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Brentford and Fulham look the real deal this season. No signs of either dropping off. Wolves and Leicester winning isn't good for us as I am desperate to finish as the top Midlands club for the first time in over a decade, even if it is in the bottom half.

Both are creeping up on us and we still have to go to both their grounds.

Not a great set of results for us this weekend. Need to try and get something against Arsenal next week really.

4 hours ago, Leeroy said:

What the hell is this?! Our last five games: Aston Villa 1-1 Manchester City, Manchester City 3-2 Aston Villa, Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City, Manchester City 2-0 Aston Villa. I don't see any hammerings there, in fact we would have won at least one of those games if we'd managed the games better. Probably didn't help that we had Gerrard and Smith as managers for those games.

 

Of course the odds will be heavily in their favour, it's very difficult to win at the Etihad for any team, but to write the game off like you have is very silly. We are more than capable of going there and causing problems and I would expect to see a reaction after Leicester and in particular the defence to be much better. 

Why have you given home games as examples? Talk about being strawmanned!

I said we never get a result AT MAN CITY. And we usually get hammered. Here are our league results at their place in the last 10 years:

Manchester City 5 v 0 Aston Villa 

Manchester City 4 v 0 Aston Villa

Manchester City 4 v 0 Aston Villa

Manchester City 3 v 0 Aston Villa

Manchester City 2 v 0 Aston Villa

Manchester City 3 v 2 Aston Villa

You don't see any hammerings there? Ok mate. We've scored in just one of our last 6 visits there, conceding 21 goals in the process.

You know if you are going to quote someone then you should really do it honestly.

Our record their is appalling. With plenty of hammerings.

Being optimistic is one thing, but ignoring the facts and changing the goalposts on what someone has posted is totally different matter.

On 09/02/2023 at 17:37, Wainy316 said:

It's an initiative to get the atmosphere improved at Villa Park, including flags and banners etc.

They're asking people to get involved but you can also look through there general Twitter activity below.

 

How very "Crystal Palace"

4 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

Odds are shocking, 1.25, Man City, really, they haven't been been too convincing lately, an we could surely at least grab a point.

We never, ever get a result at Man City and usually get hammered. If we lose by 2 or less its a result for us there given everything. The odds are like that for a good reason. I'd rather we didn't play this game each season and just give up the 3 points to focus on the next match. Hate this fixture more than any other. They'll batter us.

On 06/02/2023 at 11:17, Follyfoot said:

Triton was the most suitable sponsor they have ever had as the product is a perfect fit with what they are 

I think FlyBe is even more suitable. They somehow managed to go bust twice.

Not missed an away match since September but would rather stick pins in my eyes than go to this so given up my tickets.

Horrible scumbag fans and a club to match.

Plus we always lose here no matter what. 

OFAH, Porridge, FT, Allo Allo, The Office were all brilliant.

Hasn't been anything remotely funny since The Office IMHO and find Inbetweeners type "comedy" just childish and not remotely funny. 

As for Bottom, I find it an insult to our incredible language diversity and the humour and witt that is so revered around the world, that this show was ever made. Comedy is of course subjective but that show was just pure tripe. Someone being smashed with a hammer? Oh how clever and witty.

Regarding the FT remake, that will just be the biggest pile of steaming s*** ever and I cannot believe its happening.

57 minutes ago, villa89 said:

It shouldn't seem like that, they'll be fined or have an transfer embargo or both or suffer a points deduction next season and that's fair enough. But the level of outrage is something like you'd expect if they were found to have bribed refs or bought off opposition players. I don't think its as severe an infringement as people are making out. 

You must be on a wind up here. Surely.

4 hours ago, DeadlyDirk said:

With regards to this I watched a classic 90's courtroom flick the other week and got curious after so did some fact checking on said subject...

It seems, in America at least this type of illegally obtained can be used as long as it's not obtained by the prosecution or defence directly.... I think. I can't be bothered to look at it again. It was the John Grisham one about medical insurance with Matt Damon in it.

The Rainmaker. 

Imagine losing the "Aguerooooo" title. I know they got to enjoy it at the time, but if they were stripped of it, it wouldn't be shown on repeat anymore like it has been ad nauseum for years, plus, it would be rendered irrelevant.*

*Not that I think anything of the sort will happen of course. 

7 minutes ago, villa89 said:

I agree that FFP is a joke designed to try to maintain the monopoly of the big clubs. City have been a great addition to the top of the league in my book, it was terrible when Man Utd just won the league every year. And for all their "cheating" they've only won 6 or the last 11 titles which could end up being 6 from 12 this season.

