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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on December 26, 2016, 02:01:42 PM
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Couldn't you make that a bit bigger?
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3 points please.
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No Grealish again. Hmm.
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Sorry but I'm baffled as to why Grealish isn't getting a start.
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Couldn't you make that a bit bigger?
I have no idea why it does that when you copy from Twitter. It's massively annoying.
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Time to shine, Ross!
Convincing win please.
UTV!
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Would rather see Jack than RM. Three points and a dazzling display please lads.
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Would rather see Jack than RM. Three points and a dazzling display please lads.
Exactly. He's the best footballer at the club.
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Can't make the game? Why not settle down to your soothing Boxing Day log while listening to my coverage of the game courtesy of the H&V Match Thread. You'll find it here... http://www.mearnsfm.org.uk/listen-live
Match updates interspersed with fine music (and some average to good tracks requested by your fellow H&Vers). Starts at 3pm.
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Can't make the game? Why not settle down to your soothing Boxing Day log while listening to my coverage of the game courtesy of the H&V Match Thread. You'll find it here... http://www.mearnsfm.org.uk/listen-live
Match updates interspersed with fine music (and some average to good tracks requested by your fellow H&Vers). Starts at 3pm.
How do I get this to work?? Browser etc?
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Can't make the game? Why not settle down to your soothing Boxing Day log while listening to my coverage of the game courtesy of the H&V Match Thread. You'll find it here... http://www.mearnsfm.org.uk/listen-live
Match updates interspersed with fine music (and some average to good tracks requested by your fellow H&Vers). Starts at 3pm.
How do I get this to work?? Browser etc?
Working perfectly well in Chrome for me.
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Can't make the game? Why not settle down to your soothing Boxing Day log while listening to my coverage of the game courtesy of the H&V Match Thread. You'll find it here... http://www.mearnsfm.org.uk/listen-live
Match updates interspersed with fine music (and some average to good tracks requested by your fellow H&Vers). Starts at 3pm.
How do I get this to work?? Browser etc?
Working perfectly well in Chrome for me.
Got it going now. Cheers.
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I'd definitely have started jack. Bacuna left midfield and a severe lack of passing ability doesn't seem the right combo for a home game against burton
Two up front I guess though
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Win please Villa.
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A festive fuck the fuckers.
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I'd definitely have started jack. Bacuna left midfield and a severe lack of passing ability doesn't seem the right combo for a home game against burton
Two up front I guess though
Would agree with that, McCormack is very fortunate to be given another go. He needs to shine today. Don't see the point in playing Hutton at home to these, Bacuna at RB and Grealish on left wing surely a better bet at home v a team that has won once in 7 games.
442, Jedinak in the 6 role, Gardner in 8. Think Gardner will score today. 2-0 win McCormack and Gardner
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A festive fuck the fuckers.
Fuck the fuckers with tinsel on
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Radio Russon is on, let's hope he's better than the programme preceding it which was pish!
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Is it me or is there no live commentary on avtv?
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There is now
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does that USA goals actually have the game on live or is it just a scam?
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Anyone know of any online radio coverage?
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie, get in there Russon.
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Correction there is someb sort of problem
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does that USA goals actually have the game on live or is it just a scam?
I can't get it to work.
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Sky are showing all the championship goals this afternoon as soon as they've been scored.
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Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie, get in there Russon.
Brought back childhood 70s Villa memories that.
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periscope.tv/w/1MnGnrjnmQLGO
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Sodding offical site's gone down now. Possibly the worst paid for internet service ever.
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Sodding offical site's gone down now. Possibly the worst paid for internet service ever.
Every f..... time problems
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Its back on
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Anything happening?
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Hi Edvard, loved the film of the upward flowing waterfall on Facebook, I gather it was a bit windy over there this week?
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my villa stream showing Reading ffs
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Decent phone cam stream on facebook.
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Anything happening?
We've started slowly. No shock there.
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Can't find anything watchable, so I'm feeding the things Tony Morley says on BBCWM through the Enigma machine so I can understand what's going on.
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Thanks Cyrilina
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bacuna just wide
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Bacuna sits a misser.
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Never mind that, Camera Obscura are on Mearns FM.
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Goal for Ayew.
The Wet Spam Ayew that is.
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Bacuna IN
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GETTT INNN!
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Yes!
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ggooaalllll
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Goallll
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bacuna well done
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Get in !
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Bacuna makes up for missing a sitter
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Great Header.
