The Other Mat

2 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said:

Just checking in. So, we signing this Buendia fella or what then?

Nah, he's a myth. 

Exactly my sentiments. Awful 

The pattern is rank. The shapes are so inconsistent it looks awful, some diagonals, some with bits cut out on both sides, some on one side. Some layered, some not. Rank. 

2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

A player i like that chelsea might sell is hudson-odoi

I'm not sure he'll ever reach his potential, he had an achilles injury years ago that he says still troubles him now. Apart from that He's on £120k a week at Chelsea, so I can't see us trying to sign him. 

This commentary is unbelievable.

Thought Buendia's head was going explode at the end when Ollie took that chance off him.

24 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

Where do people watch his press conferences?! I can't find it on YouTube. AVTV is **** useless. I'd love to see The Maestro in action, but don't know where to find him!

Links to the full interview from there if you want it. 

21 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

Where do people watch his press conferences?! I can't find it on YouTube. AVTV is **** useless. I'd love to see The Maestro in action, but don't know where to find him!

It's normally on the official Facebook or twitter pages. 

Think Donk will probably be in there to do a job on Bruno, like he did on Casmeiro. He was superb in that game, hopfully we get a similar performance from him today. 

Thought he was brilliant tonight, Linked play really well, and finally got that elusive assist. 

Watkins is on

Just now, est1874 said:

Ollie looks confused. I am too. We now have 0 strikers on the pitch. Great.

Duran is Striker?

Ref is weak as piss! 

Just now, It's Your Round said:

The commentary team on my channel sound like a pair of West Ham fans, not sure who the co-comm is but he’s willing them into space constantly and gives no credit to anything Villa do. The landan word removed bias is real. 

Its dire, isn't it. Doing my loaf in. 

13 minutes ago, Enda said:

The ref was overly “generous” yesterday but I think a few are over-reacting a bit. It was a modest enough foul. A million miles from Ben Mee.

Maybe not a Ben Mee, but it was an awful challenge. Kamara wasn't in a position of threat, he went in both feet off the ground, from behind, and with zero intention of getting the ball. 

5 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

How can it be a myth when it's literally been the reality under Emery?

Better today. Good even! But we need him to step it up consistently. Cut out a large portion of the silly worldie flicks and shield the ball better.

I'd happily sacrifice 25% of his attacking play if he can not give the ball away, or lose it weakly so often. He would be a much better player for it.

I can't think of a single moment where he lost/gave the ball away weakly today. 

Absolutely unreal to have that checked and uphold it as a yellow. Both his feet were off the floor and it was pretty much from behind and he's probably out for a while. 

6 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said:

Garth Crooks has excelled himself in his Team of the Week on BBC. 

Named Buendia in his TOTW and then spent a long paragraph talking about how Buendia went down easily for the penalty and that it shouldbt have been . And then says scored another as well. 

Genius punditry.

Just came to post about it. He's unbelievable

19 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

Eff that get this guy in:

like to see our midfield get breached then!

Not sure he'd get away with 10 consecutive German suplexes nowadays with VAR being in play. 

4 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

Our player had a shot and it deflected off the defender. Dougie had plenty of time to get onside.

Not sure, need to see it again but didn't the ball hit the defenders foot after he clearly moved it towards the ball to block it. If that was the case he's inside because it should be considered a delebrate movement in terms of the law. He was a decent distance from the shot too. The rule is completely broken basically.