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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on September 25, 2024, 10:31:32 AM
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Sunday kick off. We don’t do clean sheets but we should have enough to beat this lot. Players rested and ready to go. 3-1 Villa.
Withe, Mortimer, McNaught for us.
Arnold Mühren for them.
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Here's to Alan Brazil being pissed off.
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If we can keep Paul Mariner quiet we should be ok.
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A Villa victory, but the media will think Ipswich deserved to win it.
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Please just stick that guitar up Ed Sheerans ass
Villa to win 2 1
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Alan Brazil to cry on live radio, again!
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Please just stick that guitar up Ed Sheerans ass
Villa to win 2 1
Preferably holding the instrument by the neck.
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Please just stick that guitar up Ed Sheerans ass
Villa to win 2 1
Preferably holding the instrument by the neck.
Sideways.
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A little concerned that injuries are biting already - 6 potentially unavailable Sunday is it? Should have enough to beat these though before 2 massive games next week when we could do with some players back.
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Them 1-3 Us
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No Eric Gates is the one to watch for
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Maybe I'm a snob but I find it difficult to get excited about games against these bumpkin/faux cockney types although I enjoyed a few trips there over the years. Add in a Sunday game and it's even more drab.
We should have more than enough but with Bayern looming large perhaps we'll be little under par which offers an opportunity for the opposition. The Manager was forthright with his assessment on both our first half performance against Wolfs and where he see the Rumbelows Cup in the order of priority so as half arsed as it was last night it will be professional, economical and effective in East Angular.
0-2
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Went there the one and only time on the opening day in 1992, 5 or 6 of us sat in the middle of the home end, was starting to get a bit niggly with the home fans until our late equaliser revealed that there were pockets of Villa fans everywhere.
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Away fans in the home ends at Villa : Fiasco, this is down to Heck's greed and selling GA+ to non-Villa fans. >:(
Villa fans in the 'home end' at away games : They were starting to get a bit niggly until it transpired there were loads of us.
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Away fans in the home ends at Villa : Fiasco, this is down to Heck's greed and selling GA+ to non-Villa fans. >:(
Villa fans in the 'home end' at away games : They were starting to get a bit niggly until it transpired there were loads of us.
I know, but I remember it was just a case of phoning them and ordering tickets, no wurzel accent required and please send them to my Birmingham address.
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Went there the one and only time on the opening day in 1992, 5 or 6 of us sat in the middle of the home end, was starting to get a bit niggly with the home fans until our late equaliser revealed that there were pockets of Villa fans everywhere.
Went there under Bruce in the Championship. Quite an easy ground to get to, a longish drive but one road all the way there. Easy to park and some decent pubs near the ground.
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A little concerned that injuries are biting already - 6 potentially unavailable Sunday is it? Should have enough to beat these though before 2 massive games next week when we could do with some players back.
6 ?
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A little concerned that injuries are biting already - 6 potentially unavailable Sunday is it? Should have enough to beat these though before 2 massive games next week when we could do with some players back.
Yes thats a valid point and one its a tad concerning. If we still had enzo and illing jr i think we would be good squad wise. The squads a but unbalanced because evn if we had illing jr we are stacked in that position same with enzo.
We desperately needed a right back
As for sundays game i we go in favourites but wont be easy. Wouldn't be suprised id this was our first draw of the season
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Well Mings and Kamara are a given at the moment, then there's Cash, JPB, SJM and probably Carlos now.
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Do we know how long Cash is out for?
And this game being on a Sunday is just annoying with the Bayern game coming up.
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Enjoy Unai proving me wrong but I’d play Barkley, Maatsen and Duran from the start in this one!
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I wouldn’t. Will be tricky defensively, but they’re pretty open to attack against.
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2-0 Villa win.
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As an adopted son of Norwich, it is incumbent on me to try even harder to make sure we batter Ipshit. I'll be honest, I don't even know how I could try harder. Or less.
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Living in London 80/81, Monday's Evening News
(and probably the Standard) printed the Division
One league table with four teams in bold lettering
........ Arsenal, Tottenham, Palace - and Ipswich. Bit
Bit short of top sides in the capital back then. So
London Ipswich it was.
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Been there a few times, once for one of the worst games I've ever seen, settled by a comedy own goal by a lad named Chris Swailes who I'd never heard of before, or since. He probably kept us up, at least temporarily. Most goals did back then.
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They've drawn three in a row. Feels very rare that promoted sides go four unbeaten at the start of a new season, so a nervy 1-0 to us I reckon.
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Martinez
Ned
Konsa,
Pau,
Digne,
Onana,
Tielemans,
Ramsey,
Rogers,
Bailey,
Watkins.
