Nicho

This is the absolute point for me. The debt and facilities would be completely irrelevant. Everyone else has chairman that don’t win stuff including charlatans, criminals, incompetency and skint. But because it’s Man United it’s a terrible thing.

Hojlund is getting his first goal Boxing Day

Absolutely agree.

Might as well bet on a dodgy Fernandes goal now. Actually Hojlund is clearly scoring his first prem goal.

Mine is his passing, made that error in the first minute or so and just continued from there. A very poor game from him but I think he has a place in our squad for certain games. Last night you would think was the perfect game for him, not that much pressure and chance to get forward. Maybe he needs the pressure from the opposition with a lot of time he looked a bit headless.

I’d rather have one ref responsible for making mistakes than 3 of them all with their own opinions. As you say the ref was right next to the Mee challenge and on his own probably gives a red but give a yellow and let VAR look at it means he can make mistake and is happy to side on caution. Problem being is that sometimes VAR then says it isn’t clear and obvious and bad decisions continue. I would be interested to know how many straight reds have been given by refs this season without VAR.

They arnt even clear with what clear and obvious is or means. If VAR needs the ref to go to the screen then it isn’t clear and obvious to me. I still don’t know why it isn’t implemented to allow the on pitch ref to ask for help rather than be told they need help. The power is gone from the refs they don’t make decisions knowing they can rely on VAR. Then you get complete **** ups like the handball last night, that is a clear and obvious handball.

I’m waiting for them to review that handball

The north needs to be levelled there is no doubt about that but from a revenue perspective they would get twice as much from me if the service and offerings were better and I’ve been in every stand recently, the space in the lower trinity is the only one where I could get multiple pints/pies before and during a game without it being a farce. I like the little tech things they’ve done in the lower holte but the camera tracking thing and the pre order thing is done over by the fact the staff are not pre pouring or really doing much. Space is the big problem and why the north demolition is needed, which applies to the Doug and the Holte.

Love a night under the lights, will be a great atmosphere tonight. Although I don’t like our walk out music and always feel they could play better songs to get the crowd going before hand.

I like what I’ve seen from him and I still want us to be shopping in the championship, there are good young premier league players there.

Yep agree with that. They are different players and I’d love two more.

We lost something when he went off, that Diaby didn’t replace

Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying

I didn’t say you wernt allowed to criticise people for their opinion it’s a forum after all. Your point was this is why we support and don’t criticise. The point is that blind support isn’t always correct if a player isn’t up to it then they deserve criticism. Bailey wasn’t up to it and I’m sure Unai criticised him and did drop him. Are you supporting Dendocker, Traore, Chamber et al? Bailey has turned the corner and come back stronger and I’m all for it, happy to give players like Zaniolo the benefit of time aswell but at the moment his performances don’t deserve blind support either.

You’re allowed to criticise players, he was really poor now he’s playing great, absolutely deserves the praise and is impacting games.

I missed the second half thought Kamara was the stand out at that point

I really dont think this is the point. As stated they broadcast across lots of different mediums in genres to suit everyone and everything. The question for me is could you now create a "free" thinking organisation that has its hand in producing new tv, shows, artists musicians and culture that it does, the simple answer is no. The value of something is not always in the profit it makes and the BBC does and has had an immeasurable positive impact on the UK. The attacks they receive is due to the tories when the BBC says something true and they dont like it, even though they give more than enough time to people like Kussenberg and Question time to spoute positive spin for them. Everything is not about profit and your point about performing in a private market is perfect conservatism. Close the care homes, the youth and after school clubs, remove benefits because they dont make profit. When in fact they impact positiviely much further down the line as does the BBC everyday. Saying that the BBC obviously has its flaws but it is idolised all over the world for what it achieves.

I was in the north lower with the entrance on the Doug Ellis side, if we had been a minute later we would have struggled to get in I think. They were shutting the gate and stopping all fans coming through. Rushed past a police man on the floor surrounded by colleagues and there did seem to be panic from everyone. Sounds a bit of a perfect storm, Villa riled fans by lowering the allocation, fans turned up on purpose hoping to get in regardless, police didn’t manage it properly. No doubt there were normal fans wanting to come in and probably some roudy ones but nothing wrong with that. Others were just there to cause trouble.

Got my yearly pension statement today, went down by 30 quid

Has he had that lion tattoo done while hes been here?

Didn’t realise he had a son who has been picked up by Salzburg which is a good sign. Only 16 but I’d love him to end up at Villa.

How has he got a job when he’s not sitting MP.

It’s the next logical step

He’s clearly got ability just isn’t doing it for villa at the moment. His performances and more importantly Baileys impact probably justify him being dropped. Got no problem with Emery trusting him and I expect him to make an impact at some point.