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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Legion on February 05, 2019, 10:01:16 AM
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Friday 8.2.19
Villa Park
7:45pm KO
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1-1
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I'd play Abraham wide, with Kodjia up front.
We need to be much more attack minded, now we have (hopefully) a better defence.
I love Albert but he really needs dropping, he's been dire.
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No idea.
I think we have to raise our game against these so hopefully we do and it gives us kickstart.
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I'm not expecting a Road to Damascus style turnaround here - simply because we have shown no hint since December. I hope I'm wrong. Think they'll nick it 1-2.
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1-1
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Only saw Adomah on the highlights but he looks shot.
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Only saw Adomah on the highlights but he looks shot.
Only sign of form out of him all season was v Birmingham, got injured after that and has been crap since. To be fair, I think all our attacking players have suffered, Abraham aside, since Grealish got injured.
Sheff Utd play three at the back so best to go with 2 up top for this and a lot more direct.
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Would really love to see Davis in the middle with Tammy and Kodjia either side if him. El Ghazi and Albert have been poor and need dropping, Tammy needs support around him, so playing him off Davis, drifting in from the left may work as Davis is very good at holding up play. Something needs to change for us to start performing well again.
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Could it be possible that Jack might be back?
Is Green still / always injured - if not then either him or Kodjia to replace Adomah
There is no way I would take Tammy out of the central role - it where he scores the goals from!!!!
Kalinic
Elmo Elphick Mings Taylor
Carrol
El Ghazhi McGinn Hourihane Kodjia
Tammy
bench
Steer
Hutton
Hause
Whelan
Jedinak
Davies
Adomah
2-0
Tammy x 1
Hourihane x 1
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I'd play Abraham wide, with Kodjia up front.
We need to be much more attack minded, now we have (hopefully) a better defence.
I love Albert but he really needs dropping, he's been dire.
No way would I move Abraham from the middle. Kodjia wide maybe but not Abraham.
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I've been optimistic recently and look where that has got me! I think 1-1 at best.
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2-2 draw. Wilder is a good manager. He took Oxford back up into the league, won the League Two title with Northampton, the League One title with Sheffield United and has had them challenging in the top half of the Championship since then. His managerial record over the last five years is excellent.
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This will be an hard game but we need a win so 1-0 to Villa.
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2-2 again, it's what Villa Park is made for, the boring bustards... Spurs yet to draw this season, Villadawg did it right defecting to the Seven Sisters lot.
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1-3 defeat
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I hate to say it out loud, but 1-2 for me...
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There seems to be a growing number of supporters wanting to push Tammy out wide. I just don't get it! Keep him up front where he is most dangerous and the best in the league and get the others to fulfill their roles.
2 - 1 Villa. Better at the back and therefore we will nick it by one.
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If we play like we have done since Christmas, we'll get beaten, so if ever there was a time to show an improvement, this is it.
Wilder has done a good job with what many would see as a journeyman squad and their average age over the season is older than ours, so it belies the theory that an older team can't be any good at this level.
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1-3. Season over.
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1-3. Season over.
So by the same token. Win and our season is 're ignited?
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Too strong for us.
1-3
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They are a tough team to beat and their style usually does well against us (the Snodgrass game was a bit of a robbery win tbh).
Can't say I'm that confident, feels like another draw and we've really used up our quota of home draws already this season so will likely fall further off the pace.
1-1.
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0-0. Clean sheet, like buses.
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I want us to do it but really don’t know the outcome. 2-2 as usual I suppose.
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With the defence looking tighter and hoping to see Kodja start. Going for 2-0 Friday night under the lights with a big crowd and an early goal to inspire. We really need this ……….
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There seems to be a growing number of supporters wanting to push Tammy out wide. I just don't get it! Keep him up front where he is most dangerous and the best in the league and get the others to fulfill their roles.
2 - 1 Villa. Better at the back and therefore we will nick it by one.
Agree. Its insane
I thought el ghazi was poor v reading but on reflection I think he created three great chances.
I'd stick with 4231. We've looked more solid.
Kodjia for Adomah. Maybe jedi for whelan. Dont fancy Carroll t o start yet
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Pushing Abraham out wide when he is by far our best goal threat is like when Johan Cruyff made Gary Lineker play out wide for Barcelona.