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They've drawn three in a row. Feels very rare that promoted sides go four unbeaten at the start of a new season, so a nervy 1-0 to us I reckon.
I don't have it in me to predict a clean sheet. We could have 10 Mr. Creosotes in front of the goal all stacked up and I still wouldn't predict it.
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They've drawn three in a row. Feels very rare that promoted sides go four unbeaten at the start of a new season, so a nervy 1-0 to us I reckon.
I don't have it in me to predict a clean sheet. We could have 10 Mr. Creosote's in front of the goal all stacked up and I still wouldn't predict it.
We've got less chance of a clean sheet than a man with terminal diarrhoea.
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Them 1-2 Us
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I've been there three times I think. First time was when Luc Nilis bost his leg and twice in the Championship. It's a decent away day.
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Can't see anything other than a Villa win, and convincingly too.
4-1.
FTF
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Went there the one and only time on the opening day in 1992, 5 or 6 of us sat in the middle of the home end, was starting to get a bit niggly with the home fans until our late equaliser revealed that there were pockets of Villa fans everywhere.
Dalian with the goal, God bless him.
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Went there mid 90s I think when we were fighting relegation under Brian Little. We were terrible and Villa supporters started fighting amongst themselves then got a winner in injury time through a complete defensive giveaway.
Caught the train back to London and sat with Mark Bosnich who was going out with John Fashanu.
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Caught the train back to London and sat with Mark Bosnich who was going out with John Fashanu.
Surprised that didn't make the tabloids at the time.
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Went there the one and only time on the opening day in 1992, 5 or 6 of us sat in the middle of the home end, was starting to get a bit niggly with the home fans until our late equaliser revealed that there were pockets of Villa fans everywhere.
Dalian with the goal, God bless him.
I think a few of us went to this one , also in the home end , 1-1 sunny day ,
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Caught the train back to London and sat with Mark Bosnich who was going out with John Fashanu.
Surprised that didn't make the tabloids at the time.
That reminds me to check when the new drama about Justin Fashanu is going to air, it's been in the works for a couple of years now.
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I went in the FA Cup 1996. Mark Draper scored a stunner.
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They did the treble over us in 80/81.
Fat lot of good it did them.
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I went in the FA Cup 1996. Mark Draper scored a stunner.
Not for the first time.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRli0agXwAAS_2T.jpg:large)
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Can't see anything other than a Villa win, and convincingly too.
4-1.
FTF
Hopefully, but other than against Citeh they’ve been competitive so I doubt it’ll be comfortable.
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They did the treble over us in 80/81.
Fat lot of good it did them.
i remember the FA Cup loss at their place (0-1 Mariner) & obviously that Tuesday night at B6 . Oddly i have no recollection of the league game at Portman Rd
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2-0
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I was there just after the pub bombings, the insensitive, thick straw chewers were singing, I,I,IRA, Ipswich Republican Army.
Not a happy afternoon for everyone there.
Can not remember the score , but I always look out for their score hoping the wankers are losing
Hammer the fuckers.
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Otherwise know as the David Geddis derby.
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2-0
They did the treble over us in 80/81.
Fat lot of good it did them.
i remember the FA Cup loss at their place (0-1 Mariner) & obviously that Tuesday night at B6 . Oddly i have no recollection of the league game at Portman Rd
1-0 to them in the September. We were the better side. I think Alan Brazil has mentioned they beat us three times but it meant very little by the end of the season. 😀
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A little concerned that injuries are biting already - 6 potentially unavailable Sunday is it? Should have enough to beat these though before 2 massive games next week when we could do with some players back.
Yes thats a valid point and one its a tad concerning. If we still had enzo and illing jr i think we would be good squad wise. The squads a but unbalanced because evn if we had illing jr we are stacked in that position same with enzo.
Wait, if we had Illing Jr and Enzo our squad would be fine but even more unbalanced?
The injuries we have are in areas that neither of them play in so it's not even relevant.
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Enjoy Unai proving me wrong but I’d play Barkley, Maatsen and Duran from the start in this one!
I might of agreed before the Wycombe game but Barkley and Duran choked on the night when it was their chance to show Unai they should be starting. Having said that I don't think Barkley ever thought he had been signed to start many games. More of a cover player and impact sub at which he has done great so far.
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I’m going for a draw here. They go two up in a subdued first half and we come back at the death. Goals from Ramsey and Duran.
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We'll win.
3-1
Cruising and ship an avoidable late goal.
Guessing we'll be without McGinn & Digne?
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We'll win.
3-1
Cruising and ship an avoidable late goal.
Guessing we'll be without McGinn & Digne?
Digne? Do you mean Carlos because as far as I'm aware there's no issues with Digne.
