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I agree....three players there who I would automatically pick Bannan ahead of, yet we continue to pay their wages. Bannan is small in stature, big in heart and you can see plenty in his game to justify keeping him at VP.

This newcastle side are'nt going to set the Premier League alight.....Carroll or no Carroll. NRC should get the nod after last nights effort, but not sure about resting Albrighton. Yes, we don't want him to burn out, but he's damned exciting to watch and these are the sort of games he could totally dominate.

Agree....maybe a lot are waiting to guage how serious we're taking it this time?

I think the defence could quite easily have gifted Rapid the tie in the first half. Davies was terribly out of shape, although to be fair a lack of first team appearances possibly contributed to this....maybe? Downing drifted in and out, which put a lot of pressure on young Albrighton and it showed eventually. NRC, I thought, was getting stuck in a fair bit second half and Heskey must have been on a promise with the amount of running he did! No one else shone for me really. Bannan took his goal well, but there was some fairly average performances. Probably good enough to consider 'job done' but they could have slipped up.

Intimidation of the opposition is almost part of the game in a lot of European countries. irrespective of the appaling treatment dished out to a lot of travelling supporters (especially if they're from England). Verbal abuse and throwing of objects at players is pretty much par for the course, mores the pity. You can actually see it being allowed to go on and if theres any issue made of it, you can bet that reference will be made to 'the English disease', as if somehow to justify it.

Well worked again by Albrighton.....good move, deserved more.

Better Villa.

Ow! Guzans alright though!

They're getting to too many of these headers in dangerous areas! Wheres all that possession we were enjoying?

Soft goal......

Blimey!!! The Hesk...what an athlete!

Clinical Villa!!!!!

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