JamesBCFC

7 minutes ago, Villan4Life said:

Think you should worry more about Lee Johnson  didn't you want him out last season or was it the season before  

I never did, almost said enough was enough the season before last, then we beat Huddersfield 4-0 and got a draw at Norwich who were both doing well.

Some of our fans very quick to turn on him though, same as any club.

Smith out?

Now you have Bolasie you can do Alberts song properly.

That alone must be worth the wages and loan fee.

Aston Villa have waited too long before approaching me, so I will not be taking the job.

31 minutes ago, hippo said:

Could be him - he's been told to look for a letter in the post!

Which letter?

27 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I wish I had been. Who’s idea was stoptober! 

WILDER IN!!!

I did Stoptober a few years ago. Went out with a mate on Halloween, he was driving, so we were doing he'd drink until midnight, but because I was doing stoptober I couldnt drink until after midnight.

We went up to the bar close to midnight so my mate could get one last drink, I forgot about stoptober, had a drink and checked my phone- I failed it by 10 minutes.

31 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

It's not a game of told you so but seriously, the low expectation levels of some of our fans you'd think we where Torquay Utd.

You have 4 ex Bristol City players. 

Torquay have 4 Bristol City youths on loan.

Basically the same

6 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

Wenger DoF.

Henry Manager - Arteta Asst, or visa versa.

Arteta DoF, Henry Asst and Wenger Player-Manager.

1 hour ago, TheMightyVillans said:

My preferences would be

1. JamesBCFC

2. Fonseca

3. Arteta

4. Henry

Fixed.

1 minute ago, Tommo_b said:

Are you Dwight Yorke in disguise?

It's a very good disguise if so.

44 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Can you imagine if a group of managers decided to have a laugh and all turn up just to troll us, would be brilliant to be fair. As they know how dramatic we are.

McCleish

Sherwood

MON

Garde

Allardyce

Nigel Pearson

Paul Jewell

Mick McCarthy

Sitting in different stand suited up and waving at cameras...lol

 

How many stands have you got?!

I emailed my CV last night, I got a bloody good record (on Football Manager) and if I'm not appointed it will be an absolute travesty.

How about Steve Bruce as your next manager?

You'd have to get past his Birmingham connection, but he has 4 promotions from the Championship.

6 hours ago, mjmooney said:

No board would sack a manager immediately after coming back from a goal down to get an away point against decent opposition. 

It normally follows a series of defeats - although I think one might even do it in this case. 

But what about after a draw at little ol' Bristol City?

21 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Fairly sure he admitted last season that he balls'd up not rotating the squad enough when we lost to QPR and Bolton (I think it was) in a week.

I'm not defending him for the sake of defending him but you say you'd love to hear it from Bruce so there you go........

I think it's something all managers are guilty of not doing often enough.

Lee Johnson is no different, although he made a blanket statement "on being responsible for any goals we concede from trying to play the ball out of defense, as it's the way he is asking the team to play" or words to that effect.

I'm sure, or I'd hope, words would be had with players in private if they were the one caught on the ball on decision making- while I like playing out from the back, there have to be times where you need to get the ball away quicker.

6 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

We’ve completely lost any momentum

I dont know that ABBA song.

Can't engage in any in game banter as I'm at work.

So I'll just put one of these...

(I'm going to look a tit if you turn this around)

No Adomah or Bolasie starting?

Cheers Bruce.

We have been having a 20-30 minute spell in recent games where we defend like a school side, so I expect you'll get a goal.

1-1.

Bolasie goes on a mazy run, over hits his cross, Adomah picks it up and finds Kodjia, his shot hits Abrahams heel and goes in.

Baker finds Weimann who scores.

40 minutes ago, Zatman said:

2/1 to win tonight. Haven't seen our odds that high for a game since we went down

Lump on Villa

10 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

I'll take the bottom left one.

It appears the real reason the kick off was changed is because of a fishing expo being held at Ashton Gate today, and they have to get a trawler out of one of the concourses.

The game is the red button match on SKY.

3 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I took it more as El ghazi realising that this league is tougher than then French league. 

Something which I mentioned before and got shot down. 

Theres probably truth in that.

We had a RB signed from Italy last summer.

After a few games last season there was a point where he was sat in the dressing room saying "it's so fast" again and again under his breath.

8 hours ago, limpid said:

I guess they don't sell out often.

We've sold out about 3-4 times since the redevelopment was finished, but it had been known it would be a sell out days in advance.

The area around Ashton Gate is also generally very conjested on Fridays as standard, so 25k odd extra people isnt going to help things- the other sell outs were midweek games in the cup last season, Birmingham on a Sunday and one on a Saturday