Aston Villa vs Sunderland Post-Match Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

Au contraire Goldie.   I am something of an expert on combination locks because so many wannabe Stephen Hawkins graduate and leave their bikes chained to our premises while they go on to make large working for Bill Gates in California.   The commonest combination is 0000 because that is what the lock is set at by the manufacturer and Cambridge students being as idle as students everywhere never can be arsed to change the number.   Next most common is 0001 (minimum effort, one click clockwise) and 0009 (one click anticlockwise).   Anybody want a free bike?

You'd have made a good phone hacker back in the day, Brian.

[Legion]

From Aston Villa Worldwide: "Emily May Jones went to the Sunderland game with her father, Brian Jones. Sadly after the game Brian had a heart attack and passed away.
Emily said "Aston Villa is his life and I just wondered if their is anything you can do to make fans aware and hold a minutes silence maybe not at the next game but whenever possible, your help would be much appreciated.
If you could give a small mention to the man who helped me whilst I tried my utmost to save his life, just to say Thank you for being so supportive and standing by me throughout, my dad would have been so grateful.
Suffering such a traumatic experience at 16 years old is hard but I want my dad to know how much the villa fans love him eternally"
Our thoughts are with you and your family Emily.
RIP Brian."

[pauliewalnuts]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

[edgysatsuma89]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

We're pretty good at lots of minutes of silence at the moment. She just needs to pick one.

[silhillvilla]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

The club are normally very good at putting a respectful note in the programme.

[pauliewalnuts]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

The club are normally very good at putting a respectful note in the programme.

Yep, that'd be the right response, really.

[Legion]

A horrible thing to happen to you, it must have been awful for her.

However, a minute's silence? Hmmm.

Something on the big screens or in the programme would be more suitable.

[Chris Jameson]

The minutes applause thing has got out of hand. Newcastle are still doing it for the two supporters who died in the plane crash and then did another in the 33rd minute against Sunderland which was baffling. Turns out it was because Sunderland supporters raised £33,000 in their memories.

[pauliewalnuts]

The minutes applause thing has got out of hand. Newcastle are still doing it for the two supporters who died in the plane crash and then did another in the 33rd minute against Sunderland which was baffling. Turns out it was because Sunderland supporters raised £33,000 in their memories.

Just so you know, Chris, I am going to set my watch to count down to 12965 seconds, at which point I will give you a minute's applause in honour of this, your 12965th post.

[Chris Jameson]

I'm touched paulie, can I ask that it continues throughout the season to raise awareness and for charity or something like that?

[Richard E]

His daughter has told me off on Facebook for not being in favour of a minute's silence. Oops.

[SoccerHQ]

Stoke are an intreresting example. Mark Hughes has had less to spend than Lambert yet has come up with Diouf, Bojan and Arnautovic for about 3m which creates a forward line of pace, power and creativity when it's on song.

As much as it would've been seen as negative at the time, Hughes to us in 2011 would've probably been a good move as he's shown frequently he can build decent competitive premier league teams for virtually peanuts.

Fulham and QPR competitive?  Man City team for peanuts! (and QPR).  He broke the British transfer record at Man City!

Fulham finished 8th in his one season there, I'd call that a bloody good job.

Yeah QPR was a disaster, no spinning it around from me there. I think he was unlucky at Man. City in so much has there ever been a club where expectations have changed so much in 24 hours? He did sign Kompany and Zabaleta for them.

[SoccerHQ]

Stoke are an intreresting example. Mark Hughes has had less to spend than Lambert yet has come up with Diouf, Bojan and Arnautovic for about 3m which creates a forward line of pace, power and creativity when it's on song.

As much as it would've been seen as negative at the time, Hughes to us in 2011 would've probably been a good move as he's shown frequently he can build decent competitive premier league teams for virtually peanuts.

Fulham and QPR competitive?  Man City team for peanuts! (and QPR).  He broke the British transfer record at Man City!

He is one of those managers who seems to do well on a small to medium budget, and fucks it up if he has to go large. Brendan Rogers is the latest in a long line of these chaps.

My theory is that the PL financial bonanza came relatively late in the scheme of things and so managers/coaches from leagues that had mega millionaire players before the Preemyership TV megadeals  kicked in had a head start.   
 

Steve Bruce is the big one for me. The more money he spends, the worse his teams get. That happened at SHA and Hull are getting poorer results than last year despite seemingly having a better squad.

[Legion]

His daughter has told me off on Facebook for not being in favour of a minute's silence. Oops.

I think your post was perfectly valid, but her head must be all over the place at the moment and I feel so sorry for her.

[Richard E]

I wouldn't have been so crass as to put something like that on her personal page but it was on H and V and wasn't actually written with any particular thought that she would read it. I'm not going to take it personally, I'd hate to imagine how she must be feeling at the moment.