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Get in. Get the job done. Get out.
Ipswich 1.3 Aston Villa
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Can't see anything other than a comfortable win.
0-3 Onana, Watkins and Buendia (coming on from the bench). Clean sheet for Emi.
Think we will make a few changes.
Martinez
Nedjelkovic Konsa Torres Digne
Onana Barkley Tielemans
Bailey Watkins Ramsey
Bring on Duran, Buendia and maybe even Mings or Kamara to get some minutes.
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Can't see anything other than a comfortable win.
0-3 Onana, Watkins and Buendia (coming on from the bench). Clean sheet for Emi.
Think we will make a few changes.
Martinez
Nedjelkovic Konsa Torres Digne
Onana Barkley Tielemans
Bailey Watkins Ramsey
Bring on Duran, Buendia and maybe even Mings or Kamara to get some minutes.
Given Ramseys minutes are clearly being managed I'd think we'd be far more likely to see rogers start if we went with that. For what it's worth I think they'll both start and Barkley will be on the bench because I can't see us going to a 3 in midfield. Right back will be interesting because I wouldn't be shocked to see Bogarde ahead of Ned again.
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2-0
They did the treble over us in 80/81.
Fat lot of good it did them.
i remember the FA Cup loss at their place (0-1 Mariner) & obviously that Tuesday night at B6 . Oddly i have no recollection of the league game at Portman Rd
1-0 to them in the September. We were the better side. I think Alan Brazil has mentioned they beat us three times but it meant very little by the end of the season. 😀
I was at their place for the 1-0 defeat in the League. We played great. By far the better side.
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It's been a funny old season this far. Results have been excellent, performances have been sporadically brilliant but too often lacking in concentration. A statement victory against, what must be considered, relegation fodder would calm a lot of nerves and bring confidence. 5-0 would be a dream, but I can see it being 3-1 with Ipswich scoring either early doors or midway through the second half to make a nervous finish. 5-0 please Villa.
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Ah, these lot. My first ever game at Villa Park was a 1-0 defeat against them. Do have a bad feeling we might drop points here, got to be focused on this one rather than Bayern on Wednesday, can't afford to be out run and fought.
Begrudgingly I'll say 1-1.
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Last time i went there Townsend scored a stunner
I worry our guys will have one eye on Bayern and not want to miss out.
1-1
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I remember the game there in 2000 when Nilis's brief Villa career came to a sad end.
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Yep, horrific incident with Richard Wright. Lee Hendrie scored a lovely goal that day.
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There’s a good bit of complacency on here.
I hope the players are really up for it.
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Is it really complacency for fans of a Champions League team to expect to win against a newly promoted team who were in League 1 18months ago?
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There’s a good bit of complacency on here.
I hope the players are really up for it.
It's fine on here occasionally. As for the players, I'm not really sure Unai does complacency.
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There’s a good bit of complacency on here.
I hope the players are really up for it.
Famously, the players all make sure to read the H&V pre-match thread before deciding how seriously to take a fixture. It really matters to them what we losers, perverts and miscreants think about the game.
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There’s a good bit of complacency on here.
I hope the players are really up for it.
It's fine on here occasionally. As for the players, I'm not really sure Unai does complacency.
No the first half against Wolves look a bit like it, but it may have been tiredness. Unai was obviously very unhappy with that.
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There’s a good bit of complacency on here.
I hope the players are really up for it.
Famously, the players all make sure to read the H&V pre-match thread before deciding how seriously to take a fixture. It really matters to them what we losers, perverts and miscreants think about the game.
I may be all three
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Went to the cup game in 81 when a bloke I vaguely knew from school lent me the money because he had no-one to go with. We’re still good mates to this day.
And at least one more time when a geezer called Killer from Castle Vale ‘borrowed’ a lorry from his work to take about 15 of us in the back. We kept it at the bloke from the paragraph above’s house on the Friday night, and he drove it over to Killer’s house on Saturday morning, and had two accidents in the first mile of the journey. (My mate had never driven a lorry before, and hadn’t even passed his driving test). Killer was caught on CCTV taking the lorry from his workplace and got the sack on the Monday morning.
There may have been other visits that I’ve forgotten.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
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If we can keep Paul Mariner quiet we should be ok.
I want Geddes to properly celebrate when he scores.
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I think we will win comfortably. The three promoted teams look miles off it so far.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
If someone starts one. If they don't, there won't be.
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Went to the cup game in 81 when a bloke I vaguely knew from school lent me the money because he had no-one to go with. We’re still good mates to this day.
