GavChahal

Had a debate over the following teams yesterday, a mix of past and present players, no changes you can only pick 1, 2 or 3.

Team One 

P.Schemical

F.Nelson Southgate Laursen Bouma 

Downing Cowans I.Taylor B.Carbone 

JP.Angel Carew

Team Two 

Bosnich

Mellberg McGrath S.Teale JL.Samuel 

El Ghazi McGinn Merson A.Young 

Saunders S.Milosevic 

Team Three

E.Martinez

E.Barrett U.Ehiogu Mings A.Wright 

T.Daley Grealish Milner D.Ginola

D.Atkinson Yorke

19 hours ago, omariqy said:

Def gonna sign Crouch.

Play him at Centre-half? 

1 minute ago, lexicon said:

As if he cared enough about the club to dream about it. 

So do you blame him or the five/six managers who have stuck by him over his career? 

On 05/11/2017 at 17:52, TheAuthority said:

Surely we should go for a center back now? We will need one for next season whatever happens because Terry will be gone regardless what league we are in. We should aim to buy a quality 1st team center back on Jan 1st IMO.

Should’ve kept Nathan Baker another season! 

5 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

He was and looked completely and utterly lost.

I would have played him left-back, but oops I forgot we have world class right footed player in that position! :-)

I have this feeling we will reach the playoff final and he’ll hit winner... Heard it here first! 

Lifelong supporter. So here’s my welcome piece. I don’t think we’ll be easy on the eye this season, but still reckon we’ll sneak automatic promotion. UTV 

Wouldn't mind Tom Cleverley on loan for a season, but dont think united would let him.

Straight swap for Hutton?

We have always been possessed with great centre halves - McGrath, Southgate, Ehiogu, Mellberg, Laursen - have good feeling about Vlaar!

Heskey won't fall over Heskey won't fall over La la la......oh, he has.

Ulysses De la Cruz (Useless) - The Ecuadorian Roberto Carlos!

I've sat in the Upper for a three consecutive seasons and heard four and half songs sang.

What was the half, I'm curious? :winkold:

Yeah but you don't just pick a striker and expect him to score goals. You pick a striker to suite the system that you play and then he will score goals. Gabby was at his best when we played counter attacking football in every game for about 4 years. If we're going to move to a more possesion based style of play, then Gabby suddenly needs to use his football brain, and i'm sorry but he doesn't have a very good football brain. Gabby is more of a reactive player than a thinking player. I think he'd really struggle when he's going to be expected to make intelligent runs. With this style of play i'd rather just play Bent on his own, playing off the shoulders of defenders.

Now, if Lambert really is the real deal he will mix his tactics up depending on opposition, there will be games where we will play more direct. It's these games where I think Carroll could really do a great job for us. I really do believe that Lambert could use Carroll so effectively, I think he'd really excel at Villa Park. Selling Gabby and bringing Carroll in on similar wages sounds like good business to me, providing Randy is willing to stump up the money for him.

It's not that I don't like Gabby, if think he's a good player, but just limited. For the wages he's on we could really replace him with someone better.

I'd say Caroll is far more limited than Gabby, Caroll is just hyped up player, with the exception of his goal in the Euro's, his first touch and control were shocking!

Gabby will do well under Lambert!

Remember, it could be worse, you could be in the upper North

I was last season Row A in the Upper, it was decent!

Evening, my first post VT.

I think it's the steep prices to sit in the Holte nowadays, that has resulted in the opposite end taking over as noisy end. Your just paying for the privilege and name to sit up there, last season the Holte was equivalent to the prawn sandwich brigade.

With the North Stand, you have a season ticket costing around reasonable £300 odd quid, coupled with banter with the away end. Agree footballs been dross for two seasons now, but I don't that's the main contributor!

Hi General,

Hope you are well.

What an exciting few weeks! Don't you think?

Can you explain where this 43 million pound debt the club has, come from?

And I will tell you the high profile mole inside our club? Come on General you guys can only keep it secret for so long?

If the board came clean the supporters would understand and lower their expectations, because this could ultimately be Mr. Lerners downfall.

I can clearly understand now why Mr. Faulkener hasn't responded to any of his messages left by reputable agents, however our supporters need to understand.

Best Regards

Dutch Legend played with the greats, De Boer Brothers, Gullit, Rijkaard, Van Basten!

would you rather we let a player of irelands quality, a player who'll walk into our team regardless of who the manager is, slip through our fingers when the opportunity is there to bring him in?

honestly?

My point is it's not what I think about Ireland, it's that a fan, any fan, whether a CEO, Chairman, or a Holte End season ticket holder like myself shouldn't be deciding who comes in, the manager should.

If Kevin MacDonald has said "Yes" then OK, but even then, he's the caretaker and there's no guarantee he'll stay as manager. I hope he is a massive success, I hope if Ireland comes, that he is too.

But we don't know that Kev Mac will stay as manager, and then there could be problems with Ireland. I hope not, of course.

No Disrespect Blandy! But whats the difference between a Holte End Season Ticket Holder and Just a Villa Season Ticket Holder?

Just Curious, does this make Holte Enders Immortal compared to your fellow supporters in the North Stand for example? :?

Interesting Read at the start by the Way!

I want Big Fat Ron Back!

I would go for Villa finishing forth, like most I spend £500 quid plus a year to follow Villa and it would give me a bit more satisfaction......

That wasn't my question Junxs!

If you had a choice of England winning the WC now or Villa finishing 4th and having a successful season next year, which with you go for?

I thought it would nice to ask people about their loyalties between club and country!

Hi General,

Will you be meeting with Nicky Keye at the end of season, to discuss what went wrong in the CCF ticketing fiasco following supporter complaints?

According to the BBC News this morning, there is a proposed rail strike starting 6 April until 9 April. If the recent BA dispute is anything to go by then the rail service will probably not be back to normal for 1-2 days after the strike action. Obviously this may impact those travelling to the FA Cup semi -final by train on 10 April.

I am personally not going to take the risk and decided to travel by coach. The best deal I have found is £21 for a day return with Buccaneer Travel with pick ups from Aston and Tamworth. Contact Karl or Andy on 01827 503410 for details.

Its only signalling staff on strike that causes problems, and a backlog of flights is a different scenario to trains. with planes passengers are stranded unless they pay a arm and leg. Not with trains!