madras

Eh ?

Let an old man reminisce man.

It was and their Police were quite obliging. They'd stop the train, buses, vans etc at Thornaby and tell you " there's the Boro lot, if you want to have a go then crack on, we're not getting involved". The invitation was turned down. I got caught out, probably 83/84. There'd been bother in the street behind our end and we got split up, then the police sent me the wrong way to the train station so I was on my own. Got sussed out by a couple of their lot, got a couple of kicks up the arse to goad me, just about to take a pasting when 2 monsters came to my rescue and sent them running. 2 bouncers from the town, I remember one worked Manhattans and that's where we drove back to.

I remember when Keegan came as a player and we played at Boro (got beat) and there was hell on all over. The local news had some middle aged, middle class woman, boro fan "I dont care if we lose every other game and get relegated providing we beat these"

Potentially.

Loads of bother at both in the early/mid 80s and Boro was by far the worst. There's constant squabbling on RTG about the "liberties" we used to take over there.

Which Miley ?

And was injured a lot and not getting younger.

Wouldn't have got much for him, that's why he ended up here to start with but I was saying on here in the Summer we needed another forward.

Those were the transfer fees, what wages and bonuses, agents fees etc attracted those players that all count towards FFP as well. It's why I singled out that sale as it was 100% profit and a big shot which will soon drop off the FFP books. Without that sale would those players have been affordable, and how does that affect things going forward.

Then they should be told to do it then.

And then there's Chelsea with their £40m per year shirt sponsorship with a Company their owners have links with and a turnover of £15m per year.

That's solely on the transfer fee, we dont know the differences between the entire deals, wages, bonuses, incidentals (agents etc), there's also what is seen as the players ages and ceilings. You can't really co.pare them as much as I'd have loved to have Pedro here as well

Was it not unsustainable under fatigue due to those two players and others being out for months at a time ? There was a point last season or I the close season when Eddie said we'd have to become a more possession based team, Tonali was integral to that.

And a lifetime ban. I've never seen such violent behaviour on a football pitch. It was that gruesome it brought back memories of David Busst.

Given the three year rolling thing and Grealish left for Man City 3yrs ago this summer coming, will that have an effect on Villa's spending going forward this summer or the one after ?

How can our squad be that far from top 4 when it literally made it last year ?

Longstaff and Joelinton both having to start when needing eased back, no Anderson and now the answer is putting Ritchie in for a game or two. However, yesterday I'd have been tempted to go 442 given what we had, extra body in midfield and some help for Isak whether it be Gordon or Joelinton up top, However (again) were talking top level sport and just flipping tactics with no notice is probably a tad different to football manager or saying what I'd do when we don't face the consequences.

And only just seems to have come to terms with that level judging by the Euro games.

I'm not sure he can, often with fatigue it's the sharpness rather than the top speed. And why haven't we changed the midfield set up ? You're right, I'd put Willock and Tonali straight in.

He never had the legs for it, Longstaff (fit) covered loads for it and Miley can't read it yet.

Bruno and Gordon came on for half an hour V Man Utd. Many said it would actually be better for them, keep them ticking over type thing. That's often the rotation bit, not playing the 90 but not spending the day in the garden centre either.

You rotate until you don't have the players to do so. We did rotate Isak and Wilson, Barnes got injured playing instead of Gordon, Murphy got games before getting injured, with Tonali out we have no replacement for Bruno, Trippier was even benched for Man City and didn't get any pitch time. Gordon and Barnes started to leave out Murphy V Brentford. Some make it sound like we wanted the same 11 out every game and it's not the case.

Cancel culture innit.

Mitigating circumstances?