Owl droppings

Dominic I’mawful is my early contender for man of the match as he’s come the nearest to scoring for us.

Röhl has to take the blame for his tactics in the last 15 minutes

Apart from our goal, this is as dire a performance as I’ve seen for the last 2 months.

Good first half and we’ve seen none of the heart stopping tippy tappy play at the back and time wasting back passing to the goalie. Excellent stuff.

Looking at the latest update of the 6,000 extra tickets becoming available from 9.30am tomorrow - If my wife has 10+ TTP and I am a member, have an old ID number but 0 TTP (because my wife always books our tickets), can my wife get 2 tickets together tomorrow? The qualifying category for people with Membership and/or an ID number seems to have disappeared altogether now and yet again there is no clarity on the official website

No, it went back to the general ticket page once I got to the front of the queue

I’m just under 3,000 in the queue and it hasn’t moved for over half an hour. I bought a membership yesterday but got locked out and now it says Members can’t apply. My wife has points but I don’t as she always buys the pairs of tickets when we go to Hillsborough so she has logged on too but I think she will only qualify for one ticket and she won’t go if we can’t both sit together.

I didn’t know this fact about Lee Child but Bannan wasn’t on Aston Villa’s books until 2004 according to Wikipedia and the I am reading book was first published in 2002 so maybe there was a ‘Bannon’ on Aston Villa’s books around the time of the millennium?

I am halfway through reading a reading a book (‘Without Fail’ by Lee Child) and this was the first couple of lines I read this afternoon - it must be fate

I wonder where the current players favourite holiday destinations are after my wife spotted Barry Bannan on the BBC News this morning at Faro airport in Portugal where they were doing an article on the relaxing of COVID restrictions for travellers

True. If they brought Klopp in he wouldn’t resort to Liverpool’s style as they would let in more than they score with the squad they have.

My wife keeps going on about the guy who’s shouting “Come on Rovrum” every 30 seconds and they’re winning 3-0 ffs.

I think I will get one with Covid 19 on it!

Maybe it’s been sold to pay Rhodes’ wages whilst he’s out on loan.

MORGAN Fox, David HEARSE, Glenn LooVANS

Anything is worth trying at the moment. I watched the Ipswich game on TV. Far too many times we were passing sideways and backwards with no penetration or opportunities to progress into the final third. It was only when Kieran Lee came on that we started attacking properly. If you watch him, his movement off the ball is fantastic. We don’t get midfield players (Bannan excepted) or forward players moving quickly into positions where they can receive the ball and move forwards. I agree that all this passing nonsense looks good on paper but we are not Barcelona or Real Madrid. Goals win games, nothing else!

The fact we’ve spent so much on players and are at best a mid-table team at the moment.

Regarding the last paragraph there are are numerous clubs that spring to mind. Everton blew £140 million in the summer and look like relegation candidates so there’s one club that is doing a lot worse than we are vs. money spent.

I saw Wednesday play in Barcelona last year (play-off semi-final) in a Sports bar off Las Ramblas!!

The thread said ‘How symbolic is the Presto Stand’ and I meant replace ‘symbolic’ with ‘shambolic’ as the whole stand is way past it’s sell-by date and needs replacing. As it stands it isn’t up to standard hence the reduced capacity due to safety issues etc. Once more money comes into the club (hopefully by promotion to the Premier League) then I would imagine it will become more of a priority.

Replace symbolic with ‘shambolic’

Bobby Charlton was a great player but an unsuccessful manager. The two don’t go hand in hand. Mourinho and Fergie were average players but great managers.

Does that mean Jordan Rhodes is still worth £10 million??