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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on December 30, 2016, 12:19:46 PM
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Two games in quick succession, madman owner, supporters with a bit of a reputation. We’ve been here before haven’t we? They’ve got a new manager in the delightful shape of Neil Warnock, of whom every supporter whose club have just lost to his brand of ball-launching says, “We should have had him” until they realise that whatever else he might do he’s still Neil Warnock. He’s made them a bit better, which wasn’t hard, and he’s still as horrible as ever, which was even easier. We came here a couple of years ago when they were making a cameo appearance in the Premier League and our current dealings with them had better last no longer. The transfer window will have been open for 39 hours by kick-off so they’ll probably have no different players to the home match, but you never know. They’ll probably be in blue but again anything’s possible. These foreign owners…
No matter how better they are under Warnock we’ve still got to win this one, for the good of football of nothing else.
Things newfooty fans don’t know – How Neil Warnock is still in employment.
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0-2
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
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1-2
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0-4 and about time too with Ayew 🎩 trick.
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2-0 win and Ayew to get injured causing a diplomatic storm between AVFC and Ghana.
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Fluky, undeserved, squeaky-bum, play-terribly-and-grind-it-out 5-1 win
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I love how we continue to pick big scores despite the incontrovertible evidence we never score more than one goal a game.
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I love how we continue to pick big scores despite the incontrovertible evidence we never score more than one goal a game.
You're right. 4-1 then
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I've been to 19 away games. We won two of the first three. The last sixteen have seen 13 losses and 3 draws.
I'm going on Monday. We'd better bloody win.
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A comfortable 2-0 Villa win.
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1-3. Westwood 4, 13, 64, 67 (og).
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I've been to 19 away games. We won two of the first three. The last sixteen have seen 13 losses and 3 draws.
I'm going on Monday. We'd better bloody win.
Can you please stop going😡Find a hobby🛶🛩🎢
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
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I've been looking at the predictions here and I just can't see where our goals are going to come from.
Probably no Kodjia, probably no Grealish, a tired Jedinak, a left back who can't defend, Gardner possibly coming in who is clearly not up to the job. Sorry to put a downer on things but I just can't see us performing the way we need to, to get a win
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I've been looking at the predictions here and I just can't see where our goals are going to come from.
Probably no Kodjia, probably no Grealish, a tired Jedinak, a left back who can't defend, Gardner possibly coming in who is clearly not up to the job. Sorry to put a downer on things but I just can't see us performing the way we need to, to get a win
We've still got Adomah, McCormack will probably play as the main striker and Gestede will still be here, as well as Ayew. It's not all bad.
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I've been looking at the predictions here and I just can't see where our goals are going to come from.
Probably no Kodjia, probably no Grealish, a tired Jedinak, a left back who can't defend, Gardner possibly coming in who is clearly not up to the job. Sorry to put a downer on things but I just can't see us performing the way we need to, to get a win
Ok, 3-1
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We usually concede, so that's one to them. We have a habit of getting late goals recently, so that's one for us. 0-0 draw it is then!
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1-1
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2-1 villa. Kodjia to play and get both goals
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1-1
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An away game less than an hour from my house but i can go because i'm currently up an Alp.
I don't mind Colin
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0.5. You heard it here first.
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We'll win by at least a converted tr
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I've been to 19 away games. We won two of the first three. The last sixteen have seen 13 losses and 3 draws.
I'm going on Monday. We'd better bloody win.
Can you please stop going😡Find a hobby🛶🛩🎢
Not a bad idea, although the team I play for hasn't won for 18 months and our cricket team have been relegated twice on the bounce so I'm clearly not a lucky charm!
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I've been looking at the predictions here and I just can't see where our goals are going to come from.
Probably no Kodjia, probably no Grealish, a tired Jedinak, a left back who can't defend, Gardner possibly coming in who is clearly not up to the job. Sorry to put a downer on things but I just can't see us performing the way we need to, to get a win
We've still got Adomah, McCormack will probably play as the main striker and Gestede will still be here, as well as Ayew. It's not all bad.
I hope you're right Clampy
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Difficult game this,hope we can sneak a win. 1-2 villa win.
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Cardiff's game tonight at Brighton off due to fog. They will be that bit fresher come Monday. A draw 1-1.
