Jump to content
Just visiting?

est1874

Established Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6,832

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by est1874

  1. est1874
    Yep, at some stage Johnson is going to make mincemeat of Cucurella.
  2. est1874
    Damning with faint praise. They're both shite insignia designs tbh
  3. est1874
    It needs to be this. It won't be, but it should be.
  4. est1874
    Good thing it's not real.
  5. est1874
    Well, you're not correct unfortunately if you're trying to claim that Unai's stylistic approach with us is purely pragmatic. It is his style of play. Clean sheets have never been his goal as a manager, his intention is always to outscore the opposition, which of course creates risk, but he likes that and is confident in his abilities and his team's abilities to "score one more". His stats in La Liga before coming to us cost this out: despite winning a lot more games than he lost, his goals for to goals against were 654 : 488. Broken down as far as it can go, that's only a tiny fraction better than 4 : 3. As I've said, Unai's style is always a risk reward calculation, and it's mostly been working for us (with a great goalkeeper between the posts, hence my original point). Either way, if you're hoping for a scenario where we don't ship many goals, you'll be a long while hoping.
  6. est1874
    This is down to our style of play though and how Unai wants to set us up. It's essentially one big risk / reward calculation, and it relies on a really strong GK at the back. This is why the lack of a strong backup for Emi is such a concern - we cannot play the way we want to, with any confidence, unless he (or similar) is there. It's not possible. So we either 1) need a quality backup GK much closer to Emi's level, which is a huge challenge, or 2) need a different way of playing football if/when he is not available... which Unai doesn't really want to do, as he doesn't want us compromising on our style.
  7. est1874
    Yeah, but we've won 2 games from the 8 in which Robin Olsen has kept goal over the last 3 seasons.
  8. est1874
    Worried about Brighton now.
  9. est1874
    Overhyped and we overspent. Still hope he'll eventually offer more than he currently is in a Villa shirt, but it is not happening for him right now.
  10. est1874
    What a **** weird little goblin he is.
  11. est1874
    Jesus **** Christ.
  12. est1874
    I guess we'll see!
  13. est1874
    They're not going to lose all 3. Probability alone says that's unlikely, and they are spawny bastards. I fully expect Chelsea, after playing out of their skins against us, will revert to type and roll over for their London neighbours. Goblins, both teams.
  14. est1874
    **** jesus
  15. est1874
    Oh, you're back.
  16. est1874
    Iroegbunam and Duran on please.
  17. est1874
    We're playing like **** shit here.
  18. est1874
    WTAF
  19. est1874
    Rogers great pace but lack of experience showing there.
  20. est1874
    FTFY (This is usually where he scores.........)
  21. est1874
    What are we doing. We can't sit back against these for 90 mins, they may get embarrassed on the regular but they still have dangerous attacking players in their team. Wrong strategy so far, lucky to have that early goal
  22. est1874
    Great start. Please keep the pace up Villa. Let's go to town
  23. est1874
    UTFV
  24. est1874
    This argument is tired and doesn't really go anywhere. The original Lerner badge was the result of fan survey also. The shitness of a thing is not mitigated by the fact that people voted for it. Telling people who didn't vote for and weren't happy with the outcome to suck it up because majority rules is not the way. A majority of people voted for Brexit. And dozens of other examples of terrible things being chosen through voting. We need to get past this endless cycle of design by committee. The fans need to be consulted according to rules, but to what extent is unclear - I would argue more than Heck has done, but less than Purslow did. I also just think the whole thing is a bit of a farce now and we need to pick something and **** go with it, because apart from anything else, look at the state of this thread!
  25. est1874
    Pics or didn't happen...
×
×
  • Create New...
Â