Jimmyg

kodjia is gonna score more than Wesley this season.... there i said it. 

I was firmly of the opinion that Steer should be given the shirt and that a keeper was not a priority. 

But I never realised how much we needed Heaton until yesterday. He just looks to get solid hands to everything.... great debut in not an easy game. Although I’m not sure where this leaves Jed.... I suspect even tho he has signed a contract he may end up on loan again, with a call back option. But Of course I’d love him to be back up.

Engles Impressed me the most today, I thought he looked calm, some good blocks and clever passes out of defence.

RBL have some good forwards and we looked like we dealt with them well. Encouraging. 

6 minutes ago, Junxs said:

Yeah but like OBE says, there really is no where we can just chuck seats in. It's pointless doing the corners of the North Stand as thats most likely going to be first stand that gets demolished. The Trinity and Holte corner is restricted by the road, you can see from the aerial shots  that its not symmetrical as the Holte End cuts back in due to this as it is (see picture below). Theres not much wiggle room on the Holte/Witton corner either.

Totally agree, hence saying where we can. With the amount of improvements needed around the ground I would even hazard a guess that they would scrap the idea of redeveloping the North stand and go straight for a new stadium. With England pushing for a World Cup there are ground regulations that Villa park are short of, NFL and Baseball games getting bigger and bigger coverage in the UK and with an American owner with some clout... a new stadium makes sense. Villa park for how dear to our hearts it is, is getting left behind. 

9 minutes ago, Junxs said:

Did you miss the news that we've sold out of season tickets (30k) with thousands more on the waiting list?

True, but let’s see how that waiting list is at the end of this season. Let’s face it we all know how fickle villa fans are, it’s all exciting at the moment and I have no reason to believe that the owners are gonna do anything **** that up anytime soon,  but Relegation at this point (although I don’t think that will happen) is still a possibility which could throw us back to square one. 

I agree with just filling in and making ground improvements and expansions where we can, especially some kind of “fan zones” similar to box park at Wembley would be awesome. 

Long term I’d love a new stadium personally, keeping the looks and traditions of what we have currently, the rear of the holte is still a sight to behold. After seeing what spurs have done how can any supporter not want a piece of that. 

23 hours ago, KentVillan said:

Honestly if you knew you'd have to retire at the end of your current job, and probably never be paid that well again for the rest of your life, would you do anything different? Feel very sorry for him, don't think he did anything wrong. Just a very bad signing.

My sentiments exactly. 

Some of the comments I’m reading on some facebook groups are ridiculous. 

A lot of the comments coming out from villa players tells me he will be missed around the place. Good luck to him. 

15 minutes ago, bose said:

We just have to remind ourselves that this is a completely different scenario!

Yep... I’ve written it on the box. Next to a picture of Andy Murray. 

2 minutes ago, allani said:

 (I was quite excited about the French revolution a few seasons back) 

This....this.... is the only thing that 1% scares me. Although the circumstances are different with owners and coaching staff.... my inner dark thoughts of “villa are going all about this all wrong, they are untried at this level and we have seen this before, veretout was so promising....Too many” pops up now and again..... but I’ll lock it in the inner parts of my dark mind along with wanting to nail Andy Murray’s mom... and throw away the key. 

Not sure how much longer I can take the  Marvellous drops..... it’s only gonna get worse.

11 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Seems I’m alone with not being impressed so I’ll wait until I see him some more before I comment further. I’ll have my notepad ready

I’m kinda with you.... 

I have neither been impressed or...not impressed. I think partly the problem for me is that Guilbert is the full back we have needed for years and has impressed me...(I know it’s pre season blah blah) and i want Target to be the same on the left. He has looked tidy enough and I have no reason to say that he is naff. 

I feel the same about Target as I do for the new home shirt. It’s alright.... but it’s growing on me. 

30 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

To Trez.

Be good, be like El Ghazi - we'll give you some time to get up to speed.

Don't be bad, don't be like De La Cruz, he was disappointing.

He was a winger too y'know. 

Good luck,

Lapal_fan. xxx

De La Cruz!!! Jesus I forgot about him, god he was bang average to be kind. I just looked at his Wiki and it describes him as an Aston Villa fans favorite! I don’t remember that.... I also didn’t remember him signing for blues. 

