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  1. @delboy54 hope you have a long, healthy and happy retirement mate. Hopefully helped along by watching Villa win a thing or 2
  2. I'd imagine this time yesterday we all thought we'd have to win today to maintain the same gap to Tottenham. As it is though we've only drew but have gained a point on them. There are going to many more twists and turns but that is another game played and we are another point better off on our main rival for 4th. Onto the next.
  3. My post wasn't meant to come over as you can't be in your 70's and really fit, healthy and enjoying life. That is certainly my intention My point was just that I don't consider someone who passes away in their 70's as no age to go or that they were 'only' 72/73/74 etc. I'm 50, I keep myself in reasonable nick but even now I'd say if I can get to my mid 70's then I'd have had a decent innings whilst of course hoping I'll hang around at the crease for a while longer than that
  4. First time under Emery I didn't have a clue what we were trying to do first half as we looked clueless. Fair play to him though he got it spot on in the second half and his subs changed the game. Would have been a real injustice had we lost it at the end as only one team tried to play football in that second half. I couldn't watch that tripe West Ham serve up every week. That maintains our record of not having lost two league games on the bounce all season (actually since start of May) which shows how much character we have in this team. That could be a really valuable point come the end of the season.
  5. Just picking up on something I just read in the deadpool thread and someone dying at 73 and being described as only 73. I see this a lot that people in their 70's being described in terms such as no age or even young. I can't see someone in their 60's as young or no age never mind their 70's. I'm 50 so no spring chicken and whilst I don't consider myself old I certainly couldn't see myself, or definitely not describe myself, as young. Life expectancy for males in the UK is I think 78 and dropping so you get into mid 70s and you've had a half decent knock I'd say. I'm probably influenced by having lost my dad when he was 60, my mother in law when she was 55 and numerous aunts/uncles on both mine and my wife's side in their 60's. The only nan and granddad I was close to were 69 and 73 and back when they passed away in the 1980s/early 90s that was considered a good innings. My mom is 80 this year and I'd say that is a really good age to get to.
  6. It seems I'll be going against the grain here but I've just finished Masters of the Air and really enjoyed it. Nothing will ever come close to Band Of Brothers but I thought this was on a par with The Pacific.
  7. That is fantastic. Can't praise Coventry enough.
  8. Fair play to Coventry. This has been a great game.
  9. Cov should be out of sight. Hope they don't pay for all these missed chances.
  10. Coventry play some lovely football. Robins has done an unreal job with them.
  11. I started reading a few and quickly got to one that said 'Hopefully it went off with a BANG' I left it at that as knew they'd be plenty more neanderthal, racist bile.
  12. Ramsey is part of our best 11 for me. Ajax had 9 players 22 or under in their starting 11 last week so certainly against them Roger's and Tim wouldn't be out of their depth, just as they weren't last week. FWIW though I don't think either will start.
  13. I'm scratching my head to see how, regardless of the promise of what may come, it has been a crap 2024 so far anyway. We have played 8 league games and won 4 and drew one. Do that over a 38 game season and that is 62 points. Even if we want to include the cup games then we beat Boro away in the FA Cup, got a draw away to Chelsea and then lost the replay to them. A Chelsea whilst inconsistent still on their day capable of giving any team a game. Oh and to top off our cup games this year we got a good result at Ajax leaving us in a great position to finish the job against them at a hopefully rocking VP under the lights on Thursday to take us into the quarter final of a European Cup competition. It is measure of how far we have come I guess, or how expectations have gotten way out of hand, that the above is now considered by some as being a big contributor to considering the year to so far be crap.
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