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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Dave P on March 11, 2024, 08:59:34 AM
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So this game has become season defining. Lose and the season peters out and really affects England chances of top 5 getting into the Champions League.
We really need to funeral these and McGinn needs the game of his life considering he now has 3 weeks off afterwards.
Emi
Cash Longlet Pau Moreno
McGinn Luiz
Bailey Tielemans Diaby
Watkins
Early goal and 3-0 Villa. Watkins McGinn and a late Duran cameo.
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A penalty shootout victory.
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I reckon we will win 2-1.
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We often follow up a shit performance with a good 'un. I just have a feeling our distinctly average visitors Thursday will be on the end of a right caning, a backlash from Sun. 4-0
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
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Sticky please, boss...
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Need to start turning up in big games and stop shrinking.
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So this game has become season defining. Lose and the season peters out and really affects England chances of top 5 getting into the Champions League.
We really need to funeral these and McGinn needs the game of his life considering he now has 3 weeks off afterwards.
Emi
Cash Longlet Pau Moreno
McGinn Luiz
Bailey Tielemans Diaby
Watkins
Early goal and 3-0 Villa. Watkins McGinn and a late Duran cameo.
I think he will play Carlos at RCB. Any kind of win over 90 mins would be good. Early goal required or the home crowd will get a bit nervy.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
Yep losing this would be absolutely terrible for a number of reasons. I think I’d swap Diaby for Bailey but that’s it.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
Exactly.
Great idea to write Thursday off by getting beaten and then going into the West Ham game on the back of two tough defeats.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
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Im really gonna be pissed off we lose this one too. They owe us a better performance after that shit show yesterday
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
Nah, Thursday is massive. Lose that and it will feel like the wheels are off.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
You know what, fuck it. I think at this stage, this far into the two competitions in which we remain, we should just go nuts with it. Play the team that looks best in training each time and let the chips fall where they may
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
Nah, Thursday is massive. Lose that and it will feel like the wheels are off.
I think every game we have left now is massive. We are where a team of our stature should be, in a European competition and competing for CL places. We should be looking to maintain and build on that every match now
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
Correct. We're down to the bare bones already. We need to keep our best players for the league.
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Nope, full strength please, however Unai feels we can beat them, don’t care just win.
We the fans need to be a lot better as well. Both in noise terms and not fucking off early if we’re a goal down. If you want to take the glory of a 6-1 win against Brighton how about staying for the less glorious moments when the team need you.
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Martinez, Cash, Carlos, Torres, Digne, Luiz, McGinn, Tielemans, Diaby, Rogers, Watkins.
We'll win 3-2.
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Nope, full strength please, however Unai feels we can beat them, don’t care just win.
We the fans need to be a lot better as well. Both in noise terms and not fucking off early if we’re a goal down. If you want to take the glory of a 6-1 win against Brighton how about staying for the less glorious moments when the team need you.
The team need to give the crowd something to cheer about. Setting up try not to lose is never going to get people going. And if McGinn can't be arsed with staying for 90 minutes, then why should anybody else? ;)
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Full strength, or as close as, please.
We can win the whole thing, and fought like mad to qualify for Europe last season.
I'll be pissed off if we put out a weakened team with Duran, for example, up front.
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Emery didn't go full strength in Ajax , can't see him doing it on Thursday when we have a huge game on Sunday
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It’s been a well trodden path for many years us pointing out that, if you keep fucking about with kick off times and pricing the typical supporter out of the game, then don’t be surprised when the atmosphere takes a knock. You reap what you sow.
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Nope, full strength please, however Unai feels we can beat them, don’t care just win.
We the fans need to be a lot better as well. Both in noise terms and not fucking off early if we’re a goal down. If you want to take the glory of a 6-1 win against Brighton how about staying for the less glorious moments when the team need you.
Nah fuck off. This is on the players and manager who are paid bucket loads to deliver the goods . They let us down yesterday .
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No I won’t fuck off. The atmosphere has been shit at Villa Park for ages and we need to play our part. Yes the players and manager do as well I wasn’t in anyway saying they don’t.
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Martinez
Cash Konsa Torres Moreno
Luiz McGinn
Bailey Tielemans
Diaby Watkins
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The problem, is Emery's style doesn't make for an exciting spectacle quite often. Ignoring yesterday for a moment, it's made us successful which is great, but it's not the sort of football to get you off your seats. Sometimes it does, like when Bailey is driving into the box, but a 30 yard pass back to Torres to restart possession, whilst clever football that is the bedrock for how we play, it's not going to get the crowd roaring.
