TRO Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 comes to something when we can't sign a player most of us don't want....maybe someone up there is saving us from ourselves. This club of ours has had some funny (weird)periods....we are certainly in one right now. I have for many years said that Villa Park must be cursed because someone in the distant past refused to buy the lucky heather or wooden clothes pegs to hang out the players gear on a Monday washing day to dry. Whatever the reason there is no doubt in my mind that what you say TRO is almost true. This club of ours hasn't had "some" funny periods, Truth is that we are always having a funny period. Once we get used to this foible of AVFC, it makes everything else so much easier to understand. We support an extremely eccentric club. A club that in one half of a game makes you think they are beyond brilliant and then in the next half makes you think that they are a club of toddlers that can't kick a ball or make a tackle even if their life depended on it. I for one don't think that Hoolahan was the answer for our #10 needs and I am just as happy that Lambert and Faulkner didn't pay over the odds for a player that more than likely would have been massacred by the fickle ones at B6. Perhaps we all dodged a bullet in that respect. This "funny period" you refer to that we are in now reminds me a lot of the time when after losing to Donny Rovers in the League Cup, DOL was unable to bring in the oft injured Erik Bakke. Funny how often history gets repeated at B6. All we need now is for a sighting of Groundhogs at Villa Park and the circle of exasperation will continue. You don't have to have a sense of humour to support Aston Villa, but it helps if you do. Otherwise you'd be a victim of forlorn hopes and expectations. I feel sorry for Hoolahan though. He missed an opportunity to join a great club and one has to question the ethics of those that prevented such a player from practicing his craft at a club that wanted to play him as opposed to a club that would just keep him warming a bench. well said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Norwich is a shithouse club though! No .....McNally is a shithouse director 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Apparently Hoolahan has been put on gardening leave. Told to only come in to training when he's willing to grovel and apologise to all team mates and manager. I say fair play to Norwich. Didn't want to strengthen a rival and stuck to their guns. They said all along they didn't want to sell to us, we went all billy big-bollocks thinking we could force their hand by unsettling the player. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 If I was Hoolahan i'd tell them to stuff it because the only reason why he wasn't allowed to join us was due to a vindictive chairman which has now affected his career. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 (edited) If he had been playing regularly and was central to their thoughts, then I would concede that he is their player and they want to keep him and would see the argument from Norwich's perspective much better. .....but that was not the case and in my view the moral ground switches back to the player, in this case. He is under contract and contract is drawn up in the spirit that the player will be expected to play, a contract is not drawn up expecting the player to sit on the bench....that said. The player then sets about finding new employment on the thought basis that the club, doesn't want him and that moving on should be no problem, due to the said circumstances. that to me seems a reasonable assumption from the player. This is just seems vindictive and messing with a players head. ps.... its like having a wife you don't want, but not letting anyone else have her when she has found somebody. pps Having said all that i want to see a youngish "on the way up" no10 coming in to us. Edited February 1, 2014 by TRO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmygreaves Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Apparently Hoolahan has been put on gardening leave. Told to only come in to training when he's willing to grovel and apologise to all team mates and manager. I say fair play to Norwich. Didn't want to strengthen a rival and stuck to their guns. They said all along they didn't want to sell to us, we went all billy big-bollocks thinking we could force their hand by unsettling the player. How..... by making an official bid (or bids) for the player??? It's not like we offered peanuts for their star player (after tapping him up with an offer of thousands a week). We acted properly, as far as I can see, to try to sign a player who is on the fringes of the Norwich squad. A player the current manager sees little value in. If any party was acting "all billy big-bollocks" it was the management and owners of Norwich. They've behaved like pricks and essentially hung a professional footballer out to dry. I totally understand the "shit house club" outburst. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The sky sports woman who tweeted his shithouse club comments was rather unethical IMO... what with it being said off the record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The sky sports woman who tweeted his shithouse club comments was rather unethical IMO... what with it being said off the record. She's an Ipswich fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Is it possible for a player to buy out of his contract? If so, couldn't we simply agree to compensate Wes on whatever that fee maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaGoMarching Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Never seen anything like it, a player not celebrating for scoring against a team he might have joined. I liked what I saw of him though, would have made a decent addition. Houghton is an absolute shit house for picking him, barely played all season then picked against us. I'm sure he wanted a situation to arise so to scape goat Hoolahan. I think it's backfired in all honesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Houghton is an absolute shit house for picking him, barely played all season then picked against us. I'm sure he wanted a situation to arise so to scape goat Hoolahan. I think it's backfired in all honesty. That may be one of the reasons for Hoolahan looking less than impressed with his goal. I was really hoping we could do a deal for him in January but come the summer it would be nice if we could move on to other targets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Yea hughton clearly picked him because it was villa and must have creamed himself when he put them ahead, hilariously backfired in the end though. You can see he's a good player though and is still exactly the type of player we need, was causing so much trouble in the first 20-25 minutes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Not the player we should be going for in the summer He would have been an ok stop gap in January but i'd like to think we will have bigger fish to fry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Wasn't he picked due to a couple of their midfielder being injured. If he was picked just as a 'look what you missed out on' then quite pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I'd still have him at the club. He may be older but that is what we need. Every club has some veteran player to fall back on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I'd still have him at the club. He may be older but that is what we need. Every club has some veteran player to fall back on. I agree, he'd be a useful addition to the squad, IMO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Did well yesterday, I'd be fine with him signing in the summer.....as long as a younger version is also signed. Don't laugh but wouldn't shock me if we went back in for Kioyate...Lambert was still talking about him in January so would make sense to be playing Hoolahan while say a Kiyoate adapts to England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I thought Hoolahan simply took the opportunity to wear his heart on his sleeve, particularly to the club he was clearly disappointed not to have been playing for. I just wished he would have capped the goal with a celebratory mooney towards the smug Norwich representatives in the directors box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Thought he looked good but what a clearing in the woods for not celebrating. He has no link to us what so ever and he's a Norwich player who I'm sure was happy to sign a contract with them when he did. I'd be furious if one of our players did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Thought he looked good but what a clearing in the woods for not celebrating. He has no link to us what so ever and he's a Norwich player who I'm sure was happy to sign a contract with them when he did. I'd be furious if one of our players did that. No link except to the manager, who basically made his career. Also, he's probably pissed at Hughton, and he did do a fist pump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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