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We are after Morgan Sanson from Marseille. No idea if he's any good.

You can't even get in there to throw a cabbage at the bloke.

Selling twice as many tickets as their ground holds when no one can go is class. Cup run finance will do wonders for them. I saw that report on it on the news this evening, magical stuff. Ironic because of the way the ground is set up there will be fans effectively there The insane mentalness of it all, with the numbers showing which house to call on to get the ball back, all that, it's traditional English football in a nutshell. Brilliant stuffl

Selling twice as many tickets as their ground holds when no one can go is class. Cup run finance will do wonders for them. I saw that report on it on the news this evening, magical stuff.

I'd be buzzing with that if I was a Villa fan. Actually find myself warming to villa recently (mainly because your fans are some of the few people who realise how bad Bruce is!) The whole stadium were complete cunts when we got relegated though. Zero need. It was like we were Birmingham City- they made it seem personal for some reason, and the amount of gloating was sickening. Because you getting relegated is a big deal. It's when you go down in silence that it is a problem. When we went down we had exactly the same, week after week. We did it with a comedy pathetic relegation too When you slip out of the top flight and nobody bats an eyelid, that's when you should worry.

Imagine how that kid is feeling tonight. I bet he watches that 3000 times.

Proud of the kids. No wonder our adult team put seven past those jokers.

Because the entire first team squad and entire coaching staff have been forced to self isolate after a mass outbreak of covid - all of them, all players, Smith, Terry, the coaching staff, the lot of them. It's basically anyone who was training as part of or with the first team squad at the training ground. The U23s work in a totally seperate building.

Louie Barry is supposed to be incredibly promising. Left Albion to go to Barcelona (seriously) then bought by us.

This And also, what an unsporting cunt.

Do you think there's a chance you don't want the fixture headache given things are going pretty well in the league? Unlikely, but I guess it's a possibility. Our next league game looks a banker to get postponed too. We've already played 2 games less than most of the clubs around us.

We are apparently playing our U23s against Liverpool in the cup tomorrow night. No first team involvement at all - no players or staff at the ground. Hmmm. Detecting a lack of consistency in how the game is reacting to these challenges.

To be fair to Wesley - who I actually think is shit, at least at football anyway - he only played 20 games (5 goals) and then did his ACL and hasn't come back yet.

It's a bit depressing to read that. I watched the match and throughout, I found myself thinking that, although there would be absolutely zero validity in it as a statement, it was perfect 'reality distortion' territory for him, based on what we used to hear.

Whether we lose this or not, we're a more than decent side on the make, good performance. After almost an entire decade of unremittingly being bummed in the face year after year, I'll take that.

When we played them at home this season they got one for Fernandes literally stamping on Esri Konsa.

This.

Tommy Docherty - started the process of modernisation with us that took us from Division Three to European cup in 13 years. We're playing Man United tomorrow, quite appropriate.

Yeah he’s a beast. Energy and Desire. Imagine one of our plodders lime Shelvey or Sean Longstaff putting half as much effort in He's only just getting back to his best after a long injury lay off. £2.7m he cost. Signed by, errr, well, you know who.

Not wanting to claim any retrospective plaudits here, not least of all because it's depressing, but what is happening to you with him is 99% what happened with us, as I predicted. And what happened to us with him was exactly what happened to Blues when he was their manager. The only thing I've not seen so far with you is his cretin of a son weighing in on Twitter. For me, with us, the busy nauseating thing was the media closing ranks to protect him. I saw Murphy and shearer being coy about him on motd last night and almost vomited on your behalf. What you need to do is get someone to throw a cabbage at him. Worked for us.

Hey mate, what’s it like to enjoy supporting your club? Still getting used to it tbh. 10 entire years of absolute toilet almost uninterrupted then this. We lose games, win some, we're unpredictable but I get the feeling there might be something building slowly here.

Evening, all.

I used to watch your lot (in the flesh) quite a lot when Gascoigne first came through. I absolutely agree, Grealish and Gazza have a lot in common. As well as talent, they both have that bit of arrogance that real flair players have. The key difference is Gazza wanted to stay on his feet and cause damage in the final third whereas Grealish all too many times seems happy to just win a free kick. In Gazza’s era he wouldn’t even be getting the free kicks given either. Which is probably a main reason why Gazza didn't do it.

I used to watch your lot (in the flesh) quite a lot when Gascoigne first came through. I absolutely agree, Grealish and Gazza have a lot in common. As well as talent, they both have that bit of arrogance that real flair players have.

When you gave him the job, I remember saying - with no pleasure - that you'd see the following: utterly wretched football hopeless give-the-lads-a-slap-on-the-back style management zero discernible tactics team selections based on the players he thinks are 'good lads' or 'good professionals' a management style that relies on being better than enough other sides at not losing matches a value system in assessing results that is based on how acceptable it is to him - so long as he's not getting pelters, he's happy with it, he's the most important thing a truly grating 'woe is me' 'not my fault' approach to anything resembling criticism a media implying you don't like him because he's managed Sunderland / he's not foreign a scaling down of what is acceptable for your fans to a point at which it conveniently tallies with what he is actually delivering, vomit inducing obsequiousness to the people running the club He's very much like Martin O'Neill in that sense, and when he went to Sunderland, I remember posting on here what would happen there, and seeing it turn out to be true. The major difference, though, is that MON was obsessed with fast paced counter attacking football as his only way of playing, which only works in some circumstances, but is at least exciting to watch when it does work. Bruce doesn't have that going for him. It's so austere, drab and depressing. He got sacked by us after a wretched game against Preston, in which we missed a last minute penalty which would have drawn us level. It was the match in which someone threw a cabbage at him. We've not exactly moved on to the promised land since then, but it was seen in the media as OMG, how can they do it to a football man like Brucie? But for us, it's absolutely seen as a turning point in the evolution of the club. Thank god we missed that penalty. Dean Smith has his awful patches, too, but fucking hell, we are at least trying to improve, signing players to do it, and having a go at matches. We failed to beat Burnley at home today, but we managed 27 shots on goal. You accept goalless draws like that. Under Bruce that same fixture might have ended 0-0 but it would have been a 3 shot total match.