It's Your Round Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Watching a bit of Fulham vs Brentford, 0-0 at half time, Fulham hit the bar but Brentford look the liveliest, they’re just lacking that final bit of quality. Benrhama’s has some good touches but not really affected too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 The boggies host Small Heath this afternoon, In the championship. I wonder if the piped in crowd noise will just be ‘shit on the Villa’? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Fulham had a chance to close gap on top two to three points but go and lose, which is typical of them this season when they need to win. Probably all but confirms Leeds and Albion's promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, useless said: Middlesbrough losing 3-0 at home to Swansea, not even half-time yet, they're only two points above the drop zone as well. This is where I'm totally with black managers not getting chances at management jobs argument, woodgate got a good job at a club with recent premier league history and aspirations to get back there, is failing miserably and still in the job Edited June 20, 2020 by Jimzk5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, It's Your Round said: The boggies host Small Heath this afternoon, In the championship. I wonder if the piped in crowd noise will just be ‘shit on the Villa’? I discovered earlier that the crowd noises are supplied by EA Sports. So, the noise is the same as in the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 3 hours ago, It's Your Round said: The boggies host Small Heath this afternoon, In the championship. I wonder if the piped in crowd noise will just be ‘shit on the Villa’? Apart from the odd Albion, Albion, Albion, all i can constantly hear is 'mull of Kintyre' which is a Nottingham Forest song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I still reckon WBA can be caught. They've only actually won 8 home games all season. Got Derby up next who are in good form and also Fulham and some very tricky away games. Can see Leeds winning the league pretty comfortably so Bielsa needs to disinfect his trophy room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 4 hours ago, useless said: Fulham had a chance to close gap on top two to three points but go and lose, which is typical of them this season when they need to win. Probably all but confirms Leeds and Albion's promotion. If fulham had anyone that wasnt scott parker they would have won the league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 On paperFulham have probably got comfortably the best team in the division, then again Brentford have arguably got a better first eleven than Leeds and Albion as well. Just shows how important is to to have a good manager as well as a good team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Leeds playing way better than Cardiff and applying constant pressure...until a sloppy pass out from the back that went straight to Junior Hoilett who scored from from outside the box. I wont lose hope of the annual Leeds/Bielsa collapse until they are guaranteed promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Leeds are a shoe in for promo unfortunately. Fulham are abject and Brentford are far too wishy washy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 When it matters the teams below Leeds always lose their nerve, at various stages this season, Forest, Fulham, Brentford, Bristol City and Swansea earlier on have all had chances to close the gap but when it matters they can't seem to get a result. If Fulham had have only won yesterday they would have been just four points behnd Leeds with their next game being against Leeds, I suppose if Leeds were to lose today, they might still see it as an opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Leeds are 7 points ahead of 3rd. Think they can afford a loss or 2. Even 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Of course they're favourites. Doesn't mean they can't bottle it. It's not that inconceivable they lose 3, but Fulham will probably need to beat them in the next match. Although their performances have largely been very good, their results under Bielsa have been so inconsistent. Remember the difference in form his first season before and after Christmas? Bamford misses so many decent chances there is always a good chance of them limping to a few 1-0 defeats when relying on him for goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) 2-0 Cardiff. Both goals from lazy passes at the back from Leeds. I think they might have a sending off or two in them this game. Edited June 21, 2020 by Sam-AVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Amazing the job Bielsa has done with some truly dogshite footballers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Middlesbrough have appointed Warnock as their new manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 47 minutes ago, useless said: Middlesbrough have appointed Warnock as their new manager. Thats a very good decision. Woodgate was a utter failure. Getting rid of pulis was a big mistake for them. But i swear warnock said he was done? He has a habit of saying that was his last job then he rocks up somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) Boro have really fallen over the last decade. Used to be an established prem club then appointed Southgate and he relegated Boro. Start of next season they started well but then they sacked Southgate in the October and appointed Strachan and he was a disaster. Then bobbed around mid table until they appointed Aitor Karanka. Was effective but they were so boring to watch and hardly seemed to score in premier league. Since then they seem to have lacked identity which appointing likes of Warnock and Pulis indicate. Going from Woodgate and bringing through youth to Warnock keeping them up with loads of old players is like us going from wanting Roberto Martinez to then appointing McLeish. Think what I'm trying to say from this is Steve Gibson just living on past glories now? Always held up as one of the best owners in football but seems to have made a hell of a lot of mistakes in last decade. Their youth academy seems to have gone wrong. Can't think of anyone major they've produced since 2006 when Downing, Adam Johnson and James Morrison all came through at the same time. In last decade Sunderland have produced two England internationals in Pickford and Henderson but appears to me Boro are pretty poor at that now. Was randomly watching 96/97 season review of them the other day and you forget the ambition they showed in that time, Ravanelli, Emerson and Juninho all signed. Still went down but signed Paul Merson from Arsenal when he was a regular. Then a few years later they were signing Ugo, Southgate and Boateng from us. Eventually won a league cup in 2004 and reached europa league final in 2006. All downhill since. Edited June 23, 2020 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 hours ago, VillaChris said: Was randomly watching 96/97 season review of them the other day and you forget the ambition they showed in that time, Ravanelli, Emerson and Juninho all signed. Still went down but signed Paul Merson from Arsenal when he was a regular. Then a few years later they were signing Ugo, Southgate and Boateng from us. Eventually won a league cup in 2004 and reached europa league final in 2006. All downhill since. They've always massively underperformed. Seemed to be a retirement home for ex stars... Gazza, Mendieta, Ince, etc Relegated with Juninho, Ravanelli and Emerson. They just couldn't get it right. Gibson threw at lot of money at it but didn't get a great deal back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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