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You tell it's a Villa Forum because every review of this film mentions the Villa shirt .

Imagine if @sir_gary_cahill turned out to be a troll playing a really, really, really, really long game .

La Nakamba.

I wonder if that Konsa header that crashed off the bar will cost us? Stoked with the result despite the sloppy goal we conceded. Good job lads!

Great fun.

I see in the latest FourFourTwo (I’m 3 weeks late because I’m far O/S), their annual awards issue, Wesley got named “Inspiration of the Year”. Looking forward to reading the 4 page interview with him.

ITSOTP.

We're light in midfield with McGinn out and Jack playing wide left so he has an opportunity to come in and win a spot in our midfield. Hopefully he can get his career back on track for his sake and ours.

Sounds like a massive coup if we can pull this off. The lack of youth coming through the system has been a massive issue since Lerner started his cutbacks and I'm glad the new regime has recognised this and is starting to address it. As for Louie, just because we have pressing short term needs, doesn't mean we should ignore the long term future. Sounds like a very exciting prospect indeed. Yes, but the initial fee is 700k rising to £3m after add-ons. If the fee reaches that amount then surely it means Louie has made X amount of senior appearances or scored X amount of goals or has represented England at U/21 level or similar, in which case surely Louie has started to make it as a senior player thus justifying the increased fee.

In doing research for the Loan Report I found an article stating Villa are looking to recall Hogan and loan him to another Championship club (like Andre Green) and the majority of Stoke fans seemed to be disappointed by this news...

The draw for the 4th round has just made me even happier we didn't get through (yes, I know our ball number would have been different to Fulham's but still...). League Cup SF & the Premier League is enough for us to concentrate on in our current state.

Happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think we'll manage to be undefeated in our last 8 fixtures like you have us. If anything this has made me more pessimistic.

Over the holidays finally got to put some time into Pokemon Let's Go. Got all the badges and beat the Elite 4. Now only 3 Pokemon away from getting the original 150 in the Pokedex and them I'll move on. I must admit I did find it extremely easy, pretty sure I didn't not blackout once in battle. Would have enjoyed a bit more of a challenge, but overall thought it was a nice update of a classic. What should I move onto next, Links Awakening or Super Mario Odyssey?

Summary from the last week Bree (Luton) Away at Bristol City (3-0) - Played 90 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.01. Away at Millwall (3-1) - Played 90 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.07. Away at Bournemouth [FA Cup] (4-0) - Came on after 77 minutes. Doyle-Hayes (Cheltenham) Away at Northampton (1-1) - Substituted after 30 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.48. Away at Newport (1-1) - Not in the squad (Concussion). Home to Oldham (3-0) - Not in the squad (Concussion). Green (Preston/Charlton) Home to Reading (0-2) - Not in the squad. #FreeAndre *Recalled from Loan* #AndreFreed *Loaned to Charlton* Home to WBA [FA Cup] (0-1) - Substituted after 60 minutes. Hepburn-Murphy (Tranmere) Home to Blackpool (1-1) - Not in the squad (Calf/hamstring injury). Home to Coventry (1-4) - Not in the squad (Calf/hamstring injury). Away at Watford [FA Cup] (3-3) - Not in the squad (Calf/hamstring injury). Hogan (Stoke) Away at Fulham (1-0) - Not in the squad. Away at Huddersfield (2-5) - Not in the squad. Away at Brentford [FA Cup] (1-0) - Not in the squad. O'Hare (Coventry) Away at Wycombe (1-4) - Came on after 79 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.22. Away at Tranmere (1-4) - Came on after 64 minutes. Assist. WhoScored.com rating of 7.56. Away at Bristol Rovers [FA Cup] (2-2) - Came on after 51 minutes. Sarkic (Livingston) Home to Hibernian (2-0) - Played 90 minutes. *Recalled from Loan*

According to Gregg Evans he's been linked with a move to a couple of Championship clubs, but would have to take a big pay cut. Do we keep him around for depth, although he can't cut it at this level or do we get his wages off the books whilst we have the chance?

Need to get back to Villa Park with the tie not out of hand, and then who knows.

Clearly exposing Dean Smith's fallacy in managing Wesley. It's not hard Dean!

Unwelcome distraction this game. Get through it with no injuries please.

In rather good spirits considering we’re in a relegation battle.

Summary from the last week Bree (Luton) Home to Swansea (0-1) - Played 90 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.63. Home to Fulham (3-3) - Played 90 minutes. Assist. WhoScored.com rating of 6.55. Doyle-Hayes (Cheltenham) Away at Port Vale (1-1) - Played 90 minutes. Assist. WhoScored.com rating of 7.12. Home to Plymouth (0-1) - Played 90 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.62. Green (Preston) Away at Cardiff (0-0) - Not in the squad. #FreeAndre Away at Leeds (1-1) - Not in the squad. #FreeAndre Hepburn-Murphy (Tranmere) Home to AFC Wimbledon (1-0) - Played 90 minutes. Scored. WhoScored.com rating of 7.13. Away at Burton (4-2) - Played 90 minutes. WhoScored.com rating of 6.81. Hogan (Stoke) Away at Middlesbrough (2-1) - Unused substitute. Home to Sheffield Wednesday (3-2) - Not in the squad. O'Hare (Coventry) Home to Lincoln (1-0) - Unused substitute. Sarkic (Livingston) Home to Ross County (4-0) - Played 90 minutes. Away at Aberdeen (2-1) - Played 90 minutes.

Notched up 100 appearances for us I believe.

Sorry taking a short Christmas break. Will have this back up to date within the next week or so.

Absolutely terrified about what might transpire.

Back to back group winning weeks for me. If only my other 14 weeks hadn’t been utter shite...