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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on October 19, 2012, 07:32:30 PM
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Available Saturday afternoon.
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VILLA: Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar [c], Baker, Bennett, El Ahmadi, Delph, Ireland, Holman, Agbonlahor, Bent.
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That's our strongest line up, Baker is ahead of Clark for me
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That's our strongest line up, Baker is ahead of Clark for me
Not for me.
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Come on you Villa boys, glad to see Bent starting.
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Blimey. I nailed the line up. Hopefully my score prediction of 2-0 comes true too. Good to see Irelamd back in the side.
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Agreed Ireland is very important to us now.
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Glad to see Bent is back
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That's our strongest line up, Baker is ahead of Clark for me
I disagree, I think Clark is better but I do still rate Baker. I also think that Bannan is better than Delph (or has been this season) but there we are.
Weird dropping Benteke. He's picked up form and confidence in the internationals. He could be great off the bench though, in fairness.
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That's our strongest line up, Baker is ahead of Clark for me
Not for me.
Which bit?
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Baker ahead of Clark being our strongest line up.
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Any news on the subs? Is Berbatov playing?
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Is Clark dropped or rested.
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Is Clark dropped or rested.
Was struggling with injury I think.
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Clark didn't get a sniff for Ireland during the week, not sure if he picked-up a knock in trainining. Seems unlikely that he'd be dropped for Baker.
A bit surprised at Benteke being dropped too. Lambert laughed in his press conference yesterday "he's scored two goals for Belgium so that 's him dropped for tomorrow". Scottish humour, huh?
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Is Clark dropped or rested.
He was an injury doubt so presume he didn't make it.
It'll be interesting to see where Gabby plays because it's a very narrow team again. We really need something out of this game.
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Yeah, Lambert said in yesterday's press conference that Clark was struggling and he said he would need to look at how tired the likes of Guzan, Holman and Benteke were after the internationals.
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Fill yer boots Darren
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Don't think it matters re Clark or Baker. Both should have a good future with the club provided they get game time to develop. Good to see Baker get a look in.
Surprised about Benteke. Time for Bent to put up or shut up.
The team is good enough to win.
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Fulham have only 4 English players in their 18.
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Back 4 looks very inexperienced to me. Especially up against the likes of Berbatov.
Hope they prove me wrong.
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Not a bad team to be fair. Gabby needs to do something today , I think I would have had Benteke than Gabby and brought him on second half. Bent's got nothing to prove . He scores.
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Delph in the team again....why?
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Delph in the team again....why?
Trying to beat the world record for most yellow cards in one season.
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He needs to stop losing the ball in front of the back four ;(
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Delph in the team again....why?
Trying to beat the world record for most yellow cards in one season.
There is that but I think Lambert is trying to get his ball-playing skills going as he can look good when he is not flying into rash tacklse...
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would rather westwood than delph but a decent starting line up -lets get the win and 3 valuable points .
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I'll go for the 18th minute for Delph's yellow card today.
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Subs: Given, Benteke, N'Zogbia, Lichaj, Bannan, Albrighton, Weimann.
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Quite surprised at Benteke not starting. Come on you Villa boys!
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every time I see our side on paper before a game it worries me. we look desperately short on quality throughout.
would like to see our full backs push forward a lot more today and give us some badly needed width.
midfield looks a bit of a basket case. I really dont rate delph or holman. hoping for a lot with stephen ireland. plenty of talent but little heart with him. bent I feel is likely to score but when gabby and himself play up top they never seem to gel.
worth league start for 26 years this commentator is saying. we really need a win.
Fulham always strong at home. Berbatov will be a huge test for our defence. Sidwell and Baird in midfield though so not too much to worry about there. Duff out is a positive.
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Great save Guzan.
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Bloody hell. Should be 1 down
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Fucking hell defence wake up, great stop Brad I think.
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Two good saves from Guzan in first couple of minutes. Berbatov is looking lively
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Thank feck for Guzan
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Ive said it before but we look like a bunch of strangers at the back...oh wait we are!
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Oh dear Gabby
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It's a work in progress, etc.
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not a popular thing to say on here but we are missing dunne something shocking at the back.
