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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Olneythelonely on January 23, 2025, 04:06:15 PM
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Could be down to bear bones for this one. Still, they’re rubbish, we should do them.
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We shouldn't be to bare bones though as surely garcia and malen will be on bench so thats very welcome
Also might be a chance mcginns back?
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Probably won't be done, but I would start Malen.
Home game so seeing one of the new players will lift the crowd from the start after the disappointment of mid-week.
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Probably won't be done, but I would start Malen.
Home game so seeing one of the new players will lift the crowd from the start after the disappointment of last week.
I'd be amazed if he doesn't play some part (and disappointed if we see Bailey start).
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We've lost the league game after the last 2 CL Aways, and the players will have BOTH eyes on the Celtic game. Will be amazed if we even get a point out of this one.
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Could see Buendia and Ramsey starting this
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Could be down to bear bones for this one. Still, they’re rubbish, we should do them.
Why bare bones? Have we got new injuries/suspensions?
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Could be down to bear bones for this one. Still, they’re rubbish, we should do them.
Why bare bones? Have we got new injuries/suspensions?
Just thought that there were some proper walking wounded on Tuesday. We’ve got 2 fit centre halves and 3 midfielders out. Maybe bare bones (or bear bones as I said - idiot) isn’t quite the case but we could do with some players back.
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Thank You.
430pm Super Sunday game. First time this season Villa get top billing.
Francisco Martín "Pako" Ayestarán Barandiarán Assistant Head Coach be running things from the touchline. Emery suspended.
Emery record at home v West Ham 3 wins (2 Villa, 1 Arsenal)
Emery record v Potter 2 wins from 2
In the FA Cup game when upped the tempo and quality West Ham couldn't cope. I think only managed 30 or so minutes of decent play but that was enough and would again for two goals and go for a win but this time a clean sheet.
I would start Watkins he has scored 3 goals and 1 assist home and away last 4 Prem matches.
And has 3 goals in 4 at home in the Prem against West Ham.
I'd start Maatsen in this one but I think he'll play Digne.
And I think Bogarde will get some minutes.
2-0
Watkins and Ramsey
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On that subject - We play on Tuesday, then have to push our league game all the way back to last billing on the Sunday, before a critical midweek Champions League game?!
Why the fuck has Villa v West Ham even been selected for primetime weekend telly? Must be a shite week for fixtures! Thanks very much Sky!
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On that subject - We play on Tuesday, then have to push our league game all the way back to last billing on the Sunday, before a critical midweek Champions League game?!
Why the fuck has Villa v West Ham even been selected for primetime weekend telly? Must be a shite week for fixtures! Thanks very much Sky!
Man City got the advantage and have the 530pm Saturday match. Yet they played yesterday.
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On that subject - We play on Tuesday, then have to push our league game all the way back to last billing on the Sunday, before a critical midweek Champions League game?!
Why the fuck has Villa v West Ham even been selected for primetime weekend telly? Must be a shite week for fixtures! Thanks very much Sky!
Man City got the advantage and have the 530pm Saturday match. Yet they played yesterday.
It also means that we have an extra two days of rest before Wet Ham in what is also an important game for us.
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As the late Queen used to say, 'recollections may vary'. The FA Cup game changed when they lost Fullkrug then Summerville, this a team without Antonio (get well soon) and Bowen. Danny Ings, even with his new hair was never going to scare us. I'd have a lot more sympathy for West Ham if they didn't have a nonce's anthem as their own.
Unai needs to get the lads moving as they're like statues half the time. Ideally McGinn will be back to bring some much needed energy to the midfield. Obviously Bailey doesn't start, it's a toss up between world class, international class, top PL goalscorer, Ollie Watkins or sulky, childlike Jhon Duran. Not sure I would play Rogers, R9 or infuriating are his two levels but I'm pretty sure Unai will play him.
Looking forward to seeing a right winger in a Villa shirt for the first time this season, welcome Donyell Malen. More than anything I'm looking forward to 3 points. We should be beating teams like West Ham at home and need to stay in with the top 7 pack.
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Whoever starts up front I guess the other starts Wednesday.
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Whoever starts up front I guess the other starts Wednesday.
I think Emery still sees Watkins as a safer bet in the bigger games against better opponents, so will start him v West Ham and Duran will start v Celtic.
