Stratvillan

Man City are great technically  but boring to watch. 

1 minute ago, villalad21 said:

Poor players is just half the problem i'm afraid. This is coaching.

Bielsa is making bang average players pass the ball around way better than we do.

6 hours ago, Mazrim said:

The truth is that Grealish is addicted to Parkour. He's supposed to be easing the loading on his shins but he can't stop galavanting around brutalist architectured Council estates. Its more important to him than football and the club are trying to keep a lid on it.

There were reports that McGinn and Jack were seen jumping off garages before a big match earlier in the season and that Jack hurt his shins clearing an entire flight of steps twice. And front flipping off an underpass.

He keeps going to Benidorm because it reminds him of what Castle Vale used to be like. Its shit for Parkour now.

Watching James Bond, Casino Royale where there's a parkour chase. Imagined it was this post.

This thread is brilliant.

Gary Neville wants to relegate them. He was on a serious rant earlier. 

10 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

I guess you could say the club's policy of not really talking about injuries counts against us as it feeds the rumours.  Ultimately as long as they know what's going on it doesn't really matter.

True,

The club don't talk about much. 

Transfers often happen without us knowing until the last minute.

Injuries are an internal matter.

This all cones from being privately owned and not a public entity. 

I think I'm in the minority. I appreciate he is a very technical player, but I'm really not that impressed. I think he hadn't got the awareness (yet), to play cdm. I don't think he has the pace or drive to play ad a box to box midfielder. So is he a number 10.

I definitely don't think he's a bad player, I just don't think he's a fit for us at the moment. 

It's unique in so much that we know what league we're in next season. That hasn't happened gor a while.

Think spurs have started issuing renewal deadlines etc.

Assuming they'll announce details on ticket renewals for next season pretty soon. 

Nakamba is pretty poor, but he allows mcginn to push forward more.

What a tactician. Smith in.

2 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

I'm talking about as a team. But obviously that's beyond your grasp. I wrote this as we lumped another long ball forwards.

 

Also el ghazi needs to come off. Put nakamba on and move Sanson left.

How do you know what's beyond my grasp.

1 minute ago, Sulberto21 said:

Bielsa can get championship players to play the way they do Smith needs to do the same.

Oliie and matt cash say hi. 

No wingers = no threat.

21 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Don't think they would be relegation fodder without him.

Expect us to be a worse team. But i don't expect us to loop so helpless and pathetic without him.

No they wouldn't because they have much better players in the team. If we are saying kane and grealish are 10/10

The rest of the spurs team as a whole are probably a 7/8

Ours are probably 6.

That's the diilfference. 

3 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Smith should be able to coach the team playing well without Jack.

I cannot believe how reliant we are on him.

Every team is reliant on 1 player. Do you think spurs would be as high without kane?

6 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

 

We may have not liked what O'Leary called us, but that doesn't mean he didn't have a point. 

Just because he said it doesn't mean it was valid. There's  a group of managers , and I'd include Bruce in that who regularly blame fans to disguise their own shortcomings. 

Fickle implies changing views without a valid reason, not changing views full stop, that's called being enlightened. 

8 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

IMO if we were to sack Smith tomorrow, a Grealish transfer request would be a hell of a lot more likely come the summer.

This is spot on. If we want to keep Grealish we need to keep what makes Villa more attractive than simply being a fan.

The players

The manager

The prospect of bringing in new "quality" players.

The foundations of this is Smith. That's partially why Konsa etc are signing new contracts. 

I'm not saying no 10, I'm saying away from the deep lying role wheres he is asked to sit. Hes a midfielder so he has to drop. Hes not a destroyer cdm, or quarterback cdm. 

It's the problem with playing mcginn and luiz, neither are deep players, but we always play 1 there. Imagine when we buy a cdm, and one if luiz or mcginn become a squad player!

I'd have loved dan james tbh. But he's not leaving manure.

Dont get what he does. I do t think I've left a game thinking he dominated that. 

I think whatever position you play, you can dominate in 1_1 battles or by excelling in distribution. 

I think hed be an outstanding player in a slower league.