Contracts For Downing & Young

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Definitely keep both. These two are class. And we need to build around them .....

[The Left Side]

Keep both, we have sold far too many of our decent players recently.

[Chris Smith]

Fuck off Arsenal you useless bunch of wankers. Fucking pricks of the highest order.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I bet the c unts don't play that badly against Barcelona.

COME ON ORIENT!

[DB]

I really do think Downing gets a hard ride with a lot of our fans. For me, he was superb y-day. I think people only look at him when he f*cks up but don't see what he does. Yes, he can't takle but that's not his job. As for Ash he was back to his best yesterday, just got to keep it going.

[flybo]

I bet the c unts don't play that badly against Barcelona.

COME ON ORIENT!

After today ditto

[rutski]

and move if need be mods (apologies in advance)

but i see in todays papers that we are going to offer Downing a long term contract as we "face up to losing Ashley Young"

im a bit, mmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhh to both of them

Downing has improved, which wasnt hard (improved as in he is scoring goals, his performances have been middling to poor still)

Ashley in my opinion is a waste of a shirt at the minute and has been for a while

would we miss either of them?

i read this yesterday and thought what a knobjockey, is this a foot in mouth job?

[SoccerHQ]

Downing will sign a new deal and Young will go imo.

I've been impressed with Downing for most of this season imo, Young less so.

[The Left Side]

If young goes we should go for n'zogbia as he looks like a ready replacement.

[Ian.]

What happened during this thread?
I was reading along and it was already a bit strange anyway all this talk about Young and Downing being shit when Chris Smith and Rip Van Bentfletch all of a sudden developed turrets?

[The Left Side]

What happened during this thread?
I was reading along and it was already a bit strange anyway all this talk about Young and Downing being shit when Chris Smith and Rip Van Bentfletch all of a sudden developed turrets?

Haha great post!

[Chris Smith]

What happened during this thread?
I was reading along and it was already a bit strange anyway all this talk about Young and Downing being shit when Chris Smith and Rip Van Bentfletch all of a sudden developed turrets?

Ha, in the immediate aftermath of hell freezing over this afternoon I posted on this thread by mistake but was so pleased with my eloquence that I decided to leave it.

[SoccerHQ]

If Young moves on, then I'd try to get in N'zogbia or jarvis and I wouldn't be adverse to playing Downing centrally for a bit.

He has a decent short and uses the ball intelligently.

Even yesterday having his best game of the season, Young's throughballs were still on the whole frustratingly overhit (although Bent easily had his worst game for us).

[Ian.]

What happened during this thread?
I was reading along and it was already a bit strange anyway all this talk about Young and Downing being shit when Chris Smith and Rip Van Bentfletch all of a sudden developed turrets?

Ha, in the immediate aftermath of hell freezing over this afternoon I posted on this thread by mistake but was so pleased with my eloquence that I decided to leave it.

Great stuff! When your read this from the start it's all very odd even before you pipe up! Very funny indeed.

[Holtenderinthesky]

I believe that Ash is by far our best player and that Downing, in general, is a very good footballer.  I can't believe two things:

1.  That anybody could even contemplate wanting Ash to go, he is as i have said, as good as anything we had at VP in a long time and will be very, very hard to replace.

2.  That anybody could actually believe that he is staying.  He is blatantly off in the summer and we will have to move on, there is no way on Earth that Ashley Young will be a Villa player in August.  It is as inevitable as Barry and Milner's departures.  In fact, probably even more so.

As for Downing, I believe he will stay and thank goodness for that, he is probably our 2nd best player imo.  I know that some people will disagree with this as he has his detractors but his contribution to the team is there for all to see.