Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on April 22, 2019, 09:44:19 PM
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http://thebirminghampress.com/2019/04/81979/
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Beautiful. I've always loved this club. It's fucking brilliant to be able to love the team as well.
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Beautiful. I've always loved this club. It's fucking brilliant to be able to love the team as well.
That one's going in my bumper book of quotes.
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Beautiful. I've always loved this club. It's fucking brilliant to be able to love the team as well.
That one's going in my bumper book of quotes.
And you're most welcome to it.
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I agree with your final assessment of the best way forward.
Super article, thank you very much!
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What’s been so great in this run is that Smith has been forced into changes and we’ve carried on winning. What I am equally confident of is that we can rest players out of choice and those that come in will do a job that maintains our form and momentum. Not saying we will beat Leeds and Norwich, but we certainly won’t recline into our shell. We have a brilliant club right now and I’m confident that if BB, Green, Davis, Hourihane etc get a start next game they will all do us proud.
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Play the strongest team and maintain the momentum. They can have a rest in the summer.
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Play the strongest team and maintain the momentum. They can have a rest in the summer.
I see the value in this, but if some Leeds twat breaks Grealish's leg I will be pining for the rest that he didn't get.
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Building the momentum means that the players are used to playing with each other, in a system they understand. Several of them are in top form at the moment and should play as often as they can. Getting injured is a risk that comes with the sport, as do bookings or sendings off. Pick the strongest team available to us, maybe make the changes after an hour if we need to.
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Building the momentum means that the players are used to playing with each other, in a system they understand. Several of them are in top form at the moment and should play as often as they can. Getting injured is a risk that comes with the sport, as do bookings or sendings off. Pick the strongest team available to us, maybe make the changes after an hour if we need to.
I totally get this, but I'm a scaredy. Rest those boys.
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"If you had asked me 11 games ago would we go and win the next 10, I would have thought you were a little bit crackers...
...It is a historical great football club and to be the first manager to have achieved it is something special but we want to continue it." Dean Smith.
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Building the momentum means that the players are used to playing with each other, in a system they understand. Several of them are in top form at the moment and should play as often as they can. Getting injured is a risk that comes with the sport, as do bookings or sendings off. Pick the strongest team available to us, maybe make the changes after an hour if we need to.
I totally get this, but I'm a scaredy. Rest those boys.
Totally understand your rationale Sexy but I like uniformity and structure. I'm a scaredy too, I worry about everything and am a glass half empty type of person. Shitting myself about the play offs and desperate to do well. I just think that Grealish and SJM, Mings (and Abraham) are talismen, when we play them, good things tend to happen.
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Building the momentum means that the players are used to playing with each other, in a system they understand. Several of them are in top form at the moment and should play as often as they can. Getting injured is a risk that comes with the sport, as do bookings or sendings off. Pick the strongest team available to us, maybe make the changes after an hour if we need to.
I totally get this, but I'm a scaredy. Rest those boys.
Totally understand your rationale Sexy but I like uniformity and structure. I'm a scaredy too, I worry about everything and am a glass half empty type of person. Shitting myself about the play offs and desperate to do well. I just think that Grealish and SJM, Mings (and Abraham) are talismen, when we play them, good things tend to happen.
I'm very on board with the 'sexy' sobriquet . All of those players are good enough to come into the side whenever they need to, momentum or otherwise.
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Fair point, I just think that we are better with them all in the side. Dean Smith knows what he's doing and I hope we are too strong for the play off sides now. Be great to get Hause back in at left back too with Axel and the Emporer in the middle.
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Fair point, I just think that we are better with them all in the side. Dean Smith knows what he's doing and I hope we are too strong for the play off sides now. Be great to get Hause back in at left back too with Axel and the Emporer in the middle.
To be honest, everything from now on in is more than I thought we deserved in Feb/March. We now deserve a big house in the fucking country. We're unstoppable unless some prick stops us.
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Fair point, I just think that we are better with them all in the side. Dean Smith knows what he's doing and I hope we are too strong for the play off sides now. Be great to get Hause back in at left back too with Axel and the Emporer in the middle.
To be honest, everything from now on in is more than I thought we deserved in Feb/March. We now deserve a big house in the fucking country. We're unstoppable unless some prick stops us.
Precisely.
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The other concern for next week is that we'll likely have to play Leeds in the final. That being so, and with Leeds' and Bielsa's reputations, you can well imagine them trying to..
a/ injure Grealish
b/ get McGinn injured/booked/sent off
c/ cripple a striker, be that Abraham and/or Kodjia
d/ wind up Mings
e/ this wasn't multiple choice so it doesn't need an 'all of the above'
Still, just fucking do the bastards. I can't stand them. And my in-laws and 50% of my colleagues will love me and I'll also be able to wind them up by saying the Villa got them promoted.
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Anwar El Ghazi, as a point of order.
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Anwar El Ghazi, as a point of order.
He's been really good too, agreed. Proving to be a top player.
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Easy to forget he’s only a few months older than Jack. He’s been instrumental in our rise.
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Really tough calls coming up for Deano in the next few matches. Rest a few players like Grealish, McGinn and Tammy, to reduce injury and suspensions chances, and risk losing momentum. Or, play the strongest side and risk injuries suspensions?
Not sure i’d Want to risk our best players against Leeds. But one thing I do know, is I trust Smith to get it right and get us promoted. Really nervous about Albion over two legs in semi, and potentially Leeds in the final.
We are head and shoulders the form team right now,
So really shouldn’t be fearing either of them.
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Didnt fulham lose their last league game before the playoffs?
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I see parallels with Game of Thrones as each of the remaining games episodes comes and goes I'm over stimulated, excited but frightened, over thinking shizzle, all the while knowing that there are more twists and turns and that there is a very high probability there will not be a happy ending (but hooked in the hope that good will triumph over evil). Leeds remind me of the White Walkers (dangerous trixy bastards) for that reason I'd let everyone who has been knocking on DS door the chance to play and save our main players for the play off and season finale/climax.
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Brilliant read Dave we are in good place at the moment let's keep the momentum going and try to win every game.
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Great read again Dave. It's an interesting situation now, keep on trying to keep the winning run continuing, or rest some players. I'm sure whatever Dean Smith does it will be the right decision.
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Beautiful. I've always loved this club. It's fucking brilliant to be able to love the team as well.
That one's going in my bumper book of quotes.
And you're most welcome to it.
It's a good redirection of the age-old parent to teenage child "I'll always love you but right now I really don't like you" after the latter has had a house party and wrecked the gaff to go with the five years of sloth and sulkiness. Who'd be a Villan/Mama?
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Didnt fulham lose their last league game before the playoffs?
yes - vs Small Heath. They lost the first play off leg too.
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Didnt fulham lose their last league game before the playoffs?
yes - vs Small Heath. They lost the first play off leg too.
Huddersfield also lost at Small Heath the year before, then went on to win the play offs.
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Easy to forget he’s only a few months older than Jack. He’s been instrumental in our rise.
And funny to think he didn't even make the bench in Smith's first game in charge.
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I'm glad we didn't make a big thing out of breaking the consecutive wins record, that stuff is liable to bite you in the behind. I remember Gregory calling his merry team of all-English men into a photo call on the pitch at The Dell after we had started 1998/99 12 games unbeaten.
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"Immortality is always worth having." It is, and as a team they're playing like people that want to be remembered, like this matters.
As a contrasting aside, my facebook memories reminded me that 3 years ago this very day, I celebrated seeing us score our 23rd goal of the season, the same number of goals we've currently scored since the beginning of last month. I wouldn't mind betting on which of the two line-ups I'll more readily recall in another three years' time.