VillaChris

I think we'll get a draw here

****. Might as well not turn up now. I think we'll lose by three goals. :winkold:

They love Glaston on red cafe as much as we do here!

I thought you said you only posy on message boards of rival teams?

Glaston's right, a 91 page thread for a mediocre team that has only finished twice in the top 6 in the last twenty years.

Not good VT. :winkold:

Spurs have drawn four of their last seven league games.

A draw will be fine on wednesday.

Our season will result on how many wins we get from Hull, Stoke,Bolton, Wigan, Pompey away and Everton, SHA Burnley, Sunderland, Wolves and Blackburn home.

Win 7-8 of those games and we've got a cracking chance of 4th.

I'll confidently say now Spurs will finish no higher than 6th.

A few tough home games left and don't win much away from home so can't see them getting more than 65 points.

Crouch's finishing was terrible tonght, surprised they didn't make any subs as they could've done with more drive from Jenas in the centre. And Glaston, I'm suprised Krankjaer didn't come on, played quite well since he joined so why's he out of favour at the minute?

He can head the ball away unlike Toure and Lescott. Infact him with any one of them would be a very good combo.

... their back four are very suspect. Corluka is an absolute shambles of a player in my opinion and we should really exploit that fact.

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Your assessment doesn't really square with the facts.

Spurs have the 5th best defence in the Prem so far in terms of goals conceded and have let in just 3 goals (all in away games) in the last 8 league games. And this is despite playing more attacking football than do many teams.

Only one team has scored more than 1 goal at WHL in a league game all season, and that was Manchester Utd.

Corluka was bobbins for the SHA goal last week. Decent player but does have his dozzy moments now and again defending.

I fear we'll lose this 3-1.

Spurs have only finished in the top six two times in the entire premier league era as well! I guess that's what happens when you've conceded more premiership goals than any other club!!!

Yep, now that is piss poor given all the money they've spent over the last twenty years.

Spurs one away win in their last eight.

I keep on telling you Spurs fans your lack of bottle away from home is the reason you never get in the top 4.

So puts incredible pressure on your home form and you still have to play us, Everton, Arsenal and Chelsea at the lane.

Actually it's 2 wins away in the last 8 away games (Pompey and Blackburn), plus 4 draws, including draws away at Villa, Everton, Fulham and B'ham.

Is that so bad?

I'm also not sure why you are laughing - take a look at the table and figure that after next weekend Villa might need to gain 6 points on Spurs in order to overtake us in the table.

Two of those away wins have come at Hull and Pompey, two places we've yet to visit and I'd expect us to win that.

Glaston, you keep on going about attempting to break the top 4, how can you do that when you only win 5-6 away games a season. We won 10 away games last season and still didn't get that close in the end.

Spurs one away win in their last eight.

I keep on telling you Spurs fans your lack of bottle away from home is the reason you never get in the top 4.

So puts incredible pressure on your home form and you still have to play us, Everton, Arsenal and Chelsea at the lane.

Will WMP allow that kick off time if Wolves get through seeing as they're always lunchtime kick offs in the prem.

I thought Collins was dodgy again, right at the start of the second half he sliced that cross that nearly gave Arsenal a goal and couple of times later he came out of defence and missed the interception that reminded me of Knight at his not so finest. I don't think he's playing anywhere near the standard when he first joined. As soon as Warnock is fit, I'd move Cuellar back alongside Dunney and have Young at RB as he didn't put a foot wrong last night.

As for the game, point was probably fair. Is it me or do we seem to play better football against the better teams (ignore Wenger) and just lump it long against the poorer teams. I thought our play at times in the first half was very good, bit more disjointed in the second.

Ashley Young had a very good game, always an outlet on the right so agree with him being MOTM, Petrov ran him a close second. Downing though. He has some good moments running with the ball but I dunno, his crossing hasn't been as good as I thought it would be and he lacks confidence to shoot on occasions. And he really needs to stop missing sitters agaisnt top teams, that header should've been in no problem.

As for our front two, well I thought heskey was actually pretty good in the first half but if you're gonig to ask gabby to drop deep and hold the ball up (which he did well again) then you need a more clincial and quicker striker alongside him to get into the box. Given Gabby's performing the Heskey role much better than Heskey himself, then either start giving Fonz some minutes or buy a new striker in the summer.

There isn't too many problems in our team anymore. The defence is good and has options on the bench, midfield's decent although probably a need for another central midfielder in the summer. Just need that clincial striker.

We're not far away at all now, that's 10 points off the big 4 already so let's get 1-2 good signings in the summer and have another good go next season.

Should we really be playing a defensive formation in a home match? I might agree if we were away but I'd rather see two out & out strikers.

Depends if we can have enough possession in midfield otherwise not getting the ball to the two upfront is pointless.

we will lose 3 or 4 nil imo

We're having one of our best seasons for a long time, our opponents have just lost 3-1 to Stoke in the cup and we've lost 3 of our last 15 league games and we get predictions like this. :shock:

Ahh it's Richard so acceptable. :winkold:

I thought it was acceptable because it was an opinion expressed honestly?

