Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Sunderland

[sheepyvillian]

4 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

We really did not get lucky. We were not great but we controlled the game. Sunderlands goal was lucky a mistake by Johnstone and some lax defending. Sunderland were just poor and benefited from us being very sloppy. If that was against better opposition we could have lost that game. But I certainly dont think it was lucky, just two bits of quality that lead to goals 

Maybe it was lucky we were playing Sunderland. 

[Stevo985]

7 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

You mean to tell me , that went over your head ? I give up. 

Apparently so.

Can you enlighten me?

[sheepyvillian]

5 hours ago, Lerner's Driver said:

He didn't. It's a common idea which for those who read comes up regularly. And for those who don't there's always Google. Try either... You might learn something you didn't know.

You are to humour, what lumbargo is to dancing . 

And the irony is , you even ended  your post with a worn out cliche .

[TRO]

56 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

The Grim reaper would heave something to say about that ,trust me .

Or the tax man.....that is certain.

[sheepyvillian]

46 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Apparently so.

Can you enlighten me?

I think they used to call it wit , I'm guessing Tro, to his credit , sussed it ,

[BigJim]

12 hours ago, briny_ear said:

This is getting ridiculous.

We weren't "lucky" tonight in any sense of the word.

Onomah's deflected goal?

[TRO]

5 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

We really did not get lucky. We were not great but we controlled the game. Sunderlands goal was lucky a mistake by Johnstone and some lax defending. Sunderland were just poor and benefited from us being very sloppy. If that was against better opposition we could have lost that game. But I certainly dont think it was lucky, just two bits of quality that lead to goals 

If my auntie had nuts, she would be my uncle.

if we had been playing better opposition, we may have played better.

it was, what it was and we won.

They were that poor, we was glad to hear the final whistle.

I don't think they were as poor as we say, they grafted and got in our faces and disrupted what bit of guile we had.

its a game i am glad we won.....they will take some points off team, i am sure.

[Demitri_C]

16 minutes ago, BigJim said:

Onomah's deflected goal?

You could argue the Wednesday goal was lucky on that basis as the wednesday player will.never score a goal like that again esp after less than 60 seconds!

[BOF]

2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

You could argue the Wednesday goal was lucky

You could.  You'd be wrong, but you could definitely argue it nevertheless

[sheepyvillian]

25 minutes ago, TRO said:

Or the tax man.....that is certain.

Another one ,the unconditional love and commitment to all things Aston villa , til death do us part .

[BigJim]

11 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

You could argue the Wednesday goal was lucky on that basis as the wednesday player will.never score a goal like that again esp after less than 60 seconds!

If you don't accept there's an element of luck when a deflected shot goes in, then you probably exclude the whole idea of luck in a football game. Which is fair enough.

I would think most Sunderland fans probably feel they were unlucky though.

[Stevo985]

57 minutes ago, sheepyvillian said:

I think they used to call it wit , I'm guessing Tro, to his credit , sussed it ,

Ok. Maybe he will explain it to me

Edited November 22, 2017 by Stevo985

[Lerner's Driver]

1 hour ago, sheepyvillian said:

You are to humour, what lumbargo is to dancing . 

And the irony is , you even ended  your post with a worn out cliche .

I wasn't trying to be funny, you were, though nobody seems able to locate your joke.

[omariqy]

1 hour ago, BOF said:

You could.  You'd be wrong, but you could definitely argue it nevertheless

Come on BOF, how lucky is he to strike that perfectly and even to think about doing it from that range? Lucky his subconscious made him do it. 

[flashingqwerty]

"You have to buy a ticket to win a raffle"

Pauraic Harrington i think recently said "i find the more i practice the luckier i get", clearly implying that as he practices more the likelihood of him hitting better/harder shots (worldies if you will) increases.

Some call it luck, personally i dont.

A ref missing a decision because he didnt see it is luck, something that can be practiced - im not convinced...

[BigJim]

1 hour ago, flashingqwerty said:

"You have to buy a ticket to win a raffle"

Pauraic Harrington i think recently said "i find the more i practice the luckier i get", clearly implying that as he practices more the likelihood of him hitting better/harder shots (worldies if you will) increases.

Some call it luck, personally i dont.

A ref missing a decision because he didnt see it is luck, something that can be practiced - im not convinced...

I was trying to make a list of undisputably "lucky" football events and this was the first one that occurred to me.

Is still maintain that scoring with a deflected shot, especially if originally off target, is lucky.

Injuries are usually considered unlucky.

Penalties are a bit of a lottery, from getting the decision to choosing the right way to dive to save it.

 

[sheepyvillian]

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2 hours ago, Lerner's Driver said:

I wasn't trying to be funny, you were, though nobody seems able to locate your joke.

Try harder ,you might have some luck .

[imavillan]

19 hours ago, Grasshopper said:

if you need the logic behind that explaining,I‘m sorry, I can‘t help you.

play the same XI and they‘ll be even more tired

play as bad or worse than tonight and Ipswich will have to be even more sh*yte than S‘land were.

and Ipswich wont be knackered after playing on a Wednesday??

and Ipswich will play better/worse than tonight?

The point i'm making is nobody knows...thats the beauty of football.

we might win, we might lose, we might draw, we might play well, we might not....

personally, all i'm interested in is winning and getting out of this league to then see if Tony is true to his word and we then kick on to build a team to stay in the Premiership. 

[sidcow]

20 hours ago, a m ole said:

I thought he was a bit of a jerk, the dirty rotten scoundrel.

Nice references and well spotted. I salute you! 

Must have the power of 2 brains. 

[flashingqwerty]

55 minutes ago, BigJim said:

I was trying to make a list of undisputably "lucky" football events and this was the first one that occurred to me.

Is still maintain that scoring with a deflected shot, especially if originally off target, is lucky.

Injuries are usually considered unlucky.

Penalties are a bit of a lottery, from getting the decision to choosing the right way to dive to save it.

 

Im not 100% on the deflected shot.  As it stands id agree there is luck involved.  However id Onomah scores another i may have to reconsider 

I remember Dean Saunders hitting the woodwork something like 20 times in a season and he was asked about it and said something along the line of "if i aim for the post or bar, i can nearly be sure the keeper wont save it, and if im a little off its a goal or wide.  Lately my shooting has been really accurate so maybe i need to practice less"