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I think it would come more from other/newcastle fans than villa fans & perhaps holloway will send him a picture of his arse for good measure

If Coleman leaves Wales for Hull he may have a quick way out there

I imagine his twitter will be "interesting" if we get dicked this afternoon

Already in the squad for todays game

Baggies officially sold to chinese group this morning so in the space of a month or two 3 clubs within 20 miles have all been bought by chinese owners & tony now has some competition that wasn't there before. We're going to end up with one combined "West Midlands Village" team in a giant super-city aren't we.....

Could just be that the newcastle thing happened a bit quicker than expected too. could have been interested and spoken to his agent about his interest but Newcastle put in a bid, was accepted and the player sees that as the more likely to do something this year option so just went straight there, He might not even need to move house etc depending on where he was living

Aiden McGeady not given a squad number at everton...

No chance of that happening, Leicester/W.Ham/Burnley/Southampton/Stoke all seem to be after him. Leicester had 12 million turned down & Burnley have made an offer today

Exactly, Do you think Sunderland fans care that Jermain Defoe is 33?

I honestly wouldn't mind Ikechi Anya, He is used to the league having played 100 games for watford, Very quick, can beat players and crosses well. Stats for goals/assists aren't great but he makes a difference in games

The sad thing is i think there was the potential of a very good player there a few years back but being a part of our clueless, constantly changing disaster ridden defence over the past 4/5 years has destroyed him. Imagine if he had been paired with mellberg for a couple of years rather than just whoever happened to be fit out of vlaar, a well past it and calamity prone dunne/baker etc etc

That is pretty much where i am at. Lots of people saying we will get 9/10 points from the first 5 games, I just can't see how given that little has changed (other than the opposition of course) Sure the teams we play will be of a poorer standard but like it or not we are a target/big club in this league who many of the teams will not have played before (or at least recently) so will be likely to raise their game trying to get some glory. Nobody in the premier league needed to raise their game against us over the past few seasons as we were just another bottom 6 team that everyone expected to get something from. To put things into some sort of perspective in Our last 3 seasons combined we have won 23 league games out of 114. All of the promoted teams from this division last year won more games than that.

The same bookies everyone seems to have so much faith in have newcastle to win the entire league at lower odds than us winning on sunday...

I know but hiring some better people to polish turds still leaves us with lots of turds

They probably should have gone up last year after smashing brighton in the play-off semis but blew it in the final. They only lost 2 games at home all season They scored 66 goals (4th highest in the league) Hooper & Forestieri scored more goals between them than our entire team managed last season. They have added Steven Fletcher & Alman Abdi (Played with Forestieri at watford) to that attack since then.

Hopefully he will goto newcastle and spread his ineptitude there. Sure he's not at the top of the list of crap players that need to go but he's on it.

3rd favourites for the league? They are insane. Hell we are 3rd favourites in a 3 horse race for Sundays game Sheffield Wednesday 6/5 Draw 11/5 Aston Villa 12/5 When RDM was appointed he said Villa were like a house that needed to be knocked down and started over. We haven't even broken a window or kicked a door in yet, 2 or 3 in and out isn't anything like the wholesale changes needed and we still have just about all of the absolute crap from last year that got us here in the first place. For those that hadn't noticed our season starts in 5 days and in trying to completely overhaul one of the worst teams ever to grace the premier league we have signed a young keeper who could be great or could be useless, a defender who was injured for nearly all of last year and a young midfielder who again was injured for most of last year. Holloways prediction of 16th is a damned sight more realistic than the bookies 3rd.

Gestede flailing around in/around the box seems to generate penalties/free kicks, even when the ball hit his own arm or he fouls the opposition...

It isn't very professional is it. If it was a player posting the same you would expect an FA fine and the club to at least have a strong word with the individual.

our style of play is pass the ball sideways/backwards a few times before giving it away....

Third time he has been done for drink driving, Obviously doesn't give a shit about his or anyone elses life. Should be charged with attempted murder

2 nice kits from norwich & then they do this... Norwich City unveiled their new third kit for the 2016/17 season this morning, inspired by one of the Canaries’ most iconic shirts. http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich_city_reveal_third_kit_inspired_by_famous_1990s_strip_for_the_2016_17_championship_season_1_4627764

I suppose the one concern about leaving it late is the scheduling. We are no longer in the prem where teams usually only play 2-3 games in august so by the time the transfer window closes at the end of august we will have played 5 league games already and 11% of the season will be gone.

not my video & misses the telford shot that resulted in the goal. About 4 mins in before the match starts

Aston Villa FC Verified account ‏@AVFCOfficial #AVFC team v @TelfordUtd: Gollini, Suliman, Elphick, Baker, Cissokho, Gana, Westwood, Ayew, Sinclair, Gestede, Green. Subs : Johannson, Mason, McKirdy, Hepburn-Murphy, Cowans.