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The Celtic game is far bigger than the Spammers but I agree with you to expect Watkins against West Ham, Duran Celtic.
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The Celtic game is far bigger than the Spammers but I agree with you to expect Watkins against West Ham, Duran Celtic.
It is in my mind too, but for Unai I'm not so sure!
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Watkins will start both
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The Celtic game is far bigger than the Spammers but I agree with you to expect Watkins against West Ham, Duran Celtic.
It is in my mind too, but for Unai I'm not so sure!
Rubs side of face, thinks about it.."I am only focused on winning the next game".
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The Celtic game is far bigger than the Spammers but I agree with you to expect Watkins against West Ham, Duran Celtic.
It is in my mind too, but for Unai I'm not so sure!
Rubs side of face, thinks about it.."I am only focused on winning the next game".
😂
Taps forehead and considers, who is ready mentally “we want it, we need it”
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Amazing that we all spend hours of our lives on here yet without looking it up or FV telling us, how many of us would have been able to name Unai's assistant who will be running the show on Sunday?!
I can picture his bald head and now that I've seen his name written down it makes sense but would never have been able to come up with it independently. It's terrible fandom and I apologise.
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Please no bailey , im done with him , if he scores his confidence will come back , well it didnt happen and sick of him losing the ball and then falling over like he is hurt so please MALEN.
Id go with with JJ and Buendia and give Rogers a break and Duran up front to wind the hammers up.
Will Garcia be on the bench?
can Mcphee start earning his money too .. we are absolutely rubbish at corners , we was doing that near post corner for ages and think we scored one goal from about 6400 corners and now gone to dropping it in the goalies hand and then better teams will then hit us on the break so pease sort the fucker out.
anyway 3 0 Villa
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I could've named him. I still wouldn't be able to pick him out of a photo frame.
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Sunday 26th, 16.30 kick off.
3-1
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West Ham are poor and have little left to play for now , 2-0
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West Ham are poor and have little left to play for now , 2-0
They’ve just hired a new manager.
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What is this? There’s already a thread!
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What is this? There’s already a thread!
Is there?
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West Ham are poor and have little left to play for now , 2-0
They’ve just hired a new manager.
And we already flattened the bounce
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Every PL side still has something to play for.
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I dnt think any need for my name in title thread though!
I just requested for a thread.
We need to create a system. Around 70 to 90 hours before next match the pre match thread to be in place
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Every PL side still has something to play for.
I'd say highly unlikely to get top 7 and not going down. A squad that needs a clear out and rebuild I can see them simply muddling along until May and then Potter can really get to work.
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Footyvill at the start threw me when I was scanning for a thread!
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Every PL side still has something to play for.
I'd say highly unlikely to get top 7 and not going down. A squad that needs a clear out and rebuild I can see them simply muddling along until May and then Potter can really get to work.
Can be as low as 9th and even 10th depending on trophy winners.
3 wins in a row they are eyeing Europe, 3 defeats in a row they'll be peeking over their shoulders.
And that's before playing for their futures with a new manager.
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Every PL side still has something to play for.
I'd say highly unlikely to get top 7 and not going down. A squad that needs a clear out and rebuild I can see them simply muddling along until May and then Potter can really get to work.
Can be as low as 9th and even 10th depending on trophy winners.
3 wins in a row they are eyeing Europe, 3 defeats in a row they'll be peeking over their shoulders.
And that's before playing for their futures with a new manager.
True, just don't see it happening though unless they have a great January window including signing a decent striker . They've got plenty of dead wood that need moving on too.
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I dnt think any need for my name in title thread though!
I just requested for a thread.
We need to create a system. Around 70 to 90 hours before next match the pre match thread to be in place
I’ve taken it off, was just a little joke.
I’d like you to make the next one though, if it’s not around when you next want it. It might be just the thing we need as a good omen.
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0-2.
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I dnt think any need for my name in title thread though!
I just requested for a thread.
We need to create a system. Around 70 to 90 hours before next match the pre match thread to be in place
I’ve taken it off, was just a little joke.
I’d like you to make the next one though, if it’s not around when you next want it. It might be just the thing we need as a good omen.
Well I'm not sure on such responsibilities.
Btw did you know the West Ham forum called Knees Up Mother Brown started their pre match thread on Sunday Jan 19, 2025 9:57 am.
