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Don't agree Villa have Adomah, Grealish and Mginn in midfield buts it's OK we have Brunt and Livermore, they also have a solid defence....

Grealish is a top midfielder at this level.

Wouldn't put the other 2 names you mentioned above ours though, especially Adomah, who is a Championship journey man.

Do you really think he's any better than Jacob Murphy? I don't.

But like I say, it depends if we get a good manager. IMO, Brunt shouldn't be anywhere near the side in midfield anymore. I would play him at left back if Gibbs was out, but that's about it.

The key is getting a manager who doesn't insist on square pegs in round holes.

Against Villa away, we had 2 holding midfielders with Barry and Livermore and Harper just in front and we wiped the floor with them. Although, the key on that day was Gayle's suspension, it means we played with 1 central striker and we looked a better side for it. We need a manager who is ballsy enough to drop 1 of Gayle or Rodriguez, my choice being the latter, so we can actually operate with a formation fit for purpose.

If we had that, we can match up with anyone in this league, player for player.

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Villa will be a problem for yuo if they keep up the form they are in.  We dominated the second half of our game but the missed penalty hurt us, as well as losing a couple of players to injury, but you could see the confidence Villa had and they never stopped trying and got their somewhat lucky reward with two goals in injury time.  They didn’t deserve the win but they fought hard for it, thats what good teams have to do to win games when they might not have been at their best.  They have to be favorites for the playoffs as we stand today!!

Depends if we get ourselves a decent manager or not really.

Player for player, we are more than a match for the Vile, but at the moment we have someone completely clueless in charge, who picks players in the first XI who shouldn't even be making the bench.

At the moment Villa have a much better midfield than yours and in Abraham they have someone with confidence in front of goal.  The playoff though are all about momentum and Villa have that at the moment.  The final is a bit of a crapshoot, its who turns up on the day, but the semi finals tend to see the form team progress!!  

You are right about the manager situation though, Villa made their switch and immediately brought in one of their targets in Dean Smith, someone I have a lot of time for as a manager, you guys sacked Moore and there seems to be no plan to replace him.  You need someone to galvanize the whole club for the last 6 weeks of the season, no idea who that might be but it doesn’t need to be a star manager, you need to do what Manure did with Ole to push you into the playoffs.

I do agree they would beat us at the moment, but that's largely due to the fact we have someone clueless picking our team, rather than the fact they have better players.

Grealish apart, they don't really have anyone outstanding. Abraham is a good striker, but Dwight Gayle is excellent too.

With Shan in charge, I don't think we could beat an egg, but let's not let his clueless sections fool us, we still have a relatively decent playing personnel.