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I'm sort of relieved at times I don't have access to Sky Sports programmes, due to the constant commentary from such pugnacious, uninformed, gobs***e cretins such as Mr Gray. When i was 10 years old, Andy Gray was (along with Sir Brian Little) my hero, I absolutely loved that man, as did pretty much everyone I knew. Fast forward 30 years and I honestly wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

If we go down, we will be getting 15-25000 next season. No you won't.

Not really. Only 7 players from the Sky4 in the 23, and there are 4 players from Villa alone (and that's not trumpet blowing). I must admit though, I'd never heard of Mancienne before today. Massive props for the slightly gay, French sounding surname, mind.

Attendances are down everywhere. Not really surprising. If i hadn't paid for my ST in the early summer, I'd have thought seriously about how many matches I'd be attending about now. This will be the first recession in the era of sky high football prices, it will be very interesting to see what happens.

Rob Styles. Fuck me, has there ever been a worse referee? He did our match last week and got pretty much everything wrong for 90 minutes. Then there was that bizarre decision at Bolton today. Absolute joke.

We're so fucking unpredictable. Shambolic last week against Blackburn, awful against you lot, shite against Boro, but excellent against Ajax and in Prague and then excellent today.

Are they gonna be really really tired for the rest of the season or what? a legit question imo wasnt that what you said after the game a st. james too? Which is why I'm going to stick to my prediction of Villa being unable to compete effectively on both the domestic and European front. Pleased to see them doing well in Europe and I genuinely hope they get far. But, I just can't see them getting past, say the quarters of the UEFA cup, AND finish 5th. I speak from last season's experience, unfortunately. Which is also pretty much what I've been saying on here all season. We could do well in the UEFA, we could feasibly finish 5th in the league, but we're not going to break the top four, not this season. For me it is about finishing 5th or 6th and cementing our position in the "best of the rest" group. Whether we'll finish 5th or do well in the UEFA or neither, I honestly don't know, but you'd struggle to find a Villa fan who really thinks we're going to do great things in the league this year.

Are they gonna be really really tired for the rest of the season or what? a legit question imo wasnt that what you said after the game a st. james too? Well, being as the game at St James' was only 6 days ago, and since then we've played a UEFA cup match in Prague, you don't really need to have the cognitive power of Stephen Hawking to work out that, yes, it might still be a problem. Your squad isn't any bigger than ours and you're finding out how hard it is when you have a dozen extra games a season. With the money spent in the Summer he should have brought in more players. He shoudl certainly have brought in another striker, which is our most obvious weakness at the moment.

Are they gonna be really really tired for the rest of the season or what? a legit question imo wasnt that what you said after the game a st. james too? Well, being as the game at St James' was only 6 days ago, and since then we've played a UEFA cup match in Prague, you don't really need to have the cognitive power of Stephen Hawking to work out that, yes, it might still be a problem.

What has he actually said? He hasn't said there was any thing racist. Strikes me that 1. FA asked Villa if they want to take it further. 2. Villa say there is nothing to take any further. 3. Subject should end, but doesn't, as the tabloids keep raking it up. Blame the tabloids for this, not Agbonlahor. Although Hmmm.

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.