Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Colin B on April 22, 2014, 12:15:02 AM
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I have heard constant references to the "bomb squad" but I have no idea what this is?
Could someone please confirm to me what exactly it is?
Could they also confirm how people become a member of this squad and what are the qualifications necessary to join?
Thanks in advance as I am genuinely confused by this issue.
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The first rule of bomb squad is we don't don't talk about bomb squad.
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The second rule of the bomb squad is we don't talk about the bomb squad.
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Very clever men. But I don’t trust them. Gerry Adams looks like a deputy headmaster and Martin McGuinness looks like a clown without make-up.
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They're an American hip hop production team, known for their work with the rap group Public Enemy.
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The Bomb Squad is an American hip hop production team, known for their work with the rap group Public Enemy.
They are noted for their dense, distinct, innovative production style, often utilizing dozens of samples on just one track. They are also known for their ability to incorporate harsh, unmelodic sounds and samples into their songs although a citation is needed for this.
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be nice to him. He asked a genuine question.
Colin - there are the unwashed and unwanted members of the Aston Villa squad deemed too expensive and too troublesome to form part of the present or future. So they were designated high squad numbers and told to train with the kids or essentially do what the hell they wanted as they were never going to play for the club again. Basically millions of pounds of money that we don't really have just pissed down the drain. Players openly offered to any bidder anywhere, the contracts so grotesque that most didn't want to touch them with a ten foot pole.
Hopefully that answers your question. Welcome to H&V. Take your pick of the biscuits that are left. It's mainly crumbs unfortunately.
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The search function will enlighten you further.
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Thank you Toronto Villain.
So who?
Could you give me names ?
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
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Thank you Toronto Villain.
So who?
Could you give me names ?
It's not as big as it used to be. Memebership is also a matter for some debate. But basically includes all players signed by Houllier and McLeish that are still on the clubs books. Steven Ireland was the most recent player to hand in his badge and novelty hat when he signed permanently for Stoke in the January transfer window.
Current memebers -
Darren Bent
Enda Stevens
Alan Hutton
Shay Given was thought to be a member, but Lambert recently denied this when making him temporary first team coach. In truth he is about 11th choice goalkeeper at the club behind Gordon Cowans who co-incidentally has also been named temporary first team coach despite not being in the bomb squad.
Charles N'Zogbia may or may not be a member in the same sense that he may or may not be a footballer. Nobody seems to know either, but the longer he goes without playing the more people are convinced that the answer is 'yes'.
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they prefer to be called da bomb squad. It looks like most of our first team are killed to gain entrance
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What about "The Bomb Gang Girlz"; the backing singers for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult ?
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
It was just the over paid players left over by the MON era like Hutton, Habib Beye (sp), Dunne, Warnock (I think), Shay Given, Collins... I forget the exact details and names were debated. Just look at any player brought in the MON regime and if they were over paid, useless, problematic and not fit for the current team then they could be argued as being part of the "bomb squad"
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What about "The Bomb Gang Girlz"; the backing singers for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult ?
Literally the only thing I know about that band is that they had a song called "A Daisy Chain for Satan."
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
Yes, the words 'bomb' and 'squad' are quite common in the English language.
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Enda Stevens ? Thought he'd gone gone
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What about "The Bomb Gang Girlz"; the backing singers for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult ?
Literally the only thing I know about that band is that they had a song called "A Daisy Chain for Satan."
TTK's first two albums are excellent.
I've all their releases (some on vinyl)
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Enda Stevens ? Thought he'd gone gone
I think that all bombs have been temporarily defused by sending them out on loan.
However, if today's quotes are correct, Sylla might be starting the new squad.
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I think come next season, if we get a half decent new manager, our bomb squad will probably be made up of 80% of our senior players. There's so much dross its frightening.
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Thank you for the replies
So basically the "bomb squad" are a group of players who have been given a chance and failed to take it.
Fair comment or not?
If so why are so many people making such an issue out of it?
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Thank you for the replies
So basically the "bomb squad" are a group of players who have been given a chance and failed to take it.
Fair comment or not?
If so why are so many people making such an issue out of it?
It's more accurate to describe it as composed of permanently out-of-favour players.
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I'll answer your question with a few questions.
Was Bent given a chance to play in place of Benteke?
