Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [24 - 28th November 2012]

Bucket said:
My Villa housemate and all Villa fans he/I know want Bent out of the club and are glad that he's likely to be off in January, so they are all delighted with his exclusion..

Says at the games everyone is against him in the stands, I'm not surprised, hasn't exactly done fantastic for 'em.
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Even worse! He scored against us in September and was their only vaguely effective player!

Villa fans really shouldn't be surprised when they are relegated insisting on Hesky mk2 upfront instead of Bent
 
Bucket said:
My Villa housemate and all Villa fans he/I know want Bent out of the club and are glad that he's likely to be off in January, so they are all delighted with his exclusion..

Says at the games everyone is against him in the stands, I'm not surprised, hasn't exactly done fantastic for 'em.
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Doesn't say much, he joined as Villa went to utter turd, but fans see a 24mil signing and expect the team to improve and him to score more goals.

The question is, how would an even worse striker have done as Villa got significantly worse as Villa ran out of money, players and a string of managers who didn't work out at all. It doesn't matter its Bent, if Utd sign a (comparitively priced in terms of their usual spending) a 50mil player as Fergie leaves, they get in a crap manager, and Utd drop into the bottom 8 for a few seasons... it doesn't matter who that player is, the fans will decide he's massively underperformed..

Hell Utd fans turned on Berbatov for entirely no reason what so ever. One bad performance and a team loss and the fans opinion can turn like that with no merit at all. Messi only scores 1 in 5 shots, but fans want Bent because he was 24mil, to score every time and when the team fell apart and started struggling to create, he wasn't scoring.

If they can get good money for Bent though, and I'm talking about 10mil or more, they could if spent right get a few decent players in and improve as a team.

If Villa had bought him 2-3 years earlier he'd have done better and the fans would love him. Financially with Villa struggling it was a stupid move to spend 24mil on a single player when they were struggling all over the pitch.

remember he got 9 goals in 16 appearances when Downing/Young were they, they sold the supply of chances, the goals dried up, still got 9 goals in 21 games, which isn't remotely bad. Fans saw the price and expected 20 + goals, which may have happened had they kept the rest of the team.
 
Dont understand Marriner, spend all of the minimum 4 minutes of extra time telling QPR to stop time wasting then stop the game before the 4 minutes is even up :rolleyes: Suppose should be thankful he did put that game out of its misery though.
 
Much as I like the concept of having Reading in the PL they were horrific tonight. The build up play was shocking and revolved around getting throw ins near the box and hoofing the ball to Roberts. I couldn't see quality anywhere in their team. Signings desperately needed

Villa were poor but were, at least, trying things.
 
Benteke has scored 3 in 10 and Bent has scored 2 in 9. Maybe if Bent had scored 4-5 I could see past his poorer effort outside the 6 yard box but he hasn't and with a team so devoid of quality like ours we need more of a work horse than a clinical striker. I still think it was a **** move to leave him out of the team completely though.
 
I was apprehensive about the game tonight after Bristol City beat Middlesbrough 3-1 away on Saturday, but it turned out to be totally by-the-numbers.....tbh it was probably the worst performance I have seen so far this season in terms of actual play(by no means bad though), but Bristol City were very poor indeed. And I had Orlandi to score anytime:D....he looked different class again.


I have Leeds to get promoted in one of my season bets along with Brentford and Gillingham....I hope this is the start if a proper run, as they are the only ones letting me down atm!
 
A bit optimistic :p

If we sign some decent attacking players in January and manage to be in the top half over Christmas you never know, we certainly have the right guy in charge to go for it anyway.
 
I give ****ing up.

What a utter waste of time, energy and emotion today has been.

I feel like punching myself in the face, while I cry in the corner.
 
Tummy said:
I give ****ing up.

What a utter waste of time, energy and emotion today has been.

I feel like punching myself in the face, while I cry in the corner.
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What on earth is happening to Sheff Wed? I thought after last season that you'd be pushing for promotion again like we did (Soton)? You seem to have a decent keeper and defence, while your midfield and strikers are ok.
Has Dave Jones really run out of ideas or is there something more seriously wrong?
 
It's basically everything going wrong at a football club on the pitch.

A manager with no clue and players that have even less of a clue.
 
:( I would like to be surprised but can't help but feel Milan Mandaric is somehow responsible. (This maybe caused due to his past behaviour at Portsmouth).
I've always had a soft spot for Sheff Wed so really hope the problems get resolved quickly.
 
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