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The reason he's had so much of the ball for much of his career is because he isn't scared to try and get on it. Too many pansies in the side happy to be in the background in his eight year run here. If only he didn't wallop it into the stands so often.

That should be top 4. We were top 6.

I'd be waiting for £25m offer before replying with a rejection.

Great shout. I'm certain it won't stop some bed wetting blame being dished out though.

I think Terry will be a huge part of the summer rebuild. If things are still good between him and Smith/ROK he'll be a key part of getting the squad mentality right going into the season.

I think... think we were actually 3rd as well, not even 4th. Hmm, that doesn't help. F'sake. May be mixing up seasons but great memories of boxing day that year though. Arsenal 2-0 up and we came back. After that I thought there was no way we'd let it slip. F'sake.

What, no cabbage? Not even a sprout?

Page 1000. If you don't count Gareth Barry, Jack is probably the best player to come out of our academy in 30 years. Yes better than Cahill.

Absolutely. Many Villa fans are just broken though. Don't blame them, near on 10 years solid of bad regression. Desperate for anything that isn't more losses. I think because he delivered some wins it's looked at as though he did a good job when he was just as bad, if not worse than any of the Lambert/McLeish/Houllier crew. They actually had to compete with Premier League sides, not Burton and Rotherham, and all survived. It took Tim and Micah Richards to finally relegate us. Bruce's Villa Championship side that he couldn't get playing anything resembling attractive football was probably better personnel-wise than many of our sides in the last 6/7 years.

Interesting dogs abuse thoughts. When was this?

Out this week. Worryingly, Smith was said definitively "He'll be back for Derby" and didn't say that, or even hint at it, for Grealish.

You are right. They're honking as well. I'll be annoyed if Smith lines up 433 and we get thumped again. As has been pointed out, we look horribly light in the middle - but only trying to play pretty football. 3421 with narrow-ish players behind Tammy could work as I've been crying about for ages. Want to see Smith try something.

Just taking these few bits from what you said... Yes, all correct this. Football shocking throughout his time here. No surprise results were up and down. There wasn't any tactics! You throw that many good players on the pitch you're going to get some good results along the way; play with no tactics and you're going to get some bad results as well We could play the same season again and finish 10th, it was all chance and Smith work to do for me before I'm 100% against replacing him at the end of the season, should a good option be available. But he's Christ, he's so far ahead of Bruce as a manager and person. Stench of RDM and Bruce's waste be around for years.

Dunno if Barney is fit, bit wouldn't be surprised to see him start on Sat.

If we'd carried on playing like that we'd have won 70% of our remaining matches. We were opening teams up for fun. Soz for enjoying it. Yes, for a number of reasons the wheels have come off.

Anyone dabble with vanguard?

Yes indeed sir, absolutely garbage. Hopefully people look at those stats and offer us some money for him.

This happened week after week after week to Westwood. He'd show for the ball, have nowhere to go as cowards like Hourihane ran away from him, and he'd usually lose it. Give me that over hiding every day. A player in that mould would excel for us now.

Can all the other wind-up merchants take notice. At least be entertaining like this fella if you're going to troll.

I mean ignored, yes. So I see a blanked out block saying "you've chosen to ignore....". However, if another user has quoted my ignored people I see the quote in their post. Didn't know if it was an option to totally hide interactions with ignored users as well as the posts they make themselves?

Is there an option to hide replies to users I've blocked? Didn't know if may be in an obvious place I'd just missed.

Dunno, I've seen the best, most exciting football I've seen from Villa in over 20 years. It's exactly what I thought we'd be doing while down in this crap division. If we see more of it I'll probably enjoy the end of the season quite a bit.

John McGinn was with them as well.

Inside No. 9. One of the best television programmes ever made. Love it so much.

I agree. I wonder if their confidence will wane if we lose our next seven.