A full week before the game.
https://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190013&start=60
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I dnt think any need for my name in title thread though!
I just requested for a thread.
We need to create a system. Around 70 to 90 hours before next match the pre match thread to be in place
I’ve taken it off, was just a little joke.
I’d like you to make the next one though, if it’s not around when you next want it. It might be just the thing we need as a good omen.
Well I'm not sure on such responsibilities.
Btw did you know the West Ham forum called Knees Up Mother Brown started their pre match thread on Sunday Jan 19, 2025 9:57 am.
A full week before the game.
https://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190013&start=60
They didn't have a midweek game though so can see why .
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Reaction to Unai being really pissed off?
3-1 (Watkins, Duran, Ramsey)
Martinez
Cash
Konsa
Mings
Mastsen
Kamara
Tielemans
Ramsey
Watkins
Rogers
Beundia
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Reaction to Unai being really pissed off?
3-1 (Watkins, Duran, Ramsey)
Martinez
Cash
Konsa
Mings
Mastsen
Kamara
Tielemans
Ramsey
Watkins
Rogers
Beundia
Id start Duran over Watkins anyway. Ramsey to come back in. Maybe give Bogarde a go next to Kamara. We really don't have that many options to rotate a clearly fatigued team in Monaco. Tielemans, Rogers, Watkins off bench is still strong.
Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Digne, Kamara, Bogarde, Malen, Buendia, Ramsey, Duran.
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Maatsen has shown he's not ready for this league . Keep him out .
Bailey 2.0 , please no . I'd rest Watkins and let JD have another go .
--------- Martinez -----------
Cash Konsa Mings Digne
-- Kamara -- Tielemans--
Ramsey ------------ Rogers
---Malen ----- Duran -------
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West Ham are poor and have little left to play for now , 2-0
They’ve just hired a new manager.
And we already flattened the bounce
Well he’d been in charge a day.
In any case if we play well we’ll win, if we play like we did against Monaco we likely won’t.
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2-2 with us scoring a late equaliser.
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3-1 I hope Malen and Duran start for this one.
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Thinking about this a bit more I'd give Rogers a rest and keep him on ice for the Celtic game .
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Like many, I have supported Bailey through 'thick and thin' but enough is enough. Has to be dropped against West Ham..
Last season he was our Mo Salah, this season he is our Mo Farah. Running around in circles!! He has lost all confidence, pace and his positional sense is disruptive to the team. I sometimes think he is hiding from the ball. Must do Unai's nut in.
One thing I noticed about Liverpool is Mo Salah is often their 'out ball' from defence. He stays higher up the field than any other Liverpool player and always out towards the right touch line. With haste, the ball is either hoofed in his general direction, or if a Liverpool player has a bit more time, a precision pass to him follows. Salah has space, then a 'charge of the light brigade' from the rest.
One thing I noticed about Villa, is that we dither and fart around with the ball at the back and by the time it reaches Bailey he is suffocated by defenders.
Yes, Bailey has been playing shyte but perhaps we are doing him no favours. He could be our 'out ball' with either Watkins or Duran dropping a bit deeper when we are defending.
Just a thought.
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3-1 win.
They'll score with their first shot on target within 10 minutes, we'll come out 2nd half and smash 'em.
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Yeah drop bailey for sure. His performance vs monaco was pathetic. Its not the first either.
I think unai is losing patience with him too tbh
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4.30pm on a Sunday - result 0-0
Duran and Malen to both start the game.
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I don't think there's a chance that Duran and Malen both start, though I can see them both getting minutes.
Tricky game (aren't they all these days?) but we're on the second longest unbeaten home run in the Premier League and that will continue.
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Like many, I have supported Bailey through 'thick and thin' but enough is enough. Has to be dropped against West Ham..
Last season he was our Mo Salah, this season he is our Mo Farah. Running around in circles!! He has lost all confidence, pace and his positional sense is disruptive to the team. I sometimes think he is hiding from the ball. Must do Unai's nut in.
One thing I noticed about Liverpool is Mo Salah is often their 'out ball' from defence. He stays higher up the field than any other Liverpool player and always out towards the right touch line. With haste, the ball is either hoofed in his general direction, or if a Liverpool player has a bit more time, a precision pass to him follows. Salah has space, then a 'charge of the light brigade' from the rest.
