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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Tokyo Sexwhale on July 03, 2012, 10:03:16 AM
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From Meaning Evil:
PAUL Lambert is set to bolster Aston Villa’s backroom staff and reunite with his former Norwich confidants Ian Culverhouse and Gary Karsa in the next few days.
Sources in East Anglia suggest the two clubs are close to agreeing a compromise to allow the Canaries duo to link up with Lambert as pre-season gets under way.
Culverhouse and Karsa were Lambert’s assistant and head of football operations respectively at the Carrow Road, having previously worked with him at Wycombe and Colchester.
But they are surplus to requirements at Norwich now after new boss Chris Hughton took coaches Colin Calderwood, Paul Trollope and scout Ewan Chester with him from Blues.
Lambert, meanwhile, has been holding out for trusted allies Culverhouse and Karsa to join him since taking over at Villa at the start of June.
First team coach and reserve team boss Kevin MacDonald left the club by mutual consent, while Gordon Cowans has been kept on in an as yet unspecified role.
Goalkeeping coach Terry Gennoe and fitness coach Adrian Lamb have also been retained.
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Good news.
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That's good news.
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Welcome to Aston Villa.
Here's the shitter, knocking-off time is 5pm, no fire drills and here's the kettle... stick it on... 2 sugars please....
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Don't really know much about them in a coaching way but welcome aboard
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Gennoe is being kept on because Michael Jackson kept mentioning him in song.
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Good one Mazrim!
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Expected, but still very welcome, news.
Didn't Culverhouse take most of the training sessions at Norwich?
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When does pre-season training kick off?
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Don't really know much about them in a coaching way but welcome aboard
They are very highly rated by the Norwich fans, especially Culverhouse, who appears to be the footballing brain with Lambert as Mr Motivator. As one Norwich fan put it, "without Culverhouse, Villa have bought a very expensive car without an engine".
I found this that may explain how Lambert's backroom team work:
Karsa's role is to look at the videos. He is the most expensive fella ever to lie in bed all day, but he is worth every penny. He knows every move that every player has made in every league he has worked in. The guy also has a photographic memory and Lambert will be lost without him. He is the key member of staff at the club. His job is to work out the strengths and weaknesses of every opposition team and player.
He forwards the template to Culverhouse and Cully sets up the team to attack the opposition weaknesses and rebutt the opposition strengths.
Lambert had the easy job. He motivated the players before kick-off and at half-time, picked the team and the transfer targets, the latter with Cully. All this unrequited love for Lambert from the Canary faithful was completely misplaced. It should be 'there's only one Gary Karsa'. City's strength was a tightly knit management team.
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Karsa sounds like the guy Jonah Hill plays in Moneyball.
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Don't really know much about them in a coaching way but welcome aboard
They are very highly rated by the Norwich fans, especially Culverhouse, who appears to be the footballing brain with Lambert as Mr Motivator. As one Norwich fan put it, "without Culverhouse, Villa have bought a very expensive car without an engine".
I found this that may explain how Lambert's backroom team work:
Karsa's role is to look at the videos. He is the most expensive fella ever to lie in bed all day, but he is worth every penny. He knows every move that every player has made in every league he has worked in. The guy also has a photographic memory and Lambert will be lost without him. He is the key member of staff at the club. His job is to work out the strengths and weaknesses of every opposition team and player.
He forwards the template to Culverhouse and Cully sets up the team to attack the opposition weaknesses and rebutt the opposition strengths.
Lambert had the easy job. He motivated the players before kick-off and at half-time, picked the team and the transfer targets, the latter with Cully. All this unrequited love for Lambert from the Canary faithful was completely misplaced. It should be 'there's only one Gary Karsa'. City's strength was a tightly knit management team.
The more i hear the more excited i become about the new season - fucking bring it on
Not bad considering i was ready to knock 28 years working at VP on the head after last seasons purgotory
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Bet Kasra didn't know where to start when they were preparing to play us last season!
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Great news. Everything is shaping up for success at VP.
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Well pleased with the news that they will be coming to us.
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Imagine having to watch DVDs of Villa from last season. You would be swinging from a joist by a length of flex
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Don't really know much about them in a coaching way but welcome aboard
They are very highly rated by the Norwich fans, especially Culverhouse, who appears to be the footballing brain with Lambert as Mr Motivator. As one Norwich fan put it, "without Culverhouse, Villa have bought a very expensive car without an engine".
I found this that may explain how Lambert's backroom team work:
Karsa's role is to look at the videos. He is the most expensive fella ever to lie in bed all day, but he is worth every penny. He knows every move that every player has made in every league he has worked in. The guy also has a photographic memory and Lambert will be lost without him. He is the key member of staff at the club. His job is to work out the strengths and weaknesses of every opposition team and player.
