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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #135 on: April 19, 2026, 09:23:22 PM »
Can anybody tell me what happened today from minute 85

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #136 on: April 19, 2026, 09:24:29 PM »
Just watched BBC iPlayer highlights. Villa get 8 minutes, Everton Liverpool 13 minutes.

Did you like Gabby's outfit?

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #137 on: April 19, 2026, 09:27:45 PM »
Can anybody tell me what happened today from minute 85

You told us you felt physically sick twice?

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #138 on: April 19, 2026, 09:27:55 PM »
Sometimes, as a club we should realise that substitutions might not always be a good idea. I can understand it if players are flagging, McGinn probaly might have been. Watkins wasent, he was on fire.

Sunderland were decent and always a threat, there was an aire of, we’ve got the job done from us, it’s something I really hate about us at times. As good as we were for part of the game we did our best to fuck it right up.

Sancho can’t be trusted.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2026, 09:30:33 PM by Brend'Watkins »

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #139 on: April 19, 2026, 09:29:39 PM »
Can anybody tell me what happened today from minute 85

You told us you felt physically sick twice?

I know but I appeared to be hallucinating as well.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #140 on: April 19, 2026, 09:43:34 PM »
Sometimes, as a club we should realise that substitutions might not always be a good idea. I can understand it if players are flagging, McGinn probaly might have been. Watkins wasent, he was on fire.

Sunderland were decent and always a threat, there was an aire of, we’ve got the job done from us, it’s something I really hate about us at times. As good as we were for part of the game we did our best to fuck it right up.

Sancho can’t be trusted.


Equally we’re fighting on two fronts and if Ollie or SJM get injured everyone goes mad that we didn’t use the bench. It was a bit of a freak situation today, but we came through it.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #141 on: April 19, 2026, 10:17:26 PM »
Le Bris post match interview was very good.  I am amazed he’s not being linked with bigger jobs already.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #142 on: April 19, 2026, 10:19:19 PM »
Sancho buying Tammy and Emi a Guinness after that.
I wouldn't trust him to do that without spilling the beer.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #143 on: April 19, 2026, 10:21:54 PM »
Sunderland showed why they are level with us on most points gained from losing positions. Just glad we stopped them going first in the table.
But they didn’t look threatening until Sancho came on
That's why Sunderland brought Sancho on ;)

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #144 on: April 19, 2026, 10:30:23 PM »
I ran around the house twice when we scored.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #145 on: April 19, 2026, 10:39:52 PM »
From a Mackem on RTG:

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We had arguably a better first half than Villa. They were better second half overall. We never gave up, scored 2 late goals when we’d been written off yet again. We could’ve won it but they did, because same as us, they never gave up.

They are a great team but we were able to score 3 against them. We made mistakes, but so do Arsenal, so do Man City. We can’t expect our lads to be perfect and make the right split second decision every time, because the top teams don’t every time either. The fact that this game could’ve been 3 points to us today shows how far we have come and should give everyone encouragement. Villa are a top 4 team, established, in Europe this year fighting for a trophy and in a Champions League qualifying place and we matched them. Anyone can pick fault, but take a step back and see how far we’ve come.

This sort of level headed sensible comment wouldn’t be well suited to here

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #146 on: April 19, 2026, 10:57:06 PM »
I ran around the house twice when we scored.
I was stunned for a moment. Couldn't believe my eyes!

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #147 on: April 19, 2026, 10:57:52 PM »
Le Bris post match interview was very good.  I am amazed he’s not being linked with bigger jobs already.

They'll prob give manager of the year to Pet Gladiola at Citeh or the spoilt manbaby at Arsenal if they somehow get over the line.

But Le Bris should be in contention for what he's done there.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #148 on: April 19, 2026, 11:00:59 PM »
They didn't match us though. They were pretty poor second half and the game had felt won since Rogers scored. We probably should have scored a couple more. It wasn't quite a case of a side being so bad, like Go Ahead, that we totally fell asleep, but out of nowhere Snacho gifted them goals and a belief that they'd never have generated themselves.

We deserved to win.

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Re: Aston Villa v Sunderland Post-Match Thread
« Reply #149 on: April 19, 2026, 11:17:10 PM »
They didn't match us though. They were pretty poor second half and the game had felt won since Rogers scored. We probably should have scored a couple more. It wasn't quite a case of a side being so bad, like Go Ahead, that we totally fell asleep, but out of nowhere Snacho gifted them goals and a belief that they'd never have generated themselves.

We deserved to win.

Of course we did.

We had a mad 60 seconds or whatever it was, but we were well in charge of that match and cruising.

And even then, even having fucked up so badly, we still managed to win.

Good teams win matches when you really don't expect them to.

 


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