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Offline dave.woodhall

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Promoted Press
« on: May 28, 2019, 09:59:45 AM »
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2019, 10:04:13 AM »
Marvellous stuff Dave
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2019, 10:09:11 AM »
You touched on the one thing which was my one gripe from yesterday, us trying to walk the ball into the net for the 3rd instead of having a pop at goal. I think we did it twice.
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2019, 10:13:03 AM »
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Online Exeter 77

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2019, 10:13:19 AM »
Love the comparison to Weston.
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2019, 10:16:43 AM »
Quote from: Exeter 77 on May 28, 2019, 10:13:19 AM
Love the comparison to Weston.

And me, it was a hoot.
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Offline darren woolley

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2019, 10:29:14 AM »
Brilliantly summed up Dave.
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Offline Whiney MacWhineface

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2019, 11:16:26 AM »
There's a decent novella to be written starting with the final whistle of last year's Playoff Final. The lows and highs (and the moments of pure football barminess in between e.g. the Forest 5-5, the Sheffield comeback) and the sheer number of personalities involved for good or ill  would make a slightly unbelievable story even for the Championship.
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Offline TopDeck113

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2019, 11:32:10 AM »
The last paragraph!

I would admit to a pang of regret as we wave ta-ra (but not though the a-bit) to the Championship.  If I'll miss anything, it's decent, traditional, historic clubs, without the tourists and a sense that every match could go either way. It's what the Premier League could have been if the money hadn't got crazy and then concentrated in a few hands.

But we're Aston Villa and we have to be part of the top division.  Our absences are historical aberrations and we're back where we should be.
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2019, 02:15:25 PM »
Nice back-handed compliment to Weston-Super-Mud
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2019, 04:08:23 PM »
You couldn't make this season up... definitely worth a longer article/book...

For me Rotherham (lol Rotherham) 1-0 down, ten men, half time... no Villa team I've ever seen would have done what they did in the first 15mins of the second half. That's when I began to believe.
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Offline andyh

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2019, 04:16:32 PM »
A brilliant last sentence.
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2019, 04:17:46 PM »
Dean Smith interview coming up on Sky Sports News.

He's got the cup , looks like it's at Villa Park.
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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2019, 04:19:17 PM »
Quote from: FrankyH on May 28, 2019, 04:17:46 PM
Dean Smith interview coming up on Sky Sports News.

He's got the cup , looks like it's at Villa Park.

Sorry wrong thread
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Offline frank

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Re: Promoted Press
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2019, 05:07:14 PM »
Very good article, Dave.

What an exciting prospect that Dean Smith might follow those legendary managers you named and lift an even more important cup at Wembley!
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