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I'm interested in Aston Villa winning, not Conor Hourihane scoring goals and getting assists. Passenger atm. He'll improve when Grealish is back.

We can do it with a run of form. We're in touching distance and have been spluttering along in second gear playing crap for 10 games.

Right, be honest. Have you ever seen a worse left back than Neil Taylor?

They're miles better than Norwich and West Brom. Leeds are good as well, I think that'll be the two to go up. No one else in the league scares me. Best team I've seen have been Stoke and they look to be too far off now.

Ha, I actually thought that as well! Careful to not miss the target, just ram it down the keepers throat so crowd doesn't have a go at him. Maybe he did try to score, dunno. That's what his actions have done to me. I'm sat there wondering if he's trying to score or if he's doing his usual self-preservation routine.

Obviously he's brilliant... But having someone else aside from McGinn who will show some fecking bottle and go and receive the ball in the middle of the pitch will transform us.

Tammy, forget the goals, I'll never forget the effort you've put in on the pitch this season. Wonderful.

Shows how weak the league is that we're anywhere near. Getting Jack right for the playoffs the main thing...

A big sloppy wet fish.

Really interesting thought. I can see that going through his head absolutely yes. I don't know what we do v Brentford. If he starts he'll get overrun. But he probably should. Carroll maybe?

Do not blame anyone for leaving after that first 80. Shocking. Now, if you could leave every other game to guarantee us some points please.

YES ANDRE! Absolutely rubbish aside from the last 30 seconds of that appearance. Hope he can use the confidence as a platform because he will be starting the next match.

Glad that pass has been posted. He's like a politician trying to manipulate the masses. Standing there staring as though anyone should have got near that pass. Useless throughout, dodging responsibility. He'll no doubt improve when Grealish comes back. Hope he scores a hat-trick in the playoff final so we can sell him when we go up. Horrendous.

What a **** warrior.

Soft as dog shite. He slips over on purpose when he has a bad touch to try and cover himself as though it isn't his fault. Vassell had a habit of doing this as well. Try and make it look like he's been unlucky. Dunno what to say about him. Loads of ability, just can't be arsed. Scared to try in case he fails. Coward.

Very similar to Sheff U away last season. Thumped. Deserved nothing. Crap performance from the management and players. Don't care right now, delighted to pinch something. This ref tonight. Wowee. I want to go up just to be rid of these useless words removed.

Purely shape/formation I'm talking about. I can only remember Swansea it being spoken about. Maybe I've missed the others? Would love to see us try a 343/3421. His subs which don't work, I usually agree with his reasoning. Honestly, I agree with 99% of everything he says. We were an average keeper away from winning six in a row Nov/Dec, God knows the positivity we'd have carried on from there.

Smith's apparent flexibility in formation/system is a concern to me. I really like what he talks about and it all sounds positive. But there must be another option somewhere along the line. Even a subtle one. The only change of formation in his entire time here is Swansea away when we won 1-0. It was more of a 4411/4231 instead of the usual 433. You could tell watching it as well. So he's tried it once in whatever it is, 20 games? I think he has to work on a backup shape he and the players are comfortable going with from minute 1. We can't be relying on top half PL players like Jack Grealish because unless we go up this season we won't have any next year. Even if we do go up, which is the obvious ideal scenario, we have to have something else to go onto the field with. Look how Chelsea have been thumped on recent weeks once their system has a flaw exposed.

New contract! Brilliant! He must be on at least £20k a week now. Christ that's so much money for someone who hasn't come through the system and been around it their whole life. It's so much money for everyone but it means feel mind bending to him. A man who went to uni and probably swam around in his overdraft while he was there.

Did you not have it around November/December as well? It was the best football I've seen Villa play for at least 10 years. Couldn't wait to go to the next match. It was the sort of stuff we should have been playing since we've been relegated. Football Bruce should have been playing. We'd have romped the league if we had had a decent manager in charge. It's always missed when Bruce is praised above Lambert/McLeish/Houllier. We're in the division below!! We should have been dominating. We probably still should to be honest. The man in charge has a plan now, even if it's faltering with the various injuries and disgraceful holes left for him in the squad. I'll take that over unsustainable, dull, no-idea football. We'd be in the Premier League now if Dean Smith was appointed June 2016.

Was great wasn't it. Wonder how many more points we'd have with Johnstone, Terry and Snodgrass in the team this year under Smith? Plenty I'd say.

No, he motioned that his breath smelt after some handbags nonsense. That explains the chant as well. Not sure why it was turned into a race thing at the time.

Never? Can't believe that. I meant the quality of the league was really poor. Cardiff got second playing long balls over full backs. We just did our usual Brucey nonsense. Some people enjoyed it, some people didn't.

I agree we have bigger issues. The team isn't even passing out from the back any more, which I hold Smith responsible for as well as the players. The difference between us now and the way we were playing in November is so vast though. I think we could find a higher-middle ground and still go up.