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2 hours ago, hogso said:

Pickle (as in, Branston) on a Sausage & Mash dinner. Talk to me. 

Went through an experimental phase of mash potato-ing a few years ago, stirring different things through the mash

Fried onions through the mash - not bad

Fried mushrooms through the mash - very good

Branston pickle through the mash - bad

Renewed

Coady will be in the squad I reckon

He’s finished. Looked like he didn’t believe it when he was saying it was a good result on sky news just now. Ashen faced rabbit in the headlights, not seen him like that much before.

Joe Root, what a great! Great player, great man. 

12 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

| guess it's hard to not be discriminatory when a bigger percentage of the people who carried knifes were black. it's attitudes towards the police too. Watched too many rap videos.

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Unfortunately, we do not hold police recorded crime figures on robbery or offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, by ethnic group. 

On ‘attitudes towards the police’… black adults make up 3% of the population, yet account for 18% of the stop and searches (2020 data - Gov.uk) - no surprise that there is a mistrust of the police in this community.

Root needs to be there at the end of we’re going to win this.

That Broad over with the three wickets in earlier was absolutely electric. Show that to people who think test cricket is dead, turned the game on its head in an instant. De Grandhomme will be kicking himself if they lose.

19 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

In a match celebrating the life of one of the best spinners of all time (Warne) i have to say that I’ve been underwhelmed with Parkinson so far.

Shane Warne took 1/150 on debut to be fair to Parkinson after 9 overs of his test career 

8 hours ago, Davkaus said:

2 years on, life is pretty much back to normal, except for at my vets, who still won't let anyone in to the practice, so they leave people standing outside for half an hour, rain or shine, while the pet is inside.

All because of covid, and not because the workshy **** are enjoying the quiet

Dominos still aren’t doing half and half pizzas, this was a change made due to limited staffing at the height of lockdown

Meet the new England, just like the old England

11 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Parkinson’s only in because Leach stacked it this morning trying to save a 4 and somehow managed to get concussion.

The Nathan Baker of cricket.

Haha yes I was being facetious. Out and about this morning so had the radio comms on, sounded like a shoulder injury - bit of a fishy concussion?

Good first day at the office for Stokes and McCullum so far! Even managed to wangle Parkinson into the team.

Crawley needs to stop making pretty 30s and make some bigger scores!

Why on earth are these players being made to play 4 (let’s face it, meaningless) fixtures at the end of a long season, on top of the schedule post-Covid, when they’re back in pre-season earlier than ever due to a winter World Cup? 
 

This new dangled post-season international break in non-tournaments years really belongs in the TTPYOTS thread!

1 hour ago, WallisFrizz said:

We’ve got over 3k tickets but season ticket holders have first dibs, then members etc. 

Walsall only opening two stands I think and also giving priority access to sth.

 

Cheers, I have a season ticket, just wanted to know what demand is usually like for this game!

Ticket details

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Villa have an allocation of 3,370 tickets for the clash against the Saddlers at the Poundland Bescot Stadium on Saturday, July 9 (ko 1pm).

 

On-Sale Dates

ONLINE FROM 5PM:	PHONE FROM 10AM:	ON SALE TO:
Friday, June 10	Monday, June 13	2022/23 Season Ticket Holders
Friday, June 17	Monday, June 20	Members (subject to availability)
Friday, June 24	Monday, June 27	General Sale (subject to availability)

 

Ticket Prices

ADULT	£13
OVER 60	£7
UNDER 18	£7
FAMILY TICKET (ONE ADULT AND ONE U18)	£16

Does this usually sell out? Hoping to go for the first time.

58 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

Ty Bracey has just posted about Xabi Alonso. He's normally quite well connected at VP I think.

I get the impression he likes people to think this. Maybe gets a few titbits due to having a large following on social media and I think maybe a link with Luke Roper (?) every now and again but hasn’t struck me as massively ITK when I’ve heard him on the Villa View. He’s on here anyway so please feel free to correct me Ty if I’m wrong!

cheeky bid?

Shocker from Jon Moss and the VAR today.

This Is Us finished this week. Bit schmaltzy at times but overall an enjoyable programme. Thought the penultimate episode was the strongest in a while.

So is there a mid season break now? What a way to go out, if so! Brilliant episode with a great ending.

6 minutes ago, Mantis said:

I mean tbf he was only 23 at the time. There are a lot of issues with Sureaz but I just don't see how that is one of them.

I was 20 at the time and wouldn’t have done it, don’t think him being young makes it ok to be a word removed 

1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said:

 

Straight out of the Trump playbook. They are openly taking the piss out of us.

3 hours ago, Mantis said:

Yeah, the Ghana handball is an absolute non-issue.

Try telling that to a Ghanaian!

3 hours ago, PieFacE said:

Do people actually care about this? I'd have probably done the same. 

Not the actual handball itself that bothers me so much, but watching Gyan miss the pen from just outside the tunnel and celebrating so openly, shows a lack of class imo

Stirling is a great player, should have an IPL deal really but reckon he’s underrated as he’s Irish and out of shape.

Racism

Biting

That awful handball against Ghana.

Not a nice person and would rather not have him at the club. He was a class player though so maybe he could repent a little by helping Cameron Archer develop?