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I am grateful Richard is passing on anything he has heard. He has nothing to gain other than being mocked if nothing happens. Its a snifter of good news on top of a great weekend. I will take it I've never seen anything at all to indicate that Richard is an ITK. (Not getting at your back Richard, I just haven't) Yet he's been duped as an itk for quite a while, is it because he met Paul Lambert some time back(?). A lot of his comments that's been made has just been general comments, that's also been made by other players. I don't get it. To me the only guy/girl who's close to being an itk on this site is HH. Feel free to fill me inn if there is something I've completely missed though, most properly I have.

Was great today. more of this please

I don't unerstand why that is a yellow. But I only know the basics rules. Anyone got an idea?

what a dirty player giroud is.

Horrible defending......

He would certainly join us, but he would demand a place in the team pretty quick. Could work out though, can become a really good player. Think he'd demand a certain amount of playtime. One of the more talented Norwegian players, and he will certainly not remain in the Norwegian League for much longer, expect him to end up in the Bundesliga or Ederdevise. He's starting to attract quite a lot of intrest lately hasn't he? He's a very hungry player who''s always looking to improve and got his head screwed on straight. Great passer of the ball, tireless player and offers a lot defensively. Above Henriksen and Eikrem imo.

Wish we'd go in for Stefan Johansen. Would be cheap and worth a punt in my opinion. But we're rather well set in the midfield department, and he's playing in a inferior league, so proparly not going to happen. But might prove to be good value for the money.

Roy Jones Jr. rapping was never a good idea But he can't be moved, nor stopped.

yea : /

^ That's true, he pretty much self destructed his own creditability. But pointing out that they're not your typical AM/trequista/false nr.9 has nothing to do with slating them

Is it possible to under-estimate 0 goals in a collective 75+ appearances? Are you seriously slating Westwood, Sylla and Delph? You must be mad! I understand you're probably angry at them because the've rightfully stolen Bannan's place in the side, but christ. Westwood in particular is VITAL to our play. ^ Uhhhh? He's saying that they're not very attack minded midfielders. As can be shown by their 75 appearances without scoring. Neither of them are employed as AM's. It got nothing to do with slating any of those players, what so ever.

^ It's says it almost got impossible for Barry Bannan to start a game under Paul Lambert. Not; it almost got impossible for Paul Lambert to start Barry Bannan. I interpret it as: it got hard for the guy to start a game under Paul Lambert due to the abuse he was getting. But maybe I'm misinterpreting it .

^ I'd see Helenius or Weimann leading the line. If you have to choose I'd still go for Gabby, far better hold up play then Bent.

Good at holding up the ball, been tracking back and offering something defensively under Lambert. Stretches the defense. Really stepped up for us during the last half of the season. He's been more of a winger the past 3 seasons, so his goal return isn't too bad. Considering he's been injury prone as well.

Think the article serves him justice. Not for Villa, but hope he finds his feet somewhere he can play to his strengths. Good luck Barry Bannan.

Really looking forward to it, it's the "generalprøve"(don't know the english for it, sorry) before the season starts

Crewe prehaps?