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Fuck's sake. For about the first time ever, the fixture list presents us with an advantage, then it takes it away again.
The idea of Jedinak playing his third game in eight days against a nicely-rested midfield does not fill me with confidence.
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Fuck's sake. For about the first time ever, the fixture list presents us with an advantage, then it takes it away again.
The idea of Jedinak playing his third game in eight days against a nicely-rested midfield does not fill me with confidence.
Time for Tshibola?
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I wish. I don't think Bruce has heard of him.
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The jammy fucks have extra days off now. We really could do with beating them and putting together a performance.
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Cardiff's game tonight at Brighton off due to fog. They will be that bit fresher come Monday. A draw 1-1.
No they will all be out on the piss and sniffing glue round the back of the station. Nailed on 5-1
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Cardiff fans on the way home after the game was called off
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02175/sheep-motorway_2175554k.jpg)
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You're a big racist, isn't it
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Caerdydd Dinas 0 Aston Fila 2
Ffwcio y Fuckers
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Gfffhhffwggogogogenelli you! As they say in Wales.
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Dim parcio, gwely a brecwast, popty ping
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Have we been invaded by people from abercomebackwards.
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I will have the leek soup, my friend will have the rarebit. There's lovely.
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Leek is called French Garlic here, Brian.
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Really need to win this but I think it will be tough. It's exactly the sort of game we need Jedinak for but I'm not sure he's up to it
If kodjia and grealish are unavailable too then that will make it tougher to get goals
Will be very happy with any sort of win here
Bunn - Hutton Chester Baker amavi - Bacuna Jedinak Gardner - adomah gestede ayew
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Need to win this. And we will.
Cardiff Reds 1 Us 2
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
well he should wear fkn shin pads then! I know the knock he got was on his thigh. But not wearing pads just seems foolishly daft to me, when you consider the intensity of the tackling in the championship and even more so in the PL.
Anyone know why he doesn't wear them? Is it because he finds it easier to control the ball, or does he really think that he's brian little or something?
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
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1-2 to go us. Tidy.
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I will have the leek soup, my friend will have the rarebit. There's lovely.
Alright, but.
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
well he should wear fkn shin pads then! I know the knock he got was on his thigh. But not wearing pads just seems foolishly daft to me, when you consider the intensity of the tackling in the championship and even more so in the PL.
Anyone know why he doesn't wear thvem? Is it because he finds it easier to control the ball, or does he really think that he's brian little or something?
He does wear them, they are just fairly small and he rolls his socks down to just above them. I remember when he first started him saying that it was something he had always done and that he was not going to change.
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1-2 to go us. Tidy.
That's would be lush.
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0-1 Get the New Year off to a good start.
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Fuck's sake. For about the first time ever, the fixture list presents us with an advantage, then it takes it away again.
The idea of Jedinak playing his third game in eight days against a nicely-rested midfield does not fill me with confidence.
Time for Tshibola?
For me Jordan Lyden would be the obvious replacement. All he needs is a chance to show Bruce what he can do.
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Rydw i'n hoffi sponcen.
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
well he should wear fkn shin pads then! I know the knock he got was on his thigh. But not wearing pads just seems foolishly daft to me, when you consider the intensity of the tackling in the championship and even more so in the PL.
Anyone know why he doesn't wear thvem? Is it because he finds it easier to control the ball, or does he really think that he's brian little or something?
He does wear them, they are just fairly small and he rolls his socks down to just above them. I remember when he first started him saying that it was something he had always done and that he was not going to change.
It is a legal requirement to wear shinpads, he would not be allowed to play if he didn't wear them!
Still looks a bit of a pratt!
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I will have the leek soup, my friend will have the rarebit. There's lovely.
Alright, but.
Sorry to be pedantic but it's butt
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Butt's not Welsh. Look you.
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Uh-oh Brian's tampin' now.
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
well he should wear fkn shin pads then! I know the knock he got was on his thigh. But not wearing pads just seems foolishly daft to me, when you consider the intensity of the tackling in the championship and even more so in the PL.
Anyone know why he doesn't wear thvem? Is it because he finds it easier to control the ball, or does he really think that he's brian little or something?
He does wear them, they are just fairly small and he rolls his socks down to just above them. I remember when he first started him saying that it was something he had always done and that he was not going to change.
