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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: UK Redsox on August 25, 2018, 02:00:41 PM
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Green needs to go out on loan then!
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Need a win today Villa.
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Fucking Jedinak at centre-half. He won't learn, will he?
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Pleased to see Bjarnsson back.
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That looks more dynamic. I suspect the new guy fill Alberta shoes for an hour
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Fucking Jedinak at centre-half. He won't learn, will he?
He needs to play on this occasion. To deal with AERIAL threat of Dadi Bodvarsson .
Elmo as an attacking player at home to reading is so unnecessary.
Rather have Green or Adomah.
Very loyal to Elmo but he not the one to be starting this match
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Fucking Jedinak at centre-half. He won't learn, will he?
He will, but not before it's cost us points.The stubborn git.
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Fucking Jedinak at centre-half. He won't learn, will he?
He will, but not before it's cost us points.The stubborn git.
Can’t remember back to last season clearly
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C'mon Villa!! Enjoyed parts of Wednesday night, keep feeding the Kod and have a good'un Anwar.
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Is El Ghazi typically wide right or wide left?
I thought wide right, but with Elmo in the side, I assume he will play wide left (in which case do we have another player out of position!).
Not necessarily popular on here, but Whelan has been good this season and was again the other night - tough on him missing out. I think there Bjarnason could be a good player but he doesn't show it often enough for me.
His selection only works if it signals that he will get a proper run of games, if not, then the inconsistent (sometimes anonymous) performances will continue. UTV
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Jedinak again...
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Elmo at RW and Axel at RB is two wasted position, both offer very little going forward. Would rather see an out of form Albert play right.
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Disagree that Axel doesn’t offer anything going forward.
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Either way he'd be better than Jedi at CB.
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Green needs to go out on loan then!
He does. He’s been poor so can’t have any complaints.
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He's Jedinak. Miles Jedinak
I just don't think you understand
He's not a centre back
We've better for the back
?????????
I'll try finishing the rest during our bad half unless somebody cares to finish it for me.
Come on you Villa boys! 5-0 today.
FTF
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Has anybody got a link to the game?
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Is anywhere streaming AVTV?
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We need to start fast and show the same level of intensity as Wednesday night, These are the type of games we have to win comfortably to start building some confidence. For once I would like to see some nice interchanges through the center of the pitch playing off the Kodj. We have the players in Jack and McGinn to do this.
4-1 with another screw up at the back for their goal.
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Aluko and Barrow are their dangers, I feel.
I see Bacuna is playing. Will he get a decent reception, I wonder.
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Early goal for Weimann away at Swansea.
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No video from avtv
Stopped when kicked off
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Early goal for Weimann away at Swansea.
That is his fifth of the season. I think the Championship is his level. Arguably a Premier League back up/squad player.
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I thought it was just me, have they managed to successfully stream a full game yet?
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Fucking Jedinak at centre-half. He won't learn, will he?
He will, but not before it's cost us points.The stubborn git.
Before it’s costs us auto promotion.
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No video from avtv
Stopped when kicked off
It seems ok on my phone, but crap on my laptop
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How we doing? At work with only this and Twitter to keep me in touch.
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No video from avtv
Stopped when kicked off
It seems ok on my phone, but crap on my laptop
Was dead on both phone and tablet. Now working on tablet.
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How we doing? At work with only this and Twitter to keep me in touch.
Chester hit the bar apparently.
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All Villa, Reading keeper has made a few saves, Anwar with a shot wide and Chester hot the bar.
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'Commanding performance' according to SSN. Hopefully we'll get a goal to show for it soon.
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Come on Villa.
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Leeds one up.
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Leeds goal 😩.
What’s el ghazi look like. In Belgium so no chance of updates really
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No AVTV for me. Just offers commentary for some reason. Stats suggest we are well on top
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No video from avtv
Stopped when kicked off
It seems ok on my phone, but crap on my laptop
Was dead on both phone and tablet. Now working on tablet.
Not working for me on PC.
Whoever runs AVTV needs sacking. It's an utter embarrassment.
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No AVTV for me. Just offers commentary for some reason. Stats suggest we are well on top
Managed to get ipad playing after 20 mins, the rest isn't working
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No video from avtv
Stopped when kicked off
I minute in then off
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Leeds one up.