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Ay up.....Leandro.
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Get in Leandro!!!
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Now he can grin.
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Bacuna played well there. in the lead up.
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I can see several references to a stream on kodi; however, none are appearing when I select.
No surprise we are starting slowly again. Bruce seems to be quite negative in his approach
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Bang! Thumping header.
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Gooooooooooooool!
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Don't know why Bacuna not played earlier under Bruce.
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Good header, took a whack but straight back up to celebrate. Good man.
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I can see several references to a stream on kodi; however, none are appearing when I select.
No surprise we are starting slowly again. Bruce seems to be quite negative in his approach
Morley said that Bruce was shouting at them to up the pace after 5 minutes.
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Decent phone cam stream on facebook.
anylink
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First time I've heard a Close Lobsters track on the radio since I got one onto The Chain on 6 Music about four years ago.
Marvellous.
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periscope.tv/w/1MnGnrjnmQLGO
listening to this link in Australia.
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Decent phone cam stream on facebook.
anylink
Aston Villa Worldwide group.
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Bacuna sounds as eratic as ever
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Bacuna sounds as eratic as ever
That goal was erotic. I'm tumescent.
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Decent phone cam stream on facebook.
anylink
Aston Villa Worldwide group.
ta
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If only Bacuna had been as consistently anonymous in midfield as Westwood, then we wouldn't have to listen to mentions of him being erratic.
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Good stuff, come on Villa.
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FFS
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ffs
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Nooooo.
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Shite.
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Shit
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Afternoon gents.
Please tell me this is some kind of joke?
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Anyone see the goal?
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get Jack on ffs
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Whats with all these fkn hand bandages...
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Impose yourselves you pansies.
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Arse biscuits.
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Anyone see the goal?
Kodjiaesque
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Bollocks
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Will we ever comfortably win a game again ?
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bunn saves from ward
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playing shite
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Are we playing like a half-arsed 'big' club living on distant past glories, or something?
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Are we playing like a half-arsed 'big' club living on distant past glories, or something?
The can't seem to string 2 passes together.
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Burton - yes fucking Burton - nearly take the lead.
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For fucks sake.
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Has McCorwank touched the ball yet the fat ******?
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We desperately need to start actually playing well.
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If we win this by a goal we're as shit as we fear. But we'll probably lose.
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Has McCorwank touched the ball yet the fat c***?
Yes, once, he thought it was a pickled egg.
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so very poor. Bruce needs to get his act together because the performances for a while have been poor. The team sounds so disjointed yet again. Fucking Burton Albion.
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Hi Edvard, loved the film of the upward flowing waterfall on Facebook, I gather it was a bit windy over there this week?
Was horrible weather more or less non stop 23-26th December. Many damages to materials only
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Bruce get RMC off
not heard gardner mentioned once
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Get fat wanker off for moody wanker.
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oh i have with an injury
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As soon as you sawGardener Mcomick Bacuna in the team
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Bruce get RMC off
not heard gardner mentioned once
Well you have now because he's injured
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New contract cue 9 months injured... yes Gardner
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McCorfat off, Grealish on, Bacuna to centre mid, Kodj with Grealish and Adomah wider.
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Please can we buy two midfielders on the 1st of January.
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61% possession. To them.
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It's Dorking 1-2 Guernsey by the way, just thought you'd like to know.
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A very frustrated Villa Park at HT
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Sounds awful.
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It's Boxing Day and Villa are playing like minnows from a small town awash with beer.
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Please can we buy two midfielders on the 1st of January.
If we got one decent ball winner / energetic player, then it might give SB the confidence to play Grealish or Ayew as opposed to midfielders like Bacuna Gardener Westwood that just run around without any effect on the game.
But can not fathom why RMC starts though.
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Fucking dire. Half the crowd went for a pie on thirty minutes.
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seems their heads are still stuck in playstation game mode from christmas
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About as much guile, imagination, urgency and energy coming from the team as from John Major.
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Not good enough, we need to start actually playing well.
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Fucking dire. Half the crowd went for a pie on thirty minutes.
I'm surprised it took them that long. Shocking yet no surprise.
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It's silent night or afternoon as it is at Villa park. Terrible so far with almost no chances created. Amavi, Jedinak and Hutton just much worse than others.
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0 Corners, 1 shot. Bag of piss, give them the Brucey hair dryer treatment at half time and haul off Deep Fried Ross for someone who wants to move.
