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Offline mike

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1200 on: January 14, 2020, 11:19:24 PM »
John Gregory might beg to differ.

We didn’t appreciate when we had it good.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1201 on: January 15, 2020, 12:53:14 AM »
John Gregory might beg to differ.

Nearly twenty years ago under JG, scary how quickly time flies. Leeds at home in the cup was one of my all time favourite matches, that was in Jan 2000 (Carbone hatrick/Merse spilling blood).

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1202 on: January 15, 2020, 11:22:50 AM »
I'm worried about this weekend if I'm honest, Brighton were well drilled when they came to Villa Park earlier in the season and arguably should have got at least a point, we were full strength and scraped a win in the 94th minute.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1203 on: January 15, 2020, 12:15:10 PM »
I wouldn't say we scraped a win, when we had a perfectly good goal disallowed and they scored from a ludicrous free kick. I still think they're not a bad side, though. Webster is about the best defender I've seen at Villa Park this season. It's a struggle to find three rubbish teams to finish below us, to be honest.

Maybe we were hasty in laughing when Blose went down.
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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1204 on: January 15, 2020, 01:11:57 PM »
I wouldn't say we scraped a win, when we bad a perfectly good goal disallowed and they scored from a ludicrous free kick. I still think they're not a bad side, though. Webster is about the best defender I've seen at Villa Park this season. It's a struggle to find three rubbish teams to finish below us, to be honest.

Maybe we were hasty in laughing when Blose went down.

Ah yes, I forgot about that VAR decision, you just know Maupay will grab a brace Saturday.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1205 on: January 15, 2020, 01:20:33 PM »
We've got to get 6 from 6 in the next two or I think we might as well start bracing for the Championship. Trouble is, Watford have vastly improved under Pearson and Brighton look fairly safe and pretty well drilled. We looked like we'd twigged a system and finally knew how to organise ourselves, but that's all gone to fuckery of the City game. You can excuse losing to them given our injuries, but in that manner? It was utterly clueless. It just felt like we'd dick drilled ourselves firmly back into square one.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1206 on: January 15, 2020, 01:40:58 PM »
I wouldn't say we scraped a win, when we bad a perfectly good goal disallowed and they scored from a ludicrous free kick. I still think they're not a bad side, though. Webster is about the best defender I've seen at Villa Park this season. It's a struggle to find three rubbish teams to finish below us, to be honest.

Maybe we were hasty in laughing when Blose went down.

Ah yes, I forgot about that VAR decision, you just know Maupay will grab a brace Saturday.

That VAR decison was just absolute bollocks.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1207 on: January 16, 2020, 12:23:52 AM »
We've got to get 6 from 6 in the next two or I think we might as well start bracing for the Championship. Trouble is, Watford have vastly improved under Pearson and Brighton look fairly safe and pretty well drilled. We looked like we'd twigged a system and finally knew how to organise ourselves, but that's all gone to fuckery of the City game. You can excuse losing to them given our injuries, but in that manner? It was utterly clueless. It just felt like we'd dick drilled ourselves firmly back into square one.

We'll struggle to get 2 points I reckon.

I'm not sure why we need 6 points from next two. otherwise it means instant relegation though. West Ham's next three are Everton and Liverpool at home and Leicester away. They could easily take just 1 point from that so we could just beat Bournemouth and go above them and be back up to 17th.

Bournemouth is surely the biggest must win in next few weeks. They are below us and playing terribly so vital to me we go there and win and feasibly finish them off so just one more team to finish above.

If we can be up to 25 points by end of that game, take a point off Spurs and then get 4 off Sheffield United-Southampton then we'd have 30 points by start of March and so can then stay up taking less than a point a game given they'd be 10 left.

If people don't believe after the window closes we wouldn't be capable of taking points off the teams I've mentioned then I wonder what the point is of signing players as clearly they wouldn't be better than ones we've currently got.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1208 on: January 16, 2020, 02:15:00 AM »
Worried and losing confidence/getting frustrated in the management team particularly with the much needed transfer activity...I’m fickle though and that can easily be changed with a few wins and decent signings that will show that we can stay in this division.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1209 on: January 16, 2020, 07:32:47 AM »
To stay in we need forwards and we haven't got any. Trying to solve a problem in two weeks that should have been addressed in the summer is madness.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1210 on: January 16, 2020, 07:38:15 AM »
I must admit I thought as we all did after missing out on another striker in the summer we’d have already had a number of players lined up ready for contact as soon as January started, it does seem we hadn’t. It seemed a huge priority before Wes was injured even if he was playing very well and scoring, now it’s crucial. That lack of forward planning seems a bit naive from the management. I did think we’d have been far more progressive and ruthless now we have this new set up in place.
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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1211 on: January 16, 2020, 09:31:22 AM »
I must admit I thought as we all did after missing out on another striker in the summer we’d have already had a number of players lined up ready for contact as soon as January started, it does seem we hadn’t. It seemed a huge priority before Wes was injured even if he was playing very well and scoring, now it’s crucial. That lack of forward planning seems a bit naive from the management. I did think we’d have been far more progressive and ruthless now we have this new set up in place.

We absolutely would have had plans and targets. And back up plans. And probably plan C, D, E etc.

It’s not just as straightforward as that though. And plans can fall apart quite easily/quickly. It’s not unlikely that because there are a reduced amount of players available that several clubs target the same players, so that takes time. Plus players may well wait to later in the window to see if they get other/better offers.

Then you have the additional complication that we have now that it is blindly obvious we are desperate for a CF so clubs will, being businesses, increase the price or delay the process thinking we get more desperate and pay more money.

As we have seen with Drinkwater and Reina, the players that are readily available come with conditions - not match fit, declining ability, can’t get into their current team.

Couple all that with the fact that (and I don’t know enough about FFP so happy to be corrected if I’m wrong here) it seems that we are not in a position to spend loads of money/overpay to force a solution and patience is going to be key here - as much as this forum probably won’t like it!

January is a pretty difficult window anyway even before we picked up three key injuries right at the start of it. The fact that we have managed to replace two of them pretty quickly (if you’re prepared to reserve judgement on those players a little!) isn’t bad going. Don’t think we can judge the club too harshly until we see what they have done by the  end of the window.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1212 on: January 16, 2020, 09:41:10 AM »
Agree. But bloody hell we need someone of quality up front.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1213 on: January 16, 2020, 01:40:12 PM »
We certainly do and now McGinn is injured that is such a key area.

I understand that Luke, it's just very frustrating. I was just hoping I suppose with this new backroom set-up of scouts and directors of football and with very rich owners we might have been a bit more aggressive and forceful when the window opened in January. Maybe we have been and are as we talk, who knows, all we have heard is rumours and paper talk.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1214 on: January 16, 2020, 02:24:21 PM »
Realistically who can we finish above? I’d go Norwich, Bournemouth and Newcastle, who could get dragged back into it.

 


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