Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: TimTheVillain on August 29, 2010, 08:43:27 PM
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What happened ??
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Tweaked his hamstring in the warm up.
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No grandmother worries then?
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Yes, he tweaked his grandmother.
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Fairly standard thing to happen. New signing gets injured. Usually a deep seated groin strain that keeps them out for months.
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Even more standard when you have no fitness coach.
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He royally fucked up my fantasy football team aswell.
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Hopefully he will be fit for the stoke game.
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Not as if the p**** has international duty to worry about!
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Not a fan then Jonzy?
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If, as seems likely, we continue to play Ash in the support striker role I think we're going to find it difficult to properly accommodate Ireland. I don't think you can play him, Downing and Albrighton at the same time but if we leave out one of the other two then we lose a bit of shape. Perhaps that's why O'Neill wasn't keen on having him in exchange as he'd seemingly already decided on changing the way Young played in pre-season.
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If, as seems likely, we continue to play Ash in the support striker role I think we're going to find it difficult to properly accommodate Ireland. I don't think you can play him, Downing and Albrighton at the same time but if we leave out one of the other two then we lose a bit of shape. Perhaps that's why O'Neill wasn't keen on having him in exchange as he'd seemingly already decided on changing the way Young played in pre-season.
I think as yesterday showed, having two wide players in midfield that hug the touchline leaves us so open through the middle. I think Milner's energy covered for this to a large extent last season. The trouble is, there aren't too many Milner type players out there.
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Based on what we have, i think it will have to be;
----------------------Freidel---------------------
Young-------Cuellar------Dunne----Warnock
---------Petrov---Reo Coker---Ireland-------
Young----------------------------------Downing
--------------------Agbonlahor------------------
If he is going to play effectively. With Albrighton, Collins, Carew, Delph as the main back up it still looks like a good core squad. To be honest though, i don't think you can change yesterdays team for the time being, as they won against a decent team.
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Based on what we have, i think it will have to be;
----------------------Freidel---------------------
Young-------Cuellar------Dunne----Warnock
---------Petrov---Reo Coker---Ireland-------
Young----------------------------------Downing
--------------------Agbonlahor------------------
If he is going to play effectively. With Albrighton, Collins, Carew, Delph as the main back up it still looks like a good core squad. To be honest though, i don't think you can change yesterdays team for the time being, as they won against a decent team.
Swap Albrighton for Downing and you've got yourself a deal.
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Based on what we have, i think it will have to be;
----------------------Freidel---------------------
Young-------Cuellar------Dunne----Warnock
---------Petrov---Reo Coker---Ireland-------
Young----------------------------------Downing
--------------------Agbonlahor------------------
If he is going to play effectively. With Albrighton, Collins, Carew, Delph as the main back up it still looks like a good core squad. To be honest though, i don't think you can change yesterdays team for the time being, as they won against a decent team.
Swap Albrighton for Downing and you've got yourself a deal.
I think a bit of rotation would come in, but i wouldn't disagree that Albrighton has overall started better than Downing this season. If we are not going to buy a striker it's the only way to play for me. It means you can get Ireland in the team with a solidish looking central midfieild. We have Delph to come back who could replace Reo Coker / Petrov at times. Carew could play as the striker, Gabby could play either side maybe, Downing could play more central as long as the other 2 were solid, there are quite a few possibilities for that formation with the players we have.
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Any idea how long before he is available?
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Perhaps that's why O'Neill wasn't keen on having him in exchange as he'd seemingly already decided on changing the way Young played in pre-season.
You're right.
He wanted McGeady (or whatever the fuck he's called) instead.
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Any idea how long before he is available?
Straight after his grand mothers funeral ............
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Perhaps that's why O'Neill wasn't keen on having him in exchange as he'd seemingly already decided on changing the way Young played in pre-season.
You're right.
He wanted McGeady (or whatever the fuck he's called) instead.
Or anyone from Celtic really :-)
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If, as seems likely, we continue to play Ash in the support striker role I think we're going to find it difficult to properly accommodate Ireland. I don't think you can play him, Downing and Albrighton at the same time but if we leave out one of the other two then we lose a bit of shape. Perhaps that's why O'Neill wasn't keen on having him in exchange as he'd seemingly already decided on changing the way Young played in pre-season.
Albrighton will need a rest at some stage as we don't want to burn him out.
The most logical thing remains to me is to sit NRC and Petrov infront of the back 4, then move Young back out to the left, Ireland in the hole and one of Downing/Albrighton on the right. Obviously Albrighton gives us natural width there but Downing played a lot there last season so nothing new.