LondonLax Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Nice to feel genuine excitement about watching a new signing play. It has been a while, maybe not since Adama's promising early matches for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srsmithusa Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 9 hours ago, mikeyp102 said: Whilst it’s really nice to be excited about a midfielder for us, let’s not forget Lansbury’s debut, he was running in behind the opposition, creating chances, pinging the ball about and winning tackles... we all know how that has turned out for us... let’s hope McGinn goes this way. That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking !!!!! Good players come here and the Villa curse “breaks” them. I’m really hoping McGinn helps others rise to his level, rather than him lapsing back into theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Anyone seen his singing initation on Jacks Insta Stories bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 On 12/08/2018 at 21:14, Kiwivillan said: Far too positive. Bruce would never go for it Bruce regularly played Snodgrass, Hourihane, Grealish, Adomah, and a striker, last season. Playing Green, Hourihane, Grealish, Adomah, and a striker, but with McGinn instead of Whelan, is not significantly different surely ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 14 hours ago, mikeyp102 said: Whilst it’s really nice to be excited about a midfielder for us, let’s not forget Lansbury’s debut, he was running in behind the opposition, creating chances, pinging the ball about and winning tackles... we all know how that has turned out for us... let’s hope McGinn goes this way. Good point. I always put the speedy demise of Lansbury down to the way he was used afterwards, ie not crossing the halfway line ( it was in the days when Bruce was overly - in my view - negative ). Since then he’s never really had much chance, and when he has, he’s largely been ineffective, although he was more like himself against Leeds Away. It will add to the interest to see the comparison, as you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 6 hours ago, ForfarVillan said: Don't know if its a well known story down there but up here there's an infamous story of Ian mcall taking a dump in Stainrod's shoe. ... Must have been every week after his Villa debut...would explain a few things (it all started off so promisingly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 15 hours ago, mikeyp102 said: Whilst it’s really nice to be excited about a midfielder for us, let’s not forget Lansbury’s debut, he was running in behind the opposition, creating chances, pinging the ball about and winning tackles... we all know how that has turned out for us... let’s hope McGinn goes this way. This is a good point. I think the key differences are Mcginn is more of an athlete than Lansbury. So even if he is having poor game I think his strength and speed would bail him out. He also seems to have a massive amount of self belief. Fearless almost. I think he will be a real fans favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhavenhibby Posted August 14, 2018 Visiting Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) Interesting points about if attention is directed at him it will allow Grealish more room and time. This certainly happened at Hibs where teams obviously targeted McGinn but in doing so allowed our other midfielders to operate more freely. This worked well for us last year as we had then ( both left now ) 2 other lads who could exploit this extra time and space. Hopefully your midfield and especially Grealish can do the same. When you have 2 midfielders like McGinn and Grealish teams will struggle to mark them both out the game / kick them both up in the air .Fortunately McGinn showed he is not fragile and could take the hard man tactics without always being out injured. Edited August 14, 2018 by newhavenhibby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zatman Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 disappointing, thought he would sing Proclaimers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withes_shin Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 26 minutes ago, Zatman said: disappointing, thought he would sing Proclaimers There were rumours flying about that he sang Sunshine on Leith - that would have been brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newhavenhibby Posted August 14, 2018 Visiting Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) Sunshine On Leith is an incredibly hard song to sing .......even for someone who can sing. It is only sung perhaps once or twice a year by the fans after either an important Cup victory or after beating Hearts etc (so some years it is never heard! ) and it has to have the record in the background to get the timings and phrasings correct........no chance JM could have pulled it off Edited August 14, 2018 by newhavenhibby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 3 hours ago, dukes said: Must have been every week after his Villa debut...would explain a few things (it all started off so promisingly). Going a bit off topic here but whenever anyone mentions super simon stainrod I get a flashback to the moment I looked on teletext for the score on his debut v exeter(?).....Exeter 0-4 Villa (stainrod 4). I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday....strange! Did we win the return 8-0 for an aggregate of 12-0? Oh and yeah, mcginn looks ace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 58 minutes ago, RimmyJimmer said: Going a bit off topic here but whenever anyone mentions super simon stainrod I get a flashback to the moment I looked on teletext for the score on his debut v exeter(?).....Exeter 0-4 Villa (stainrod 4). I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday....strange! Did we win the return 8-0 for an aggregate of 12-0? Oh and yeah, mcginn looks ace Nearly, 4-1 & 8-1(12-2) Stainrod scored one more of the 8, Ormsby, Williams & Gray all scored 2 each & Paul Birch got the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 16 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: Nearly, 4-1 & 8-1(12-2) Stainrod scored one more of the 8, Ormsby, Williams & Gray all scored 2 each & Paul Birch got the other Ha ha not like it was yesterday then!! Has a villa player scored 4 in a game since? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 24 minutes ago, RimmyJimmer said: Ha ha not like it was yesterday then!! Has a villa player scored 4 in a game since? Don't think so, Hell the team haven't scored 4 in that many games Still not sure it beats Chris Nicholl scoring all 4 goals in a 2-2 draw against Leicester but you can't really get a better debut than scoring all 4 goals in a game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) 45 minutes ago, RimmyJimmer said: Ha ha not like it was yesterday then!! Has a villa player scored 4 in a game since? Not sure league cup game for us maybe? Edited August 14, 2018 by Villan4Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) Never gonna Mcginn you up, Never gonna mcginn you down, Never gonna turn around and desert us Edited August 14, 2018 by Made In Aston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Looked good against Wigan. If he can consistently perform to the standard he did in that fixture then he should have no problems with this league. How he fits in to the structure of the side will determine how good a season he has for us, but he seems to have good hustle, technique and delivery. On 14/08/2018 at 13:29, srsmithusa said: That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking !!!!! Good players come here and the Villa curse “breaks” them. I’m really hoping McGinn helps others rise to his level, rather than him lapsing back into theirs. It's not all up to McGiinn. I would say Lansbury is still a very capable player at this level. You can have determination, focus, drive, ability and yet still find yourself on the fringes of any plans that a coach has. Happens every season to someone. How a player performs is also largely down to the faith afforded them by the coach who sets up the agenda for both training and match days. In Lansbury's case it seems to me that Bruce doesn't have a role for him in the structure of our setup, and when he does it's not one that Lansbury has adapted to well. That doesn't mean Lansbury has lost his touch, it just means that Bruce doesn't see playing to Lansbury's strengths and giving him a suitable role in the team as a priority. You train in preparation for match day, and I have seen little evidence that Bruce has ever set out to incorporate Lansbury in to the team. I think any success McGinn enjoys will be largely down to his ability to play the way Bruce has set us up to play, and I hope that he has been selected based on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pozbaird Posted August 15, 2018 Visiting Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2018 I tuned in to watch Sky last night to see McGinn and how he got on. He didn’t play... so I changed channels and watched Celtic getting pumped out of the Champions League, with Celtic apologist commentator Chris Sutton almost having a tear-stained mental breakdown about it live on air.... just wonderful. Thank you Steve Bruce for not playing John, and affording me the opportunity to watch those chunts take it right up the Mike Ashley from AEK Athens. 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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