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Happy birthday to me 

C'mon the villa

5 hours ago, Keyblade said:

Marvelous and Luiz do everything way better than Conor apart from scoring goals. Is it really worth shoehorning him into the squad because he scores goals when his passing is slow and his positioning isn't that great? The latter is far more important to our attacking play than a couple of late runs into the box to be honest. If he plays, it has to be in place of Jack or John. He's quite comfortably the third worst DM in the team otherwise.

Not really I would consider goals more important than passing he has a knack of being in the right place at the right time and that can't be thought 

5 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

 Did you miss all the games he was ineffectual in lower division?

Just to be clear I meant as a sub as he has something different to our other stikers

We need kodja back the game needed him last he does the unexpected and drives at defenders which we need at the moment 

Imagine we paid less for mcginn

Wesley

44 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Correlation isn't causation. There were plenty of factors that contributed to those goals conceded. Conor wouldn't be able to do anything about that Heaton howler on 45 seconds for example.

Yes you can say that but you could also say he might have closed the space down for the pass that led to Heatons mistake 

A lot of defensive football is about anticipating danger and closing down the space

It doesn't even have to tackle but we'll never know that as he wasnt playing  

When you look at we've conceded 4 goals when Conor was not on the field and only 1 when he was on

He can't be that bad defensively and what he offers going forward with set pieces in my opinion in this league especially as chances will be few and far between

If we can someone with his dead ball skills it's got be worth at least 10 goals a season which can only help us 

For me it has be 4 2 3 1 formation with him and luiz sitting kinda similar to the way Leicester play 

Honestly think we need hourihane in the team for his set pieces 

I like to see something like this 

                               Heaton 

Elmo/Guilbert  engels mings  taylor/targett

                     Luiz              hourihane 

Mcginn               grealish                 trez

                             Wesley

2 hours ago, Keyblade said:

I mean if Dean and the team think we should get him, I'm right behind them. He'll probably be 3rd choice striker anyway, and it frees up Keinan to go on loan and get some real experience under his belt. 

Definitely preferrable to getting a big name signing that will be competing with our record signing Wesley, unsettling the both of them.

Is mings not our record signing now

1 hour ago, MaVilla said:

Alberto Moreno as our new LB anyone?

He'll no unless you want Taylor as first choice left back

He is shockingly bad

Whoooooo get in 

I hate penalties bloody nearly killed me 

On jed steer

2 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

No team has managed a win streak longer than 7 games. Not sure what it is about that number 7 as im sure it was the same last season too.  Our 8th game would be against Bristol. 

Blackburn and Rotherham look easy on paper but they have both only lost 5 at home all season. Sheffield Wednesday have only lost 3. These 3 games will be very hard. 

Home records have been crucial for teams in the lower half this season.

That's because they havnt played us yet

Get in boys 

Mings is a beast God I hope we sign him permanently 

And Jack there is no words for you

Not too bad for 3 million pound player

1000 yes

Not me either

I know Tammy has done well for us but the amount of easy chances he misses is criminal for someone of his ability 

Our fans are shit jeering our own players shocking 

If there in a funk how are they going to get out of it with fans like that

I actually think we miss nylands distribution 

For everyone getting on smiths back what do you want to do 

His hands are tied at the moment with what he has to work with. The sad fact is our squad just isn't very good, there is no pace or energy in this squad.

As the old saying goes rome wasn't built in a single transfer window

And anyone saying he has to make what he has better is talking shite 

As another old saying you can't polish a turd

For everyone getting on smiths back what do you want to do 

His hands are tied at the moment with what he has to work with. The sad fact is our squad just isn't very good, there is no pace or energy in this squad.

As the old saying goes rome wasn't built in a single transfer window

And anyone saying he has to make what he has better is talking shite 

As another old saying you can't polish a turd

Just not good enough 

Too many old legs just not able to live with the movement of the young ones

No point having good technical players if they can't run

No chance of playoffs now barring a miracle 

2 minutes ago, stegzy said:

The refs in this league are beyond a joke, I’d say about 90% are absolute gash. They should definitely allow VAR in this league to make up for the pure turd on show. The difference between premier league refs and championship is ridiculous.

Absolutely they are shocking but why does it seem like all the decisions go against us it's like the refs have a vendetta with us

I can't remember the last time we came from 3 goals down to get anything 

Its a nice feeling 

7 minutes ago, Stuartc445 said:

November and December you mean what 5 games? You do realise its a 46 game season? And as I said I looked forward to all the games last season. I'd prefer to look forward to ALL the games in the season not just the small amount we've had under Smith so far. 

I don't see your point if your  going to compare the 2 managers I think you have to compare the 2 first seasons as manager  of the club and personally i think that Smith is slightly doing better than Bruce was at this stage of their aston villa tenure 

I can't understand how Bruce was given so much time yet people are starting to question Smith already 

He literally had one window and that's not  even the good one 

Let's get behind what he is doing and hopefully he brings back to where we belong