Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

Australian international Brett Holman being brought on to bring some much needed experience of not being very good at football to this young Aston Villa side. What a massive shout that may prove to be by Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert.

chuckleheads otm ffs

This cunt mcmanaman is gonna keep them up

Saints kinda battering us

Chuckleheads is otm, but having said that, I can never quite bring myself to disregard the whole "Wigan will stay up cause they always do" line of argument. I mean, I don't believe in ghosts and I'm not scared of the dark, but I prefer not being alone in this three-storey house on my own at 3 in the morning, y'know?

do I ever

Booed by the home ghosts, great spirit tho

Get that up ye chuckleheads

Wait, it's not about villa anymore is it?

GABBBBYYYY FYCKIN YASSSSS

yessssssssssss, KARMA CHAMELEON DOES IT AGAIN, ommmmmg, enjoy winning ur game Wigan u wankers, I don't give a shit.

there is no such thing as ghosts

^^ not an in-character post

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Villa drawing level with Fulham wtf?

Wtf at this play from us

Gwan villa

truly baffling and yet typical
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These officials are p poor

I feel at this point it's almost safe for me to start rooting for Wigan to pull this off, provided they do the decent thing a lie down against Villa on the final day. Sunderland/Newcastle gtfo

As are these players tbf

idk deems, whether you finish fifith or sixth the question remains as to how bale is going to play next to ozil and ronaldo

But the officials especially

Xp im not v bothered about keeping bale tbh

Christ ekotto fails to give a h-aon fuck

Tbf only defoe seems to give a fuck out there. Then ill be reading interviews all week from the cunts bout how much they want 4th

Taking everything into account, imo if you can't be challenging for the title, this Villa season is pretty much exactly what you should want from your club. As long as they don't lose all their remaining games and go down anyway that is.

AH HERE ADEBAYOR YOU CUNT WOULD YOU EVER JUST FUCK OFF

replay suggests penalty

fucking a

Oh shi

Worst player on pitch tbh

give that guy an award

"Taking everything into account, imo if you can't be challenging for the title, this Villa season is pretty much exactly what you should want from your club. As long as they don't lose all their remaining games and go down anyway that is."

How dya figure? I mean there's been a number of bright points sure, and it's good that we've blooded a load of youngsters who will hopefully move onwards and upwards from here and have a degree of loyalty towards Paulie-Paul and so on and so on, but I'd really rather have had the season that say, Swansea have had. Think our season looks better because basically everyone else (Stoke, Fulham, Newcastle, Sunderland etc. etc.)

Is Bale really off to Real Madrid this summer? What is the point of that?

he's never seemed especially eager to leave, but that's the way things go and who else would buy him?

... better team, better league, more money, what else do you want?

I dunno, I reckon there's loads to like:

• playing 'good' footy for the most part
• don't have to hold your nose to cheer your guys
• hell of an exciting narrative
• not much negativity around since McLeish took that with him
• good future prospects, I mean I'm excited to see what you look like in a couple of years
• not-being-like-everyone-else is a big part of following a club I reckon, and Villa are totally unlike all the other sides down that way

Fantastic finish from Gareth Bale. What a massive player, and what a massive goal that might prove to be.

xxp. Well yeah, I get all that. Just boring and tawdry and obvious though, isn't it? Round and round the wheel spins. Steve McManaman II

and of course that result means Hull are promoted to the Premier League, what a massive boost for Steve Bruce's men.

Not really, not many top British players ever play abroad (xp)

Pretty sure at least one player actually fellated Bale when that goal went in.

According to AVB Bale is staying whether we qualify or not and I reckon Levy will enjoy the summer hardmanning too much.

lol excellent

Modric made us tick but he wasnt worth 25 goals to us. Selling bale without bringing in a guaranteed top end striker as well as a left wing replacement would be a retrograde step in a way that modric leaving to be replaced by dembele wasnt (and huddlestone, holtby there where we have no goalgetter you'd trust in any way)

Lol qpr

True, he probably considers the £12m deflation on Modric money well spent

Tell bale one more year, buy a striker, get wing cover, shoot gallas and give parker the pasture space, 2nd easy

Not really, not many top British players ever play abroad (xp)

What's being British got to do with it? All the high-fliers always seems to end up at Real Madrid is what I mean. Whatever, I'm clearly on my own on this one. I reserve the right to be profoundly bored by Gareth Bale's big money move to Real, and I hope against hope he stays at Spurs and helps them maintain a challenge of some sort to become an established top 4 team

I think it kinda has got something to do with it tbh

chill dudes, the sun's out, get in the qpr spirit

I'd rather he stayed put, but top scion of Blighty heading to Real is still unusual and interesting. Him going to Utd or Chelsea, that'd be numbing.

modric saga (and others) has convinced me that there's no point hanging on to a player of league-winning ability if you don't get into cl. if he stays it'll be up to him or on the understanding that it's his last year here. if the rest of the team is that bad that one guy is dragging you near fourth but never guaranteeing it or higher, then you're better off selling the prize asset when worthwhile and picking up the bargains that'll bring the balance or general level up.

it wouldn't have taken much in january this year to nail third- september window was different, as (lol i know) the expectation for adebayor was far higher. if bale decides he wants out there's little or no point trying to convince him that staying on to pass it to this year's crouch- or score the goals to equalise the errors of a persistently feckless back four- is worthwhile