Lighthouse

Sadly Diamond blew her knee ligaments out filming the last series so she's not been in this one. I wouldn't kick any of them out of bed for eating Pringles though.

After the trip to CR we bemoaned our side getting beaten by a crap team in the relegation zone. With hindsight, that game was basically the start of an absolutely monstrous run of form from them, which would comfortably have them in the playoffs extrapolated over the whole season. Won’t be easy.

Seems like you're making up a conversation to have with yourself, as I've never said or implied that. He should never have been in charge of signing players and neither should Tonda if we get promoted. The players we signed in summer '24 were dreadful and were never going to get close to staying up under any manager.

Yep, you've spotted the point there, I'm glad we agree. If we go up and sign more 'back up' to our current squad we will get annihilated again in the PL, Tonda, Russ or otherwise.

You think Wood, Edwards, Lallana, Fraser, Cornet, Sugawara, Archer and BBD would basically have been fine for any other manager than Martin, even though Juric and Rusk couldn’t do any better with them? Weird how no other PL club came in for them in summer.

A repeat of last season will depend on whether we sign PL quality players or bottom half Championship ones. If we repeat the latter, the manager will be basically irrelevant, as three different people proved last season.

Lordy Lordy… I’m off to mow the lawn. It’s been a pleasure chaps.

F*ck a duck, that could have gone anywhere.

Why? All West Brom did is basically what we’ve done today, arrive with a well drilled plan to stop us playing our game and keep it water tight at the back. You can’t win them all and sometimes you just have to put your hands up and appreciate an opponent did a professional job.

Yes boys!!

Everyone who watches the pair of them training every day seems to disagree. We’ve seen absolutely nothing from NO to suggest he’s ready for regular, first team football.

I guess Coventry are sort of rivals for Villa, it could work.

That’s a big let off, should have scored.

Time for a lucky Lara.

Get in! A player who perhaps should have been sent off first half, Coventry won’t like that.

What a save that was!

I’d settle for Alicia Vikander too, if I had to. It’s just a shame the movies were more about daddy issues than actual historical fantasy and action.

Well worked corner, unlucky.

The Angelina Jolie version or nineties, low resolution Toblerone tits?

Brave have signed a couple of handy players. Getting Miller for £110k looks like a solid bit of business.

I wouldn’t say unlucky, he should be getting that down and to the side. Great chance wasted.

Sky Stream? Mine does that all the time, it’s crap.

Another win for Lincoln tonight puts them 13 points (and a massively superior GD) above Bolton in third. Looks like they've got one foot in the second tier, for the first time since 1961.

I was in the Geordie fans bar in Dubai when it was 5-0 against Spurs in the same period of time. They were getting a bit lively.

I'd play our best team. There's no point weakening just to keep players available for Coventry, which isn't an especially important game. Wrexham, Derby, Bristol and possibly Preston are the six pointers we need to be winning.