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They're both left-footed so I doubt they will be our natural CB partnership. Plus, Hause is looking good at left back so Smith will probably want to keep him there.

I think we all know where Conor is best deployed in the team and it's not where Smith had mainly been playing him. The trouble is, unless McGinn plays that defensive role, how do we fit them two plus Jack into the team? It has to be McGinn in the DM role or it just won't work.

Whelan was appalling against SHA at Villa Park so no way should he play. I'd like to see McGinn in front of the back four because he's a tough tackler and has the required energy to play there.

Hey, I'm just repeating what was said to me. Doesn't mean I believe it either. However, there's a guy in the same pub, a regular just like the guy today, who claimed to know the family when we were negotiating a new deal back in the Premier League days and he got that spot on. However, that was a different fella so maybe this is nonsense. I guess time will maybe tell.

This is not itk but, tonight in my local, I chatted with a Villa fan who I know that claims to know Jack's relatives. He said Jack is definitely gone in the summer. A caveat to that was; we've had a bid of £25m accepted by Chelsea for Tammy Abraham. However, Tammy wants assurances about who we will be signing before he accepts the offer. We've apparently given him 4 weeks to decide.

Depends how desperate you are for a fiver but me, I'd let it carry on mate and enjoy sacrificing a fiver for the beautiful feeling of a 7-0 Villa win! In fact, why not cash out and put it all on a 7-0 win? Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for your loss should the final result not be 7-0 Aston Villa

That goal just out a few million on the price tag. What a goal and the kind of thing you could hope to expect from such a talent.

It doesn't do it justice mate - it flew in like a missile!

Who scored guys?

Can't beat knockers though!

People, especially competitive athletes, do suffer from lack of confidence. Maybe that's what's been affecting Adomah?

The truth may be an offence but it's not a sin!

So, in your mind, anyone that doesn't play to the best of their ability is robbing the club blind? You might as well break most of their legs then!

If you're not drunk - you should be!

I'm sure you were saying such hideous remarks whenever he saved our asses last season!

Because of the bump I've just read through the last page of this. To call anyone "imbecile" with your consistently poorly written text is somewhat hypocritical, don't you think?

The Temptations are my favourite Motown artists - brilliant group!

The album I can't stop listening to is Prequelle by Ghost. What a great album it is! Ghost are a brilliant band!

I quite like rock/metal music and have been listening to the latest Ghost album today, which is pretty damn good imo. My favourite track is called Pro Memoria and was singing these alternative lyrics to the opening verse and chorus: John McGinn, tackle won, who can he play in on-side? Who runs behind? Who runs behind? He plays it out to Jack Grealish but who can he find who's on-side? Who runs behind? Who runs behind? Don't you forget about Tammy. Don't your forget about his friend 'goal'. Don't you forget that he will score! Sorry guys, I know it's a bit slow, morose and never going to happen but I quite liked singing it at home today whilst doing the ironing and watching the Blackburn v Boro game! Ghost - Pro Memoria

Forgive me for adding my penny's worth but Green's goal won us a point against Sheffield Utd. Adomah hasn't scored for nearly a year!

Whether you're for Smith or against him, right now, our future is very uncertain as a football club. We will lose many players during the summer and the first team match day squad is probably going to have at least 9 or 10 new faces in it. Question is, how much money will the manager be given the spend to bring those players in? Smith has already spent a fair bit on the new keeper and right back. But, we still need a decent few new players in and unless we sell Grealish how on earth are they going to find the money to buy quality players to take us up? It's ok saying Smith shopped at Poundland for his previous club but, ultimately, he didn't take them up. So many new players will also need time to gel together. For all their good results and plaudits last season, Brentford only won 2 of their first 14 games of last season - against Bolton and Millwall. If we saw a similar start to next season, let's face it, we would be struggling to get promoted again. I would love to know our financial situation and the thought process regarding Smith's employment but, these days, we seem to hear very little from the club. I suspect that the powers-that-be realised the situation we would find ourselves in next summer and went for a man that has achieved relative success (for Brentford) with younger, cheaper players and felt that the re-build was so big that funds would be limited and Smith would be more suitable to the task than say Brendan Rodgers. Maybe they see Smith as being able to recruit smartly and build for that long term journey back to the top flight. If that's the case, those fans venting their opinion that Smith isn't up to it are going to be in for one hell of a tough time supporting this club.

Not intentionally though, TRO. However, Elphick intentionally turned his back on the shot!

Given the fact that all teams down to 16th have games in hand on us, and can go above us, I'd say 15th isn't such a wild guess. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if we finished as low as 18th! I think we'll lose and Small Heath too. Whether they finish above us will probably come down to points deductions. I think we just need to see how bad this gets because, personally, I'm convinced we haven't seen the worst of it yet. We probably won't see Hutton, Taylor, Mings, Hause, Elmohamady, Whelan, Jedinak, Adomah, El Ghazi, Abraham and Grealish after this season. Yet, we will more than likely rely on at least 6 or 7 of them to play regularly for us from now until the end of the season. Now, that's where our problems start!

God knows where we'd be without his goals this season but, we desperately need him to convert those easy chances he seems to often miss.

Smith mentioned how Hourihane didn't need to dive in for that second goal but, after passing Hourihane, Rodriguez still had a defender and keeper to beat. The defender (Elphick) turned his back on the shot - criminal - which resulted in the ball deflecting past the keeper who seemed to go down too slowly although, he did later get subbed because of injury so maybe that hindered him? I wasn't at the game so can't comment on his overall performance but I wouldn't blame him for that second goal.