R.Bear

We need Bailey on for Diaby already.

We've basically bottled this so far. Havent turned up and look scared shitless.

2 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I'd take 0-0 all day long here. 

Really? You'd take a result that puts Villa through? Hot take!

I forgot Martinez is hated in France 

Would love an early goal. Would shit them up and quieten the crowd.

4 minutes ago, villa89 said:

No more FA cup replays. They seem to have been bought off by the insurance that FA cup games will all be on weekends with no PL games at the same time. Give it five years and that will be gone too and the latter rounds of the fa cup will be midweek. Teams in the club World cup will probably get a bye into round five as well. 

Good. FA Cup replays have been a pox for decades. The only thing worse than a FA Cup tie is drawing it and having to do it again. Moving the FA Cup to midweek would also be great move. Anything to stop it interfering with Premier League games. There's no more soul destroying weekends in the football season than FA Cup rounds. Any way to marginalize them is a positive move.

17 minutes ago, Zatman said:

OMG Arsenal lost worst day ever. Its not like our season is in our own hands

Embarrassing from our "fans"

Preach 

2 minutes ago, villa89 said:

It won't though. Elite clubs budget for being in the Champions League every season and we won't be able to do that. We could be just like like Newcastle where it's a once off and we are back fighting for a Europa league place or worse. 

The main advantage to being in the CL next season would be getting four away trips to some of the great football grounds in Europe. 

This is a crux of the problem. Some fans on here seem to think that one season in the CL is a golden ticket to the promised land, an exclusive club that once you're in, you're a member for life. The delusion is off the charts.

Hundreds of pages of people rambling on about coefficients and people saying they don't want to win trophies. This thread should nuked for everyone's sake.

8 hours ago, Tayls said:

Personally for me, being born just before the 90s, I haven’t grown up seeing us win trophies and certainly haven’t been to any parades. So it’s not something I know, or need to experience (Actually seeing that West Ham picture gives me anxiety with those crowds but that’s another issue). If we were to win the ECL, I’d be straight to thinking how can we improve next year to get to where the big clubs are. And I will think that right up to the champions league… if we win that, then I’ll probably become an emotional wreck. 

Im really sorry but I just can’t get excited about winning a third tier competition. It’s not the pinnacle. 

Again though, that’s not to say I wouldn’t be delighted with winning it. But I’d just be thinking that we need to reach the next level now.  

You're just trolling at this point. No real fan feels like this or ever could do.

5 minutes ago, Tayls said:

Play in the best competition in club football against the best sides… or win a third level European competition that’s for teams finishing 6th, 7th or 8th in their leagues and has teams knocked out of the competition above it which can enter at a late stage… 

I stand by my decision I’m afraid. Champions league over winning ECL 

You can stand by it all you like. It doesnt change the fact that having a viewpoint like that and saying "this is a business" is a reprehensible attitude and something I would expect to hear from plastic Man Utd fans from far away lands, not Villa fans.

21 minutes ago, Tayls said:

Winning a trophy would be lovely and all but as a business, we need to be playing on the big stage.

I'm ashamed that any of our fans could say something like this.

Beast

That was a disgusting finish. World class.

OMFG

Just now, vreitti said:

Does Diaby ever know what to do with the ball?

No. Looks clueless everytime he gets it.

Best keeper in the world. No debate.

Ben White looks **** ridiculous. Looks like he's wearing more fake tan than someone off Jersey Shore.

We're getting bullied. Could be a hammering this.

9 minutes ago, BG_Villa_Fan said:

So the Villa win a european quarterfinal and instead of celebrating it I’m feeling horrible because Arsenal, Liverpool and West Ham couldn’t win.

What has football turned into these days..

That says more about you than anything else.

It's hard to analyse that performance. I would have taken a win of any kind before the match. We have more than enough to take care of this away from home but it's going to be nervy.