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Another fun Villa fact from F365: Aston Villa have scored in the second half in four of their last 41 Premier League matches.

Sad to see him go, I liked Santon. Looks like they're counting Ryan Taylor as one of our full back options in case anything happens to Janmaat

Not necessarily finished but certainly out of form. He's had spells like this in the past and recovered though.

Not necessarily - we know Pardew loved him like a son but there's always a chance Carver might have a different opinion.

It was always going to happen but the wait while they were winning every week while we were inevitably stuck with Carver has been a bleak few weeks to say the least.

Was laughing away when he did that - loves a good old left back sub does Pards.

34/35 points will be enough for safety this season - today's win means we're almost certainly OK. Edit: You can get 100/1 for us to go down now: http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/relegation It's not happening.

Is this one of the shortest pre-match threads we've ever had on here? Especially after a 2 week break. Such a lack of enthusiasm reflects the club we're following I guess.

Costa banned for 3 games: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31059345

We're such a professional setup these days f***ing hell. This is just one big boys club, really. 'Steve watched a bit of it...' Ffs. Carver can't be interrupting his supping time. It was probably on in the pub they were in but Carver had his back to the telly and Stone watched a bit of it over his shoulder.

We're such a professional setup these days

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I think 35 will be enough - beat Hull and we're as good as safe I reckon.

Don't think so, he's been away for 4 games.

Probably tempting fate here, but Balotelli has been almost comically bad.

Costa is such an arsehole but i can't help but like him, especially when he's winding up the likes of Gerrard.

Completely unmarked

25th Feb last year. If there's an international break around then that's when they'll sneak them out.

Think this was my favourite bit: He's getting his hooks further in by lending them more money to pay back the money he's already loaned them. If we weren't already in his clutches you would almost have to admire the fucking evil genius.

Looks like Rangers are screwed: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-mike-ashley-deal-really-5051682?

At this point in the season we went down we had 23 points, just 4 fewer than we have now. We got another 11 over the rest of the season, if we replicate that this time we'll be OK...

Don't think the Hull game will make any difference at all tbh. It's clearly going to be Carver in until the end of the season, only time we might act is if it looks like we might actually go down with half a dozen or so games left then he'll throw a few quid at someone like Glenn Hoddle to try keep us up.

Another good goal for Villa

We would have no problem getting a decent manager right now if we were prepared to make them an attractive offer. As always, it's the farcical running of the club from above that it putting us in this situation.