And at least one more time when a geezer called Killer from Castle Vale ‘borrowed’ a lorry from his work to take about 15 of us in the back. We kept it at the bloke from the paragraph above’s house on the Friday night, and he drove it over to Killer’s house on Saturday morning, and had two accidents in the first mile of the journey. (My mate had never driven a lorry before, and hadn’t even passed his driving test). Killer was caught on CCTV taking the lorry from his workplace and got the sack on the Monday morning.
There may have been other visits that I’ve forgotten.
And I bet we lost......
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I think we will win comfortably. The three promoted teams look miles off it so far.
Hope so, it would be nice to keep a clean sheet one day soon in the Prem .
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As I'm a Villa fan in exile ive been to Ipswich a few times over the last few years and make no mistake this is a side capable of getting results against most team so we need to be sharp and come out of the blocks quickly then rest players for BM.
A good ground for opposition fans to visit though with a big pub directly over the road from the station designated for away fans. Always has 5/6 real ales as well as the usual keg stuff and is no more than a 10 minute walk to the ground
I think Ipswich will score but Villa win 1-2 or 1-3
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Are any of the walking wounded back
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I've been to Ipswich twice.
Once for the last time we played there and all I can remember is us getting snarled up in that massive carpark for 30 years afterwards.
The other time was to sex up a cute lad from IRC back in the day. I can't remember the sex, but we ate pizza and watched Demolition Man which I do remember was awful.
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I hope you're talking about the pizza because Demolition Man is great
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Is it? :o
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It might be nostalgia, I haven't watched it in a long time
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I've been to Ipswich twice.
Once for the last time we played there and all I can remember is us getting snarled up in that massive carpark for 30 years afterwards.
The other time was to sex up a cute lad from IRC back in the day. I can't remember the sex, but we ate pizza and watched Demolition Man which I do remember was awful.
I would like to live in a world where you clean your arse with sea shells, though.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
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Went to the cup game in 81 when a bloke I vaguely knew from school lent me the money because he had no-one to go with. We’re still good mates to this day.
And at least one more time when a geezer called Killer from Castle Vale ‘borrowed’ a lorry from his work to take about 15 of us in the back. We kept it at the bloke from the paragraph above’s house on the Friday night, and he drove it over to Killer’s house on Saturday morning, and had two accidents in the first mile of the journey. (My mate had never driven a lorry before, and hadn’t even passed his driving test). Killer was caught on CCTV taking the lorry from his workplace and got the sack on the Monday morning.
There may have been other visits that I’ve forgotten.
Is Killer still alive?
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Killer is, but...
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At the risk of being old-fashioned, I think it was quite irresponsible of his parents to name him Killer.
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I've been to Ipswich twice.
Once for the last time we played there and all I can remember is us getting snarled up in that massive carpark for 30 years afterwards.
The other time was to sex up a cute lad from IRC back in the day. I can't remember the sex, but we ate pizza and watched Demolition Man which I do remember was awful.
I would like to live in a world where you clean your arse with sea shells, though.
Beach holidays with you must be an experience!
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On the subject of lorry abuse, had a mate years back that was scamming stuff off his mate's HGV and fencing it on. Obviously the company cottoned on and confronted the driver, who legged it off site driving through the barrier gate on the way out and headed home.
The police headed there to find him, which was a bigger problem as they then discovered his cannbis grow room.
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I've been to Ipswich twice.
Once for the last time we played there and all I can remember is us getting snarled up in that massive carpark for 30 years afterwards.
The other time was to sex up a cute lad from IRC back in the day. I can't remember the sex, but we ate pizza and watched Demolition Man which I do remember was awful.
err what :-\
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Is it pizza you object to, or Demolition Man? Or are you being a homophobic twat?
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Is it pizza you object to, or Demolition Man? Or are you being a homophobic twat?
Hmm, can I use 50:50 here Chris?
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Sadly, I don't think VT will be able to phone a friend.
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I've been to Ipswich twice.
Once for the last time we played there and all I can remember is us getting snarled up in that massive carpark for 30 years afterwards.
The other time was to sex up a cute lad from IRC back in the day. I can't remember the sex, but we ate pizza and watched Demolition Man which I do remember was awful.
err what :-\
Well you know what pizza is, you may love Demolition Man, or you don't know what a cute lad is.
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I think this’ll be pretty tricky. We haven’t had a league game yet where we’ve been comfortable going into the closing stages. We’re doing well, but you could look at our fixtures and say we’ve basically got what we’d expect to get. That’s not a criticism of us, we’re getting the wins we need to, scoring some lovely goals, and getting points on the board. But there will be sterner challenges ahead and we need to get much more durable when it comes to defending.
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It will be tricky. Ipswich will be bouyed after that late equaliser at Southampton. We definitely need to start defending better sooner rather than later.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
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On actual topic if any of Travis Patterson, Borland, Jimoh-Aloba or Broggio start or play any part then they should be given own thread.
