KevinRichardsonsMoustache

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We’re at home. Play like it

Kamara is what would happen if Bentley made a tank.

Wrong language but grupo some vocento sounds like something Silvio would do at a birthday party.

I’ve worked it out. Ber-son , San-son. That sort of name doesn’t work for Villa when it’s delivered with a French accent. Now, add an English accent in there and suddenly the naming works and the player’s a hit: ‘Mersunn’.

I feel like this image of Mings could so easily be photoshopped.

Another weird one: dropped off the face of the earth it seems.

As ever with us, it’s a matter of trying to shed some of the dross. And from experience we know that is easier said than done. Expect more arrangements like Guilbert to Strasbourg or Hause to Watford: deals that we subsidise that have no final sale. Then the players go for a free years later, thereby slowing our ability to transform the squad. Add into that players like Coutinho and Digne: those who are in their late 20s / early 30s who are on massive wages and will not move. So much for our big transfer policy idea - using the template of McGinn - eh?

This post saddened me to the core. I remember going to VP for the first times with my dad and having those players who I’d connect with for whatever reason: it made those journeys to the ground magical and something that I shared with him. I thought this was something that all kids experienced, so hearing about your son’s reflections on the team and the lack of connection with the players is really sad. I didn’t like Jack’s antics but the fact he was local and sat in the same stands as us did give us something special. Perhaps the modern game doesn’t have space for this anymore? As much as we fight it, is it simply the case that teams are franchises in all but name now and the players are just assets rather than idols for us? To keep this on topic, I have no idea how a manager in the modern game is meant to connect with fans, other than winning things. Maybe I’m making too much of it. I’m upset by the result and reading about your kid brought back powerful memories of my own.

I can’t remember seeing a moment when a player realised, publicly, that he was done. It was a weird thing to witness: his expression and body language certainly looked like he knew. As a Villa fan, I’m trying to think of when a player of ours had a watershed ‘I’m done’ moment. It’s sad, but I think it’s over for him.

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Please listen to this. We’re angry, but I’d take this if it’s a reality check regarding the scale of the challenge ahead. We won’t get a manager on Emery’s level, regardless of what we think of his culpability for what we saw. He’s far better equipped to deal with that dross than any manager we’ve had before.

On his day, his effort causes so many problems for defences but he’s not a natural goal scorer. If he can’t offer this, then he can’t be the striker we rely on. Even with it, we need to face facts that he’s a lower half of the premier league striker. We need more.

Agreed. Isn’t a leader. Him and Bednarek is a suicide note waiting to be written.

Feel sorry for him that his goal will be overshadowed by the dross that happened after he left the pitch. Hope Emery sees he might (might!) have a player on his hands with MS or at least give him until the summer.

He was always a funny signing really. Reeked of desperation from Stevie and Lange. I can only assume the names further up the list were unavailable or turned us down. Journeyman footballer who’ll be off to Antwerp on loan in ~18 months (with us paying his wages, naturally).

Notice how Emery isn’t remonstrating with them or giving them instructions. He’s watching their response, each man individually and seeing who he wants to leave. Don’t think he’s going to waste time with a lot of this dross

Bednarek, Dondoncker etc etc: journeymen garbage.

It’s like going to the seaside, swaggering about with your nice shoes and then having your chips stolen by a seagull.

Giants killed. We’ve been pissing around all match and we got punished. I hope Emery lets loose on them: it’s a shocking performance.

Precisely. I think Emery is giving some of this lot the rope to hang themselves.

Fair play to them. They stayed in the game, let us f+ck about and got the equaliser. Good stuff. Should be a lesson learned but we’ve been here before

Deserved red. Clowning around

Nice switch from Emi