Fulham vs Aston Villa Pre-Match Ramblings

[Clampy]

The shit that went on in Ian Dury's flat...read (actually, listen to - the audiobook is fantastic) his son Baxter's memoir, Chaise Longue for vivid accounts of depravity.

I've read it, it's marvellous. Baxter still lives there.

[VillaTim]

This game will begin to sort out which players have the cahoneys for the run in and those who are one flip-flop on the beach already. Bring it on.

[Sexual Ealing]

This game will begin to sort out which players have the cahoneys for the run in and those who are one flip-flop on the beach already. Bring it on.

Cojones, but your way is good too.

[dave.woodhall]

The shit that went on in Ian Dury's flat...read (actually, listen to - the audiobook is fantastic) his son Baxter's memoir, Chaise Longue for vivid accounts of depravity.

I've read it, it's marvellous. Baxter still lives there.

Thanks Eastie.

[Clampy]

The shit that went on in Ian Dury's flat...read (actually, listen to - the audiobook is fantastic) his son Baxter's memoir, Chaise Longue for vivid accounts of depravity.

I've read it, it's marvellous. Baxter still lives there.

Thanks Eastie.

This deserved a proper LOL (as the youth say).

[VillaTim]

This game will begin to sort out which players have the cahoneys for the run in and those who are one flip-flop on the beach already. Bring it on.

Cojones, but your way is good too.

just need to see the heroism on the pitch. (and some basic defending) 

[Mister E]

In the reverse fixture I thought McGinn had his best game for the club. Paulinha, who is a very good midfielder, was being strongly linked to Bayern Munich at the time but SJM destroyed him. We move McGinn back next to Luiz and we lose his ability to drop into the play behind Paulinha. Think we should be giving Tim his chance but I expect Emery to go with Luiz/McGinn and Tielemans will get back in.

Totally agree.

Any kind of a win would be amazing in the circumstances. To be honest I think I'd prefer Chambers at RCB rather than Lenglet or Torres moving over. Fulham have struggled for goals since Mitrovic left but I can't see us keeping a clean sheet in the circumstances.

Yes, I think on balance I'd agree with that.

[caster troy]

The press conference today will be interesting. Is Pau fit to start? Any Konsa update? Who replaces Kamara? Change of system?

[Nev]

More lazy rubbish from the Guardian preview who don't see fit to mention our 3rd ACL this season and the most recent one and it's impact on the side.

[Monty]

More lazy rubbish from the Guardian preview who don't see fit to mention our 3rd ACL this season and the most recent one and it's impact on the side.

Yeah I read that. Unusually bad even for the Guardian. This is a clearly worse injury crisis than the ones they went mental over earlier in the season, and the best they can muster is a paragraph that says Diaby's recent omissions have been 'puzzling'. Puzzling?! There was a whole piece in The Athletic about why he's been bad!

Fact is that the Graun talks a big old lefty game but its sport coverage reveals that it's just as craven and slavering a power-worshipper as anyone else.

[LeeB]

More lazy rubbish from the Guardian preview who don't see fit to mention our 3rd ACL this season and the most recent one and it's impact on the side.

Yeah I read that. Unusually bad even for the Guardian. This is a clearly worse injury crisis than the ones they went mental over earlier in the season, and the best they can muster is a paragraph that says Diaby's recent omissions have been 'puzzling'. Puzzling?! There was a whole piece in The Athletic about why he's been bad!

Fact is that the Graun talks a big old lefty game but its sport coverage reveals that it's just as craven and slavering a power-worshipper as anyone else.

God that's so true, I'm pretty sure Jamie Jackson's wage is paid by Manchester United he's that far up their rectum.

[OCD]

More lazy rubbish from the Guardian preview who don't see fit to mention our 3rd ACL this season and the most recent one and it's impact on the side.

Yeah I read that. Unusually bad even for the Guardian. This is a clearly worse injury crisis than the ones they went mental over earlier in the season, and the best they can muster is a paragraph that says Diaby's recent omissions have been 'puzzling'. Puzzling?! There was a whole piece in The Athletic about why he's been bad!

Fact is that the Graun talks a big old lefty game but its sport coverage reveals that it's just as craven and slavering a power-worshipper as anyone else.

I don't think any other media publication is on the same level as the Athletic. Fully worth the £1/mth I pay for it.

[Monty]

More lazy rubbish from the Guardian preview who don't see fit to mention our 3rd ACL this season and the most recent one and it's impact on the side.

Yeah I read that. Unusually bad even for the Guardian. This is a clearly worse injury crisis than the ones they went mental over earlier in the season, and the best they can muster is a paragraph that says Diaby's recent omissions have been 'puzzling'. Puzzling?! There was a whole piece in The Athletic about why he's been bad!

Fact is that the Graun talks a big old lefty game but its sport coverage reveals that it's just as craven and slavering a power-worshipper as anyone else.

God that's so true, I'm pretty sure Jamie Jackson's wage is paid by Manchester United he's that far up their rectum.

Yep. Ronay, Liew and Wilson may criticise Big Sixery or the state-owned clubs but they also don't write about anyone else.

Well, other than the times Wilson bores the fuck on about Sunderland. Oh, does Kevin de Bruyne remind you of obscure 50s Mackem centre half Billy Grabblebottom? Wow. How interesting.

[Sexual Ealing]

I wonder whether we're getting a little precious because the rest of the world doesn't mirror our frankly weird obsessions. If you're neutral or disinterested, why would you bore your readership with endless detail about a team that rarely matters?

[Monty]

I wonder whether we're getting a little precious because the rest of the world doesn't mirror our frankly weird obsessions. If you're neutral or disinterested, why would you bore your readership with endless detail about a team that rarely matters?

It's more that we do as well as we did earlier in the season and the best we get is a couple of weeks of 'wow! hey look at that! anyway Spurs'.