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12 Mar 2026 17:05:26
Bogarde at RB!!!
What are the options?
Well I wouldn’t pick him at RB for starters.
Midfield looks a bit vulnerable but we know we’re short in the middle of the park.
Right now? Take a draw or even a one or two goal deficit. At least we’d know we can’t sit back 2nd leg.
12 Mar 2026 13:15:14
So does Emery prioritise team selection for Sunday against Man U, or strong tonight to win Europa?
12 Mar 2026 16:43:19
Have you seen the line up? It's shocking. Scotty and Unai have lost their marbles. It's a joke.
12 Mar 2026 17:20:47
VJ, I've missed your moaning. 😂😂
12 Mar 2026 17:27:18
Jonny, I possibly lost my marbles years ago. However, I was just asking a question, not making a comment, so what did you think I meant?
12 Mar 2026 17:31:02
This team selection has the potential to take a bad beating tonight.
12 Mar 2026 17:34:14
So Jonny, instead of your usual slagging off of the manager and the team, what is the reason it's shocking and Unai has lost the plot? What team would you have picked?
12 Mar 2026 17:50:59
Not the team that's starting, Bogarde at rb is gonna get torn apart, no Maatsen, no Tammy, and no Lindelof. I would have played Garcia at rb as well.
12 Mar 2026 18:27:49
I can see your point with Tammy and Lindelof, as they have both done well when they have played. Bogarde instead of Garcia might be due to the fact that Garcia has been injured for most of the season and is not fully fit yet.
As for Maarten, who I rate very highly, he was terrible against Chelsea (as was the rest of the defence, to be fair). Anyway, when Unai brings the players on you have chosen, I hope you are right, Jonny, and the Villa go on to win, mate utv.
11 Mar 2026 19:37:07
Looking at penalties given out of late in both the league and Europe, it’s hard to believe we haven’t even had one this season.
12 Mar 2026 13:13:25
Whack, I don't think we are in the box often enough. 😂
12 Mar 2026 17:32:07
I hadn't thought of that, and you're probably on to something there. 😂😂
08 Mar 2026 07:39:02
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10 Mar 2026 21:29:58
Depth, my backside. How much have they already spent rebuilding, and they need to cheat along with dodgey refs to win games.
08 Mar 2026 12:34:20
VAR working its magic once again and cheating Wrexham. God we can’t have the little guy winning can we. Garnacho is a lad full of talent, but what a tart, there again the whole of Chelsea when losing turn into Oscar winners. Wrexham have been brilliant, such a shame they certainly deserved better, VAR looking after the big side again. UTV.
05 Mar 2026 07:56:43
Can anyone help me please?
I've got a 4 year old Mercedes my head gaskets gone I've got A really bad oil leak and my timing belt has snapped any ideas would be greatly appreciated?
05 Mar 2026 11:10:21
I could buy a runaround but its not the same?
05 Mar 2026 13:06:21
You need a new timing belt kit with water pump included for a start. You will need to get a new head gasket, but be careful when replacing, as you might need to get the head planed if it's damaged. The oil leak will need closer inspection, as you obviously have another gasket leaking.
It's a bit like Aston Villa really; if you look closely, you can see the problems, and you know what's not working and what needs replacing. It doesn't need a rocket scientist to figure it out. Sometimes, Mercedes are not what they are cracked up to be. I prefer Audi myself. 😀
05 Mar 2026 15:03:48
Cheers, Whack. You see, my head gasket is McGinn, my oil leak is Youri, and my belt is Bouba, just like my car. It won't work without these 3, plain and simple.
05 Mar 2026 16:22:43
That's where the main difference is between a car and a football team. We are paying astronomical wages to the spare parts, but Emery would rather walk to work and end up late every day and lose out on his bonus than just put the spares on the car and drive for the time being until Mercedes send him back the repaired genuine Mercedes parts. 🤣
05 Mar 2026 17:28:06
Sounds a fair analogy, Whack.
05 Mar 2026 09:10:25
I think we need a little perspective here. So we are on a bad run, no question, and the football isn’t great but we were on a bad run at the start of the season and the manager turned it around and we went on that amazing unbeaten run who's to say we won’t do that again when Tielemans, and McGinn come back into the starting XI. Apart from say Liverpool, Man City and Arsenal if you took your first XI’s midfield out of any of the other Premiership sides would it affect results? Without a doubt it would.
I really don’t get the criticism re the manager's transfer business; sure, some of it hasn’t been great but then no manager ever gets it right 100% of the time, but Unai is responsible for Tielemans, Rogers, Duran, Diaby, Malen, Torres and in three years that’s not bad business in my opinion. As for the view that we won’t win anything with Emery in charge, he is recognised as one of the best coaches in world football.
He is operating in a market where one hand is tied behind his back because of PSR/SCR issues and yet we will have qualified for Europe every year the guy's been in charge, sure we want to win things but we are competing with clubs whose financial clout is much greater than ours and if we are honest we have been punching above our weight every year Unai has been in charge. We need to remember where the club was heading before Unai took charge and be careful what we wish for. You only have to look at what’s happened to Spurs to see what can happen if your managerial appointments don’t work! I don’t believe if you put Arteta, Pep or Klopp in charge of us they would achieve more than Unai has done. The team needs us all to get behind them between now and the end of the season. In Unai we trust (At least I do) UTV.
