Johnnyp

This is where our " yeah well they must have championship experience " shite gets us. When we should be asking, can they **** play football ??? Clubs with a fraction of our budget like reading and huddersfield are embarrassing us atm because seemingly they take time to scout talent, we would of got john swift if we wanted him, probably be surprised if our board knew he was available. We instead paid to much money for a lad who can't play football, it would appear.

Just when we think we might be rid of one problem in westwood, enter jedinak.

A blind man could see he has the best footballing ability of all our midfielders though that isn't saying much. At least he wants it .

Palace have mugged us.

Howe for me, probably be Bruce though.

If Clarke can't have any impact from Mon-fri in training which looks to be the case then i wouldn't want him in charge. Might be a long shot but we have money and are bigger than Bournemouth.. Eddie Howe.

This guys a **** charlatan. No definitive style of play. Midfield overrun. Recruitment looks poor.

To be honest i think if anything McGrath's era was much tougher being an alcoholic when proper professionalism in the premier league/old div 1 was still in its infancy and drinking culture part of the game a lot. Factor in they probably had nobody to talk to, no support mechanisms. But back on point, McGrath delivered.. always!. Jack is a show pony, he's showed nothing relative to the hype lets be honest. The biggest thing he's done between the white lines was score a very fine goal in a game we lost 3-2. He might make it, be wondering if he wants it enough. Villa my main concern though, not the trials and tribulations of Jack grealish.

How i long for the days when football fans were able to chat about football. ! Simpler times eh

They're not fining him 50 grand for "not doing anything wrong". Di Matteo didn't back him or dismiss the story.

Fair point. If the club are fining him 50,000 pounds then maybe they are better positioned to answer your question and more privy to what went on.

Fans pay his pages. I'm a fan. I'm sure you understand the basic premise of how gate receipts are a large portion of players income.

I think why people, and rightly or wrongly so it is subjective, get the hump is that a lot of people on these pages pay jack grealish's wages every week. His obscene wages i might add, like all top footballers are. So if grealish is in a team that's getting tanked 4-0 at Everton and a team that's well off the pace in the championship and going out on an all nighter it pisses me off. Again I've no objection to the fact he was out till 3 am, its the lads b'day, its the fact he does the dog on it. its early season and to be honest Jack you are in a team that ain't tearing up trees lets be honest . If people are pissed off, well they pay his and the rest of the underperforming villa squads wages.

He was an advanced midfielder - it's his job to shot, preferably working the goalkeeper. Ashley Westwood also keeps the ball-he's utter shite though. I'd take John swift over grealish in a heartbeat.

Seen as we had no shots on target, i wouldn't make a point of well....making that point. Zero end product to his game, his game has stagnated. Still playing boys football at senior level, it's showing.

Report states he was out celebrating his 21st which some team mates attended. He headed on then to the hotel at 3 am with some mates and stayed partying for a few hours. The fella clearly ain't the brightest let's be honest. Go to house, private party even. If he doesn't have the sense to call it a night at 3 am after being in trouble twice before then i dunno. Not like he was told he wasn't to go out. A show pony who should CLEARLY be spending much more time after training working on his game.

Just gets to a point where it becomes annoying. For the last 2 years this young fella has made more headlines off the field than anything he's done on it. He's scored a fine goal at Leicester, he's most noteworthy contribution thus far. He does get a bit over hyped, i've probably even been guilty of it in the past but compare him to John swift - similar age and he's probably out performing grealish without any of the fanfare.

Newcastle have notions, they aren't all that. They're local journos and fans have made some sneery comments about us in recent weeks. They don't like us, don't think we are too gone on them either. I think we'll be bang up for this.

I'd give grealish a lot of game time where he started yesterday. Always thought he'll do his best work in the centre. He'll come good. Needs a series of games there instead of being put back over to the left.

Seemingly 5. Absolutely bossed it again today.

Not having a pop but : 1. Gardner is not that good. 2. We aren't around bodymor Mon-fri. We don't see what the coaches see up close with Tshibola re fitness, match sharpness. Westwood is what's available for today's game. Unfortunate but is how it is.

Pleased amavi is back in. He should trouble them.

Did this guy really make gueye look that bad or was that his own doing. I won't say i can't believe because I know he's good but I'm rather surprised that idrissa gueye has been the best midfielder in the premier league this season.

Not a bad shout though i still think in time to come grealish's best position will be somewhere down the middle. He's very ponderous with the ball out wide. If we are sticking with Cissokho at LB I'd like to see amavi on the left wing. Grealish, and it's not a criticism, won't make a full back uncomfortable or run at him hard, not his game. Full backs need to shitting it against the other guy, Jack don't give us that out wide. His vision down the middle is what's gonna be his strong point in years to come imo.

Ah i dunno, I think he's been ok. Certainly not the quickest but his performance against derby earned him MOM and rightly so. Been left exposed by a weak midfield.