Personally, I don't care, as I'd much rather watch a win under any circumstances and I'm not particularly bothered about the crowd, but if you want a raucous, belligerent Villa Park driving the players on, then Emery probably isn't the manager for you.
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Martinez
Cash Konsa Carlos Torres Moreno Digne
Luiz McGinn Tim
Bailey Tielemans McGinn
Diaby Tielemans Watkins
I think that's how he'll set up, but with a slight tweak to the personnel. We need to be getting Tim up to speed, and the only way to do that is to play him in games like these. And Konsa is banned.
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The problem, is Emery's style doesn't make for an exciting spectacle quite often. Ignoring yesterday for a moment, it's made us successful which is great, but it's not the sort of football to get you off your seats. Sometimes it does, like when Bailey is driving into the box, but a 30 yard pass back to Torres to restart possession, whilst clever football that is the bedrock for how we play, it's not going to get the crowd roaring.
Personally, I don't care, as I'd much rather watch a win under any circumstances and I'm not particularly bothered about the crowd, but if you want a raucous, belligerent Villa Park driving the players on, then Emery probably isn't the manager for you.
It’s a fair challenge Risso and I know what you mean about Emerys predominant style being slow and patient and whilst like you I don’t care if that comes at the expense of raucous crowd etc etc I feel there’s a balance somewhere between the two that means you don’t end up with the hearing a pin drop moments. Maybe PW is right and the more we get treated as “customers” as opposed to “supporters” this is the natural progression. Who knows but it’s become noticeable just how quiet VP is getting on occasion.
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A small point, but the four separate stands doesn't help compared to 'bowls'. Every stand feels very distinct. I've been away to Arsenal and Spurs, and a good atmosphere there seems to spread throughout the whole ground more organically.
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A small point, but the four separate stands doesn't help compared to 'bowls'. Every stand feels very distinct. I've been away to Arsenal and Spurs, and a good atmosphere there seems to spread throughout the whole ground more organically.
Yep I’m not sure removing the away fans from the Lower north was the win we thought it was, it’s the worst part of the ground for creating atmosphere and the acoustics for the away Witton Lane section seem to dominate the ground. The Holte redesign on two tiers with its weird roof does not help us at all either.
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Watkins & Bailey need a rest so does Konsa & Luiz.
Play the fringe players
And risk following up a really really shite result with another one? Fuck that. Strongest possible side please.
the bigger game and focus should be on West Ham .
Nah, Thursday is massive. Lose that and it will feel like the wheels are off.
If you win the Conference do you get UEFA Cup / Europa League (whatever the feck they call it now)?
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A small point, but the four separate stands doesn't help compared to 'bowls'. Every stand feels very distinct. I've been away to Arsenal and Spurs, and a good atmosphere there seems to spread throughout the whole ground more organically.
It's also harder to get the Mexican wave going at our ground.
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After yesterdays debacle I can only see a season-ending loss. 0-2 And i'm normally an optimist. :(
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After yesterdays debacle I can only see a season-ending loss. 0-2 And i'm normally an optimist. :(
I think we’ll win, but if we don’t it’s far from season ending.
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We need to concentrate on the League.
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Emery didn't go full strength in Ajax , can't see him doing it on Thursday when we have a huge game on Sunday
If, as seems quite likely, we finish fifth, co-efficient points are as important as PL points if we want to be in the CL. Our biggest game of the season could well be Arsenal v Bayern or something like that.
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We need to concentrate on the League.
Yeah, concentrate on the league, finish fifth and miss out on Champions League because we threw our game in Europe. Good idea.
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If you win the Conference do you get UEFA Cup / Europa League (whatever the feck they call it now)?
Yes.
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We need to concentrate on the League.
Yeah, concentrate on the league, finish fifth and miss out on Champions League because we threw our game in Europe. Good idea.
Maybe if we had done this on Thursday we would not have had the shit show yesterday.
We can do one or the other, its probably easier to do the Conference League now but I would still rather go for 4th.
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We have to go for everything.
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We have to go for everything.
sounds like a Robbie Williams album
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Why do we have to compromise? Or have this consistent discussion of compromise? Another Brummie/British thing. When did the meek inherit the online space? So many questions.
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Martinez
Cash Konsa Carlos Torres Moreno Digne
Luiz McGinn Tim
Bailey Tielemans McGinn
Diaby Tielemans Watkins
I think that's how he'll set up, but with a slight tweak to the personnel. We need to be getting Tim up to speed, and the only way to do that is to play him in games like these. And Konsa is banned.
I would go for what Risso says, except I'd give Luiz a rest, playing McGinn instead of him. Dougie's played something ridiculous like 40+ matches this season already, and this seems like one - where Tim needs to get some gametime in and McGinn is going to be out of the team for a week or two after anyway - where it'd be easiest to give him a bit of a break.
