Recent content by Nigel Stephens

Are Villa run by the same people who own Saracens? They are spending money like it is going out of fashion and must be breaching some financial regulations!

Do you think you might have an infection? :emoticon-0100-smile As I have said before, I think we are too far behind now and struggled to beat a poor 10 man outfit, so while I would love to believe, I am not holding my breath. The one plus is that Kane is out and another one is that Mourinho...

Suspect this is the last chance saloon. In all honesty I think we are too far behind to realistically catch up, but if we don't win this one then that is the final nail. Shame but at least we have not spent over £100m to achieve the same result

United are a 'bang average team' ...................so 'I am going for a united win' Without Pukki not sure where the Norwich goals are going to come from. Pukki, this is the guy that was not going to score 10 in the premiership all season. FFS!

There must be a few from the rodent era as most of his business were loans, but I can't name one specifically right now

Not sure about this one. Surely Idah has possibly trumped any interest in this area and certainly fits the SW mentality looking ahead. Cannot see a 29 year old ticking many boxes in the overall scheme of things but fully take on board the Pukki / Rhodes ages. Perhaps we made those signings...

Not sure that we are talking about exactly the same thing here. There was talk (some University type panel) of stopping tackling altogether, i.e. no physical contact at all and no heading. Your point, quite rightly, is about the bad tackles which are reckless and dangerous. Totally agree that...

With sport there are dangers and that is part of the reason why such large crowds or television audiences are attracted surely. Take away heading in football (sorry robbie) and tackling and you diminish the game. They talk about the scrummage in rugby union, boxing is forever in the gutter of...

You would have thought so wouldn't you? Also there could be a Maddison dividend coming soon. Ultimately, it depends if there is still a plan to proactively get out of trouble this year or start building for next year now. That mindset with determine the market in my opinion.

I would love Rhodes back but think that the money doesn't fit in with our budgets, plus the time away from CR has now been several months and the linkage is not quite there like it was.

Isn't it dis-spiriting to possibly invest so much time in development just to see some big fat cheque club swoop in and buy them, probably to warm their overpaid benches. I would feel sorry for DF because he has to go back and start all over again without passing GO and not collecting £200. Has...

I do fancy us to turn the corner here and win. Think it is too late for the season, but we need to bet into the credibility zone that our overall play has deserved. I reckon we are about 8 points light on that front, possibly slightly more

It has taken me this long to comment on the game on Saturday. VAR is an absolute disgrace (I write this now without swearing as that was all I could do on Saturday night!). We won that game 3-2 fair and square. Big team bias is one thing but that hi-tech nonsense took things to a new level. Well...

General, are you Lawro in disguise? You put us down to lose every week!

The inability to differentiate between to and too is another irritation for me Bure, the loss of when to use apostrophes has become a national joke (embarrassment) and the acceptance of replies like thx is because people are too lazy to write in full a 6 letter word is just pathetic. As for the...