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Butts

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You sometimes make me wonder why you bought a season ticket in the first place, given how many games you had "missed". :lol:

He's starting to realise that Martin O'Neill was the best Manager Villa have had in recent times and is finding it hard to come to terms with.

Those top six finishes seem a distant memory now :idea:
 

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He's starting to realise that Martin O'Neill was the best Manager Villa have had in recent times and is finding it hard to come to terms with.

Those top six finishes seem a distant memory now :idea:

he had cash - Have any of the Villa managers since had the same?
 

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Villa have been so lucky in recent seasons not to be relegated that it's catching up on them now. Bar one or two, Carragher's after-match comments were spot on. Worst home defeat for 81 years, the players just don't care anymore. Just a shame Benteke didn't score a 7th - looking forward to the local derbies next season :)
 

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Pity for Villa supporters that Lescott didn't have any Liverpool players in his pocket, not much room with that 'smart'phone already there I suppose .......
 

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Villa have been so lucky in recent seasons not to be relegated that it's catching up on them now. Bar one or two, Carragher's after-match comments were spot on. Worst home defeat for 81 years, the players just don't care anymore. Just a shame Benteke didn't score a 7th - looking forward to the local derbies next season :)

Worst Villa team in living memory, and we still beat you :lol:;)
 

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Worst Villa team in living memory, and we still beat you :lol:;)

So have other Championship teams though ;) Although I think at the moment they wouldn't even get wound up enough for a Derby. Some of the goals on Sunday were laughable, c'mon even Kolo Toure scored :D
 

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There were still 36,000 there on Sunday to witness the turkey shoot :p

Why does no one want to buy Villa ? - is Lerner asking to much ?

36000 at the start maybe, there certainly wasn't 36000 to witness the 5th goal and even less at the 6th.

He's reportedly after £/$?150m.

Shahid Khan bought and relegated Fulham for £200m as the last premier league club to change hands for comparison. That was 2-3 years ago- no premier league club has been bought since other than shares such as those at crystal palace. Not sure of the share holding % but the American who invested in part of Palace invested around £100m

£150m looks a good price on paper at least.

Hasn't Lerner been screwed over by an ex wife in divorce claims recently, if so maybe connected to his "club for sale" but not "trying" approach.
 
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Im glad I was away for a few days and didn't see our game - even the snippet I caught of MOTD was horrid enough to watch... To many false dawns with us and why didn't we buy some defenders :(
 

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Im glad I was away for a few days and didn't see our game - even the snippet I caught of MOTD was horrid enough to watch... To many false dawns with us and why didn't we buy some defenders :(

I can see Sunderland and Newcastle getting out of trouble. Villa are down, Norwich are poor and Bournemouth are slipping. Swansea are also in the mire. Even West Brom and Palace could be dragged in.

Newcastle have them all to play. Get results there and you will be ok.
 

Antman

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I can see Sunderland and Newcastle getting out of trouble. Villa are down, Norwich are poor and Bournemouth are slipping. Swansea are also in the mire. Even West Brom and Palace could be dragged in.

Newcastle have them all to play. Get results there and you will be ok.

On current form Crystal Palace could well get dragged into a relegation scrap, their fans were talking about qualifying for Europe not long ago.

I think Norwich are going down with the Villa.
 

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I can see Sunderland and Newcastle getting out of trouble. Villa are down, Norwich are poor and Bournemouth are slipping. Swansea are also in the mire. Even West Brom and Palace could be dragged in.

Newcastle have them all to play. Get results there and you will be ok.

I hope we do and mackems and palace go with villa but realistically we do have a chamce against them it all depends who decides their a footballer from our side on the day
 

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Marlow 0...Winchester City 3 (Gallimore s/o 90+4; Bentley 31, 33, Barron 90+4)

Winchester City continued their good run of form with a comfortable victory at Marlow. After half an hour some good skill saw Warren Bentley find the top corner from 25 yards, before bravely going into a 50-50 with the keeper to double City's lead and score his 100th goal for Winchester City in all competitions. The second half was quieter but in stoppage time, Jamie Barron rounded the keeper and rolled the ball into the net from 20 yards. Marlow's captain was dismissed for a second yellow, but there was barely time to restart and, although they've played two games more, Winchester go within a point of Cinderford, who were surprisingly held at home by Wimborne. Elsewhere, Bashley picked up their first point at the 27th attempt.
 

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Surely you want the Makems staying up for the derby day larks. Oh hang on they tend to beat you ;)

If Norwich don't turn the corner soon it will be them and Villa plus one other.

BFS will get Sunderland to fight, they have had a few good results recently and in Defoe they have a goal scorer. You might get Boro in the premier league next season although their results have been poor recently.
 

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Blackpool 0-0 Oldham

For second time in row Oldham game finishes goalless and if Oldham took chances they would won the game.
 

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Surely you want the Makems staying up for the derby day larks. Oh hang on they tend to beat you ;)

If Norwich don't turn the corner soon it will be them and Villa plus one other.

BFS will get Sunderland to fight, they have had a few good results recently and in Defoe they have a goal scorer. You might get Boro in the premier league next season although their results have been poor recently.

I used to like you :lol:
 

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You should beat Colchester on tues night as they poor team and probably look more likely to be relegated. I see you drop into bottom 4 after Shrewsbury won and Fleetwood draw, two big games coming up for Chesterfield and feel you need to get six points to try move away from bottom 4.

18 Blackpool - 33 points
19 Shrewsbury - 33 points
20 Fleetwood - 30 points
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21 Chesterfield - 30 points
22 Crewe - 27 points
23 Oldham - 25 points
24 Colchester - 22 points

Colchester 1-1 Chesterfield

Yep, that didn't happen. It was cold, we had 10 men for most of it (I didn't see the sending off incident but it was either v harsh or absolutely right depending on who you talk to....) so it probably was a plucky point in the end but doesn't help much.

We equalised just as I was trying to cash out my Colchester 1-0 Chesterfield bet .... grrrrrrr ;)
 

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Macclesfield v Dover Athletic P-P :(

Too late in the morning for the 'Dover train army' who carried on & are drinking in Macclesfield.
 

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Arsenal 0 - 0 Hull

Due to UEFA rules about clashing matches, the first chance for a replay would be March 7th - terrible for Arsenal as it would be just 60 hours after Arsenal play at Spurs
 

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FA Cup

Arsenal 0 - 0 Hull

Due to UEFA rules about clashing matches, the first chance for a replay would be March 7th - terrible for Arsenal as it would be just 60 hours after Arsenal play at Spurs

Ironic that Wenger said recently that he is very much in favour of keeping FA Cup replays:lol:
 

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As a random thing, Hyde were due to play Nantwich and Nantwich will be playing Dover Athletic next Saturday in the FA Trophy quarter final.
 

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