AstonMartyn88

Bailey so wasteful yet again.

Sigh… would expect this from the lot across the city. (I know it doesn’t state he is a Villa fan but putting 2+2 together) 
 

https://www.west-midlands.police.uk/news/man-handed-three-year-banning-order-after-shouting-racist-slur-raheem-sterling-villa-park

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Man handed three year banning order after shouting racist slur at Raheem Sterling at Villa Park
A man has been handed a three year banning order after he racially abused Chelsea and England player Raheem Sterling during a game at Villa Park.

Timothy Hyslop was heard to shout out a racist slur when Sterling was on the ball during the first half of the Premier League game between Aston Villa and Chelsea on 16 October last year.

Thought Emery’s post match interview to the the in house channel was excellent. Looking straight at the camera I felt like he was deliberately addressing us and finishing it with ‘we need to change things’ gives me hope that we can kick on when he has the players he wants

9 minutes ago, sidcow said:

You mean the photo posted about 2 pages back? 

Probably.

Can’t post the screenshot as it’s bigger than allowed size but looks like he was at Le Reve in Lichfield last night

5 hours ago, HKP90 said:

Sky have given the players a reason to be there since 1992. 
Last year (2021-2022) only £700M of the £5,400M received by Premier league clubs came from matchday revenue. 

 

 

Football was around before 1992. Are you suggesting there was never booing of a poor performance before then? Also why were the players there before 1992?

4 hours ago, HKP90 said:

Support is not a 2 way street. That's why it's support. 

What does a man with a broken leg using crutches do for the crutches? 

Gives them a reason to be there. As the players do for the supporters 

In my opinion the booing was for the performance in the first half as evidenced by the loud Unai Emery’s Claret & Blue Army straight after. 
 

I wasn’t there but watched the game. Would have been booing if I was there as the first half was absolutely terrible and I would have resented paying ticket & transport money on a Wednesday evening just after Christmas and New Year and after work to watch that performance.
 

Support is a 2 way street, fans sounded right behind the players from the off but players didn’t respond in the first half leading to reduction in support.

Stats here for the first half: https://www.flashscore.co.uk/match/d8NOBd1K/#/match-summary/match-statistics/1

Second half much better as fans responded to players’ efforts and players responded to the fans’ efforts. 

Stats for the second half: https://www.flashscore.co.uk/match/d8NOBd1K/#/match-summary/match-statistics/2

It’s a symbiotic relationship. One can’t survive without the other, both need the other to survive. Also not for one second suggesting it’s the be all and end all that dictates a performance - as someone else said if we were 2-0 down at half time but had put the effort in the reaction would have been very different. 
 

Glad we got a point out of it and very pleased with Emery so far, let’s hope it continues. 

Just now, Pinebro said:

It's a garbage league dude. Probably worse than the Scottish league

Still aboard (I’m being pedantic I don’t actually want him)

Haven’t seen this posted so apologies if it already has been but this is eye opening: 

Eeeeeeeeeeee ya know

He’s got to go. 

If we don’t get a convincing victory vs Forest I think he’s done. 
 

Nailed on 2-0 to Forest. 

Woeful. Sack him. 

And at this time, Steven, those it chose will speak, and have spoken, in a clear voice: you are not wanted here. 

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ffootball%2F2022%2F08%2F29%2Fwhy-steven-gerrard-already-pressure-aston-villa%2F
 

John Percy in the Telegraph. Paywall removed

Boring first half. 

Insipid second half.

Vanity exercise playing his mate Phil.

No leadership on the pitch.

Couldn’t respond tactically.

Left a clearly woefully out of form ‘Captain’ on.

Baffling substitutions (eg why take DL off?)

He can’t have much longer surely.

Any ideas what Cameron Archer has to do to get on?

My brain is rattled watching the triathlon being in a place I’ve visited so many times

3 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

I feel sorry for the donkeys, we all know what happened last time they were up there on mass. For younger readers they cut several of the poor animals with Stanley’s 

I’m assuming they tried to cut the animals from behind and received a swift kick to the sister-botherer

Chortle. 
 

Mate. 

Reminds me a lot of us playing United in the late 90s-2010s. Lots of fear and they just go through us as and when they choose. Would like to see more but not sure what we need here. Buendia and McGinn have been anonymous in my opinion

Will give that a go thanks

On Google Chrome on iPhone new posts won’t load when refreshing eg in match thread. Then seems to work on log in/log out or clearing cache

Fed up of seeing McGinn’s arms in the air. Focus on the job.