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Hats off, he was very good in the semis. Had a bit of a scare in the first game where he almost scored an own goal but managed to head it over the bar, otherwise very impressive!

He looked very calm and mature and had a very good game, if he managed this game, he can manage any game. I had started thinking that he wasn't good enough and not worth having any high hopes for, but from what I saw yesterday I think he can be a really good player for us.

I enjoyed that video very much. Every goal Aston Villa scores makes me happy, Gabby has scored 86, so he has made me happy many times. I wish I could be at the game today, I wish him a worthy and respectful good bye. All the best to him.

To you Leicester:

Yeah, it was more emotional than rational from my side. I love Jack, I don't love Sterling, so I'd rather have Jack, he's one of us. It's a bit the same way as I love my old car and wouldn't swap it for a new one, even if the new one has better features. Or a bit like with my wife... or, ermm, I'll stop it there.

I love him, a true professional and a role model in the way he goes about his work. He remindes me a bit of Southgate.

I'm not sure if they are comparable, Sterling is more of a direct runner who now is played as a striker and scores goals. Grealish is more of a playmaker who gets the assists. Sterling is of course better in the sense that he is worth far more and performs on a higher level, playing in the Champions League, winning the Premier League, going to the WC with England and scores a lot of goals. Despite all of that, I would rahter have super Jack in our team than Sterling.

Ah I love these companies house links! So who actually owns us, Recon or Tony?

I think it will follow the new trend of leasing, fans can lease the shirt, pay a monthly fee and change it regularly!

I actually wasn't that upset after the Norwich game, I've more or less accepted that this is the way we are. I would like to have seen some more urgency, but on the whole, we didn't really play that much different to most other games. The difference was that we didn't have the little bit of luck to take our chances first. We rely on pressing and high tempo and individual preformances. We don't have a style of play or any patterns in our play, no real tactic. With this tactics we will win some, lose some. Hopefuly Bruce can fire them up to the play-offs so that we put in BFC/Wolves-performances. I think it was wrong of Bruce to give the players that bashing and let them hang out to dry, they more or less did the same as they do in his team with his tactics. Regarding the changes, I don't have much to say against the substitutions, yes he put on a lot of strikers, but Kodjia or at least Grabban played out wide so it wasn't like we sacrificed our midfiled. We gave it a go, had to attack and that left us open for them to punish us, which they did.

I think it's mainly because of our style of play that he doesn't produce for us, but it's clear that his link up play is poor and doesn't connect with the others. In hindsight we could as well just have played Hepburn-Murphy (bar the fact that he has been injured) insted of shelling out X millions on Hogan. Bet RHM can do the running and pressing and scoring now and then to the same extent as Hogan.

Well that was a short honeymoon. I still think it looked like had quality, good first touch, mobile, ok link up play, nose for goal and scored alot this season.

I agree, with all the talent that Grealish has I would expect him to pick out Hogan or make the killer pass more often. I think that's a problem for us that we don't have enough midfielders who plays the through balls, we often play it out wide for Adomah or Snodgrass to dribble or cross. I'm not yet fully convinced if it is the others who can't pick out Hogans runs or if it is Hogans runs that are good enough, probably it's simply more a question of the understanding between the players that comes with playing more together and practicing on the training ground.

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I don't think I have had any problems with it, has worked great for me (to be picky I'd like some more zoom-ins during the game). Last game it looked like it would be only audio when it was a couple of minutes left, but I just randomly clicked around the site and and then the picture came up.

Interesting point, I've said before that I think Hogan is better when Grealish plays because he can pick out his runs. But perhaps it's also the other way around, that Hogans pressing and pushing their back line means that Grealish gets more space compared with forwards who falls back and draggs defenders with them more than Hogan can do.

Holy baloney.

What were the bizarre tactics?

Wonderful to see a game where I could be relaxed the whole game, just enjoying the play and see us score!

We create a half chance in every attack, coming closer and closer, I'd stick with the same and have patience, continue like this and we will score soon

Bacuna is playing for them, come on Leo give us one of those back passes now!

I have a good feeling about this, I think Hogan will score a few.

I haven't said many good things about Gabby over the last years and I think it's good that he will leave the club, he should have left even earlier. But I do hope that the club shows it's class and what Villa are all about and give him a proper and worthy goodbye in the last home game. And I would like all the fans to give him a good round of applause (and if it doesn't feel good, just applaude for the fact that he's leaving). He's a Villa lad, he has been at the club for 17 years, he is our leading Premier League scorer. He has given us some wonderful memories, not at least his goals against BFC. On the minus side, the last years have been schambolic, his attitude and antics the season we went down is near unforgiveable. And I always had the feeling that he should and could have done much more. I do feel a little bit sorry for him though, he doesn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer and I'm not sure if it was fair to excpect him to be a leader or club captain and put that pressure on him. I do have some sympathy for him, regardless of how much the club decided to pay him. When a player is leaving that has been with us for 17 years, I think we should look at the bigger picture than the last years and judge him for what he has done over the whole time here. I think we in this situation should send the signal to the kids at the club and others that we take care of our own, and don't hang them out to dry. He shall not get a new contract, he hasn't deserved his wage the last years, but he deserves to be applauded off the pitch and get a worthy good bye for what he has done during the 17 years at the club. It would be in the best interest of the club not be petty-minded but to show it's class.