Just realised that we're not allowed to field 2 copies of John McGinn. Bugger. It's no wonder I've never made it as a football manager. Still, if we can give Dougie a rest, I would.
Otherwise, though, go as full-strength as we can. Last weekend was a terrible result, but every club has them and we mustn't let it define the rest of the season.
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I think we need to go out there on Thursday and try to kick the ball into the net. Their net.
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I think we need to go out there on Thursday and try to kick the ball into the net. Their net.
It'll never catch on.
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I think we need to go out there on Thursday and try to kick the ball into the net. Their net.
be nice , we are currently at like 3.5 hours football now without a goal .
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This could be the best chance we ever have to win anything. If all goes well and we're playing Champions League/Europa League football regularly over the next five years then this is probably the only time we'll ever be in the last 16 of a tournament as favourites to win the thing.
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There is no game after this, that's how we should approach it. We were controlled in the first leg but meek on Sunday. Attack the Holte first, get an early goal, fans onside and get a win. Then take that feeling onto Sunday.
3-1
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At some point we are going to have to give Tim a run of games to see if he has what it takes, bang him in for this one. They would. Cometh the hour etc..
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I think we need to go out there on Thursday and try to kick the ball into the net. Their net.
be nice , we are currently at like 3.5 hours football now without a goal .
Huh?
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I think we need to go out there on Thursday and try to kick the ball into the net. Their net.
be nice , we are currently at like 3.5 hours football now without a goal .
Huh?
Ajax 0-0
Spurs 0-4
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-----------Martinez,
Cash, Carlos, Torres, Moreno
Diaby, Luiz, Iroegbunam, Bailey
McGinn, Watkins
Time for some big money signings to earn their corn.
Digne maybe needed more at West Ham. I'm sick of the sight of Tielemans so would drop him
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Tielemans doesn't seem to do average , he's either sublime or ridiculously bad.
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-----------Martinez,
Cash, Carlos, Lenglet Moreno
McGinn, Luiz, Chambers, Bailey
Tielmans, Watkins
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Just win.
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Some were saying last Thursday that we shouldn’t go full strength so we could put out a strong team for the Spurs match. Even though we did the absolute minimum to win at Ajax, it certainly didn’t pay off at the weekend. We haven’t won anything in ages. We’ll probably finish 5th or, more unlikely 6th, so go for it to try to win the conference cup. Especially without McGinn for the next 3 league matches, I really don’t fancy our chances of 4th place so, why not try to win the cup and what will be will be in the league.
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Emery didn't go full strength in Ajax , can't see him doing it on Thursday when we have a huge game on Sunday
Every cup game in every competition in every round, Tim honestly give it a rest.
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Emery didn't go full strength in Ajax , can't see him doing it on Thursday when we have a huge game on Sunday
Every cup game in every competition in every round, Tim honestly give it a rest.
Ok, fair enough.
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Must get myself a clock
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I wasn't posting on pre match threads for superstitious reasons but that's gone down the pan so here we go. A very winnable game, let's funeral these wankers and get the good times rolling again at Villa Park. I'm going and I haven't seen us lose a home match since Arsenal last season. UTFV
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0-2.
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Go for it and we will win at a canter. Play it safe and it's 50/50. Play Cash at right midfield and I'll start to cry.
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Only my second game this season, the other was 4 0 v Everton so more of the same please.
Emi
Cash
Carlos
Lenglet
Moreno
Tim
Doug
McGinn
Diaby
Ramsey
Watkins
Subs Olsen, KKH, Pau, Digne, Tielemans, Zaniolo, Rogers, Bailey, Duran, Kellyman
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Given our recently acquired propensity to ship unnecessary goals, we’ll need to come at them from the off. Three goals minimum required IMHO.
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Get at them. Spurs is over lets bounce back and focus on winning this. That will shut the spurs fans up .
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
At the nearest condiment station.
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They won 2-0 on Sunday
Hopefully they are knackered
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They won 2-0 on Sunday
Hopefully they are knackered
They drew 2-2 with Fortuna Sittard.
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
What do you mean ? Villa dont drink in town !!
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
They will be meeting up with zulus in Sherlock street after their F side and Gate 410 finish fighting with each other and then setting off for Villa Park to take over the Holte with blose.
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Sorry, but i'm going to be a misery guts and predict that we'll fuck it up. 0-1 or 1-2 aet.
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
At the nearest condiment station.
Playing the Pet Shop Boys.
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
What do you mean ? Villa dont drink in town !!
Think he must mean Lichfield town .