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Pushing Abraham out wide when he is by far our best goal threat is like when Johan Cruyff made Gary Lineker play out wide for Barcelona.
Agreed.
Tammy in front of goal for me.
Let's beat these f**kers, and after the game I'm going to find the Northern tw*ts who I encountered on my way back to my car at Bramall Lane keen to rub my nose in it after the away game and reciprocate in kind....please
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Abraham said it’s his favourite position, I’m confident he’d be just as dangerous.
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
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Would be pleasantly surprised but just can’t see us winning this one. 1-2.
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
Cos you live there?
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Kallinic
Taylor
Mings
Elphick
Hutton
Carroll
Hourihane
McGinn
El Ghazi
Tammy
Kodjia
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I've got for the win !
Heck, do we need it
I have an uneasy feeling Smith is going to deploy Carroll as some kind of 10 rather than a 6 or 8 .
Or at least try him out there at some point in this game.
It's uneasy as maybe Carroll best served as a 6 or 8.
Deeper lying.
Now the formation won't be too far from anything more than the regular 4-2-3-1 but my feeling is there could be a 4-4-1-1
Essentially a 5 strung across midfield with out the ball.
My fear then would be Tammy being isolated against the 3 centre backs.
I hope Smith has a plan against Sheffield United settled 3-5-2 system.
The thing with those blades under Wilder they have been consistently playing same football and shape so in that respect they are predictable
They do play some good football , have a style of play which is entertaining and down villa Park Friday could be in for a very decent match.
That's by the wayside as 3 points is a really needed and somehow someone to step up .
Along with Carroll , I'm intrigued by Jedinak role in last 16 matches.
Because the full backs give the width to Sheffield United and theh are used as a great strength in attacking maybe it will adomah and elmohamady as the wide midfielders.
Oli Norwood and Duffy are great examples of midfielders suitably playing a very effective game in their position.
Duffy can cause a lot of issues getting between lines more from intelligence position uptake and movement than and pace so it's important to have him monitored .
Also Norwood in a somewhat deeper role is a great example of a midfielder .
A key issue is matching that midfield and nullifying the full backs.
The play could be by Smith to have the wide players high up in a 4-3-3
I would like that in respects of taking game to Sheffield United but something like that could play into their hands.
Fascinating to see how this one does go.
Hoping Tammy to be difference he's the outstanding player
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I got a good feeling about this - defence looked 100% better with TM and LK stepping in/up and we have performed better against the top teams than those below us.
2-0
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Get this , Villa have 16 matches left with half as pivotal matches against all the 8 clubs above in the Championship
We beat third-placed Sheffield United at Villa Park on Friday night then we can really start a run !
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Abraham said it’s his favourite position, I’m confident he’d be just as dangerous.
He would have to do a little or maybe a lot more tracking back and defending.
Granted he makes supereme effort leading line as much as leading the first line of defence from the front and closing down.
For me it's a waste to have him coming back too often in own half when he needed as a presence up front.
Now a wide forward in a role without much defending I could take maybe this is your suggestion.
That would work ok. Still involved and dangerous and would get into box.
Same with Kodjia
If they just stayed up field a wide forward being just that
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When I was a kid and still going with my dad we always dreaded games against this lot. Always seemed to be poor games, we would lose 1-0 and an ex, Doc Pace, would come back to haunt us.
So on that basis 1-0 to them Enda Stevens to score.
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Doc Pace? Who the heck was he?
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Can't see us getting anything from this. 0-2 or 3 to them.
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2-2 nailed on
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a hard fought 2-1 win to the Villa...
UTV
The Doc
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Abraham said it’s his favourite position, I’m confident he’d be just as dangerous.
I still think he'd get goals drifting in from the left, just like Albert did last season, but i'd only play him on the left with Davis, not Kodjia, who'd lose it too much to bring others in.
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Doc Pace? Who the heck was he?
One for the teenagers, I'm going back to the early 60s. Not very tall but as hard as nails centre/inside forward.
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Great name, was he an apache?
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Abraham said it’s his favourite position, I’m confident he’d be just as dangerous.