I think it would be acceptable if anyone expressed that opinion actually.

Have a go yourself and see if it's accepted. Or are only positive predictions acceptable?

When was the last time we lost a home game 3 or 4 nil? I don't think we lost a home game by that score when we were utter shite under O'Leary so dosen't make sense to me given our status in the league.

And you're saying we'll lose by that margin to a team who've just lost a cup tie 3-1 at Stoke.

Given that we lost 3-0 to them four weeks ago and it could have been 7 or 8 I don't think this is that outrageous!

In that game, Fabregas only played 27 mins I think but will probably start tomorrow night. Having said that I think they will miss Diaby and Song.

I think we can beat them but will need to match their three in midfield to do so and press them like we did at their place last year. To quote the arsenal view from the Arsenal News Review site:

"If Aston Villa win, they'll do it by scoring from set-pieces. If Arsenal win, they'll do it with goals from Vermaelen and Fabregas.

Villa's main quality is organisation, Arsenal's main quality is skill.

..........

The best way to beat Arsenal is to play like Fulham but Aston Villa can't play that way and won't play that way.

They won't play a high back line and press. They'll defend deep and let Arsenal establish a rhythm and let them have the ball in wide areas."

I personally agree with this view BUT I think we could play this way but MON doesn't like to.

Yes because football always works like that, I thought we were very comfortable at half time at the emirates and 3-0 flattered Arseanl although they obviously deserved to win the game. Arsenal drew at Burnley a few weeks back so forgive me if I don't think they're all that invincible.

As for the injuries, methinks Petrov will play as we're a bit short in central midfield depth with Gardner gone and NRC injured but MON if he's struggling after 70 minutes, take him off!

Bale run is over! :shock:

we will lose 3 or 4 nil imo

We're having one of our best seasons for a long time, our opponents have just lost 3-1 to Stoke in the cup and we've lost 3 of our last 15 league games and we get predictions like this. :shock:

Ahh it's Richard so acceptable. :winkold:

I thought it was acceptable because it was an opinion expressed honestly?

I think it would be acceptable if anyone expressed that opinion actually.

Have a go yourself and see if it's accepted. Or are only positive predictions acceptable?

When was the last time we lost a home game 3 or 4 nil? I don't think we lost a home game by that score when we were utter shite under O'Leary so dosen't make sense to me given our status in the league.

And you're saying we'll lose by that margin to a team who've just lost a cup tie 3-1 at Stoke.

we will lose 3 or 4 nil imo

We're having one of our best seasons for a long time, our opponents have just lost 3-1 to Stoke in the cup and we've lost 3 of our last 15 league games and we get predictions like this. :shock:

Ahh it's Richard so acceptable. :winkold:

Ain't looked in this thread for ages tbh!

Chelsea will beat them.

i would like them to get a draw against Spurs as that will help us quite a bit.

Not too worried about playing them as I don't believe they'll keep this run going by late April so will be playing with less confidence and will be in mid table by then so the intensity will be less.

Did the Warnock injured look serious folks?

I've done a few combinations and the best I can come up with is 39 quid for two adults on Chiltern and that's with a young person's railcard thrown in. Does that sound right or are there cheaper deals on there?

1-1 draw.

Dunney with a late equaliser, similar to Knight last season.

Arsenal have a few midfielders out like Ramsey, Nasri, Song and Diaby who always scores against us so yep if we can nulify Fabregas which is easier said than done, we can win it.

just booked 4 train tickets on chiltern £19.50 each bang on

goin on the sunday from snow hill at 08:40 return on the monday 12:20

session in el

Where did you find that mate?

Chiltern Railway: B'ham (Snow Hill or Moor Street >> Marylebone)

Super Off Peak RTN - Circa £21

As its weekend it classes as off peak so you are not restricted to any strict times. You may have to gte into London anytime after 1.30pm but thats fine (if you go on the saturday) then you can come back anytime you wnat. The ticket is also valid for a month so you can return home anytime within a month.

If we win the cup I may well spend the next few weeks celebrating in London!!

Can't believe there's not more people catching on to this! If you go on Sunday then it's currently £19 return. Leave anytime, come back anytime!! £12 with a railcard. It's £23 if you want London travel included. London Marylebone is on the same line as Wembley Underground and takes about 20 mins. However, the main line takes about 8 minutes and I'm guessing they'd have them running every 20 minutes on the Sunday.

Where on the website is this?

The schedule isn't too bad, I'd imagine a lot of the fringe players will get run outs tommorrow like they did against Blackburn so hopefully the players will be refreshed for the Arsenal and Fulham games.

We've then got another double header of Spurs and Manure over 5 days, then possibly an FA cup 5th round game the following weekend (again who knows the standard of opposition?) After that it's two weeks to the final with Burnley at home our only league game in that spell.