MOTD

[Somniloquism]

Bogarde and Onana in Troys team.

Only two people were monsters this week.

[rob_bridge]

No not really. “They did a superb piece on our first goal. So nothing to complain there.

Yep, 'it was a 50/50 decision on the challenge, Villa worked a good free kick but Leicester should've defended it better' seems okay to me.

I think Tim thinks Villa on MOTD should be spoken about like a round of golf by Kim Jung Un in North Korea.

I'd like to see VillaTim as guest editor on MOTD on a day we win.

Host Dion Dublin
Commentators Lee Hendrie and Alan Smith
Pundits Nigel Kennedy, Prince William and Tom Hanks
Special guest - Troy Deeney to eat humble pie

[VillaTim]

No not really. “They did a superb piece on our first goal. So nothing to complain there.

Yep, 'it was a 50/50 decision on the challenge, Villa worked a good free kick but Leicester should've defended it better' seems okay to me.

I think Tim thinks Villa on MOTD should be spoken about like a round of golf by Kim Jung Un in North Korea.

I'd like to see VillaTim as guest editor on MOTD on a day we win.

Host Dion Dublin
Commentators Lee Hendrie and Alan Smith
Pundits Nigel Kennedy, Prince William and Tom Hanks
Special guest - Troy Deeney to eat humble pie

Can't work out if Alan Smith . He keeps his commentary very professional (I like him as a co-commentator) maybe he counter balances it too much as he's a villa fan but he doesn't side with us and sometimes seems to go the other way , maybe a psychological counter balance .

[VillaTim]

Unsurprisingly MOTD have selected none of our goals for the August shortlist .

[VillaTim]

2nd last on MOTD2 .

[kippaxvilla2]

Smith supports us as much as Lescott did.

[coreyfeldman]

2nd last on MOTD2 .

where they just show the goals from the day before? so?

wasnt even like our match was a good on either tbh

[Hookeysmith]

The Duran winner at WHU was a fantastic one touch sweeping move.

Apart from a poor touch on Faas head, Durans 2nd against Leicester was at the end of an 18 pass move, most of which was one touch

Wankers

[rob_bridge]

No not really. “They did a superb piece on our first goal. So nothing to complain there.

Yep, 'it was a 50/50 decision on the challenge, Villa worked a good free kick but Leicester should've defended it better' seems okay to me.

I think Tim thinks Villa on MOTD should be spoken about like a round of golf by Kim Jung Un in North Korea.

I'd like to see VillaTim as guest editor on MOTD on a day we win.

Host Dion Dublin
Commentators Lee Hendrie and Alan Smith
Pundits Nigel Kennedy, Prince William and Tom Hanks
Special guest - Troy Deeney to eat humble pie

Can't work out if Alan Smith . He keeps his commentary very professional (I like him as a co-commentator) maybe he counter balances it too much as he's a villa fan but he doesn't side with us and sometimes seems to go the other way , maybe a psychological counter balance .

I think he is like Richie Benaud in that respect (not as good as him) but clearly has a preference (for Villa) which never impinges on his professionalism.

Always hear Smith giving a slighlty harder time than other midland teams so suspected he was possibly an Albion fan but he was defo a Villa fan growing up.

[eamonn]

Joe Hart is excellent, I thought. Analysis that rings true, good vocabulary and explains things really well.

Re our goals being shunned for Goal of the Month - I think this is a positive feature of Emery's tenure. A lot of our goals are really well-worked team efforts that involve a number of consecutive passes, the type usually overlooked in favour of top-corner thunderbolts etc. - a far cry from Gerrard's grasping at "individual moments of quality" when we looked disjointed as a team.

I get the feeling our players are discouraged from trying worldies due to the low chance of success compared to our superior ability to keep possession in dangerous areas and pounce at the right moment with through-balls and the like.

[paul_e]

Joe Hart is excellent, I thought. Analysis that rings true, good vocabulary and explains things really well.

Re our goals being shunned for Goal of the Month - I think this is a positive feature of Emery's tenure. A lot of our goals are really well-worked team efforts that involve a number of consecutive passes, the type usually overlooked in favour of top-corner thunderbolts etc. - a far cry from Gerrard's grasping at "individual moments of quality" when we looked disjointed as a team.

I get the feeling our players are discouraged from trying worldies due to the low chance of success compared to our superior ability to keep possession in dangerous areas and pounce at the right moment with through-balls and the like.

I agree, ours are the sort of goals that coaches will be purring over (well, good ones at least) but fans won't necessarily appreciate as much.

[rob_bridge]

Joe Hart is excellent, I thought. Analysis that rings true, good vocabulary and explains things really well.

Re our goals being shunned for Goal of the Month - I think this is a positive feature of Emery's tenure. A lot of our goals are really well-worked team efforts that involve a number of consecutive passes, the type usually overlooked in favour of top-corner thunderbolts etc. - a far cry from Gerrard's grasping at "individual moments of quality" when we looked disjointed as a team.

I get the feeling our players are discouraged from trying worldies due to the low chance of success compared to our superior ability to keep possession in dangerous areas and pounce at the right moment with through-balls and the like.

I agree, ours are the sort of goals that coaches will be purring over (well, good ones at least) but fans won't necessarily appreciate as much.

They made that first goal v Leicester look much easier than it was.

Diaz goal winning for August is a joke

[VillaTim]

Do quality headed goals not count. They never seem to feature .

[Exeter 77]

Alan Smith is definitely a Villa fan. Or at least he was when he was living opposite my school because I was there when somebody (a gobby 12 year old but not me) asked him.

[OCD]

MOTD's goal of the month is a public vote so it's a popularity contest anyway, so Liverpool and Man Utd win more than they should if it was based on merit.