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Fried 6 Herd 7 Dunne 5 Clark 5 Delph 6 Delf 6 Bradley 2 Bannan 7 Petrov 4 Agbag 6 Heskey 3

We need to find that balance between playing the nice stuff we occasionally do under Houllier, and making sure we stand up for ourselves and battle like we did a lot of the time under O'Neill. If we can find that balance, we're on the cusp of being a serious threat to the top teams.

Bang on! Let's give it a go. Chelsea already out, Arsenal farting it up in finals, who knows what could happen!

it's a half hour walk, tops. ----------- it was good in there before the last away game of the season. really good infact. but was crap before the december game with very few villa in there, but equally pretty much no citeh either. if you've got maps on your phone then that might be quite handy, otherwise just head east past the printworks and find the a665. there'll be signs for 'manchester sports arena' or similar and it won't be long before the stadium itself comes into view. alternatively, get a taxi for six quid. It's definitely closer to an hour than 30 mins. Last time I did the walk it was peeing down which may have said it seem more, but def over half an hour. Taddy lager from there is marvelous!

Goodness! Now I'm all for team bonding...

Watch him control it when it's fed up to him, it bounces off him more than Gabby! If you offer nothing but goals, you have to score a lot. He's shown he can in the past, just needs to continue his good start for us. He was poor yesterday, inexcusable for him to fluff that one at the end of the first half. What the hell was he doing turning back into a defender?

You're looking an hour walk from there, bloomin miles. Great, cheap pub though. If it's not raining, we will make a hell of a racket there.

Fried 7 Walker 8 Dunne 7 Clark 7 Delph 7 Albrighton 7 NRC 7 Pires 8 Downing 7 Young 7 Bent 4

1st chance he wasn't close enough to the ball 2nd great recovery by Robinson 3rd the defender gets a leg across and just about squeezes the ball to "safety". He hasn't been poor. For him he has. He's meant to score, that's why he is excused when he can't control it. He's had a few sniffs, a good shot, and a sitter. He needs to be scoring. Blackburn will have a bit of pressure in the game at some point, it'd be a lot nicer if we were sitting one up.

Abysmal by Bent. If you do nothing but score, you have to do better than that when you get passed the ball 16 yards out with no one around you.

He's **** bananas Always exciting anyway, I watch football to be entertained; if the team on the pitch isn't doing it, mix it up!

It'll be clear from the first time he gets the ball in an advanced position how today is going to go for Mr. Pires. Has he improved, or does he still play like a man who should be no where near a premier league first team?

Clark at CB is not a bonus in a game like this. He's not shown me anything to suggest he can handle big men up front/set pieces. Let's see what you've got today sonny Jim!

Exactly what I think. He needs to toughen up. Still much too weak for me, and if you can't be dominant in the air, you'll never make a decent centre half in the Prem.

They were fantastic last night. It's so annoying to look at spurs and see what a strong team they have. It's Spurs for God's sake! Hopefully they'll crumble when Harry messes off to England.

They were fantastic last night. It's so annoying to look at spurs and see what a strong team they have. It's Spurs for God's sake! Hopefully they'll crumble when Harry messes off to England.

Yes! "Stop giving them hope"

They can score, but not defend. We can't defend, and can...well sort of get around their box. Please, please please, young out of the left wing.

Can see a big fat loss here. A really disheartening one following Holloway's comments about us.

Really glad Petrov was close enough to Walker to see someone actually go forwards. He did his best to pull us back into our own half, but I'm glad Walker didn't have any of it. Hopefully we'll see very little of him ever starting for Villa again. Friedel mistakes cost us. Centre halves and Downing abysmal. Gabby and Young in each others position is painful to watch.

Shorey. Downing is much worse. He doesn't even try to look like he's going in he hurls himself out of the way. Can't stand it.

Salcido is a beast going forwards. Please change Gab and Young. The sub will prob be Heskey on for Gab, but then 442, it'll be the formation change that fixes it for us, not the lummox coming on.

Collins and Dunne are a **** nightmare. Both just come steaming out of defensive time and time again. They leave gaps everywhere.

If only, Gab will be outside again. Gutted about Bradley, was really looking forward to watching him.

I wouldn't say Walker is a certainty at all.