I still think he'd get goals drifting in from the left, just like Albert did last season, but i'd only play him on the left with Davis, not Kodjia, who'd lose it too much to bring others in.
Not only that just Jimmy don't pass !
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Don't suppose there is any chance Grealish might be fit for us? We've already had some bad luck as, apparently, Hogan can't play.
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Don't suppose there is any chance Grealish might be fit for us? We've already had some bad luck as, apparently, Hogan can't play.
Hogan would have been nailed on for at least two goals....
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Can't see us winning this at all, but hopefully we'll do enough to scrape a draw. 1-1.
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Can't see us winning this at all, but hopefully we'll do enough to scrape a draw. 1-1.
Going into a game I always, always think we're going to win.
I remember the very first time when I came down to Earth with a bump.... Paolo Rossi after about 2 minutes v Juve at home, while defending our title.
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Chester was clearly playing when injured and his form suffered, so taking him out of the side was important.
But has anyone heard how long he needs in terms of his knee injury? His form and that of the other options aside, I would be interested to know how soon before he might be, sensibly, considered for selection again.
The subtext being that Elphick worries the hell out of me. UTV.
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Heart says 2-0. Head says something completely different. They’re be thinking we’re there for the taking
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
Cos you live there?
Yep. They are in form too.
Still, our good run has to start again.
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We’ll win this
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Kallinic
Taylor
Mings
Elphick
Hutton
Carroll
Hourihane
McGinn
El Ghazi
Tammy
Kodjia
Midfield too lightweight imo for this type of opposition, Sheffield United also like crossing into the box so I have a feeling Jedinak might be getting a rare start.
Shame Green is injured (again) as he's another I'd throw in and see how he looks after his loan, had enough fill of El Ghazi to last a season.
Stuff it if Tammy fancies being a wide boy bring in Davis as central striker and have him and Kodj either side. Might not work but at least thinking outside the box a little bit more with the selection.
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Chester was clearly playing when injured and his form suffered, so taking him out of the side was important.
But has anyone heard how long he needs in terms of his knee injury? His form and that of the other options aside, I would be interested to know how soon before he might be, sensibly, considered for selection again.
The subtext being that Elphick worries the hell out of me. UTV.
I'd give him a few weeks off personally, he's been way below the standard he's set last two seasons.
Keep same defence. It did keep a clean sheet at last so deserves chance to see if we can build on it against a much better team going forward than Reading.
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My first game this season. Money has been very tight for us and as my mrs doesn't give a toss about football and is from a family of West Brom fans, it's been tough to convince her that Villa is a financial priority.
Please win, Villa. Though I can see a tight 1-2 loss, with their winner coming in the 87th.
I tend not to watch matches on tv or internet, so I think I'd settle for some signs that we're at least improving from the largely turgid Bruceball, which is all I remember seeing from us for what feels like about a decade.
But failing that, a scrappy 9-0 win will do!
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... Stuff it if Tammy fancies being a wide boy bring in Davis as central striker and have him and Kodj either side. Might not work but at least thinking outside the box a little bit more with the selection.
Yes, i’d agree that this is worth trying out.
SU are in a rich vein of form which will do for us unless we take a really positive approach and play the sort of winning game we saw pre Christmas.
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Generally I'm a bit hit and miss (and miss again) with my comments and predictions, but as others have said Kodjia needs to start in his best position.
Its going to be another tough game.
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Sheffield United most recent form in last 3 matches.
- beat lowly Bolton at home 2-0
-drew 2-2 away at Norwich (2-0 down)
-Lost and did not score away at Swansea 1-0
Last 5 championship matches :WDLWW (3 wins)
10 points from 15 pts
(Include 6 matches and they lost 1-0 at home to barnet in fa cup)
Last 5 away - 2 wins in last 5.
DLWDW
Norwich 2-2 (2 nil down)
Swansea 1-0 defeat
Wigan 0-3 win
Ipswich 1-1 draw
Reading 2-0 win
Yes they are decent but hopefully the away results shows some optimism
Relatively to championship they are going well and in form .
The main thing is they don't have the winning form record of Norwich away from home or are on levels of hull or Bristol city recent winning form.
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Press conference at 1pm.
