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Hahaha - if Ali G says it then who am I to disagree

Honestly, not at all. Not yet

Don't think it was even in doubt, like not even a little bit. He said so himself last week.

Yes you did

I'm with Libby though - Belotti is vastly overrated, I've never seen him have a good game either

Those books are absolutely genius - read the lengthy reviews will have you in stitches. Can't remember the bloke that did them. I like Bruce though - think he's a good manager. If he keeps Villa down I'll like him even more.

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Just take a moment to appreciate Danny Ward's impeccable knee slide last night - stuff dreams are made of

Same usually, but this ref has sent me off a couple of times Usually for dissent

We have an awful ref on Wednesday nights as well, can't keep control of the game at all. He's mate with the roughest team in the league and without fail it always kicks off in games against them - he does nothing to stop it. He claims as soon as the ball has gone he's watching it so doesn't see anything off the ball at all - it's a piss take.

Yeah, very true, some very well established sides though, and I definitely think we'll struggle with them. How often did you get up there this year?

That's very true - think it may be a struggle again, everything still so up in the air. Fingers crossed for the Ryman. Harlow games would be fun

Going to be an experience, been ages since we've been at that level

That's correct

Must be eating a lot of guinea pig recently Brian because you've certainly filled out

To an extent yes, but we've proven in the past we are able to sign young players and develop them into stars. I'm not worried

I haven't missed it at all, I'm just not worried in the slightest. We don't have to sell players, we have them on long term contracts, and as long we keep progressing no real reason to go. The new stadium will allow us to increase our wage bill - which in turn will appease some of these concerns. We're not Southampton or the like, we aren't going to have a mass exodus. The most you'll see is one a summer, but even then there are no guarantees

Yeah, that's true, I watched it all in about 13 days, only 13 episodes so not too bad

There's been a lot of we'll see about us and we consistently have shown teams up this year, and last. We were written off at the start of the season.

We can do, particularly as we progress, but that's the whole point of the new stadium, the wage structure won't be as strict once we have the income to match. That second bit is a bit of a myth - we sell no more players than anyone. United, Arsenal, Liverpool etc. all sold key players in recent times. We haven't had to sell a key player to any club in England since Berbatov - it just doesn't happen anymore. If we do need to sell for huge money we will sell abroad. Thankfully I don't see that really being an issue for the time being, certainly not this summer, and in all likelihood not the year after either. The only one we may see as expendable if he wants to go is Walker, because £50 million for a Right back is insane.

These are the problems you encounter when you do well and other people want to unsettle you... If you believe the papers we are selling about 15 players

Yeah, I watched it all a few weeks back. It's very marmite - I enjoyed it but I know others that hated it. It's quite slow at times, and the issue of mental health can be a difficult one to portray but I think they did a good job with it and you certainly feel some connection with the characters. Certainly worth a watch

Talk to me about Croatia, those who have been. Thinking about doing a little bit of the islands after the election sometime. At the moment planned a route of Dubrovnik-Korcula-Hvar-Split, 9 days all in all - is that enough time? Should I be going somewhere else? Any recommendations.

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