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I like KEA and Ireland being in midfield together, they work well.
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Really need 3 points today otherwise the title may be beyond us.
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Really need 3 points today otherwise the title may be beyond us.
That's my fear too. It's going to be a shit season if we aren't challenging as usual
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Away contingent are enjoying themselves!
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The centre halves have to be a lot more alert here.
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Stoke leading at Man U
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Really need 3 points today otherwise the title may be beyond us.
I am happy to stay under the radar till Chelsea start to slip up!
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JUst feel we're very soft. Getting bullied at the back, would love to see our defenders far more aggresive
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I missed the first 30 seconds, has Delph been booked yet?
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Better from Gabby
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Just started watching. How have we been doing?
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I missed the first 30 seconds, has Delph been booked yet?
No, but there's plenty of time left before half-time
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You can say what you like about the lad, but we look a better team when Gabby's up for it.
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Have to say it, not always his biggest fan but glad Ireland is back in.
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We have a weak spine.
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They are going through our defence like pigs go through humans
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That was a good cross from Lowton there.
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Benteke would have scored that! *evil grin*
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Oh dear Darren Bent has the standard ridiculous footballer haircut
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Bent eke would have scored that one. http://
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Twats singing 'no respect'
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Our twats are singing no respect again. Fuckwits.
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Great minds pws
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Disappointing to hear the 'no respect' chant. Fulham fans applauded once they knew why we were clapping
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Really need 3 points today otherwise the title may be beyond us.
That's my fear too. It's going to be a shit season if we aren't challenging as usual
Champions League is still a possibility even if we don't win today.
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I see our twats are singing no respect again. Fuckwits.
Knobheads why do we make ourselves look like twats
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I missed the first 30 seconds, has Delph been booked yet?
Struggling today he is. 20 gone and not even close to a yellow.
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Ireland and Holman need to get on the ball more
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I see our twats are singing no respect again. Fuckwits.
Knobheads why do we make ourselves look like twats
Well at least we are not Leeds.
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I thought they were singing that, even after the Fulham fans joined in. It seems they just sing it as part of the 19th minute applause now. Twats.
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That looked a bit like a push to me by Bennett.
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straight red for milner v the baggies
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All the Milner lovers, he's just been sent-off.
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I see our twats are singing no respect again. Fuckwits.
Knobheads why do we make ourselves look like twats
Well at least we are not Leeds.
Say that again and I'll slap you in the face!
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Weak defending villa, come on
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I get the feeling they're going to score, whereas I don't think we look like scoring at all. Am I insane?
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Milner sent off as last man.
Please refrain from laughing.
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The football we're playing is better than last year. Unfortunately it's not as good as most of the other teams in the Premier League.
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Baker needs to switch on he's been out of position and sloppy a few times.
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Disappointing to hear the 'no respect' chant. Fulham fans applauded once they knew why we were clapping
I think some in our away contingent are all too ready to sing that regardless of the fact that it's not on the mind of home fans and its takes a little time to realise what's going on with away fans in a corner of the ground.
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Great tackle by Ron there. Shit pass, though.
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On the plus side, despite not playing well we haven't conceded and have created a few half chances. Mmmmm straws.
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In the last few minutes the commentator has mentioned that Riise has never scored for Fulham and that Hangalaand has not scored yet this season.
Put your shirt on it, lads.
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Rooney has scored for both teams now.
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Rooney has scored for both teams now.
He's no Chris Nicholl.
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In the last few minutes the commentator has mentioned that Riise has never scored for Fulham and that Hangalaand has not scored yet this season.
Put your shirt on it, lads.
Heh. Dunno if you're watching the same one as me, but the commentator I'm listening to, with the score at 0-0, 20 minutes in, and during a lull in play, declared that "Villa are still very much in this game."
Corner.
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Will we ever score from a corner?
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Rooney has scored for both teams now.
He's no Chris Nicholl.
He's got some way to go yet, it's true.
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Liverpool 1 up - Sterling
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Ref that is never a foul Rodallega fell into Holman.
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His missus is up the Damiean aswell. Wazza in a purple patch/ vein of form.
