Quote from: ChicagoLion on August 28, 2016, 10:12:39 AMQuote from: Matt Collins on August 28, 2016, 10:10:30 AMI always thought we might have a slow start and I didn't think we'd go up this year. I had been starting to change my mind with the signings, with the way we've played in the first half of most of our games. I'm now less confident againDespite all of the defensive, positional and motivational problems - stick an inform number 9 in that team and I still reckon we'd have put Bristol and Huddersfield out of sight at half time, and may well have beaten Derby tooThe most critical areas on the pitch, goal scoring and goalkeeping, despite the millions spent has not been addressed.We have addressed the keeper position - we just may have done it badly!McCormack will score goals. He's a slow starter who wasn't match fitI expect a centre forward will still arrive. If it's £12m+ for kodjia I've a nasty feeling it will be a mistake though
Quote from: Matt Collins on August 28, 2016, 10:10:30 AMI always thought we might have a slow start and I didn't think we'd go up this year. I had been starting to change my mind with the signings, with the way we've played in the first half of most of our games. I'm now less confident againDespite all of the defensive, positional and motivational problems - stick an inform number 9 in that team and I still reckon we'd have put Bristol and Huddersfield out of sight at half time, and may well have beaten Derby tooThe most critical areas on the pitch, goal scoring and goalkeeping, despite the millions spent has not been addressed.
I always thought we might have a slow start and I didn't think we'd go up this year. I had been starting to change my mind with the signings, with the way we've played in the first half of most of our games. I'm now less confident againDespite all of the defensive, positional and motivational problems - stick an inform number 9 in that team and I still reckon we'd have put Bristol and Huddersfield out of sight at half time, and may well have beaten Derby too
Quote from: ChicagoLion on August 27, 2016, 05:37:29 PMQuote from: chrisw1 on August 27, 2016, 05:12:54 PMQuote from: curiousorange on August 27, 2016, 05:09:43 PMTwo constants from our shite last few seasons - Westwood and Bacuna - are still in senior roles. It's no surprise to me that with their contributions, we're as solid as a paper aeroplane in a tornado.Absolute bollocks. Two of our better players this season. It's their fault the whole fucking team collapse in the second half?i know the result as soon as I see thier names on the team sheet.Bacuna's done half decent so far but he's still not anything special. Westwood on the other hand has been his usual anonymous self. Honestly when are fans gonna realise the waster this man is? He's spent years making our midfield mediocre with displays of nothingness and it's time we finally got rid of him. We won't be promoted with him in our midfield.
Quote from: chrisw1 on August 27, 2016, 05:12:54 PMQuote from: curiousorange on August 27, 2016, 05:09:43 PMTwo constants from our shite last few seasons - Westwood and Bacuna - are still in senior roles. It's no surprise to me that with their contributions, we're as solid as a paper aeroplane in a tornado.Absolute bollocks. Two of our better players this season. It's their fault the whole fucking team collapse in the second half?i know the result as soon as I see thier names on the team sheet.
Quote from: curiousorange on August 27, 2016, 05:09:43 PMTwo constants from our shite last few seasons - Westwood and Bacuna - are still in senior roles. It's no surprise to me that with their contributions, we're as solid as a paper aeroplane in a tornado.Absolute bollocks. Two of our better players this season. It's their fault the whole fucking team collapse in the second half?
Two constants from our shite last few seasons - Westwood and Bacuna - are still in senior roles. It's no surprise to me that with their contributions, we're as solid as a paper aeroplane in a tornado.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on August 27, 2016, 07:03:22 PMOur run in the league is now PL45 W4 D10 L31.I knew it was bad, but thats just bloody awful. And we still get 35k to VP
Our run in the league is now PL45 W4 D10 L31.
I wonder whether the players and staff have fallen under the spell of "We are Aston Villa, Champions of Europe, Greatest team ever" rather than "We are Aston Villa, Champions of fuck all anymore and they need us to get out of this fucking mess"[/quoteGreat point. I have banged on about this many times and usually get shot down for it but here goes. Can the club PLEASE tear down those embarrassing banners about the European cup from 34 fucking years ago?Great memories but it's time to move on. Maybe then we just might make some new memories.
Firstly, I think we should bin all this crap about gypsy curses. That's for the medieval knuckledraggers in Small Heath. Secondly, I can't believe more people didn't expect a rough start. The juggernaut full of shit that thundered us out of the Premier League hasn't even slowed to a stop yet. It will eventually, and we will then start to turn it around. May take a season, may take two.What I think has happened to us is largely psychological. A kind of big club syndrome. But the truth is big grounds, crowds, nice training facilities and sparkling trophy cabinets don't win football matches. Only hard work, concentration and a bloody-minded will to win can get us the points we need. I didn't see the game yesterday, but how much did we look like we wanted, needed to win?We're like a posh kid whose parents have lost their fortune, and who has been forced to leave his private school and attend an inner-city comprehensive. When it all boils down, we're really no better than the 'sister fuckers' and 'small time' clubs that keep bloodying our noses. That attitude of innate superiority has to end, right now.We have to forget our glorious past, stop pampering players and learn some toughness. Hide the European Cup replica, take the star off the badge. We've lived on our pedigree for far too long and it's killing us.
Quote from: four fornicholl on August 27, 2016, 09:36:17 PMI wonder whether the players and staff have fallen under the spell of "We are Aston Villa, Champions of Europe, Greatest team ever" rather than "We are Aston Villa, Champions of fuck all anymore and they need us to get out of this fucking mess"[/quoteGreat point. I have banged on about this many times and usually get shot down for it but here goes. Can the club PLEASE tear down those embarrassing banners about the European cup from 34 fucking years ago?Great memories but it's time to move on. Maybe then we just might make some new memories.No idea what happened here. I do it from time to time. Lol.
I struggle to think of anything that influences me less than what Small Heath do.Who gives a fuck?
I'm massively ashamed of us winning the European Cup.Yours,Sir Herbert
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on August 27, 2016, 11:22:42 PMI struggle to think of anything that influences me less than what Small Heath do.Who gives a fuck?Your in denial. I have to live, work, drink with the Villa obsessed tossers and my life will be made a misery over the bank holiday. I really do give a fuck what happens to that pile of shit from small heath.
I also thought it was Ross Mac's job to bang in his obligatory 20?