Let's all do our best to keep an eye and see how or if they play again after the Wycombe match, they could have some roles to play in domestic cups or matches against teams like this Ipswich especially as the major match against Bayern Munich is coming up.
I'm not creating any threads till the start of November onwards, which leaves me in a dilemma but if people feel inclined in the meantime, threads for these players are more than welcomed. The small Scot Borland is being compared to Luka Modric!
It's a watching brief to see how many minutes these players may get in next month.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
It is a Friday, Footy.
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I remember the game there in 2000 when Nilis's brief Villa career came to a sad end.
Absolutely terrible. You could hear the bone go as he got caught. He had shown what he could do in the previous game when he scored an absolute beauty. If he had not been injured I wonder where we might have finished that season?
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
It is a Friday, Footy.
Yep, the day ends in a y.
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err what :-\
Well you know what pizza is, you may love Demolition Man, or you don't know what a cute lad is.
Demolition Man is what the Ipswich lad calls Dogtanian, so it's probably the middle one.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
"The first rule of anticipating the Bayern Munich game is..."
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
Not sure any injuries to our players tomorrow will have a big impact on any drug induced thievery and sexual exploits amongst H&Vs finest before Wednesday night.
2-1 villa, they come at us all big time Suffolk, score first, we proceed to pass them to death (Watkins, Rogers)
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
What's wrong with sexual encounters?
or drugs
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or rock and roll
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Probably a eunuch.
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Can anyone say why the Ipswich manager is apparently so highly regarded.
It’s not like he is the first British manager to take a bumpkin team from the east of the country to the PL.
Remember Lambert.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
What's wrong with sexual encounters?
or drugs
Well it's a pre match thread for a start.
And all this other chat is a bit wild to say the least!
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Can anyone say why the Ipswich manager is apparently so highly regarded.
It’s not like he is the first British manager to take a bumpkin team from the east of the country to the PL.
Remember Lambert.
Somewhat back on track
I never thought say but glad talk of Lambert
Didn't he also manage Ipswich ?
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He did. Not very successfully.
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He did. Not very successfully.
Right. He's had an interesting managerial career.
So this could be termed a Paul Lambert derby!
Lambert had major success once as a player when he won the Champions League.
Speaking of Champions League -Villa Bayern Munich thread is the Alan McInally derby!
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I was wondering as it's 5 days from half time Villa V Bayern if ever do half time predictions?
Not worth a new thread but could include half time score predictions as well as full time.
So predicting a win v Ipswich.
I'll say 1-0 half time and 3-0 full time.
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My head hurts….and no just the dodgy bottle of red I am seeing off.
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1-1 HT, 4-0 full time.
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This is the one we really show top 4 side, right from the kick of, sorry tractor boys, it has to be you.
4-0 Villa
Compensation.
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I've been wondering what the score will be after 15 minutes against West ham next season. New thread?
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He comes across as no craic at all, the Ipswich manager. Crack a smile for feck sake.
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Went to the cup game in 81 when a bloke I vaguely knew from school lent me the money because he had no-one to go with. We’re still good mates to this day.
And at least one more time when a geezer called Killer from Castle Vale ‘borrowed’ a lorry from his work to take about 15 of us in the back. We kept it at the bloke from the paragraph above’s house on the Friday night, and he drove it over to Killer’s house on Saturday morning, and had two accidents in the first mile of the journey. (My mate had never driven a lorry before, and hadn’t even passed his driving test). Killer was caught on CCTV taking the lorry from his workplace and got the sack on the Monday morning.
There may have been other visits that I’ve forgotten.
And I bet we lost......
Can’t remember. It wasn’t in such an historic season as my first visit.
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I hope you're talking about the pizza because Demolition Man is great
My missus loves it. Demolition Man that is. And pizza. But not sex. Obviously.
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Went to the cup game in 81 when a bloke I vaguely knew from school lent me the money because he had no-one to go with. We’re still good mates to this day.
And at least one more time when a geezer called Killer from Castle Vale ‘borrowed’ a lorry from his work to take about 15 of us in the back. We kept it at the bloke from the paragraph above’s house on the Friday night, and he drove it over to Killer’s house on Saturday morning, and had two accidents in the first mile of the journey. (My mate had never driven a lorry before, and hadn’t even passed his driving test). Killer was caught on CCTV taking the lorry from his workplace and got the sack on the Monday morning.
There may have been other visits that I’ve forgotten.
Is Killer still alive?
Not sure. I’d say I’ve seen him ‘fairly’ recently, but it could have been five or ten years ago.
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Killer is, but...
