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I don't really care much for modern kits - although our new one is quite pleasant, I don't care enough even to post a picture of it. What I do care about, though, is people getting something approaching value for money. Last year's Kappa kits were dreadful quality - badges peeling off, shirts shrinking after one wash, arriving with awful quality control issues. It is bad enough people get fleeced for so much money in the first place, the fact they're doing so in return for badly made shite that falls apart the first time you look at it, well, that's not good.

I reckon Fulham will probably do a Fulham next season.

Aye That's what you call divine intervention.

There's nothing for them to apologise for, there's no way it was over the line. No idea how they've missed that, shambles. It really doesn't look over the line to me. *serious face*

There's nothing for them to apologise for, there's no way it was over the line.

He really is a deeply, deeply unpleasant person.

Some sort of mini tournament splitting the league into two like the Scottish and Belgium do might be the goer if there is still time left in the season when the situation stabilises. The Top 8 all playing each other once, ditto with the bottom 6 from a sporting perspective would definitely add some spice to fixtures. I think they should settle it with a tournament of fans of each team.

Wonder if it can be arranged for you to get Steve Bruce back too. I'd accept it if that were a condition. err, i think

The reason so many famous people have it is because they're way more likely to get tested. I for one fully support all claims for the Premier League to be voided immediately. Let's just forget about it and start all over again in August. Please.

Sad news from one of my favourite players ever. "Dear friends and supporters. In an attempt to stop speculation and mis information about my health, I have decided to release the following statement. After a series of recent tests, I have been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease. Medication has been prescribed and with some life changes, which I intend to commit to fully, the prognosis is a good one. I will be out and about for many years yet and see this as just another of life's journeys. My match day duties with Aston Villa will remain an important part of my future and I will continue to perform these, in support of my beloved club, for as long as my health allows. With the love and support of family and close friends guaranteed, I am very optimistic and positive about the future. With Love. Gordon ( Sid ) Cowans x"

Came here to post that De Laet quote but see I've been beaten to it. Depressing stuff. £3m a year for that.

Yeah. Won’t be fun though, nerve shredding.

Permanently injured

Sure we’ll lose but that will be seven Wembley trips in ten years. Mixed feelings about this one. Nice night tonight, but could do without the distraction. Which is, I know, a horrible nu-fan way to think, but I can’t help it Great feeling when that late winner went in though.

19/22

I know which club is first on my attempt.

That was 'classic' Bruce last night. No discernible style of play, no tactics beyond slapping the players on the back and geeing them up, just hoping that enough of the players have enough individual quality to get something (that was his entire approach when he was with us). Feel bad for you lot, as it's exactly what we saw from him. Also in his post match interview detected a few signs of classic Bruce blame deflection / credit whoring (notice he mentioned how little he signed Hourihane for) and a 'we'll roll we sleeves up' non-comment at the end of it.

What happens is when a game sells out, they let ST holders who can't come sell their ticket on, through the club. They give you 80 percent of 1/19th of the cost of your ST, so it's a pretty good deal. So if you go to the Villa OS at the moment you'll see there will be like a dozen tickets available - those are basically returned ST tickets, so, so long as the game is on general sale (and it will be now), you should be able to get one.

Hope you're up to date with all your vaccinations, HTT. Wolves fans are odd. No bad feeling or anything resembling rivalry between the clubs, until they finished above us for the first time in almost 40 years, and since then they can't stop singing about us. I don't get it. It's like they're apeing Coventry fans, who loathe us and sing songs about us all the time, yet I have barely met a single one of our fans who gives a shit about them. It's weird. I’m constantly in Wolves, they are an odd bunch indeed. I was there last Thursday for the first time since before August and I noticed a growing hostility towards Villa like! I’m actually tempted to go there and watch this as a neutral if I can. Villa was my first ever away game and my fave away ground. What’s the chances of getting tickets for this? For which match?

I'd rather be higher up the table, but it's all very tightly bunched so not worried yet. I am enjoying watching us, we try to play some good stuff, and have in spells looked very good. It's noticeable that we have a style of play. I saw a post on the Bruce thread here a few minutes ago about you getting results was about players rather than the manager, and I think that's spot on, that's what it was like for us under Bruce. I don't feel that way now. There's a kinship at the moment between fans and team / manager which I have not really seen in a very long time. I read a post somewhere by a Villa fan saying that we've always loved the club and now we love the team, too, and mushily sentimental though that sounds, there's a definite element of truth in it. Crowds are up - every match sold out so far - but the most noticeable thing is the support, even when they're losing, they get the support because we can see that there's at last a defined plan. We've had rich owners before and there were some good times under Lerner, but looking back, it was all a bit brainless - spend, spend, spend and then get bored and watch it die. This lot seem properly genuine. I am enjoying going to the match again after 6 or 7 years of it being like a second job or something. As for the signings - Engels, Heaton, Mings, Luiz, Nakamba - all quality. Trezeguet meh. Targett shit, Wesley weird (one week excellent, the next embarassing), Jota hard to tell. So many signings, though, it is bound to take a dozen games for them to gel. We were basically left to rot for 5 or 6 years. Bruce was testing at times, awful towards the end, but nothing like as bad as the Lambert Mcleish years. The most important thing was surviving Lerner - incredible that his final act of incompetence was to sell to a con man - and get back on our feet. The play off final this year was magnificent, as was the 10 game winning run, but what made it all better was the fact that a year previously we were actually facing a winding up order, we'd been so badly run. Frightening times, and I suspect that's got a lot to do with the positivity now - a feeling you can not take things for granted.

Hope you're up to date with all your vaccinations, HTT. Wolves fans are odd. No bad feeling or anything resembling rivalry between the clubs, until they finished above us for the first time in almost 40 years, and since then they can't stop singing about us. I don't get it. It's like they're apeing Coventry fans, who loathe us and sing songs about us all the time, yet I have barely met a single one of our fans who gives a shit about them. It's weird.

Grealish fit. Good. Heaton fit too, also good. So long as we don't see a front 3 of Trezeguet, Wesley, El Ghazi, I am reasonably confident.

I might miss this one. Fucking monday night kick offs FFS.

This.

*fires up next manager sacked odds*