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With a baby on the way I now wish I had never entered this thread...

It's been a long tough road... but I think I'm over the Jack Grealish saga. I've possibly even forgiven him for leaving us.

I didn't think I would ever celebrate a Jack Grealish goal but on Monday I did, and I was chuffed for him.

Maybe it's because our club now looks to be back in capable hands, with a plan for the future. Or maybe it's just that you can't really hate Jack.

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Aston Villa ace Douglas Luiz splits from footballer girlfriend Alisha Lehmann after row about her raunchy calendar

ASTON Villa ace Douglas Luiz has split from his footballer girlfriend Alisha Lehmann — after they rowed about her raunchy calendar.

Swiss star Alisha, 23, who plays for Villa’s women’s team, had a year-long relationship with the Brazilian after they met at the Birmingham-based club.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/20481649/douglas-luiz-splits-alisha-lehmann-raunchy-calendar/

On 22/10/2022 at 23:05, Chindie said:

So this guy has been hit hard with the influencer stick, and HE SPEAKS IN A SHOUT NEARLY but as someone with a passing interest in cars, it's interesting.

There's lots of these salvage repair channels, but this one is particularly fascinating because, by the blokes own admission, he's not a mechanic. He doesn't know what he's doing really, he's learning as he goes and using YouTube, Google and the odd phonecall to a manufacturer to work on these things. Which is both interesting and terrifying. In the main he just replaces parts that can be bolted on and off, but he's still messing with things he's not qualified to do. On this Aston he has to replace a broken tyre rod, and he nearly replaces it with a part that is from another car... On another one he's decided to modify a car as he goes which leads to needing a custom exhaust...

It is also interesting seeing Aston Martin charging £500 for a part which essentially is just a fuse that is identical to one Volvo charge £28 for. Or refusing to sell 'constituent' parts like a tyre rod standalone in favour of selling the entire system it is part of, for £6k.

And while obviously it's common for small manufacturers to use other companies parts like engines, I'd love to know what someone buying one of these things about the cars 'brain' essentially thinking it's a Merc which costs far less. Or finding Citroen electrics in it. Obviously they do the same job and by coming from a more generic parts bin is more efficient, I can't imagine they're going to be impressed when they've got the same wiring as a Citroen Picasso or whatever.

Cheers for this.

I'm working my way through each series; there are some great videos.

Really enjoying the channel.

So I spilt some water on my MacBook Pro over the weekend; it's all still working apart from the trackpad which has completely died.

Has anyone had this happen before?

I'm guessing it's going to cost a fortune to replace, so may have to claim on the house insurance.

Completely bypassed me that this is now out!

Will get it for Christmas as finishing Ghosts at the moment.

Dropping Martinez cost us tonight.

Olsen is Nyland level of a goalkeeper.

We have very little squad depth, Chambers, Augustinson and McGinn are all not good enough.

I prefer the round badge personally.

But I would much prefer the lion facing to the left; it looks completely wrong facing the right.

I understand the sentiment behind it being the same as our first badge, but the lion has face right for 12 years in our 148 year history. The lion has faced left for 136 years.

I don't really get it.

Get him back and in our squad. With 5 subs we could do worse than utilise him for the remainder of the season.

Personally I don't see Bailey as that much of an upgrade.

Just now, nick76 said:

I’d go further…this is a manager that Deano built the platform for. 

Completely agree; Gerrard almost tore up the work Smith started, but hopefully Emery can now get it back on track whilst taking it to the next level.

5 minutes ago, tomsky_11 said:

His 442/4141 looks like its only been used in the majority at Villareal.

Arsenal was predominantly 4231 first season but got messy second season, looks like he also tried 433, 442, 442 diamond, 4312 and 3412 in the 13 games he had before the sack.

PSG 433 nearly all the time.

Sevilla looks like 4231 about 80% of the time.

Feels like maybe he finds a system for the players at his disposal, uses that most of the time, but can mix it up depending on the opposition.

A manager that adapts his system to get the best out of the players?

Someone needs to let him know we don’t do that at B6.

For me it's Rodgers, Emery or Amorim.

Amorim seems like a bit of an unknown, on paper he seems the business and has proved he can turn clubs around. But the Premier League is a different level to Portuguese league. We aren't currently in a position to be taking gambles on managers, we currently look like the worst team in the league and it needs fixing sharpish.

Rodgers is a manager I've liked for a long time. He's got Premier League experience and has proven himself; he would also be good for some of the younger players in the team. Leicester seem to have picked up slightly though, so I don't think he would be as open to joining us as he may have been earlier in the season.

Emery is probably the standout manager for me. It didn't work out for him at Arsenal, but Wenger was always going to be a tough manager to follow; only this year have the club stabilised themselves and that is largely to fixing the playing staff after years of mismanagement by the board. Emery is a proven European manager, which would be the next step for us. I think we should be pushing for him to join and give him time and money to turn us into a competitive side.

