PompeyVillan Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Love the optimism in this thread. Hope expectation doesn't weigh too heavy on jack, too early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Love the optimism in this thread. Hope expectation doesn't weigh too heavy on jack, too early. when he starts adding goals to his game which i think he will he will be even more awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Love the optimism in this thread. Hope expectation doesn't weigh too heavy on jack, too early. when he starts adding goals to his game which i think he will he will be even more awesome! Well he just has to start shooting a little more and that might happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 We really did make them look like mugs didn't we? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Kiss off Sherwood was a like he really appreciated the commitment from jack, fair play. I was wonder what the ref said to him just before he went off?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Danishlad Posted April 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2015 That midfield performance from Delph, Westwood, Grealish and Cleverley was outstanding. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I was reading an Arsenal forum, and they're all convinced Grealish is special and will be scooped up by one of the Sky clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonoridge91 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I was reading an Arsenal forum, and they're all convinced Grealish is special and will be scooped up by one of the Sky clubs. Hate hearing that entitlement from fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I heard one Arsenal fan say "clubs like Villa and Reading" I find that so derogatory comparing us to Reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMcKenna Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) For a nineteen year old playing against Liverpool in the semi-final of the FA cup it was a hell of a composed performance. In fact with just 13 appearances and four starts it was an incredible display of his talent. It is absolutely critical that we stay up and next season add more talent to compliment; Grealish, Delph and Benteke. The club must resist all offers in the summer for these three as with them we have the potential to build a great team. Edited April 21, 2015 by MikeMcKenna 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMcKenna Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 I heard one Arsenal fan say "clubs like Villa and Reading" I find that so derogatory comparing us to Reading. F*** the Arsenal, F*** the Arsenal will hopefully be sung loud and clear on 30th May. We have waited too long to win a major trophy and a victory could start us on the long road back. Before I left Wembley I looked up towards where they present the FA Cup and imagined Delph lifting it towards the Villa end having witnessed a storming Villa display with Benteke bagging a brace and Grealish scoring his first FA Cup goal. I got goosebumps just thinking about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonoridge91 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I heard one Arsenal fan say "clubs like Villa and Reading" I find that so derogatory comparing us to Reading. I look forward to the day Wenger leaves considering most their fans want it anyway. Arsenal will never be the same from then on. Consistently finishing top 4, god it is something us Villa fans dream of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanO Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 That midfield performance from Delph, Westwood, Grealish and Cleverley was outstanding. I couldn't agree more, Jack is a joy to watch but credit to all of them the work rate was fantastic. Worth noting as well Westwood has been out injured so wouldn't have been 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Think i saw him in a youth game once. Even there he prefered not to shoot and rather pass to a team mate. I don't think this "shooting" thing is a matter of confidence, it's just his play style, he enjoys picking a pass more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I heard one Arsenal fan say "clubs like Villa and Reading" I find that so derogatory comparing us to Reading. I look forward to the day Wenger leaves considering most their fans want it anyway. Arsenal will never be the same from then on. Consistently finishing top 4, god it is something us Villa fans dream of. Disgrace. My sympathy for Arsenal just worsened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydxmas Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Jack will surely stick 2 fingers up at the sky clubs, well at least for another 5 years anyway. The kid supports villa, it's his deam to play and do well for us, not to mention his family (also villa??) would probably castrate him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 Jack Grealish in Aston Villa dreamland with FA Cup final date in diary Jack Grealish expressed all the natural instincts of an excitable football fan steeped in FA Cup lore when the competition went into shock overdrive in January. “Chelsea 2-4 Bradford, Man City 0-2 Middlesbrough – why we love the FA Cup!!!” he tweeted. Any thoughts then that he would be the talk of the Villa looking