Aston Villa vs Brentford Post-Match Thread

[tomd2103]

In fairness to Toney he  probably didn't even realise the connotations of the Zulu sign like many of the Villa fans on the day
My daughter thought he was sending love to someone

if he did and thought tell you what I'll troll the Holte end with a sign of the local rivals hooligan firm then he deserves a ban for life

But I don't think he did a bit like Gasciogns flute playing, no idea

He said it was his agent's idea, so I wouldn't have thought he would have been naive enough to make a gesture that would be captured all over the media without asking the meaning behind it.

[brian green]

By taking his agent's advice at a stroke he has made himself untouchable by one of the best clubs in the country to play for when he moves on from Mighty Brentford. Sounds stupid enough to be a nose.

[olaftab]

I've only seen the highlights on MOTD so can anyone tell me why they were denied a goal when their player nicked the ball off Emi M? He had clearly released the ball so to my understanding he had every right to go for the ball. Or am I missing something? 

This is being discussed  ad nauseam on Emi thread however I also think he was a lucky boy to get away with it. As he released the ball their forward nicked it. Fair challenge in my eyes.

[Meanwood Villa]

I wouldn't have known what he was doing if it hadn't been mentioned on here. Now I do know, I think he's a dick.

Toney that is.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd cut him some slack. He clearly didn't know what it meant and he was acting on the advice of his dickhead agent. We'll need to learn to love him once we sign him (as Dave W suggested) next year.

[Risso]

I've only seen the highlights on MOTD so can anyone tell me why they were denied a goal when their player nicked the ball off Emi M? He had clearly released the ball so to my understanding he had every right to go for the ball. Or am I missing something? 

This is being discussed  ad nauseam on Emi thread however I also think he was a lucky boy to get away with it. As he released the ball their forward nicked it. Fair challenge in my eyes.

I posted the rules in the Emi thread. You can’t go for the ball if a keeper is bouncing it or just releases it so it wasn’t a fair challenge.

[clash city rocker]

I'd cut him some slack. He clearly didn't know what it meant and he was acting on the advice of his dickhead agent. We'll need to learn to love him once we sign him (as Dave W suggested) next year.

I wouldnt sign the shit now if our prem life depended on him.. fuck an arsehole that displays that yet alone in front of the holte. May his days slowly peter out as he finishes up playing for Mansfield

[The Edge]

I've only seen the highlights on MOTD so can anyone tell me why they were denied a goal when their player nicked the ball off Emi M? He had clearly released the ball so to my understanding he had every right to go for the ball. Or am I missing something? 

This is being discussed  ad nauseam on Emi thread however I also think he was a lucky boy to get away with it. As he released the ball their forward nicked it. Fair challenge in my eyes.

I posted the rules in the Emi thread. You can’t go for the ball if a keeper is bouncing it or just releases it so it wasn’t a fair challenge.

If those are the rules then fair enough but to me it's a very fine margin as to when  the ball is considered to be "in play". I don't think he should take that risk again when there's a striker in such close proximity.

[Rory]

Is it just me that wouldn't know the 'zulu hand signal' if somebody held it in front of their face for 15 minutes?

Some kind of Nazi or other discriminatory salute, okay, but I'm not sure I give too much of a shit about some chicken-legged, beer-bellied thugs' thing.

Might as well be a secret knock to gain entry to some teenage masturbatory treehouse fraternity.

[astonvilla82]

When i was told by my son what it meant I went and hid in the toilet for the rest of the game

[OzVilla]

They are well drilled and full of confidence. We are still trying to put the pegs in the right holes. 1-1 was a fair result. Ref has a shocker though.

As for the weird celebration, do people really sit around now coming up with hand signs to make them look hard? Kids today eh, who knew.   

[The Edge]

They are well drilled and full of confidence. We are still trying to put the pegs in the right holes. 1-1 was a fair result. Ref has a shocker though.

As for the weird celebration, do people really sit around now coming up with hand signs to make them look hard? Kids today eh, who knew.

I suppose if your football club is an utter irrelevance and a steaming pile of dog shit you have to look for other ways to make your existence known.

[RamboandBruno]

They are well drilled and full of confidence. We are still trying to put the pegs in the right holes. 1-1 was a fair result. Ref has a shocker though.

As for the weird celebration, do people really sit around now coming up with hand signs to make them look hard? Kids today eh, who knew.

I suppose if your football club is an utter irrelevance and a steaming pile of dog shit you have to look for other ways to make your existence known.

His agent probably thought, stick one to the Holte End and any publicity is good publicity for his client. Not sure it’s had the desired effect really, other than a relative handful of people on the Holte going mad and a few of us discussing here, it hasn’t exactly gone viral. Seems an irrelevance to me But I don’t use Twitter etc so what do I know.

[KRS]

DS and the team definitely need to be cut some slack on the performance. DS clearly stated post match that the team that he put out was completely different to the one he’d been working with in training so it’s perfectly reasonable that they all weren’t well drilled and fluid. Things will get better when he has a fully fit squad to work with and pick from…plus a new midfielder or two obviously would help things too.

[martin o`who??]

So how on earth did he come up with it if he didn’t know what it meant?
Of course he knew, his agent told him.

"If you score run to the Holte and do this in front of them  - it doesn't mean anything honest" - my arse.