Press-ing on, and on

[dave.woodhall]

http://thebirminghampress.com/2017/04/two-nils-and-two-threes/

[Ad@m]

Psst...Hourihane hit the bar, not Baker.

[dave.woodhall]

Psst...Hourihane hit the bar, not Baker.

That's what I said.

[Ad@m]

Swift change!

[dave.woodhall]

Swift change!

I don't know what you mean.

[olaftab]

It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I love Kodjia. There are few pleasures in football as nice as having a striker on form and improving. Not as hard working as Benteke but I suggest, maybe even more skillful on the ball? And tekkers was no slouch.

It would be nice for our midfield to start chipping in more regularly though.

[Toronto Villa]

The comment about Benteke is interesting. At the time I suggested his freekick was the goal of the season. Not because it was anything overly spectacular, although it was superbly executed, or that it was on the back of two other very good goals, but simply due to its significance during the game and what it meant at that point in the season. Kodjia isn't Benteke. But he's doing a damn good impression of auditioning to be the next top Villa forward and crowd favourite.

[chrisw1]

It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.

For me Platt was the one where I was always most convinced he would score when put through.  But not quite in the make it from nothing way being referred to in the above list.

[darren woolley]

Spot on Dave.

[eamonn]

It will be two years to the day minus two days since Benteke's exploits against QPR. Yorke's performance in the 4-3 up in Newcastle not far behind, surely.
Kodjia to emulate both of them as his hat-trick means we actually win 3-2 this time.

[brian green]

Excellent piece.  Not the same thing but there was always the premonition of a goal when Stan Lynn placed  the ball for a free kick anywhere within thirty yards of the opposition goal.  The bloke who hung the score on the wall at the Witton End would have the new goals for number in his hand while the ref was still blowing for the free kick.

[dave.woodhall]

It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.

For me Platt was the one where I was always most convinced he would score when put through.  But not quite in the make it from nothing way being referred to in the above list.

I thought about adding Gray but he was more the classic target man. From memory few of his goals were from outside the box or where he had to create something out of nothing, and very often the first time you knew he'd had the ball was when it was in the back of the net. 

[olaftab]

Yes agree with that on Gray but there were those moments when a high ball was floated in the area you knew Gray will get to that with a 10/20 yard run and head it into the net.