Now two up
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It's a bit like a pre-season friendly at the moment.
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Hutton's distribution is atrocious at times.
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I think we need to get together and write a letter to the new Chief Exec, and point out how his new football club can't even stream games to overseas fans on its own fucking website properly.
It's 2018, ffs.
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Why AVTV not working
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I think we need to change the thread title to The AVTV Thread.
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Well most of us have no other way of watching
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AVTV totally nothing today for me - have tried iPhone, iPad, Mac. Nothing. Can't even find the Watch button on the website. Terrible terrible product. Even worse than previous seasons, which God knows is saying something.
They should refund ALL subscribers until properly fixed.
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Well most of us have no other way of watching
Yes, but he prefers you posting about what you can't see
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Crap customer service too.
They took £6 off me last week, and I didn't even use the service.
I wrote to them and asked why. It took until today for them to reply, only to tell me that 'someone else must have bought it using my card, obviously'.
I laughed at their use of 'obviously'.
Thank you for your help, fuckers.
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I think we need to change the thread title to The AVTV Thread.
Why? The thread has no technical difficulties and is actually doing a better job at describing the game...
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Oh I don't care if it's talked about, it's obviously a problem that needs sorting. I was being facetious.
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Just came on.
I had to go out and log back in.
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Appreciate this is no one’s fault, other than AVTV, but this is one of the worst match threads ever.
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Can someone tell me about the game
30 mins in and hardly a comment
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I have no way of following the game except on here. There used to be a few people that would put the radio WM commentary on periscope last year :(
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Leeds 2 up at Norwich
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Well most of us have no other way of watching
Yes, but he prefers you posting about what you can't see
Sh
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Tuanzebe looking decent.
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We should be ahead by now.
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Score a fucking goal Villa.
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Derby 1-0 Preston.
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Some nice interplay between Kodjia and El Gharzi
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Sounds like we are struggling to break them down. Usual stuff.
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Fucking come on Villa.
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Just came on.
I had to go out and log back in.
Thanks. Helped
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It's working! Praise be!
Shit game by the looks of it.
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Our usual Bruce half.
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Cleared off the line. We were lucky there.
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Desperate defending Villa after corner
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How did we not concede there?
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Got away with one there. Goalmouth scramble from a corner.
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Score a fucking goal Villa.
It's one of those games where a goal for either side would help wake up this game.
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Bianca is at our game. She is flamin’ hot.
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Our defence from set pieces is horrible at the moment.
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3rd corner in a row reading
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This keeper doesn't like corners does he?
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This keeper doesn't like corners does he?
Neither do i
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Bacuna-range free kick for them here
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Good save
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Sounds shite.
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Well held Nyland, lad.
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What a Fcukin load of shite.
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Bit of a dull game, so far.
Reading came into it more after our decent start, and we looked a bit ponderous in the attacking third.
A pre-season feel to things at the moment.
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Fucking sort it out Villa. Reading are shit and we’re at home.
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What a Fcukin load of shite.
From what I saw (about 18 minutes in) it wasn't even that good.
Looked like 2 mediocre teams that haven't got too many attacking ideas.
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Awful, awful display of football.
Why the fuck he has sent them out to play at walking pace is beyond me.
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Usual Villa, one game we played well, now back to dross again. Wake them up Bruce, kick their backsides at half time and speed up their attacking, far to slow so far to break their defence down.
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Snodgrass starting for West Ham today. He isn't coming back is he.
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Far too slow in moving the ball. You see what a quality passer like Whelan can do to the tempo, as Thor, ok defensively, cannot pass water.
Hutton has been atrocious, Elmo just as bad. The midfield is too deep and it's been far, far too lacklustre.
Very poor.
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I think it's safe to say that was our poor half.
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Far too slow in moving the ball. You see what a quality passer like Whelan can do to the tempo, as Thor, ok defensively, cannot pass water.
Hutton has been atrocious, Elmo just as bad. The midfield is too deep and it's been far, far too lacklustre.
Very poor.
Can you expect Bruce to recognise that. He'll wait until 10 minutes to go and make changes.
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Hutton was struggling fitness wise apparently so obviously he started.
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And snodgrass isn’t coming back with Bolasie signed.