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Milner sent off as last man.
Please refrain from laughing.
What a loser. I piss myself laughing every time he plays in the Champions League or looks at his league title medal or his bank balance. That will teach him.
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Will we ever score from a corner?
Will we ever score?
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In the last few minutes the commentator has mentioned that Riise has never scored for Fulham and that Hangalaand has not scored yet this season.
Put your shirt on it, lads.
Heh. Dunno if you're watching the same one as me, but the commentator I'm listening to, with the score at 0-0, 20 minutes in, and during a lull in play, declared that "Villa are still very much in this game."
Corner.
In the last few minutes the commentator has mentioned that Riise has never scored for Fulham and that Hangalaand has not scored yet this season.
Put your shirt on it, lads.
Heh. Dunno if you're watching the same one as me, but the commentator I'm listening to, with the score at 0-0, 20 minutes in, and during a lull in play, declared that "Villa are still very much in this game."
Corner.
Mine said that too I replied 'It's only fucking Fulham!'
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Villa fans are in great voice, sounds like a good time there. *sigh of homesickness*
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Wonderful from the villa fans
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There's a big Apple Iphone advert in the middle of the park on my screen.
Still a bit better than Delph I suppose...
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On the plus side, despite not playing well we haven't conceded and have created a few half chances. Mmmmm straws.
I think so mate
I reckon we look pretty poor to be honest. Ireland hiding again, Bent hasnt had a kick. Delph and Holman are incredibly limited players. Baker having a bit of a horror show opening, Bennett's lack of physical strength being exposed, no width.
Great support in fairness and Gabby has started well. Fulham are pretty average but Berbatov is a class above anything else on the pitch. Petric is a very decent player too. They look far more likely
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We have improved as the fans have got louder, great rendition of Paul Lamber'ts Claret and Blue Army
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Well won but poor ball KEA.
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Fucking hell Villa, no need to be knocking it about in such a dangerous situation.
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We are losing the ball far too much around our box.
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Another bout of panicky shit at the back
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Milner sent off as last man.
Please refrain from laughing.
What a loser. I piss myself laughing every time he plays in the Champions League or looks at his league title medal or his bank balance. That will teach him.
He knows himself he hasn't contributed much to them though. We still have that on him, the Lee Evans sired fecker.
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I stand by my opinion that El Ahmadi is basically a Dutch Reo-Coker.
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Sidwell playing like fucking Zidane...
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Comedy defending for a few moments there.
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I think it comes to something when commentątor says Villa are still in it at 0-0 v Fulham
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Less fucking sloppiness Villa for fuck's sake.
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I stand by my opinion that El Ahmadi is basically a Dutch Reo-Coker.
That can pass the football at his feet.
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Fucking useless ball lumped up front and we're under pressure again. Throw in by our corner flag.
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I stand by my opinion that El Ahmadi is basically a Dutch Reo-Coker.
That can pass the football at his feet.
Reo-Coker could pass perfectly well too, providing it was short and simple and in his own half. It was only when he crossed the halfway line that his brain melted. KEA seems pretty similar in that respect.
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I stand by my opinion that El Ahmadi is basically a Dutch Reo-Coker.
That can pass the football at his feet.
Edited for you.
Reo-Coker could pass perfectly well too, providing it was short and simple, to an opponent and in his own half. It was only when he crossed the halfway line that his brain melted. KEA seems pretty similar in that respect.
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We lack that little bit of quality
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NRC is now playing for Ipswich, I think.
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reckon there will be a bit of a flare up between sidwell and delph before the end. both of them flying into tackles against each other
sidwell should have scored that header
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Delph has done alright, but we need to actually create some chances.
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Bent had a decent chance there
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fuck me villa lets pass forward instead of back, left and right.
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Well all you can say is that we are working hard. There is very little skill of a Premier level and absolutely
nothing coming from our midfield .
One goal will win this game we could fluke it I suppose but as for the future it doesnt look positive does it?
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Sidwell playing like fucking Zidane...
Fuckin Zidane is not as good as Zinidine.
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They are very good at falling over.