http://tinyurl.com/qec3slw Say Goodbye to my Little Friend - The Story of Barry Bannan's Villa Demise by: Shelly Ousbourne - Jul 28, 2013 Why did it go wrong for Barry Bannan at villa? Had the new manager only been Roberto Martinez, rather than Alex McLeish, then it is arguable that Bannan’s career may not have declined in the manner that it currently has.’ One of Aston Villa’s most promising academy products looks to be on his way out of the club as Villa accepted a bid thought to be in the region of £750,000 for Barry Bannan this week. Bannan has become a somewhat divisive figure amongst Villa fans (to put it mildly), and its hard to write about Bannan without feeling a deep sense of regret. Along with Daniel Crowley, Aston Villa have lost another central midfielder this summer with an abundance of potential. There is a sense, however, that Bannan’s exit is unsurprising and somewhat expected. A divorce which suits both parties. A large and vocal group of fans have made it known that they never really saw the point of Bannan, and they never really will. In fact, it was becoming almost impossible for Bannan to start a game under Paul Lambert due to the inevitable howls of derision from social media sites and abuse from the stands whenever he took to the pitch. Even if you were a loyal fan of Bannan, watching him last season was crucifixion. Yet, how did such a promising academy player suddenly become so unloved by the fans? When Randy Lerner joined the club, the sharp suited PR types coined the theme “Proud History, Bright Future“, and Bannan was exactly the type of player it was hoped would become part of that future. Martin O’Neill’s 4-4-2 formation had started to look tired and old-fashioned, towards the end of his tenure and Villa were in desperate need of a new direction. Teams around Villa were modernising. Tottenham had bought Luka Modric and became more possession based, whilst other clubs adapted their styles and updated their scouting networks. Young Barry Bannan had arrived at Aston Villa from Celtic as a 14-year-old trialist, and the Scottish midfielder quickly impressed the club when he became player of the tournament at the Ergenzingen in Germany, which Villa went on to win against Mainz. Bannan began making a name for himself in the academy as a rising star, and he memorably ran the show against Manchester United reserves when he scored a brilliant hat trick in a 4-1 win for Aston Villa. The youngster could have scored more goals in the match as he also hit the post and came close several other times. Bannan opened his account with a beautiful free kick, then scored again with a Messi-like chip over the goal-keeper. To complete hat-trick, Bannan slotted home a penalty after Delfouneso was brought down in the area. United’s team that day included the likes of Bebe, Obertan, Magnus Eikrem, Ravel Morrison and Cory Evans. 2-2 vs United, a performance that suggested a bright future for Bannan Bannan seemed to develop a habit of playing well against Manchester United as he also starred against United’s reserves in the Reserves Play-Off final in May 2010, which Villa lost on penalties after finishing 3 – 3 at full time. Bannan played in the number 10 position, his best position, and hardly put a put wrong in the match. He got an assist as he slid a very Modric-esque short pass into Delfouneso who turned and struck home neatly. Villa’s mini midfielder had given a very impressive performance against a star-studded United side that included the likes of Ben Foster, Rafael (United first team), Possobon, Diouf (Hannover), Marcheda and Pogba (Juve). It was those performances which earned Bannan a call up to the Villa first team squad and he began under Martin O’Neill playing on the left-wing, which didn’t really suit him. Next came Gerard Houllier, who was immediately impressed with the young, blonde midfielder. “Barry is an intelligent player,” said Houllier, “he can read the game well and adapt well. I don’t think Xavi and Iniesta, who are outstanding players, are of huge size. They are intelligent, they have the skill and the desire. Young Barry has all of that.” Bannan repaid Houllier’s faith by dictating the terms again against Manchester United in a thrilling 2-2 draw at Villa Park. Sir Alex Ferguson ruefully acknowledged after the match that he already knew all about the young Scot’s ability, following Bannan’s hat-trick against United in the reserves. Things looked bright for Bannan under Houllier, but tragically the Villa manager became ill again and another new manager was drafted in to take the reins at Villa Park. Had the new manager only been Roberto Martinez, rather than Alex McLeish, then it is arguable that Bannan’s career may not have declined in the manner that it currently has. Bannan was not the only creative player whose career ground to a halt under Alex McLeish, as Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder Alex Hleb memorably bore testament to. “At Birmingham, the team played the long-ball game, practically bypassing midfield,” said Hleb. “To get into the game you had to play up front or linger at the back with the defenders to get hold of the ball, which more often than not flew right past me.” Under McLeish, Bannan was marooned out on the wing and was rarely able to get into the game. When the ball did arrive it was more often than not a forty-yard pass, or rather hoof, out of defence from either Collins or Dunne. Bannan was unsurprisingly out-jumped or out-muscled helplessly as the ball flew at him head high. Off-field problems followed and Bannan enjoyed a thoroughly miserable time under McLeish, as many other Villa players did. When Paul Lambert arrived last summer, genuine hopes were raised that Lambert would be able to harness Bannan’s talent, as Lambert had turned other rough diamonds into Premier League players. However, things started badly for Bannan under Lambert. He struggled to make an impact in a two man midfield when Villa were thrashed 1 -3 at home by Everton and along with Ciaran Clark, who was sent off, he took much of the blame for Villa’s insipid performance. Bannan then played well against Newcastle, Sunderland and Swansea but Villa had made their worst start to the league in 15 years, and fans seemed reluctant to apportion any blame to either the formation or the hugely popular new manager. The young Scot certainly didn’t help himself. Having been assigned the role of set-piece taker, he often erratically missed the mark with his delivery and should have abdicated this responsibility much earlier. He could have taken a lot of heat off himself by doing so. He didn’t. He persisted and persisted. Sometimes he’d play well, sometimes he’d play badly, but there remained a feeling that defensive midfield didn’t really get the best from his particular skill-set. His only rarely delivered from set pieces Bannan was too far away from the attackers to play any intelligent balls, his passes were often long and ambitious with no attacking midfielder to help bridge the gap. Westwood and Bannan were, at times, so far back on the pitch that they almost tripped backwards over Ron Vlaar. The two youngsters simply didn’t have enough muscle or experience to handle the demands of a two-man midfield against stronger teams in the first half of the season. Against Chelsea, Westwood was subbed and protected, Bannan was left to face the music. Things changed for the better when Sylla arrived at the club and Bannan played well against Reading and Q.P.R in matches, where Villa grabbed all three points. Personal abuse from the stands was beginning to take its toll on the player as every corner Bannan went to take was met by an increasingly vile torrent of abuse. The player stopped wanting the ball and started pointing at team mates instead. A big change from the boy who wanted to get on the ball at every opportunity as a youngster in the academy. Mystery surrounds the reason why Bannan didn’t make the trip to Stoke. We’ll probably never know the real reason. Bannan was playing steadily enough against Q.P.R. and the Scottish midfielder wasn’t just dropped, he was left out of the squad altogether from there on. Bannan subsequently became part of the ‘bomb squad‘ and Villa accepted a bid for his services from Blackburn Rovers this week. A sad end to the youngsters career at Villa, but I wish him the best of luck in the future and hope to see him back in the Premier League in the manner Steven Davis returned with Southampton. Good luck Barry!