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While Elmo didn't necessarily play poorly against Brentford, or today so far, can we get a proper winger out there? It's getting ridiculous.
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Far too slow in moving the ball. You see what a quality passer like Whelan can do to the tempo, as Thor, ok defensively, cannot pass water.
Hutton has been atrocious, Elmo just as bad. The midfield is too deep and it's been far, far too lacklustre.
Very poor.
Can you expect Bruce to recognise that. He'll wait until 10 minutes to go and make changes.
Thor does provide energy in midfield and the odd goal. But I'm not convinced he is a better bet than Whelan.
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Snodgrass starting for West Ham today. He isn't coming back is he.
No, but we've now got plenty of wide men.
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I think it's safe to say that was our poor half.
We can but hope.
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Start was decent enough, but lacking a goal. As the half progressed Reading got back into it and our intensity seemed to drop off. It doesn't help that BB and Jedi give the ball away in dangerous places. Jack doesn't seem to be his usual self either.
AVTV is crap, didn't work on Brave, but was ok on Firefox.
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Seems a big crowd again. Probably a little less than 34k asbtheres one or two spares and of course the upper away end is as full as the Tilton and the lower a little more populated than the Kop, but a good crowd.
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At least our new owners are there, seing things in the flesh. The latter part of the first half was very poor, can’t comment on the first part. Thanks AVTV -
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Bruce will be delighted at that. Bit of quality in the second half and we can nick it.
One paces with zero movement off the ball. No one in the back 4 can pass out so we just pass it along before a hopeful punt in the channel to Kodjia. He may hold it up, but if he does no one has bothered to make a run and give an option.
Atrocious.
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Jack off. Conor on.
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Grealish gone off. Hourihane on instead.
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At least our new owners are there, seing things in the flesh. The latter part of the first half was very poor, can’t comment on the first part. Thanks AVTV -
Hope Bruce gets the bullet then
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Jack off. Conor on.
You can jack off if you want to over that substitution, I doubt anyone else is.
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He never makes HT subs. Is Jack injured?
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Not many ideas in the buildup
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He never makes HT subs. Is Jack injured?
Looked like he got a kick/bump in the first half - high up the thigh - maybe dead leg
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Grealish took a knock in the first half. Hope it's nothing serious.
Thor ambling about like he's stoned. Get some zest into you, Birkir.
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Yes!!!!!
Elmo!
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Great goal - cross from the 22 (can’t spell it)
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Once plan A doesn’t work which it often doesn’t with Bruce then there isn’t much of a plan beyond that. Once again massively frustrating.
Edit: Haha I knew my moaning would work ;)
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Gooooooalllllllll!!!
Elmmoooooooooo!
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Jack off. Conor on.
You can jack off if you want to over that substitution, I doubt anyone else is.
Nearly choked on my tea!
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Elmo goal. Good cross from the new boy.
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Yessss!
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Booom! Great goal!
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Well deserved 1-0
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“Maybe the floodgates will open” wow - pretty bold from the commentator seing how we play. Hope he is right
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Get in!!!
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Great goal - cross from the 22 (can’t spell it)
Haha. I had to look on Google earlier before posting.
El Ghazi
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Another half a dozen please Villa.
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Elmo goal. Good cross from the new boy.
Can’t spell the name either? ;)
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Assist from the new boy
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Jack off. Conor on.
You can jack off if you want to over that substitution, I doubt anyone else is.
Applause. Highlight of the match so far.
Oh hang on we've scored and I missed it. Barsterd!
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It was nicely worked by Hutton and Hourihane to create a bit of space for the new lad, and he put a brilliant ball in.
Very satisfying.
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AVTV is so shit, even the score doesn't update in the top left hand corner of the screen.
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Elmo goal. Good cross from the new boy.
Can’t spell the name either? ;)
Nope
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come on Villa , we need to really hammer these!
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It was nicely worked by Hutton and Hourihane to create a bit of space for the new lad, and he put a brilliant ball in.
Very satisfying.
Felt like watching it in slow-mo - no tempo, but good goal
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It was nicely worked by Hutton and Hourihane to create a bit of space for the new lad, and he put a brilliant ball in.
Very satisfying.
Felt like watching it in slow-mo - no tempo, but good goal
That was probably just AVTV buffering.