They are a despicable club with a nasty and arrogant fan base. They aren't a "great addition to the top of the league" at all. They are cheats. Plain and simple. And the sooner they f*** off back to their rightful place in the lower leagues the better. 

Somehow, they became worse than their neighbours as soon as they won the Arabic lottery, and the league will be a far better place without them. If you aren't sure, go and read their forum. Says it all.

1 minute ago, duke313 said:

It was a joke

Ah ok apologies. Hard to tell as there are many people, even on this forum, that think he actually might.

Just now, duke313 said:

Bring him home

When he leaves Man City in the summer, it will be a to another Champions League club. Probably Newcastle if they qualify.

He isn't coming back here.

23 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

On a serious note, could that be the case?

Nope. They won't punish them in any conceivable way. Same as Chelsea. They will get a 2 point deduction suspended for 2 years and will be given a transfer embargo for the window that's just gone. 

One thing we know by now is that these clubs can do what they want. This is all just noise. Nothing will happen.

16 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Just a point per game return from this point will get us to 45 points. Last season we were safe from early March on similar trajectory. 

Get a draw at Everton and beat Palace and Bournemouth at home and that will be enough even if not mathematically. 

I don't think we will get dragged into relegation as we almost have enough points on the board already. Despite the defeat on Saturday, we are still in relatively good form and have a good few winnable games left still.

That said, it will bemost likely 3 losses on the spin by the time we take on Palace so we will need to win that one.

Still think we will finish where we are now in 11th.

Bournemouth and Southampton are definitely going down and I think it'll be Leeds they drop with.

3-0. Haaland with 2. Think our next win will be Palace at home.

Still maintain we could have beaten them and had Ollie took his early chance we would have I reckon. Still annoyed by that game. Liverpool are far from unbeatable.

I bet they end up in Europe still tho. Along with Chelsea.

9 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Yeah when I see stuff like that makes me wonder what people think the PL is because it's very different to the closed shop I see it as

 

Exactly. Newcastle are the exception as they were bought out by a petro state with a literrally infinite amount of money. As such, they will now win lots of trophies and compete for everything forevermore. 

Teams like Brighton, may occasionally sneak into the Europa League before falling back down the league. They can never possibly hope for more than that. That's just the way it is unfortunately.

On 03/02/2023 at 14:08, Designer1 said:

Rewatched this last night for the first time in around 20 years.

It's certainly not lost any of its power. It is a particularly grim piece of work with only the occasional slivers of light and levity, but its absolutely engrossing and the central performance from Brad Davis is superb.

Such a shame that he (Davis) died so young as I can imagine he'd have a good body of work by now.

If you've never seen it, get on it ASAP (it's on Netflix).

Great fiction film but absolutely NOT the story of Billy Hayes. Takes the term "based on a true story" to whole new levels.

17 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

No disrespect my friend, but I want the Villa attacking the Holte in the second half. It has been that way for most of my 50 years watching and I do not like change

As I say, it's out manager that is changing it, not the opposition. 

6 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

This is the real problem for me, when these bastard teams turns round from the start, I don’t see any of it in the second half 

I think its us that choose to turn around at the start. Emery wants a fast start and it has certainly worked in terms of scoring early.

16 hours ago, sheepyvillian said:

I think this presumptuous thread may have jinxed us.

I'm guessing this is tongue in cheek as nobody in their right mind believes in that "jinx" claptrap. Do they?

I said all along that we will do well to get top half and was called "unambitious" amongst other things. (Like what I or any other fan predicts has any bearing on the outcome whatsoever)

I suggested that the danger of unrealistic expectations is that it will manifest itself in the kind of negativity seen from sections of our crowd yesterday, when we inevitably don't reach the heights expected.

Point being, we need to be patient. We aren't yet a top half side but we will get there. Talk of Europe was always ridiculously premature and, judging by yesterdays booing, some fans almost expected it. Some probably still do.

We are a work in progress and need to get behind the manager and be realistic. 10th would be amazing. Top 8 next season is doable, but there was never a cat in hells chance of such a high finish this season. 

We were full strength yesterday and lost 4-2 at home to a team in 14th. We will have games where we aren't full-strength and still only have one senior striker. I think 11th is where we will stay.

Huge summer ahead.

4 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

Yes, that is mad.

What I mean is that I would rather be Villa under Emery and losing this game knowing we are building something,  than Villa under Gerrard getting random wins but with no clear plan. 

Does that make more sense? Probably didnt explain myself well enough tbf.

8 minutes ago, Talldarkandransome said:

What we need is 

Ross Kemp On Mistakes

He'd get to the bottom of it

Better than Ross McCormack on gates, who couldn't get to the top of it.