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From the previous page:

It's his calf.

what could have been Naaaah, who cares?! We got a much better player in Heskey. Please don't bring this up. I was having a nice day.

I love a good battler. Bye bye KEA, I'll miss your manic running around like a nutter.

I thought they'd be in the group of teams above the group of really shit teams. It seems they'll be in the group of teams above the group of teams above the group of really shit teams at very worst. Steve the Pirate is killing it.

I agree but Tom Cleverley for £7m >>>>>>>>NRC for £8m

Debuchy cost £12m and is the same age Vlaar. Consider my pants well and truly shat.

The list:

Well, it is in our hands. It's in our hands. IT'S IN OUR HANDS. IT'S. IN. OUR. HANDS.

You could always get your current clothes tailored instead of buying new ones.

I was going to stay but then some fans delayed a Hull throw in -- Ron Vlaar Source: www.grobssportnews.bs

Despite Hull's disgraceful attempts to stop him he still looked really good. 3 players getting booked for fouling you in 10 minutes has got to be a record.

good. He's shit. Exactly the kind of clogging waddler that can hopefully get Agbonlahor out of his shit run of form. I bloody knew it. Thanks potato head.

Just to clarify, who have reportedly had offers accepted? Is it just Villa, Hull and Valencia? Is the supposed Everton link just 'interest' at this point?

Well yes, that would be putting the amount of games he's missed into a relevant context. What other method could be used to demonstrate a player's non-injury proneness? AFAIK There is no accepted figure of missed games that are required to be injury prone so the closest we can come to disproving its applicability to a particular player is to show how many of his contemporaries it would have to also apply to in order for that to be the case. 1st coice PL CBs that missed more games than Vlaar last season: Turner, Lovren, Tomkins, Chico, Cahill, Kompany, Coloccini, Demichelis, Bassong, Jagielka, Chester, Collins, Hangeland, Vertonghen, Turner, Dawson, Huth, Ferdinand/Vidic/Jones/Smalling (not sure who was first choice).* Essentially, this has become a purely semantic debate now and demonstrating that Vlaar is less injury prone than the median first choice PL CB when ordered by games missed surely means that the two conclusions we can draw are that either he isn't injury prone or that he is but the term 'injury prone' has such a weak definition that more CBs than not qualify and therefore the concept is irrelevant. *This list was hastily compiled and is probably incomplete.

Seriously?? I don’t remember that at all. Think he cost £10 million and was our biggest signing in a fe years. We signed Sidwell the same summer and he in many ways is more comparable to Cleverly. There were definitely Villa fans who were dead against the Milner signing. No idea why, but there you go. There were also Villa fans (including me) who were pleased when we signed Ireland for "only £8m". Shows what we know. This is the bit where I encourage everyone to reserve judgement until he's had a run of games for us (or at least signed in the first place) but I might as well just bash the keyboard with my fist instead for all the good that would do, so c ffc gfcfsdxfdssdscgc cfg cfh cfhc f gcsdxsaaszdszszd.

Or if you wanted to spin it the other way you'd compare it to 4th place 100% record Swansea (an identical 11 chances). As you say, it's too early for that though. Edit - Actually looking at Squawka's page, their chances created is a load of nonsense. Weimann's goal didn't go down as a chance created as the opponent touched the ball between the ball getting to him and him scoring. What the hell, Squawka?

It's not a written law in itself I don't think, it's just seems to be an accepted precedent for the application of the advantage law. Whatever it is, it's definitely **** bullshit. It's up there with "he was looking at the ball" in the 'terrible reasons not to give me my goddamn free kick' stakes.

With that qualifying clause, this statement is true of every player ever.

I always thought he shirked challenges myself and I'm delighted he's on his way out. Awful player. didnt he have the most tackles per game for Villa last season? Technically yes, but then that's using facts to back up your argument and I'm led to believe that's frowned upon.

He seems like the nicest guy around, but he could wreck everyone in the PL not named Romelu Lukaku.

Names? I think Davy Klaaasssssseeen (sp?) will supposedly be the next one everyone is creaming over.

Each team would have to play two legs against each other team. It would probably be quite difficult to decide which results were best from that so I'd suggest awarding 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw.