Johnnyp

Heads up , ITV 4 this weekend, even though it's the early hours Errol Spence vs Mikey Garcia. Great fight for freeview tv. To put it into context, it's on FOX PPV in the states. Proper trade fight this. Casuals will be meh....but anyone who is really into the fight game will want to watch this ( even though Garcia is jumping up 2 weights ) Be a fool to right Garcia off. His boxing smarts and boxing brain won't allow any fighter to dominate him, regardless of weight. Spence is a special fighter too. Should take this by 2 or 3 rounds. Think Mikey starts too slow this weekend out of respect with who he s in with . Unless he gets obliterated it's literally a no lose situation for him. He's not likely to stay at welterweight regardless of the outcome so big fights aplenty for him.

Games in hand are all well and good but you still have to play them and win them.

Presumably it's against either Swansea or Millwall seen as they are playing fa cup this weekend and Bristol city sitting it out.

Does it really matter. Take Hernandez out of Leeds and i bet you they slide. Norwood out of Sheffield United, they'd drop points. Stieperman out of Norwich wouldn't be as good. Not all manager related. Don't understate the significance of losing Tuanzebe also. Was playing great. We are a better team with Jack Grealish in it for sure.

I dunno. I thought Sheffield United would of fallen away ages ago . It's gonna be very tight.

Fantastic performance tonight. We are a much better team with him in it.

I thought he did ok. Tendency on villa talk that we paper over a players performance as long as we win then nail them when we lose. He assisted for Hause's goal. Pretty quiet other than that. If im brutally honest, and ya have to be because complacency is what will derail this whole thing if it goes tits up, I thought he bottled it and pulled out of a tackle with lolley in the lead up to the opener. Look, im delighted we won. Just saying what i see and entitled to my opinion. FWIW, Tammy was poor tonight i thought.

On the flip side if your Norwich or Leeds in a razor tight scrap for automatic would you want be playing an in form Villa side who themselves are scraping ?

Oh......preston won. !!! Jeez. Happy days indeed. ( though another we've to keep an eye on ) hope Neil goes to the baggies. Derail Preston a bit.

Guessing they were due to play either Swansea or Millwall who are playing fa cup this weekend.

What we have right now that the others don't have is squad depth. Derby basically relied on 2 kids all season in Mount and Wilson to win them games. One is injured, the other gone quiet. Bristol City - very thin squad. They can't afford to rotate their squad, though they don't play for weeks now, could just be what they need. We are right in this but can't afford the luxury of where we were this time last year. Think we were 4th. Chasing is a different ball game.

The 3 games we've played against boro at Villa park ( league, league cup and playoff) have been awful games. Game is there to be won Saturday . They are on the ropes a bit, weird side, they don't look good but always do enough to be just inside the play offs but miles off automatic, atmosphere looks toxic there right now. Roundly booed preston equaliser.

Both caused havoc in the reverse fixture too. We have to get on the ball more often than last weekend and go for it.

That's a good line up. O'Neill's teams can be quite passive at times in their approach. I'd be very surprised to see them start the game as attack minded as they were at Villa park in November. They'll give us opportunities to attack them. We need to go after these from the off. When you dissect Sunday and the madness of it all, we weren't that good. Need to be tonight. Huge game this.

Was he available for selection yesterday does anyone know ?

Lifetime stadiums ban would be more apt.

Must of been a horrific experience for Jack's folks watching that happen in real time. What if that piece of vermen had a knife or piece of glass in his hand. Birmingham City should 100% have to play their remaining home league games behind close doors whilst a thorough investigation of their security takes place. It doesn't matter that they have been fine up to now and it never happened before. If it happens once, that's too many times in my opinion.

Usually I'd mention the opponent we've just beaten for a while after a game and even though it's a win i don't want to mention or acknowledge that vile cretin of a club anymore. Hope we go up so we don't have to go near them next season. Let's talk about forest and moving forward now.

I'll be honest I've been in a bit of a haze since the grealish incident. What if he had a knife, seriously. The EFL have to hammer them after this and it has to severe. If it isn't it will happen again and much worse.

Comes a point though were Villa need to start looking after themselves. We've to go on a crazy run starting tomorrow.

We are overrated. Really. On close and honest inspection. We can blow anyone away with what we have offensively. We have a midfield that isn't very good ( can't show up once in a blue moon like last weekend, that's not their true level ) Our defence is poorer than last season. We won't blow these away tomorrow. Not a chance. Hope im wrong.

If we have a much better squad than them then the league table should suggest it. It doesn't. I'd take a one nil win now and move onto forest.

There's a lot of talk of ya know, Bristol city got beaten, derby dropped points etc. End of the day, all that is secondary. We have 48 points Its pitiful.. Need to look at ourselves. Nowhere near or deserving to be mentioned in talk of promotion.

70 or 71 is cutting it fine. I think we probably need to win 9 out of 11. Really do. Can't see it. If we don't take 6 points between tomorrow and midweek it's definetely over, we are too up and down to go on the run we'd need to go on.

No no no. McGinn must start in midfield. They've old legs in midfield. Let's get amongst them.