Enda
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Well we seem to be in most pundits predictions for relegation this season? Hopefully thats a bit of good luck? However I am struggling to think of 3 worse teams than our current squad?
That's because most people just tend to look at the last few games. It's why Phil McNulty (who has a massive hard-on for Man United, hence why he has them finishing 3rd) thinks we'll finish 17th but Sunderland, who were absolutely terrible for pretty much the entirety of last season barring those last couple of months, will finish 10th.
It's not just the pundits - Bloomberg just released a simulation with Opta (running each game 100,000 times) for next season. More info on how they got their numbers on their site.
Not pretty reading...
Yeah, but still only 3 points away from 12th. We finished with 38 points last season. Think we're worth much more than 1 extra point this year.
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I want to see improvement on the post-match press conferences.
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Lads, it certainly looks like Darren Bent was in London today.
That doesn't mean he's signing for Palace ffs.
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VT is hosted in the US so this could have been a problem on an interconnect which is used by both BT and Virgin.
Using Comcast in the US here, so really doubt it was a BT problem.
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Someone else did some experimenting and found this was only happening over BT connections.
I'm on the other side of the ocean. Maybe routed through a BT server, of course.
To make it even stranger, the pings had 0% loss.
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The monitoring service says there was no outage today. It sounds like an odd one though.
When you say it worked on your phone, do you mean over 3g or using wifi?
3G. Yeah it's a strange one alright. I'm back at the house now and it's fine.
It was strange. Checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it was fine, but couldn't connect even after a reboot. Grand on the phone, even in full site mode. Thought it was just me, so didn't mention it until I saw this thread.
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Had a similar problem this morning.
Could connect on my phone, but not laptop on Chrome or Firefox. Able to connect here from work no problem on Chrome. Typed in the URL in all cases.
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109,318 turned up for Manchester United vs Real Madrid in Detroit today. That's a hell of a stadium!
Well it is and it isn't. I mean it is just a big bowl with seats. It looks a shallow rake with only 1 tier and there is no cover. Still it is massively big. I am sure Simon Inglis could give you chapter and verse on stadium design though if anybody is interested in that sort of thing.
Not that shallow. The steps aren't much smaller than at VP.
No cover because it's not needed.The season is August/September to November, when it's a mixture of summer and autumn.
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109,318 turned up for Manchester United vs Real Madrid in Detroit today. That's a hell of a stadium!
Biggest stadium in the western world. But it's not Detroit, it's Ann Arbor.
You can see my back garden in that picture.
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OMG, Lambert has reverted to making Churchillian speeches now. We are truly stuffed!
He promised sweat. The players sweat.
He promised tears. The fans shed tears.
The only thing that's left is blood. Maybe he's been reading that thread about offering Darren Bent as a sacrificial lamb?
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"Club is for sale and as far as I know there is nothing imminent in terms of new ownership"
"The squad requires strengthening, that's self-evident, and it won't be easy within the current circumstances."
Balls. No owner lined up, and no major investment.
Balls.
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So have puns been banned now?
I'm out.
They're not banned, briny, but pages of the things don't help people reading on small phones and the app. Same as massive nested quotes. Most threads are fine, but there's so many pages so quickly that scrolling through pages full of puns to get to some "news" is annoying for many posters. We're just trying to keep the site useable for everyone. Hopefully people understand why.
See, this is exactly the sort of negative tactics that we've seen too much of in the past two seasons here on VT. Any sign of trouble, just hoof it away. Completely lacking in any guile or modern style. This old school modding just doesn't cut it in the modern web. It's the sort of thing that has seen the site constantly battle with relegation to the second page on Google. This isn't some small Heath Ledger fansite, this is Villa Talk. We practically founded football forums and were one of the biggest forums in England.
And it's not just the moderation tactics. We've had some absolutely useless new additions to this site as well. There's been a serious lack of investment in the past couple of years. We've got in the likes of Mendi, whose grammatical positioning is all over the place. Couldn't defend an argument to save his life. This is Villa Talk. We used to have posters like GaztonVilla. We should be looking at quality posters from the Netherlands and France, like your man with the Lego. Seen a few clips of him on YouTube and he is class. It's not good enough to be getting in cheap second division posters like Mendi.
BLANDY OUT.
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Lads, stop giving him such a hard time. He's expressing his right to free speech, as enshrined in the the First Amendiment.
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Has he gone yet?
You could:
1) Read this thread
2) Check Google
3) Not ask questions you already know the answer to
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Kwan ya dig it? Yes you kwan.
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Rumour has it that Trent is the same person as Admin on TBAR, and he's only gone set the whole thing up to make VT look more reliable.
Read it on Twitter, I did.
I can only hope you are joking.
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Rumour has it that Trent is the same person as Admin on TBAR, and he's only gone set the whole thing up to make VT look more reliable.
Read it on Twitter, I did.
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They've got a Skysports style scrolling banner saying "Ding Dong! Lambert's Gone!" on Twitter Bullshitters Are Revered.
Talk about parading tittle tattle as fact!
I'm having my egg scrambled in the morning, I suspect others will be having theirs on their faces.
"How do you like your eggs: poached, or fertilized?"
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Has he been 'dealt' with?
Well I've heard they're not going to throw the kitchen sink at him, but will smash a few fancy delph plates against him.
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Bloody embarrassing pun fest!!
Even TBAR are laughing at us over this series of repeated 'funnies'!
Agreed. We should dolphinately stop with the puns now.
Nah, I can see this going on for quite a whale.
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- Don't get too worked up. I posted bull that included hashtags that a quick Google would show translate as "not true" and "joking", but people were instantly on the Twitmachine about it. Remember that Kwan might have been joking or given wrong information etc.
- Can we get back on topic? There have been ten pages of puns at this stage. We're hopping around the issue like a Kwangaroo here.
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Just off the phone with a fellow economist who is good mates with ex-Bank of England guvnor (and Villa fan) Mervyn King. King said that Mike Ilitch has been in negotiations with Lerner for months. Ilitch owns both the NFL and the NHL team in Detroit. Used to own a "soccer" team (as the Yanks call it) and is now looking to branch out after Detroit's bankruptcy.
Heard it here first #itk #nilsinfior
Detroit declared bankrupt mid-last year, but was only confirmed in December. This fits in with the general timeline of rumors leaking of a sale in February. Although I said it was Mike Ilitch, I don't think my contact said it was Mike. Could have been one of his kids.
Anyway, he said it was NAILED ON.
#itk #fosagmagadh
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Not sure if it's number 1, but I was very proud when I heard we'd let Acorns sponsor us.
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Is our team really that bad?
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To be clear: I think we're still a bit crap, but I think we'll get a good 6 points or so more than we did last year. That'd put us comfortably mid-table going by Opta's fancy guess-work.