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Offline dave.woodhall

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Press-ing on
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:58:19 AM »

Offline Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2015, 06:59:15 AM »
Good title. 'To sleep, perchance' to dream sums up the difference between the first and second halves.

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2015, 07:17:39 AM »
This guy appears to be the antithesis of Lambert who knows we may see wingers playing on the wing again
we will have to accept that with more goals for will come more goals against but i reckon if we do go down it won't be with a whimper.

Offline JUAN PABLO

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2015, 08:29:20 AM »
I feel so much better than a week ago.

Offline mrfuse

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2015, 11:18:29 AM »
Nice article and pretty much how I view the situation.

Offline darren woolley

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2015, 01:41:45 PM »
Good read Dave.

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2015, 03:00:13 PM »
I disagree about Sherwood being the best candidate - apart from anything else he appears to have been the only candidate - but I definitely agree about Wembley being used only for the final.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2015, 03:20:20 PM »
Good title. 'To sleep, perchance' to dream sums up the difference between the first and second halves.
Shakespeare quotes applied to Villa; I like it:

And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say “This is the worst.”
(Edgar in King Lear)

Offline VILLA MOLE

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2015, 03:24:43 PM »
Good title. 'To sleep, perchance' to dream sums up the difference between the first and second halves.
Shakespeare quotes applied to Villa; I like it:

And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say “This is the worst.”
(Edgar in King Lear)

oohh this is getting very intellectual and deep , I will have to have a look through my comics for quotes    ;)

Offline Bad English

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2015, 03:33:31 PM »
"You are in for a good spanking"
Dennis the Menace's dad. Beano.

Offline Small Rodent

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2015, 03:42:42 PM »
I was discussing Villa's great Lincolnshire connections last night; Eric Houghton, Graham Taylor and John Gregory. So less of the cockney swagger!

Offline passport1

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2015, 04:30:20 PM »
I don't mind him being compared to Gregory. I would prefer not to hear him mentioned in the same breath as Lord Ron,similar circumstances or not.

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Re: Press-ing on
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2015, 08:40:37 AM »
Good title. 'To sleep, perchance' to dream sums up the difference between the first and second halves.
Shakespeare quotes applied to Villa; I like it:

And worse I may be yet. The worst is not
So long as we can say “This is the worst.”
(Edgar in King Lear)

There's more of course the great Bard penned to sum up the optimism and subsequent realism of Tim Sherwood's first match from All's Well That Ends Well :

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."


I hope it doesn't come to the quote from Julius Caesar:
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

 


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