05 Mar 2026 09:47:44
I agree, Mings.
05 Mar 2026 10:51:55
Mings, I was just going to post a similar thing. The break has come at a good time for us. Ginny should be back and Tielemans not long after; it gives us time to regroup. Once again, results in a way have been going our way. If they hadn’t, we really could be in trouble.
Emery surely must realise that plan A, without essential players, is not working at the moment.
Against Wolves, then again last night, there was just no bite in midfield. Both teams had more urgency, got to 50-50s first. Hopefully Ginny will bring some of that fight and urgency back. Tielemans, as we know, will bring back his range of passing we have missed.
Regroup, rethink and get some urgency back. UTV
05 Mar 2026 13:21:26
This is 100% Lotm. I cannot wrap my head around some of the "Emery Out" nonsense I've seen over the past week or so.
Villa have to be perfect, on and off the pitch, to compete, and currently we are trying to be perfect without our Rice, Zubamendi and Odegaard, or our Caicedo, Fernandes and Palmer, or our Casimero, Maino and Bruno.
No team would avoid struggling without their 3 core midfield lieutenants, and those teams have built massive squads and outspent Villa ten fold.
What Emery is doing with this team, under these circumstances, is a miracle, and we'll regret it if we hound him out of our club.
05 Mar 2026 13:31:05
Lots of what you guys say is true, but there is nothing making Emery start Watkins and Bailey when he has other players, only Emery. That is where the frustration is coming from, and that is 100% Emery.
You also mentioned 6 successful transfers, 3 of which he has sold, and 2 of which wanted to leave because of Emery's insistence on sticking with a striker who can't score goals.
05 Mar 2026 15:00:15
Watkins has been absolutely integral to our shape since Emery has arrived, Whack, so I can understand why he is being selected to a certain extent and Bailey hugs the touchline (which none of our other players do). Personally, I wouldn't start either, and I'd add Buendia to that list as well (he's better off the bench imo).
But I expect Emery to get this right eventually. Seems like McGinn is back soon, and Tielemans not far behind; they will make a difference. Whether that is enough this season to secure CL football, who knows, but I'm not ready to give up on this team and manager yet.
05 Mar 2026 15:19:13
Watkins frustrates the hell out of me, because he works hard and creates mayhem amongst centre backs, but his first touch is poor, and just recently he seems to be getting caught offside a tad too frequently for my liking. Malen was never going to be a like-for-like replacement; he doesn’t hold the ball up as well, and isn’t big enough to fend off those big, ugly centre halves that most teams have. He is better coming in off the left-hand side, so I get why Unai didn’t start him that often.
However, now we have Abraham, who’s a big guy and does hold up play and brings others into the game, so I don’t understand why there is reluctance to start him. With regard to Sancho v Bailey, both are poor in my opinion, so if the view is Allyson isn’t quite ready to start as yet, then we have got a lot of options now that Guessand is at Palace.
05 Mar 2026 16:39:24
I get that Watkins has been integral to how far we have come, but he's done as a top level striker. He wasn't great last year and just terrible this year, but our midfield were carrying him with goals outside the box when we were on the great run. Those goals have dried up and exposed Ollie for what he currently is (one of the worst strikers in the league).
I agree about Bailey and Buendia not starting.
At the end of the day he can't hide behind psr when he has players fit that can be used instead.
Luiz is not a defensive midfielder, Bogarde would be better there in my opinion. Put Luiz in the 10 position and leave Rogers on the left where he's more effective. If we haven't the players to put someone different on the right, then fair enough, use Bailey or Buendia, but we can't afford 3 passengers, we might get away with one.
Even try Ollie on the right wing, he can't be any worse than as a striker. And, as you say, he's an honest lad, he works hard for the team, but you can't have all our chances falling to him because even when he was scoring regularly he missed 3-4 good chances every game.
If Emery insists on starting him, the rest of the guys need to start ignoring him and just shoot from further out like we started doing in September. We won't score them all, but if the alternative is give it to Ollie so he can dither on it and lose possession, then I know what I'd be doing.
05 Mar 2026 07:39:02
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04 Mar 2026 23:33:40
Wasn’t that long ago we were nipping at Arsenal heels, we’re now 16 points behind them, the table shows us 4th, we could be 7th next set of PL fixtures and fighting Brentford fo the conference spot... Very disappointing and disheartening...
I know hindsight is great but this season has cemented my opinion that domestic cups should be played by the reserves and subs, playing our first team has cost us big time this year and all for nothing in the end as ususl.
05 Mar 2026 01:01:15
Yep, we should have binned off FA Cup, it's gonna be hard to get top5 now. I can't see where a win is gonna come from, our play is awful as well. There's 9 cup finals left, and Europa League. Lille will be licking their lips playing us. We need Sjm and Yt back soon, 1 thing that needs to happen in the summer is a clear out: Emi Martinez, Digne, Mings, Bailey, Buendia
Watkins, Bogarde, and if we get offered more than 100mil for Rodgers, cash in.