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On the plus side, I've only had to look at Kamara's face once in the last 45 minutes
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beyond boring
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On the plus side, I've only had to look at Kamara's face once in the last 45 minutes
:)
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Cant' help thinking we need to get some wingers on and push up the pitch. We've gone from being too adventurous in our first few games to far too defensive in my book. Could be forgiven for thinking this shit had been served up by TSM.
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Need to be a lot less sloppy and actually get our forwards in the game.
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Ireland is the only creative mind out there for us - and if he is not on his game, it's turgid stuff.
At least we are in it, looking fairly solid and in with a decent chance here.
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Didn't enjoy that half much. At least they haven't scored.
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1 deflected shot on target the first half....this is what we wanted Mcleish
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Lambo will lambast them and they will rip into Fulham in the second half.
Or maybe not.
Probably not...
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Let's face it, that was tedious, time-snatching garbage. Let's hope it wasn't our 'good' half.
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Not great. We haven't created any decent chances really. 48% possession away from home is great, but we don't do anything with it. Fulham will be disappointed they're not 1-0 up.
Better in the second half, Villa!
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
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I don't think it was so much that we were poor as both teams have cancelled each other out. We've both had a couple of chances but it's been pretty dull so far because we're just cancelling each other out.
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Not much of effect from a midfield of 4 against Sidders at al
perhaps one of them will be replaced by benteke in the second half?
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
We've played wank and created very little all season.
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
Not sure it's all his fault, but he really has done fuck-nothing.
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
We've played wank and created very little all season.
Not all season, but I don't think it's Bent's issue so I agree with the point overall. We need to actually create some chances for him. Baker also needs to wake up.
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
We've played wank and created very little all season.
I must have imagined the chances created against Spurs then.
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Couldn't agree moe with Rissos earlier observation that we have improved this season, but that we are not up to the standard of most teams in the league. All we can really ask of Lambert is that he will improve us, so i'm not complaining, but I think it could be a long season.
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Coincidence that Bent starts and we play wank and create very little?
Not sure it's all his fault, but he really has done fuck-nothing.
He's someone who does "fuck-nothing" unless he scores which has to be set up by someone else. Beneteke offers a little extra in my opinion.
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well there is a pattern for this season where we offer little creatively in midfield and lack bite upfront. Pity the Benty boys can't play as two up front together.....or can they? Ireland looks confident at least and is pretty if not too effective.
Is it me or do we not run off the ball enough looking for space. Like watching subbuteo sometimes.
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At least we are in it, looking fairly solid and in with a decent chance here.
Thank you.
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For what it's worth, i'd have started Bent and Benteke today, but Gabby is the only one who looked a threat in the first half. Shows what I know.
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Anyone else going to watch Frankel now ?
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Not great by any means, but not too bad either. We seem determined to give a goal away at times.
We've had a fair amount of possession, but have moved the ball slowly whilst Fulham have worked hard to close us down.
Hopefully a bit more space as the game wears on. We need more movement and presence from the two experienced guys up front.
Failing that, get the Belgian lad on.
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Is it me or do we not run off the ball enough looking for space. Like watching subbuteo sometimes.
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2011/1/27/1296140989645/subbuteo-007.jpg)
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Not great by any means, but not too bad either. We seem determined to give a goal away at times.
We've had a fair amount of possession, but have moved the ball slowly whilst Fulham have worked hard to close us down.
Hopefully a bit more space as the game wears on. We need more movement and presence from the two experienced guys up front.
Failing that, get the Belgian lad on.
I agree, Benteke on, Barren Dent off.
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Here we go then. Come on Villa.
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Bennett guilty of ball watching there.
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Playing better but still looking a bit blunt in attack.
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I think Gabby could have done better there
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Great bit of work from Ireland there, nearly to Gabby.
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Nice run by Riise then. And what a waste by us on the break.
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Berbatov should never have that much space.
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Kamara can't think of anything to say. I like this.
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I say give it 10 and then Bannan, Albrighton and Benteke on for.....some people
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Lowton ball watching badly there at the back. Left a huge space behind him.
Good play from Ireland at the start of the half. Looking a bit better going forward
Nzogbia for Holman?
