parisvilla

Are we the dullest team in the league?

Gundogan struggling to put the captains armband back on rather than tracking runners leads to a goal. 

That's a collector's item!

Ffs. Probably now means Ashley Young has been our best player this season.

Sign of a great team when you can play badly and win.

Ahem.

Can we boo a win?

The live stream of the queen's coffin is miles more entertaining than this

Luiz and Kamara look to be a proper partnership and enjoy playing together. Could be crucial for us. 

Young and Mings really excellent in the back 4.

Really need at least a win from the next two now. 

Like this addition.

Well at least we looked up for it but we were never going to score in open play and could have conceded 3 or 4.

Martinez and Bailey with stinkers but as usual the system makes everyone look turd.

Lonsdale or Slazenger levels. Dire.

Ultimately a fun evening out. Bailey and Luiz goals were great. 

Pissed myself at their keeper for Digne's. Hopeless.

Chambers looked very shaky. McGinn poor. Sensed a few unhappy campers who were subbed off....

Palace have defo been linked recently. Let's hope it's that rather than us being an absolute car crash behind the scenes.

15 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

I think that's the very first time I've watched us lose on MOTD knowing the result. Following Villa has simply become a boring nuisance that gets in the way of my general interest in football.

Think the second point here is significant. 

We're 3 weeks into a new season and any excitement for the vast majority of us has evaporated. We play such slow and predictable football. The manager is sarcy and snappy. What is there to be excited about??

Just thinking about when we went to Palace last season and won. Controlled the game and played some inventive stuff. Scored a beautiful goal. 

Had zero expectation any of the above would be repeated yesterday and so it proved. 

Make Konsa in the starting XI make sense?

Balance from starting midfield three is miles off it.  Start Luiz and bench one of Ramsey or McGinn until we show some solidity off the ball and retain the thing when we have it. 

Hard to see the manager improving things.

Might take a cabbage to Bolton.

Konsa's cameo an absolute all-timer there....lost every single header. Amazing we didn't concede!

Mings, Dougie and Bailey all start I think. 

Ramsey and Buendia off the bench ASAP please if we're labouring!

Don't really know what our main position of need is right now but you'd think money is available to get at least one more in.

Still expecting/hoping for more transfer revenue from Davis, Guilbert, El Ghazi and Traore which would represent our best summer of sales in a long time (not including Jack)......

On 26/07/2022 at 20:29, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Are Rennes any good?

Yes. They were excellent after a slow start last season. Very exciting side at their best. 

Pretty wild we don't seem to have role for 80m worth of forward players

1 hour ago, MrBlack said:

Once again... spot on. 

Those hoping the third will be black... I'm pretty sure you're safe. @Eastie 

See above for your third kit spoiler@parisvilla

Thank you! Not a good shirt though ‍

Wolves clobber referred to as 'very nice' and 'awesome'.....ranked 19th. Not sure much thought went into this list!

Home 5.5/10

Away 3/10

Third better be decent as got to have a Kamara jersey!

2 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Why would a French team have an English tagline? 

ha....fair. you get my point though - think half a dozen major European clubs are sponsored by them, we could be the only one with the naff tagline.