Dan

Have no axe to grind with Villa but it's always annoying watching this happen under a manager who was attainable for us six months before they got him. This could be us with any football IQ.

We have literally nothing to enjoy this season. Literally nothing. We are reduced to this.

Our board's obsession with Graham Potter is another red flag. He's seriously average.

Saw that video title and thought it was going to be about Leicester.

It's never quite as far as it looks. Admittedly it is under this lot

Inter won me over weirdly in the 2023 final which they lost. Were called by many to get hammered but they if anything got shithoused themselves, they had the better chances in that game. They're a good team. Surprises me how overlooked Inzaghi gets for jobs. Can only assume it would be expensive to get him out of there.

We are one of the worst though. We're terrible at both ends. We make stupid deals and we're unable to rectify them. Forest for their recklessness got a combined £70mil for Mangala, Niakhate and Vlachodimos. If they were here they'd still all be under contract. One of them loaned to Udinese.

Aiyawatt doesn't have a clue. Not prepared to piss more years away pretending he does. We've seen enough.

Forest still get over the line I think unfortunately. The fixtures suit them. If we had a squad with a jot of fight in it that would be a banana skin, but nobody at this club values that so we'll just roll over and hand them 3 points on a plate.

The fact they're going to get a CL place for the second year in three proves they are just a good team in their own right. I also don't think anybody else looks 'that' great. Liverpool have definitely downturned in the last couple of months and I don't feel they'll hit the same heights - largely assisted by a ridiculous run from Salah. Arsenal are good but never quite manage to get over the line. Man City are the biggest worry but there's every chance they have peaked under Guardiola, they aren't what they were. Chelsea 2.0 are no threat for the title. Man Utd & Spurs are nowhere close. Then you're looking at someone like Villa. It's a long shot but I'll be interested to see the odds on it. They've a lot going in their favour. An already good team that haven't really gone mad in recent windows. They get this summer right, I think they have a real chance.

They're properly balanced semis. Genuinely quite hard to call both.

Genuinely think Newcastle might win the league next season.

PSG and Barcelona have been the two standout teams so far and both of them tonight showed huge vulnerability. You really could make a case for anyone left in - Real Madrid probably less than anyone somehow. Fair play to Villa, made that far more of a contest than I thought it would be.

Completely agree and think it's a massive shame. I never bought that we couldn't build on the 2015/16 style. We've taken it another direction - albeit the mish-mash recruitment is probably the main issue. We won the league with a style the fans for the most part did resonate with. Genuinely entertaining and effective. You really did think we were different. High intensity is what will resonate with our fans. The team I'd like to see us replicate in the Premier League if anybody isn't Man City, or Arsenal, or even Liverpool. For me it's Newcastle. They have a bit of everything for me. What's most impressive is that despite having some obvious brilliance in their team, they still have cogs from their struggling teams actually playing a useful role. You get the impression that they get the most out of everyone they have at the club. They're the closest to the sort of way I'd want us to play. I just cannot do slow football.

I really hope Huth doesn't think like him.

Exact moment he lost me as well - I get he has a conflict of interest with Rudkin so I took that all with a pinch of salt. Soon as you start playing down the club like we're some tinpot outfit, in an era where Nottingham Forest are third and Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford are battling for a European place. Nice try but you don't fool me. You do worry there's very much this attitude at the club itself though. Like a coping mechanism.

His conflict of interest couldn't be more obvious.

The likes of MNF, the Coaches Voice etc... it's basically impossible to not come across well on. I'm pretty sure Van Nistelrooy could go on MNF next season (infact I totally see this) and he'd come across very well. You would then get people on here saying he was alright and misunderstood when he's served up one of the worst runs in the history of football. I could never doubt Martin's ability to talk the talk. He flunked 'so' badly in the Premier League though that I just couldn't chance it. That's before you even get onto his style. I really wish we'd stop this attempt to be like someone else. What a sure fire way of ensuring you stay behind the others - try and be someone else. But that's a perfect summary of Aiyawatt's mentality.

It's no endorsement of anything we've done but I don't miss Maresca a jot to be honest.

He doesn't convince me but he's the first centre half of ours I'd pick to be honest. He's more likeable than the others, younger so has scope for growth, has generally not been quite 'as' bad as the others. He's one of the very few I'd be OK with staying. No doubt he'll end up on loan at Udinese and we're stuck with the other pillocks.

Mavididi is a hit and miss player that has been totally left out in a time where we've been 'miss' every single game. He's a bit of chaos factor, in a good way.

It's pretty important we don't just tank the end of the season ahead of next. If we'd actually kept it up and gone and lost our last 15 or whatever it is I firmly believe that would run into next season and we'd have genuine concerns of doing a Luton. It's pissed me off that it's taken him until now to actually mix things up. I'm also not under any illusions about that game - we were extremely fortunate to even get the chance to equalise at all. But at least a reasonable finish to this one gives you a bit of hope for next season.

The miracle of Brighton. Still as terrible as ever at the back but actually looked like we could attack for once - where the hell was that before?

Where the actual **** has this been?

Brighton's inability to win these games needs studying. Haven't beaten Southampton, Ipswich or Wolves at home this season. Have remarkably managed to concede twice to Ruud Van Nistelrooy's Leicester in both meetings.