Two more things:

1. He's still young and can grow into a mid-table EPL player if he's given a chance/competent coaching.

2. It's wrong to judge most of the Scotland players on tonight. Levein Scotland is awful. Need I remind the board that they barely scraped by Lichtenstein? He plays players out of position (see Mulgrew, Martin, Whittaker), hates attacking, and is just plain disorganized in the midfield.

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Posted by joey barton

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Posted on 5/26/12 at 11:06 pm to TN Bhoy

I read through pie and bovril's match thread. I learned two things:

They validated my hatred of some of bigsoccer by linking their pbp incessantly. For all of the insanely educated posters, bigsoccer has a ton of knee-jerking assholes

We are good enough for other forums to wish big teams, Brasil, to make easy work of us

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Posted by BobLoblaw

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Posted on 5/26/12 at 11:07 pm to TN Bhoy

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1. He's still young and can grow into a mid-table EPL player if he's given a chance/competent coaching.

Maybe. He was very poor this year for Villa though, and I thought under Houllier he was one of our most promising players. I have never seen a player who is so determined to play the "Hollywood ball" though. I'm hoping he's just been low on confidence.

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2. It's wrong to judge most of the Scotland players on tonight. Levein Scotland is awful. Need I remind the board that they barely scraped by Lichtenstein? He plays players out of position (see Mulgrew, Martin, Whittaker), hates attacking, and is just plain disorganized in the midfield.

Hard to argue with this. They were awful.

Oh and I'm sorry that I missed this thread but we had a great time at the Londoner. What a great performance.