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Sorry, but i'm going to be a misery guts and predict that we'll fuck it up. 0-1 or 1-2 aet.
We'll only lose by one? That makes you an optimist on here atm.
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Having a drink in town beforehand. Anyone reckon their ultras will be hanging around and if so where?
No idea. If we were playing Royal Antwerp again, at least we'd know they'd be in the Jewellery Quarter.
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Sorry, but i'm going to be a misery guts and predict that we'll fuck it up. 0-1 or 1-2 aet.
We'll only lose by one? That makes you an optimist on here atm.
:-) Yes, i'll optimistically predict that we'll make it a bit hard for them to progress. Extra time likely.
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Going to be tight, but I think we'll have enough to beat them on the night.
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Europe is Emery's playground. We've got this.
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Christ sakes we could get silverware. West Ham isn’t the bigger game at all. Get behind them! Or what’s the point in even aiming to enter Europe. 1996 is a long time ago now
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At some point we are going to have to give Tim a run of games to see if he has what it takes, bang him in for this one. They would. Cometh the hour etc..
Exactly. Other clubs don't seem to make as much of a deal over blooding youngsters as us and I don't know why that is. Chuck 'em in and if they're no good fuck 'em off.
Massive game this, don't agree in the slightest with all the talk of focusing on the weekend and this being a third-rate trophy. It's our best shot at a trophy for years and we'll still have to beat some decent teams to win it. Imagine a final between Ajax and Fiorentina with us having turned our noses up at it, despite having not won anything for twenty-eight barren, miserable years.
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I think we'll win and put in a decent show. They'll all be mad with themselves after Sunday . 3-0
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Want to win this competition. Champions League positions will take care of itself.
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Want to win this competition. Champions League positions will take care of itself.
Are you a psychologist.
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Want to win this competition. Champions League positions will take care of itself.
Are you a psychologist.
No, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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Want to win this competition. Champions League positions will take care of itself.
Are you a psychologist.
No, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Quoting Immanuel Kant at well wishers so I hear. And throwing fossils at doom merchants as well! Dorset the crazy psycho (logist)
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Christ sakes we could get silverware. West Ham isn’t the bigger game at all. Get behind them! Or what’s the point in even aiming to enter Europe. 1996 is a long time ago now
Indeed. Win this, and we're 4 games from the final and hopefully winning something.
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Christ sakes we could get silverware. West Ham isn’t the bigger game at all. Get behind them! Or what’s the point in even aiming to enter Europe. 1996 is a long time ago now
Indeed. Win this, and we're 4 games from the final and hopefully winning something.
I was 12 last time we won anything. I really hope we turn up for this. I know we have been shit at times but bloody hell how far we have come!
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Christ sakes we could get silverware. West Ham isn’t the bigger game at all. Get behind them! Or what’s the point in even aiming to enter Europe. 1996 is a long time ago now
Indeed. Win this, and we're 4 games from the final and hopefully winning something.
I was 12 last time we won anything. I really hope we turn up for this. I know we have been shit at times but bloody hell how far we have come!
I was...older than that. :(
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
Was just thinking this watching the Arsenal shootout, do you let Watkins take one??
Luiz
Pau
SJM
Digne
Bailey
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
Was just thinking this watching the Arsenal shootout, do you let Watkins take one??
Luiz
Pau
SJM
Digne
Bailey
Tielemans would definitely take one.
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Im hoping the players will want to make up for that shitshow sunday
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I was wondering about Watkins too. Honestly Luiz is the only nailed on one for me. It's fine to not have your striker be the designated penalty taker, but can you have a shootout without letting him take one?
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Zaniolo
Rogers
Irogbunam
Duran
O'Reilly
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
Was just thinking this watching the Arsenal shootout, do you let Watkins take one??
Luiz
Pau
SJM
Digne
Bailey
Tielemans would definitely take one.
Good point. Swap him for Bailey.
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them?
Just no! They're tense enough even when Villa aren't involved.
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Villa, penalties and fun are three words that do not belong together.
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What are you on about? Martinez loves a shootout!
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Pens? Christ I can't see another 0-0.
But
Luiz
Tielemans
Watkins
Digne
Zaniolo
Diaby
Torres
Cash
Duran
Lenglet
Martinez
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They won 2-0 on Sunday
Hopefully they are knackered
They drew 2-2 with Fortuna Sittard.
They won 2-0 on Sunday
Hopefully they are knackered
They drew 2-2 with Fortuna Sittard.
You are right, I saw an old 2-0 against Utrecht score. After conceeding 2 hopefully they will be even more knackered.
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One thing taking Ollie out as the main penalty taker, another altogether taking him out of the top 5, that would be a huge slap, although ill have my eyes shut if it comes to this and he has to take one.
