Andy84

Lot of ETHs picks in there that’s for sure

I took it that he was talking in the past tense, so he talked about Isak’s toe and Gordon’s groin injuries that they’ve got over. They aren’t injured just that they’ll be assessed like everyone else will

Winning this

Saliba is back

So so so frustrating again man, individual errors costing us time and time again.

Im sure we used to be quite good with set pieces in his first 12-18 months or am I making that up, quite sure I remember some innovative stuff

So have we failed yet then? I think it’s a lot more complex than saying 6th = success, 7th = complete failure. So many moving parts, too many to even write down. We’re ultimately a club in transition, your view is far too simplistic in my opinion

With our current squad, spending power, where do you think we should be finishing?

Anyone suggesting Jose, Jesus H

I think our biggest issue is that we haven’t transitioned from an un-fancied underdog to a side who can dominate. From the second half of 21-22 through 22-23 we were still that and we surprised teams with a dogged defence and potent attack, usually on the transition where we were at our best with 30-35% of the ball. That was still working last season, and at times it was chaotic but our best attacking players were on fire and we scored tonnes. A lack of transfer activity leading to a bit of stagnation plus teams working us out has contributed to this start. I knew as soon as we had 60+% of the ball v Brighton last week it wasn’t going to end well, if we’d had 30-35% we’d have probably won 3-0. The next step is to become a side that can dominate possession and win, it’s going to need a change from Eddie and a new transfer strategy but I think we can do it. It’s all part of the journey

these people revel in it, will be first on here if we lose today

You have

I know TBG don’t worry

Ridiculous suggestion didn’t he only play about 10 games for us

To be fair I said our away form was poor. My point is that someone from the negative brigade made a comment about how good villa have been this season. All I said was at this stage last season we were also doing fine. Before the worst injury crisis int he clubs history kicked in

Ah right, so we were near 16th in the not real table but 4th in the real one, cool

We were comfortably in the top 6, around 4th when we beat Man Utd last December - then Pope got injured. Our away form was poor but overall we were good

We were absolutely fine this time last season btw

Luton Burnley and Sheff Utd got some stick but this is going to be as bad

Loss but another encouraging performance, think we will get a win vs Arsenal next week

He’s doing well in a team that plays completely to his strengths and he’s full of confidence. Still not good enough for us

Nice to see people just making stuff up now

Come now, massive opportunity for a stream of negativity

Liverpool getting £60 million per year for their new kit deal off Adidas from next season