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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on March 08, 2015, 12:00:59 PM
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Was it really only this time last week that we were looking back at losing to Newcastle and getting relegated?
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I'm considering sending Smethwick a Thank You card considering what they've done for our confidence. What a wonderful neighbourly gesture.
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Can We Play Them Every Week?
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And the dreaded prospect of playing the mighty West Barcelona twice in 5 days.
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Yeah but we can't play them anymore this season so are game plan is fucked! ;)
On a more serious note, the last week has been great, but we still have much work to do before we can consider ourselfs safe and/or dreaming of winning that bloody cup finally!
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Can We Play Them Every Week Day?
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Can We Play Them Every Week Day?
How many days before all the seats are destroyed in the away section?
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Can We Play Them Every Week?
"Can we play you twice a week" was one of the chants at the end
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It certainly has been a great week when you consider how other results have gone for us as well. We can go into the next two games with real confidence.
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It certainly has been a great week when how other results have gone for us as well. We can go into the next two games with real confidence.
The other results bit is key for me. It would still have been a very good week without it, but not sitting in the bottom three helps immensely, and certainly psychologically. That we know if we do our bit on the pitch the other sides around us aren't going to suddenly change into something they are not and pull away. From that perspective it has been an excellent a week all round.
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It certainly has been a great week when how other results have gone for us as well. We can go into the next two games with real confidence.
The other results bit is key for me. It would still have been a very good week without it, but not sitting in the bottom three helps immensely, and certainly psychologically. That we know if we do our bit on the pitch the other sides around us aren't going to suddenly change into something they are not and pull away. From that perspective it has been an excellent a week all round.
Spot on TV. Two wins or even 4 points from the next two games could see us pull even further away.
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What a superb week it's been. Let's hope we've turned a corner and end the season on a high.
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I'm considering sending Smethwick a Thank You card considering what they've done for our confidence. What a wonderful neighbourly gesture.
Everybody needs good neighbours.
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Can We Play Them Every Week?
"Can we play you twice a week" was one of the chants at the end
In was about to mention that, given the fact that a lot of people were pissed, that was pretty sharp.
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Sometimes it only takes one fortuitous moment to change the direction of a football club. I'll always remember Kevin Brock's misplaced back-pass in 1984 that gifted Everton a League Cup equalizer and from then on their fortunes only went in one direction for a few silverware-laden seasons. Perhaps in the seasons to come we'll look back at Ben Foster's last minute moment of madness as a similar turning point.
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You could look at Stoke's late equalizer against us that crushed the soul of a club heading towards CL qualification. Ironically the opposition manager being the same cap wearing twat as yesterday. That day, it could be argued set everything in motion for the disaster that was to become the next few years. It's a game of very fine lines. Let's hope our direction changed this week.
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Because it's Aston Villa. Nothing is ordinary.
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It certainly has been a great week when you consider how other results have gone for us as well. We can go into the next two games with real confidence.
It's not just beating them twice in a week but the results have gone for us twice in a week also as you say. How often does that happen?
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A week is a long time in football.
After Newcastle I predicted a turning point and 4 straight villa wins to follow. Halfway there, COYVB, VTID , FLL.
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It's been brilliant these last few days, playing WBA has I hope given our season a massive lift and platform to build on.
Why, thank you very much you stripey neighbours, every little helps.
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On the Tuesday evening after the Hull game I was convinced we were going down and after being kicked time and again over the course of the past 4 years it looked an inevitable conclusion now in the bottom 3.
On the Wednesday evening when I discovered Lambert's reign had come to an end it was like a huge relief and suddenly some positivity from somewhere just breezed in. Took the family to Stoke and thought it was a false dawn. Newcastle ditto. My sons dragged me to the West Barcelona on Tuesday and frankly I was neither excited or had expectations. The first goal went in and their inevitable equaliser and from that moment we were playing much better and I had my hands clapsed praying for the winner.
Fate? Turning point? Once Benteke rolled in the penalty, I dont think I have celebrated at Villa Park like that for a very very long time. We just HAD to win and we did. Roll on Saturday and bar the mindless idiots who decided to run on the pitch DURING play we now have a semi final in the FA Cup and boosted league confidence. Im really pleased hearing Tim give them the hairdryer at half time and the rest is history.
From despair to elation in 7 days. Only Villa.
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Who would have thought that we would be the only team to score goals in this weekend's 3 QF ties?
We're Aston Villa we score when we want !
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Need need consoling ... "There, there my dear
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Was it really only this time last week that we were looking back at losing to Newcastle and getting relegated?
What a week! At Newcastle I thought we deserved at least a point and my Toon friends agreed, but Newcastle scored and we didn't and we were second from bottom. I suppose we were fortunate that both games this week were against local rivals and this certainly raised the temperature, but Tim Sherwood seems to have given the team purpose and belief and the fans have responded to this. For both games the Holte stood for the whole game, which is extremely rare, and I haven't felt the stand vibrate under my feet for a very long time. The demolition derby was probably the last occasion.
In just a few days Sherwood and his team have really lifted the fans. Let's hope that this isn't another of those false dawns and that we can carry this momentum into the next two, winnable games.
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Dave, where's your article? It will make good reading.
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Last Saturday I was sat in the Victoria down in the dumps. There were albion fans in there giving it the big one about stuffing us after they'd beaten saints. Delusional twats
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Might as well set the thread to music.
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Might as well set the thread to music.
Burn it down
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Sometimes it only takes one fortuitous moment to change the direction of a football club. I'll always remember Kevin Brock's misplaced back-pass in 1984 that gifted Everton a League Cup equalizer and from then on their fortunes only went in one direction for a few silverware-laden seasons. Perhaps in the seasons to come we'll look back at Ben Foster's last minute moment of madness as a similar turning point.
Back in 1981 the same game was heading for a draw till Brenson Batson made an error.
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Sometimes it only takes one fortuitous moment to change the direction of a football club. I'll always remember Kevin Brock's misplaced back-pass in 1984 that gifted Everton a League Cup equalizer and from then on their fortunes only went in one direction for a few silverware-laden seasons. Perhaps in the seasons to come we'll look back at Ben Foster's last minute moment of madness as a similar turning point.
I hope so sir.
We've got as good a chance of winning the FA Cup as we could have in years, perhaps decades. No team left should be feared. None of them are solid defensively, and we've had a squad this year full of dormant attacking talent that appears to have been woken.