1 minute ago, Genie said:

Villa have not struggled to sell tickets with awful performances and results.

You think brining in a manager who very likely would start returning more wins would somehow reduce the number of people coming to watch? Hilarious.

They certainly have struggled to sell tickets with awful performances and results.

The relegation season was depressing, with a half full Villa Park.

The Championship seasons had closures to areas of the stadium because our fans couldn't fill it.

The last few weeks haven't sold out coinciding with our poor form.

It happens every-time the club falter; and it would certainly happen again.

This has probably already been posted but it's a pretty good insight into Ruben Amorim.

No Premier League experience, and would be a slight gamble; but what he has achieved in Portugal is insane.

Amorim or Rodgers for me.

19 minutes ago, maqroll said:

After the glee of last night's good news, today I feel depressed. It seemed like we were poised to finally kick on and maybe challenge for Europe, if not this season, then next.

But here we are, close to the drop zone in late October, no manager, ravaged by injuries and player confidence shattered.

Fans bewildered and alienated. It's the same old story. Round and round we go, a boring joke.

Give the club a chance, Gerrard's only been gone 24 hours.

It's a huge call now, the club got it massively wrong appointing Gerrard and changing tactics on the transfer front. The strategy of the club needs defining, and that comes from the top. For me Purslow and Lange need to go as well for a full reset before we press on again.

1 minute ago, KentVillan said:

I mean he’s obviously out, but I don’t think the Chelsea and Fulham games were the problem. Both unlucky in their own ways (Chelsea good performance, Fulham terrible refereeing).

I was much more frustrated with him in the previous games.

If he goes now, I’ll give him credit for at least not turning on the fans. I think he’s a decent enough man, just not ready for this kind of job (and doubt he ever will be).

You can't honestly think the referee was the reason we didn't win tonight?

We've created nothing, given them the space of the pitch whilst looking completely clueless for 90 minutes. Poor refereeing decisions but not the deciding factor tonight.

Poor mistake for the first, I don't blame him for the second it didn't look like a foul and you can't blame Mings for Mount scoring an outrageous free kick.

Mings hasn't lost us the game though; poor finishing and not taking our chances again has done that.

On 10/10/2022 at 12:25, tomav84 said:

finished "the night of" - as many others said, one of the best series' this year. cracking.

Try 'Your Honour' if you can find it.

Same kind of vibe as 'The Night Of' and equally as good.

On 10/10/2022 at 07:30, sidcow said:

Maybe one for @Rugeley Villa.  We've got a 1960s semi detached house with bay windows to the front. It's tiled over.

What's the chance of this having any insulation behind it?  I noticed a lot of wind coming through in those windy days last week despite us having new windows fitted. 

If I wanted to get the tiles off, insulation put in then tiles back on is that a job for a roofer or for a specialist insulation company? 

We literally had this done on an extension that had been put on the back of our kitchen.

The tiled roof on the extension had no insulation in and it was freezing in the winter; I took down the ceiling myself. The builders then insulated it for me (they also bricked up some windows and replaced some others) then plaster-boarded it, plastered it and I painted.

It's now as warm as the rest of the house.

It's a funny one today.

My head say's I would love to lose this game so that Gerrard gets the boot and we move onto better things.

But realistically I want us to win the game, and not ruin my week with a wasted trip to Nottingham. Regardless of whether Gerrard stays or goes, this is a game we should be winning and it's a game that we'll look back on later in the season as a game we missed 3 points on if we don't take them. If we end up with a new manager in the second half of the season these 3 points could be vital to our final position.

In my opinion Gerrard won't last the season, there are very few performances in his tenure that give me any hope that he can turn our current form around. And if I'm honest I don't want him to. But there are games to come where he can prove how inept he is, Chelsea next week can be a start.

You only have to look at the perfomances of teams such as QPR,  Brighton, Newcastle & Arsenal to see the difference a manager and club with a defined strategy can make. They are all on an upward trajectory whilst our club seem's to be falling away.

Anyway on to 3 points, regardless of the performance that accompanies it.

Grealish has been brilliant in the last few games.

Nice to see him back to his best.

12 hours ago, tomav84 said:

1 episode in to "the night of". not sure what services it's available on over here (it's an HBO drama that i got from the high seas) but it's got potential so far

One of the best series I've watched this year.

I'm pretty certain the the round version will win.

Fans have been calling for it to come back since the Ellis days. Even though it's not going to be the original, I'm pretty certain it will win any votes as long as it's not a horror show.

It would have been good to have a few versions of a round badge. Let the fans have a few rounds of voting/discussions, before deciding.

We don't want to be back in this situation in 5 years with fans calling for the original round badge or something daft.