MarkLillis

The design of the kit that the players wear feels unimportant to me. Modern football is something that I enjoy immensely. Todays game with it’s technical excellence,it’s competitiveness and the wall to wall coverage we get is brilliant in many ways. However this thing about the kit……they are taking us for mugs here. I wish more people would see it

Really is it all that bad? it’s just another kit It looks like Burnley because they wear Claret and Blue just like us. For me I just won’t buy them no matter what simply because of the price and the fact that( like all kits) they have a use by date.

They can’t buy competition,prestige or history from the transfer market.For sure there are many fans worldwide who follow players which is upto them.They will follow the names to SA. Europe will remain the no1 place for serious footballers to ply their trade and it will still attract the attention of the majority of football fans (the ones like us anyway).

Agree with this. Looks a player to me.(Emile Smith-Rowe)

A few areas from my experience.. Smethwick - predominantly Baggies large Villa presence a few Blues. Small Heath - loads more Blues than anything else.Obviously Stourbridge - if you don’t like Orange don’t go out after the dingles have won.Plenty of Villa around too. Halesowen - Lots of Villa also Baggies, less dingles and the occasional Blue. All of the above areas have glory hunters….but are they real fans….I mean it might seem real to them but we all know that they haven’t earnt the reflected glory they bask in.UTV

But West Ham are massive………. Everywhere they go!!

Whilst not knowing anything about his playing style he sounds like the Spanish equivalent of Arsenals Saka. Would anyone agree?

Luton at home I like to start off with a win and I’m pretty sure however “up for it” they are we would win this one.

I don’t know why our fans would be annoyed….. I mean, we allowed ourselves to go down so what can we say? I can see it. Youve lived the dream at Leicester to have ownership that took the team to the highest level of the game has been an amazing gift. Maybe they thought it was going to always be like that from now on.Maybe they are young and have only seen a poorly managed shadow of Aston Villa.Or maybe it’s just a knee jerk reaction to losing a good player to a team they didn’t even see as rivals just one year ago… For what it’s worth I think Leicester will win the Championship they are not the basket case Villa we’re when we went down that’s for sure.

Any odds on Emery getting sacked would guarrantee me a profite here .......... you are right!

This not what other football fans think is going to happen. I’ve just struck a bet with a lad at work the Emery will not be sacked next year! He thinks he will because Villa can’t possibly give Emery the backing to reach 7th again….and even if they do every one knows that Emery is shit in his second season!

And he can continue scoring against us in in his usual fashion…

I can agree with this. Leicester(18th) came to Villa Park and made us look very ordinary. Newcastle(4th) came to Villa Park and we made them look very ordinary. The premier league is a very competitive difficult competition.Long gone are the days when the bottom three were there because they were crap!

with all due respect to the above… Doug was running the show…..we would have gone back to mid-table nothingness quicker than you could say “balance the books”

A couple of years a go this guy was considered one of the best young players in the Premier League. Many pundits thought his next move from Leicester would be to a Champions league club. That player is still there…..he can be found again. Unai can find him.

I think he could he looks like a player to me. However we already own one of the Championships hottest strikers in Cameron Archer but I’m all for smart moves like this…

Purely based on the evidence Man City and PSG have shown us. The Saudis don’t do second

Man City - enough said we can have a conversation when Pep moves on. Arsenal are close to peak (if they haven’t already).Not sure yet if they can dominate or be as consistent as Wengers sides. Liverpool and Chelsea are in transition.They are big clubs so it will happen faster then at most clubs Newcastle ahead of schedule and not even close to their inevitable peak which will most probably see them win everything.I think there will be a few peaks and troughs along the way. Spurs look like mid table without Kane.They require a complete rebuild.Sooner rather than later they will come again. Man Utd behind Citeh but not as far behind Arsenal as people think.Their future depends on Ten Haag and the clubs ability to bring him the top level signings he needs. Brighton really well set up to stay in the top 8 for now,however they openly admit that they will sell their best players each year.This means also that DeZerbi will go sooner rather than later.I just don’t think they can keep picking the right players / managers. This type of style based on on consistent almost faultless recruitment is difficult to maintain re Southampton or Swansea or Leicester. These clubs will be as Brucey might put it “there or thereabouts”.However in my opinion as they are all in different stages of evolution there are chances for us to take advantage when some of them are not firing on all cylinders. Its not as straightforward as they were shit this year so they must get better or they are good this year so it must continue….

I’ve heard the name mentioned few times.He’s a starter at Citeh so is it even remotely possible?

To fall away in the race for the title does not feel like success. I can remember how it felt both times I. The early nineties. when we fell away in the battle against Liverpool there seemed to be an overwhelming sense of pride from the fan base. In the race against Utd it felt a little disappointing as I remember kind of like a numb feeling that we had genuinely lost something within our grasp. We did celebrate the 1990 team at Goodson on one of the Great Villa away days! I think there was a great day out a QPR after the 1993 team fell away. I guess the point I’m making is while losing is definitely not something to celebrate you have to put things into context and appreciate good seasons as we know they don’t come round often.

There’s no way we don’t win this. UTV!

Its true. I want to dislike them, but the footabll fan inside me says "fair play"!

Does anyone know the reason why they boo the Champions league anthem? I'm sure I've seen an explanation before but i cant remember it..... It was certainly strange to see them booing at the start of a game that clearly means so much to them.

My point was that both sides ability was pretty much even. Albeit standard was lower the teams were even and had similar styles in fact you could argue Sunderland had more flair/ creativity… However Luton won because they were physically more able/had more desire than Sunderland. Which ties up with the point I thought you had made about teams not applying the basics(desire,belief,willingness etc) getting turned over.

Much rather these than Coventry. Another midlands club that care far to much about us…. Promotion will only make them think the are in some way relevant and when we play them they will all be foaming at the mouth fists clenched at the first corner!