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1 hour ago, Xela said:

4th in the league and only 5 points off the top. That is an outstanding achievement so far, I think we sometimes forget that, when we have the odd stutter like we did against Newcastle and Spurs. I know I do. 

What he has done in his tenure to date, is amazing. 

without being a Debbie Downer, the clubs above us have two games in hand.

It doesnt take away from the fact that Emery is the King tho.

5 minutes ago, Starscrem_Prime said:

How in the world did we loose to these lot. They are absolutely dreadful.

mentality.

29 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

Superbly taken winning goal and played Konsa in for the second.

Still can get better too!

 

didnt know he was a Muslim.

cool.

3 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

blimey, was that actually his first minutes for the senior team?!

Emery talking in his post match about developing Konsa's abilities as the right sided CB of the 3 x CBs (ie: right back tucking in).

I wonder if he see's Konsa's future mainly in that role going forward, as in we have the attacking left back, and the Pau/Carlos/Konsa back 3 when we go forward, or whatever variation of players in that 3.

Just now, UpTheVilla26 said:

We gotta be beating these with their line up. 

No Neto or Cunha and some kid up top. 

so he hasnt scored yet in the PL.......

£20 bet nailed on then!?

Chiwome makes his PL debut, is a striker, hasnt scored in the PL yet.

£20 to get a goal i guess?

blimey.

dial attack up to 11.

how psycho is Moyes gonna be in post match interviews from 1 to 11?

Ironically, if Spam win today, they will be on the exact same points after 30 games, that we were on last season.

(30 games - 47 points)

1 hour ago, Captain_Townsend said:

I posted in the new stadium thread. If you have a billion to play around with on a new stadium, surely you would offer the properties on Witton Lane good prices and try to acquire that ground so you could start building a new Witton Lane stand behind the existing stand like what they did at Anfield?

 

you can guarantee Dorris on the corner aint gonna sell her house to you for 5 million quid, so you end up incorporating here house in to the new Gabriel Agbonlahor Stand so she has a pitch side view out of her bedroom.

I guess she would set up Dorris' Terrace View, £2.5k per 4 person group, with your own retro bathroom, 1970s flowered sofa, and crumpets at half time.

On 04/03/2024 at 11:41, Genie said:

I’ve seen this advert pop up a couple of times on fb and as you might expect, the comments are very critical

£650,000 and you have to look both ways just go step out of the front door. No front garden at all. They couldn’t even be bothered to level off the front of the house/road.

They really aren’t doing the new build reputation any favours.

This is the full listing for anyone interested.

 

new builds are a joke.

I always remember looking at new builds when i was younger, when 95/100% mortgages were available, and it always made me laugh that you could never (at the time) get a high leverage mortgage on new build, because the lenders know the value of the new build goes down immediately after you buy it, because you are paying extra for the fact it is a "new build", so basically they are over priced, and the lenders know it.

personally i hate new builds, smaller rooms, tiny gardens, built like sardines in a can, its a personal thing i know, but i would always go for an older/better built house, even if it needs a bit of work.

1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said:

Wonder what kind of points deduction they’ll get next season if they’re still in the championship. 

if its a PL only charge, would there even be a sanction in the Champ?, wouldnt it just be "this is your punishment "if" you get promoted?

Not sure it is only a PL charge, just thought i read it somewhere?

maybe we should just be done with building outwards, and just build upwards like in the Bet365 curling advert thingy........

have screens further up so you can actually see something from the top.........no need for more land!

We can claim to have "highest fans in the world", and it not be illegal!

10 minutes ago, AstonMartyn88 said:

Nailed on they fluke a result against Leicester 

Leicester have been pretty rubbish for a few weeks now tbh, and they have just dropped out of the automatic promotion places, after having a decent gap.

last 6 Championship games, won 2, drawn 1, lost 3.

we only have 1 win 9 against these since promotion in the PL, havent we? (W 1, D 3, L 5)?

The win was Dec 2020 (1-0)

11 minutes ago, DJBOB said:

United are shit and will not finish top 5.

8 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

They aren't though are they. They are 6th and have picked up spawny results all year

United arent the United of old, but to say they are actually s**t is a huge overstatement tbh, however much i dislike them.

Yes they are erratic, sometimes perform, and not others etc, but they are 6th for a reason, and only 6 points behind us if they win their game in hand.

They might make a mess of it in the last 9/10 games, or they might not, the problem is that you just dont know with United, they could do anything.