We need to start again and bring the age down in the team and squad, this summer is huge with Unai or
Without him, I think Unai will walk, and if he does I'd like to see Iraoalo or Xavi, Hurtzler in the frame if Unai does go.
04 Mar 2026 23:01:21
Can’t remember a tackle being made in midfield, playing narrow, we gave them the freedom of wings, Garnacho had yards start on Cash every time. Best thing we did was four up front for corners. Well done Newcastle and Forest UTV.
04 Mar 2026 22:29:56
Five years after Dean Smith and we still have the majority of his players in the squad, that smacks of incompetence and that's not down to finance; it's down to a really poor transfer policy. Think of the failures; they number many. Yes, me and many like me are angry and bitter, and it's because we are not seeing a single thing to address it: poor tactics, poor team selection and poor transfer dealings, and what happens? The last seven games, that's what, and it's not going to change unless there is change, and soon.
04 Mar 2026 22:36:00
Why not put Mings in there? I just saw the highlight, played them on for the last goal. Guy is clueless, worst defender I have ever seen in a Villa shirt. Emery is that bad? We are 4th. Watch. When he goes, we will be a mid-table side.
04 Mar 2026 22:53:40
What about the other 3 goals, Tom? The game was over before the 4th, Konsa was worse than Mings tonight, they ran down our flanks for sport, and Emery left Bailey and Buendia on for how long without doing a thing to stem the attacks.
We won't win anything with Emery in charge. He's too proud and stubborn to admit when he's wrong. It could have been 4-1 at half time. If he couldn't see that, then he's not all he's cracked up to be.
04 Mar 2026 23:20:08
Whack, you won't convince Tom. UTV.
05 Mar 2026 01:15:09
I think a few things can be true at the same time. Yes, some of our recruitment has been poor... Yes, our playing style can be frustrating at times, and yes, Emery doesn't get every call right. All of that could be said by any fan of any team in the league.
But all of these knee-jerk reactions, essentially tantrums from some fans when faced with the slightest bit of adversity, are honestly pathetic.
The comment about many of the players being here from Dean Smith's time may well be true, but the context is that under Emery we're competing at the top end of the table and in Europe rather than fighting to stay in the league.
Nobody is saying that we should all be delighted with a run of poor form, and I'm all for discussing where it's going wrong. It's the whole point of fan forums like this, but I'm genuinely embarrassed by some of the suggestions on here.
04 Mar 2026 22:22:15
Seven consecutive games with the same tactics, same poor team selection and yet there are many on here that think Emery is still the man. Let me tell you he is not. One poor defeat happens, two defeats and poor performances are not unusual. Seven consecutive games with the same tactics and poor team selection is down to a manager bereft if ideas and the next run of games will be exactly the same, how do I know, because Emery is in charge of team selection and tactics.
Who can pick Bailey, Maatsen, Buendia, Watkins game after game and expect anything to change, only our manager who is obviously working his ticket, I don't think he will see out the season and I think there are many that won't be too sad including Emery himself.
04 Mar 2026 22:47:41
It's hard to argue, Scot. I mean, I saw his lineup tonight and said to myself we are cooked. I'm no football expert, but I know what each particular player we have is capable of, and the result does not surprise me one bit. So how can someone of his experience not see what was going to happen?
Even going in at half time, you have to say, OK, Buendia hardly touched the ball, get him off. Bailey is not helping Cash, so let's get him off. Ollie has had 2 or 3 good chances and didn't take them, so we need to change him. Even if he had changed to a 4-4-2 and got Abraham on with Ollie, instead we'll take off Cash for a midfielder and leave on the worst players on the pitch.
But making those changes would only prove he got it wrong. He's a good manager, but he's not elite like some people think. This season especially, he's hiding behind psr, injuries, and goals from outside the box.
We had money to spend and he wasted it. Sure, it's not as much as other teams had to spend, but nobody ever heard of Guessand before we splashed 30 million on him, then we loaned him out. Mss as Len is a much better finisher than Watkins, everyone knows it, and we loaned him out to bring another striker that he refuses to start. It's not all his fault the predicament we're in, but he has contributed a decent bit to it along with his man Monchi.
04 Mar 2026 22:59:19
Whack, many more will eventually see exactly what you and I see, unfortunately they still won't accept it. Simply, if nothing changes, how on earth can any sensible fan expect the last seven games not to be the norm?
05 Mar 2026 12:50:31
We've had 29 league games in a row with the same tactics. It's gotten us to 4th! I don't know why you're blaming Emery. Last season we could bring on Rashford, Ascencio, and Malen. This season we've got Sancho and Buendia. That's the difference.
05 Mar 2026 13:09:52
We almost have to gamble on players outperforming their price tag. Guessand had a really good season last year and has all of the physical attributes to be successful. Maybe he doesn't like Birmingham. Serie A isn't as good as the Prem, so Malen looks good. Couldn't do it consistently in the Prem.