Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:25 pm  

Egg all over Lambert's face after that result today. Leaving a 'little club' like Norwich for a 'bigger club' like Villa. 6 places places below them and 3 points off the relegation zone. Not to mention the worst goal difference in the entire League. Well played Paul.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:47 pm  

Pray for RvP

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:45 pm  

Smiggs wrote:

Pray for RvP

Should be rested for a couple of weeks because of the trauma.

Fergie wrote:

Nae Laddie. Useful from deflecting attention from the dropping of 2 points, but let's not go overboard.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:46 pm  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

Rafa out.

Yes. He's still a fat ****.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:22 pm  

Before the game the commentator was making out that Villa were in great form and Chelsea were in awful form. He included Villa's COC win in their form guide, but obviously Chelsea's 5-1 win at Leeds didn't count, nor did our last game in the league.

Villa were pretty dreadful. Benteke put in a fantastic defensive play for us today. Every Villa attack was killed at the start by him being caught offside. Gotta wonder if the bloke has ever heard of the offside rule on the evidence of today's game.

I thought the opening half hour was pretty awful, saved by the two good goals. After that it was just a case of how many.

The Villa job is still a bigger job than the Norwich job. Don't blame Lambert for taking it at all. It might not turn out well for him, but staying at Norwich would have potentially seen him relegated within a couple of years and then he'd have probably never seen an opportunity like Aston Villa.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:16 am  

dddooommm wrote:

I attended the Wigan/Gunners game today. It was very dull. Wigan were very hard to breakdown and having Walcott as the lone striker did us no favours. Theo, sign the new contract or walk away. You persisting you're a forward is kidding nobody.

Santi Carzola and Wilshere were a joy to watch. One of the few positives.

By "hard to break down" do you mean "probably the better side"?

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:34 am  

Smiggs wrote:

Pray for RvP

We're considering a protest of two, possibly a t-shirt, minutes silence or maybe even bring out a single.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:35 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

Accordimg to Rodgers he wants a top class number 10 in the summer and that is priority. Christian Eriksen or Isco please, Brendan.

Do you think you'd be able to accomodate Suarez, Sturridge and new number 10? I can only see this annoying Sturridge to be honest as will be in the same boat he was at Chelsea.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:00 am  

Mark wrote:

We're considering a protest of two, possibly a t-shirt, minutes silence or maybe even bring out a single.

Did he make it through the night? or is he still on a life support machine?

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:59 am  

Mark wrote:

Do you think you'd be able to accomodate Suarez, Sturridge and new number 10? I can only see this annoying Sturridge to be honest as will be in the same boat he was at Chelsea.

It depends. You'd also have to look at Sterling, there is no way he should be left out either, he needs to start every game for me and it could also impact Suso's development. I could see us accomodating them if we were to play a 4231 with Sterling and Suarez out wide, Sturridge down the middle and then a number 10.

Then again, we're also linked with resigning Tom Ince.