He forwards the template to Culverhouse and Cully sets up the team to attack the opposition weaknesses and rebutt the opposition strengths.
Lambert had the easy job. He motivated the players before kick-off and at half-time, picked the team and the transfer targets, the latter with Cully. All this unrequited love for Lambert from the Canary faithful was completely misplaced. It should be 'there's only one Gary Karsa'. City's strength was a tightly knit management team.
The more i hear the more excited i become about the new season - fucking bring it on
My thoughts exactly !!!!!
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
Ditto
In many ways, this is more important than any player transfer.
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Imagine having to watch DVDs of Villa from last season. You would be swinging from a joist by a length of flex
On the bright side, you'd only need to watch one match, it was the same miserable fucking story, week in, week out.
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Backroom staff completed as we all hoped it would.
Welcome aboard gentleman :)
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Karsa sounds like the guy Jonah Hill plays in Moneyball.
He's looking to "Greek God of Defending Corners"
Yoooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuk !!
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Imagine having to watch DVDs of Villa from last season. You would be swinging from a joist by a length of flex
On the bright side, you'd only need to watch one match, it was the same miserable fucking story, week in, week out.
It would completely explain why Lambert feels he knows what players we need straight away though, as the 3 of them will have clearly discussed us in depth before our game last season, and we are all kidding ourselves if Culverhouse, Karsa and Lambert have not been planning together for the last few weeks.
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Imagine having to watch DVDs of Villa from last season. You would be swinging from a joist by a length of flex
On the bright side, you'd only need to watch one match, it was the same miserable fucking story, week in, week out.
It would completely explain why Lambert feels he knows what players we need straight away though, as the 3 of them will have clearly discussed us in depth before our game last season, and we are all kidding ourselves if Culverhouse, Karsa and Lambert have not been planning together for the last few weeks.
very much agree. They are very close and this has been on the cards for a while. It's been a little quiet on the coaching situation front but you'd be quite naive to think they haven't been going over everything together over the past few weeks. I get the impression that Lambert and his staff are very detailed orientated and will have identified a lot of things that need to change or that can work with better coaching and motivation. The latter doesn't apply to Alan Hutton.
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
Or Sir Graham, Steve Harrison, and John Ward
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Sorry if I've missed something here but is this official have we actually got them?
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Not yet, Mrs T.
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
Or Sir Graham, Steve Harrison, and John Ward
Wasn't it Sir Graham, Steve Harrison and Dennis Booth originally, then John Ward replaced SH when he returned to Watford as manager? Obviously anyone who's party piece to relax the players is putting a paper cup on the floor and then curling one out into it whilst standing on a hotel bed is a big loss. Although the FA weren't impressed when he was SGT's England coach and sacked him for it. Nice trivia question, which England number two got sacked for publically doing one.
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
Or Sir Graham, Steve Harrison, and John Ward
Wasn't it Sir Graham, Steve Harrison and Dennis Booth originally, then John Ward replaced SH when he returned to Watford as manager? Obviously anyone who's party piece to relax the players is putting a paper cup on the floor and then curling one out into it whilst standing on a hotel bed is a big loss. Although the FA weren't impressed when he was SGT's England coach and sacked him for it. Nice trivia question, which England number two got sacked for publically doing one.
I was telling that tale in the pub a couple of weeks ago, much to the wide eyed amusement of two Albion pratts. Although my memory is none to clever. I thought it was from the top of a cupboard into pint glass, but it's just details isn't it?
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My money's on off a step ladder into a coffee cup.
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My money's on off a step ladder into a coffee cup.
A step-ladder and a bucket wasn't it? I definitely remember it being described as a game of "shit bucket". A pre-internet version of Two Girls, One Cup, perhaps.
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Sign 'em up!
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Confirmed on the OS:
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2832808,00.html
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Great news, happy with that.
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All of this just feels right. Great to have the lads on board. Now the the hard work starts. I don't envy them.....having to teach our defenders to defend.....teach the whole team to defend from set pieces.....having to show our players that it's always good policy to pass to a teammate if at all possible....they'll have hypnotize our defenders to think that to hoofing the ball aimlessly up the pitch isn't the only option that they have..... and that it's okay for a defender to pass to a midfielder...
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It was always going to happen, we'd have appointed other people otherwise.
Good to see it confirmed, though.
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I'm also glad they have been officially confirmed as Villa staff good news.
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I'm more than happy they've finally signed up. I think the players are in for a shock but the better amongst them will respond positively to the changes. It will be interesting to see what happens with the defence, a few comments on the Norwich forums claim they'd never had a solid defence and it was a weak area for Culverhouse and Karsa.
Whatever happens, it won't happen overnight but it's good to know we're finally on the right track, moving in a positive direction towards the 21st century. Bibs and Cones they ain't.
