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Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #525 on: August 20, 2017, 02:34:06 AM »
At the Chicago Fire game watching Toronto FC. I do love watching Villa legend Michael Bradley. Does everything so well. Always the simple pass, has good size and very strong on the ball. Shame we didn't keep him.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #526 on: August 20, 2017, 03:18:30 PM »
Newcastle look poor. Will come straight down if they don't improve.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #527 on: August 20, 2017, 03:21:00 PM »
Newcastle look poor. Will come straight down if they don't improve.

And Huddersfield look good, to be fair. Quite solid and moving well off the ball.

Offline baddowvillans

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #528 on: August 20, 2017, 03:30:24 PM »
Huddersfield after games have more than a third of our last premier league total.  Wow - how could we be that shit!

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #529 on: August 20, 2017, 03:38:27 PM »
Huddersfield after games have more than a third of our last premier league total.  Wow - how could we be that shit!

They have tremendous positive momentum, a very stable, very good managerial and board situation which is stark contrast to what we were. There will always the "beware of how it all ended up for Hull" but Wagner isn't that conman Phil Brown so they should be ok. Good for them

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #530 on: August 20, 2017, 03:40:11 PM »
Newcastle look poor. Will come straight down if they don't improve.

And Huddersfield look good, to be fair. Quite solid and moving well off the ball.

Cracking move and goal too.

Offline spangley1812

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #531 on: August 20, 2017, 03:48:44 PM »
Newcastle look poor. Will come straight down if they don't improve.

And Huddersfield look good, to be fair. Quite solid and moving well off the ball.

Agree about Newcastle.........Gayle hardly scored for Palace in Prem and bringing in a Stoke reserve i.e Joselu is not really the answer

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #532 on: August 20, 2017, 04:07:56 PM »
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  They have tremendous positive momentum, a very stable, very good managerial and board situation which is stark contrast to what we were. There will always the "beware of how it all ended up for Hull" but Wagner isn't that conman Phil Brown so they should be ok. Good for them 

Absolutely spot on.

Newcastle have the power struggle going on between Benitez and Ashley to contend with too. They're lucky that Benitez is such a good manager - he's their only hope of staying up. If he walks, they're stuffed good and proper.


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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #533 on: August 20, 2017, 04:09:25 PM »
League games at Wembley, load of old bollocks.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #534 on: August 20, 2017, 07:36:35 PM »
Inter Milan-Fiorentina might be worth a watch tonight.

Veretout and Carlos Sanchez in the Viola central midfield.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #535 on: August 20, 2017, 07:42:33 PM »
We'll see how a different manager can get a tune out of them.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #536 on: August 20, 2017, 07:56:00 PM »
Sanchez has been decent in Seria A from what I've seen although he played more in a back 3 last season.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #537 on: August 20, 2017, 08:26:52 PM »
would love to draw Spurs away in the league cup or FA cup this season, not only wembley but a realistic chance of winning away

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #538 on: August 20, 2017, 08:28:37 PM »
Huddersfield after games have more than a third of our last premier league total.  Wow - how could we be that shit!

I think they are playing on gas. The momentum of coming up for the first time in 42 years, they have the have a go attitude. They will get found out sooner or later, like Blackpool. But yeah, Newcastle looked awful.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #539 on: August 20, 2017, 11:07:38 PM »
45 years, I think you'll find. I put it down to tactics and their well organised team - to use a Mourinho reference, the "collectivity". You live or die as a team out there on the pitch. Ron Saunders managed it, the great Managers do it, teams of individuals, no matter how talented, fail it.

Wagner has it. It's what makes a great manager. How far he can take them is more up to their collective talents rather than their collective effort. He has them working like a well oiled machine. Respect.

 


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