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how many sitters did Tammy miss this match? starting to think hes a tap in merchant who cant score goals that arent 2 yards out. Not taking away from his other attributes in the game and wider play, but boy does he miss a LOT of chances.

that goal looked weird, either it was a worldie of a curling free kick or Steer messed up......

I get all excited about our potential, then I remember that literally 40% of our outfield players are loans would be 50% if Axel came on for Taylor and hause slotted to LB.

No Lansbury or Kalinic on the bench....hmmmm. Also, feel bad for Carroll missing out as the 6th loan (only allowed 5 in the match team), would have liked to see him a few times to gauge how god he could be for us.

Apparently Southgate is at the game today to watch Grealish, I hope it doesn't negatively impact his game (trying too hard).

The only thing with Tuanzebe is a other loan player will habe to miss out for him to be in the squad. I imagine the player to miss out would be Carroll, which is a pity tbh I would have liked to see him in action a bit more

Yeah i think the 250k a week thing is based on us effectively releasing all out of contract senior players, ie: Jedinak, de laet, whelan, Richards, Elphick, Hutton etc etc etc. Sure I saw somewhere that we are looking to save 18m a year on salaries, not sure how we can manage that though as all of the above is what....12m?, not including bonus, and not signing anyone else, 18m is a big ass chunk to try and save. All of the above might be 18m including bonus and additional etc?, no idea. Even so thats assuming we don't sign anyone else, which we will....

Yeah just watched the goals. Both of the goals looked a bit iffy. The first im surprised he didn't get down to it (but he is quite big and I noticed in some of our games he does lack a bit of agility in terms of getting down to the ball when it's close to him). The second I can't decide if he could habe come and claimed it or not. I do hope he comes good for us, it's a lot of money wasted if steer is our number 1 next season.

Looking at the goal he conceded I'm not sure he should have saved it, it was a really weird looping shot that went in off the crossbar.

U19?

Urm. Is that a real question?, have you been following villa for the last decade?

Ohare isn't a panacea, he's not as good as a lot of people on here seem to think he is. There is a reason he's on loan to a league 2 side. Does he have potential?....yes, do I hope he develops in the future to be a good player for us?.....yes. But he isn't currently, and wasn't a replacement for Grealish, at all. I do think there is some rose tinted glasses going on with some of our youth players, especially with ohare. As I say I do think he has potential, jist like a few of our youth do, but ohare definitely wasn't ready to try and replace Grealish and probably wouldn't have changed a single thing in that 12/13 match run. Here's hoping they might help next season though.

Unfortunately if the rumours about chesters injury are true, it might be risky to put too much hope in relying on him to be a permanent performer going forward. Personally I love hause and Mings as a CB pairing, both big and fast units who can play.

I really think Davis can be class for us, I thought that last season when he showed some real talent, but of course still needs to develop and improve. If smith can develop him I can see him being our main striker next season or the season after. Btw I'm not getting carried away and thinking he's a world beater etc, but the lad does have talent no doubt about that. I just hope he can fulfill the promise at Villa.

All these lovely comments for Hause and well deserved. Compared to the comments after his first sub appearance it's like night and day!!!

Was thinking about what we actually need for next season transfer wise (assuming two players for each position). GK: Kalinic Nyland LB: Hause (purchase) Taylor CBL: Mings (purchase at any cost!! XXX - need a backup/other player/Revan? CBR: Chester Elphick - Would offer a 1 yr extension so we can spend money elsewhere RB: Guilbert Bree DMC Whelan (worth a 1 ye extension?) XXX - New player? MC Grealish McGinn Lansbury (if we can keep him fit?) Hourihane AML/R Need 2 x new players probably O'Hare Green STC Hogan Need new first choice striker? Overview: So basically as a minimum we need 4 or 5 new players? CD/DMC/AML/AMR/STC?

The guy has talent and would probably suit the DS style if he applied himself. However as we all know the injuries are a massive issue, and tbh what's the point of considering his future, with his injury record and salary nobody would touch him with a barge pole.

Hello Dave from Rugby, I'm Paul (my friends call me Dave), and I work in Rugby!!

apparently will start training on 11th march?, so however long it takes him to get up to speed from there?, a couple of weeks at least maybe?

i thought we should offer him another 1 year contract before today, but seeing him in the stands its a "must" Even if next season he isnt an auto pick for the first team, at least he would be excellent backup and a good influence around the club, and it means we can spend more on the new first team pairing and he can challenge them, as we arent paying for backup players.

was Carroll injured again or just not selected?

Ah kk thanks

Also been trauling the SHA match thread and in all fairness to the posters there they are / were as disgusted as we were/are about the Grealish incident.

How did Gardner end up playing?, I thought he wasn't allowed to play? As in either he wasn't allowed by the rules or we had said no?

On balance it would seem he is currently doing the best our of our crop of loans.