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I think Norwich having a relatively leaky defence points to a few things.
Norwich did seem quite open and attacking and they were essentially still playing with their squad from League 1.
In other words a few turds were still being polished.
To that I'd say we have better and can buy better so the results should be better.
But didn't Norwich concede the least goals from set pieces or something?
That shows organisation on behalf of the coaching staff at least.
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I can only echo the sentiments above.
We've got a good manager.
He's made his first signing, which seems excellent value and a position we were badly lacking in.
He's now got the backroom team he wanted.
When was that Bolton home game - 2 months ago? Compare the feeling and attitude of fans now to then and ask yourself when we've had such a dramatic turnaround in expectation before?
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When was that Bolton home game - 2 months ago? Compare the feeling and attitude of fans now to then and ask yourself when we've had such a dramatic turnaround in expectation before?
That was one of the most depressing games as a Villa fan in years. Truly horrible to watch that unfold.
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When was that Bolton home game - 2 months ago? Compare the feeling and attitude of fans now to then and ask yourself when we've had such a dramatic turnaround in expectation before?
Summer 2006. Let's hope that this isn't as much of a false dawn as that transpired to be.
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When was that Bolton home game - 2 months ago? Compare the feeling and attitude of fans now to then and ask yourself when we've had such a dramatic turnaround in expectation before?
That was one of the most depressing games as a Villa fan in years. Truly horrible to watch that unfold.
Echo those sentiments, not that it could be any worse but I took my Blose supporting best friend for some strange reason. Had to drop him back to Tamworth then head back down M5 to Bristol, was one of the longest treks back in a very very long time!
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I can only echo the sentiments above.
We've got a good manager.
He's made his first signing, which seems excellent value and a position we were badly lacking in.
He's now got the backroom team he wanted.
When was that Bolton home game - 2 months ago? Compare the feeling and attitude of fans now to then and ask yourself when we've had such a dramatic turnaround in expectation before?
That crazy period between the players statement and MON's first game in 2006 immediately springs to mind.
We went from thinking a relegation scrap was quite likely to believing Europe and beyond wasn't just possible but probable (admittedly not in his first season).
This feels more like DOL's appointment in 2003 - a promising manager who has enjoyed a degree of success elsewhere surprising a few by turning up here. Some of the more fundamental problems still remain, and it doesn't look like we'll be in contention to sign the better players and fight it out in the upper echelons again anytime soon.
That's not to say there aren't things to get excited about mind. Most of us have called for a broader approach to transfer policy and it looks like we might now have it. The hope would be that we don't just sell any gems we find after a promising season or two. Everton have been able to recruit from the lower divisions and have - for the most part- held onto their better players.
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Confirmed on the OS:
What's confirmed? Culverhouse and Karsa or Steve Harrison and his cup-kharsi?
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Summer 2006, with Randy buying us and MON coming in, did also have a huge feel good factor about it. However, that was largely down to the money we were expecting the new owner to spend. This summer, it just feels more like a systematic plan is in place where we've identified the problem areas and are addressing them, starting with the manager.
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Summer 2006, with Randy buying us and MON coming in, did also have a huge feel good factor about it. However, that was largely down to the money we were expecting the new owner to spend. This summer, it just feels more like a systematic plan is in place where we've identified the problem areas and are addressing them, starting with the manager.
Can't really agree with that John, at the time I really think that MON was seen as a messiah who would lead us to the promised land (and I include myself in the group who saw him in those terms. How times have changed). Yes, having a billionaire owner helped the good feeling, but I don't think it's right to say he was the main reason for it.
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I was also over the moon with MON coming in and after the last year of DOL we would have been hugely lifted anyway. But with everthing else going on behind the scenes a change in ownership was much more important than a change in manager at that time. MON on his own was improvement, MON with Randy was transformation.
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I was also over the moon with MON coming in and after the last year of DOL we would have been hugely lifted anyway. But with everthing else going on behind the scenes a change in ownership was much more important than a change in manager at that time. MON on his own was improvement, MON with Randy was transformation.
TSM with Randy was also transformation.
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Straight to work, first day of pre-season
http://t.co/3wfCurHd
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Straight to work, first day of pre-season
http://t.co/3wfCurHd
Back a bit early aren't we?
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Straight to work, first day of pre-season
http://t.co/3wfCurHd
Back a bit early aren't we?
Man Utd are back in today also.
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Earlier the better as with a new manager he'll need as much time as possible to evaluate the players before finalising his transfer plans.
I'd imagine our players that were at the Euros (just Given and Dunne?) aren't back in today.
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first pre-season game in 9 days so they need to get in there and meet the players and set the expectations. The players will be excited that TSM isn't greeting them and making them do 50 sit ups for crossing into the opposition half. There's a great picture on the OS of Lambert watching Benty run past. I'm sure he's thinking that if he can get the ball to Bent a few times a game that it will be many more games won than lost. Then again, he could be looking in another direction and see Hutton, Warnock and Collins and be thinking "fuck me, what am I going to do with those buffoons?"