Nearly choked on my vape at that.
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At the risk of being old-fashioned, I think it was quite irresponsible of his parents to name him Killer.
And again!
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On the subject of lorry abuse, had a mate years back that was scamming stuff off his mate's HGV and fencing it on. Obviously the company cottoned on and confronted the driver, who legged it off site driving through the barrier gate on the way out and headed home.
The police headed there to find him, which was a bigger problem as they then discovered his cannbis grow room.
Haha!
That Lloyds bank on the island up Lea Hall was once robbed by a bloke who lived in a house about thirty yards away from it, and he ran straight home with the money. He didn’t get away with it.
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This Ipswich game is all well and good but we need talk about Bayern. Will there be an 'early' thread like we did for Young Boys of Berne.
I'm ultra excited about Bayern Munich match.
No, we don't talk about Bayern until after Ipswich because injuries, mood etc. can change. One game at at a time is good enough for Unai, it should be good enough for us.
Yet since asking for request of Bayern Munich I read people talk about being affiliated with Stealing, Drugs and Sexual encounters!!
I clearly pointed out that Killer merely borrowed the lorry for the weekend.
If it hadn’t been for an altercation between Killer and some Ipswich fans, which necessitated the opening of the roller door on the back of the lorry and us lot jumping out to remonstrate with said Tractor Boys on behalf of our friend, which led to the police becoming involved, which led to the licence plate being checked, which meant the firm that owned the lorry was informed, which led to the CCTV at the depot being watched, Killer would almost certainly still work there, model employee such as he was.
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Bit annoying this games sunday and notvtoday yhe extra days rest for munich would have been good. Cheers PL
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I hope you're talking about the pizza because Demolition Man is great
If it's got pineapple on then I'd have issues with it
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Bit late catching up on news but I see McGinn is out for this one. He's been a bit hit and miss this season, so interesting to see how we get on without him.
Irrelevant to this game but I see Mings and Kamara are supposed to be paying with the U21s this week, and all going well will be available for selection after the international break.
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Am sure it’s already been remarked upon, but it’s crazy that this game is being played Sunday and not today.
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Am sure it’s already been remarked upon, but it’s crazy that this game is being played Sunday and not today.
Yep. It certainly benefits Bayern more than us.
Nice one Premier League.
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We're playing on Wednesday so can play on Sunday with a 2 day break. Those playing today and on Tuesday in Europe get the same break. It's standard practice in the PL and has been for years.
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I’d also suggest Bayern are
Going to be playing slightly better opposition than us today in Bayer Leverkeusen so that negates the extra day imv.
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We're playing on Wednesday so can play on Sunday with a 2 day break. Those playing today and on Tuesday in Europe get the same break. It's standard practice in the PL and has been for years.
Bayern have an extra days rest before they pla us. That's what I meant.
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It’s getting a bit Jürgen Klopp around here
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
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Not really, just common sense. We played Tuesday, so a Saturday game would have spaced out the games evenly before Wednesday. Ipswich didn’t play in the week and play next Saturday.
I see our awkward cousins are at home today - maybe that’s the reason. In which case, priorities have been somewhat twisted.
Otherwise it’s purely a TV issue - but again, it just seems silly.
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
Yes it is. Though Unai wasn’t sounding too upset about that in his prezza yesterday.
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We're playing on Wednesday so can play on Sunday with a 2 day break. Those playing today and on Tuesday in Europe get the same break. It's standard practice in the PL and has been for years.
Bayern have an extra days rest before they pla us. That's what I meant.
Fairly common as well, but I don't think it makes that much difference, and most managers bring it up (like Bingo) to have it in reserve as a handy excuse should they lose.
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
Yes it is. Though Unai wasn’t sounding too upset about that in his prezza yesterday.
He has been below par but I was thinking (before his injury) that his absence in the team will be more noticeable than we imagine. Hopefully I'm wrong but we'll soon see.....
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I hope you're talking about the pizza because Demolition Man is great
My missus loves it. Demolition Man that is. And pizza. But not sex. Obviously.
They all end up like that in the end.
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Not really, just common sense. We played Tuesday, so a Saturday game would have spaced out the games evenly before Wednesday. Ipswich didn’t play in the week and play next Saturday.
I see our awkward cousins are at home today - maybe that’s the reason. In which case, priorities have been somewhat twisted.
Otherwise it’s purely a TV issue - but again, it just seems silly.
Who are our awkward cousins? And the game is away in Suffolk, there's no policing to worry about ie two local teams playing near each other at the same time. It's purely for TV.
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Not really, just common sense. We played Tuesday, so a Saturday game would have spaced out the games evenly before Wednesday. Ipswich didn’t play in the week and play next Saturday.
