MaVilla Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 1 minute ago, Xela said: Well the injury news is a right shit sandwich isn't it?! where is the good new on either side? not sure its a shit sandwich, its just a bowl of shit!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Bloody Chris Heck! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Gutted for Boubacar and wish him the best with the recovery first and foremost. Unai has his work cut out, hopefully we may get a surprise with Tim or someone else stepping up. I assume we can't sign an out of contract player at all, if there was one out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 We get more injuries than a **** NFL team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 7 minutes ago, Leeroy said: You're more positive than me. I've seen this all before, we can never see things through as a club, either through bad luck or bad decisions or weak mentality or all three of those things. I was looking forward to the Spurs game a few weeks ago, today's news means I've decided not to go. Call me a bad fan, maybe I am, but I just can't stand watching everything go to sh*t as it usually does. This news reminds me of when we lost Laursen in 2008, in fact there are seriously disturbing comparisons to that season being seen in this season and the same mistakes and misfortune taking shape again. It's seriously hard work following his club and total agony more often than not. Sorry but it's true. I’ve followed the Villa for about 40 years so I’ve seen all the bad like yourself. Never going to call you a bad fan, how you support the Villa is your choice, all I care about is that you support Villa. Hugely disappointing to lose Kamara but I really believe in Emery to work his socks off, use his elite tactical management and analysis skills to get a plan together with the talent we still have left to still do extremely well. I trust Emery more than any manager I’ve seen for 40 years in this kind of situation. I maybe setting myself up for a great fall but I can’t collapse in tears, say the season is over etc etc when we are 5th, still in the ECL and still have a talented 14-15 players and Emery, especially when when we have a 5 point gap and none of the teams below us are anything great. I’ll be there at Spurs and all the other games but just as the Villa can let us down, they can surprise us….nobody thought we would beat Arsenal and City in the same week but we did. Nobody expected Europe when Emery took over but we did, nobody expected us to be where we are in the league but we are…Emery keeps breaking the glass ceilings…he can do it again! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomC Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 31 minutes ago, Jas10 said: We’ll probably see a McGinn and Luiz partnership that did well last season, better than it had done previously and John is so much better under Unai… We have coped without Bouba before… And… maybe we can look forward to seeing whether Tim can really step up and grasp this opportunity now… I doubt there are many of us who have seen enough of him to be able to make a proper judgement on that… but I was surprised and encouraged by Unai’s comments on him and how he and his coaching team have worked with and tested him… Never give up… keep fighting… This... We've had some incredibly bad luck with long-term injuries this year, but midfield is one place we should be able to make do. McGinn is more valuable in attacking midfield than in the double pivot, but he can do the double pivot. Tim may get his chance. JJ and Tielemans, or Rogers and Tielemans, can hold down the attacking midfield slots. None of them are as good of ball-winners as Kamara, but the situation is not hopeless. I remain more worried about our defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Townsend Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 We can never catch a break. But I still believe in our squad and our manager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Injury to insult. Who knows, this news might spark some defiance in the squad which they can use as fuel for the rest of the season. It was always going to be a tooth and nail fight. That is clearer than ever now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 If Pau comes back fully fit say for next match, would Carlos or Lenglet be able to do a sort of hybrid DM role? Might seem silly on the surface but sometimes you actually stumble onto a winning formula that clicks through injury and accident! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Townsend Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Emery proved last season (and this) he is very good at shuffling his pack when needs be and putting a winning team on the pitch regardless. As you say, we may well stumble on something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 7 minutes ago, maqroll said: Injury to insult. Who knows, this news might spark some defiance in the squad which they can use as fuel for the rest of the season. It was always going to be a tooth and nail fight. That is clearer than ever now. 7 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: If Pau comes back fully fit say for next match, would Carlos or Lenglet be able to do a sort of hybrid DM role? Might seem silly on the surface but sometimes you actually stumble onto a winning formula that clicks through injury and accident! 1 minute ago, Captain_Townsend said: Emery proved last season (and this) he is very good at shuffling his pack when needs be and putting a winning team on the pitch regardless. As you say, we may well stumble on something. Love the positivity starting to come back on the site… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted February 12 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12 1 hour ago, Aston_Villan4 said: When Konsa slid into the goalpost. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Do we think he was carrying a niggle before this injury. Hasn't been himself for a while now, was one of the best in the Prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) 1 minute ago, foreveryoung said: Do we think he was carrying a niggle before this injury. Hasn't been himself for a while now, was one of the best in the Prem. Newborn curse. Struck Ollie around the same times and he took a nosedive in form too. Family man pros - not drunk at training and not hitting the tequila the night before a match. Family man cons - constantly sleep deprived. Edited February 12 by DJBOB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 20 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: If Pau comes back fully fit say for next match, would Carlos or Lenglet be able to do a sort of hybrid DM role? Might seem silly on the surface but sometimes you actually stumble onto a winning formula that clicks through injury and accident! Thinking outside the box but maybe it would suit Cash once Konsa is back. Kamara would be right back when in possession, Matty is mobile, tenacious and him cutting back and taking the safe option when passing might be more useful than out wide. Just a thought. I suspect we will get by with Doug, McGinn, Ramsey and Tielemans plus Tim which isn't a bad 5 to have, albeit Doug and McGinn will have to play pretty much every minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Probs shouldn’t have loaned out Dendocker eh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 2 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: Thinking outside the box but maybe it would suit Cash once Konsa is back. Kamara would be right back when in possession, Matty is mobile, tenacious and him cutting back and taking the safe option when passing might be more useful than out wide. Just a thought. I suspect we will get by with Doug, McGinn, Ramsey and Tielemans plus Tim which isn't a bad 5 to have, albeit Doug and McGinn will have to play pretty much every minute. I like Cash, but having him play back to goal in the same role Kamara did when trying to play out from Martinez might take the cake for silliest things I would ever see Villa try to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 14 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: Do we think he was carrying a niggle before this injury. Hasn't been himself for a while now, was one of the best in the Prem. I don't know but he hasn't had the same tenacity or skill as he did previous to the first injury. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted February 12 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12 **** we've had the worst injuries of any team this season by a long way. All would be guaranteed starters except perhaps Emi who would've been at least a heavily used rotation player: Mings - whole season Buendia - whole season effectively bar perhaps a month at the end Kamara - whole second half of the season and who knows when back next Pau - about 8 games? Moreno - 8 games missed and struggled when back Ramsey - as above Konsa - will miss 4-5 games it seems 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Any idea if his injury will require surgery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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