Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Gaztonniller on August 14, 2010, 09:57:40 AM
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New season about to kick off and all footy clubs get another chance to start afresh with all the failings/successes of last season now confined the the history books. So for this new season are you optimistic ;D, or pessimistic :( of how the club will perform in prem?
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Confused
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I'll cheer him, not sure why, but while he wears the shirt I aint gonna boo him. I might have a little boo when he wears his manshitty shirt tho! :'(
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I'm more optimistic than I was 6 days ago. I think there will undoubtedly be a shift in our style and approach. I just hope we try and play attacking football at Villa Park and actually try and win some games. There are some good players in that squad and with the likes of Luke Young, NRC, Sidwell and Davies all now in the frame to play again, with Albrighton, Bannan, Lichaj, Clark and Weismann all waiting in the wings for their chance there's hope.
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Optimistic now that fuck face has gone.
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Pessimistic in that we have "lost" this transfer window, but open to being optimistic depending upon whom is appointed.
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I'm more optimistic than I was 6 days ago. I think there will undoubtedly be a shift in our style and approach. I just hope we try and play attacking football at Villa Park and actually try and win some games. There are some good players in that squad and with the likes of Luke Young, NRC, Sidwell and Davies all now in the frame to play again, with Albrighton, Bannan, Lichaj, Clark and Weismann all waiting in the wings for their chance there's hope.
Agreed.
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I feel very positive, we will make use of the whole squad and use the subs more.
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Optimistic.
If O'Neill had carried on, you knew how we'd play, the kind of players we'd sign, which members of the squad would get used and which wouldn't, what the substitutions would be and when, that we'd get two or three good results against the top sides and a few poor ones against the bad sides, that we'd struggle to break defensive teams down (especially at home), and that ultimately we'd finish in more or less the same place.
It was all so predictable.
Now that's he's gone, none of those things are as set in stone as they were. Some may remain but there is at the very least the possibility that everything will be different.
We've got a good squad, a great behind-the-scenes set up, great facilities, great supporters and a great footballing history. So I think there will be plenty of managers interested in the job who have the ability to improve on what Martin did for us. And, just as importantly, I think Randy is intelligent and shrewd enough to recognise that we need a top appointment to take us on to that next level.
Like I said, optimistic.
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I'm more optimistic than I was 6 days ago. I think there will undoubtedly be a shift in our style and approach. I just hope we try and play attacking football at Villa Park and actually try and win some games. There are some good players in that squad and with the likes of Luke Young, NRC, Sidwell and Davies all now in the frame to play again, with Albrighton, Bannan, Lichaj, Clark and Weismann all waiting in the wings for their chance there's hope.
Agree. I am a little apprehensive though, but then I usually am at the start of the season. I'm sure the football on offer today will be better than we had to endure at a lot of home games last season.
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Neither.
We're going into the season about to lose our player of the season, we know that we have to sell others to cut the wage bill, we have no manager with the prospects for appointing a new one in the near future seemingly slim and we haven't addressed our goal scoring problem.
Of course all of this might be resolved by the 31st August which is why I'm neutral at the moment and, in time-honoured fashion, taking it one game at a time.
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Blindly optimistic for today at least, a one off game and if we can win - and i think we will - then its something to enjoy before whatever happens in the rest of the season happens.
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We've got good enough payers to send out and beat any team in this league. We'll need a ot of luck to get results more often than we did last season but fuck it, why not. It's about time the footballing gods did us a favour.
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It's the first match of a new season. I have just pulled my season ticket out of my wallet for the first time in 3 months and it feels electrified. I am about to jump in the shower and then get ready for the match. How can I not be optimistic today?
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Optimistic now that fuck face has gone.
We get it, you didn't like him.
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I'm hoping Kevin McDonald can get the changing room buzzing and put a team out with confidence for today.
The rest of the season is going to depend on who comes in of course.
I think I'm sitting on the fence.
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Optimistic now that fuck face has gone.
Your heartbreak over his departure never fails to make me smile :)
I'm strangely optimistic. A fresh start and at least I'm looking forward to the football this afternoon rather than expecting the same old, same old.
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I think this is a fresh start for the squad and I can see some players being motivated to do a good Job. We will also have a better balanced side now old stubborn bollocks has gone!
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I'm more optimistic than if M'ON was in charge, but we do need to get the right man in to replace him. We need to clear the deadwood as much as we can, and get in the right players. That will be difficult in a couple of weeks, but we are not far off a very good side. Ireland for Milner, suits me fine.
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As I said many times last season, we're not as bad as we pretend to be. Hopefully Kevin Mac can get the lads fired up for this one and working for each other.
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Nervously optimistic. Certainly more than I was a week ago. There's such an air of unpredictability about where we now are as a team that I can't fail to be a little excited about todays game.
I'm realistically pessimistic about the season as a whole - I just can't see that we'll be in the race.
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It's the first match of a new season. I have just pulled my season ticket out of my wallet for the first time in 3 months and it feels electrified. I am about to jump in the shower and then get ready for the match.
Showering with your season ticket. You certainly are a dedicated fan or you have a very strange prematch ritual.
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Pretty fucking optimistic now!
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Been optimistic since the the clown's departure even it we have to go backwards in the short term.. As someone said to me today, "its no longer MON's Aston Villa but Aston Villa". How it should be...
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Wildly optimistic!
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Been optimistic since the the clown's departure even it we have to go backwards in the short term.. As someone said to me today, "its no longer MON's Aston Villa but Aston Villa". How it should be...
Did you see Dave Woodhall at the match then?
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Been optimistic since the the clown's departure even it we have to go backwards in the short term.. As someone said to me today, "its no longer MON's Aston Villa but Aston Villa". How it should be...
Did you see Dave Woodhall at the match then?
yeah, i see woodhall has said similar. I thought it was quite profound at the time but on 2nd thoughts...:0)