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If they allow us to throw on N'Zogbia as a 12th player and not take anyone off fair enough but otherwise no way.
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Im going to say it....get Bent off, he offers nothing if he doesnt get the service....Beneteke offers to hold the ball up and has a shot or 2.
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The forward passing is consistently shit.
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The depressing thing about those awful away stats the commentator keeps mentioning is we all know our home form has been just as bad the past twelve months
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Better so far
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
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We are just hanging on, not playing fluently and waiting for Fulham to score. Not good enough.
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Fuck me Vlaar pick your fucking man up instead of ball watching
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That looked nasty for Baker
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Ow. That has got to hurt.
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Ah shit, another CB down
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BBCs live table has Wigan overtaking us despite the fact both our games are 0-0. Clear sign of media bias against us again.
Bakers going off, surely.
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Lady Luck you are a cruel cruel mistress.
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At least we are in it, looking fairly solid and in with a decent chance here.
Thank you.
For finally posting something you agree with?
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
Oh please. Try putting the blame where it belongs - with overspending managers who buy poor quality and pay them too much!
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Ill take a point now
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nasty, fair play to Baker though for actually trying to walk it off. Thought Baker has had a decent game
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
Oh please. Try putting the blame where it belongs - with overspending managers who buy poor quality and pay them too much!
The buck stops with the owner.
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Lichaj on as right back and Lowton to centre half.
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Going to be a test for us at the back now. And thank feck Sidwell is still still Sidwellesque.
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Thank God Sidwell is shit
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Someone needs to go and get Dunne out of KFC.
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Lowton to centre half. Shot blazed over from the ginger Pirlo. Strange.
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Baker will do well to run that injury off. Looked like he went over on his ankle badly. Will be interesting to see who goes centre half, Lowton probably. Thought Baker was very ropey early on but improved in the second half. Bennett with a bad mistake there again. Some of our defensive clearances have been terrible and would be fatal against a better side. Looking forward to seeing Lichaj at right back.
Benteke will surely come in and Nzogbia too I would think. Bent has hardly had a kick today and Holman for all his effort has no quality on the ball
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At least we are in it, looking fairly solid and in with a decent chance here.
Thank you.
For finally posting something you agree with?
No, just something positive to cling on to.
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Diddy David Hamilton getting plenty to say on the tannoy.
Why can't we have a legendary celebrity doing our announcements at VP ?
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
Oh please. Try putting the blame where it belongs - with overspending managers who buy poor quality and pay them too much!
The buck stops with the owner.
And we'd all be really happy if RL chose who to buy and sell. What kind od manager do you think we'd have then? Get real!
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Zog on for Irleand.
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No, just something positive to cling on to.
I'm trying and my glass is usally the half empty one.
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N'Zog I say this every week but about time you did something.
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Diddy David Hamilton getting plenty to say on the tannoy.
Wait till the Savile-style skeletons start coming out of the closet.
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Gabby was just outside the area then and we somehow went all the way back
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
Oh please. Try putting the blame where it belongs - with overspending managers who buy poor quality and pay them too much!
The buck stops with the owner.
And we'd all be really happy if RL chose who to buy and sell. What kind od manager do you think we'd have then? Get real!
We've an owner who didn't have a clue for the first four years, and since then we've been paying for his mistakes. The match thread probably isn't the place for this discussion though.
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we've been left with a serious lack of quality over the last three years by mr Lerner
Oh please. Try putting the blame where it belongs - with overspending managers who buy poor quality and pay them too much!
The buck stops with the owner.
if Randy Lerner had no input on transfer fees and salaries over his early tenure as you suggest then he is just as culpable, he should have done
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Great work from Gabby
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Someone needs to go and get Dunne out of KFC.
Not all together sure what that fat fucker would do to improve things but i suppose it might be worth a try.
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shite...the baggies have gone 1-0 up
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Baggies 1 up against Citeh
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Baggies are beating Man Shitty
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I'm getting nervous now
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Diddy David Hamilton getting plenty to say on the tannoy.
Why can't we have a legendary celebrity doing our announcements at VP ?
Freddie Starr lives in Studley....Oh.
