Aston Villa Banter Archive July 21 2015

21 Jul 2015 20:46:01
Rekon anyones stupid enough to take Gabby off us?

21 Jul 2015 21:44:56
That's why we have still got him, no club is stupid enough.

22 Jul 2015 00:15:59
Bit harsh don't ya think? Granted he's not the world beater that we hoped he would be, if he was then he would've jumped ship a long time ago, get behind our players, especially when he's 1 of us

22 Jul 2015 11:39:35
He's just not good enough! Maybe can do a job from the bench against tired defenders but other than that should just be a bench warmer. If we stuck by everyone who is "one of us" we'd never improve.

22 Jul 2015 12:04:47
Totally agree he's a bench warmer, costs us nothin but wages, pops up with some important goals sometimes, better option than Adeneyor, file under players that actually want to play for us

21 Jul 2015 19:57:23
well it tuesday evening and still no deal sorted and hear randys in england, wonder if he's turned up to sort the deal out and keep CB at villa or maybe part the problem was the takeover and the new owners are here and if they take over he will see they mean buisness and stay????

22 Jul 2015 09:10:29
Wishful thinking mate. Takeover is dead.

21 Jul 2015 18:21:16
My gut feeling is that we won't sign Adebeyor. We let DB9 go who has comparable work rate, finishing ability (with decent service) & would be on less than half what the Spuds reject would be on, the only way would be on loan with them paying a fair portion of his wages, never going to happen

21 Jul 2015 19:59:11
same really don't want him at villa, we need a younger striker who will put in more than 10 minutes effort, yes TS got him to kick in when he started at spurs but after that we not seen him again since,

21 Jul 2015 09:02:41
Ed,

There is a box on this page that says Search (single word yields better results)

Well I tried this a lot last year but we still kept losing.

Any other tips for getting better results? :-)

{Ed001's Note - maybe a new manager will help? One that doesn't get caught fly tipping because his name and address is on every bag he dumped might improve matters....}

21 Jul 2015 09:17:40
Thanks Ed, Good point!

Alternatively, I could subscribe to other premier league sites in the hope that my presence as a member would ensure they have the same disastrous run of results Villa had immediately after I joined this one

{Ed001's Note - you wouldn't need to subscribe, you can use this account on all of our sites. Be interesting if you do that to two teams that face each other, which will lose? It is like the old conundrum, would a cat still land on its feet if you strapped a piece of toast to its back, butter side up? It might just rip the world in two!}

21 Jul 2015 09:51:32
Yes, will have to think this trough carefully. I will just target Villa's immediate opponents each week assuming my influence only lasts few days.

By the way, just tried the cat experiment, it landed on its feet and the toast still tasted fine! I foolishly added marmalade though so I may have compromised the results

{Ed001's Note - there you go, the marmalade would have ruined it. Still at least you saved the world from catastrophe.}

21 Jul 2015 10:43:24
I have tried a few things over the years to improve Villa's fortunes.

I once believed I had a lucky old Villa shirt which was made of a very coarse material.

I wore it during the Martin O'Neill era. It had the doubly positive effect of seeming to improve our results and making my nipples tingle which wasn't entirely unpleasant.

Anyway, end of February and we were riding high in the top 4 when I foolishly got carried away and bought some 'lucky' pants made of the same material. After that we hardly won another game and my expectations (among other things) turned out to be embarrassingly premature

{Ed001's Note - lmfao. I remember a few years ago having a shirt that I spilt gravy on, we won so I wouldn't wash it as it was obviously a lucky gravy stain. We were unbeaten and I would just wear the shirt for the matches then take it off and put it away carefully until the next match. I went out one day, my then gf washed it and we went on a terrible run ending up in 6th, depsite being top of the league in a two way battle for the title. I never ever forgave her for that. The moral of the story is, gfs are bad luck.}

21 Jul 2015 11:08:52
LMFAO - Girlfriends don't get this do they? I bet when you pointed out the enormity of what she had done, she came up with some ridiculous statement that either a) its rubbish, a shirt worn by a fan cannot affect the team's performance or b) why don't you put a new gravy stain on it? - She would never understand that you would not be able to replicate that stain and the positive affect it had on the team!

Fortunately I no longer have that problem with my other half. The embarrassing affect my lucky pants have on me means that she doesn't bother me any more and I can leave her to her own 'devices'.

{Ed001's Note - exactly mate, she didn't understand. That is why she is an ex.}

21 Jul 2015 07:49:06
Seen in papers pato linked with moved to England, I think he worth a season loan with option to buy if he proves his fitness.