In no particular order
Luiz
Watkins
McGinn
Torres
Digne
But this cannot happen, we need to beat these feckers in normal time. 2-0 (Watkins, McGinn)
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We need this over in 90 minutes either way.
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
Was just thinking this watching the Arsenal shootout, do you let Watkins take one??
Luiz
Pau
SJM
Digne
Bailey
Tielemans would definitely take one.
Good point. Swap him for Bailey.
I can't imagine Tielemans still being on the pitch at that point.
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If it's gone to pens , something has gone badly wrong.
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Pens? Christ I can't see another 0-0.
No away goals anymore so any draw would mean penalties.
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Europe is Emery's playground. We've got this.
From Spain to Camber Sands.
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We need to go all out for this and give the fans something to go home happy with. McGinn needs to play out of his skin.
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Meatballs's skin will not be in question. Tough and leathery.
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We could do with having this won in 60-minutes and then being able to rest people for Sunday.
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We could do with having this won in 60-minutes and then being able to rest people for Sunday.
The only problem is we'd need that to be 4-5 goals in front to feel comfortable!
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At least we have Wham! on Sunday, who also will play tomorrow.
"Big Ange" had a week to set traps for us, it was an unfair playing field (literally).
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Pens? Christ I can't see another 0-0.
No away goals anymore so any draw would mean penalties.
Ah, hadn't realised that.
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If it's gone to pens , something has gone badly wrong.
Indeed!
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A message from the club:
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/12/Get-Matchday-Ready--Ajax-at-Villa-Park/
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I want to see more attacking content in this game as it wasnt great 1st leg. We certainly need to be better than we were vs spurs where we totally hopeless that 2nd half
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I want to see more attacking content in this game as it wasnt great 1st leg. We certainly need to be better than we were vs spurs where we totally hopeless that 2nd half
You make it sound like FIFA24 mate .
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If it's gone to pens , something has gone badly wrong.
Indeed!
Maybe, although 0-3 after 90 mins would be much badly wronger.
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Is there a press conference today or will it be tomorrow?
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No Ramsey again.
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Is there a press conference today or will it be tomorrow?
Yes.
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Just for fun, if this game went to penalties, which 5 players are taking them? (Ignore potential line ups and substitutions and what not)
Was just thinking this watching the Arsenal shootout, do you let Watkins take one??
Luiz
Pau
SJM
Digne
Bailey
Tielemans would definitely take one.
Good point. Swap him for Bailey.
Tielemans after 120 minutes football? He wouldn't finish the walk from the half way line.
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-----------Martinez,
Cash, Chambers, Lenglet Moreno
McGinn, Luiz, Tim, Bailey
Diaby, Watkins
Carlos out with hamstring.
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Is there a press conference today or will it be tomorrow?
Yes.
The shortest press conference video ever - 1m 34s.
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-----------Martinez,
Cash, Chambers, Lenglet Moreno
McGinn, Luiz, Tim, Bailey
Diaby, Watkins
Carlos out with hamstring.
He’s injured again?
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-----------Martinez,
Cash, Chambers, Lenglet Moreno
McGinn, Luiz, Tim, Bailey
Diaby, Watkins
Carlos out with hamstring.
He’s injured again?
My bad, old news from 3 weeks ago. That said there's still more than 24 hours to go.
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The shortest press conference video ever - 1m 34s.
Very odd. They just cut it off at a random point. Didn't look himself at all, Unai, I imagine he's taken Sunday very badly.
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The shortest press conference video ever - 1m 34s.
Very odd. They just cut it off at a random point. Didn't look himself at all, Unai, I imagine he's taken Sunday very badly.
i fear there's a limit to what he can do without midfielders. I hope he can prove me wrong. It must be tough for him!
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Villa doing the pathetic light show again. Ajax was decent pre match so I thought the club would step up.
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Villa doing the pathetic light show again. Ajax was decent pre match so I thought the club would step up.
Double price souvenir programme, free flag....on to Moscow
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Imagine going back to March last year and telling us all we'd be 4th in the Prem and one game away from a european quarter final. And we'd all be fucking miserable.
;D
Football sucks.
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Villa doing the pathetic light show again. Ajax was decent pre match so I thought the club would step up.
Received a letter just the other day
Don't seem they wanna know you no more
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Villa doing the pathetic light show again. Ajax was decent pre match so I thought the club would step up.
This made me laugh out loud just for the sheer miserableness of it.
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Imagine going back to March last year and telling us all we'd be 4th in the Prem and one game away from a european quarter final. And we'd all be fucking miserable.
