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Heard he's out for a month at least, must be pretty serious then.

2-1 Hughes. Good stuff.

Would be nice if we got it

The Premiership has really been what it's all advertised out to be in the last few weeks. Loads of goals, loads of brilliant goals, loads of late goals and plenty of exciting and magnificent games

Charlton are all over Villa. I do not know how Aaron Hughes kept the ball out there. Magnificent defending.

Agreed. And the pity of it is that the reason Emre was on the bench is likely to be because Roeder doesn't have the balls to leave out his Captain ( a still hush descends over the forum....quiet respect for The Captain) when he's fit. :lol:

Bent 1-1. Brilliant goal/Mellberg mistake imo. He's stepped up his game (Bent that is) since he's been made captain in Luke Young's absence. Come on Charlton.

Would have loved to have seen what he could do with our squad, which i still believe is far superior to Villa's, at his disposal. They're not playing well atm. The recent run of form has just signalled the end of the honeymoon period. Let's see what he can with the transfer window and let's see how they end up finishing this season. The start they had was unbelievable by all accounts but we started the Souness reign with a 10 game unbeaten start...

How many penalties have Villa had this season? It's the only thing that's kept them away from the relegation dogfight. Martin O'Neill special my arse :roll: can't believe I actually wanted him in :oops:

Ambrose just hit the bar with an absolute gorgeous shot. Still 0-0 though.

hell fucking yeah

Isaksson was immense in the WC. especially in the game against the Germans. Ben Foster is also pretty underrated.

Into to the third round I go

So it's 11m then? Work it out titbox £10m + loan for 2 years, 1 year not given so £1m compensation so how much do you think they valued the first year at bluewink.gif but they actually only paid 11m!!

So it's 11m then?

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You know what? There must be a reason that Parker was wanted by so many teams and was eventually signed by Chelsea for 10m (an inflated fee no doubt because of Abramovich factor, but he was wanted by many teams), but right now, I'm struggling to see the qualities that made him so desirable and for such a hefty fee as well.

He's not great in any position, but he's not exactly shit in any of them as well. We've seen worse (Faye for example) and will see worse in the future. That's why I said he's decent. Not great, not actually good but decent, and for our current team and squad depth, he's decent enough atm.

We've won 14 league games that he's taken part in since he's been here, 8 of then under Roeder. How many lost or drawn? How many has he actually played? He's played 41 league games, we've won 14 - Drew 9 - Lost 18. 05/06 With Parker Home - Won 7 - Drew 4 - Lost 2 Away - Won 3 - Drew 1 - Lost 9 Without Parker Home - Won 4 - Drew 1 - Lost 1 Away - Won 3 - Drew 1 - Lost 2 06/07 With Parker Home - Won 3 - Drew 2 - Lost 3 Away - Won 1 - Drew 2 - Lost 4 Without Parker Home - Won 2 - Drew 0 - Lost 0 Away - Won 1 - Drew 0 - Lost 0 What would be interesting for those who can't remember would be reading match reports from those games. Some of the games we won with Parker in the team last season were terrible performances. The biggest factor imo for those terrible, dour performances was down to the Parker/Emre pairing. I think I even made a thread about it and I don't start many threads. They simply do not complement one another so one of them should go. Emre is a much better footballer so it shouldn't be a tough decision. Should I feel bad because I'm starting to nod along to your posts about Parker?

Poll shows how difficult it is to fit Parker into a team. So many positions that he can play in, and do decently in as well.

Thought he was decent. Looked comfortable on the ball. Was calm and composed as well. Him and Hunty seem to know how to head the ball away from our goal, something which Carr/Baba don't. He's definitely one for the future. Seems to be most comfortable on the ball out of Taylor, Ramage, Huntington and himself. Good signs I must say.

We're 9 points behind 6th place, 10 behind 4th place atm. This gap needs to be cut down to 4-6 points by the end of January. By my reckoning, that gives him approximately 7 league games to do this. Considering the fact that the next 3 are extremely difficult, we'll need him to get on another run right after the match against Spurs if we're to mount another charge. If he can't do this, then obviously he's not right for the club. If he can, consider me a believer.

Toure was my captain. Glad that worked out well got an assist. Drogba is ace

totally agree there :lol: I bet some people are starting to prefer the times when you weren't so active on the forum.

:lol: When will you people actually understand that AS9 is on a wind-up? (even if he's not admitting it)