Darth Crooks

He is risen...

Bar the odd blip, Villa are moving forward, albeit slowly. We're stagnant at press.

I've seen this said a few times, but it's easier for them to stick with what they know. They play a style of football suited to their players at their level. Much easier to stick with what they know against a struggling team, where half of the team they were facing had probably started half a dozen games each all season. That's not a bad attribute either. They pressed and were positive which is not something exclusive to that level. I know what your saying in terms of approach in different leagues bu they had a hunger and a drive to press and hurt us going falling. All our approach achieved was let them by playing one forward away at Brighton and making cloggers like El-Habd look like Puyol passing it around at leisure. Pathetic stuff.

Right, enough is enough....

1 forward against Brighton. Fearful tactics no matter what you think of the importance of the game and competition. He's done this in consectutive seasons now during the highs as well as the doldrums; its indicative of the negative way he plays. I'm fucking sick of it. Always an excuse. He may be using young players to force the higher powers' hands and to an extent have his hands tied with but given the decisions he has made recently I'm reluctant to credit him with such albeit it desperate, forward thinking. People can quote shots and attempts stats to extent but its clear from the languid and insipid displays that the way we set out stinks. I knew we would lose yesterday and it wasn't wholly down to lack of options. Long term, this clown needs the boot. Short term we're stuck in catch 22 because of the toxic mix we have with our beloved owners.

Here comes Ronnie...

It's such a shame Saylor turns to bolsa wood every quarter moon.

That smile, "WHAT HAVE I DONE"-starwars esque (third movie when anakin makes the move to become a sith). http://www.gifcrap.com/g2data/albums/Celebrities/Arnold%20Schwarzenegger%20smiling%20awkwardly.gif

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The excuses trotted out by some that we had to put Shola in there due to the way we'd prepared for the game in advance is f***ing idiotic. There were 3 spare days between the Arsenal and Everton games, and i imagine one was just resting after a hectic schedule. So that's two full days of training. And Ba met with f***ing Chelsea the day after the Arsenal match for christ's sake so if Pardew's honestly preparing to use him during this game the man is off his rocker. What's more, if he's looking to play 4-3-3 - guess what - we already have a perfect tailor made replacement ready who can play down the middle in that formation and score shedloads - his name is Papiss Cisse. He's played that role many, many times - the idea that he can't due to lacking preparation is nuts. Remember when he signed? Newly returned from ACON, and Pardew put Best in the starting lineup (lol), he got injured, Cisse came on with no preparation, looked the dog's bollocks and scored. On top of that, while Shola has his uses as an impact sub, he's good for 25 minutes tops in a game - starting him and keeping him on til the end is madness. The only slight glimmer of sense i can see to it is that he was brought in to cope with Everton's aerial prowess - in which case you've just picked your main striker as, let's face it, a goddamn defender, while keeping your best striker - one who has wished to play centrally all season - stuck out in purgatory on the wing. And if we're led to believe this horseshit theory about Ba intending to play that role - he was also planning to use him as a battering ram, another mis-use of his talents to go along with how he's wasted others or turned them into crap this season. It's another one of those Souness-esque moments for me and there's been too many recently. Fuck me. More eloquent and spot on than anything I could drum up in my posts. ...and boom goes the dynamite.

As long as he doesn't desperately try to blast balls past/through players, treat the ball like its going to rape him and can put his foot on the ball with his head up; looking to play a sensible pass, then I forsee a vast improvement. Let pards moan at him for not putting his foot in and running faster.

Couldn't manage his own sock drawer let alone England this prick. Am I of the understanding that most people are open to the idea of sacking him but are crippled with fear at the prospect of what we'll get? Just shows what a state this club is in when a toxic element is tolereated to this degree in fear of a draconian owners actions.

Alan?

Wew hang on is this Santon stuff real?

ll this shit about working the other team out and playing a system based on it is part of the problem. It may work in one context; although I don't believe Pardew is articulate enough to implement something like that. You could see him mid game trying to desperately switch from one formstion to the other and then flung on banaal and overly late subs.

Must be bad if you are drinking Leffe Leffe is Nectar my friend. Would greatly wash down the shit sandwich I've had to devour for the last 90 minutes.

Correct. I'm not blaming referees not for one minute when your seeing the points return and results turned out each week.

Shola is fine. As a sub on the 75th. Blame the clueless chump who looks smart and suit with his dossiers on how well other teams perform rather than concetrate on any philosophy of his own. Blame the wheeler dealer owners who are stubborn bastards and stick to a spending plan that makes the ConDems look like Richie fucking rich. If Debuchy coming in is the sum of our ambition then they need to book their ideas up. The ideas vaccum that is Pardew and the investment one that are Ashley, Llabias et al are as toxic a combination as the spend-happy toxic mess that was Shepherd and Souness et. al. There was a real platform to push on last season with individual brilliance from the many talented players that we do have papering over this whole mess. Dross of last season like Villa and Liverpool have improved in some way and our stagnant stance is costing us dearly. So fucking oig sick right now. Put your money where your mouths are. Get some investment and if you pertain to be a disciple of tactics and preparation then get on with it and get us playing football that wins games...unless of course your another jobs for the boys bullshitter the likes we've alreay had in abundance.

Danny's running round places, fucking in Debuchys

Can't be happy with it but it's clear that theres some unrest; although I've no doubt that Papiss will fill in. The real problem will again be investment to come.

Brilliant this like. Go to the states for 4 days and its footballing 'soccer' vacuum. Come back to a drubbing from Arsenal and now Ba is fucking this game off to be a bit parter at Chelsea. 2013 off to a flyer. Thank god Danny Simpson hasn't....WHHAAATTT?!!!

I can't rememeer a rock solid defence in the last 10 years tbh

Pretty much my sentiment madders

http://i.imgur.com/7XfLd.gif SHO-LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!