Without question. Does he deserve to start ahead of Benteke? No
Does he deserve to be on the bench ahead of the likes of Jordan Flaming Bowery? Most definitely.
Ditto Given and Steer. Guzan came in and deserved to keep his place, but paying Given £60k a week and not even having him on the bench might -in some quarters- be considered a waste of resources. Particularly when the above two are renowned for being good pros and have never caused bother at their previous clubs.
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I'm going to reluctantly ditto Hutton too. We paid eye watering money for him and are paying his reported 40k p/w wages. His total abandonment serves nothing other than to run his value down, it's wasteful.
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I'd be more confident with Bent in the first team at the moment.
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
It was just the over paid players left over by the MON era like Hutton, Habib Beye (sp), Dunne, Warnock (I think), Shay Given, Collins... I forget the exact details and names were debated. Just look at any player brought in the MON regime and if they were over paid, useless, problematic and not fit for the current team then they could be argued as being part of the "bomb squad"
Really?. I wasn't the one asking the question, if that was an attempt of irony it was a huge fail.
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
Yes, the words 'bomb' and 'squad' are quite common in the English language.
Just forget about the 'avfc' part, which was the most important part of the search. ::)
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I bet the boffins in the secret service are on overtime with their computers beeping every time someone types b. o. m b.
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How we expected to ditch the high-earners by banishing them from the first team squad, thus letting other clubs know they were unwanted and available for little or no fee, remains a boneheaded idea.
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I bet the boffins in the secret service are on overtime with their computers beeping every time someone types b. o. m b.
Bomb bomb bomb Al Qaida bomb Osama Bin Laden bomb bomb Jihad bomb suicide bomber America Abu Hamza bomb terrorist death to the yankees bomb!
Fuck 'em, nosy bastards! >:(
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It should also be added that the film based on the Bomb Squad called The Shirt Locker won the Perpignan Film Festival Palme de Merde. It starred Harrison Ford as Darren Bent and the late Charles Hawtrey as Paul Lambert.
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
It was just the over paid players left over by the MON era like Hutton, Habib Beye (sp), Dunne, Warnock (I think), Shay Given, Collins... I forget the exact details and names were debated. Just look at any player brought in the MON regime and if they were over paid, useless, problematic and not fit for the current team then they could be argued as being part of the "bomb squad"
Really?. I wasn't the one asking the question, if that was an attempt of irony it was a huge fail.
Huge Fail? Are you 12?
I forgot who asked the question, I just answered it and probably quoted the wrong person. Get me blud?
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
It was just the over paid players left over by the MON era like Hutton, Habib Beye (sp), Dunne, Warnock (I think), Shay Given, Collins... I forget the exact details and names were debated. Just look at any player brought in the MON regime and if they were over paid, useless, problematic and not fit for the current team then they could be argued as being part of the "bomb squad"
Really?. I wasn't the one asking the question, if that was an attempt of irony it was a huge fail.
Huge Fail? Are you 12?
I forgot who asked the question, I just answered it and probably quoted the wrong person. Get me blud?
word. end of.
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I just put avfc bomb squad in that search engine that rhymes with noodle, poodle, strudel & doodle and only got 1,260,000 results, wtf.
It was just the over paid players left over by the MON era like Hutton, Habib Beye (sp), Dunne, Warnock (I think), Shay Given, Collins... I forget the exact details and names were debated. Just look at any player brought in the MON regime and if they were over paid, useless, problematic and not fit for the current team then they could be argued as being part of the "bomb squad"
Really?. I wasn't the one asking the question, if that was an attempt of irony it was a huge fail.
Huge Fail? Are you 12?
I forgot who asked the question, I just answered it and probably quoted the wrong person. Get me blud?
And you're asking if i'm 12.
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Does he deserve to be on the bench ahead of the likes of Jordan Flaming Bowery? Most definitely.
Indeed.
The entire bomb squad thing is a reflection of the bone headed fools running this club. If you've got an asset you want to move on, you don't help yourself sell it by running it down.
I almost laughed up a kidney reading Lerner's semi-literate, barely comprehensible "press release" last week when he talked about how much we'd missed injured players and mentioned N'Zogbia as one of them - that's the same N'Zogbia who wasn't given a shirt number, even.
Is Lerner the only person on the planet who thinks N'Zogbia wouldn't be playing keepie-uppies with the 12 year olds if he were fit?