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Not good enough, we need to start actually playing football.
Fixed.
All the excuses in the world can't forgive a man without a plan. My only doubt is why I'm surprised.
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One team kept the ball and tried to find a player with an easy pass. That was Burton. Villa just keep giving the ball away. Our midfield do not have a good pass in them. Burton should be 3 - 1 up. Very very poor and disjointed performance so far.
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It's pretty much every week now that I wonder what on earth do they practice? Why do we start so slow in games and why do we not have the confidence to dominate teams that like today, shouldn't be in the game given the comparative resources. Yet here we fucking are again.
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I still maintain our problems are rooted in the midfield.
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Well I am getting used to this dross from Bruce every week now and today we are being served exactly what it says on the tin😥
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I still maintain our problems are rooted in the midfield.
And the lack of a plan. Pathetic, once again.
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Get fat wanker off for moody wanker.
Were lucky to have such a varied selection of wankers to choose from
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Bruce fumes and postures when we play shit, but the players show zero evidence anything has changed or been worked on when they turn up for the next game.
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I still maintain our problems are rooted in the midfield.
We have one Midfielder that can break up play and then..... What are the others capable of?
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Three things made me smile during that half. One. Mark Kelly 'speaking' to me on that Live Facebook feed. Two. Seeing my cousin Helen and her husband were watching it too. Three. The number of people on Facebook 'ordering' beer and pies from the people they could see leaving their seats in the video.
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Get fat wanker off for moody wanker.
Were lucky to have such a varied selection of wankers to choose from
A veritable cornucopia
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How far we have fallen.......
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Grealish on for Gardner
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We're shite, not Small Heath shite but still shite.
Even a more than decent 2nd half isn't going to convince me Bruce has a clue what he's doing.
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Well, here's Jack, it's what we all wanted so let's see if he can get us going.
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We're shite, not Small Heath shite but still shite.
Even a more than decent 2nd half isn't going to convince me Bruce has a clue what he's doing.
I'll wait to see what he does across a couple of transfer windows before arriving at that conclusion. He's won promotion four times. It wasn't an accident. He needs to get some of his own players in because some of this lot are poor.
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If it's a question of player attitudes (which I'm becoming sceptical about) then there's no better evidence than failure to perform against Burton, in a full VP, 5 days before a transfer window.
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fuck me, another wasted move.
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Disallowed goal :(
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
BALLS - DISALLOWED
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Grealish is the difference
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Don't get me wrong, I wanted Bruce to come; but surely, irrespective of players available there is no clear plan to pass the ball and keep possession.
I recall watching Hull play Sheffield Wed in the final last year and it was similar stuff. I thought he'd be more expansive than this, which is worrying
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Apparently good play between Jack and Ross to set up the 'goal'
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Apparently good play between Jack and Ross to set up the 'goal'
We will only get the best out of McCormack if we pass the ball. It's no surprise he will link up well with JG
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Fucking come on Villa win the game.
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We're shite, not Small Heath shite but still shite.
Even a more than decent 2nd half isn't going to convince me Bruce has a clue what he's doing.
I'll wait to see what he does across a couple of transfer windows before arriving at that conclusion. He's won promotion four times. It wasn't an accident. He needs to get some of his own players in because some of this lot are poor.
A couple of windows? I was hoping he'd be gone in the summer. Right now he'll be winging it to last that long. Clueless.
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Get Ayew on for McCormack
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Don't get me wrong, I wanted Bruce to come; but surely, irrespective of players available there is no clear plan to pass the ball and keep possession.
I recall watching Hull play Sheffield Wed in the final last year and it was similar stuff. I thought he'd be more expansive than this, which is worrying
We will struggle to play a posession game with our current centre midfield options. Press any of them and they will just hoof it.
Add in Hutton and Baker behind them and maybe we would be best off playing a more direct game. Kodjia isn't that type of forward though to bring other players into the game.
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Chance missed
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fuck me, Adomah over the top
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Chance missed
Shite again!
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I don't Think we've had a corner yet.
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Said it before...key to getting strikers in play, not Westwood, not Gardner, not Grealish...its Bacuna! At least until we get a proper central playmaker in January...
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Worst corner ever
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Not going to win this one are we.
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Worst corner ever
Tony Morley reckons it must be the pitch's fault. Yeah right.
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88th minute winner from Grealish, bet you a tenner
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It's ok, Gabby is warming up. All will be saved!
