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Jimbop

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  1. Don't know if it's a bit slow, but Ghost Riders in the sky is a lot slower than how we sing it so could evolve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtB8GPqWLw Get Grealish on the balllll He can take on them allll He beats 2 he beats 3 he's the best in the country Jack Grealish he's the boyy. Get Grealish on the ballll He will take on you allll You can kick at his shins he will put it in top bins Jack Grealish he's the boyy. Don't dive straight right in with a lunge or a kick You'll look a right prick Keep your eye on the ball He's skin you left, he'll skin you to the right, he'll make you look shite, And he's gonna score a goal
  2. I tend to agree with this, he isn't the kind of player than can blast through half a team with pace and power. Players like Grealish have to use the movement of other players to make gaps for them, waiting for defenders to make movements that they're going to go with a man making a run or rush into making a challenge and then use good feet to beat them. Any decent quick full back who stands up Jack, won't get beat by him 1v1. Juan Mata and David Silva don't beat players with pace and power, they would look half the players they are in this team, and don't think for one second I'm saying Jack is anywhere near those two at the moment.
  3. I'd have him on the bench on Sunday. No chance of playing, just getting him to warm up every 5-10 mins in the second half, wind up the the blues, gee up the Villa fans, just keep them guessing.
  4. If Jack is going to flourish, I think Brucey could be the man to get it from him. He can show Jack all that he achieved in his playing career without ever being particularly gifted, but having the heart of a lion and giving your all, Jack does have talent, so if he can take on the mindset of Steve Bruce, or even 75% of it, he's gonna be a decent player, I hope.
  5. Have put 2 passes together in the last 10 minutes?! I'm shaking like a..
  6. Don't care if I get slated, but I think he's technically a better footballer than half of our team. At least twice on Saturday he beat 2 players from RB , ending up somewhere on the right side of the CAM position and then ended up losing it, both times he did that because he had nothing on, and then nothing on, and then nothing on, then the arm flapping comes out. At right back, he's not Cafu, but he's better than Hutton. I just wish he could sort his positioning to play CB, at least he can run at the start of a game unlike our other options there. He needs to get fit for a start though, because he was flagging early.
  7. I don't think we've had a physically fit team since MO'N. You look at teams like Barcelona, Arsenal, City, all teams that usually have possession of the ball, but they're always moving as well, and that doesn't mean it has to be a 30yard run beyond a full back, just a general buzz of movement in the midfield. I don't think I've watched a Villa game ever where I haven't said at least 5 times 'where's the movement?' when we're in possession. Lack of fitness is then multiplied when you don't have the ball because you don't know where you're going to be changing direction to next, all those extra paces where you're having to react kills you both physically and mentally. It's like in boxing, you tend to see a fighter tire a lot quicker when they're missing all the time. Typing all this out has made me realise I've finally turned into my father. When I played under 15's I was small, weak and slow, but my old man told me to concentrate on my fitness and by the time the last 20 mins came around I'd be the best player on the pitch. I never listened lol.
  8. He's a worse version of Elphick, and Tommy isn't covering himself in glory either. We need at least one athlete at CB, and Chester isn't an athlete, looked like he was running in treacle when Bodvarsson went round the outside of him.
  9. Don't know if this has been posted already, I cba reading through 51 pages and risking giving myself bi-polar disorder when I'm currently quite happy with the appointment. https://twitter.com/bruceatwedding I feel like after I saw this twitter account I liked him more. Might it help?
  10. My first game was to Villa vs Newcastle, I was absolutely sure Gary Speed scored the only goal late on with a header but I can't find a game where that happened. So it must have been someone else. Around 1998-99 - they had a bald fullback who clattered someone early on and for the whole game the Villa fans started whistling / singing the Addams family theme tune (Fester Addams) as soon as the ball went anywhere near him. Was hilarious until we lost, then I probably cried. I remember the chap who took me was a colleague of my mum, and I loved him so much for taking me to that game.
  11. Adama, Usain Bolt, Holte - can someone build this flat pack Ikea chant for me cos' I can't think of anything.
  12. Bacuna starting over Grealish is a joke decision for me. Bacuna likes to think he's a big lad but he definitely isn't. He's awful at trapping the ball with his right foot never mind his left. When Jack came on at least when the ball went to him you knew he'd only lose it if he got crowded out, not because he couldn't control it like half our team (Hutton, Bacuna, Cissokho, Gestede), he needs to be playing from now on.
  13. CRUMBS! That's a lot of gametime. Across how many saves?
  14. I look at it this way. If to 'guarantee' that 24 players will knuckle down, work their asses off and give everything for Aston Villa this season, we have to sacrifice 1 squad place, I'd say yes straight away. That's what having Stan in the squad would do imo, and that's assuming he doesn't have it in him to get as fit as required, or if he'd lost his ability.
  15. You just know some beer belly know nothing big mouth burk is going to say 'Tshibola? More like Ebola' as soon as he makes a mistake in a match.
  16. I'm backing the The Kinks - Lola, tune. Slightly amended lyrics to those suggested by Gary Thomas as I think it would fit a chanting crowd easier - '6 foot 3 and a beast of a guy; flying into tackles send you up to the sky, TISH-BOW-LA! La la la la - la - TISH-BOW-LA'
  17. I imagine a lot of you have seen Titanic Football Moments on Facebook. Can you just imagine 1) him coming on, the applause with that music added, 2) scoring a goal. I think I'd be in tears anyway, but it would be so wonderful.
  18. Jimbop

    Adama Traore

    Not that I'm aware of. It's all part of my fantasy.
  19. Jimbop

    Adama Traore

    I'm dreaming of a world where Adama is on one wing, blitzing everyone so they have to double up on him, and a finger out his arse Grealish floating in off the left hand side finesse shotting into the top corner every game like it's Fifa 14.
  20. VillaChris - I just went and clicked through that game for 15 minutes or so and now I feel like crying. Laursen winning almost everything (I think a prime Didier Drogba might have won a couple of headers.. back then he was a monster), Mellberg throwing himself at balls when being played out of his favoured position, no moaning no fuss just 100% commitment. Gareth Barry throwing his weight about in midfield & picking passes, Young and Gabby pouring forward at every opportunity, willing to go left or right on their man and looking like they've only been on for 5 minutes in the 85th minute such was their fitness. I had no idea how lucky I was watching that team back then.
  21. We're 15 points worse than terrible.
  22. Did you see Watford at Villa Park this season? They were TERRIBLE. Seriously, an absolutely awful team. How we lost that game I'll never know. Newcastle, Sunderland, Norwich, Watford are all absolutely rubbish. The fact we're more than 15 points adrift of the worst of them is ridiculous.
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