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I made the huge error of watching Villa vs Utd in my local pub and it was full of Utd fans (in Bournemouth!) the memory of them chanting United United will haunt me for a long time. Never wanted us to beat a team so much. 
 

The joy at the mess they’ve become really is something to savour. 

8 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

First half especially he was absolutely all over the place. There were a couple of occasions where he literally just got in the way of Dougy.

It was a really poor half of football, the game completely passed him by

Kind of agree with you both. I thought he did get some good tackles in and did just about protect the ball well when he had it. Positionally though he got absolutely schooled by a City side who do this to the best. For large parts of the game it looked like he was playing CB which meant Dougie was all on his own covering huge spaces.

Not an easy place to be making your first PL start in a very long time. 

9 hours ago, VILLAMARV said:

The shortlist internally for player of the season this year is insane really. Bailey, Luiz, Watkins and Konsa in particular are having real stand out seasons.

Konsa's answered everything we asked about him when Mings got injured and then some. He's having a great season.

McGinn has been excellent all season too and without building a spreadsheet to confirm I’d guess Emi Martinez has won us more points on his own than anyone else on the list. 

5 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said:

I'd forgotten about that. Wolves spent more time pulling our players' shirts than kicking the ball during that game.

That run by Rogers was excellent though, really impressed with his on-the-ball play.

How Ait Nouri didn’t get booked there I’ll never know. 

2 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

But who do you mean? Lenglet? If you look at the low end of our salary table, you see lesser quality, apart from Konsa, who seems ridiculously underpaid. Lenglet seemed overpaid. On some days , Youri also. Diaby is hugely important, IMO. So I don't know where the fat is.

Boubacar Kamara	M	0		£7,800,000	£150,000
Clément Lenglet	D	27		£7,800,000	£150,000
Youri Tielemans	M	25		£7,800,000	£150,000
Moussa Diaby	F	23		£6,760,000	£130,000
Ollie Watkins	F	27		£6,760,000	£130,000
Lucas Digne	D	29		£6,240,000	£120,000
Emiliano Martinez	GK	30		£6,240,000	£120,000
John McGinn	M	28		£6,240,000	£120,000
Leon Bailey	F	25		£5,200,000	£100,000
Diego Carlos	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Joe Gauci	GK	22		£5,200,000	£100,000
Tyrone Mings	D	30		£5,200,000	£100,000
Pau Torres	D	26		£5,200,000	£100,000
Matty Cash	D	25		£4,160,000	£80,000
Emiliano Buendía	F	26		£3,900,000	£75,000
Douglas Luiz	M	24		£3,900,000	£75,000
Jacob Ramsey	M	21		£3,640,000	£70,000
Nicolò Zaniolo	M	23		£3,120,000	£60,000
Calum Chambers	D	28		£2,600,000	£50,000
Robin Olsen	GK	33		£2,600,000	£50,000
Álex Moreno	D	29		£1,820,000	£35,000
Jhon Durán	F	0		£1,560,000	£30,000
Ezri Konsa	D	25		£1,560,000	£30,000
Morgan Rogers	F	20		£1,040,000	£20,000
Kortney Hause	D	27		£420,000	£8,077
Tim Iroegbunam	M	19		£210,000	£4,038

Joe Gauci cannot be on £100k a week. 

5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Longer version

 

 

guy is an absolute prick

Question I have is whether he’s always been this way and the media didn’t show it or whether this is a relatively new thing.

I remember at one time he seemed to be an incredibly lighthearted and reasonable guy. Then there was a season (after they’d won the PL I think) where it was a tough time for the team but also him personally (think his father died or something?) and ever since we’ve seen these interviews where he comes across as a grade a tool come through with regularity. 
 

By his own admission the relentless nature of the job has ground him down to the point he needs to quit. So question (for me) is do his personal issues + being mentally ground down explain these outbursts and he will look back in time and cringe or has he always been like this?  

3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Better decision making from Leon and Ollie a couple times and we could be having a different conversation now, about a " Hard fought win " or draw.

I'm not sure I'm buying that Unai got it totally wrong today because it was an even fist half.

Konsa doesn't pass directly to opposition and McGinn doesn't lose his head too we more than have a chance.

Totally agree against the top sides fine lines make all the difference. They were pretty much full strength today and our squad is on the ropes in terms of numbers and fitness and Unai chose a setup to prioritise not losing, at half time it was looking a good decision but first goals are so so often decisive. While I think we could have done more to stop Sarr going through it’s a hell of a cross. 
 

After that we fell apart, we’ve seen it before from this team and there is a bit of naivety I think. They want it so much… for us as fans for the club, for themselves…when we go behind it can lead to gaps and errors. Which meant we were always between a rock and a hard place.  
 

It’s another really painful one to take especially so soon after the Utd game. Be we are still right in the thick of this race and it’s going to go right to the end. 

I wonder if this place will be cross pit or garden of Eden later? 
 

Genuinely got no idea. 

Just now, Czarnikjak said:

Has to be JJ. We proved this season we can do without him 

Knock on to that is whether is going to pay anywhere near what he is worth after a pretty poor season. 
 

40 minutes ago, troon_villan said:

What is he? Like 9 foot or something? Looked big.

1.06 Tommy Elphicks 

18 hours ago, astondalston said:

I’d just like to take a moment to remember the time, not so long ago, when we had to rely on Jan Bednarak.. 

