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1 hour ago, The Fun Factory said:

I know Dendocker wasn't great and was on a big wedge but in hindsight could we have just kept in him the squad until the summer?  Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.

I thought the Dendonker loan, when we had so few midfield options, was odd at the time, hindsight hasn’t come into it. Emery insisted that he was happy to loan Donk and put faith in Tim, yet clearly has very little faith in Tim at all as we have a midfield crisis and he is still not playing him. Donk would have been an experienced option. 

It’s clear that they’re all desperate to play Champions League and the owners are equally keen. But although we seem closer to it than ever, watching how we’ve performed against Olympiakos and Lille makes me slightly dread how hard it’s going to be. If we do qualify will we have big funds to strengthen in the summer?

3 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Their current form in Won 5, Drawn 1 and Lost 0 in the last 6 matches.

Good, due a loss then.

Get to the ground early and then to your seats early (ish)

I’ll post this in the pre match thread aswell but for people going to the game later they want fans in seats well before kick off, presumably to help with some sort of display. 
 

24 minutes ago, Juju said:

Hey, even if we dont get another point, finish 5th, and get dumped out the cup, its still been the most amazing season in ooh, about 30 years!

Because we competed.

 

Because games against the big clubs were no longer forgone conclusions.

 

Becasue some of the football we played was a pleasure. 

 

Because mostly, the players were loving it, and enjoying it. 

 

Because the fans in the ground were louder, longer than I can remember - to the point it was mentioned in almost every game tv commentary.

 

Because peope begane once again, to care.

 

Because we were talked about again.

All true but if we don’t achieve 4th or the cup win, it will take me a while to really appreciate all of that, but I will.

Maybe the fastest a player has reached 50 appearances for us?

Just now, VillaJ100 said:

Chelsea have had their day out vs. us and revert to being completely hopeless I'm guessing 

Their fans think they’re going to get turned over since their 2 extra injuries were announced. Would be typical.

47 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Ben Davies out for the rest of the season now.

Not sure what Spurs even do at LB now, start Emerson Royal and move Porro to LB? Palmer will be all over the space he leaves behind.

Spurs fans seem to think they could go to a back 3 with vdv playing on the left or Royal at LB. 

42 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Ben Davies out for the rest of the season now.

Not sure what Spurs even do at LB now, start Emerson Royal and move Porro to LB? Palmer will be all over the space he leaves behind.

And Timo Werner out for rest of season. Not sure how significant these injuries are for them.

I don’t mind Gregg Evans and I like the 1874 podcast. It’s probably my favourite along with MOMS. 
I might start listening to a few mentioned upthread.

Just now, OutByEaster? said:

I'd guess so - the thing is the tickets are showing as purchased in my online account - I can make them available for resale, I see the details on them, I've got the transaction number - everything I'd usually see. When i open my account online, it's got a thing at the top that says "next event - Aston Villa v Olympiacos - with my seat numbers and so on. 

I just don't have any way to get to the barcodes.

I hope work appreciate that I'll be spending an hour on the phone to the Villa tomorrow ffs.

 

Just email ticketsales@avfc or whatever it is tonight and I bet they reply tomorrow morning.  They’re pretty quick.

3 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

I've tried (I think successfully) to log into the Villa App, but in the ticketing section there it says there are no tickets to show - even though they're showing in my account on the website.

It's weird, I've got everything I normally have, except the one thing I need - the tickets themselves.

 

Mine came with the email but at least you’ve had your email confirmation otherwise I’d be worried for you. Has the money gone out of your bank?

14 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

I bought my season tickets when the tickets went on sale, ticked the print at home option as required and received the email.

The email usually has a confirmation and the tickets included as either an attachment or at the bottom of the email, ready to print and I've just forwarded them to work to print (because this isn't 2002, I don't have a printer) and discovered that the email is exactly as it usually is except....no ticket. The confirmation is there, but there's no attachment and the tickets aren't visible in the body of the email.

Has something changed, is this an error by the ticket office, can I get hem sent again?

Baffled.

Have you just not forwarded the attachment or is it the same on your phone 

So why would Newcastle vote for it? They are in a similar position to us.

1 minute ago, wishywashy said:

Should be back by the 2nd leg. Good news.

This is brilliant news, I thought his season was done. 

1 hour ago, VillaChris said:

What needs to be remembered is Spurs have played in the CL 7-8 times in the last 15 years so it's simply not the big thing for them it will be for us in qualifying. I think most are just happy they're playing decent football again after the bore years of Mourinho/Conte/Nuno.

Looking at their forums and they certainly don't want "Woolwich" "Goons" "The Flith" winning the league so will be arms crossed and muted response when likes of Son and Johnson are running towards goal in that game for sure.

Ange hasn’t played in the CL repeatedly tho and he looked furious yesterday. I don’t think he would care less about Arsenal winning the league if he could get a spurs win v city.

3 hours ago, TomC said:.

However, that probably will not be much of a distraction for them. Next weekend is an off week the entire Greek league because of Greek Orthodox Easter, so they have no more league matches until after both legs against us. They can go all-out against us on Thursday and still be well-rested for the following Thursday.

 

That’s interesting to know, I thought the Greek FA had just given them a break like the French did for Lille.

7 hours ago, Kiwivillan said:

You don't think us beating Brighton and Spurs losing both away games to Chelsea and Liverpool is a realistic possibility?

That would mean spurs losing 4 league games in a row. I don’t think that will happen. In fact it would not surprise me if they got 4pts from those games. They were actually pretty good yesterday. Hopefully we’ve got enough to drag ourselves over the line.

3 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Another nothing display from Joe Gucci

I thought you were talking about our goalie then.

Not only us but City and Arsenal haven’t looked particularly brilliant this weekend.

4 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

sheff utd, yes i'd say that's about as safe a bet as you're likely to get

we need to hope that burnley have a chance of survival though. teams fighting for their lives have a tendancy to spring the odd surprise

I think a forest loss today would be good for this reason.

Arsenal could do with making some subs.

Arsenal can’t do a Villa can they?

Raya you idiot