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There are goal keepers in that league yes? Please just watch the goal keepers!

Yes but how many other 19 year olds got 4 goals in the Premier league that season?! (Can't remember the exact quote)

They have Celtic in the next league game at Park Head, so a reason for people to watch.

Only just spotted that is Forde that was at Wolves, feels like a very long time ago but he is only 30.

I stole this saying, but I like the phrase "if you are going to make a mistake, make it at full speed; as you might get away with it then." And King just summed up why I would say that to players and keepers in particularly. Everything about that was indecisive, and so he stacked inaction on a...

Tom King making Johnstone look world class there.

That is for last season the data. We will have had an impact on this seasons as let on 3 goals in the same manner despite it being so early in the year you would imagine the stats for back post is higher due to us.

For all the sneering and laughing at this set piece guy (and believe me I have been part of that). It shouldn't be missed that other teams seem to have spotted this and then adapted to what they have seen as a clear weakness. I have to only just had a quick look at the stats this evening, but...

Did anybody see the thing from James Collins recently talking when him and Dunne signed for Villa and what Martin O'Neill said!? It's NSFW for anyone searching for it! Think it's originally from Under the Cosh.

People watched it. Plenty of dreadful performances. The issue is I have watched the games since and I still would like to see Sa back in. If Sa plays like that again we are screwed regardless.

Totally, I was trying to find where Johnstone was first mentioned on here. And it was in or around August 2023 in looks like. At the time I had highlighted GK and CB as major needs for an improvement, and then when Johnstone was being mentioned (initially from GFFH) I was pointing out he wasn't...

Yes. 3 bad games are against better sides than Forest and Brentford. Villa are a very good side and Johnstone didn't make a save. Overall Sa has had a better career and actually been an okay Prem starter. Johnstone is an unathletic journey man with slow footwork. There is only one area where he...

Anyone thinking any sort of return to the championship could be good in anyway, has lost track of reality. The way to survive as a not elite side in the Prem is to have a solid core of players who are complimented by a couple of star players who can elevate you on certain days against the other...

Arguably we are the most successful. I know there was Roma and AC Milan, but they didn't match the successful prior eras really. We looked like "doing a Girona" (better examples exist but whatever) of trying to break out of a prior bracket of expectation. Turns out we were merely doing a...

The depth is the issue. The downgrade of last seasons Sa to Johnstone is a bigger downgrade than Kilman to any of the other CBs we have, as far as I am concerned. The issue for me, is whilst I was happy with Mosquera given the way he had seemingly developed, I still expected some kind of CB...

The only hope I have of them acting. Is the finances tied up in the signings. They won't have calculated them against lose of Prem Revenue, and so will hopefully panic and do everything to keep that revenue.

Well this round of it has failed. A quick scan it seems only us and Reading are the remaining majority owned by Chinese based owners or firms. Not sure about wider Europe. But the country's change of stance on football has massively hindered us. It seems Fosun at least have tried to make the...

The difference for me is that Sa has played at a better level/ceiling than Johnstone ever has. Sa has lost his form, he may (get that is big on how he looked) get some of it back. Regardless a keeper in January should be a priority.

We could try King. It might motivate the players to press and block every shot, knowing they have a traffic cone in net.

Decent isn't the level needed. Not that it was you, but can't believe there was anyone that had watched him last year and thought he would be an upgrade. I personally would be putting Sa back in regardless. Johnstone is stiff, unathletic, slow and ponderous at this level too often and that is...