;D
Football sucks.
It's a shit business.
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No Ramsey again.
Wrap him in wool ready for Sunday .
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No Ramsey again.
Wrap him in wool ready for Sunday .
which Sunday?
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Birmingham Mail says he is doubtful for Sunday but doesn’t seem to have a quote to support that.
We really need him asap!
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No Ramsey again.
Wrap him in wool ready for Sunday .
which Sunday?
the one after Saturday
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Birmingham Mail says he is doubtful for Sunday but doesn’t seem to have a quote to support that.
We really need him asap!
Emery just says he doesn't know about the weekend and they're taking it day by day.
Prediction - back for Brentford (6 April)
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Birmingham Mail says he is doubtful for Sunday but doesn’t seem to have a quote to support that.
We really need him asap!
Emery just says he doesn't know about the weekend and they're taking it day by day.
Prediction - back for Brentford (6 April)
I assume he meant month by month
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Birmingham Mail says he is doubtful for Sunday but doesn’t seem to have a quote to support that.
We really need him asap!
Emery just says he doesn't know about the weekend and they're taking it day by day.
Prediction - back for Brentford (6 April)
Things got heated on Sunday. I am sorry if I contributed.
Looking forward to this one and a great European night at Villa Park
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If there is a problem with the bones in his foot then it’s potentially a very serious issue.
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If there is a problem with the bones in his foot then it’s potentially a very serious issue.
Nobody has said that but seems a recurring issue in the foot .
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I doubt will play more than a couple of games this season.
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Emi
Cash Carlos. Torres Digne
Tim. Doug
Tielemans McGinn
Ollie Bailey
Not really many options
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If there is a problem with the bones in his foot then it’s potentially a very serious issue.
Nobody has said that but seems a recurring issue in the foot .
It was pretty obvious at the time of the injury where the problem was.
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Steve, I thought Carlos was suspended for this match?
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I’ve got it wrong, it’s Konsa that’s suspended.
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I’ve got it wrong, it’s Konsa that’s suspended.
Boll*cks, forgot about that. Oh well, at least he'll be rested for Sunday.
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Some good news for our Irish listeners (hopefully). Virgin Media are showing our game tomorrow night rather than Liverpool's.
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Anyone in need of a couple of tickets for this? I have an adult and u14 ticket going spare in the Lower Trinity.
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I just hope we go for the jugular from the start tomorrow. If we piss about and it goes to penalties, we could do an Inter.
No reason not to as our players are fresh from their stroll last Sunday!!
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We should get it wrapped up by HT if we go about our business in the manner we expect.
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We should get it wrapped up by HT if we go about our business in the manner we expect.
Agreed, Bren. No excuses.
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I’ve got it wrong, it’s Konsa that’s suspended.
Boll*cks, forgot about that. Oh well, at least he'll be rested for Sunday.
And Zaniolo is suspended, also.
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We should get it wrapped up by HT if we go about our business in the manner we expect.
This sort of doing the business comfortably early on has happened, I don’t know a couple of times in 50 years I’ve been watching Villa
We don’t do easy Street if we go through it’ll be another nailbiter no Doubt
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We should get it wrapped up by HT if we go about our business in the manner we expect.
This sort of doing the business comfortably early on has happened, I don’t know a couple of times in 50 years I’ve been watching Villa
We don’t do easy Street if we go through it’ll be another nailbiter no Doubt
And if we did wrap it up with two or three goals by half time, we'll then fall asleep at the wheel and let them score a few easy ones to spice it up a bit.
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We should get it wrapped up by HT if we go about our business in the manner we expect.
This sort of doing the business comfortably early on has happened, I don’t know a couple of times in 50 years I’ve been watching Villa
We don’t do easy Street if we go through it’ll be another nailbiter no Doubt
And if we did wrap it up with two or three goals by half time, we'll then fall asleep at the wheel and let them score a few easy ones to spice it up a bit.
Quite.
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can guarantee pens, mainly based on us driving up from Weston so a late finish will be a really late finish..
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I can't find an email sending me a ticket for this. What day did everybody get theirs?
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You’d have had it within minutes of buying it - the ticket pdf is at bottom of confirmation email.
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I canr find an email sending me a ticket for this. What day did everybody got theirs?
Yesterday.
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They've not sent me one, although I have bought ours and they're present when I check my account. I don't think youncan call the ticket office any more can you? I'll see if X works
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I'd get on the blower then, sharpish.
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Twitter/X worked inside 2 minutes! Pretty impressive that.
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Sounds like the club might be expecting a bit of trouble, as the roads are shutting much earlier than usual. 5pm rather than the usual 90 minutes before.
