roonst83

QPR have so far looked an absolute shadow of the side that came to VP...the Tarrabt goal will have given them a lift so the next goal is crucial. They've also got Wigan at home next week.

Once again our youngsters are a credit to the club. Now its time for the first team to shine.

Think we need a performance much like we showed at home to West Ham...in that Baker, Clark and Vlaar handling the physical presence of Stoke. Perhaps use Delph to nail up Nzonzi although we need to press further up the pitch with our midfield in order to win games. We've never won at the Brit and if we can keep them quiet for the first half then hopefully their fans will grow increasingly frustrated and anxious and we can capitalise and get that first win. They will naturally try and go hard on Benteke...but then we expect this, so Gabby and Weimann need to on their game. Huth and Shawcross will be tough to dominate in the air so we need to be clinical with our forward passing/play.

It just depends on which Liverpool turn up, they seem to be awesome one week and dire the next. **** off Chelsea you utter rocket polishers Doesn't bode well then as Liverpool were awful against Saints in their last game

On the coach?

Hoops would be better...

Not the worst attribute to 'fall back on' if you're a striker

There's an Irish bar about a minute's walk from Sala Daeng BTS station, just off the main road. Shows the matches. Next door is a bar/restaurant called Coyote which does flipping amazing Margheritas (about 75 different types) and they're 2 for 1 pretty much all day apart from 7-10pm. Works out about a quid fifty a pop, and they're amazing. Nice tuck too. I bloody love Bangkok. ...and you can celebrate us winning with a cheeky blow job for £2 from a lady-boy

Speaking from experience, one would want to be in remission for the rest of their life. A 'cure' is not a word thrown around so much with (adult) leukaemia and despite treatment being potentially curative (I.e. a bone marrow/stem cell transplant) the aim is to reach a remission state and hopefully stay there. Getting to remission isn't the hardest part of treatment more often than not, it is staying there. The longer one is in remission the greater chance of the cancer (leukaemia) not returning.

Wigan's game in hand against City isn't it?

Wasnt quite sure what the deal with that was (primarily due to me deleting the email as spam) - what's the deal with registering your season ticket with them?

Roonst83 - San Francisco 49ers

This.

1000 x this. Have been waiting for a mention of our amazing support yesterday and this sums it up perfectly for me.

Never read so much shite in my life. Wasn't a pen. Hunt was clearly offside. Try listening to people's comments who were at the game and not how motd edit the game. If you watch Football First then you'll see just how much we were the better team.

There's no way he'll drop Clark

Fully expecting Vlaar to be absent from the starting line-up...I don't think Bakes and Clark did too bad at all against Man City (aside from the one moments lapse in concentration) so I can see PL keeping the same team. If Vlaar is brought back in, it'll be interesting to see if he keeps a positive/attacking approach to our LB by keeping Bennett or be a bit more defensive minded by having Baker at LB. As much as I felt Baker did a good job against West Ham, he was there to add more bulk from the Hammers' style of play (i.e.direct). With Bennett we have someone who can get forward and we need this tomorrow I feel. We retained the ball quite well in the latter stages against Man City so hope we do so against Reading too.

Just watching the memory match against Reading from 2008...its clear what a force we were then and how greatly we miss someone like Martin Laursen... ...and Marlon Harewood.

Need to keep La Fondre quiet as he is a danger man for sure.

We never win comfortably. Its a pre-requisite of being a Villa fan...

negative? he's one of the only players in our team who has composure!

This is Madrid we're talking about though, with the best player in World football. As oppose to Barca with the other worlds best player It's dangerous play precisely because he doesn't know the guy is there. I don't get how people don't understand this. Watching the ball doesn't mean you can start kung fu kicking across the pitch. You're responsible for where your feet end up, and not watching where you're launching a high boot into is by definition reckless play, and therefore a red card is entirely appropriate for it.> Exactly No, not correct. Every single game would be filled with red cards if that was the case. Imagine a bicycle-kick inside the penalty area. How many times have you seen a player trying to score a goal (which is basically the same as Nani in terms of NOT trying to hit the other player, but scoring or bringing the ball down in this case) - then hit another player in the shoulder instead and get red-carded for the offence? I have seen thousands of matches and I cannot remember many red cards for such an action, even though there are many players around him when he does it. Is there a difference between what Nani did tonight and a striker trying to score a goal from a bycicle-kick? Not really, just because the foot hits the chest or whatever does not mean much when the offensive player is obviously not trying to harm the other one. Common sense guys, this was not a red card. I have seen lots of free kicks given for Bicycle kick attemtps. Think Crouch gave one away the other day? But yeah, as Zatman says - Not 6 studs planted into the body of an opponent. Yes of course free-kicks are given, but not red cards. Because the player is clumsy, not actively trying to hurt the other one, even though he hit him in the face or shoulder with his boots, studs or whatever. My point is that people are making no exception for when a player tackles viciously or when he is just unlucky. There is common sense in the middle, and that's why the great refs manage to see the important differences and that's why the best ones get to ref the final. This one is obviously not going to be given that match for this obvious mistake. But common sense isnt in the rule book. It was common sense that kept Nemanja Vidic on the field in the League cup final. Actually it was fear that the ref would offend Fergie

I thought they get scrapped half way through the season?

Hope to high heaven you're right. Love the positivity and the outlook.