I'm sure we've been here many times - people losing confidence of a good result having seen the line up. Then we go and win and people are quick to praise the manager for making shrewd choices
Not saying it will work in our favour tonight, as others have said - we are looking light. But let's...
I have faith in RDZ. I just think he doesn't want repeats of the Forest and Everton games which both shortly followed demanding games (against Utd). Colwill would have at least been in the squad if not carring an injury or illness but other than that I guess he's wanting to keep things fresh
Speaking before kick off, a point would be good and I'd be happy with that.
However, I'd have taken point at Arsenal. So I'd rather gamble on the possibility of getting all 3 which lets face it, would be far from the greatest shock in football
With the final day of our greatest ever season / highest placed finish just two weeks away, it would be a good time to start planning a common theme for our travelling fans going to Villa Park.
Fancy dress?
European theme?
S**t loads of balloons / blue & white streamers?
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If we return to our best then I can assure you we won't be well beaten by Newcastle and Arsenal. At our best, we're a very good team. But continue with the bed wetting...
With things like this, I always look for quotes from those involved to back it up. "Brighton players believe...." is just pure lazy journalism and guess work with no substance as far as I'm concerned
They're slating the penalty miss but only because Maddison went straight down the middle and Pickford stood tall. Normally the keeper would dive with the pen being scored