6 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

He still deserves credit though, even if as someone that’s admitted to being a Celtic fan would be loathed to, the title still needed to be won and he did.

Ya, credit for winning it, but it's a pretty poor standard in Scotland. Jury is still out. 

9 minutes ago, BigBar said:

We are coming into it. Rothwell showing some promise. Nice ball into Gally there.

Did you see Gallaghers pathetic attempt at a header? He can't win contested headers in the box. For his size,it's disappointing 

9 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Rothwell was in

Angle all wrong and players in the way

6 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

When Gerrard went to Rangers, they were miles behind Celtic. He not only closed that gap, but he also overtook Celtic, convincingly, too.

Time will tell if he’s a top tier manager or not, but you’d do well to find a Villa fan that’s upset he was appointed….

I don't think you understand the situation. Celtic were under serious pressure to win that one ,10 in a row, and burnt out/ran out of steam/buckled under the pressure. Made a bad managerial appointment and he capitalized. It was inevitable Rangers would eventually win one. Who else was going to? 

I know a few that support villa and they were excited at the start and with his drawing power. Results very mixed so far though. 

Time will tell 

Awful first touch by Khadra. Jesus he has no instict. Went away from goal 

Offside anyway 

He just pushed Nyambe into the hoardings. Like blatant. Joke 

Just now, Displaced Rover said:

It was miles off! Another tame shot from Buckley (as ever)

Better hit than against forest! 

1 minute ago, Fraserkirky said:

Buckley passes when he should shoot, and shoots when he should pass.

Wasn't really a pass on to be fair 

Getting battered alright and massively riding our luck 

5 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Cos he's a good player

But he couldn't sign him you said ,cos we needed a keeper. Does mowbray just randomly phone up good players for a chat lol 

5 hours ago, Gav said:

I think you're understating Gerrards time at Rangers Bigs, what he achieved and where they came from in such a short space of time was remarkable. I must admit I was shocked, I was writing him off as a manager before he even started, how that voice/dour demeanour inspires anyone us beyond me, but thats why I'm not employed in football!

Remarkable? How so? 

Only a matter of time before they score 

Terrible start. Rothwell hasn't come back the same player since Jan. Not even doing the basics 

Put them both on the bench. Vale is putting the ball in the net. What harm giving him a few minutes? 

25 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

 

Looking back to this post in January and it's even more pertinent now

Venky's didn't invest, and we could be out of the top 6 by 5pm on Saturday

Ya, or we could be 2nd , or even still 3rd

This is a fun game! 

11 minutes ago, Mellor Rover said:

Good to hear positive noise on Travis' contract. His deal is up in 2023, but we have an option to 2024 and it's looking at being extended beyond that too.

Ya and talks seem positive 

Sounds like he's not ripping up trees for the under 23s. He needs to be sharp to come into the boiling pot that is championship football. I would wait for a home game anyway 

Bad decisions made at the top unfortunately. 

Needed a top manager and we were a draw, so no reason why we didn't. Good scouting means we should have gotten deals for Roy Keane, Zidane, Ruel Fox, Sol Campbell and Duncan Ferguson over the line and really pushed on. 

Huge missed opportunity

51 minutes ago, Mellor Rover said:

Not seen much of Whiteman to suggest he's any better than what we have. In fact he definitely isn't better than Travis or Rothwell, so he'd be sat on the bench anyway. Travis had him on a string at Ewood earlier in the season.

To be fair now Sparks thinks Dack was shite and that Mols was the next big player, so I think it's best make your own call on Whiteman. Looked fairly average to me and nowhere near what we have, as you mention. Maybe hes better than Davenport 

Jury still out on Gerrard. I think hes in the stylish and loved  by the media category with Lampard. Gerrard won one trophy in 3 years at Ranger, when Celtic eventually ran out of steam and had an awful season. His start at Villa has been hit and miss, at best. 

Cooper seems decent alright 

10 hours ago, AdamRochina said:

highly doubt we can beat anyone with the forward line we have,  shambles not bringing in someone who knows where the back of the net is

Some amount of fans just giving up

Lucikly the players wont 

18 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

The reason we didn't go for him is we got kaminski instead.  We needed a goalie that's what mogga told BW

So why was he even talking to him? 

5-6 points from the next 3 games would be an acceptable return. Anymore and it would be excellent 

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

BBD was out on his feet before he even went to his last Chile call up so at some point he needed rest and he needed help on the pitch. I think we've seen the pressure on his shoulders recently his body language has shown frustration. 

The forwards haven't been scoring them though have they and the evidence always suggested they wouldn't it's more hope than planning. Even Mowbray seems to think if he says they need to step up they will, he's been in football long enough to know it rarely works like that.

Pecking order is a fair point to mention as there is an elephant in the room there in the shape of big Sam G, he's very high in the order. I'm not as down on him as some are but again it's like TM and the rest of us are just praying he hits a run of scoring.

So in my opinion in order to give us the best chance of keep competing at the top something should have been done that resembles something with a bit of scoring pedigree. 

Any free agents available? Hopefully won't be needed. They seem a tight knit group. Hopefully a positive end to the season...

15 minutes ago, Mellor Rover said:

It was the shot yes, rolled his left ankle when planting his foot to shoot. He looked tired in the games before that but ligaments and ankles especially are tricky, doesn’t take much for them to go. Who knows if less workload would’ve effected things. My opinion is it wouldn’t, but he looked like a hamstring waiting to happen anyway.

Ya ankles are tricky. It looked a fatigued and frustrated shot I thought. He looked a few gears below since the last trip. They aren't doing great over there and all this new pressure seems to be on him. A break might be good. For him individually at least