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It's not even playing it down , giant killings happen especially in cups , so if we do get beat it's not a reason to start questioning Eddie although looking at the way some of our so called fans go in it will no doubt happen, we have lost to worse teams than Sunderland since Eddie came in.

I agree about the last week, going out the champions league and league cup has meant we need to change priorities but before that we had people saying Sunderland was our biggest game of the season which was absolute nonsense .

It's been so long since we played them because they aren't even good enough to play in our league though .We should have bigger priorities now than beating a mid table championship club really with the investment we have had . Imagine say Liverpool fans saying a game against Tranmere was a priority for them because they hadn't played them for years .

Well we will likely get one point at most from them two games but had we got through to the semis of the league cup I would have happily made that the priority in January over the mackem game .

Not on board with this match being billed as the biggest game of the season , imagine Liverpool fans saying a game against Everton was the biggest game they had all season, it would just never happen. it's the mackems and we all hate them but they are a mid table championship club. A week ago I would have been happy beating Milan and Chelsea if it meant losing to these . It's a cup final for them and not us and it should certainly have no bearing at all on how Eddie is looked upon going forward

Having watched Villa a few times this season I think you are very similar to us , excellent at home and not so great away from home , the difference is you do seem to be able to get results away from home even when you don't play that well like against Brentford , Spurs and Bournemouth . We did the same last season but haven't been able to this season and it just shows the difference it makes.

We have the biggest difference in the entire league when it comes to home points and away points . Injuries etc have obviously played a big part in that but I would be more confident of beating Arsenal at home on Saturday than I am of us winning at Luton, we are just complete polar opposites home and away and it is something that does need to be addressed .

Genuinely looked ill last night , like he hadn't slept in a month or something , should be nowhere near the first team really if he's got stuff going on in the background that is clearly affecting him.

I never criticise Eddie but that was a total clusterfuck of decisions tonight , sitting so deep and inviting pressure against a team as average as Chelsea , leaving Gordon on when he was clearly fucked and could hardly run , letting Trippier take a penalty when he is clearly shot to bits, bringing on Ritchie ahead of Lewis , totally bizarre decisions that have ultimately cost us .

Yep and it's such a strange move , Nuno has done nothing to suggest he is a better manager than Cooper , did decent at Wolves just like Cooper has at Forest but he was a laughing stock at Spurs and dosnt seem to have done much better in Saudi.

Wouldn't be surprised if he left , just look at the money Man United can throw about compared to us , they have such a massive glory supporter fan base all over the world and will always be able to generate more income and revenue than we ever will because of this .

Shouldn't even be up for debate , strongest possible lineup tomorrow and rest players against Luton if needed , this is a much more important game .

Our poor away record will be factored into that price.

My issue with Phillips is if he can't even be arsed under Pep at Man City then why would he be any different if we bought him ?

If they really wanted to protest and felt that strongly about the whole thing they would do it for the Derby and just not turn up , we all know they won't do that though.

Unai is obviously a brilliant manager , he's doing a very similar job to Eddie has with us , albeit from a much higher starting point .

I'm personally hoping for another 7-0 to Liverpool and I absolutely hate them and Klopp.

Villa are definitely here to stay in terms of challenging for the top 6 with the financial backing they have , a lot may depend on keeping Emery though as I reckon he might get another shot at a bigger club than Villa.

I think Villa are more than likely getting top 4, they keep winning at home and look poor away from home but they are just having one of them seasons where everything goes for them. Have now seen them steal points at Brentford , Spurs and Bournemouth recently despite not playing well at all.

If we beat Luton and Forest that puts us on course for 70 points over the full season, we can't possibly have as many injuries in the second part of the season as we did the first so realistically we would be on course for more than 70 points, which will almost certainly have us in the top 5 I would have thought .

As much as I hate them, Man United are still the biggest club in England so can see why he would be tempted by them , they will almost certainly be able to offer him a lot more money that we are currently paying him .

Yep much bigger game than the Sunderland one this .

Even for them it's such a weird reaction, you could vaguely understand it if the ground was full every week and they were being made to move seats but they have at least 10k empty seats most weeks so they can hardly complain about the allocation.

I know we have been poor recently but Fulham at home really shouldn't be anything to worry about . I know they hammered West Ham and Forest but they just look like freak results to me . We don't lose at home to teams like Fulham under Eddie . It's only a couple weeks since we were totally dominating Man United and Chelsea.

I'm not remotley bothered we never made the Europa League, we would have had a good run but lost to Jurgen at some point anyway and it would have been further detrimental to our league campaign. We don't have the squad this season to be able to do well in the league and have a run in Europe .