Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Reports and reaction from the 2014-2015 season as Walsall finished 14th in League 1
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Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
XI O'Donnell, Kinsella, Downing, Chambers J, Taylor, Grimes, Sawyers, Clifford, Flanagan, Benning, Bradshaw
SUBS: Holden, Chambers A, Baxendale, Webber, Morris, Heath, Bakayoko, Henry, Rowley, Mantom, MacGillivray
Not good. O'Connor clearly suffering from that knock at Mansfield. And why is the captain on the bench?
Although Manton is back on the bench :D
SUBS: Holden, Chambers A, Baxendale, Webber, Morris, Heath, Bakayoko, Henry, Rowley, Mantom, MacGillivray
Not good. O'Connor clearly suffering from that knock at Mansfield. And why is the captain on the bench?
Although Manton is back on the bench :D
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Hmmm..no Manset. Wonder why he's not in the squad?????????
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Injuries in pre-season, manager not finding/missing out on his transfer targets, not replacing your captain, relying on youth and loans. This all sounds very 'its May and we've been relegated, these are the reasons why' to me. Mmmmm.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
dobbster71 wrote:Hmmm..no Manset. Wonder why he's not in the squad?????????
Manset has returned to France pending negotiations with his Agent
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Don't understand why players at League 1 level have an agent. I can't imagine that these players have image rights, etc. to negotiate.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
That walsall line up is without doubt the weakest iv ever seen.
We will probably beat villa now iv put that. :lol:
We will probably beat villa now iv put that. :lol:
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Interestingly enough Port Vail losing tonight by the same score to WBA
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
saddla wrote:Interestingly enough Port Vail losing tonight by the same score to WBA
drawing now.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Vale now beating Albion, although albion are playing their reserves.
Sounds like we are playing okay though, if you think our side looks weak imagine being a Villa spanner :lol: , worst side theyve had for at least 15 years.
Sounds like we are playing okay though, if you think our side looks weak imagine being a Villa spanner :lol: , worst side theyve had for at least 15 years.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Soton Saddler wrote:saddla wrote:Interestingly enough Port Vail losing tonight by the same score to WBA
drawing now.
Pope scores to make it 2-1 to Vale
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
saddla wrote:dobbster71 wrote:Hmmm..no Manset. Wonder why he's not in the squad?????????
Manset has returned to France pending negotiations with his Agent
dobbster71 wrote:Don't understand why players at League 1 level have an agent. I can't imagine that these players have image rights, etc. to negotiate.
A little odd to me too, on both those counts. If he really wanted a contract / club, wouldn't he get his 'agent' to come over here to 'negotiate' while he can play more games, impress some more, and maybe get a better deal. Why sit on your ass in another country!
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Jolly Johnny wrote:saddla wrote:dobbster71 wrote:Hmmm..no Manset. Wonder why he's not in the squad?????????
Manset has returned to France pending negotiations with his Agentdobbster71 wrote:Don't understand why players at League 1 level have an agent. I can't imagine that these players have image rights, etc. to negotiate.
A little odd to me too, on both those counts. If he really wanted a contract / club, wouldn't he get his 'agent' to come over here to 'negotiate' while he can play more games, impress some more, and maybe get a better deal. Why sit on your bum in another country!
His girlfriend and daughter are in France and his agent apparently represents a few French players of more renown than Manset
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Perhaps he's the agent Smith said wanted £25000.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Attendance 6,559 with 3,837 in the away stands [and probably a fair few in the Homeserve too!].
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
1-0 fulltime.
Not a thrashing by any means, but Chesterfield beat this lot last week...
Not a thrashing by any means, but Chesterfield beat this lot last week...
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
FT 0-1. Somehow kept a clean sheet in the second half with Holden and Rowley in central defence. I've read UTS enough over the summer to know this is literally impossible. Can anyone come up with a reasonable explanation for this unfathomable chain of events? Maybe it was Butler in a Holden costume?
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
BathSaddler wrote:1-0 fulltime.
Not a thrashing by any means, but Chesterfield beat this lot last week...
Not quite 'this lot'. There was no Baker, Weimann, Delph, Agbonlahor, Hutton, Richardson, Senderos or Westwood for starters.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Don't know what smith is doing to be honest in the transfer market
The only people we ever sign are from Hereford or Doncaster !!!!!!!!!!!
The only people we ever sign are from Hereford or Doncaster !!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Happydays2122 wrote:Don't know what smith is doing to be honest in the transfer market
The only people we ever sign are from Hereford or Doncaster !!!!!!!!!!!
Because we don't have an endless budget and O'Kelly knows players well from both clubs due to his managerial roles there. :roll:
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Errrr ok :roll: what about the other 90 clubs okelly didn't coach at ?
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Happydays2122 wrote:Errrr ok :roll: what about the other 90 clubs okelly didn't coach at ?
I'm guessing you mean did rather than didn't. Either they don't have the players we are looking for, there are better options out there or they are out of our budget.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
My god Villa were awful... :lol:
For fudge sake our back line for the second half was a central midfielder that came up from our youth team last season playing out of position at right back. A central defender that is still in the youth team and hasn't been given a professional contract yet, an ageing slow 34 year old right back playing centre half at the end of his career and a first team pro that only signed a deal this time last week...
...and they still couldn't score in the second half! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
For fudge sake our back line for the second half was a central midfielder that came up from our youth team last season playing out of position at right back. A central defender that is still in the youth team and hasn't been given a professional contract yet, an ageing slow 34 year old right back playing centre half at the end of his career and a first team pro that only signed a deal this time last week...
...and they still couldn't score in the second half! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
No Walsall FC does not have a bottomless pit of budget but the constant rhetoric from some on here that we are skint is inaccurate and becoming utterly tiresome.
Summer recruitment so far has been average at best. No way this team has been fully assembled yet to manage a season at this level.
Summer recruitment so far has been average at best. No way this team has been fully assembled yet to manage a season at this level.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Don't understand the squad to be honest. It's all young unproven players with at best 7 seasoned pros at this level. We will go down For certain.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
Totally agree derby saddler. Smiths transfer dealings. Ridiculous. No where near good enough to compete at this level.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
I really hope we don't sign Webber, even though I think he is an okay player, the signing of him is utterly pointless. Now I am usually someone who is very positve about the team, but if we sign Webber, a player who is best used as a number 10, then I will be very irritated. We have a wealth of talent at that number 10 role, Sawyers, Baxendale, Grimes, Mantom, Flanagan... and yet we have 1 right winger in Jordan Cook, and he is injured and considered as a forward!
Not a clue what is happening in right midfield, and it is begining to worry me that it looks like Grimes is being shoe horned there just like Nicholls and Baxendale have been before him.
Not a clue what is happening in right midfield, and it is begining to worry me that it looks like Grimes is being shoe horned there just like Nicholls and Baxendale have been before him.
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Re: Aston Villa (H) 5/8/14 K.O 7:45pm
derbysaddler wrote:No Walsall FC does not have a bottomless pit of budget but the constant rhetoric from some on here that we are skint is inaccurate and becoming utterly tiresome.
Summer recruitment so far has been average at best. No way this team has been fully assembled yet to manage a season at this level.
I find it hard to know what to think about our finances, listen to some on here and you'd think the club is constantly on the verge of financial collapse and will instantly fold should we dare to make any sort of serious investment in new players. Listen to others and it sounds like Bonser is sitting on a mountain of gold laughing away at us all.
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