ahead to the final would have been a bit far-fetched. Belief in his own ability is one thing. But getting opportunities to show what he could do in an under-pressure team was another. A sudden whirlwind in his footballing evolution led to a glorious Wembley dance in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool. After the game, when Grealish made his way up to see his family in an executive box, he fell into his parents’ arms and there were tears. This is a story for the generations as far as the Grealish family is concerned; it weaves all the way back to the 1905 FA Cup final and now forward to 30 May and a date with Arsenal. Grealish, only 19 years of age and still to complete a full 90 minutes for Villa, went out to celebrate with his team-mates. When he returned home in the early hours he left his No40 claret and blue shirt on the sofa for his father to wake up to. Dad Kevin’s commitment to Villa is absolute (as a fan he watched them win the league and European Cup in the 1980s) and he joyously put on his son’s jersey to wear all day on Monday. No matter it was a bit of a squeeze. Not so long ago, when Grealish was an emerging talent known in youth circles, more successful, richer clubs were paying him attention. But he signed a four-year contract to stay with his family club last autumn. That was a big decision. He had to be looked after financially but key to it all too was the opportunity to get playing. The desire among Villa fans to see him promoted has gained currency during the season. The buzz had been around him for a while. What is not to love about a local boy with rolled-down socks, slicked-back hair and an exciting dribbling style? During the dog end of Paul Lambert’s spell as manager Grealish was granted some cameos from the bench and a couple of starts in the cups against more modest opponents. The appointment of Tim Sherwood, a manager who sees promoting young players as a calling card, has set Grealish’s world spinning. It is also significant that the new manager brought Kevin MacDonald back to the club as his assistant – the longtime Villa coach was a mentor for Grealish. Further to starting his first Premier League game, events snowballed in a big way when Grealish began weaving his way around Wembley. The audience (Liverpool supporters aside) were lucky to witness Grealish’s coming-of-age performance. Here was a talent blossoming before their eyes, caught at the perfect moment, on a big stage but before any hysteria and nonsense interfere. There was something pure about this announcement of a talent that is all about the football, the self-expression, the poise, the unadulterated enjoyment of playing – unsullied by too many shisha-type shenanigans, transfer sagas, agent games or international flirting. It was too perfect that Grealish’s great-grandfather just happened to play for Aston Villa in the 1905 final. Billy Garraty, who possessed a glorious handlebar moustache and made well over 200 appearances for the club, was man of the match in the win against Newcastle played in front of a crowd of 101,117 at Crystal Palace. A photograph of Garraty hangs on the wall of the Grealish family home. From the sounds of a description in Aston Villa: The Complete Record by Rob Bishop and Frank Holt there is a stylistic family resemblance football-wise. Garraty is remembered as “an industrious, never-say-die inside- or centre-forward with magnificent energy.” Grealish looks like a bit of a footballing throwback and the way he drifted into spaces and found measured passes was a key component of Villa’s victory. His combination play with Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph – collectively they offered running, imagination and power – bewildered Liverpool. With only a handful of starts for Villa to his name it seems premature but his international prospects are already on the agenda simply because he qualifies for both Republic of Ireland, who have capped him at under-17s, under-18s and under-21s, and England. He can keep his options open until he plays for either in a competitive game but Roy Keane has already had a pop at Grealish’s dad about the player not yet committing to Ireland so it is all bound to crank up imminently. Villa regulars remember the boy who was named on the bench when he was 16 years old for a Premier League game by Alex McLeish. He came out for the warm-up looking like the callow schoolboy he was. A year on loan at Notts County allowed him to bulk up and mature. Grealish looks anything but out of place with the big boys now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 I don't make a habit of listening to talksport but it was on where I was working yesterday. They absolutely bummed Jack to death. You'd think he'd just won the World Cup, cured aids and solved 3rd world debt the way they were going on. I know that's what talksport do but my word, it was nauseating. I guess it's a bit like having a band you love who suddenly get famous. What once was just your thing is now out there for everyone to see and pass judgement on, when they don't know him like you do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 /footballhipster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Roy Keane can have a pop all he wants, the knob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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