One thing I noticed about Villa, is that we dither and fart around with the ball at the back and by the time it reaches Bailey he is suffocated by defenders.
Yes, Bailey has been playing shyte but perhaps we are doing him no favours. He could be our 'out ball' with either Watkins or Duran dropping a bit deeper when we are defending.
Just a thought.
If he had the timing, skill strength confidence and bravery of Mo Salah it would work brilliantly.
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Like many, I have supported Bailey through 'thick and thin' but enough is enough. Has to be dropped against West Ham..
Last season he was our Mo Salah, this season he is our Mo Farah. Running around in circles!! He has lost all confidence, pace and his positional sense is disruptive to the team. I sometimes think he is hiding from the ball. Must do Unai's nut in.
One thing I noticed about Liverpool is Mo Salah is often their 'out ball' from defence. He stays higher up the field than any other Liverpool player and always out towards the right touch line. With haste, the ball is either hoofed in his general direction, or if a Liverpool player has a bit more time, a precision pass to him follows. Salah has space, then a 'charge of the light brigade' from the rest.
One thing I noticed about Villa, is that we dither and fart around with the ball at the back and by the time it reaches Bailey he is suffocated by defenders.
Yes, Bailey has been playing shyte but perhaps we are doing him no favours. He could be our 'out ball' with either Watkins or Duran dropping a bit deeper when we are defending.
Just a thought.
One thing we lack in abundance in our team is pace . And pace as we know is deadly in this league .
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Ok can anyone name some one who has Played for Villa and West Ham?
I'll go first- Danny Ings!
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Ok can anyone name some one who has Played for Villa and West Ham?
I'll go first- Danny Ings!
Nigel reo coker
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Frank McAvennie, Joe Cole, Carlton Cole. West Ham had the better versions of all 3.
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We had a better version of John Carew though!
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Mervyn Day
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Ok can anyone name some one who has Played for Villa and West Ham?
I'll go first- Danny Ings!
Der Hammer
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Like many, I have supported Bailey through 'thick and thin' but enough is enough. Has to be dropped against West Ham..
Last season he was our Mo Salah, this season he is our Mo Farah. Running around in circles!! He has lost all confidence, pace and his positional sense is disruptive to the team. I sometimes think he is hiding from the ball. Must do Unai's nut in.
One thing I noticed about Liverpool is Mo Salah is often their 'out ball' from defence. He stays higher up the field than any other Liverpool player and always out towards the right touch line. With haste, the ball is either hoofed in his general direction, or if a Liverpool player has a bit more time, a precision pass to him follows. Salah has space, then a 'charge of the light brigade' from the rest.
One thing I noticed about Villa, is that we dither and fart around with the ball at the back and by the time it reaches Bailey he is suffocated by defenders.
Yes, Bailey has been playing shyte but perhaps we are doing him no favours. He could be our 'out ball' with either Watkins or Duran dropping a bit deeper when we are defending.
Just a thought.
If he had the timing, skill strength confidence and bravery of Mo Salah it would work brilliantly.
He did last season.
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Curbishley.
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Harewood
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Stewart Downing
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Snodgrass
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David Unsworth, David James, Robbie Keane
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Stewart Downing
Don't remember him going to West Ham.
James Collins?
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Stewart Downing
Don't remember him going to West Ham.
James Collins?
After Liverpool for 2 years.
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Marlon Harewood, Joe Cole, Frank McAvennie, John Carew.
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The legend that is David Unsworth.
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Was the question who’s played? Unsworth is out.
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Going back further (answers from "Villa Enyclopaedia") and excluding reserves, WW2 "guests" and trialists:
L Askew, Franz Carr, Gary Charles, Mervyn Day, J Eccles, Ray Houghton, Kyle, FH Norris, Liam Ridgewell, AJ Scott, Les Sealey, TC Southren, Phil Woosnam.
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Was the question who’s played? Unsworth is out.
Yeah, I just had to mention him.
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Bowen and Summerville both possible for Sunday. I'd like to add the former to the list.
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Blimey, I'm so old I saw Phil Woosnam play for us! Helped organise the NASL in the US...
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Bad news for us if Bowen is back. Wish we could buy him.
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Great news that our skipper is back and in contention for Sunday
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Sounds like they are rushing bowen back tbh.