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Sounds like the club might be expecting a bit of trouble, as the roads are shutting much earlier than usual. 5pm rather than the usual 90 minutes before.
It's the usual European keep their lads away from normal people procedure.
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Sounds like the club might be expecting a bit of trouble, as the roads are shutting much earlier than usual. 5pm rather than the usual 90 minutes before.
It's the usual European keep their lads away from normal people procedure.
It's the condiments we need to keep them away from. Nasty business.
And we all know how much they prefer mayo to ketchup with their chips.
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No doubt we will soon see videos of the Ultras having sho much fun yesh, firing rockets around. As bemused shoppers look on.
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Sounds like the club might be expecting a bit of trouble, as the roads are shutting much earlier than usual. 5pm rather than the usual 90 minutes before.
It's the usual European keep their lads away from normal people procedure.
It's the condiments we need to keep them away from. Nasty business.
And we all know how much they prefer mayo to ketchup with their chips.
Sounds like the club might be expecting a bit of trouble, as the roads are shutting much earlier than usual. 5pm rather than the usual 90 minutes before.
It's the usual European keep their lads away from normal people procedure.
It's the condiments we need to keep them away from. Nasty business.
And we all know how much they prefer mayo to ketchup with their chips.
Filthy habit
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Moscow II
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Filthy habit
Love mayonnaise on my chips (unless they're from a fish and chip shop). Ketchup is shite, and should be reserved solely for American kids.
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Filthy habit
Love mayonnaise on my chips (unless they're from a fish and chip shop). Ketchup is shite, and should be reserved solely for American kids.
And bacon sarnies.
*chucks grenade, runs off and hides*
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Filthy habit
Love mayonnaise on my chips (unless they're from a fish and chip shop). Ketchup is shite, and should be reserved solely for American kids.
Yeah, not a fan of ketchup. Horrible stuff. Mayo is nice on chips.
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Filthy habit
Love mayonnaise on my chips (unless they're from a fish and chip shop). Ketchup is shite, and should be reserved solely for American kids.
And bacon sarnies.
*chucks grenade, runs off and hides*
Mayo on bacon sarnies??? :-\
You can't mean ketchup, that should be a crime.
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The sauce those crazy Dutch put on their frietjes is as much mayonnaise as what we put on our chips at the chippie is vinegar.
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For those of you familiar with Amsterdam, there is a chip shop on the main drag adjacent to the station that always has a queue and people walk away with cones of chips obviously. Never went there myself but what’s so special about those chips?
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The sauce those crazy Dutch put on their frietjes is as much mayonnaise as what we put on our chips at the chippie is vinegar.
They properly lash it on, most welcome when you've had a few beers and a jazz cigarette.
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For those of you familiar with Amsterdam, there is a chip shop on the main drag adjacent to the station that always has a queue and people walk away with cones of chips obviously. Never went there myself but what’s so special about those chips?
Yeah, I know exactly which one you mean
Always a big queue outside plenty of people around just buying chips in a carton, and the advertising is the greatest this, and the best ever that an award winning the other
Me and mine were over there for Alkmaar and they did imbibe
But said they were just normal chips really, nice but normal
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I have a really bad feeling about tonight.
I imagine AJAX will 'park the bus / deploy a low block' !! and look to hit us on the break.
I worry that our lethargic display last week will bite us on the arse.
disclaimer - I am still really, really pissed off about Sunday !
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For those of you familiar with Amsterdam, there is a chip shop on the main drag adjacent to the station that always has a queue and people walk away with cones of chips obviously. Never went there myself but what’s so special about those chips?
Yeah, I know exactly which one you mean
Always a big queue outside plenty of people around just buying chips in a carton, and the advertising is the greatest this, and the best ever that an award winning the other
Me and mine were over there for Alkmaar and they did imbibe
But said they were just normal chips really, nice but normal
Ah, thanks John. Looks as though I didn’t miss out on a legendary treat.
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Town is crawling with Police already
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After the away leg I was pretty confident about getting the win tonight, after watching that perfromance Sunday I'm not so confident.
A fast start and early goal would be the perfect way to get the crowd in voice.
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First goal is so important.
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Hopefully we will be at it from the off tonight. Sunday is an important game, but can't see the point of being in Europe if you aren't going to go for it. That said, I think we'll see some changes and a team something like:
Martinez, Konsa, Lenglet, Torres, Moreno, McGinn, Luiz, Tielemans, Bailey, Watkins and one of Diaby / Zaniolo or Rogers.
