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@The Fish & @Gemmill

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Sané, Máne, unhappy days.

@Gemmill is in fucking disgrace now like. Out first hammering, under his fucking watch.

howay forest. never, ever had a bad word to say about the good folk of nottingham or the breakaway UDM during the miner's strike me.

More than that, they've played with an air of complacency that we never even attempted to disrupt. Once they started with the playacting we should've gone on with a proper reducer on one of the culprits - Moreno the chief diver, but Young and Buendia offering plenty in that department as well - and put them on notice that we weren't going to put up with that shite. They never looked like they knew they were in a game, they looked like they were on the training ground and we did nothing to disabuse them of that notion.

Big test for Gemmill, this.

I went on a 7 game unbeaten run and was mercilessly cast aside. you're fooling only yourself if you think knives aren't being sharpened.

Aye Count Dracula and his puffer vest can fuck right off. We just have to smack spurs about next weekend and we’re flying again.

Anyone who thinks I'm giving Villa any credit can RAM IT UP THEIR SHITPIPE. They're on a run. It will end. And Bournemouth have just beaten Spurs, so it's as you were in the race for Top 4.

Nothing. There is no excuse. We would do very wrong to think badly of external agents. Today the game is horrible on our part. The post saved us in minute 1 for starting asleep, but in minute 15 Aston Villa had already scored a goal, two shots at the post and Pope had saved two goals with two saves with his feet. Very bad team game. We were able to wake up in the second half, in the first 15 minutes. And with the departure of Wilson and Almiron it seemed that a tie could come. It has saved us and given an extra life that Watkins was a few centimeters ahead, but Villa were able to kill the game there and they didn't. Anyway, they have achieved it minutes later. It's time to do self-criticism.

We’ll have to get used to lesser teams treating us like their cup final.

Well I hope you like HIM as much as you like LOSING. FANNYFACE.

Gemmill out

We havent been this shit since the first half last week

That was an actual swan dive. Looks like my dog digging in the bedsheets. Fuck me.

No, but largely because that’s not what he said. He turned down 100k at city because he was behind zabaleta and didn’t think he should be, so he left for villa, who got relegated and a clause in his contract then dropped him to 25k.

I think one of Rice’s underrated skills is his ability to get you up the pitch. He can just glide 40/50 yards with the ball effortlessly

3-0.

Aye but they were outperforming their XG. After looking at that and not watching a second of their actual football, I could conclude that we were going to win. They haven’t found a stat that measures confidence, extenuating factors like an opposition off the back off three straight away games and a massively in-form striker who was relishing a game against tired centre halves. Also, unrelated, when we were having our outrageous run last season, off the back of a new manager who took us from relegation up about 10 places, what did our xG and related stats look like? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was similar to Villa’s atm and we steamrolled Arsenal at home similar to how we were done today. Very dangerous to just write teams off on numbers when there’s so many more intangibles to football than that.

Results went Quasimodos way today as well, he will be ringing the bell early to get his lot up for it.

You sound like you think I should have continued, and I AGREE. But moves have already taken place and I've been cast aside. VERY POOR. Way I recall you departing the scene was you'd managed something pathetic like 11 from 21, and then you turned up with a tremble in your voice talking about how you didn't know if you had it in you anymore. And from nowhere Toonpack (ACTUAL FUCKING TOONPACK!) snuck in, did two games, and it all got too much for him too. Understandable at your ages that it all got a bit heavy. It took the sheer audacity of youth to serve up 5 wins in 6.

Fat Frank is, very unselfishly, making it clear that he's only been at the club 9 days, and that losing several games on the trot isn't really his fault 😂

you fucked up as thread starter, no amount of fiddling with figures will alter that. there's a coup afoot to overthrow you.

Spurs, we will fucking hammer them next week. That champ man template of a manager they have is fucking clueless

Agreed Longstaff often gets a lot of flak but he’s our most disciplined CM, as much as Bruno and Joelinton bring to the table they tend to prefer a freer role which allowed Villa so much space today especially with the overload they already had. Longstaff needs to start next game tbh.

Defeats in isolation are one thing but we’ve tended to respond to them properly. It can be put to bed quickly if we beat Spurs next week. The one good thing about Villa having Emery is that he’s far too good to be at them for long

fucking abysmal. second best all over the pitch. very lucky it was only 3. sack gemmill.

Awful today, their players have had acres of space all game, embarrassingly so. Unfortunately our defence not having a good one has coincidentally enough linked in to our midfield being totally AWOL. We're third as we play as a unit, wander from that and this is the result. Hopefully there's a lesson to be learned because this'll cost us CL without a doubt if it isn't addressed. Shocking.

Shithousery at its best today from Villa........but the ref has helped them a lot

Probably UB40

There's no excuse for this performance but we have had STONE NOTHING off the "officials" today. Nothing. Not a peep. One of the most one-eyed referees you'll see all season. Conned by every bit of amateur play-acting from these beige wankers.

Ever day? G-Dawg is having a shocker!

Aye Burn looks like he's running in treacle and he's looked sloppy in possession too. I've loved the story and he's great back up at centre half, but the Dan Burn left back fantasy must end TONIGHT.

A humbling experience today. I feel like one of you lot.

Renton's likeability will make a nice change at least.

Can't see Spurs or ManU dropping points this weekend, so this has been shit all over. Then again, if you'd offered me 6 points from these 3 away games I'd have taken it. Next week against against Spurs is fucking huge. @Christmas Tree , where's the best place to buy adult nappies?

That said they've made us look incredibly ordinary. Get into 'em Eddie lad, this lot need a wake-up call.

Murphy has been frustrating today. Slow in possession and has left Trippier to his own devices often in defence. I hope Miggy has 45 minutes in him for the second half.

Pope needs switching off and back on again.

in my 20+ years posting on various iterations of this website, I can’t think of one occasion when we’ve started a thread dedicated to one of their games

No mistake, Rice is a brilliant player, has a great attitude and would be a quality addition. Every time we play West Ham he stands out against the rest of their team by a mile.

that’s the thing that separates Bruno for me. He plays the modern number 6 role, doing more than just shield and break up play. Botman and Schar can give him the ball even if he’s got an opposition player on his arse because he’s so good on the ball he’ll just glide past them before orchestrating another attack from deep. I’m pretty sure fish all have some hipster Italian word for the deep lying playmaker role. I’ve also been impressed with how strong he he is on the ball given he’s not the biggest bloke. I’d be happy if we bought a cheaper number 6 than rice as an understudy and got Maddison in to play ahead of Bruno. I can see those two linking up beautifully Not that I wouldn’t take Rice too mind. He was west ham’s best player at sjp by far.

That’s quite the age-gap. Did the tv break or something?