Enda

Mat Kendrick's denied this on Twitter.

Briefly met him in Chicago, and got him to sign my jersey. Jokingly told him that Enda Stevens was going to take his place. Didn't expect that one to be true.

Yeah and using Ariel gel/liquid rather than the powder, Should I not use softener? This thread continues to be the gayest thing ever.

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I think people are under-rating how combative Ireland and KEA could be in the middle.

I think we have a new winner! Nadzeya Ostapchuk just won gold in the women's shot put! Jaysus.

I'd love Stevens to flourish but I wasn't impressed with his positioning in the games I've seen. Test him in the league cup games and reserves but I'm not sure about him just yet. A bit like Lichaj a couple of years ago.

Looks like Mccleish is trying to sneak back in. Vlaar is the man to stop him. From the look of that picture he is too slow Head down as well. No chance he could spot a good pass. Hoofer. Lambert out.

Although I agree there must be people who'd get excited enough by a bigger VP to start buying tickets, I'd say there's only about twelve of them. People go to VP to watch football, not gaze lovingly at the architecture. Madness.

Hmm... think I recognise you. Were you leading a bit of a slagging match with the Irish lads in the next section over?

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**** hell. I signed up so I could watch the full stream. Up reasonably early to watch it. There's no stream, despite promises that it would be up 3 hours ago. Oh and thanks the **** spoilers, I know a good bit about the game too.

Ah Gazton I was with you until this. Saying SI is a bit flamboyant with cars is like saying Hitler was a bit of a knob.

Gabor Kiraly? I know it was only on loan, but still.

Thanks for the contributions, Dutchies. (Your English is embarrassingly good, you pricks.)

He was better. Stevens didn't do much for forty minutes. I used to play RB and I wanted to see how my namesake is getting on so I spent most of the half watching him. He was caught watching the ball a few times, and rarely ran into the space after making a pass. At one point in particular N'Zog was in trouble in the box (and the trouble lasted about 20 seconds, as it always does with Zoggy) and Stevens would have been in a fantastic position to whip in a cross had he moved about ten yards forward. He just stood there. He is a bit of a Championship-level player atm but he has potential. He reminds me a bit like Lichaj a couple of years ago. Really hope Enda improves his positioning a bit so he can challenge Warnock, because that wally really needs competition. I watched the Everton match at home the other day. Warnock was shocking. But anyway, on the basis of today, the spot is still Warnock's to lose imho. First game in six months.

He did well today.

Feyenoord were a bit short on cash, Amo69. Someone said his eur15k a week was a bit heavy for them. Different world.

To give people who didn't see the match a sense of who did well, based on that the starting 11 against WHU would be ---------------Given--------------- Lichaj---Collins--Clark--Warnock -------Bannan-KEA-Herd--------- Holman----------------------Zigzag ---------------Bent----------------- Maybe drop Herd and go 4-4-2 with Gabby up front. No great surprises then.

Also good to hear "We're Aston Villa, we glow in dark" sung a couple of times.

Calum. http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/ReservesProfile/0,,10265~2808300,00.html

KEA looked class. Great to constantly see him hovering near our box to pick up the ball. Makes it far harder to justify hoofball, a tactic which Hutton has clearly been trying to perfect while spending the summer in Burger King. Enda Stevens is a bit of a ball watcher isn't he? A couple of very good crosses from him, though. Daniel Johnson was lively, but fairly crap.

:nod:

About four hours later, I'm starting to resurface. What a waste of space that afternoon was! Villajax - I live a two minute walk from my department so I go home for lunch.