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If Bowen is back then without being a bit of a twat I'd stick some right meaty challenges in on him because there's no way he's fit and confident after breaking his foot.
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I'd rest Watkins and Rogers in preparation for Weds.
Emi
Cash
Konsa
Mings
Digne
Youri
Kamara
McGinn
Malen
Ramsey
Duran
Subs Olsen Ned Maatsen Bogarde Garcia Buendia Bailey Watkins Rogers
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If Bowen is back then without being a bit of a twat I'd stick some right meaty challenges in on him because there's no way he's fit and confident after breaking his foot.
Carlos will sort him..... ;-)
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Sounds like they are rushing bowen back tbh.
Potter said the exact opposite of that.
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Sounds like they are rushing bowen back tbh.
Potter said the exact opposite of that.
Pretty much they will see for both as they don't want to rush them back. They might be on the bench I suspect.
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Carlton Cole (aka Can't Control) .
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Carlton Cole
I think you meant to put this in the transfer thread.
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We have to win this comfortably and put down a matker for Wednesday, no excuses!
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Keep your eyes on the trains on Sunday. Overhead wires are down in Four Oaks. Will be quite the job to have the Cross City North back up and running for the game.
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Carlos Sanchez also
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4-1
Fuck 'em.
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Bad news for us if Bowen is back. Wish we could buy him.
Doubt he will start been out too long , might make the bench at a push
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Bad news for us if Bowen is back. Wish we could buy him.
He's a decent enough player, but he's nowhere near good-looking enough to play for us. He looks like an out-of-shape boiled egg. No thanks, we have McGinn.
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Carlos Sanchez also
Gosh i forgot about him
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Carlos Sanchez also
Gosh i forgot about him
The worst player I've ever seen. Arsenal 5 - Villa 0. Genuinely, never seen anyone worse.
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Carlos Sanchez also
Gosh i forgot about him
The worst player I've ever seen. Arsenal 5 - Villa 0. Genuinely, never seen anyone worse.
I saw him walking down the high street with his entourage one Sunday night while I was out walking the dog . There must have been about 30 of them, agents , flunkies , women , kids , it was quite a sight .
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
I was going to say 'Carlos Gill' but wasn't that Carles or summat? It's close enough.
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
Carlos Cuellar. Not that great but better than Diego.
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
I was going to say 'Carlos Gill' but wasn't that Carles or summat? It's close enough.
Not sure he crosses the threshold of “good”.
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
Carlos Cuellar. Not that great but better than Diego.
The Jackal
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Probably diverts into a question of have we ever had a good player called Carlos?
I was going to say 'Carlos Gill' but wasn't that Carles or summat? It's close enough.
Not sure he crosses the threshold of “good”.
He certainly doesn't, all fart and no shit as he was aptly described at the time. Cuellar was shite too, Konsa playing at RB bring back memories of Cuellar's struggles with the ball at his feet.
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3.0 Villa
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A YT video of Carles Gil would be good fun. He only scored three goals for us, but they were all absolute belters!
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3-1
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Win. I fancy Malan to start, think Buendia will get a start too, maybe even Bogarde replacing Tileman's to give him a breather.
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Keep your eyes on the trains on Sunday. Overhead wires are down in Four Oaks. Will be quite the job to have the Cross City North back up and running for the game.
Just checked and trains are running today but planned engineering work means nothing running on the cross city line south of the city tomorrow.
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Keep your eyes on the trains on Sunday. Overhead wires are down in Four Oaks. Will be quite the job to have the Cross City North back up and running for the game.
Just checked and trains are running today but planned engineering work means nothing running on the cross city line south of the city tomorrow.
😡
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4 points behind Bournmouth now. We really cannot afford to lose tomorrow as we will drift off the top 7. A great opportunity to close gap on forest and chelsea
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A draw's a problem too. We need a run of wins to break into and then consolidate in the top five. Not sure we have it in us right now. Maybe if Malen hits the ground running.
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Play Durán from the start. The opposition are in awe of him.
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Play Durán from the start. The opposition are in awe of him.
They're not at all, and he's often a tactical liability. Ollie needs to start, his goal record is frankly ridiculous
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Play Durán from the start. The opposition are in awe of him.
They're not at all, and he's often a tactical liability. Ollie needs to start, his goal record is frankly ridiculous
See The Athletic video on the Duran thread. There's a reason nobody is laughing at us asking for £100m.
