Ollie Watkins

[AV82EC]

It’s hilarious that they’re just waking up to the fact we’re a much bigger club than a lot of people realise. We’ve been pretty shit and inconsequential for the last decade and there’s quite a few people just not willing to accept that last season wasn’t a flash in the pan. Fuck the lot of them.

[dave shelley]

For all those Brentford fans carping about Ollie not being the person they all thought he was. After the game at home last year and the spanking they received, there was footage of Ollie playing football on the Villa Park pitch with a young Brentford fan with, I believe learning difficulties, who Ollie had struck up a friendship with and was the kid's favourite player. 

I know it's true because I remember seeing it but I can't remember who posted it.  The lad's mother posted her appreciation of Ollie for doing it.  Those salty Brentford fans mustn't have seen it, either that or they have very short memories/amnesia.

[KevinGage]

There's also this myth that you can actual get 20 goal a season strikers fairly easily.  When in reality how many strikers actual score 20+ goals for more than a single season in their entire career?  I make it as 19 since 1992/93 (as that's an easy place to start):

- Les Ferdinand (92/93, 94/95, 95/96)

Couldn't think of anywhere better to put this, so just searched his name. This week's Quickly Kevin podcast (Brian Little last week, well worth a listen) goes into quite a bit of detail with him about when he nearly joined us before he eventually went to Newcastle.

Apparently Ellis bumped into him at the end of 94-95 season in the Carribbean, and asked if he's be interested in joining if we made a bid. He told Ellis that he was. Then in the summer we agreed the £6m fee with QPR and he was getting ready to drive up to Birmingham to sign the contract with us, when Keegan drove down to London to talk to him and persuaded him to join Newcastle instead.

I thought that the narrative was that we only got involved after he'd already agreed to join Newcastle. Is the above widely known?

Was prob best for everyone how it panned out in the end.

Sign Ferdinand and I don't think we'd have had enough for Southgate, Draper and Savo. And maybe Yorke doesn't have his breakout season. 

After 1994/95 that side needed more than just a regular goalscorer, good as Ferdinand was.

[SamTheMouse]

Ollie played very well today. The abuse actually seemed to fire him up, encapsulated by a fantastic bit of play right at the end to hold the ball up, dribble away from two or three opponents, and find a teammate. Showed great technique and some lovely deft touches in doing so, too.

[KevinGage]

Got to love this saltiness from that weird Brentford site:

It seems that not only do Aston Villa not have a Brentford-style "no dickheads" policy, they have a policy of creating dickheads out of decent young men.

At least Ollie recognised that he was the cause of all the nonsense in the last 15 minutes. It's incredible that his employers have sought to turn the spotlight back on Brentford. I hope they lose all their remaining games this season - even against Putney.

Ben Mee, Neal Maupey, Ivan Toney, Rico Henry and previously that big gormless centre half from Leedzzz.

Not to mention the randy ski instructor they have in the manager's dug out.

[LukeJames]

The gist of that site seems to be that because they are a small family club, that they can give abuse out to Ollie but he shouldnt react to it because he's well paid. What a bunch of precious wankers.

[aldridgeboy]

Randy Ski instructor 😂

[London Villan]

Love Oli - be nice for him to beat Gabby's record this season...

[AV84]

The article on The Athletic, about if Villa are a good team for neutrals, seems to specifically mention the fan was abusing Watkins' family.

Most players seen to accept a certain level of abuse if its aimed at them, but Watkins clearly felt it crossed a line yesterday, and anyone who has watched him play for any length of time would know he generally keeps his head down and that reaction was out of the ordinary for him.

[Nii Lamptey]

Got to love this saltiness from that weird Brentford site:

It seems that not only do Aston Villa not have a Brentford-style "no dickheads" policy, they have a policy of creating dickheads out of decent young men.

At least Ollie recognised that he was the cause of all the nonsense in the last 15 minutes. It's incredible that his employers have sought to turn the spotlight back on Brentford. I hope they lose all their remaining games this season - even against Putney.

Ben Mee, Neal Maupey, Ivan Toney, Rico Henry and previously that big gormless centre half from Leedzzz.

Not to mention the randy ski instructor they have in the manager's dug out.

Thomas Frank is the reincarnation of this nightmare fuel from late 80s/early 90s kids tv....

[LukeJames]

"Just to be clear, I'm in the North stand on the half way line. Watkins continued to celebrate by clenching his fist towards the Villa fans as he got back to the centre circle. No sympathy for the throbber."

Theres no place in football for this kind of behaviour. Ollie Watkins actually clenched his fists towards the Aston Villa supporters, won't somebody think of the Children.

[Dave]

"Just to be clear, I'm in the North stand on the half way line. Watkins continued to celebrate by clenching his fist towards the Villa fans as he got back to the centre circle. No sympathy for the throbber."

Theres no place in football for this kind of behaviour. Ollie Watkins actually clenched his fists towards the Aston Villa supporters, won't somebody think of the Children.

Once The Hague have finished dealing with Matty Cash's crimes against humanity, we'll get Watkins straight over to them.

[PeterWithe]

I think we've got enough no-marks trying for a rivalry with us without adding Brentford to the list, thank you very much, but its a no from me.

[Monty]

What a bunch of blouses. They have some unmentionable c**t lobbing abuse at the guy's family and they side with the guy. Fuck off then, wish Ollie really had given the lot of you the big 'un.

We've got a tribalism issue in football, it's got really nasty. The way Spurs fans behaved about the Cash thing, Arsenal's preposterous invective against us, now all this...is it maybe a when-you're-at-the-top thing? I don't know.

[Smithy]

What a bunch of blouses. They have some unmentionable c**t lobbing abuse at the guy's family and they side with the guy. Fuck off then, wish Ollie really had given the lot of you the big 'un.

We've got a tribalism issue in football, it's got really nasty. The way Spurs fans behaved about the Cash thing, Arsenal's preposterous invective against us, now all this...is it maybe a when-you're-at-the-top thing? I don't know.

it is most DEFINITELY a when-you're-at-the-top thing.  We're in that funny place right now where a lot of neutrals think of us a 'nice' team, because we're giving the 'big six' a bloody nose while playing pretty good football.  However, slowly but surely, week after week, we're beating the teams that these neutrals support, and that changes things.  No supporter EVER likes seeing their side beaten, and these days there are a LOT of supporters enjoying that losing feeling at the hands of Aston Villa.

It comes with the territory, and long may it continue!