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Cacapa is shit tbf. I like him at DM though. Tackles and passes better than Butt.

ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Why? Owen looked exactly the same last week as he did this week when Martins was taken off.

What a shit game to watch. Why does Martins always have to be one to be taken off?

We don't know that yet, but I hope so. Kinnear started Owen and Martins together in the last match anyway.

Masochistic. That actually looks decent but they'll still tear us a new asshole if we tried to attack them.

Whatever happens this Saturday, I'm just hoping Anelka won't score. (Not going to lose 8 fantasy prem points to slip him into my team)

Barton used to be.

I'll be surprised if we even get 1 in. And it'd better be a replacement for Butt. Could have used Bassong instead of Cacapa, Zog in for Duff, etc. Squad depth wasn't really the problem today.

Aye, should have had a hattrick today. He's obviously not as good as Shola Honestly for the last ten minutes Owen and Oba may as well have not been on the pitch. They were never going to get involved. Our attacking after going 2-1 down was absolutely pitiful. That's cos we didn't attack, Joe. We played long-ball. That's not attacking. That's anti-football. There is one method of alleged positive play that this side cannot do. And that's long-ball. What do we do when we most need to nick a goal? Go long-ball. Woeful management. Owen and Martins had to contribute more to the link up play for the 4-3-3 to work, and with Fulham crowding up midfield we didn't have that much of a choice.

Surely this is grounds for a libel suit?

What did they do wrong? Booking Shola for Laursen running into his elbow, giving fouls against Barton whenever he's made contact in a tackle/held off a player, while being inconsistent on top of that (knee on Barton's face, Laursen's elbow on Shola)

It's probably because he's had a rest, I can't believe we ask him to play in so many games at his age tbh I agree,i've mentioned this before,i would rest him Saturday personally,he's always shite in the 2nd game of 2 games in a week. He didn't have to run quite as much as usual today (which contributed to his game) since he only had to focus on his DM duties instead of pretending to be Steven Gerrard, so he should be fresh enough for Saturday.

Aye, that was out of order from Setanta IMO. Didn't say a word about how he bossed the midfield today and got a very important assist. Was booked for a lot less than the knee he took in the face too.

He actually learns from his mistakes. That alone makes him much better than any manager we've had in the last 4 years save Keegan.

not entirely unjustified...could be shared between jonas, colo and obaaa Never for Shola...looked old poor himself once again! Every single time we made something to happen in Villa's defensive zone it was Duff, Jonas or Oba! Shola was just as frustrating as always. Classy first touch Shola wasn't quite as effective today as he had been against West Brom et al (tough to win everything in the air with Laursen around), but he didn't do anything wrong today, and had this class moment when he literally walked past a bunch of Villa players to put a cross into the box.

Its not the first time he's done it, tbf.

Hasn't said a thing I wouldn't agree with. Heh.

You are trying to be ironic right?

last season i had him as the pick of our defenders (defensivly...beye was the pick all round). i was always confident that no-one would get past him but i think he only crossed the half way 3 times in all that time. Jose must be feeling pretty confused right now.

thats not quite how i see it joe. Interesting view, but to be fair, I don't think he defended very well against West Brom.

Yes. Just so you can thrust your humongous pre-pubescent e-dick into it.

Nail on head. He'd need psychic powers to read Ameobi's knock ons as he just gets his head to them and doesn't care where they go. Precog you mean

I'll be looking forward to bumping this thread in a couple years time... I hope.

Im not exactly sure thats a defnite improvement. Seems like for like to me at best. Bring in Cisse and play a front three of Martins, Owen and Cisse. (jizzes pants)