QuoteAbsolutely agree. Keane's job is to assist in getting results, not get game time for Irish ladsOriginally Posted by The Fly
Villa already have a lot of Irish players and if they're good enough they'll get the game time. Having Roy in charge won't make much difference there, and outside of Everton it's very much slim pickings for Irish talent.
Last edited by The Fly; 10/08/2014 at 10:35 PM.
Absolutely agree. Keane's job is to assist in getting results, not get game time for Irish lads
Folding my way into the big money!!!
I was going to dispute this, then went through the list of Premier League Squads and realised I could only really add Ciaran Clark to that list. At least there's enough at Hull, Stoke and Everton to make up a reasonably decent international team to be supplemented by Keane, Stokes and some prominent Championship players but, yeah, if one of those teams goes down, we are in serious trouble.
Tonev gone to Celtic now, one less player in Grealish's way!
On the bench for Villa's opener against Stoke, alongside Clark and Given.
So long as they're not laughing at any jokes or anything!
That lot are a wisecrack waiting to happen. Mark my words, I'm rarely wrong about these things.
On for the last 20 minutes with Villa 1-0 up.
http://www.villatalk.com/index.php/t...oke-0-1-villa/
Grealish doing respectably in the voting for man of the match despite only playing 20 minutes.
If he's good enough to be considered for this level he's surely good enough to be picked for an upcoming squad?
Seems he had a decent enough début, hopefully he will be seeing more of him at Villa.
Yes, that's precisely what I meant
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spor...-hails-7627192
So 18 years into the match Grealish came on, understandable as there must have been a few tired legs out there.(lambert):
“Jack Grealish came on at 18 years age and did well. There were some really good things there – a lot of pluses.”
Villa looked more resolute and streetwise.
The arrivals of seasoned Premier League performers seems to have done the trick, at least in these very early stages.
“I said the other day you can only be young for so long,” said Lambert.
“Grealish is young, everyone else has been in it for two years. You can only be young for so long.
“The whole team performance today was outstanding.”
I dunno if I said it here, not been on much recently, but definitely spoke about this with match going mates, unless he refused, it was absolutely stupid not to bring him on tour. He's completely different to everyone we have close to senior level, bar McGeady, and Grealish was always going to feature from the go for Villa this season, even if it's dribs and drabs. While it's a huge jump from league 1/2 to playing the EPL, Grealish was well able for the hard knocks last season, and having watched as many older loanee's struggle in lower leagues (so many Liverpool players, so many) Grealish seemed to relish it.
Don't get me wrong, it won't be the difference between us qualifying or not (actually maybe that's not too far-fetched) but there was a great opportunity to integrate him into the squad ahead of a hectic campaign, and actually have him as a left-field option this season; whereas he might be included in the friendly with (Norway ? in November) and possibly see some time towards the summer of 2015. Because we have so many options.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Hope he gets a run out v Newcastle on Saturday, Newcastle are bottom of the table
and Villa tying for top spot on 3 points. Hence Villa could be outright leaders next week
either clear on points or on goal difference. So it would be pretty hard to justify leaving out
someone playing for the Premiership leaders!!!
Then again he might not even be selected I am getting a bit ahead of myself there!
Might be worth adding that Andy Reid currently sits on top of a somewhat squashed
Championship league table!!!
Last edited by tricky_colour; 20/08/2014 at 1:25 AM.
After one game. That's a spectacular stat, tricky, for somebody who doesn't believe in stats.
But I do believe in stats, they are right in the long one, granted there is a fairly large margin of error after just one game!!
Oh no tricky, you told us before you don't believe in stats. Too late to change course now
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