Thrice

Maybe we could put in a loan bid for McLeish until the end of the season to keep us up.

Diaby is shit.

You're joking?

Not sure I'd want him since he's injured 80% of the time, but when he is at his best he is world class in my opinion.

Oh and my line up would be:

 

                Guzan

 

Lowton Vlaar Dunne Baker

 

         Clark Westwood

 

Weimann    N-Zog     Gabby

 

               Benteke

That's what I would like to see aswell. If Dunne is not fit I'd put Baker in the middle and Stevens at LB.

Former Czech Republic and Aston Villa footballer dies in sledding crash

Vaclav Drobny was capped two times for his country.

Vaclav Drobny was briefly on Aston Villa's books.

FORMER CZECH REPUBLIC and Strasbourg defender Vaclav Drobny died in a sledding accident, in the early hours of this morning, at the age of 32, Czech media said.

Drobny, who played twice for the Czech Republic, skidded off a piste and crashed into a tree in the Czech winter resort of Spindleruv Mlyn, some 140 kilometres northeast of Prague.

“The accident occurred shortly after 2:00am… despite the physicians’ efforts, the young man succumbed to his injuries early in the morning,” said a report on the local police website.

Drobny was the captain of the Czech Republic’s under-21 team that won the European Championships in 2002.

Made made his senior debut against Japan but failed to make the Czech squad for Euro 2004.

After the tournament, Drobny moved from the Czech top league to Strasbourg for which he played 42 games before being loaned to Aston Villa, but he never played for the Birmingham side.

He then moved to Sparta Prague with whom he won the Czech league title in 2007 before switching to play in a Prague regional league.

http://thescore.thej...733287-Dec2012/

Rest in peace.

We all criticise o'neill. But his team would have never lost this game

Have you forgotten what happend last year?

Anyway, it's not MacDonalds fault that we got a squad full of shit players. His tactics doesnt seem to work at all though.

Game over

Davies ffs

Holy shit

I can't understand why some people think that Carew has been worse than Heskey.. Don't get me wrong, I think Heskey has been doing a good job for us the last few games but earlier this season he was craptacular!

Has Heskey ever played a game without getting himself injured?

if anyone doesn't know Villa have the game panel open for this game just got the villa site

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/VillaLive/0,,10265,00.html

Great! Thanks

4-5-1 - not sure Carew or Gabby should start tho

Are you **** real????????????

Not sure if gabby or Big John should start?

Carew would be the first **** on my team sheet every time

Normally I would agree with you, but we should play with the same team that won against liverpool in my opinion.

I hope everyone who wanted 4-4-2 are happy..

Heskey was useless. (shocker!!)

Beye out of position way too often. Please come back soon, Luke!

MON has no excuses this season!!!!

I'm sure he will find plenty.

Heskey may aswell not be on the pitch. I could do the job he is doing! I'm serious! He should at least appear to make more effort!

I agree, but if MON brings one of the strikers off I think it will be Carew, unfortunately.

Hope I'm wrong.

I don't understand why you think we should go back to that?

do we stick with the 4-5-1 that we beat one of the title contenders with or switch back to 4-4-2 to give us more attacking options?

It's a close call I agree but MON would get slaughtered if we went out tomorrow playing 1 up front for being too negative. But then I suppose he'd get slaughtered if we lose no matter what. I suppose if Ash and Milner push up a lot there's no harm in it. We're only 1 down.

Yeah I know what you mean, but I actually think we get more attacking options with 1 striker and 2 very attacking wingers. Gabby for instance works much better as a lone striker (for some reason). It would just seem a bit strange to me to change the tactic that we used to score 3 goals against Liverpool.

What would people do formation wise tomorrow?

We've found 4-5-1 works best but we're 1-0 down against inferior opposition at home so... do we stick with the 4-5-1 that we beat one of the title contenders with or switch back to 4-4-2 to give us more attacking options?

Tough choice for me, I'm not sure. I think probably go back to 4-4-2 for this one BUT ONLY THIS ONE and then straight back to 4-5-1.

4-4-2 is clearly not working for us, I don't understand why you think we should go back to that?

We need to score goals. We score more goals with 4-5-1. Can not see any reason at all why we should play 4-4-2 again to be honest.

none of the above?

Suppose i'd be classed as an armchair supporter - but I live in Ireland!

I get over once or twice a year and I'd love to be in a position to hold a season ticket.

Up the Villa

This, although from Sweden, but still the same situation. Find it hard to be labelled armchair fan, though.

This.

4-5-1

Everyone is having a good game so far except for Cuellar in my opinion.

Stay, atleast until the end of the transfer window.

Certainly better than Saturday.

It wasn't in my opinion, if not worse atleast the same shitty performance as the Wigan game. It may have looked a bit better at times but we were playing a much worse team tonight.

Guzan - 6 - Looks solid.

Beye - 4 - Still not impressing me, and I don't think he will in the future either. Hopefully he can prove me wrong.

Davies - 3 - Don't know if it's his shoulder injury that causes it, but he really is awfull at the moment. We desperatly need one or two new CBs.

Cuellar - 4 - Average at best.

Shorey - 6 - I thought he had a very good game until the last half hour or so when he just didn't looked focused enough.

NRC - 4 - Not easy to be a CM in a team that only hoofs balls to the opposing defence.

Sidwell - 4 - Invisible, but same problem as above.

Gardner - 3 - He plays worse everytime I see him. Should play more simple and try to use his cannon of a shot more often.

Milner - 6 - Worked very hard as always but struggled to create anything.

Young - 5 - Same as Milner minus the workrate. Got better in the second half though.

Heskey - 3 - It can't be easy being a lone striker in this team at the moment, I'll give him that. But when the chances get to him he always seems to screw up one way or another. Terrible first touch on the ball tonight, and stop falling over 1000 times every game damn it!!

My Man of the Match goes to Milner. Even if he didn't have one of his best games today he tried and tried. Never stopped working and did a good job defensivly taking advantage of his strength.

We're going to get raped by Liverpool if we play like this.

I just want to cry......... This is even worse than the Wigan game.

Gabby will score. I can feel it.

What the hell was that?? Shit defence..