West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa - Pre Match Thread

[The Edge]

we will fucking fuck the fucking fuckers

Your grounded. 

What about his grounded?

I've grounded him due to his potty mouth.

[Toronto Villa]

I'm nervous about this one.

see I'm not. I've almost become immune to losing so I know the feeling all too well. Anything else is a massive bonus.

[cheltenhamlion]

Just beat the ****** and ruin their day.

[class-of-82]

Just beat the stripey shite I hate them more than anythng

[Sexual Ealing]

I see some people saying that a draw's no good to us, but I'm not so sure. That would mean 5 points from the last 3. If we could keep up the same ratio for the rest of the season that would, unless my maths are up my arse, work out to 38 points.

[ASHTONVILLA]

We will win this one, and go on to stay up. 2-0 to the Villa, Gestede* Bicycle kick and Ayew header.

*well maybe a scuffed shot anyway.

[Legion]

0-2

Ayew
Veretout

[ozzjim]

How on earth in 11 games here can you make the call that an anti football spoiler like Pulis is a far superior manager to Garde I will never know.  4 centre backs across the back and at least 4 games without even a shot on target this season. Just because we have been crap doesn't mean you can't be picky about what you how for in the future.

[Monty]

I'll never understand this feeling that 'stabilising' football or 'survival' football has to be eye-hurtingly shit football. It reminds me of the puritans in Blackadder: 'in our house we have no chairs - Nathaniel sits on a spike.' Why do good things have to make you suffer? There's no connection.

[tomd2103]

I don't think we are in any position to go on about the style of football teams play when we've played some of the worst stuff the divisions seen the last few years. A couple of years of stabilising under a Pulis type manager before moving onwards and upwards from him wouldn't have gone amiss in my opinion.

I does make me smile when I see some people on here peaching about how absolutely shite some other teams in our league are while we're down with the dead mean, having stunk the league our for the last 3 seasons or so. 

Bit late to the thread but I was going to reply in similar vein to aj2k77. If you appoint Pulis it doesn't mean you are married to him for 5 years (although our leaders would probably grant him a 5 year contract)  it means you have a very high chance of stopping the rot and settling into a mid table position for a couple of seasons. After that you move on, in terms of results and style, but from a secure base. Stoke and Palace don't seem any the worse off for his efforts in guaranteeing top flight football.

Have to agree. In hindsight Pulis would have been preferable to Sherwood, only for a couple of years. Everywhere he's been has been left stable, with something solid to build on. We tend to turn our noses up at the likes of Pulis, but we really aren't too big or too good for him as things stand. It's too late now, we're heading for the drop, and I'm happy to back Garde in rebuilding us.

Agree and Garde would have been the ideal type of appointment to follow a manager like Pulis.  As it is, Remi is going to be the one tasked with the rebuilding job and after initial doubts, I think he is starting to turn a corner.

As for Saturday, would love to beat them.  They are only six points ahead of Newcastle so could still get sucked back into it.

[preston28]

Feeling optimistic. I think we go 5 games unbeaten with a 1-0 win. Kodak with a 76th minute winner.

[SoccerHQ]

We'll play better than we did at VP without ever look like breaking them down and they'll nick it from a set piece, someone like Olsson.

1-0.

[auntiesledd]

I'm nervous about this one.

see I'm not. I've almost become immune to losing so I know the feeling all too well. Anything else is a massive bonus.

Yep, I'm with ya there TV. That said, I think we'll upset the Smerrick Simpletons & see them buggering off early to the sound of "F*** The Albion"ringing in their jug-ears.

1-2 to us, with a late bundled goal for them c/w the Goal-Down-Retriever desperately sprinting back up the pitch with ball in mitt.

[LukeJames]

I don't think we are in any position to go on about the style of football teams play when we've played some of the worst stuff the divisions seen the last few years. A couple of years of stabilising under a Pulis type manager before moving onwards and upwards from him wouldn't have gone amiss in my opinion.

I does make me smile when I see some people on here peaching about how absolutely shite some other teams in our league are while we're down with the dead mean, having stunk the league our for the last 3 seasons or so. 

Bit late to the thread but I was going to reply in similar vein to aj2k77. If you appoint Pulis it doesn't mean you are married to him for 5 years (although our leaders would probably grant him a 5 year contract)  it means you have a very high chance of stopping the rot and settling into a mid table position for a couple of seasons. After that you move on, in terms of results and style, but from a secure base. Stoke and Palace don't seem any the worse off for his efforts in guaranteeing top flight football.

Have to agree. In hindsight Pulis would have been preferable to Sherwood, only for a couple of years. Everywhere he's been has been left stable, with something solid to build on. We tend to turn our noses up at the likes of Pulis, but we really aren't too big or too good for him as things stand. It's too late now, we're heading for the drop, and I'm happy to back Garde in rebuilding us.

Agree and Garde would have been the ideal type of appointment to follow a manager like Pulis.  As it is, Remi is going to be the one tasked with the rebuilding job and after initial doubts, I think he is starting to turn a corner.

As for Saturday, would love to beat them.  They are only six points ahead of Newcastle so could still get sucked back into it.

Bollocks, theres never a good time or amount of time to appoint Tony fucking Pulis ffs.

[dave.woodhall]

I'd love to return to the O'Neill days. Top 6 finishes, packed Villa Park, fantastic players...
Aaah those were the days!

And still can't see how it was

1.) A shite return for the money thrown at it.
2.) Completely unsustainable.

Maybe one day you'll actually answer the question you were asked at least 5 times in a week before Christmas.

How much should Lerner have continued pouring in?

Not this again lol.  IMO it's not about "how much Lerner should have continued pouring in" O'Neill was fulfilling his obligation on the pitch. Top 6 three years running, coming very close to top 4. FA cup semi and robbed of a League Cup win by a star struck twat of a referee. The money and contract situation was down to the muppets who were at the helm. If they had kept pace with what MON was achieving on the pitch we would be sitting pretty now at the top end of the premier league.

It'll be this again for as long as the myth is peddled that O'Neill performed miracles with the resources available and while in some unexplained way he was divorced from the financial side. Do you really think that the players he signed (that's he, Martin O'Neill) would have joined were it not for the contracts provided by the "muppets at the helm"?