villanmac

Under the refs **** nose and he gives a yellow 

Literally just switched the tele on to watch this and its over 

Oh What a night 

The thing is, that interview before the game he did with amazon it's like he knew what was coming. I've never been as convinced by a player when talking pre match, he was absolutely assured and confident and was hinting at a big night. Absolutely at the top of his game, brilliant. 

10 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Clark too

Always remember the crunching tackle vs Leicester 

Lol my recollection of Clark is centre forwards wearing him like a Johnny.

Hendrie talking about going top. **** off 

Jesus... keep that boy out of Brazil.

Didnt he get deported the last time he was there because they said he has false covid documents or something.

As long as he doesnt get banged up its cool.

1 hour ago, Mark Albrighton said:

Guess there’s only so many times it can be said in various ways “that was good, I approve”.

Emery currently on 492 pages (joined us 24th October 2022, so a year and a bit now).

Comparative pages after 1 year of thread being opened -

Smith thread 692 pages

Bruce thread 1125 pages

Gerrard thread 1254 pages (not quite 1 year in charge)

I think the difference in page numbers generated for a thread gives a fairly good indication to the validity of not so good results leading to more discussion and subsequently how each of those managers are (and were) perceived.

And just for those who want to wistfully think “Ah what could have been…”

Sherwood 850 pages after 8 months

Di Matteo 209 pages after 4 months 

That's exactly it, nothing to complain about.

As I said at the turn of the year:

On 03/01/2023 at 10:45, villanmac said:

He's the death of me on here. Whatever 11 he picks, formation he plays, player he signs or sells i have no argument. He could decide to flog Kamara and i'd just go with it. 

 

Just now, foreveryoung said:

Dare we say, Cooper done a job on Emery today, or do we fully just blame the half arsed players.

Two goals from outside the box and create **** all else. The offside trap has looked like the enigma code to them. They are shite, just strong and negative and work hard.

I remember last season v Forest away we had all the ball never looked like scoring and brought the Donck on that was it 

We just melt under physicality. We don't have that profile of player.

Baileys been alright 

Just gonna bury this in the match thread rather than have it in the player thread. MATT CASH IS SHITE

Awful from Martinez and Cash acting like Harry Toffolo is Mbappe

Zaniolo man, someone needs to tell him it's not street football

Not arsed with Carragher's comments. Quite understandable how other fans and pundits would be ignorant to unique structure and accommodations that have been made for Emery. I  mean most fans still seemingly still have no idea how much money our owners have.

The internal pessimistic just hates all the attention and focus just before this crucial run. Its always feels a little too early, like its setting us up for a fall. If we are still there in December then fair enough,, unavoidable, but now we have this little gap to 6th, I feel like this stretch of games into December is massive. Particularly the two winnable ones we have next. I just want us to be under radar until then.

6 hours ago, MWARLEY2 said:

I was there that evening as well 21 years ago. . Thanks for the write up on Borland. Whats he like physically? He is a box 2 box midfielder but is he a decent size already. Does he have pace and strength to go with his skill ?  I keep on imagining a bit of a mcginn dynamo.

It was hard to gauge from the time he was on the pitch, he's thin like most of them but seemed a decent height and full of running (although the way the game was at that point 2nd half with us bossing it you didn't get to see too much box to box). More a technical type, his sharpness and quick footedness on the ball and seeing the pass meant he never really had to get into any physical battles the time he was on the pitch.

Now let's **** boss this game

Awful.

Literally all they have is a set piece and counter. Wtf was Luiz doing. Ffs playing wolves is infuriating, they are shite and it's always the same story.

Might be a bit humiliating but surely training we can just do sessions where we put Diego and Konsa on Ollie and Diaby and just fire 100s of passes into to them to trap

Don't blame Lange, how are you supposed to have training sessions that sharpen you for the rigours and technical level of the premier league when you're up against or having to play alongside Henri Lansbury. Angela Lansbury had more mobility.