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Offline villa kicks

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #165 on: July 21, 2017, 04:15:28 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #166 on: July 21, 2017, 04:19:02 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

According to my Leeds supporting mate, we can have Chris Wood for £15m.
« Last Edit: July 21, 2017, 04:28:07 PM by Rudy Can't Fail »

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #167 on: July 21, 2017, 04:23:53 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

According to my Leeds supporting mate, we can have Chris Woods for £15m.

He's getting on a bit now, but he'd still probably give Bunn a run for his money.

Offline villa kicks

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #168 on: July 21, 2017, 04:26:53 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

According to my Leeds supporting mate, we can have Chris Woods for £15m.

He's getting on a bit now, but he'd still probably give Bunn a run for his money.


Well I heard he was off to forest though don't think so myself can't see the woods for the trees

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #169 on: July 21, 2017, 04:28:31 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

According to my Leeds supporting mate, we can have Chris Woods for £15m.

He's getting on a bit now, but he'd still probably give Bunn a run for his money.

**snigger**

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #170 on: July 21, 2017, 04:31:45 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Ulloa is the one I like at villa or even afobe who is big man

According to my Leeds supporting mate, we can have Chris Woods for £15m.

He's getting on a bit now, but he'd still probably give Bunn a run for his money.

Took me longer than it should have.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #171 on: July 21, 2017, 04:49:45 PM »
Is that Frank Bunn?

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #172 on: July 21, 2017, 04:50:20 PM »
Epic fail on team selection.

Offline AGRIPPA

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Re: Glenn Whelan
« Reply #173 on: July 22, 2017, 11:29:03 PM »
Q) How do you make a one dimensional, flat, ponderous midfield even more one dimensional, flat and ponderous?

A) By signing Glenn Whealan.

He's well and truly putting his stamp on the club now, unfortunately too many people have already brought into it.

Or maybe

Q) How do you ensure the midfield doesn't crumble when Jedinak is out, while also allowing Lansbury and / or hourihane to concentrate on what we bought them for?

For some reason this has cheered me up a bit.

Whelan has been a good consistent playe in the Prem....and he ain't got a sicknote..he'll start ahead of Jedinak
« Last Edit: July 22, 2017, 11:30:58 PM by AGRIPPA »

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #174 on: July 22, 2017, 11:32:23 PM »
Whelan is a solid player who has been comfortably good enough in the top flight. He'll be fine.

Offline Gregorys Boy

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #175 on: July 23, 2017, 12:33:42 AM »
Don't have a massave problem with this either.  Don't think he should be starting every game, but he's a good enough pro with the experience to add something to the team and squad when he does appear. Won't set the world on fire, but think he's a solid hand who might score a few goals too. 

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #176 on: July 23, 2017, 09:30:46 AM »
Whelan is a solid player who has been comfortably good enough in the top flight. He'll be fine.
It's not greatly exciting but when you look at our sides in the last 6-7 years, we've woefully lacked commitment. One thing we can say now, is that with Chester, Hutton, Terry, Jedinak and Whelan, is that we've got a grouping of players who won't shirk. There's 3-4 others you could hopefully put into that camp and a selection of youngsters you would hope become inspired to do the same.

We're not going to set the world alight, but hopefully we'll see the last of game upon game of gutless performances. And indeed, if the solid base we've now got means that Hourihane, Green, Grealish etc can express themselves with a little more freedom, that will help address the front end of the pitch. In a weird way, having a solid defensive base you can rely upon should in theory make us less negative on the pitch. Should...

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #177 on: July 23, 2017, 12:31:32 PM »
I've only just realised that I have been mixing up Whelan with Dean Whitehead who is now at Huddersfield.
I feel a lot happier about his signing now.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #178 on: July 30, 2017, 01:21:04 PM »
If he manages to repeat yesterday's performance on a regular basis we'll have got ourselves an absolute bargain. A proper midfielder running around Villa Park like he owns it.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #179 on: July 30, 2017, 01:28:12 PM »
Was impressed by what I've seen. He's better on the ball than I thought, we do lack someone who can win the ball back and move in on quickly, he seems very capable of doing this.

 


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