I see our awkward cousins are at home today - maybe that’s the reason. In which case, priorities have been somewhat twisted.
Otherwise it’s purely a TV issue - but again, it just seems silly.
Who are our awkward cousins? And the game is away in Suffolk, there's no policing to worry about ie two local teams playing near each other at the same time. It's purely for TV.
My bad - of course we’re playing away. Makes even less sense!
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
Yes it is. Though Unai wasn’t sounding too upset about that in his prezza yesterday.
He has been below par but I was thinking (before his injury) that his absence in the team will be more noticeable than we imagine. Hopefully I'm wrong but we'll soon see.....
We’ll miss his leadership at times, I think. Would have been happier with us being led out by a player with his depth of intuition of what the game was about, so to speak.
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Sorry folks, I just feel it in my water.
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Ipswich 2 Villa 1
Sorry folks, I just feel it in my water.
Sounds like a UTI, try getting some Trimethoprim.
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Ipswich 2 Villa 1
Sorry folks, I just feel it in my water.
Sounds like a UTI, try getting some Trimethoprim.
Thanks BV, will give it a try.
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We’ll miss his leadership at times, I think. Would have been happier with us being led out by a player with his depth of intuition of what the game was about, so to speak.
I think we'll be fine. We've got lots of players who are potential leaders; like Youri who has played Champions League football with two different teams, has bags of high level international experience with Belgium and actually won the FA Cup with Leicester. Torres who's got lots of European experience, and Konsa who more than knows his way around. Add in Martinez of course, and potentially Mings in a few weeks, and that's a heck of a lot of experience and ability. McGinn will still be an important squad member when he's fit, but I don't think he'll be first choice in a lot of matches.
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---------- Martinez ----------
Bogarde Konsa Torres Digne
---- Onana -- Tielemans----
Ramsey ------------ Rogers
--- Watkins ---- Bailey -----
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
I’ve read he’s out for another 3 weeks.
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I read McGinn was out for 6-8 weeks, is that correct? Hope not!
I’ve read he’s out for another 3 weeks.
Me too which means potentially for Fulham away him Mings and Kamara will all be available.
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---------- Martinez ----------
Bogarde Konsa Torres Digne
---- Onana -- Tielemans----
Ramsey ------------ Rogers
--- Watkins ---- Bailey -----
Swap Ramsey to the left, Bailey to the right and Rogers alongside Watkins and it'll be that.
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We’ll miss his leadership at times, I think. Would have been happier with us being led out by a player with his depth of intuition of what the game was about, so to speak.
I think we'll be fine. We've got lots of players who are potential leaders; like Youri who has played Champions League football with two different teams, has bags of high level international experience with Belgium and actually won the FA Cup with Leicester. Torres who's got lots of European experience, and Konsa who more than knows his way around. Add in Martinez of course, and potentially Mings in a few weeks, and that's a heck of a lot of experience and ability. McGinn will still be an important squad member when he's fit, but I don't think he'll be first choice in a lot of matches.
Yes, all true, Risso. Plus Ollie.
I also get the feeling you hint at that this break is the beginning of the end for McGinn as an automatic pick in the first eleven.
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---------- Martinez ----------
Bogarde Konsa Torres Digne
---- Onana -- Tielemans----
Ramsey ------------ Rogers
--- Watkins ---- Bailey -----
Swap Ramsey to the left, Bailey to the right and Rogers alongside Watkins and it'll be that.
If he’s fit, wouldn’t surprise me to see Carlos in at the expense of Bogarde, and Konsa at RB.
Think this game will be much tighter than it looks on paper.
Actually, think it would be a good game to start Barkley in, though I think it not especially likely.
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We’ll miss his leadership at times, I think. Would have been happier with us being led out by a player with his depth of intuition of what the game was about, so to speak.
I think we'll be fine. We've got lots of players who are potential leaders; like Youri who has played Champions League football with two different teams, has bags of high level international experience with Belgium and actually won the FA Cup with Leicester. Torres who's got lots of European experience, and Konsa who more than knows his way around. Add in Martinez of course, and potentially Mings in a few weeks, and that's a heck of a lot of experience and ability. McGinn will still be an important squad member when he's fit, but I don't think he'll be first choice in a lot of matches.
Yes, all true, Risso. Plus Ollie.
I also get the feeling you hint at that this break is the beginning of the end for McGinn as an automatic pick in the first eleven.
I think McGinn's the type that as soon as you can start to see the writing on the wall for him, he responds and ups his levels and proves his worth again.
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Our chances of winning this game have dramatically improved, now that we can't go top. (Without a cricket score)
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Who's going to be captain?
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Sorry folks, I just feel it in my water.