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Play Durán from the start. The opposition are in awe of him.
They're not at all, and he's often a tactical liability. Ollie needs to start, his goal record is frankly ridiculous
So Duran scoring 7 in 600 minutes is not frankly ridiculous, but Ollie scoring 10 in 1540 minutes is? He has also scored in all the games he has started in this season apart from the Newcastle match, but then we know why for that one.
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A draw's a problem too. We need a run of wins to break into and then consolidate in the top five. Not sure we have it in us right now. Maybe if Malen hits the ground running.
We've the second longest unbeaten home run in the Premier League. Our one home defeat was to Arsenal in August. We beat this lot a couple of weeks ago in the Cup. Our home form is WWWDWW.
Of course we have it in us.
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When was the last time we won really convincingly? I’d love to see that today.
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I've never been this late with a prediction and yesterday's games have put a different slant on things. In an up and down season you'd guess that we'd beat them once in two meetings at home but I'm going for twice. They have Bowens Coaches back but then we could have SJM and our home record is good.
I hate games at this time, leaving the house at 2 on a wet cold Sunday afternoon isn't right, and I'm driving so alcohol can't help but it will be worth it. We'll keep plugging away in the league.
4-1
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Must win if we gave any ambition for CL next season.
If not mid table mediocrity beckons.
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I’m hoping the fact we were utterly hopeless on Tuesday stokes a bit of a fire for this one. We have to get at West Ham, because they have some attacking talent but they are defensively very shaky. We need to be winning this.
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Are we expecting Buendia to be out with a "little injury"?
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A draw's a problem too. We need a run of wins to break into and then consolidate in the top five. Not sure we have it in us right now. Maybe if Malen hits the ground running.
We've the second longest unbeaten home run in the Premier League. Our one home defeat was to Arsenal in August. We beat this lot a couple of weeks ago in the Cup. Our home form is WWWDWW.
Of course we have it in us.
I didn't mean today. I mean the 5/6 consecutive wins that would take, which would include 2/3 away games, in which we've mainly been shit.
We have three games now we need to be winning now if we're serious about qualifying for the Champions League next season. Let's try and get those over the line and then see. Personally I think almost all our games are too tight, for a handful of reasons, to put a run like that together.
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When was the last time we won really convincingly? I’d love to see that today.
I thought our home wins against Brentford and Man City were both convincing but conceding when cruising in both games meant they ended up feeling less convincing than they actually were.
Anyway, today’s the day. Villa 3-0 West Ham.
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Are we expecting Buendia to be out with a "little injury"?
I thought the same, I guess it depends on whether the talk of a move has any substance.
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Must win if we gave any ambition for CL next season.
If not mid table mediocrity beckons.
Wouldn't life be easy if life was that binary.
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They'll have one eye on Wednesday, as will most fans. We've lost both league games after the last two CL away games, so really need to be on the ball today to avoid a third.
Personally, I think we'll come unstuck today, with a dour 0-0/0-1 result.
*Still amazed this has been selected for telly.
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Are we expecting Buendia to be out with a "little injury"?
I thought the same, I guess it depends on whether the talk of a move has any substance.
He’s signing a 1 year extension apparently.
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Are we expecting Buendia to be out with a "little injury"?
I thought the same, I guess it depends on whether the talk of a move has any substance.
He’s signing a 1 year extension apparently.
Good news.
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Was thinking of the late Jlloyd Samuel RIP, who is another player who also had links to both clubs albeit I think he only played for them at youth levels .
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Must win if we gave any ambition for CL next season.
If not mid table mediocrity beckons.
Wouldn't life be easy if life was that binary.
It would and sometimes it is.Binary not easy.
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Front 3 of Watkins wide left, Malen wide right and Duran down the middle would scare the crap out of them I reckon.
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Very late in the day but, my brother is not feeling well so I have a spare ticket. Good seat, £40 if anyone is interested. Please pm me.
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1-2
We start in relative control, they score with their first shot on target. We get one back in the first half, but concede another shitter at the start of the second half. They defend like beavers and we can't get through.
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1-0 Win. Mings winner.
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West Ham have one recognised centre half, no forward except Danny Ings up front, we need to take advantage and build up our goal difference.
4-0 Villa
EDIT: Potter not a fan of Ings it would appear.