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    Dunno about targets for Villa. My target for next season is to enjoy football again. Someone pulling the plug on VAR and the retirement/forcible ejection of Jon Moss and Mike Dean would be good starts.
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    Diabolical!
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    I think the last paragraph is probably a fair view, although I'm fairly optimistic that when we do get a better balanced squad this summer, which is not rocket science in our case, we'll see much better from most of the current players too. I seem to not fit into any of the current camps, in that I didn't think Smith deserved to go, but I also think SG is doing OK and I'm happy for him to crack on.
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    What's that got to do with SGs ability to attract talent. I was saying that if you want a debate on SG's effectiveness, demonstrably that's probably not the strongest argument. As an aside, why are you only looking at form over the last 10 games. Since his appointment we're 8th in the form table. It's been mentioned loads on here. 10 games is an arbitrary number that you've used to try and make a point. Means bugger all. Especially since a majority of teams we played during that run were top 6.
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    Dude, we just signed Coutinho.
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    I think also that we expect everything that high reputations players do to be world class. That's not really how it works. Even the best players in the world will do 4 or 5 things in a game that no one else can do. Sometimes less, sometimes none. It's the aggregate effect that makes them world class.
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    I'm on mobile and can't see much. Thanks for the badge BTW!
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    Dunno, maybe it's because of when I joined? I signed up in 2006, but lurked without posting much for a while.
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    Stephen Briggs does a (for the most part), pretty good job narrating the Discworld books on audible. Nightwatch was brilliant. Only misstep so far was Going Postal, which I couldn't get into at all. Other good Audible finds were the Expanse series, which is epic, and the Bobiverse books. Also Peter Clines has a few memorable ones on there- Paradox Bound and 14.
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    2-1 to villa at full time. 100%
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    It would be worse. Much worse. It's utter utter hyperbunkum.
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    What? That won't work. What are they thinking? And by they, I mean 'big garlic' and 'big ginger'. It's a conspiracy!!!!
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    What are the little knuckle shredders on the other side for? I have no idea.
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    The name Skippy for an Aussie dolphin smacks of very poor imagination. Splashy?
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    Plus, think of the manoeuvrability, and the superior intelligence and stealth capability of the octopi. Not even a fair fight. And to think, we've been using them to predict the outcome of World Cup games. Shocking waste of talent.
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    Mirrors, dude. Anyway, wouldn't destruction of western satellites in orbit be tantamount to war?
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    Watkins a shoe in based on comments in his interview. I think your list is bang on actually.
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    I think you are thinking of Matty Cache.......I'll get my coat.
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    Is it weird that whenever I see reference to OM, I always think of this guy.
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    I totally agree with this. Make it like in a shoot-out. The penalties given out these days, it makes it like basketball. No-one wants to see that (not basketball, obvs., just football becoming procedural).
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    Then that will be valuable information for SG. We'll know those who are ambitious, and those who aren't. The ones who aren't will be bombed out due to lack of character. Say what you want about Stevie, he's never come across as anything other than ambitious, and as Fergie used to say, the team reflects the manager.
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    Forest have been champions of Europe though. From my recollection Burnley have not.
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    I skimmed a few of the previous posts, but if someone has said this previously, I apologise. It seems to me more than reasonable to come out in public as a footballer. It's not just about him, footballers are role models, and if it can help even one kid growing up who is having a torrid time trying to figure out who they are and struggling with the strain of secrecy then it's done good. Fair play to him. And actually I think on the whole (some morons aside) most terraces will back him on this.
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    That's a fair point, and well put. I'm sure you are right about party loyalty being one of the prime means by which promotions are given. That said, as someone looking in from the outside, it seems to me that the Soviet disposition to cut the balls off those who don't perform militarily (See Ukraine for details) would at least mean that some of the 'survivors' exhibited a level of competence? And also I should point out that in no way do I use the words capitalism and meritocracy synonymously.
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    Fair point.
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