Entirely possible. We’ll need to be right on it to win, no defensive lapses please.
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Who's going to be captain?
It’ll be Emi.
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Who's going to be captain?
Martinez or Tielemans. A nice result puts us 2nd and the table looks good.
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Is it pizza you object to, or Demolition Man? Or are you being a homophobic twat?
…or that Dogtanian could be female?
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Who's going to be captain?
Martinez or Tielemans. A nice result puts us 2nd and the table looks good.
Does anyone think it might be Konsa? He'd be my pick.
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Who's going to be captain?
Martinez or Tielemans. A nice result puts us 2nd and the table looks good.
Does anyone think it might be Konsa? He'd be my pick.
Can't see it. Maybe Mings once he's back . Shame Mings isn't quite ready for tomorrow as this could have been billed the "Tyrone Mings Derby" . He's here, he's there
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Is it pizza you object to, or Demolition Man? Or are you being a homophobic twat?
…or that Dogtanian could be female?
He isn’t.
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I do think people’s default on gender neutral names on here is that they are male though. I do that & I’m female! I’m often surprised when I realise I’ve been reading someone’s posts for years thinking they’re a bloke & then suddenly realise they’re a woman!
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It's been pretty clear for a while that Dog is a bloke, eitherway he didn't answer the question.
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It is true, I am a man. :)
I do agree that we make assumptions that everyone is male on a football forum.
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It is true, I am a man. :)
I do agree that we make assumptions that everyone is male on a football forum.
Yes, I've been called mate a few times on here!
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It is true, I am a man. :)
I do agree that we make assumptions that everyone is male on a football forum.
I wonder what the ratio is? I always think women have something better to do with their lives than interact with some pricks on here, but understand I'm stereotyping. When I'm online and playing someone called sniperlegend4, I know that's a sad bloke with a big ego.
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It is true, I am a man. :)
I do agree that we make assumptions that everyone is male on a football forum.
Yes, I've been called mate a few times on here!
To be fair "mate" is gender neutral, albeit a bit "blokey".
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I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Ipswich 0 Villa 2. Goal in each half.
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Makes you kind of proud to think that H&V has women members before the Garrick Club.
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Reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/yZgZ1JJYisA?si=pBoz_29ls3grb7Si
"I've got another shock for you, they're in the pubs now". Fucking hell I loved Sean Lock.
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Any chance cash might play today?
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I'm a man.
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Any chance cash might play today?
He's in the training pics they put up yesterday, but doesn't look like he's outside with the team, just in the gym.
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So glad this is on tv and I haven't got to go to that utterly creepy, inbred mess of a town
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I'm going, and Ipswich isn't creepy or inbred or a particular mess.
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I like Ipswich. Not as much as Norwich, but more than Kings Lynn.
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I thought Ipswich was fine the couple of times I've had a pre match pint or three.
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Still very early in the season but looking at the table it feels like 3 points would be massive today. A loss and we allow 4 teams to keep in touch with us. A win and we're 4 points clear of 5th place.
We should really be beating them, but we should really have beaten Sheffield Utd at Christmas too.
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A clean sheet and a two or three goal winning margin should be perfectly achievable. It's what title candidates do.
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After losing their first 2 matches to Liverpool and Man City, Ipswich haven't done too badly, Kieran McKenna has done a superb job there in securing back to back promotions for the club.
Confident of a win today, as long as we don't put on a display similar to the first hour last week, gonna be interesting to see, if Unai is going to put out his strongest line up.
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Ipshit is the devil's town. Nothing good can happen there.
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A clean sheet and a two or three goal winning margin should be perfectly achievable. It's what title candidates do.
Agreed, dropping points today would leave us feeling a bit deflated despite the good start to the season.
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I'm a man.
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Blimey BV, I was hoping to keep my identity private.
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Blimey BV, I was hoping to keep my identity private.
It's okay, you're amongst friends here.
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Match them for workrate and we should be fine
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Usual lazy analysis from Alan Smith on SSN. Talking about Barkley replacing McGinn, and maybe Tielemans as an option. It’s almost as if he wasn’t playing right-midfield all season and directly replaced by Bailey when he got injured last week.
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Usual lazy analysis from Alan Smith on SSN. Talking about Barkley replacing McGinn, and maybe Tielemans as an option. It’s almost as if he wasn’t directly replaced by Bailey when he got injured last week.
Yes thought he talked a load of crap overall
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Is this game on TV anywhere?
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Is this game on TV anywhere?
Sky Sports channel 401 @ 1.00pm
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Is this game on TV anywhere?
Sky Sports channel 401 @ 1.00pm
Well fuckaduck. I genuinely didn't realise it was on TV. Ta mate.