It is a legal requirement to wear shinpads, he would not be allowed to play if he didn't wear them!
Still looks a bit of a pratt!
I always think you have to be consistently good when you 'look' different. He doesnt do this so I think sometime he maybe targetted for simoly being Billy Big Bollocks.
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As much as he appears objectionable he always seems to speak well of us does ol' Warnock. Doesn't like Jack, though.
Probably why Jack hobbled off last night - wants the day off on Monday as he knows he will get another kicking.
well he should wear fkn shin pads then! I know the knock he got was on his thigh. But not wearing pads just seems foolishly daft to me, when you consider the intensity of the tackling in the championship and even more so in the PL.
Anyone know why he doesn't wear thvem? Is it because he finds it easier to control the ball, or does he really think that he's brian little or something?
He does wear them, they are just fairly small and he rolls his socks down to just above them. I remember when he first started him saying that it was something he had always done and that he was not going to change.
It is a legal requirement to wear shinpads, he would not be allowed to play if he didn't wear them!
Still looks a bit of a pratt!
I always think you have to be consistently good when you 'look' different. He doesnt do this so I think sometime he maybe targetted for simoly being Billy Big Bollocks.
Targeted? He's already targeted, or have you missed all the free kicks and penalties he's won us? Every time he gets the the opposition doubles up on him, and I doubt it's anything to do with wearing small shin pads.
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
Bacuna has never done a job there.
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White boot syndrome.
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
Bacuna has never done a job there.
He's played left back a couple of times and done ok.
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2-2.
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
Cissokho would be fine at left back with amavi in front of him as he could stop at the half way line and amavi would give us natural width and and drop back to cover
I think amavi as a winger would rip most full backs in this league a new arsehole
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Looking forward to going to Cardiff tomorrow. New ground for me. Sitting in home section as Villa away tickets are hard to get. Currently Villa are 5th (play off positions) based on home results only with the same number of points earned as Newcastle (24). We are 15th based on away results only. Our away form in 2017 has got to improve (allied to strong home form) if we are to make at least the playoffs. Hopefully we can continue where we left off at QPR with another win tomorrow. UTV! VTID!
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I'd play McCormack just off Rudy. Hopefully they'll tear their old club a new asshole. Could well by Rudy's last game for the club (if he plays that is).
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Any updates on Kodjia?
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I'd go 4-4-1-1
Gollini
Hutton
Chester
Baker
Amavi
Adomah
Jedinak
Gardner
Bacuna
McCormack
Gestede
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I haven't read the rest of the thread, but I agree with Darren.
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Thought we might have a slight advantage having not played since Thursday, but typical Cardiff's game on Friday was postponed, so they haven't played since Boxing Day. Still fancy us to win by the odd goal, Ross to get the winner.
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Any updates on Kodjia?
African Nations Cup I think.
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
Cissokho would be fine at left back with amavi in front of him as he could stop at the half way line and amavi would give us natural width and and drop back to cover
I think amavi as a winger would rip most full backs in this league a new arsehole
I thought the same after the last game.
I'd go for this but put Westwood in place of the Jedinak lighthouse
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Bunn
Hutton Chester Baker Bacuna
Adomah Jedinak Tshibola Amavi
Kodija Gestede
Fairly attacking and open maybe but get the ball wide, get it in the box, cause mayhem. We simply can't "play" through any team until our midfield is sorted.
We caused all sorts of problems to Leeds once we got it into Gestede. Ok he can't hold it up and bring the midfield into play but he wins more than his fair share in the air.
(I ran out of options for left back...Bacuna could do a job there).
Cissokho would be fine at left back with amavi in front of him as he could stop at the half way line and amavi would give us natural width and and drop back to cover
I think amavi as a winger would rip most full backs in this league a new arsehole
I thought the same after the last game.
I'd go for this but put Westwood in place of the Jedinak lighthouse
Big call. If Jedinak is a lighthouse, Westwood is a siren calling all of our attacking intent to come crashing into the rocks.
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Any updates on Kodjia?
i thought that someone posted that they'd spoken to Kod and that by now he would have already headed off for the ACN camp
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Jedinak will be given a breather I'd say, maybe Amavi too. Reckon Bruce will pick the following
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Hutton, Chester, Baker, Cissokho
Adamoah, Gardner, Westwood, Bacuna
McCormack, Gestede
Fuck, that's a mid table second division side if I ever saw one. Ayew deserves to be dropped though and options are very limited.
