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On 12/03/2023 at 20:38, Zatman said:

Burnley now have a transfer embargo, probably financially cheating by the sound of it

What you mean with a manager they got from Man City? Cheating? Nah.....

15 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Judging by the pre match videos they all arrive by coach under UE so would be guessing midday if they're having a pre match meal at the ground (think they come in from Bodymoor for some reason).

Coach also parks right by the entrance so if you want a quick selfie it's not going to happen. I'd say if you can better bet is to hang around until 6pm as players will come out separately so will be easier to get autograph/selfie with a few perhaps.

The players stay in a hotel in Birmingham city centre the night before the game, have lunch at about 12 and leave for the ground at about 1:15.

I know this because they stay on the same floor in the hotel as me for each home game under Emery. 

Spoken to Unai a few times and he is always happy to have a quick chat.

19 hours ago, M_Afro said:

I like Rambo. 

Who?

33 minutes ago, bobzy said:

I dunno - I'm still not convinced by them, although I think Potter is a good manager and they'll probably turn it around.  "No way", though?

No I think Chelsea will finish several places higher than us in either 6th or 7th and we will finish 11th. I reckon they will end up a good 10 points clear of us.

If we want to finish 10th then it's Brentford/Fulham we need to catch. The Sky 6 always sort it out in the end. (Make that the Sky 7 now)

16 hours ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

Tony Gale is a bad pundit who is totally biased, yet continues to get work.

His co-commentator today also seemed to be a Wet Spam fan. Terrible punditry.

He is part of that group of non descript 90s footballers who somehow seem to have sneaked into media roles for absolutely no reason aside from being from London.

See Tony Cottee, Clive Allen et al. 

Not only do they offer no insight, they can barely string a coherent sentence together. 

17 hours ago, ender4 said:

Brighton 7th - 5 points ahead plus 2 games in hand. Extremely difficult to catch.

Fulham 8th - 4 points ahead and played a game more. Surely can catch by end of season.

Brentford - 3 points ahead and 1 game in hand. Decent chance to overtake them. 

Chelsea - 2 point ahead and billion pound squad starting to win games. Small change to overtake them. 

Villa high chance to finish 10/11th, an outside chance to finish 8/9th, and an extremely unlikely but still possible chance to go finish 7th.

There's no way we will catch Chelsea. They had a bad first half of the season but are improving and will end up in Europe. Them and Liverpool. As I predicted when they were 9th and 10th place. Its just what they do. 

Every season there's all this talk of an exciting race for the title, Europe etc and every year it ends up the same. (Apart from West Ham)

It'll finish with Man City winning the league and Arsenal, Man U, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle filling the other top 7 places.

As for us, Fulham are catchable, Brentford too, but we aren't consistent enough. Could we get 10th? Yes. Will we? I'm not confident, but we will see.

11 minutes ago, HongKongVillan said:

Was just watching crufts and there was a controversial call that was dealt with 100% better than these bonus paid clowns.

Did they tell the visiting supporters to "sit". 

And is it presented by Sue "Barker"?

50 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said:

Bit of a generous score for your post if we’re honest

Haha. Meh.

Performance: Meh

Atmosphere: Meh 

Result: Meh 

This post: Meh

That's all I've got...

29 minutes ago, osmark86 said:

I'm from Sweden so wasn't sure if it was an English thing. I mean you guys do spell "lestah" Leicester...

Well you guys spell Sweden "Sverige".  

10 minutes ago, robby b said:

Yeah I think they're bound to stay up now after three 1-0 wins from their last four home league games. (Credit to us that we won the other one!)

I really hops so. As I've said before, the notion that Man United v Arsenal will be the most played top flight fixture if Everton go down is just horrible.

We'll never hear the end of it and I've always been so proud it's us v Everton.

1 hour ago, gwi1890 said:

Just pure satisfaction 

Well yes. Always good to see them lose.

4 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

3 good results for today - Brentford & Plop losing, and Brighton drawing.

Good Brentford lost and I suppose Brighton drawing could be decent, although they are 5 points above us with a game in hand on us.

Can't see how the Liverpool score benefits us though?

Just now, stewiek2 said:

That Leicester game. We were comfortable, 2-1 and  cruising. Then total brain farts all round and Bailey wearing clown boots.

Not to mention missing 2 excellent chances to make it 3-2 against Arsenal, then conceding 2 last minute goals. 

Looks like we will have to beat West Ham AND Bournemouth to see our  name on page 1 of teletext.

Those 3 losses in a row really have put paid to a top half finish I think.

2 minutes ago, robby b said:

Brentford you fools !

We want Everton to win.

6 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Tough run in but West Ham and Leeds at home and Southampton away will decide things imo. 7 points from those and they'll be into 30s and could just need one more shock win to stay up.

Everton away on final day aswell which may be a dead game for them.

Very good record v us so could quite easily come to VP and low block us to death and get a point.

I think they may be in the bottom 3 still after this weekend. 

16 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

Wide open this year. Well done Bournemouth.

They'll still go down. Good win tho.

57 minutes ago, jacketspuds said:

Would have quite liked Bournemouth to have had a demoralising battering before they play us but hey ho.

You mean like Liverpool's spirit lifting thrashing of Man United before they played Bournemouth?

21 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

I legit just realised it was Narch after your comment, hopefully by Napril we're top 10.

Well we'll find out come what Nay.

29 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Haha. True though.

Good goalkeeper and very happy to have him. Delighted he won his award due to his performance in Qatar but best keeper in the world?

Sorry but not a chance. Still, hope we keep him next season as we won't find a better keeper that: A, would come to a bottom half club and B, we could afford within FFP.

Hopefully he will give us one more season. 

6 hours ago, PieFacE said:

They've worded that like he'll be out for about 2 weeks. At least that's how I read it. 

Well in that case, knowing the Villa that means we'll see him some time next season. 

4 minutes ago, robby b said:

When I saw just the bottom half of the table the other day it was lovely to see us right at the top of it on 34 points and then a big gap  between us and the 12th place team on 27 points. I like the thought of those 9 clubs below us and their fans also looking at the bottom half of the table and envying us. 

I hate the fact that we've become a bottom half club.

1 hour ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

That is true, Galacticos and all that...

However to be fair Real Madrid were European powerhouses before all that too.

They were but they have always cheated the rules with the backing of the establishment. Most notably King Juan Carlos. A very dodgy character who helped them get away with all sorts of financial irregularities and was even known to celebrate in the dressing room with the players.

They still benefit from this backing to this day, and, as representatives of the Spanish regime, always will.