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AVTV is so shit, even the score doesn't update in the top left hand corner of the screen.
It is a hardcoded java-script haha - doesn’t take into consideration things might change
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AVTV think it's still 0-0 :)
At least the clock is working !
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AVTV is so shit, even the score doesn't update in the top left hand corner of the screen.
It is a hardcoded java-script haha - doesn’t take into consideration things might change
Haha. I hadn't thought of that.
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Even if it is crap (AVTV), I am still happy that I am able to watch part of the games
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First booking - Reading fouling BB
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Even if it is crap (AVTV), I am still happy that I am able to watch part of the games
I stupidly paid then £45 and can't get anything, do they care -- do they hell!
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After last game, where i was very impressed with Axel, he looks poor today
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The score has updated!
We're winning 1-0!
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El Assito El Goalo
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Even if it is crap (AVTV), I am still happy that I am able to watch part of the games
I stupidly paid then £45 and can't get anything, do they care -- do they hell!
I went with the montly fee of 20, if it is very crap, then i will skip.
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Some good approach vplay from El Gahzi and Kodjia there.
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sound without commentary that's a novel approach now on the audio stream
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The score has updated!
We're winning 1-0!
It happened with a complete reload, and then quality went worse - probably was a script and had to reload the service... crap!
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Even if it is crap (AVTV), I am still happy that I am able to watch part of the games
Now the score has updated, but the commentator seems to have gone for a shit.
It's laughably bad!
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Some good approach vplay from El Gahzi and Kodjia there.
Very nice, wasn't it.
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El Assito El Goalo
SCORCHIO!!!!!!
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managed to get it working on my phone, but only crowd noise - no commentary ?? Muppets!
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oops spoke to soon, nothing at all now
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Just had to refresh AVTV to get the stream back, sans commentary.
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Good break from El Ghazi, passing to JK, who then blasts from sharp angle - he is very very selfish
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There must be some way that we can collectively complain, it is beyond a joke.
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Kodjia, you greedy shit.
Nice play by Conor and El Ghazi, too.
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have we sacked the commentator, crowd doing their best to lift us shame about AVTV
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Get a second Villa.
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There must be some way that we can collectively complain, it is beyond a joke.
Send Lee Preece a complaint then it gets registered in their system and they can track it.
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Sit down, Potatohead.
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Sit down, Potatohead.
:D
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have we sacked the commentator, crowd doing their best to lift us shame about AVTV
Quite happy without the commentator who is probably lying down after his charisma by pass operation.
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We're clearly the better side, but making very heavy weather of it.
Our passing is very iffy at times.
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Albert imminent.
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I wouldn't have taken El Ghazi off.
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what's happening? AVTV Shit!
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E.G. probably rusty (was very decent, looks good signing)
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I wouldn't have taken El Ghazi off.
No but he loves Elmo
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Leeds 3 up we need to keep up with em
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Connor! YOU PYROMANIAC....
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Ooh, should have been two.
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Leeds 3 up we need to keep up with em
They won the league in July
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FK in good position - McGiniesta cross and goal? Here goes.
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AVTV circle of death in Aus. No commentary. Still we're winning.!
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Picture quality has improved since the commentator left.
Maybe they haven't got the bandwidth to cope with both?
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Hourihane has actually been positive
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Leeds are having their fair share of luck in games - Norwich should have got back to 2-1 just before half time and Swansea were mullering them the other night but let Leeds back into it.
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We're battering them now, but can't quite find the final ball.
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AVTV = pit of misery
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Leeds are having their fair share of luck in games - Norwich should have got back to 2-1 just before half time and Swansea were mullering them the other night but let Leeds back into it.
Agreed.
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The Scottish Cafu is improved immensively second half
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AVTV = pit of misery
Dilly dilly
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McGinn hasn't been great to be honest. Although he's still fab, obviously.
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The Scottish Cafu is improved immensively second half
Immensively is my new favourite word
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Dear mailbox
Do you think we should teach our players how to shoot a ball?
Frustrated Villa fan.
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The Scottish Cafu is improved immensively second half
Immensively is my new favourite word
Haha - come on - written in haste with no dictionary
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How are we playing please?
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How are we playing please?