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I'd leave the back four as it is, there's no need to change it. I reckon he'll play Jedinak and leave him out of the Spurs game instead and i'd go with Ayew alongside McCormack.
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Has anyone actually left for the ANC yet? Kodjia will probably be there on his own.
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Away win.
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Jedi looked knackered against Leeds but I can't see SB resting him against these dirty bastards!
1-2 to the good guys.
UTV!
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I'd go 4-4-1-1
Gollini
Hutton
Chester
Baker
Amavi
Adomah
Jedinak
Gardner
Bacuna
McCormack
Gestede
This for me, other than I'd replace Gaedner with Ayew
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Just bloody realised we're playing tomorrow and not today...
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FIFA 17 predicts, remarkably, an absolute dominant performance in a 5-0 away win. 20 shots on target, 5 different Villa scorers including a peach from Westwood. Only their keeper having a blinder keeps the score down to single figures.
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Get in!
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Draw written all over this. 1-1. We score then they score!
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Very tight game, Villa edging it 0-1.
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0-0 can't see any goals here
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4-1 Villa.
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Cardiff have won 4, drawn 2 and lost 6 at home. If we can't get 3 points there we may as well give up. Saying that, we've only scored 7 away from home all season. That's a shocking stat that Mr Bruce needs to rectify, hopefully starting tomorrow.
I'm still confident we'll win 2-0.
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Kodjia not allowed to play, but their Gabonese defender is available, despite the fact that Gabon's first game is a day before the Ivorians' opener.
Conclusion: Ivory Coast are c***s. I will not be buying any more ivory, just to spite them.
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Just bloody realised we're playing tomorrow and not today...
Hope you hadn't started travelling...
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Kodjia not allowed to play, but their Gabonese defender is available, despite the fact that Gabon's first game is a day before the Ivorians' opener.
Conclusion: Ivory Coast are c***s. I will not be buying any more ivory, just to spite them.
IC think they can win it
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I am tweeting Tony asking for an immediate suspension of cocoa sales in the Trinity Road and Witton Lane stands.
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I am tweeting Boris Johnson to call for a nuclear strike. In the recent words of President elect Trump, what is the point of having nuclear weapons and not using them.
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I am tweeting Boris Johnson to call for a nuclear strike. In the recent words of President elect Trump, what is the point of having nuclear weapons and not using them.
Wasn't that Teresa May?
Anyway, hope for a victory as we seem to have a decent record against the lower sides, not to hex it of course!
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Just bloody realised we're playing tomorrow and not today...
I was getting suitably tensed up too and was surprised to see so few comments on h&v.
And no Twitter team news at 2 pm.
Then it clicked ....
I'm still not sure what day of the week we're on. Is it Monday today? When do my grandchildren go back to school?
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They don't go to school any more Bernie. Two are schoolteachers, one is a dentist and the other is on Yorkshire's books as a promising opening bat. Do try to keep up.
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Just bloody realised we're playing tomorrow and not today...
Hope you hadn't started travelling...
I live only 25 mins away and can't get bloody ticket, gutted. Weather nice and sunny down here, should be good crowd . Hoping for 3 pts. They've had a nice rest and we won't be strong upfront , fingers crossed
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I'm feeling strangely confident today. I'm going for a 0-2 win. McCormack with both.
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Scrappy 2-1 away win, such is the Bruce way
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a scrappy 3 nil drubbing to us, Rab c Nesbit, A, WHO, and guy whittingham O-G
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Feeling a little bit like my comfort blanket has been taken off me now that Kodjia is not playing. Would like a 4-4-2 with Ayew-Mcormack up top 0-1 utv
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How come it's not on the box, I'm phoning Sky to complain!
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Have a feeling we'll draw this.
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No Kodjia
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Just seen the team, not feeling positive any more! Hope, rather than expect now.
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Just seen the team, not feeling positive any more! Hope, rather than expect now.
we're playing Cardiff City not Manchester City
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Just seen the team, not feeling positive any more! Hope, rather than expect now.
we're playing Cardiff City not Manchester City
That comment gets a wooo hooo smiley thing from me. we don't win this one, I want some sore bottoms.