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Predictably the Boggies singing "Shit on the Villa"
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Am starting to worry we're one of the three shittest teams in this league.
At least them all being so young, they're hopefully going to improve.
0-0 but I'd be pretty unimpressed if I was a Fulham fan here.
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Only seen bits and pieces of this match...have we had a chance?
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this has been a pretty pathetic game
good block from lowton
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Baggies are beating Man Shitty
Yeah, but that's because Man City are shit, not because Albion are good. Don't forget, we beat them on their own patch the other week, so they must be shit.
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I'm getting nervous now
Only now? Try being nervous 24/7!
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Only seen bits and pieces of this match...have we had a chance?
nope
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According to sky we've yet to have a shot on target.
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Benteke on for Bent.
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I predict Bent will go by next summer.
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Only seen bits and pieces of this match...have we had a chance?
A what?
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No wonder we never score form corners when they are that shit.
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Now your time Benteke....corner boiiiiiiii
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Ah shit
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No wonder we never score form corners when they are that shit.
Apart from the corner we scored against WBA?
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Rightful place? Fulham? Based on what exactly?
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I have never seen a team need a win or slice of luck so badly as this villa side. The longer it goes on the more withdrawn we become in our play.
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This is boring. Someone run on the pitch and slap the Fulham goalie in the face.
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I haven't seem anything of the match, but haven't Fulhsm been brilliant at home this season?
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Last on MOTD again tonight, I reckon.
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Bennett looks championship
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This season can't end quickly enough.
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Holman with no one to pass it to there.
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This season can't end quickly enough.
We'll be lucky to stay up. We've got very few decent players.
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This season can't end quickly enough.
Soon be summer. Anybody booked their holidays yet?
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This season can't end quickly enough.
We'll be lucky to stay up. We've got very few decent players.
Do you want to mention Savage?
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Bennett looks championship
I thought he was decent apart from one or two lapses.
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Guzan to the rescue AGAIN.
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This season can't end quickly enough.
Soon be summer. Anybody booked their holidays yet?
I've heard Sweden is lovely.
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Well done Brad
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Bennett you have to stop getting sucked into the centre.
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To be fair we've looked better these last 10 mins, not great, but better.
Zog's been half decent
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Bollocks.
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I have turned the sound down....Christ have we been reduced to this
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We really do lack that "special" player...
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shit bastards
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Ho hum.
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Fucking arseholes
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Fulham 1-0 Villa
Shit.
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Shame we cannot bring on Weimann for a 93rd minute winner again.
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FUCK.
RIGHT.
OFF.
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For fucks sake.
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We need 2-3 good quality senior players to help out the kids.
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sh!t
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Bollocks
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Oh dear Villa. It's been coming though.
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FFS. What a barrel of absolute gubbins.
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Balls. We are trying so hard to play better football but we're just getting sucked down. Fuck me
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I think we'll finish 16th
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I can't see us staying up.
If I supported any other Prem team I would be licking my lips with Aston Villa on the fixture list.
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The new emperor doesn't appear to be wearing many clothes.
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Benteke with a great chance. Should have equalised
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And theres a missed chance...would Bent have put that away?
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On the bright side, Delph hasn't been booked yet, that's unusual.
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How the fuck did you miss!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, Benteke should have got that on target at least.
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Benteke with a great chance. Should have equalised
yes he should.
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FUUUUUUUUCK...he puts them away for Belgium
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How many chances will Benteke miss this season!
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Two shots on target all game.
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We are in big, big, I know people like to think that we are somehow, unrealistically going to turn it around but I just do not see how. This is abysmal. Again.
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How many games in a row is Benteke going to miss excellent chances before we can conclude that he's a bit shit, without everyone saying he just needs (more) time?
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Head up Benteke, don't let it get you down. Zog's made a difference here
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This has been every bit as turgid and sterile as anything we saw last season.
Different players, same shit
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And theres a missed chance...would Bent have put that away?
Bent showed today that he likely wouldn't have got into that position
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that was some miss from benteke. blatant foul in the lead up mind
really not sure there will be three worse sides than us in the league this year
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benteke misses some sitters
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Missed chances doesn't make you a shit striker. It will come, he's a threat. Different team since him and Zog have been on.
