I think if anything sums up our 'rivalry' perfectly it's this. They literally don't care about us in the slightest. In fact, most my mates who are Villa fans actively want us to do well as more of a sympathy thing than anything else. Anyone the right side of 30 basically won't remember us...
Shipley and Bakayoko aren't in contention for the wide berths surely? It's 2 from Jobello, Kastaneer and Hiwula, with the possiblity of Jones post-Christmas.
You can talk about levels etc but Iniesta certainly wouldn't be described as "industrious", and from what I hear, I think he did okay in a midfield 3 ;)
From the sounds of this it might be that he even replaces Jobello for Saturday if he did pick up a knock and the midfield three remain the same, but long-term it sounds like he'll play in front of the two deeper midfielders.
Yeah I thought both looked suspect for the first time. Rose looked lucky not to give away a penalty in the first half. Having said that, not many teams will have an attacking threat as challengeing as Pompey. Like I said not concerned, but they'll need to put Tuesday night behind them and use...
I wouldn't drop Rose and think he's been superb for the majority of his time on the pitch but disagree with the 'didn't many mistakes against Portsmouth'. His goal saved him from a poor game where he was bullied throughout. All players have them, I'm not concerned by one off day. I hope Jobello...
A superb night, superb fight back, one to remember. Got to say it makes it even better in a pretty much full ground, and a fantastic one at that. It's not too often we get it anymore, but last night felt like a 'proper' football match.
I might be wrong but feel a few are being a bit harsh on Westbrooke with his 5. I thought he was one of our better players before being subbed to make way for McCallum. He's not going to be everyones cup of tea because he is relatively safe, but he keeps the ball moving and also created a great...
To add to this, in case there is no space, earlier in the year I parked down Stride Avenue (from looking at Google maps) and there were plenty of side roads similar that were free parking and around 5 minute walk to the Good Campanion, probably 15 minutes from the ground.
I have absolutely zero knowledge of who this player is as a caveat before I say anything more, and I am sure there are dozens of midfielders on loan from top level clubs in League 2 last year, but I've just remembered seeing a guy at Cheltenham and had to Google him because of how good he was in...
He was a free agent. He asked to be released on a free, he hasn't been paid in months. Won the case, so he was a free agent as was previously discussed.