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Offline jwarry

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #180 on: January 26, 2025, 08:32:31 PM »
Fair enough Jon, but I entered the conversation
Bye then.
If you are a moderator that is not good moderation

Don't call out the mods asking for a ban = don't get banned.

I’m sorry I don’t understand. I wasn’t calling out anybody I was just questioning how a moderator - and by the way I have no idea if he is a moderator - can just say bye then.  Doesn’t seem right to me

Clearly I am a moderator. Villaboy_23 was warned in public and via PM, he persisted. He asked for a ban. He got a ban. I was merely being polite and wishing him on his way.

Fair enough Jon but I entered the conversation after he posted what I thought was a fair criticism of the negative posters on here.  Surely we are entitled to disagree with them?

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #181 on: January 26, 2025, 08:36:00 PM »
Fair enough Jon, but I entered the conversation
Bye then.
If you are a moderator that is not good moderation

Don't call out the mods asking for a ban = don't get banned.

I’m sorry I don’t understand. I wasn’t calling out anybody I was just questioning how a moderator - and by the way I have no idea if he is a moderator - can just say bye then.  Doesn’t seem right to me

Clearly I am a moderator. Villaboy_23 was warned in public and via PM, he persisted. He asked for a ban. He got a ban. I was merely being polite and wishing him on his way.

Fair enough Jon but I entered the conversation after he posted what I thought was a fair criticism of the negative posters on here.  Surely we are entitled to disagree with them?


Of course you can disagree with them and people all over this forum disagree with each other on all manner of topics. Throwing out comments about cliques and unsubstantiated insinuations that posters are joyous about defeats is just posting for effect, trolling or just plain antagonistic.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #182 on: January 26, 2025, 08:37:00 PM »
An absolute disastrous decision to put Digne at centre half. We need to stop taking Watkins off, we lose all our attacking prowess without him. Subs were poor throughout and we looked like a ticking time bomb defensively.

Our need for a centre half is now at emergency levels and we’ve left ourselves in a terrible position.
« Last Edit: January 26, 2025, 08:39:49 PM by Olneythelonely »

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #183 on: January 26, 2025, 08:39:20 PM »
Yeah it’s a good point, Ollie was involved in pretty much everything we did well today.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #184 on: January 26, 2025, 08:40:21 PM »
I thought the two things that undid us was Mings going off and Ramsey and Rogers both going off at the same time. Should have seen West Ham off in the 15-20 minute spell we had in the first half. Kamara was tremendous. Glad of a point in the end to be honest.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #185 on: January 26, 2025, 08:41:00 PM »
Yeah it’s a good point, Ollie was involved in pretty much everything we did well today.
We seem to lose a lot of structure up top without him . His work off the ball is pretty full on and often goes unnoticed until he isn't there doing it.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #186 on: January 26, 2025, 08:44:34 PM »
Agree his work off the ball, working the centre backs, creating space etc is massively important to us.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #187 on: January 26, 2025, 08:48:16 PM »
One thing I thought today - that I have many times before - is rogers would be world class if he knew when to make the pass / cross / shot

Offline jwarry

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #188 on: January 26, 2025, 08:48:50 PM »
Fair enough Jon, but I entered the conversation
Bye then.
If you are a moderator that is not good moderation

Don't call out the mods asking for a ban = don't get banned.

I’m sorry I don’t understand. I wasn’t calling out anybody I was just questioning how a moderator - and by the way I have no idea if he is a moderator - can just say bye then.  Doesn’t seem right to me

Clearly I am a moderator. Villaboy_23 was warned in public and via PM, he persisted. He asked for a ban. He got a ban. I was merely being polite and wishing him on his way.

Fair enough Jon but I entered the conversation after he posted what I thought was a fair criticism of the negative posters on here.  Surely we are entitled to disagree with them?


Of course you can disagree with them and people all over this forum disagree with each other on all manner of topics. Throwing out comments about cliques and unsubstantiated insinuations that posters are joyous about defeats is just posting for effect, trolling or just plain antagonistic.

Really? Don’t we all post for effect? Or what is the point of posting? I’m sure I’m boring every one now so I will refrain but I will not stop being the eternal optimist and calling out the doom merchants - unless you ban me of course…

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #189 on: January 26, 2025, 08:48:56 PM »
One thing I thought today - that I have many times before - is rogers would be world class if he knew when to make the pass / cross / shot
He's getting there

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #190 on: January 26, 2025, 08:49:32 PM »
When other team players press Villa they are like greyhounds on steroids, when we do it we are like cuddly little puddles
Don't talk wet.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #191 on: January 26, 2025, 08:52:27 PM »
I'm hoping we can reach 40 points and stay up.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #192 on: January 26, 2025, 08:53:29 PM »
When other team players press Villa they are like greyhounds on steroids, when we do it we are like cuddly little puddles
Don't talk wet.

The sheer amount of games we need to get through has precipitated this lack of energy.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #193 on: January 26, 2025, 08:55:16 PM »
Bye then.
If you are a moderator that is not good moderation

Don't call out the mods asking for a ban = don't get banned.

I’m sorry I don’t understand. I wasn’t calling out anybody I was just questioning how a moderator - and by the way I have no idea if he is a moderator - can just say bye then.  Doesn’t seem right to me

Clearly I am a moderator. Villaboy_23 was warned in public and via PM, he persisted. He asked for a ban. He got a ban. I was merely being polite and wishing him on his way.

Correct decision.

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Re: Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread
« Reply #194 on: January 26, 2025, 08:55:55 PM »
When other team players press Villa they are like greyhounds on steroids, when we do it we are like cuddly little puddles
Don't talk wet.

The sheer amount of games we need to get through has precipitated this lack of energy.
Thats the challange - we cant rotate really

 


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