Much better second half - look half decent - a bit wasteful with our finishing
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The Scottish Cafu is improved immensively second half
Immensively is my new favourite word
Haha - come on - written in haste with no dictionary
Though - if we all start to use it, it may be entered into the dictionary as the best word of 2018
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McGinn hasn't been great to be honest. Although he's still fab, obviously.
He is above any criticism....for now.
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Decent build-up play but no final ball
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How are we playing please?
Much better second half - look half decent - a bit wasteful with our finishing
Thanks Ed.
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I repeat get a fucking second Villa.
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Decent build-up play but no final ball
You are obviously watching the Villa.
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Holy fuck. I have literally no idea how they did not score then.
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That was ......speachless.... save of season from Nyland or bugger of the year
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How did they not score there?
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Unbelievable save from Nyland there
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Wow how did that comedy of errors not cost us a goal
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!
Nyland :)
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Fucking hell
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We’re so fucking sloppy. Score a second Villa.
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Dear God, some of our decision making in the final third is awful.
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No replay, but looked like two awesome saves after comical defending.
And JK needs to look up and stop dribling
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How are we playing please?
It’s a mess, no pattern, final ball awful and no idea how they did not equalize.
In the meantime Bruce stands there like a lemon.
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Unbelievable save from Nyland there
Yet many fans are uncertain about him, but he saved well against Brentford as well, his confidence will grow as he plays more games
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Hit the underside of the bar apparently.
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Unbelievable save from Nyland there
Yet many fans are uncertain about him, but he saved well against Brentford as well, his confidence will grow as he plays more games
Well it’s probably because they leapt to judgement after a game or two.
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Need a second not gonna keep a clean sheet
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Unbelievable save from Nyland there
Yet many fans are uncertain about him, but he saved well against Brentford as well, his confidence will grow as he plays more games
Don’t give any a chance to get settled etc - Support our players!
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Oh lack of defensive cohesion is appalling. The fact he can’t see we need another defender is just mental. Jedi is an atrocious centre half.
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We're just hoofing it away now. Composure a bit ragged.
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Hit the underside of the bar apparently.
Well thats not good enough there is no point in hitting the underside of the bar.
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As soon as we get frenetic we’re always rubbish.
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I take back my comment about McGinn. He's been great since I made it.
Works so hard.
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Fuck - commentator back - did we sub anyone last 5 mins?
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McGinn should have shot then
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BULLSHIT - a wrong penalty
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The commentator is back to do the last two minutes. That was a hell of a curry he had last night!
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Ffs.
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We're just hoofing it away now. Composure a bit ragged.
Not a word used much by a Villa defence with 10 minutes to go and one up
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Dodgy penalty to them.
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Fucking hell, Chester
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ROBBERY - FFS
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here we go! what a disaster!
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Keeper went far far too early.
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Fucks sake
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Yeah of course we don’t need anymore defenders...
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Lack of composure going forwards has cost us there.
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Bollocks decision. But even so why did Chester need to slide in. Fuck sake
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Thanks Aston Villa and AVTV for ruining my Saturday again!
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Bruce out
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Oh deary me. Too many draws again.
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Was never a penalty
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Our defence is a fucking shambles.
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Bollocks decision. But even so why did Chester need to slide in. Fuck sake
Why, oh why?
For a player with so much experience why didn't he just stand up?
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Keeper went far far too early.
More criticism of Nyland
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Bollocks decision. But even so why did Chester need to slide in. Fuck sake
Why, oh why?
For a player with so much experience why didn't he just stand up?
It looked like a stupid challenge to make.
Chester looked like a snail, pace-wise
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I hate this game
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Bollocks decision. But even so why did Chester need to slide in. Fuck sake
Why, oh why?
For a player with so much experience why didn't he just stand up?
It looked like a stupid challenge to make.
Chester looked like a snail, pace-wise
He was heading for the touchline. Going nowhere.
That spell midway through the second half was where the game should have been put to bed. Bad decisions in the last third and not clinical enough. 3 points from 9.
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Never a penalty and I couldn't see it thanks to AVTV !
Commentary came on just as the match finished too.
Rubbish all round
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Four points off the top two. Could’ve been two. Two winnable home games two points where have we heard this before?
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Wank.