Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: richardhubbard on March 26, 2012, 12:44:13 PM
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Have you noticed the theme of who helping city lose the title
Luke Moore, Gary Cahill, Peter Crouch the last 3 players to score against city. Next Manchester City v Sunderland,
Step up one Craig Gardner?
May be if we kept team of 2002 -05, we now be in top 3??
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O'Neill make um heap big mistake getting rid of Cahill.
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Luke Moore was set up for his goal by another ex-Villa player.
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O'Neill make um heap big mistake getting rid of Cahill.
I said at the time MO'N f**ked up with that move.
I know many might disagree but he also f**ked up selling Ridgewell too.
I admit Ridgewell wasn't as accomplished as some, but, he and Cahill formed a great partnership, they understood each other brilliantly as they came though the ranks together.
They were a unit and should have been given the chance together at 1st team.
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Everyone in the world (apart from MON) knew he dropped a bollock with Cahill. Still, he'll always be remembered for it, oh, and replacing him with Knight.
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Not to mention Curtis Davies.
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Everyone in the world (apart from MON) knew he dropped a bollock with Cahill. Still, he'll always be remembered for it, oh, and replacing him with Knight.
I agree.
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Everyone in the world (apart from MON) knew he dropped a bollock with Cahill. Still, he'll always be remembered for it, oh, and replacing him with Knight.
Only by us though, I don't see many of his mates in the press saying it!
I agree.
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O'Neill make um heap big mistake getting rid of Cahill.
He did get on Curtis Davies though.....ahem.
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The alternative to letting Cahill go was to allow him to pick himself for the first-team. Not a position that many managers would accept.
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Have you noticed the theme of who helping city lose the title
Luke Moore, Gary Cahill, Peter Crouch the last 3 players to score against city. Next Manchester City v Sunderland,
Step up one Craig Gardner?
May be if we kept team of 2002 -05, we now be in top 3??
And to think when we were going for the premier league title, Keith Curle caught the ball to gift us a penalty when we were stuttering and they had good luck Villa banners in the away end.
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Have you noticed the theme of who helping city lose the title
Luke Moore, Gary Cahill, Peter Crouch the last 3 players to score against city. Next Manchester City v Sunderland,
Step up one Craig Gardner?
May be if we kept team of 2002 -05, we now be in top 3??
And to think when we were going for the premier league title, Keith Curle caught the ball to gift us a penalty when we were stuttering and they had good luck Villa banners in the away end.
That game was one of the few times I was a right sider. Didn't the banner say something like "Good luck Villa from the city of Manchester"?
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It did. They were winning 1-0 and we came back to win 3-1.
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The alternative to letting Cahill go was to allow him to pick himself for the first-team. Not a position that many managers would accept.
There's a difference between wanting first team football and wanting to pick the team.
It's hard to criticise Cahill for not wanting to fall into the 20 - 22 age group abyss that has claimed so many of our promising youngsters for lack of first team opportunity.
It looked a bad decision by O'Neill then, and it certainly does now. Even worse than not offering Mellberg a new contract at the start of the season and then proceeding to play him at right back.
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Have you noticed the theme of who helping city lose the title
Luke Moore, Gary Cahill, Peter Crouch the last 3 players to score against city. Next Manchester City v Sunderland,
Step up one Craig Gardner?
May be if we kept team of 2002 -05, we now be in top 3??
And to think when we were going for the premier league title, Keith Curle caught the ball to gift us a penalty when we were stuttering and they had good luck Villa banners in the away end.
That game was one of the few times I was a right sider. Didn't the banner say something like "Good luck Villa from the city of Manchester"?
One of the few times we let you in.
The right side was for the righteous.
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Not to mention Curtis Davies.
Inherit Mellberg and Cahill. Shift Mellberg to right back, drop Cahill then buy Zat Knight and Curtis Davis for £10m+. Genius.
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Have you noticed the theme of who helping city lose the title
Luke Moore, Gary Cahill, Peter Crouch the last 3 players to score against city. Next Manchester City v Sunderland,
Step up one Craig Gardner?
May be if we kept team of 2002 -05, we now be in top 3??
And to think when we were going for the premier league title, Keith Curle caught the ball to gift us a penalty when we were stuttering and they had good luck Villa banners in the away end.
That game was one of the few times I was a right sider. Didn't the banner say something like "Good luck Villa from the city of Manchester"?
One of the few times we let you in.
The right side was for the righteous.
I had mixed results on the right side. The only times I remember being that side were the first Inter game, Oldham when we lost the league, the City game and the European game where that bloke kept playing a bugle over the tannoy.
The left side was definitely where it was at.
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Much as I liked Cahill and ridgewell I don't think they were the answer for us at that time. Ridgewell was proper grafter, but positionally terrible and always prone to make a mistake. Though fair play to him, I did think he improved at the blues. Selling Cahill was an unbelievably poor bit of business. Anyone could see he would make it at prem level. Shocking decision by oneill.
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Not to mention Curtis Davies.
Inherit Mellberg and Cahill. Shift Mellberg to right back, drop Cahill then buy Zat Knight and Curtis Davis for £10m+. Genius.
Don't forget "total refusal to buy a proper right back for the best part of three years, then buy two of them, but never play one and play a centre half instead of the other one most of the time" too.
Although my favourite was "buy an entire defence one summer, then the next summer, buy another entire defence and just get Marlon or Emile in to fill gaping hole up front"
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Not to mention Curtis Davies.
Inherit Mellberg and Cahill. Shift Mellberg to right back, drop Cahill then buy Zat Knight and Curtis Davis for £10m+. Genius.
So brilliant that we stole a march on manure with those deals!
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Not to mention Curtis Davies.
Inherit Mellberg and Cahill. Shift Mellberg to right back, drop Cahill then buy Zat Knight and Curtis Davis for £10m+. Genius.
Don't forget "total refusal to buy a proper right back for the best part of three years, then buy two of them, but never play one and play a centre half instead of the other one most of the time" too.
Not to mention letting one of those right-backs go to another club for £2m only to sign him for £6m the following summer.