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Ayew coming on soon. McCormack off I woud say.
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It's ok, Gabby is warming up. All will be saved!
Right now we could do worse. What a ramble.
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RIDICULOUS
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Pretty dismal this.
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Although it may be Ayew that comes on.
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I'm sure Bruce is trolling us with his use of Gabby
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It's ok, Gabby is warming up. All will be saved!
Right now we could do worse. What a ramble.
A walk in the park then.
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First time i've watched a FB feed tat's ahead of the wireless.
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In all seriousness, how do people say Bruce "hasn't got a clue what he's doing"?
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this is rubbish
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Burton clip outside of post
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A club well and truly cocooned in its comfort zone.
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All I ask is one of you under achieving twats score
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AC Acoustics - cheers Russon!!
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It's ok, Gabby is warming up. All will be saved!
Right now we could do worse. What a ramble.
A walk in the park then.
Ha!I wish. Many were predicting.
I missed out on a ramble to watch this rabble this afternoon.
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Not good enough for fucks sake.
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Nice from Jack and Ross again. Although Kod offside again.
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First time i've watched a FB feed tat's ahead of the wireless.
Fair play to the lad, he's got 1k viewing it.
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rMC still on
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So what's our line up now?
Adomah grealish Bacuna ayew - McCormack - kodjia
Even RDM never set up a team like that, it's bat shit attacking
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It's guesswork now what formation this is or how everyone is meant to play. We are literally just throwing shit together praying something will click.
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Bacuna anchoring the midfield.Sweet Jesus.
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Sod the midfield, lets just pile on attackers.
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Does Kodjia know the offside rule, I have my doubts.
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fuck ross has scored
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLL
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FUCKING YES GET IN THERE RAB C. FUCKING NESBITT YOU BEAUTY!
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YESSSSSS!!!!!
ROSSS!
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About bloody time.
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rMC still on
Yep!
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Get in!!!! Now win.
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Oh Alex, you didn't just say that about The Sundays. :(
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Fuckin yes!!
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Ayew came good then, excellent ball.
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Fuck me
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Get in
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
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Sproston Green - good choice on Russon FM
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nearly 3
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Good from Kod
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Oh Alex, you didn't just say that about The Sundays. :(
Yeah, not happy, anyway what's wrong with a bit of twee.
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Get in you fat bastard
Right, at the risk of annoying some people
- we need to shore up the midfield
- we've got one midfielder on the bench
- he's Ashley Westwood
I think we should bring on Ashley Westwood. It doesn't mean I love him. It doesn't mean I think he's good enough for where we want to be. But I do suggest we bring him on for adomah
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
Erm, yeah.
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Gotta hang on now.
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Oh Alex, you didn't just say that about The Sundays. :(
Yeah, not happy, anyway what's wrong with a bit of twee.
anymore lip and i won't play Pristine Christine
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Super-duper! Merry Christmas!
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Sproston Green - good choice on Russon FM
Indeed. Sod the goal!
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Get in you fat bastard
Right, at the risk of annoying some people
- we need to shore up the midfield
- we've got one midfielder on the bench
- he's Ashley Westwood
I think we should bring on Ashley Westwood. It doesn't mean I love him. It doesn't mean I think he's good enough for where we want to be. But I do suggest we bring him on for adomah
Not fucking Westfuckingwood. Keep attacking.
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In all seriousness, how do people say Bruce "hasn't got a clue what he's doing"?
Couldn't agree more
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Yes!
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
Erm, yeah.
You seem almost disappointed we're winning.
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Oh Alex, you didn't just say that about The Sundays. :(
Yeah, not happy, anyway what's wrong with a bit of twee.
anymore lip and i won't play Pristine Christine
I take it all back.
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
I'm yet to be convinced only because we don't carry momentum forward. It's like we start each game like it is the first time playing together. I don't envy what he took over and that has to be considered, but you'd think there would be more cohesion and something approaching a settled system by now.
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In all seriousness, how do people say Bruce "hasn't got a clue what he's doing"?
Couldn't agree more
I agree. The only problem is what he's doing is shite. Completely clueless.
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ayew defending well
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fucking gabby now
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Get in you fat bastard
Right, at the risk of annoying some people
- we need to shore up the midfield
- we've got one midfielder on the bench
- he's Ashley Westwood
I think we should bring on Ashley Westwood. It doesn't mean I love him. It doesn't mean I think he's good enough for where we want to be. But I do suggest we bring him on for adomah
Not fucking Westfuckingwood. Keep attacking.