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Really want to win, think we will lose, so settle for a draw, how depressing 😢
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We're at home against a team fighting for promotion, with a big crowd behind us, live on TV. Smith needs to get the team up for this.
It's about time we showed we're more than just a mid table 'also ran'.
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I just hope the M5 is more Motorway than Car Park on Friday night. Thanks Sky!!
The form we are in I can only see a draw at best.
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So Green is back in contention but Lansbury is still some way off. The impression I got from Deano is that Grealish could be ready for the Albion game if he progresses well over the next week.
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Asked about Elphick, DS said we ended up with one fit centre back and he was playing at another club. Nice one Brucie, you dismal oaf.
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Bit strange they've opened the Upper Trinity when there's still plenty of tickets left in other areas. Barely any of the tickets up there have gone.
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Can we not ask better and more insightful questions that what’s it like to play at Villa Park under the lights? FFS
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Can we not ask better and more insightful questions that what’s it like to play at Villa Park under the lights? FFS
Yeah, was a bit of a kids competition winners question. Something about a possible change of tactics and personel would be nice.
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I still don’t understand, and maybe there’s is good reason for it which is eluding me, as to why we can’t hear the entire press conference. I want hear more than easy questions tossed up by the home reporter.
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I still don’t understand, and maybe there’s is good reason for it which is eluding me, as to why we can’t hear the entire press conference. I want hear more than easy questions tossed up by the home reporter.
Yes, that's a pet peeve of mine too. I can't stand that in-house reporter, and his inane sycophantic questions after games and in press conferences. I know he's only doing his job and I understand why they do it, but still, I find it insulting to the intelligence of the fans.
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We had 5 mins of rubbish questions about playing under the lights and then seem to have to rush through the important one or two questions about injury updates etc. Think you need some balls to be a good journalist and if you are sat there in awe of pros and ex pros/manager you aren't going to show any.
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There seems to be a growing number of supporters wanting to push Tammy out wide. I just don't get it!
Same, keep the top scorer in the middle so he can score
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I still don’t understand, and maybe there’s is good reason for it which is eluding me, as to why we can’t hear the entire press conference. I want hear more than easy questions tossed up by the home reporter.
Probably because each media outlet would like to report on their own questions. If we saw it all we wouldn't bother watching anywhere else and that wouldn't do!
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We had 5 mins of rubbish questions about playing under the lights and then seem to have to rush through the important one or two questions about injury updates etc. Think you need some balls to be a good journalist and if you are sat there in awe of pros and ex pros/manager you aren't going to show any.
"Do you like playing under the lights?"
"It's winter, all the games are under lights!"
Superb.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
A38 and A50 Ads?
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Rather you than me! Last time I did your trip a few weeks ago it took me four hours.
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The run starts here. An absolutely thriller where we win 3-2 after being 2 down
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Looks like we are split on this one - I have just voted (for a win) and made it 28 votes each for all 3 choices!
Now that is close....
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2-0
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Just win yeh fucking twats.
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Just win yeh fucking twats.
That about covers it.
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Can we not ask better and more insightful questions that what’s it like to play at Villa Park under the lights? FFS
Yeah, was a bit of a kids competition winners question. Something about a possible change of tactics and personel would be nice.
I was thinking exactly the same. The obvious questions about Hause & Carroll playing or progress. Terrible press conference ……..
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The run starts here. An absolutely thriller where we win 3-2 after being 2 down
Hope not as I'm unlikely to stick around for the comeback.
4-2 Villa in a controlled victory. 2-0, 2-1, 4-1, 4-2.
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Can we not ask better and more insightful questions that what’s it like to play at Villa Park under the lights? FFS
Yeah, was a bit of a kids competition winners question. Something about a possible change of tactics and personel would be nice.
I was thinking exactly the same. The obvious questions about Hause & Carroll playing or progress. Terrible press conference ……..
I reckon Nan's Hair would have been grateful for the gentle, inane questions from the in house bloke, but Smith has never really backed off from answering anything difficult, and I think he finds the questions as daft as we do, hence his "it's winter, all the games are under the lights" retort.
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Another chance to prove we can beat a good team without Grealish, hopefully we can do it but going on the past 2 months, 2-1 to Sheffield Utd.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
A38 and A50 Ads?