Thanks for reading, I’ll be on my way.

His last start for us was against Fulham away which got Gerrard sacked instantaneously. Seems like he did a very good job for us to me. 

Rightly getting a lot of plaudits and I’m as worried as everyone else if he will be out for a while. 
 

However just for the sake of treating everyone the same I’ve checked back and it was Pau that lost Awonyi for first goal. 
 

Poor stuff, naughty Pau. 

I said it before but I don’t think he is one of those players who can come in and hit the ground running. He needs consecutive games to get up to the speed. Like Tielemans in that respect.

We are going to need him in this little period so I hope he can get up to speed very very quickly.  Because right now he doesn’t look just a bit slow he is notably a yard slower over 5/10 yards than everyone else on the pitch. He did OK yesterday on the ball but off it him and Lenglet were all over the place. We conceded about 4 guilt edge chances in the middle of the pitch. On another day we had an absolute disaster yesterday which given how much better than them we are would have been criminal. 

On 20/02/2024 at 20:08, villa89 said:

People see his size and pace and think he should be good but when you actually watch him he's awful. Never been any good, anywhere, ever. Probably not even good enough for the championship. 

I kind of feel for him because he’s unbelievably good at part of the game and unbelievably bad at another equally important part of the game. It’s a very rare combination that I’m not sure I’ve seen in another player ever.

Increasingly looking like he chose the wrong sport. Feel like he’d have been a hell of a rugby player. 

Another assist last night and a heavy hand in the other goal too.

I know he wanted to leave and I wonder if that will change in summer if we did want to bring him back. 
 

But would have been great to have him as an option with all these injuries and Zaniolo struggling to find any form. 

1 minute ago, Herman22 said:

How many times will Neville mention that United were “breathtaking in the first 10mins”? 

They have been destroyed for the last 30mins. No mention of that Gary? 

Why do they let him commentate on their games it’s so annoying for 50% of the people watching the game. 

24 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

His shots and finishes today looked like a lad slowly becoming the complete striker.

Want to see more of him attempting rockets from outside the box.

Yeah I’ve often wondered why he doesn’t do that more as he has a decent strike on him and remember him getting a few goals outside the box for Brentford. I think it’s mainly because for us he is usually arriving on the end of things. I don’t remember him refusing that many long shots. 

3 minutes ago, Xela said:

I broke my right arm when I was 15. You know how vital a working right arm is for a lad of that age. 

Had to learn to do things with my left arm. 

At least if you ever end up in prison you’ll be able to satisfy two tough guys in the showers at once so not all bad. 

30 g/a is 35 games this season. Not bad, not bad at all. 
 

Started panicking a little when that big lump trod on his foot. 

1 hour ago, turvontour said:

Trying to buy my 6 year old a ticket for this but its making me pay £40 for it? And not the £11 it should be for children. I'm guessing because it's a resold one? Not the best of systems is it.

I've had that before its probably because you are buying it in an area where they dont do concessions seats. So you pay full wack or find somewhere else in the ground to sit. 

Putting results aside and just looking at performances how do we explain going from Newcastle > Sheffield Utd > Chelsea > Man Utd. 

Sheffield Utd I get as they are toilet but we still executed really well. 

The rollercoaster nature of our performances must be driving Unai crazy. 

On 04/02/2024 at 22:46, Stevo985 said:

Don't look at the gap, look at the points needed.

 

Only once in the last 10 years has more than 70 points been needed for 5th place. So let's use 70 as a benchmark for what we need for 5th. usually it's less.

We're already on 46 points. So we need 24 points from 15 games. That's 1.6 PPG. 

We're averaging more or less exactly 2PPG under Emery. You have to go back to Emery's first managerial appointment to find a PPG as low as 1.6

 

I think if you assume a few draws, we need 6 wins from 15 games to get 5th place. Again 6 from 15 is comfortably a lower win percentage than Emery has gotten in any of his managerial roles. It's 40%, and you have to go back 12 years before you get to a managerial role where Emery had less than 50%, let alone 40.

 

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it requires an almost implausible drop in form OR a freak season where the points needed for 5th is ridiculously high (or most likely both) One season it required 75 points for 5th... if Leicester had got 75 points in their league winning season they'd have still won the league. So 75 for 5th is rare.

 

When you take the emotion out of it and just look at the numbers it's just not realistic.

 

 

 

But, as you say, we are Aston Villa. So we'll probably finish 7th

Hello statistics meet Aston Villa…

20 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I’m exaggerating the touches, but not the attacks. Any attacks that got to him either ended with a poor finish or an awful decision or pass. 
 

Incredibly frustrating. 
 

he’s such a good player, but he’s absolutely miles off it at the moment

I understand your point and felt the same in the game most of our best moments seem to fall to him and he couldn’t capitalise. But even though it was frustrating it’s also kind of encouraging (if I can hold back the terrible bubbling anger at losing to this mob AGAIN). 
 

It’s encouraging that he was in those positions time and again, we played much much better today overall and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that JJ was a part of that. 
 

He’s off it but not by miles in my opinion and nearer to being back on it than Diaby, and Zaniolo in respective order. Whoever decides to show us what a brilliant player they are first. I hope they do it sooner rather than later. 

46 minutes ago, UpTheVilla26 said:

All the interview has done is reinforced the fact Putin is a delusional bell-end six inches shorter than Tommy Elphick. 

Fixed that for you.