I did read your post, I just don't think you liked my response I think you're right

Everyone has been patting each other on the back when they've been scoring it got nothing to do with "excellent leadership quality". And I think you're fully aware of that. I believe that Clark could turn out to be a good defender for us if given time seeing that he'll sort out the very basic errors out of his game. But please don't hijack this thread and turn it into a Barry Bannan II thread.

Got the same problem. Rob: Just try to notice the camera.work in some of the interviews or scenes and you might actually understand what I'm talking about. The camera work during matches are fine. As for the audio I'm not talking about "catching the atmosphere" of the game so again I don't see what point you're trying to make. It's simple things such as using a windbreaker(on the microphone) when you're making the introductions, avoid white noice and feedback, not have the audio cut out during live audio matches, a higher bitrate. etc.

So we don't know for certain that they all have better TV services than us, and you've mentioned the 6 biggest clubs in the country. Also, even if I wasn't overly happy with AVTV, I'd still big it up to other teams' fans Man City and Man Utd have better services, I know that for a fact because I've seen their footage. I imagine Arsenal, Chelsea & Liverpool have similar services, but we can't really be blamed, or called a disgrace, for not competing with the biggest and richest clubs in the league. AVTV isn't fantastic, but I think it's good, for what we pay. The highlights of league games are usually uploaded the Tuesday after the game, so the fact that AVTV are managing to get the 'goals only' highlights on the same night as the game, and then the extended highlights a day later (usually) is pretty efficient imo. Anyway, I'll be watching the Shamrock game on Sunday, so hopefully another flawless stream! As I've said before, as a media product in itself it's rather poor (ie: editing, audio, and video quality, filming/camera-work, coverage to some extent). disregarding the club, how rich it is or other clubs are. Changes can be made making the product better without costing a whole lot. Some adjustments can be made without costing anything at all. Just read some of the mentions made in this thread. And AVTV is all ready starting to improve, hence my post. They're a much bigger and richer club is to me a rather poor excuse, or actually it's not even relevant. I'm not saying that AVTV should be as good as say manutv(I'm pretty sure they're being run on a far bigger budget), but they could be a lot better then what they actually are. It seems to me that somewhere along they way they settled for mediocrity and got stuck there without looking for to improve. Look at VillaTalk.com for example, and how it's evolved over the past few years and it's being run by volunteers not by people who's raising their paycheck from it . It's not a fact that they get the goals only up at the same night even, they did the other night hence my thumbs up and positive post. A few times it's been the morning after. The crewe extended highlights took what 3 days or more to get up? It's understandable that extended highlights takes a day because it's much more editing to do. I would assume that making a clip off the goals is pretty much a wam bam thank you mam if you're somewhat decent at editing, write down the time of the goals, got a USB 3/3.1, a respectable Internet connection and a computer that doesn't take half a day the render something. But I might be wrong. I guess we just have different expectations . As for the disgrace part, I've stated earlier that that was uncalled for as your post made me realize that, but I'm not sure why you're bringing that up again? I'm also looking forward to watching our new players on a flawless stream from AVTV while enjoying a beer on Sunday.

Goals up quikly today, post match interview up quickly and a better interview. A good interview with Fabian Delph earlier this week. Two faultless streams. AVTV But they should really invest in a tripod. Rob: as far as I know; manu, city, tottenham, chelsea, arsenal, new castle, liverpool got a better tv service then Aston Villa. I haven't subscribed to any of them but just gathered from what I've been told from mates who supports either of em. As for the others clubs I have no idea.

El barbero de Sevilla!!!!!!!!!!!!