Hobsons Choice

Look at my past posts and I’ve never been quick to have a go at Dean, and I am obviously still fully behind him as manager, but he has to figure this stuff out, cos it was painfully horribly obvious what the result of this team selection would be. Even to me as a mere fan drinking rum in my kitchen.

Spot on.

Everyone saw this coming. Awful team selection. This will be a proper spanking.

I love Deano, but I think it would be hard on the basis of this selection to convince the squad that it’s a meritocracy.

I’d love Lookman. Not sure how much Leipzig would want for him, but his ball retention is great.

I agree it was never a penalty, but if it was given, can someone explain to me why the Liverpool player wasn’t sent off? He’s in a goal scoring position there surely?

I think the answer is to give each team 3 VAR reviews each per game that they decide when to use. That way it weeds out all but the most contentious decisions, so we don’t have the farce of not celebrating every goal because it’s a chin hair offside, plus the refs have to take responsibility for their decisions again (i.e do their job) because they will have no idea if the teams will use their VAR token. Either that or bin VAR entirely, which i’d be more than happy with.

Surely no one in their right mind would agree to a contract like that.

Oh so Friday night must be curry and beer night at bodymoor.

I seem to remember us mostly playing cack in the late kick offs. No idea if that’s true, it just seems like it.

Richardson?

Apparently Emi could play for England. Funny old world.

Holy f**k. 0.02? At that rate it would be 37.5 hours before we score.

What the hell....4-nil to Villa!

Watkins is my favourite villa striker since Tekkers, who was my favourite since Dublin and Angel, then Yorkie etc etc

Yep, it’s there. Amongst the funniest bits of the documentary vid I just saw was the autogenerated subtitles which referred to Galatasaray as ‘Gamma Representative for Wellingborough’. Which I will also now do for the rest of my life. Guess YouTube has taken sides there. I may see what it has to say about a small team based in the Small Heath area

Please pray that’s on youtube. I’m off there now. See you in a bit.

He also doesn’t wear a gilet. Everyone knows that is the source of all tactics.

Strength in depth doesn’t matter if you don’t make subs In seriousness, whilst I think it made sense to freshen things up yesterday, playing devil’s advocate here if we’re saying our depth is poor, it kind of makes sense that we’re not reaching into it, no? Kind of working around the frailty as it were. You could then argue that we’re going to pay for it later with tired legs, but that’s a different argument really, and we are not seeing what is being done on the training ground regarding fitness. In fairness, everyone was saying how Barkley looked a bit unfit after his injury, but how much good will the extra minutes do him? I reckon he’ll have benefitted ultimately.

Let’s not give away any stupid free kicks. This lot will kill us from set pieces, but we have it in our locker to do these comprehensively.

Welcome Morgan! May you get tons of goals and assists and smite your enemies good.

I think this is all mental. The referees are actually being told that offside players ‘interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent’s ability to play the ball should be penalised’ We had a word for that back in the day. It was called OFFSIDE! They need to stop pricking about with rules that have worked fine for decades, just to accommodate technology that penalises players for being 0.01mm offside. Has it made the game better? Absolutely not.

Was open a couple of years ago when I last went.

How many right backs are they playing?