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Hopefully we will be at it from the off tonight. Sunday is an important game, but can't see the point of being in Europe if you aren't going to go for it. That said, I think we'll see some changes and a team something like:
Martinez, Konsa, Lenglet, Torres, Moreno, McGinn, Luiz, Tielemans, Bailey, Watkins and one of Diaby / Zaniolo or Rogers.
We definitely won't be seeing that team!
Konsa and Zaniolo are suspended.
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I expect a win in 90 mins. Sunday is gone and will concentrate minds. Onwards and upwards.
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Town is crawling with Police already
Where are they handing out tickets to Ajax fans?
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Town is crawling with Police already
I've not seen any as yet.
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2109 Ajax fans apparently.
https://www.ajaxshowtime.com/bijzaken-en-geruchten/ajax-fans-vermaken-zich-in-birmingham-bekijk-hier-fotos-en-filmpjes
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2109 Ajax fans apparently.
https://www.ajaxshowtime.com/bijzaken-en-geruchten/ajax-fans-vermaken-zich-in-birmingham-bekijk-hier-fotos-en-filmpjes
That's a really poor breakfast someone has served up for them, what will they think of us?
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Hopefully we will be at it from the off tonight. Sunday is an important game, but can't see the point of being in Europe if you aren't going to go for it. That said, I think we'll see some changes and a team something like:
Martinez, Konsa, Lenglet, Torres, Moreno, McGinn, Luiz, Tielemans, Bailey, Watkins and one of Diaby / Zaniolo or Rogers.
We definitely won't be seeing that team!
Konsa and Zaniolo are suspended.
Of course! Cash will be at RB then. .
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2109 Ajax fans apparently.
https://www.ajaxshowtime.com/bijzaken-en-geruchten/ajax-fans-vermaken-zich-in-birmingham-bekijk-hier-fotos-en-filmpjes
That's a really poor breakfast someone has served up for them, what will they think of us?
Probably too busy moaning about the lack of mayonnaise to care.
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They were blocking witton road earlier with their coach
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You just know there's an imminent post due from Small Heath with someone claiming theyve seen Ajax fans chasing da Vile all over town. But then if we are all from the shires we wouldn't be in town would we?
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I have a really bad feeling about tonight.
I imagine AJAX will 'park the bus / deploy a low block' !! and look to hit us on the break.
I worry that our lethargic display last week will bite us on the arse.
disclaimer - I am still really, really pissed off about Sunday !
I'm buzzing for tonight, I'm expecting a real 'Villa under the lights' performance and can't see anything less than a 3-0 home win.
Disclaimer: I'm even more pissed off about last Sunday than you are.
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I hope so, but as courteous hosts, I’d be surprised if we let them go home without a goal.
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Just spotted this is on Virgin Media 2 in Ireland tonight. Must have written off the Brighton game as a lost cause.
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Talking about Mat Kendrick, he's done a 15 minute podcast for Claret and Blue talking about Heroes and Villains.
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They were blocking witton road earlier with their coach
Big guy is he ?
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They were blocking witton road earlier with their coach
Big guy is he ?
Massive mate.
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So at roughly 5.30pm tonight, the club releases a load of unsold TV and LG tickets. Amateurish, to say the least.
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Just spotted this is on Virgin Media 2 in Ireland tonight. Must have written off the Brighton game as a lost cause.
Ahem, pay attention at the back. :)
Some good news for our Irish listeners (hopefully). Virgin Media are showing our game tomorrow night rather than Liverpool's.
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So at roughly 5.30pm tonight, the club releases a load of unsold TV and LG tickets. Amateurish, to say the least.
Poor show, they wouldn't make it in the airline business.
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So at roughly 5.30pm tonight, the club releases a load of unsold TV and LG tickets. Amateurish, to say the least.
I'd have gone to this match had I not thought I'd left it too late to get a ticket as they said it was sold out.
Honestly, this really is a repeat clusterfuck of getting relatively simple things badly wrong.
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So at roughly 5.30pm tonight, the club releases a load of unsold TV and LG tickets. Amateurish, to say the least.
Poor show, they wouldn't make it in the airline business.
Travel agents involved in Aston Villa ? No thanks, we've had enough of that in the past.
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Google translate of a twitter post from one of their fans :
Go into the tunnel by train, under the canal. Nothing more beautiful than an awayday to a British football cathedral. What would I like to convert after tonight. But let's not get greedy just yet, first enjoy the fact that this is given to us in this hellish poop season
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Expecting a win but my god am I nervous
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So at roughly 5.30pm tonight, the club releases a load of unsold TV and LG tickets. Amateurish, to say the least.
Poor show, they wouldn't make it in the airline business.
Travel agents involved in Aston Villa ? No thanks, we've had enough of that in the past.
Yes we invented the football league and also Benidorm