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2 hours ago, BOF said:

Thank McGrath we're home. We've had some nice rests for some, but not for others. I hope the travel doesn't affect Luiz too much. But then it'll likely affect Gomes too. Hopefully Cunha is still out.

We really need to win this. I'm kinda confident we can eke out a narrow home win.1-0 or 2-1.

Brazil only played in England and Spain, Luiz didn’t get that many minutes. He should be pretty fresh.

45 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Found this thread but the social media team have caused a bizarre non issue that they posted lyrics to a Tielemans song when scored vs England.

This has brought out an incredible number of idiots on the clubs X page that it's funny. Some have labelled the club traitors

I haven’t seen any rage from Villa fans but it does seem to have wound up a few non Villa fans (mainly Bluenoses). There’s quite a number of other clubs fans that are defending it tbf.

I didn’t mind it though it was a tad overexcited but the official Twitter page seems to have become more and more like a tik tok account recently anyway which I’m not generally keen on. 

1 minute ago, Mantis said:

Literally the main reason why England just equalised.

Didn’t even get a mention.

Watkins had a role in that. I’ll take it.

Cmon Ollie.

I hope Ollie doesn’t get scapegoated for that.

3 minutes ago, Tom13 said:

Jill Scott 'the touch from the defender puts him off' it doesn't just put him off, it directly affects his shot. Odd comment.

Tbf she was defending him after the commentator had slated him. 

Ezri!

That was worse than what McGinn got sent off for.

18 minutes ago, Ceemo said:

Very innocuous. Hopefully not too serious.

 

It doesn’t look too bad, he’s got 9 days to get over it. Come on Matty.

42 minutes ago, YLN said:

Paul Merson says that Toney should go to the euros instead of Watkins. His reasoning is that Kane will play every minute of every match and Toney is better at penalties so he should be there just in case a game goes to a penalty shootout.

Within the first paragraph he argues that having a good back up striker would be irrelevant because if Kane gets injured, England won't win the tournament anyways.

It's the most asinine football opinion I think I've ever heard. It's bait, but even by Merse's standards it's stupid.

 

 

He’s right that Toney is a better penalty taker and if we’re in a shoot out we’d all pick Toney over Watkins. But Watkins is far more likely to get you further in the competition than Toney who is miles off it last time I watched him.

Coventry very good tbf.

4 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Some of these Brentford lads would probably love to give Toney a night on their wife as a going away present

It’s absolutely pathetic. I’m not saying they should be calling for his head but they can surely expect him to stfu about wanting to leave.

5 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Isn’t Moreno meant to be his replacement?

and then a younger player to be Moreno’s no2.

He’s better than Moreno imo. Or at least as good as but with different strengths. That’s my  point though…If we had gone through the first half of the season with a less experienced back up to Moreno we wouldn’t have done as well.

Just now, grantholtgolazo said:

I can’t think of another player who’s made more crucial contributions while at the same time routinely being classed as dead weight or a must sell in transfer threads. No other player is subjected to more constant critical cost/benefit analysis. I think he’s earned more respect than he’s afforded.

100% agree. I really think he is a significant part of why we have done so well this season. He is consistently very good. I will be disappointed if he leaves and think if he try and replace him with a player of similar quality then they will cost just as much in wages and fee.

Brentford fans fall over themselves to defend him though. They have no problem with him wanting to leave and better himself. To a degree I get that but surely this is where agents can come in and get you a move behind the scenes without the need to talk about your desire to get away constantly. It’s just disrespectful and the fact that they don’t think so means they don’t belong in the premier league. Inferiority complex.

4 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Yeah my mate who was ex west brom now doesn't play Sunday league or 5 aside or anything, says the job element of it killed it for him 

I dont blame white, what he should say is he's more focused on arsenal which is fair, he's resting at home for them rather than sat on the bench watching maguire for England

The weird thing is how it's generally accepted that fans put their club first, people hate international breaks, hate maguire, hate Southgate, some outright hate England but when white calls it our there's outrage? I'm 100% with him 

Depends. If he has turned England down for those reasons, then he’s every right to make that choice but I don’t see a path back for him when/if he then does fancy it. However if he’s fallen out with one of his bosses, he needs to grow up a bit (unless there was something misconduct worthy done or said to him which I doubt).

8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Probably not one for this thread, but I always find it fascinating when a guy gets to a really elite level and has no identifiable interest in the sport at all. Have no idea how you manage to get this far really.  

I think you can be competitive, talented and dedicated but also like to switch off away from work.  I doubt it’s even that unusual, he just made the mistake of admitting it. 

9 hours ago, PaulC said:

That's the key to me. West ham have been very inconsistent in the league.  Bowen did go on a long spell without scoring. Is Paquetta fit. He seems like when he's out they struggle 

He’s fit. Played and scored on Thursday.

To the stadium announcer…never call him Pau “wow” Torres ever again please.

2 minutes ago, Captain_Townsend said:

Project B6 have some interesting tweets tonight

 

The club have blanked them and they’re pissed off so are taking swipes. If what they’ve said in that tweet is true tho, the club have really messed up with the badge launches (like we didn’t know that already), another layer of farce added.

29 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Saw the red mist as he was frustrated about the side's performance. He will be disappointed tonight going in with that sort of challenge.  I never really understand why fans clap a player who has just been sent off. McGinn has been brilliant for us but he has weakened the side now he is suspended.

I clapped him. Mainly as a show of support for a player who, as you say, has been brilliant for us. He messed up but I think he deserves to know that the fans won’t give him grief about it. He’ll be his own harshest critic.

2 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said:

I know xG can be shite but i thought it was telling that our xG was 0.93 to Spurs 1.6. it has shades of the Newcastle game about it

Not that it matters.