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1 minute ago, Ouchmefoot said:

wow, really...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football

Media 101:  more people will click on a headline if it's intriguing.    It's not a slight on you, us as a club or anything else. 

Moreno has got to do better with the goal. It was a half hearted attempt at clearing the ball.  I don’t think it happens if he’s not just coming back from a long injury but the sloppiness is killing us.   Big half time team talk coming up because we can win this.  

I’ve always liked whoever the ref in the Manchester City vs Palace game is. 

Nice to see Tommi get a run out. Saw him bossing it in the Birmingham Senior Cup at Nuneaton this time last year. 

3 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

very little movement.

There’s very little space. Just like in the first leg Zrinjski have often had seven players defending in the box.  We need to learn to deal with these ultra low blocks but a back five with two DMs screening will suck the life out of pretty much any game. 

Just now, alreadyexists said:

Legia have scored, does that change things?

No.  If we keep a clean sheet we’ve won the group. 

3 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Nope, I missed the first three or four minutes, bet it was a dude

I think it was Taylor Swift. Full frontal , did a cartwheel in the centre circle.  It’s why Matty Cash has looked so distracted all night. 

Just now, rjw63 said:

Listening to radio and it sounds extremely boring, even the commentator is talking in a hushed tone

Did they mention the streaker on the radio? 

Just now, Philosopher said:

Dendonker is looking clumsy tonight!

He’s always struck me as a guy who is great to have in the trenches but when you’re on the front foot his limitations are obvious. 

Cash isn’t having a great game.  

Another Catalan club too.   Girona is nowhere near as big a city as Barcelona,  but it can probably consider a million people to be in it's catchment area and a lot of those would historically be Barca fans.   It's not a romantic story if Girona win the league obviously, but it's an interesting one. 

Also: Bellingham keeps scoring.  It's absurd just how prolific he's been this season: 

12 goals in 14 appearances in La Liga.  4 in 4 in the Champions League.  16 in 18 for Real Madrid overall, with 4 assists.   He's 20 years old. 

I’m not sure how we are winning at half time, I think Emery needs to do something about the shape as Saliba has Ollie Watkins in his pocket so far that it’s almost like we are playing with ten men.
 

There’s no out ball so we’ve started going long and it just keeps coming back. I’d just keep telling Arsenal to keep doing what they are doing if I were Artera, I’m not sure what I’d say if I were Emery

On 07/12/2023 at 21:41, Louis said:

If I was at West Midlands trains right now, I would definitely have at least 15 carriages on match days/nights. 15 carriages covers the whole platform

15? Are you sure about that? 

3 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Yes mate, but they’re proppa points

TBF he is collecting them at the speed which most Blues fans are capable of counting.  

Ricky van Wolfswinkel.  Dutch striker who famously couldn't hit a Koeienkont with a banjo after a big money move to Norwich has just popped up with a goal tonight.  He's now 34 years of age. 

18 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

But how are they doing in the CL this year? 

I think they did his agent dirty as they aren't in the Champions League they are in the Championship*. 

*That's the Dutch Championship**. 

** It's actually called the Eerste Divisie but that ruins the gag. 

1 hour ago, TheAuthority said:

Wow didn't know Leandro Bacuna played for Sha. What a scumbag!

Juninho Bacuna who is Leandro's kid brother.   Leandro is playing in the Dutch second division with Groningen, who are the club we signed him from back in the day. 

1 hour ago, Davkaus said:

Turned on the inbred derby to see how long it is before the sad **** start tugging each other off singing about the Villa.

80 seconds.

It's telling because all it really shows is that they both wish they were playing us instead.   However:

Villa old boy Callum O'Hare has opened the scoring and put another nail in Rooney's coffin.   Nice work. 

You look at the dressing room at the time, it was a toxic place.  Dean Smith coming as in saved Grealish from being the next wasted talent.  

2 hours ago, Caddy said:

I think the real frustration is that Jack seemingly took the "easy way" out when it was plain and obvious that there was something special brewing here.

The easy way out would have been to leave after we were relegated, instead he stayed for three seasons in The Championship.  I'm sure there were a couple of times when he was close to leaving but he stayed when we needed him and if truth be told the "one more year" thing we had going on with Jack ended up being about five more years.  The guy must have been looking at players like Wilf Zaha at Palace who spent a lot of his career in the same situation then all of a sudden he was 29 and the interest from Champions League clubs (that aren't based in Istanbul) dried up.  I get why Jack left, he was one of the best players in the world who had never played Champions League football and as being a footballer is a short career I'm sure he didn't want to regret passing up on opportunities that weren't going to be around once he stop fitting the age profile that Uberclubs are willing to spunk obscene transfer fees on.   He's done well at Manchester CIty too, obviously he's not the main man there but he was never supposed to be. He was however a key player in a team that won the Treble and nobody can take that away from him.  He can still be a massive Villa fan but he had to do what was right for him in the moment. 

The thing is we've moved on too.  We don't miss Jack at all.  It would be incredible if the 24 year old version of Grealish was in the current Villa squad  but timing is everything in football and this one didn't line up for us.  However, we got a lot of money for him and while it's possible to have a conversation about how that money was spent, two years later we find that we've got a much better team than any of the sides Grealish played in. I'm sure he's happy to see us doing well. What I don't want is us signing him on a Bosman when he's 32 and out of contract because sentimentality, but I don't think the current owners work like that.   As it stands the Grealish departure kinda worked out for everybody. 

57 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

1 draw and 4 losses for Spurs in their last 5 games?

Maybe the running at a thousand miles an hour into every tackle thing doesn’t work as well beyond October when the opposition aren’t Dundee and Motherwell.