This. Westwood cant defend against a 90-year old senior using walker.
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Gabby coming on God help us.
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
I'm yet to be convinced only because we don't carry momentum forward. It's like we start each game like it is the first time playing together. I don't envy what he took over and that has to be considered, but you'd think there would be more cohesion and something approaching a settled system by now.
It's not pretty to watch but you don't head towards 5 home wins on the bounce and 7 wins in 11 by luck. My hope is we'll see better when he's not using such an unbalanced squad.
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Im not listening next week Russon. >:(
1982 look at the posts, 1982, i wanted it to be special!!!
wasted
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Gabby is a waste of atoms.
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get in the fucking box someone
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Im not listening next week Russon. >:(
what had you requested?
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Im not listening next week Russon. >:(
I am, despite the Chas 'n' Dave / Sea Urchins hybrid track there.
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Come on VILLA! ward got his consolation goal. Now.dont fall for the five minute curse. New villa new world new league. C'mon Villa
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Sea Urchins, this is the best radio station in the world ever!
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
I'm yet to be convinced only because we don't carry momentum forward. It's like we start each game like it is the first time playing together. I don't envy what he took over and that has to be considered, but you'd think there would be more cohesion and something approaching a settled system by now.
It's not pretty to watch but you don't head towards 5 home wins on the bounce and 7 wins in 11 by luck. My hope is we'll see better when he's not using such an unbalanced squad.
Best or second best squad in the league and he goes out of his way to make them unbalanced. Sorry, but it's not the squad that are the problem.
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Need to spend some serious cash in january if we wanna reach the playoff, cause this team is not good enough.
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Isn't it that fat bastard Gabby's job to get his obese carcass into the fucking box when we're on the attack? Move you walrus.
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We have a piss poor midfield which Bruce had nothing to do with. He's turned a club that was a shambles for well over a year and won once every few months into a side that wins most weeks. Or maybe it's just a coincidence we've started winning since he arrived.
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One of Agbonlahor's few uses is coming on to help us see a game off. Get it in the corner and fend them off with your giant arse Gabby.
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I think we need some Family Cat next time don't you think Risso?
Steamroller would be a good track, it's got a football theme as well (albeit Southampton, they were Saints fans).
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Im not listening next week Russon. >:(
what had you requested?
bang bang ba robertson, ruder than you bodysnatchers, im sulking like a cnut now.
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Gabby is a waste of atoms.
Gabby Avogadro ?
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looks like rudy is off if he has brought gabby on
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bunn saves us
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Sea Urchins, this is the best radio station in the world ever!
Basically this could be my iPod on shuffle.
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Thank fuck for that.
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thank fuck
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Sea Urchins, this is the best radio station in the world ever!
And ending on Ain't That Enough. The best one-two combo since Savo and Yorke away at Forest in 1997.
Russon, you need to soundtrack every match thread please.
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Bunn saves us at the death after a stupid Ayew foul.
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Blow the whistle
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YESSSSS. fuck me 2-1 vs the Mighty Burton Albion. Stick this in the books as one of the great displays.
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Get in! FT! Best Xmas since 2005 results wise
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If we beat Leeds it will be a miracle.
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Yes Russon, that very possibly is the greatest song ever, in my top ten anyway.
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I never doubtedyou for a minute Captain Mainwearing
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Well that was a fine couple of hours, probably because I wasn't at the match so didn't have to watch it mind.
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Sea Urchins, this is the best radio station in the world ever!
Basically this could be my iPod on shuffle.
And mine. Did he play Close Lobsters? For some reason the show wouldn't stream on my Mac so had to download the app on the iPhone.
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Did he play Close Lobsters? For some reason the show wouldn't stream on my Mac so had to download the app on the iPhone.
Yes, Let's Make Some Plans.
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Maybe Bruce does know what he's doing!
I'm yet to be convinced only because we don't carry momentum forward. It's like we start each game like it is the first time playing together. I don't envy what he took over and that has to be considered, but you'd think there would be more cohesion and something approaching a settled system by now.
24565 post and you know nothing about football!!
It's not pretty to watch but you don't head towards 5 home wins on the bounce and 7 wins in 11 by luck. My hope is we'll see better when he's not using such an unbalanced squad.
Best or second best squad in the league and he goes out of his way to make them unbalanced. Sorry, but it's not the squad that are the problem.