The Fish

Definitely need a RW. If Ritchie gets injured or drops out of form we're playing Gouffran or Yedlin. I'd want someone like Shelvey, because if he doesn't maintain this form, we've not a lot of creativity in the centre. Perez and Diame want to play further forward and Anita, Colback and Hayden aren't creative. I'm hoping Lazaar comes good, but he can't even get a game in the Cup against Preston. Another Striker would be good, but might not be a priority if Gayle and Mitrovic keep scoring and Armstrong continues to improve. Good post

You can't sensor me!

And that's ignoring the lack of caps.

Agree, if we're to go up we'd need to add quality in certain areas, rather than bringing in 9+ new faces. This squad is good enough to go toe-to-toe with most of the bottom 6 or so, as those teams are as good/bad as the top Championship sides. A few our first team are mid-table Premier League standard already, (Krul, Mbemba, Shelvey, Ritchie, Gayle) some might grow to become that modest ambition (Sels, Darlow, Gamez, Yedlin, Lascelles, Hanley, Clark, Lazaar, Anita, Diame, Aarons, Perez, Mitrovic, Armstrong) and some will never be good enough for that (Dummett, Colback, Gouffran, Murphy) So replace those that won't be good enough and safety should be doable. Mind you this is forgetting we've another window in the Championship where Rafa could add to the squad now, with the promise of Premier League football in 6 months. Say we brought in another CM, another winger and another fullback. Young lads from the Championship like Will Hughes, Anthony Knockaert and Charlie Taylor. Derby and Leeds aren't likely getting promoted and Newcastle likely are.

You hungover mate?

Some wags on Twitter were saying Moyes got sent to the stands for throwing a pack of ham at the 4th official oh and apparently

Because the Premier League is filled with excellent players and the Championship is a tinpot league full of mugs. Even though at least three teams have players who were muggy cunts in that tin pot league lss than 6 months ago. There's a magic doorway they walk through to become another addition to the pantheon of gods that play in that league, for such powerhouses as Burnley, Middlesbrough, Hull and Bournemouth

Heading up to see the better half's mates new baby this weekend, might take a laptop and "do some work".

Another to add the list of things Aston Villa would be if they were... Pizza - Margherita Band - Coldplay Ice cream - Vanilla Colour - Beige NFL team - Cleveland Browns

I do, I've not updated it in a bit because I've been moving house, job hunting and the like. If you've got a sheet that you could toss my way, that'd be great. Then I can C&P the predictions into my sheet, refresh and fuck about with slicers and graphs to my hearts content.

Agree with Howay and DK's assessments. re: the Mitro thing, I've never seen him moping, in fact, every time we score the big mad bastard streaks down the pitch to go celebrate with the lads. Hardly the behaviour of a Sulky Serb. To be honest, I think Mitro is suffering a backlash; his pashun and rhetoric won over a lot of casual fans and a lot of the younger crowd too, older more cynical seem to take umbrage at this and insist he's done nothing to deserve this adoration. The truth lies somewhere in between, he's a decent young striker who's only got an ok goal return, whose discipline record at St James' isn't brilliant (a lot of his cards have been reputation cards imo) and whose attitude has been exemplary. I'd start him against Preston, if he scores again, or even if he just has another excellent game it gives Rafa a nice headache.

Mitrovic has become quite the Escape Goat.

They damn near tore their cocks off when their reserves embarrassed ours.

Get shot of them before the Transfer Window? Month to assess the squad, month to find replacements/improvements?

njm soccer has it

Wolves have sacked Zenga after 87 days in charge. 5 out of the nine new managers in the Championship have already been sacked.

Yup, gave rise to Bobby's moon quote. Journalist "If you beat Arsenal and Man United don't beat Leeds, you could be top for Christmas" Bobby "Aye, but if I had wings I could fly to the moon" J "Sure, Bobby, but would you like to be there?" B "What? The moon?" something like that, anyway.

I was meaning more in terms of Bobby Robson working with Peter Beardsley, David Ginola, Les Ferdinand, and a 26yr old Shearer. Instead, he inherited Marcelino, Goma, Domi and Maric.

If we'd transitioned straight from Keegan to Robson, I think we could have claimed to have been an established title chasing team.

It's certainly their best chance of picking up all three points, but all of Hull's wins have come against teams in the shit and there's no team more in the shit than Sunderland. Hull have shown they can win games and that's why I reckon they'll get something from the sunderland fixture.

QPR have the longest winless start to a PL season with 16 games played without getting all 3pts. If Sunderland fail to win any of their next 4 games they will be joint 3rd. I reckon the below isn't overly creative either. H Arsenal (L) A Bournemouth (D) H Hull (D) A Liverpool (L) H Leicester (L) A Swansea (D) H Chelsea (L)

Christ you're right, feels like it's been ages since we've been much cop.

it's fair to say we weren't an established top 6 side.