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Come on we can still get something here
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
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Come on we can still get something here
Yes
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Missed chances doesn't make you a shit striker. It will come, he's a threat. Different team since him and Zog have been on.
Yes, we were drawing, now we're losing.
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I have to say, we've got everything wrong today.
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I'm actually starting to worry that twat Savage might be right.
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
Great. Sooner or later we'll have a Premier League season when that won't be the case.
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
I can see us going down as the 20th placed team this year.
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I think we will stay up, but will be bottom of the league at some point in the process too. We need Dunne back, Petrov properly replaced and a winger with the ability to make something from nothing.
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This what happens when you sell all your best players, and replace them with a load of Championship level dross.
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Missed chances doesn't make you a shit striker. It will come, he's a threat. Different team since him and Zog have been on.
Yes, we were drawing, now we're losing.
Hardly their fault. Zog's been best Villa player by a mile and he's only been on a while
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I think we will stay up, but will be bottom of the league at some point in the process too. We need Dunne back, Petrov properly replaced and a winger with the ability to make something from nothing.
Lerner won't give us that. He will probably look to flog a few prized assets until one day there are none left onlya bunch of youngers who are all heart but no quality.
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time for the excuses to stop. we are in serious trouble, end of.
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This what happens when you sell all your best players, and replace them with a load of Championship level dross.
THIS
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We're going to need money being spent in January, not on kids with potential but experienced players at this level. 5pts in 8 games with some of the top teams to come is making things even harder
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This what happens when you sell all your best players, and replace them with a load of Championship level dross.
I think thats what you call 'nail on head'
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It seems that playing like utter shit is now the standard for Aston Villa.
Cool times.
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
Yes, but I'd prefer it if they looked poorer. Notwithstanding the usual 'judge your own team more harshly' caveat, I think we're about the poorest team I've seen in the league this season.
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
I can see us going down as the 20th placed team this year.
As bad as we are, we're nowhere near as shit as QPR. or Norwich.
16th-17th wouldn't surprise me, but I think the ineptness of other clubs will see us safe this year.
The performances against Swansea and Man City weren't so long ago, even though it feels like it. Lambert can and will turn it around.
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The frightening thing is we haven't played any top teams yet and we have 1 win from 8.
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FUUUUUUUUUUCK I thought that was his first
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That might be the last chance.
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Funny we've been good since we went behind, should have played the whole game like this
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
Yes, but I'd prefer it if they looked poorer. Notwithstanding the usual 'judge your own team more harshly' caveat, I think we're about the poorest team I've seen in the league this season.
I thought Southampton were until they absolutely destroyed us.
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I have to say at least the 4 teams below us look just as poor
Yes, but I'd prefer it if they looked poorer. Notwithstanding the usual 'judge your own team more harshly' caveat, I think we're about the poorest team I've seen in the league this season.
I thought Southampton were until they absolutely destroyed us.
Exactly.
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I got crucified on here for suggesting we would get relegated this season. I really can't see how we will stay up. We are very, very shit.
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Lambert needs to start panicking and looking for a plan B. How about using the wings and crossing to our £7m 6'5" striker, for a start?
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I am so angry and unhappy about what we have become.
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All over. Fulham are a form side at the moment, but Villa are poor and getting worse.
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We are just hanging on, not playing fluently and waiting for Fulham to score. Not good enough.
I knew it for a certain fact much earlier on.
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Well thats it then. Remember those first 30mins against West Ham? we looked very much as if we were going the right way....and now its hard to look positive.
In the league, the match commentator said, Agbonlahor hasnt scored for 26 games. Bent doesnt look as if he could score and Benteke has now missed a number of easy chances.
I cant see how they are going to improve.
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I am so angry and unhappy about what we have become.
Stick with Lambert.
Those fuckers running the club are the problem and will see their incompetence relegate us.
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I am so angry and unhappy about what we have become.
Stick with Lambert.
Those fuckers running the club are the problem and will see their incompetence relegate us.
Yeah I really like the guy. I'm sure he's the best for the job. Just demoralised.