A34 it.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Is that fact? If so which junctions?
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Check out the RAC site.Hate SKY for this nonsense.
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I never vote in these polls. We seem to draw every game. I have therefore voted for us to lose. There is no way that this stuff could be unconnected.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Is that fact? If so which junctions?
I a really think I might be correct. 14-16 the signs were up on the way back from Reading. Ball and ache spring to mind.
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Green is fit to be involved.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Is that fact? If so which junctions?
I a really think I might be correct. 14-16 the signs were up on the way back from Reading. Ball and ache spring to mind.
That's a real accident blackspot. So many accidents around the Keele services stretch, never really liked using it when going to uni up there.
Would honestly Trent vegas it. On a Sunday it would take just over half an hour to get from just north of Stafford to Newcastle Under Lyme so can't imagine it would be that much more late on a Friday evening.
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You used to be able to jib to Hawthrons via Keele services. They're knocking that down now.
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Junction 14 is horrible - have seen a few bad accidents there over the years travelling to and from Brum
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Is that fact? If so which junctions?
I a really think I might be correct. 14-16 the signs were up on the way back from Reading. Ball and ache spring to mind.
I've just come back from Telford, left there at 10.45. The signs were already up on the M54 saying M6 closed 14-15. If they're working on it tomorrow night, you'll have to be proper on your toes after the game to beat it.
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My prediction for tomorrow...
3.5 hours to get down the M6 and night closures on the way home.
Take that prediction to the bank!
Is that fact? If so which junctions?
I a really think I might be correct. 14-16 the signs were up on the way back from Reading. Ball and ache spring to mind.
I've just come back from Telford
You have my sympathies for the trauma, and my congratulations on having left. I'm from Wellington. My dad died in a hospice in Telford seven years ago, leaving my severely disabled and demented mother behind. When I was on the M54 on the way to clear the shit from their home before my mum's move into residential care in the same village that my sister lives in (not in Telford), I promised myself that I'd never, ever use the M54 again. And I haven't. Truly, dreams can become real.
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If I were Smith would be saying to the players we have to win this and if I see a player not showing the commitment I want you will be dragged immediately.
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Too right Robbo. I am hoping we win 2-1. FTF's.
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We need some big results now.
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Can’t wait for tonight...just hope all eleven players turn up.
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Like everyone else on here, desperate for 3 points. Based on our form against lower teams compared to their decent form/table position, it’s going to be a potential struggle though. On that basis just don’t like us being embarrassed on tv.
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Junction 14 is horrible - have seen a few bad accidents there over the years travelling to and from Brum
That whole stretch between 14 and 17 must have a higher incidence of accidents than anywhere else in the country.
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You used to be able to jib to Hawthrons via Keele services. They're knocking that down now.
Ha, used to pop for the odd Burger King via I think Three Mile Lane.
Hawthorns campus is no more?! Blimey if I was told earlier I'd have been a one man protest outside Templar bar and told them to go to the Smethwick version instead!
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Junction 14 is horrible - have seen a few bad accidents there over the years travelling to and from Brum
That whole stretch between 14 and 17 must have a higher incidence of accidents than anywhere else in the country.
The M6 does have more than any other motorway (not sure about that particular stretch though.
In terms of A-roads, the A38, between Birmingham and Staffs, had 8,698 accidents involving 13,153 vehicles between 2007 and 2016 - 360 more accidents than any other road in the UK.
Basically, all (dangerous) roads lead to Villa Park.
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Didn't realise until I heard on the radio this morning that they will go top if they beat us tonight.
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You used to be able to jib to Hawthrons via Keele services. They're knocking that down now.
Ha, used to pop for the odd Burger King via I think Three Mile Lane.
Hawthorns campus is no more?! Blimey if I was told earlier I'd have been a one man protest outside Templar bar and told them to go to the Smethwick version instead!
I always found it a bit grim to be honest! And she had to be attractive to bother to walk all the way down there when full of snake bite on a Wednesday.
They're building (or may have already built) a new halls immediately on your left on the main entrance.
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Heart says 2 - 0 to us.
Head says 1 - 3 to them.
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Tyrone to stamp his authority on the game early on!
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You used to be able to jib to Hawthrons via Keele services. They're knocking that down now.
