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We were absolutely wretched today, and Milner was the worst of the lot (bar his cross for the goal). We look really, really tired. However, a couple of observations: 1. Alves is the best example ever of the fact that scoring squillions of goals in Holland means absolutely jack shit. Worst miss I've ever seen, and I was in the Holte End that day Ronnie Rosenthal missed that chance. 2. Stewart Downing is a very good player. Great range of passing. Wasted at Boro. 3. Outside Chelsea, Man U and (temporarily at least) Liverpool, there really is an awful lot of mediocrity in the PL.

So, the club have said nothing, and Agbonlahor's agent says he doesn't know, as he hasn't spoken to him. That's some pretty awesome reporting going on there.

To be honest, that sounds a fair assessment to me, although a bit harsh on MON, and a bit harsh on Laursen too. We're tired, and we're playing again on Thursday and then again on Sunday. There's too much football. well you shouldn't have been so good last season then, should ya? Fair comment. Long season, though, and I wasn't entirely surprised at the result.

To be honest, that sounds a fair assessment to me, although a bit harsh on MON, and a bit harsh on Laursen too. We're tired, and we're playing again on Thursday and then again on Sunday. There's too much football.

That's the worst I have seen us play in a very long time. Cuellar and Laursen were alright, the rest were dreadful. I honestly don't think you looked a great deal better, but you certainly deserved the points. We just looked tired and devoid of ideas. Wretched stuff.

If you sit back and defend, we'll struggle to break you down. If you have a go at us and play gets more stretched, we're far, far more dangerous.

I've just published the Who The Fuck Are .. Aston Villa article on the home page, incidentally, if you're interested. Complete with New! Extra! Updated! Content!

Petrov's at Derby last season was better.

Excellent goal, which doesn't make up for being a total waste of space since joining them, and moaning about the manager like a Grade A cunt. And looking like some 1930s homosexual civil servant with that absurd hair.

I've just been reading readytogo.net/smb. I don't have anything against Sunderland at all, in fact, i also have a soft spot for them (best mate at college was a mackem), but jesus, there is some quite retarded stuff going on there. After they beat you, it was all 'we could push for 7th or 6th and sneak into Europe". Now it is all "Has Keane taken us as far as he can?" Modern football supporters, FFS.

The one advantage we do have is that, when we're looking tired / jaded, we can break so quickly, there's always a goal threat. Agbonlahor's today is a good example of this.

How was Milner? He's getting better game on game. On Sunday he hit a fantastic 40 yard cross field ball for Gabby to set up Carew, and he also squared the ball superbly for Sidwell to score. He did some excellent work today to set up Barry's goal. Lots more to come from him, but the signs are pretty good.

We were pretty poor tonight, looked tired. Three matches in six days is too much. we looked tired. Still, we've won them all, and I guess playing badly (like tonight) and still winning is all good. Oddly, we look much better away from home. Strange.

Mellberg did a decent job at RB (defensively) last season, but offered zero going forward, absolutely nothing. Luke Young has looked very good there so far. Shorey has been a little dodgy but recent performances have been a lot more encouraging. Our trouble will come up front, though, we need more options.

Fair enough, HTT, I was perhaps being touchy.

Only Arsenal and Man United scored more goals than us last season.

The club itself is boring and always has been in terms of the general perception by others of it, I guess a lot of that stems from the part of the world they come from which is also regarded as a pretty boring part of England by *many. However I don't think Villa fans really care to be honest and what I'd give to follow a normal boring old football club for a change rather than the circus we are at times. *I work in Birmingham regularly and outside of the brummie accent, I find it an OK place to be honest, not as lively as Newcastle or other places but not as boring and as totally irrelevant as the media like to portray it as. Canny people those West Midlanders if you ask me. Our own Brummie included. Boring and always has been? In recent years, yes, but my definition of a boring club would be one that never finishes in the higher places in the league, and never wins anything. We've had a few years of nondescript nothingness under the last years of Ellis, but "always has been"? I don't think so Oh, and the generalised, ill-informed nonsense about the city itself made you sound a bit like a well known former poster, now no longer with us. Expected a bit better of you, tbh HTT.

Okay I thought about it but can't figure it out. Who? Roque Santa Cruz

Won't crack the top four this season. The squad is a lot stronger this season. We've got proper full backs for a start, in Shorey and Young, and when Bouma comes back, we'll be even stronger at LB. Cuellar, Laursen, Davis and Knight at CB (I suspect Cuellar and Laursen will become the first choice pairing, Cuellar was excellent on Thursday and again today apparently). Midfield - Barry, Petrov, Young, Milner, Reo-Coker, Sidwell (who featured for the first time today, and scored). Forwards - Carew, Agbonlahor and Harewood, with Delfouneso coming through. Looking at that, you can see where the strength is, but you can also see where the weakness is. We won't break the top four this season, and the reason is we're not strong enough up front. If we could land someone like RSC in January (unlikely), it would make a difference. To be honest, most of our lot wouldn't want to scrape fourth and then struggle to back it up next year. We'd rather get best of the rest, and strengthen our position, to build something more sustainable.

Within 7 days we'll have the first "is it too late for Spurs to break the top four this season?" article.

4-0 for us at Wigan. Brilliant result, and our best performance of the season, apparently. Sidwell came on minutes from the end and scored a blinder. I think that's his first league appearance for us.

Ha, yes. I was just thinking "LOL @ Defoe" (whilst watching SSN). He finally musters the cojones to leave Spurs, goes to Portsmouth, then his manager fucks off in the opposite direction. Football is funny some times.

No. You were fucking shit in the late 1980s.

Honestly, if you look to Spurs to show you the way to do things, you may as well just give up. Harry Redknapp. Crikey.

Redknapp is such a fucking cunt. I turn on SSN and at that exact second, there he is going on about "its a massive club" etc etc. He's a walking, talking football cliche. Spurs. Jesus, what a fucking joke.