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Decent enough performance so far, but I can't help but feel that Villa are playing within themselves a little.

Nice to hear the 'Yellows' chant from the travelling fans. Good on them - a proper mission today with the conditions and they're in good voice.

Wasted a great opportunity there.

Ref clearly doesn't know the rules. That's a mandatory booking.

I thought McGinn was suspended?

Yeah but Liverpool is within the Met Office's amber warning zone, so it makes sense to call that off even if the fans don't have to travel long distances*, whereas The Midlands and South are only under a yellow warning. * Although I know plenty of lifelong Liverpool fans who don't actually live there.

We never played Norwich when both Farke and Martin were there. Farke joined in the summer of 2017 and Martin left the following January, and they were in the Championship that season.

Mastertwat.

I don't think it's out of context. He said it after the match on Wednesday as well, but to me it just further highlights his delusion. For a club like ours, with the limited squad we have, to even consider trying to go toe to toe with top clubs like Chelsea/Liverpool/City, is just madness. Sure, we might have a 10 minute spell where we look like we can hurt them, but their superior quality will ALWAYS win out, especially once we've gifted them a couple of goals from our suicidal passing around at the back. If we try and play these teams at their own game, we will lose... Every. Single. Time. It's as simple as that.

So what are you saying? That because RM has turned out to be just as shit (or worse) as a PL manager than his predecessor, we should just accept that?

Fucking hell, has he really said that? Has he not seen the league table FFS! Grinding out results is EXACTLY what teams in our position need to be doing, and what the fans demand. He appears to be saying that he would rather lose playing his possession game, than win ugly. For the love of God SR, please wake up to what a laughing stock you have made of SFC and end this insanity now.

I knew I recognised him from somewhere...

Defending isn't just about the ability of individual players though. You only need to have the most basic grasp of football to understand that. It's a TEAM game, and good defending means defending as a TEAM. And it's the manager's job to coach and set up the TEAM to do that. How do you not get this?

Damnit. I pressed quote instead of edit.

Indeed. Fans pay money to watch games because they want to see their team trying to win games and achieve some relative success. If whatever SR are doing goes against that then they are taking customer's money under false pretences.

5 game ban last time and a minimum of 4 this time because it's his second red of the season. That's 9 in 18 - literally half the games missed because of being a brainless, petulant prick. I never want to see him wearing that armband (or even the shirt) ever again.

Would honestly rather have Mad Nate back right now. His PPG was better than RM's, and at least we got some comedy value from his unhinged post-match interviews, which is surely better than the burning desire to put my foot through the screen when I see the smug face of Martin telling us how brave we've been.

"Jack has been amazing and nobody will be more upset tonight than him". Deluded.

You're wasting your time. He's obviously never going to back down on this.

Kevin Davies speaking truth about the naivety of trying to go toe to toe with Chelsea. EVERYONE can see the insanity of RM's philosophy. Except those in charge of the club. It's so fucking depressing.

I think it's 4 because it's his second red of the season. But I could be wrong.

Completely forgotten he had come on.

Manning was arguing the point with the ref for a long time, but it wasn't even mentioned on the comms.

Yep - against Wolves. Total bullshit. And not a fucking peep from the commentators because they're too busy jizzing their pants over Cole Palmer.

Not even a VAR check. FFS.