Ha, used to pop for the odd Burger King via I think Three Mile Lane.
Hawthorns campus is no more?! Blimey if I was told earlier I'd have been a one man protest outside Templar bar and told them to go to the Smethwick version instead!
I always found it a bit grim to be honest! And she had to be attractive to bother to walk all the way down there when full of snake bite on a Wednesday.
They're building (or may have already built) a new halls immediately on your left on the main entrance.
Interesting. Might have a quick nostalgic look around before the Stoke game in a few weeks.
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You used to be able to jib to Hawthrons via Keele services. They're knocking that down now.
Ha, used to pop for the odd Burger King via I think Three Mile Lane.
Hawthorns campus is no more?! Blimey if I was told earlier I'd have been a one man protest outside Templar bar and told them to go to the Smethwick version instead!
I always found it a bit grim to be honest! And she had to be attractive to bother to walk all the way down there when full of snake bite on a Wednesday.
They're building (or may have already built) a new halls immediately on your left on the main entrance.
What year were you? I was around Keele from 92-97
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I was 2004 to 2007. Younger brother was 2013 to 2016.
Lindsay and Barnes 1st and 3rd year.
KU Alumni crew lauding it up on the pre-match thread!
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I’m feeling positive about this one and going 2-0 to us. Both goals in the second half
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This match just better be worth us all missing Boyzone for tonight.
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3-0 tonight
it will click
I like to be positive
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Got a bad feeling about this one but hopefully I'll be wrong. Mings to get booked for his first challenge.
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Got a bad feeling about this one but hopefully I'll be wrong. Mings to get booked for his first challenge.
Blimey. If you are feeling pessimistic then we are screwed - your glass is usually half full.
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3-0 tonight
it will click
I like to be positive
Can we bottle your positivity? ;D
Sheff Utd should win, but the way our results have been going, something has to go our way at some point and there is no reason why it shouldnt "click" and we sneak a win.
Please?
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I was 2004 to 2007. Younger brother was 2013 to 2016.
Lindsay and Barnes 1st and 3rd year.
KU Alumni crew lauding it up on the pre-match thread!
Fuck me, that post has made me feel old!
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:D I think he'll play this team and maybe the formation of 2 sitting midfielders
Kalinic
Hutton
Elphick
Mings
Taylor
Carroll Whelan
McGinn
El Ghazi. Adomah
Abraham
I prefer (for this match )
3 up front
Kalinic
Hutton
Elphick
Mings
Taylor
Jedinak Carroll
McGinn
Green Abraham Kodjia
Either way drop Hourihane but no way would Smith make all those changes even with a game on Wednesday and then next week.
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Got a bad feeling about this one but hopefully I'll be wrong. Mings to get booked for his first challenge.
Blimey. If you are feeling pessimistic then we are screwed - your glass is usually half full.
If Ads goes the same way, we are in big trouble.
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First Villa game for a month (apart from TV) feels like the start of a new season. What colours do we play in?
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First Villa game for a month (apart from TV) feels like the start of a new season. What colours do we play in?
Good luck tonight Brian.
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:D I think he'll play this team and maybe the formation of 2 sitting midfielders
Kalinic
Hutton
Elphick
Mings
Taylor
Carroll Whelan
McGinn
El Ghazi. Adomah
Abraham
I prefer (for this match )
3 up front
Kalinic
Hutton
Elphick
Mings
Taylor
Jedinak Carroll
McGinn
Green Abraham Kodjia
Either way drop Hourihane but no way would Smith make all those changes even with a game on Wednesday and then next week.
That would be my 11 too. Carroll and Jedi as protection with McGinn doing his thing. The rest of the midfielders aren't worth the breath coming out of their arses, so why waste a space in the team on them.
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It's a shame Scott Hogan is not available making their squad stronger.
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First Villa game for a month (apart from TV) feels like the start of a new season. What colours do we play in?
Non Umbro claret and the tiniest bit of blue.
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First Villa game for a month (apart from TV) feels like the start of a new season. What colours do we play in?
Magenta
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My 1sy home absence for about 3 years, various factors, hoping that I regret not going at 945, somehow doubt it though
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3-0 win with all the action in the second half..., I got to go work at HT.