VillaChris Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Top 3 starting to pull away now. Fulham have hit some consistancy now, 4 straight wins and have stopped conceding goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted December 2, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 2, 2019 It's funny with all the old reports of us 'doing a Fulham' that they actually remind me of villas second year in the league. Massive wages, gambled on promotion, players too good for the division, yet still are just outside of the leading 2 teams who dont seem to drop points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) Leeds and Baggies with an 11 point gap. Looks over already. Edited December 11, 2019 by villalad21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Championship team of the decade. Jack get's in. Was half expecting Tammy to be on there. Ah well. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11688/11889214/championship-team-of-the-decade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Only Forest and Derby have played every season of the decade in The Championship which I think is impressive. Shows a lot of turnover in the division 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Leeds vs Preston 10 times the watch of United vs Newcastle. Premier League is really not the be all and end all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Brentford going really well right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Bristol City At least there's one team we don't have to worry about when we go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Not sure what Fulham are playing at, everytime they look to have a good opportunity to close the gap on top two they throw it away, and are now losing at home to Reading. Brentford winning again though, Benrahma on the scoresheet. Forest sneaking up the table as well, if they win their game in hand will be just six points off top two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I wouldn't put it past Brentford getting 2nd if they don't sell anyone in January. Everyone knows they're a streaky team but they've been playing very well for months now. Still 9 points off 2nd but Leeds and WBA aren't winning too many games atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 On 27/12/2019 at 02:35, Tomaszk said: Bristol City At least there's one team we don't have to worry about when we go down. The little man is kicking off again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 16 hours ago, VillaChris said: I wouldn't put it past Brentford getting 2nd if they don't sell anyone in January. Everyone knows they're a streaky team but they've been playing very well for months now. Still 9 points off 2nd but Leeds and WBA aren't winning too many games atm. They really improved their defense after Smith left. They got a great chance i reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Brentford's defence is best in the league at the moment, but It's worth remembering that they spent close to £30m in the summer, Smith or any of their previous manager never had anything like that much to spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) Pontus Jansson was a top signing as I expected, Leeds missed him last few weeks. Dean Smith managed them for 12 games last season before joining us. They conceded 14 goals. Norwich conceded 14. West Brom 17. Us 20. Sheffield United 13. So his record at start of last season was no worse than four of the teams who eventually finished top 6. I actually think DS would've got Brentford in play offs last season if he'd stayed as they started that season well enough. I don't really consider the championship in any case to be a league where you need to be defensively solid to be any good in any case given the random nature of many games and the quick turnarounds with the constant Saturday-Tuesday games. Edited January 2, 2020 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 3 hours ago, useless said: Brentford's defence is best in the league at the moment, but It's worth remembering that they spent close to £30m in the summer, Smith or any of their previous manager never had anything like that much to spend. Sure, but they did also lose the spine of their team (Bentley, Konsa, Sawyers and Maupay). It’s pretty impressive what they’re doing IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I wasn't trying to rubbish how well they're doing, just refuting the idea that they're only doing well now because Smith has left them, when I'm sure if he'd have had a cool thirty mil then he'd have them challenging for promotion as well. As we know ourselves money alone isn't enough, Bristol City also spent close to thirty million in the summer and didn't lose any of their better players so arguably should be doing better, but they're down in eleventh place, and don't lookto have improved much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Rooney set to make his Derby debut tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Zatman said: Rooney set to make his Derby debut tonight I hadn’t realised as it hadn’t been reported on either SSN or talksport at all today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongVillan Posted January 2, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2020 Nice to see Rooney celebrating his assist on his own. Come on Barnsley!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 9 hours ago, bobzy said: Sure, but they did also lose the spine of their team (Bentley, Konsa, Sawyers and Maupay). It’s pretty impressive what they’re doing IMO. Great chance to establish themselves as a PL side if they go get promotion because they only buy good players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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