Dr Venkman

Wow! Haha. It's not funny man what's going on?!

It's fucking ridiculous I have to ask all these questions whilst listening to the radio commentary btw.

Where's HBA playing?

Wow!

He was the opposite against WBA, hopefully he's been told

4-3-3ish Ta. Cisse wide? Yeah, but we are a bit jiggled (?) at the moment. 4-3-3 and Simpson dropped, I'm happy.

4-3-3ish Ta. Cisse wide?

Formation?

Is Anita playing left back?

Formation?

Some people are too quickly forgetting Saylor's form last season I think. We have to give him a chance to get back there, playing Perch over him would just be silly imo.

he's very, very special

That one must feel really good for the Villa fans If Ba hadn't scored them a goal O'Neill would be 2 or 3 games away from the sack.

that's perfect. awful first half, decent start to the second.......one nil down.

couldnt get onto william hill before the match to bet on 0-0

100% spot on, as it should be for all players. Player power in full working order it seems. At the same time I think he's trying to keep him happy because he knows how much it'd cost to replace him and that we really need to upgrade other areas of the team first.

I think it's down to Pardew to tell Ba he's playing for a team and not for himself.

You are using far too much common sense there, for me we are still too wrapped up in who play left/right/centre. Just play Ba, Cisse and Barfa and let them roam, whoever is left, whoever is right, whoever is in the middle when the play breaks down then they defend that area. English teams are still far too rigid. But we've already done that, that's the exact system we played at the end of last season and it worked a charm. This season when we do play a 3 Ba is NEVER out of the centre, even to the point where Shola is playing on the right.

whether it was a pen or not I maintain we wouldnt have got that decision, even at home.

Not a chance in hell we'd get awarded that pen at SJP

And why does he change the system from one competition to another? Most clubs have a way of playing and buy/coach players to fit it. We're lucky if we last 45 minutes without having to shuffle the pack. Surely the logical thing to do is to play the same system Sunday and Thursday so players right through the squad can get used to it and find it less difficult to fit into one particular system? Indeed, it seems to me that he prefers 4-3-3 but he thinks 4-4-2 is less likely to leak goals, that's to do with the style of play that comes with each formation imo. With 4-4-2 we see long ball and with 4-3-3 more build up. This is the reason why I think we'll progress to 4-3-3 when he's happy with the defence. We tend to play 4-3-3 when he doesn't think there's much danger in the other team.

If the premier league is a priority over the EL though, as he suggested, why wouldnt he spend the week preparing for the Premier League game?

God, the crushing disappointment if Simpson signed a new deal.

would definitely take him back, Rodgers clearly doesn't want him so we'd get him for less than they paid.

I'm not sure it's as cut and dry an issue as it may once have been though, also every player is different, you do tend to always say players would prefer them. If we're offering the same wages I struggle to see why players would choose them nowadays.