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This isn't sour grapes from last night, but the impression I get is that you are riding your luck to some extent. Similar to the way we did at the start of the season, only to see it spectacularly disappear later on. The game last night, the Spurs game, they were 6 points you were - imho - lucky to get. having said that, this league is so shit, that anyone who puts together a 3 or 4 match run can find themselves in a European position, so anything could happen.

I fucking hate the transfer window.

He makes up for it by creating space for himself. I thought he was your best player by far, and I wish we'd got him in the summer window. Can't help but wish the lad well, though. He always gave 110 percent for us, and you can't knock what he has done since the shabby treatment of the last day of the last window. He's only going to get better, too Touché, especially the bit in bold. Touche'? I'm bigging him up, and you've got to say, a lot of players would have just got into a strop after what happened, he didn't though. Fair play to him. EDIT and by muppets, I didnt mean what you said about his pace, I mean the people on here who seem to slag him endlessly. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=touch%E9 Ah, apols. I was taking it at the playground, "oooh, get you!" meaning.

He makes up for it by creating space for himself. I thought he was your best player by far, and I wish we'd got him in the summer window. Can't help but wish the lad well, though. He always gave 110 percent for us, and you can't knock what he has done since the shabby treatment of the last day of the last window. He's only going to get better, too Touché, especially the bit in bold. Touche'? I'm bigging him up, and you've got to say, a lot of players would have just got into a strop after what happened, he didn't though. Fair play to him. EDIT and by muppets, I didnt mean what you said about his pace, I mean the people on here who seem to slag him endlessly.

He makes up for it by creating space for himself. I thought he was your best player by far, and I wish we'd got him in the summer window. Can't help but wish the lad well, though. He always gave 110 percent for us, and you can't knock what he has done since the shabby treatment of the last day of the last window. He's only going to get better, too

TBH I can live with this result (which in now way reflected the game, imho) for the positives we can take from it. We were unlucky to get nothing, but as you said Carew and Young looked excellent. Milner is fucking quality. I can't believe there are muppets on here who moan about him.

Who? Would it perchance be people reading the transfer window update pages from the BBC or the Graun, where people send in their "spottings"?

Gillette was one of the four groups which made offers for Villa. Interestingly, Ellis has since said that Gillette offered more than Lerner, but he turned him down as he thought what he proposed wasn't as good for the club as Lerner's propositions. Given Ellis' well-earned reputation as a man who likes money more than most, what does this say about the way he read Gillette's motives? Interesting.

O0 Spot on. And as i said, VillaTalk is the domain of angry teenage keyboard warriors.

Unfortunately, I think the first time one of the "big four" look like not qualifying for the CL (which could be sooner rather than later according to Platini), they will stamp their feet and get the rules changed to make sure they qualify. Clubs like newcastle, villa, spurs, everton etc will be fucked, frankly.

Who doesn't? That is one thing that NUFC has going for us, I don't know of any club, even the Man Utds who could pull in 50K plus crowds having went over 50 years without a domestic trophy. Say what you like about us as fans, but we support our club through thick and thin, in the main anyway. Regarding Villa, I thought with Ellis gone, Learner in and MON in, your own attendances would rise but still the masses of empty seats, why do you think that is Brummie and do you see fans coming back any time soon? Not that empty seats are unique to Villa mind, I think that's the case up and down the country and has been for the past few years now (we've had below 50K attendances this season in the league). I blame prices, fixture meddling, TV and apathy myself for the falling attendances, although a few clubs will always have empty seats regardless ala Wigan. Much debate on that. When they get an attractive side playing decent football with some half decent players there, things will improve. Years and years of neglect take their toll, and don't forget, MON has been saddled with O'Dreary's squad. It will take time but it will improve. Incidentally, I think our average so far this season is about 37,000, so it isn't as if things are that bad, it is just that the lowest crowds have been particularly bad. Villa at the moment is not unlike NUFC shortly after SJH kicked McKeag out. There is promise there, things are looking up, and things will happen, it will just take time. It is much harder these days than it used to be to attract people back once they've stopped going, as it just costs so much. There is, as you say, also an element of football starting to implode, to be honest, and I blame Sky. Our worst crowds have been for games against Fulham and Bolton, both of which were played at 5.15 on a Saturday, and in the case of the last one, shortly before Christmas. Anyone who thinks there isn't a link between those factors is barmy. I reckon it is going to get worse - the more money Sky pay, the more rights they want to move matches around. Example - we're soon to play Liverpool at home, at 12.35 on a Sunday. What kind of time for a match is that? i think what will happen - and it will happen every club, just at some it will take longer to happen - to league games is what happens at the moment with FA Cup games. People start thinking "why pay this largeish sum of money to watch a largely meaningless match". Then when you factor in the fact that you play games at stupid times, people stop bothering. I mean, tonight is an example - why are we playing a match at the other end of the country on a wednesday night ffs? A season or two ago, we had you away then sunderland away on consecutive games. Over christmas this year, we were at Spurs on boxing day, despite there being no public transport. Do fans ever get considered these days? Do they feck. Sorry. Rant over.

Who doesn't?

;D That's a pretty unbiased sample, isn't it?

Don't be taking the name of the Lord God in vain there, Jonny. In vain mate, he's one of my favourite players of all time, the best centre half I've ever seen play over here in my time that's for sure. His autobiography is excellent.

Don't be taking the name of the Lord God in vain there, Jonny.

Villatalk is indeed the Villa equivalent of gg-chat. Actually, it probably has more in common with the Newcastle footymad.net site, which is possibly even worse. The article did make an interesting point about Roeder's thinly veiled jibe at MON, though. Oh, and I'm not a poster on Villatalk, out of conscience. I post on their more cerebral rival site.

Thats more sad then funny tbh.. Speak for yourself.

With all due respect, this is not actually true. The location of the first casino is not about what kind of punter it attracts, it is entirely about being able to measure the social impact it will have, and use that (when the figures inevitably stack up in favour of the government) to open them everywhere. If it were about what kind of punter it would attract, then there wouldn't even have been a selection process, it would just have been opened in London. Hence the choice of a particularly disadvantaged part of the country.

He is one of those people who is actually pretty inarticulate, but probably thinks he is the exact opposite.

Nothing is worse than being a 'nose, Bonk, nothing

Like previously stated, he almost threw it in the net. Has that ever happened? Ask Brummie. I forget what happened, care to enlighten? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/photo_galleries/football/2263084.stm Check it out. It would be bad enough in any match, the fact that it was against the blue scum from the other side of the city just made it about as bad as it gets on a football pitch. I see, I remember it faintly now. I imagine you wish you could do the same. Harper vs. Pool earlier this year was almost as embarassing. That nutter who ran on the pitch deserves a right bollocking, though. he got more than that, he got a prison sentence. :thup:

Like previously stated, he almost threw it in the net. Has that ever happened? Ask Brummie. I forget what happened, care to enlighten? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/photo_galleries/football/2263084.stm Check it out. It would be bad enough in any match, the fact that it was against the blue scum from the other side of the city just made it about as bad as it gets on a football pitch.

Like previously stated, he almost threw it in the net. Has that ever happened? Ask Brummie.

Gloryhunters turn my stomach, no matter how old they are, no matter which club they attach themselves to. And for all the bleating of parents "ooh, little johnny is Chelsea mad, he idolises Fat Frank", that kind of thing would be absolutely unacceptable in my house, and met with extreme violence until it was at an end.

Best player ever. And belgium agree. http://www.vivadiego.com/belgio_82.jpg