Stratvillan

4 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

With 3-5-2 you are basically sacrificing an attacking player for a defender. Not sure  I like that 

I agree, if we play cash and targett, who dont go forward effectively.

Would Young and Gilbert work better?

29 minutes ago, supermon said:

Why when we win should we give credit to Deano? If it was a one off display then fine but it isn't, been like this since end of last season

I agree, but when we win its down to the amazing players, when we lose its deano. 

Smith can't control every element of a match, some players bottled it today.

Targett, Nakamba, el Ghazi.

Goal 1 poor to concede

Goal 2 unlucky

Goal 3 - just a good goal. 

Fwiw I think he played the team most of us would have, with the exception of traorefor el ghazi. 

6 minutes ago, supermon said:

Yeah that's just me though and of course it won't happen, maybe it's the frustration speaking but really fed up of seeing these tepid Deano displays

Why when we lose is it a tepid deano display? Targett was awful  that's not Deano. 

5 points.

The departure of Oneill, in the way and the timing was shocking. The start of a series of events which nearly destroyed us as a club. 

With weaker owners and managers it could have happened with Jack. 

7 minutes ago, Eliseav said:

Nail on head 

He’s going to go there and may well be the best player they have and win lots of stuff playing with the best players in the world ( in many respects you can’t blame him) 

and none of the other clubs who are in the big league will be that bothered cause they will still get the money for being failures.
Who will challenge them next year.

Scouse won’t 

untied won’t tie it back up 

Chelsea about as close as it gets but don’t think they’re in the same ball park. 
absoloute tosh the whole of football is. 

Look at soton they did brilliantly to get back up 10 years or so back…..put some real strong stuff together and have just been picked off with managers and players and now on there way out the league soon  

Gutted Jack is leaving as it means I’ll never be able to watch him again even for England cause all it will be is Man City this Man City that now he’s moved onto a different level since pep has him and with these better players

 we all know he’s different level and England would have won the euros if that muppet would have played him  

ive seen McGrath 

ive seen Yorke

Hes different level 

 

he’s going to absolutely tear it up for them 

you all know it 

for a couple of seasons when pep was into him sterling was awesome and improved massively just see what jack does under him 

who wants my ticket for the game against them  

that being said  I do think we’ll come out of this well  

I just wanted Jack to be prt of it all 

but then maybe it’s just his legs hypnotising me and actually he’s rubbish

 

 

 

This is stream of consciousness stuff. 

The comparison to previous players is always a difficult one.

Yorke was magnificent  but tainted this because he is a word removed. But he looked magnificent even surrounded by good players.

McGrath was and is supreme. He was so much better than really good players around him, he was on a different level. Part of my love for him was his flawed genius stuff.

Grealish is imo one of the best players in Europe. He has given us some amazing goals, rotherham  and the derby goal from the corner, I'll remember for years. He has looked so much better because he has been surrounded by lesser players. I'll be genuinely interested how he progresses, I love him as a player and will watch him and his career . On one level I want him to be a success, on another I want him to fail.

I don't know which level on the stages of grief I'm at yet. 

3 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Are you kidding me? he will get booed to shit!  Along with the usual funny chants. The guy will get abuse if he does go.

I may be in the minority then!

I don't think he's been disrespectful or a snake. I think he's decided to move on for his career, which differentiates him from a fan. 

Great player, sad he has gone.

Massive amount of money to build on the work of the last couple of years. 

Will receive applause pre game in recognition of the contribution he's made.

4 minutes ago, TomIsADeftone said:

Simpler days, i miss it 

I'm sure when we beat Bradford in in our season in the second division, Stuart and Andy gray made their debuts  most people didn't know they had signed. 

Might be wrong on this (it's a long time ago!)

1 hour ago, Paul33 said:

As was the case with Delph, a player signing a new contract just before leaving is all about helping your current club out by ensuring they get the maximum price for the move. It is not necessarily about pledging allegiance to anybody and shouldn't be used as a reason to shoot him down !

 

It wasn't just signing a contract though, with delph. It was the crap he came out with whilst signing it. 

22 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Liverpool became a better team after selling Coutinho. 

Shows it's possible with the right recruitment 

Agree, Barcelona became a  better team by keeping Messi.

Both are possible.

It's why I enjoyed the championship. You could get tickets for Preston  boro etc - big grounds happy to increase allocations for away fans.

I'd agree. How do you build up a history if you can't buy tickets? I buy them when I can, and go 2_3 away games a year this is never enough for access usually. 

I think James is a good player. Pace and good crosser. Being dismissed quite quickly.

4 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

I am now qualified to answer his after 30 mins on hold and the answer is yes, the ticket office are impossible to reach by phone.

Id contact twitter avfc support - much better than the  phone

I'd be amazed if there's 26,000 Bristol City fans there.

Why only 1000? Do they not want our money?

Is this still the Tammy thread or is MM Tammy. I'm confused, it's like line of duty. 

He's not got the necessary skills to be a cdm, it's not a size thing, the decision is whether he is the best am, I.e. better than mcginn and sanson.

I think whichever camp you're in we can probably agree that over a season we look better with luiz or mcginn and a dedicated cdm.

2 players 80m

On 26/05/2021 at 15:28, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Villa fans do love a conspiracy or any opportunity to have a dig at Southgate don't they?

What he has said literally mirrors the information we have been given by Deano and the medical staff, during the season, so I don't get the issue?

So you would rather him be overloaded and/or risk prolonged injury ( Which affects us ) just to give a hypothetical " Finger " to Southgate?

When/If he does play him as well, the comments will be " He had no choice, he had to play him because of the pressure, you know he didn't want to " smh.

As i've said in the past, some of you don't realise just how similar your are to Tanzanian fans with samatta. lol

 

Don't let facts or logic get in the way if my hatred for southgate!

In a weird way, although playing in championship would toughen him up, he'd develop more playing in the Premier. I'm always amazed at how much time some teams give the opposition on the ball. (Or is that just us?)

Ticket holders over 14 should have a photo and all attendees should have completed a medical questionnaire, if it's the same as Sunday.

Thought Mings played well yesterday.  (thought I'd bring it back to topic). Think he'll be in the England squad?

52 minutes ago, Uncle Albert said:

Oh behave, it's a marxist movement, you really think villa fans who don't agree with it and had a boo today should have there ticket removed? 

It's a Marxist mvt? Really?what do you base that on?

People being treated equally with respect isn't Marxism, it's humanity.

Thought the 95% who outclapped the boos should be applauded.