The thing is, on paper, their run in is actually quite a lot easier than either ours or Spurs, they have only averaged 1.7 PPG this season, which although good, isnt top 4 at all, but, with the remaining games they have, its quite possible they "could" hit 2 PPG or more for the last 10 games, which would make them a real threat if we dont do the business on our end.

Their last 10 games are Brentford, Chelsea, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Sheff utd, Newcastle, Burnley, Palace, Arsenal, Brighton.

Ofc, they might mess it up and buckle, but on paper, that run in....they are "capable" of 2 PPG+ from those games, if they decide to turn up.

its a huge "if" ofc, but its Manure, who knows, they could get 1.5 PPG from those 10 games, or 2.2 PPG, i wouldnt be surprised by either.

2 hours ago, Tom13 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13242153/amp/Aston-Villa-fans-joke-Youri-Tielemans-buy-start-club-scoring-free-Belgium-netting-twice-half-against-England.html

So not only do the DM pay people to lazily share tweets from random people, they also pay people to share tweets from random people that are complete nonsense.

'Can't buy a start' wtf...

the state of media in the current age.

6 minutes ago, BOF said:

I don't know who will come out on top. I just know last time out, they got it right. Which means their engine department are good at what they do. It's just as possible someone else nails the new spec straight off the bat, in which case they get the advantage for the first few years. I just mean that when you throw the cards in the air, you create the possibility for anyone to come out on top. And when you're trying to stop the Red Bull/Max dominance, it would be pretty funny if Max jumped ship right to the people who dominated the last engine change. The odds at the very least suggest Merc will not be far away power-wise when it all starts from scratch again. The only thing we do know for a certainty is Alonso will make a terrible career decision.

Remember when Hamilton jumped ship just before the new regs and came out on top with Merc.

I wonder if he see's the same thing with Ferrari........(ie: has an idea what Mercs and Ferraris new reg development is like as of now...)

33 minutes ago, BOF said:

I just mean the one where Red Bull loses Newey, Horner etc, and possibly Max as a result, and then McGrath knows where it all ends up. Plus the 2026 engine rule change. Basically I don't think people will have to 'suffer' or enjoy Red Bull's uncontested dominance for much longer. Although they may have to endure Max's, depending on how it pans out.

i agree re newey, once he goes, if he ever does, it will be a game changer for Red Bull, he is clearly the best at his specific game.

With regard to the engine, do you really think Merc will have the best new era engine?, isnt the current Ferrari and Red Bull (Honda) engine better than the Merc one now?, do you think Merc will actually be the best new generation engine next time around?, does lightning strike twice?

I do wonder if Merc have lost their way a bit and might struggle even in the new regs, i wonder if they have lost a lot of good engineers etc, and just arent the same team from 3-10 years ago.

The fact merc are currently behind, or mostly level with their own customer teams (McLaren/Aston Martin), is pretty damning for them, massively so tbh, its kinda like Alpha Tauri being level(ish) with Red Bull, or Haas being semi level with Ferrari etc, its pretty poor, to the point i wonder whats going on with Merc, and whether they have the ability to turn it around.

time will tell i guess.

38 minutes ago, Genie said:

That Red Bull’s dominance is turning a lot of people off the sport and something is urgently needed to make it interesting again. The powers that be will be under a lot of pressure to do something.

Even outside of Red Bull being a bit too good at designing cars there isn’t a huge amount of racing throughout the field, and they keep adding more and more shit tracks for racing to the calendar. 

It needs some urgent surgery.

thats fair, but tbh, when hasnt f1 been one sided in the last decade and had many sh*t tracks?

i do see your point, but its been an obvious problem in f1 for years, its just a little worse than normal right now?

1 hour ago, BOF said:

 

But I can't shake the feeling we're on a precipice at the moment. One that will probably remove Red Bull from the top over the next few years, or at least it'll give F1 a huge shake-up.

The irony is, last time there was a big engine shake-up, Mercedes shot off into the distance and weren't seen again by another team for about 6 years. And who has Max been linked with recently?

 

what precipice are you talking about?

15 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

This guy is just the pits. Only one more tournament and then he’s gone. Remember that people. 8 years completely wasted. 

thing is, who would the incompetent FA appoint to replace him?, do we actually think they will make a good choice?

sounds like he did well.

Fully expect Sh*tgate not to pick him, and i aint joking.