He’s a good looking bloke his mrs is fit, keep.

7 hours ago, PatrickCousens said:

Can't see us doing both this and Trezeguet - and that one looks imminent.

See what you mean but but after buying 4 centre backs this window anything is possible. 

However I can’t see this happening, I’m gonna guess that it’s the agents desperate attempt to get him the move after seeing we about to buy Trézéguet. I know we seem to have deep pockets at the moment but due to the fact we seemingly still after a keeper and desperate for another striker we have to curb a spending somewhere surely. 

10 hours ago, omariqy said:

 

That second goal!!

I have said before that I wasn’t fussed about this guy, however if the reported deal is true that’s very clever business and well worth a punt. I can’t see Andre green producing anything like the skill in those clips anytime soon if at all. 

2 hours ago, villan-scott said:

Only this - 

Os médicos são para perdedores e fracos. Eu sou Douglas e não preciso de inspeção médica. Eu sou uma máquina. john mcginn não tem nada em mim.

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Translates to - Medicals are for losers and wimps. i am douglas and do not need medical inspection. i am a machine. john mcginn has nothing on me. 

 

Ah si! (Ah yes!)

47 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

As the new resident ITK I felt the need to ensure I wasn’t becoming another @Delphinho123  

As the profile on Instagram of the personal trainer was private I had to go to new lengths to ensure my sauces were legitimate and not some fake news bs. I can now reveal I am close personal Instagram friends with some Brazilian personal trainer. Just a shame he’s a middle aged male and not my type  

It is with great pleasure I can reveal the post is 100% true with tagging of AVFC and all, and is definitely the PT as Douglas himself tagged the PT in other posts.

Did he say anything about a medical? 

1 minute ago, thunderball said:

actually there is, according to various sources on Twitter, there is a medical booked at 4.30pm!

Get in!!!

38 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

No problem.

Two signings by 6pm. 

What about Medicals? Any medicals? I hope theres a medical. 

26 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

I know our fans have a reputation for being absolute morons but are they really doing that? Based on a friendly they didn't watch. In which he looked decent enough. 

I haven’t seen it on here to be fair.... but there are comments on a couple of facebook groups (which are notorious for bell end comments anyway) saying just that. 

26 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Whilst I like Jota and think he is good enough to start. I’m seeing a lot of posters who previously saw him as a squad player now thinking he is a starter due to one friendly appearance. 

I wouldn’t judge the players too much  from any of the friendlies lads.

Just the same as those writing off Wesley. 

Right mid is up for grabs and at the moment he is pole by default. 

I’m swaying towards liking the home kit... thought it looked really smart last night. The fit and longer sleeves reminded me of early 2000 Roma shirts. 

59 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Yeah I don’t know what people are worrying about!

It was the first pre season game, we won 3-0 and could have been more, should have been more. Got caught out once or twice in the first half but then how often will we lineup with our two most junior centre backs? 

We were able to play two sets of XI without a major drop off in quality - when was the last time we could do that? 

Scored three really good goals, Jota and Guilbert impressed particularly but no one got injured and everyone got good minutes under their belt.

Am i the only person who saw last night as a resounding success?!

100%..... granted I was half asleep and watching with one eye open at times but totally agree. I thought for a friendly mufc provided a decent game. We looked decent going forward especially in first half, yeah we did get caught under pressure trying to play from the back at times but I’d expect that at this point. Decent game...for what it was and not too much to moan about. 

2 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

I think they're both boring personally

the diagonal pinstripes wont be visible from more than 5m away leaving it looking like a plain sky blue top

and the shorts on both are shit

I get ya.... and the home shirt does defo have room for a bit more jazzy ness. But having seen that pic above I do really like the away shirt. 

But I actually like kappa as a brand and have always thought their kits to be a bit different. A little let down by these tbh but they growing on me. Also at a risk of sounding a bell end I have always been pretty trim so I like the idea of a continental style fitting shirt. 

Home shirt “too boring, no effort”...away shirt “too busy, too much effort”

I like it personally.... Really like the colours and stripes. The home shirt is growing on me also.