HanoiVillan Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Now Mellberg's overrated . . . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted December 10, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 10, 2015 Minor point this, but has anybody heard about changes to the training regime or general office hours at Villa lately? Driving past Bodymoor Heath in the morning I have noticed that security guys at the gates are there before 8am whereas I never used to see them, and general activity in the area seems to have increased as well. Maybe it is nothing, or maybe the threat of relegation has resulted in longer working hours being mandated there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 28 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Now Mellberg's overrated . . . People only think he was good because he had a beard remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Mellberg and Laursen were both absolute brilliant. Absolute warriors and real club men. However, I would say Southgate and Ehiogu were even better. Especially a back 3 of them 2 and McGrath (fap fap fap). What I wouldn't give for that now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 31 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: People only think he was good because he had a beard remember. Yes, the beard. That must be why Juventus took him off us as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Lets hope that Swansea fook up with their new appointment as manager. i was beginning to like Monk. He was doing his best to bring them closer to us game by game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 3 hours ago, Zatman said: oh dear Thanks for that well thought of post Zatman that added so much to the debate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 5 hours ago, Woodytom said: Haha, it must have been that season he was half decent and as good as zat knight that he got into the team of the season? Cost us the final? Do me a favour. Yeah he was at fault for a goal but how many goals did laursen cost charging about like a mad man? Dunne had one good seaosn what happened after that refresh my memory. In fact he was only good for half a season. laursen was in a poorer side yet he still performed better than Dunne in my view. Yeah Dunnes major mistake that cost us dearly. It was his fault he bottled it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 We need 30 points from the remaining 23 games. The last time we went on a run like that was the final 23 league games under Houllier and G Mac. After we signed Bent and had young and downing playing well. I just don't see this squad being able to match that kind of run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 It's almost January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 22 minutes ago, DCJonah said: We need 30 points from the remaining 23 games. The last time we went on a run like that was the final 23 league games under Houllier and G Mac. After we signed Bent and had young and downing playing well. I just don't see this squad being able to match that kind of run. They are nowhere near being capable of that kind of run. We will go down without even bothering to put up a fight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 9 hours ago, Adbo9 said: I gotta admit ive never understood really why people say "we need a new mellberg or laursen"............ when IMO id rather us have a new "Ehiogu or Southgate"........... These two never get discussed and were far better players, in far better teams, and actually won us honours............ You realise how long ago it was, right? There are people old enough to drink who will have never seen Southgate and Ehiogu play together for Villa. Those honours were 20/22 seasons ago! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 4 minutes ago, Davkaus said: You realise how long ago it was, right? There are people old enough to drink who will have never seen Southgate and Ehiogu play together for Villa. Those honours were 20/22 seasons ago! stop making us feel old 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: You realise how long ago it was, right? There are people old enough to drink who will have never seen Southgate and Ehiogu play together for Villa. Those honours were 20/22 seasons ago! What's worse is they both left us for boro! The demise of Aston Villa happened quite a while ago, new ownership just gave us a false dawn. edit: wtf am I that old!!! Edited December 10, 2015 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 West Ham has to be a win surely. They'll struggle to even field a 11 with all the injuries they're getting currently and we beat them end of last season with Sherwood. If we can't get 4 points off them and Newcastle you might aswell close us down for the second half of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 3 wins from the next 5 required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Not far off I'd say. At worst two draws v Norwich and Sunderland just so they don't pull even further clear of us and 4 points from West Ham and Newcastle. Even that massive upturn only leaves us on 12 points. We really need to be not far off 20 points after the West Brom game to even stand a chance. Not very likely based on present form but that's what we're going need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodytom Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 13 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Why would people be "bitter towards players that have moved on the bigger n better things" when talking about Dunne, Ehioghu and Southgate? I wasn't meaning dunne. Southgate and Ehiogu went on to bigger n better things at the time. Point is that if laursen had have moved on then I don't believe he would have been looked at as favourably. Not saying that he was a bad player or anything just that the unfortunate way in which his career ended, boosted his reputation. As did 4000 shirts in mellberg's case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodytom Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 11 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Now Mellberg's overrated . . . Just ridiculous to suggest that players of mellberg's ilk were overated. I mean it's not as if villa fans have a tendency to overated players. Nor is it in doubt the success we had with players like that in the team. How will we ever get back to winning so many trophies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 11, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 11, 2015 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Woodytom said: I wasn't meaning dunne. Southgate and Ehiogu went on to bigger n better things at the time. Hardly. They left villa to join a Boro side fighting relegation, although I guess Southgate joined a bit later so they were probably comfortable by then. I think you'd be hard pushed to class that as "bigger and better things" Edited December 11, 2015 by Stevo985 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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