Saint_lambden

Christ knows where Villa have got such a sense of delusion from. Smith-Rowe and JWP? 🤣

That's a pretty horrendous start for a team that never starts well anyway. I can't see us winning until late October. 1) Ground we never win (last win in 90 mins back in 1997) at with new manager bounce and fans back in 2) Team we concede against for fun 3) Ground we never win at (won 1 of last SEVENTEEN trips) 4) West Ham before their EL campaign kick-offs 5) Man City away Don't really need to go on. Hey, I may be pleasantly surprised....:)

Winners: France Runners Up: Portugal Scotland get knocked out at: Group Stage Wales get knocked out at: Last 16 England get knocked out at: Quarter Finals Dark Horse (Furthest a team gets excluding England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal): Turkey Top Goalscorer: Griezmann UEFA Best Player: Kante UEFA Best Young Player: Ferran Torres

We've got two hopes of signing Sabitzer and sadly Bob Hope is dead.

Kieran Maguire. He's a big football finance guy so I guess not surprising that he has some knowledge of the situation. He's very much towing the line that the club were at the fans forum - something is going on but they don't want the bidders' name in the public domain. Hopefully that's a good sign that they're serious backers and not trying to negotiate via the media like DeGrosa was.

Who exactly were you expecting?

Well it's common knowledge that Howe went for the job when we sacked Pardew so there's clearly interest there but I'd like to think we'd be setting our sights higher than him should Ralph go early next season (whether it's realistic for us to or not is another matter).

Another Southgate f*ck up. If he'd have just picked Tomori, who was exceptional for AC Milan towards the end of the season, rather than Mings who isn't even the best CB at Villa he wouldn't be in this situation. Hard to feel too much optimism about the Euros with a man who got relegated with Middlesbrough and failed with the Under 21s in charge.

Surely even Southgate can't make the same mistake twice and leave out JWP again.

Nearly a month since the fans forum where Semmens said news of a new 'investment structure' was to be announced "soon". Whilst that doesn't necessarily translate to a takeover, it was clear acknowledgement for the first time from those running the club day-to-day that we are actively seeking new investors. There haven't been any links/stories in the media for a while, but it's hard to know whether no news is good news as hopefully any serious investor would not be going to the press every 5 minutes like DaGrosa was.

Scrap that. Ward-Prowse set to miss out, apparently. Victim of our second half of the season form... https://t.co/M4eIa78a9O?amp=1

JWP might play in the third group game if we win the first two and are already through, but agree he's unlikely to feature much. Suspect it'll be Rice and Henderson (if he proves his fitness in the warm-up games). If we move to a 4-3-3 then those two alongside Mount or Foden.

Cole-Johnson used to work for Sky, so he's used to ripping off football fans in fairness.

Men's first team: Bunch of fannies

Added JWP in, who's been named in the provisional England squad which will be reduced down to 26 men on 1st June. No place for Ings as expected.

A quite pathetic and cowardly move from the club, something they conveniently neglected to mention at the fans forum a few weeks back. Do the people who come up with these ideas seriously think they'll go down well or do they give that little of a sh*t about the average fan that they'll just press ahead with it anyway?

Best price 5/1 to go down next season. May as well profit from the misery and get the season ticket money back...

Whilst I appreciate the optimism, playing 20 minutes of decent football per game is of little use when only one of your players is remotely clinical enough and your defensive shape/individual mistakes lead to conceding 5 more goals than the team that finished bottom of the league.

Totally out of their depth - manager and 90% of the players. No character or leadership anywhere in that team. Soft as sh*te.

Provisional squads starting to be announced so thought it would be good to start this off. Will update with any more players called up as-and-when. Scotland - Matches: v Czech Republic (14th June), v England (18th June), v Croatia (22nd June) Stuart Armstrong & Che Adams Poland - Matches: v Slovakia (14th June), v Spain (19th June), v Sweden (23rd June) Jan Bednarek Denmark - Matches: v Finland (12th June), v Belgium (17th June), v Russia (21st June) Jannik Vestergaard ------ No Antti Niemi in the Scotland squad 😒 Full squad lists here: See the provisional UEFA EURO 2020 squads | UEFA EURO 2020 | UEFA.com Tournament kicks off on 11th June with Turkey v Italy.

The game was like a playbook for our entire season really. Promising first half of good build-up play leads to nothing and as soon as the opposition make a tactical/personnel tweak at half-time, we've no way of responding to it and revert to playing on the back-foot again as the energy drains. Sideways, backwards, a complete lack of urgency and ideas and of course, conceding a horrific goal which leads to the heads dropping. How any professional goalkeeper is letting that first goal in is beyond belief to be honest. On the plus side, Tella and Armstrong were bright in terms of trying to make something happen, even if it didn't always come off. Salisu looked solid again. It shouldn't be forgotten that Leeds spent nearly £100m last summer but they're coached brilliantly, are tactically flexible, well organised and having a cutting edge - all things we so often lack. As others have said, we're some way off being a top 10 side and if the recruitment isn't right this summer, we could be bang in trouble come May next year.

Lee Mason retiring from officiating at the end of the season. Last game tonight between United and Fulham 🍾 But he'll become the league's first dedicated VAR from next season 😩

Suspect they'll look to target the out of position left-back (presumably Salisu) as they did with Bednarek on the opposite flank in the reverse game. Raphinha had him on toast that night. Hopefully it's at least a free-flowing game with nothing to lose for both sides. They do play ridiculously open at times in away matches and they're a bit of shambles at defending set-pieces so we should get our chances, it's just whether we'll be clinical enough. Only once since Koeman left have we won 3 in a row at home in the PL (WBA, Everton and Newcastle earlier this season) and I can't see us repeating that unfortunately. 1-2.

Yes. I plan to take a big pointy stick to make sure nobody gets near me and will be reporting anyone who even dares to even utter a word about Stuart Armstrong's hair being in good condition over their mask to the nearest steward.