, as their remaining fixtures are terrible. Cardiff have two winnable matches after it. It’s been looking like Cardiff facing the drop for a while, but if they do win on Tuesday that could be a real twist.

It’s 13 cards unfortunately. That extra one makes it feel a lot closer, if he was on 12 I’d be a bit easier about it. In his last 8 games, he’s picked up 4 bookings. I can’t see him going through the next 4 league games and potentially 2 semi final legs without picking up more (I don’t care if he gets booked in the play off final, should we reach it). A booking against Millwall and another against Leeds and he would be out of both semi final legs. He picks up a second booking between Norwich and the second leg, he’s out of the final (potentially).

That was my initial interpretation but then I read a comment elsewhere and it concluded differently and I doubted myself. I obviously hope play off games aren’t included, but as you say the wording doesn’t make it immediately obvious.

Just reading about this, are you sure it applies to the play offs? Unless I’m reading it wrong? http://www.thefa.com/news/2018/jul/31/red-yellow-cards-technical-area-2018-19 Edit - Re-reading that means the cut off date doesn’t apply to play off matches, doesn’t it? Balls.

I guess the best course is to play him in the Bolton and Millwall games, hope that he doesn’t collect any more, (hopefully) pick up the necessary points and then rest him for the final two games? A bit surprised there’s no reset at 46 games though.

I’m already braced to try and cheer myself up on 28th May 2019...

A long way to go yet, a few twists and turns I‘m sure will occur. So I really don’t want to sound like I’m getting ahead of myself. But it just feels like it’s shaping up to be a Sheff Utd v Villa final, the narrative of two local lads managing their boyhood clubs, it just seems inevitable.

As I now know how to upload tweets on VT I’ll upload it. Thinking about it, I’m not even sure it counts as a dive to be honest, more some form of performance art -

I think a lot of people accept that Jedinak can play at centre back when called upon (such as having four first team defenders unavailable for selection). It was the thought of him being one of two first choice central defenders for the entire season people were unhappy with. Glad he’s had a good game, his professionalism has never been a cause for concern.

One negative though, if this boy band is to be a success, McGinn is going to have to work on his choreography -

Glorious.

Bright side, City will have been preparing to deal with Jack and now that’s gone out the window? Straws being clutched there... Edit I will say we should be looking to win this, but I’m not as confident as I had been.

One draw against a play off rival when missing two of our best players, following a run of seven wins would be ok by me.

Our loss rate without Jack isn’t that bad, it was mainly draws.

The referee mistakenly identified Mings as someone who deserved to be booked.

Oh god, no.

The word “electrocute” is a portmanteau of electric and execute and was coined in the late 19th century for when referring to death by the electric chair as opposed to receiving an accidental electric shock.

RV posts an update in 2049 -

Sorry, pedantic itch that needs scratching. It’s 48.3% - 14 wins from 29 league games. Or 1.79 points per game for sne if he’s reading this. As is now typical when discussing his win rate - for games in which Jack plays it’s now 75% or about 2.4 points per game.

I think it would be El Ghazi in the advanced role, if we were to try it. Edit - though Hourihane did have his best game in a while in that more forward role. Hmmm.