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first pre-season game in 9 days so they need to get in there and meet the players and set the expectations. The players will be excited that TSM isn't greeting them and making them do 50 sit ups for crossing into the opposition half. There's a great picture on the OS of Lambert watching Benty run past. I'm sure he's thinking that if he can get the ball to Bent a few times a game that it will be many more games won than lost. Then again, he could be looking in another direction and see Hutton, Warnock and Collins and be thinking "fuck me, what am I going to do with those buffoons?"
Picture 7 looks like he is looking at the defense thinking "fuck your shit"
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Shame that our training gear isn't Claret. All that blue trimming would be nicer claret.
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What are those strange harnesses some players are wearing?
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When you think about it, and look at how shit we were last season, Lambert has got a right job and a half on his hands.
So little time to get his ideas across to the players. I just hope they take on board what he's saying, and if they don't, then they're shipped out as soon as possible.
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What are those strange harnesses some players are wearing?
Look like dogs harnesses.
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For some reason I read this and had a flashback of a picture of Sir Brian Little standing together with Allan Evans and John Gregory. Everything about this off season has filled me with hope and optimism.
Or Sir Graham, Steve Harrison, and John Ward
Wasn't it Sir Graham, Steve Harrison and Dennis Booth originally, then John Ward replaced SH when he returned to Watford as manager? Obviously anyone who's party piece to relax the players is putting a paper cup on the floor and then curling one out into it whilst standing on a hotel bed is a big loss. Although the FA weren't impressed when he was SGT's England coach and sacked him for it. Nice trivia question, which England number two got sacked for publically doing one.
I was telling that tale in the pub a couple of weeks ago, much to the wide eyed amusement of two Albion pratts. Although my memory is none to clever. I thought it was from the top of a cupboard into pint glass, but it's just details isn't it?
I'm pretty sure it was from the bed, but on reflection (and admittedly it isn't a great mental picture to conjure up) a pint glass would seem to be the more logical receptacle for the purposes of successfully completing the manouvere.
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Earlier the better as with a new manager he'll need as much time as possible to evaluate the players before finalising his transfer plans.
I'd imagine our players that were at the Euros (just Given and Dunne?) aren't back in today.
Yeah, don't rush back lads.
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I was going to say are the players wearing baby/dog harnesses?
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They're shock vests so if any of them stand fekin still and don't pull their weight PL has a remote to shock them with
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Well I guess we might see a bit more transfer activity now they have seen the shite theyve got to work with first hand!!
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They're shock vests so if any of them stand fekin still and don't pull their weight PL has a remote to shock them with
Breaking news - Hutton has been rushed to hospital with a suspected epileptic fit, after tests it was discovered it wasn't a fit - it's just how many times PL had been shocking the useless fucker.
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Nice to see the players training and welcome to the new staff, i'm feeling a lot more positive than this time last year.
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Does anyone know if Karim (I won't even try!) was at training today?
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Does anyone know if Karim (I won't even try!) was at training today?
Or Guzan?
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Does anyone know if Karim (I won't even try!) was at training today?
Yea him and Holman were both there...the pics are on the Villa website
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They're shock vests so if any of them stand fekin still and don't pull their weight PL has a remote to shock them with
Breaking news - Hutton has been rushed to hospital with a suspected epileptic fit, after tests it was discovered it wasn't a fit - it's just how many times PL had been shocking the useless fucker.
I can't believe by the time you finished typing that joke you thought it was worth posting! ;-)
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Picture 9 of the new set, Collins looks like he's blowing out of his arse already!!
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Does anyone know if Karim (I won't even try!) was at training today?
Or Guzan?
Guzan isn't one of our players again yet
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5 weeks til kick off and so much to do, bit concerned
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5 weeks til kick off and so much to do, bit concerned
I think we will all feel a lot better when we see a picture of at least one full-back and one centre half holding up their new shirts.
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5 weeks til kick off and so much to do, bit concerned
They've been back one day.
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What did we expect by now? It's common knowledge that the market is quiet until a summer tournament finishes, plus in never really kicks in anyway until all the sides are back for pre-season.
Absolutely nothing to worry about time wise!
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@AVFCOfficial: Roddy MacDonald has returned to Villa from Celtic, assuming his role as head of sport and exercise medicine with immediate effect. #AVFC
Dr Ian McGuiness TSM's Doctor has left the building
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Is Hamburglar coming too?
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5 weeks til kick off and so much to do, bit concerned
I think we will all feel a lot better when we see a picture of at least one full-back and one centre half holding up their new shirts.
Full back - check