tomav84

great news...we havent sold this one out for a few seasons now

is this the first time this season we have a fully fit side to choose from?

johnson is class but younger than downing and no doubt would have inevitably been snapped up by citeh by now anyway

decent point that...never an easy place to get a result

his debut was vs man u and played a blinder. more completed passes than anderson and carrick combined

it is indeed

cant remember the allocation last time but im sure the prices werent this much. ill still prob go despite the rip off prices. prob is that boycotting the game wont help prices go down but would give rivals an outlet of ridicule to us for not selling out a derby away end

keep him in til the end of the season at least. if he equals or better's o'neill's first season (10th i believe) then keep him in. bottom half is not good enough and would have questions to answer. i still maintain that to sack him now could create more instability, and seal our fate. after all, whatever you think of houllier, who really wants to go back to kmac, who got us knocked out of europe and masterminded the 6-0 defeat at newcastle

think to say that is a bit strong OBE...if we go through then great, but a couple of poor results and we're back in the relegation fight so league should be our priority until we are definatly safe

ali babas chippy for grub mate

dont think he was a massive villa fan but i thought he did have a box at VP? anyway, yes geezer butler is a big fan. i mentioned it earlier in the thread that black sabbath would be appropriate for an anthem - more so than ghost riders. you need something to sing along to and ghost riders is just too wordy for that except for the vippie ay ohhhhh part. war pigs is a good choice IMO

2nd half i found myself looking at that more than the match!! seriously tho, i thought some of the posts on here were a piss take but at a second glance they were actually serious! christ some people here are still living in the 50s where women's place is in the kitchen etc. the comparissons between playing the game and officiating the game couldnt be more wrong. being female doesnt in any way hinder her ability to run the line and from what ive seen of her so far shes done a better job than many of the blokes that do it anyway.

So cameras will be out in force on saturday...first game since the whole skysports saga (i think) Link

to be fair i think the idea of an anthem is that it would get the whole stadium singing, not just the holte/lower north. you wont get the doug ellis and trinity singing the regular songs. not having a go at them, they just choose not to and its their choice. but an anthem would get them joining in too and maybe, just maybe, they would find out they have a singing voice and join in some of the chants during the game too

im not against having an anthem. i just see it as being something that would be very difficult to implement. for most clubs with such anthems, they have been around for years, to the point that i bet very few in the stadium could tell you its origin. they just went to a game as a kid and their dad said 'this is our anthem, sing along'. i just cannot see how you could implement an anthem into an opinionated supporter base. several have been suggested on the thread with many saying 'i prefer this one', 'nah, i prefer this one'...there will just be too many people against whatever song is chosen. in terms of what to use, personally, ghost riders in the sky is too quick and wordy to be used. i love the bells are ringing, but i want that to take off as more of an in-game song than an anthem. IMO it should be something where the artist is connected with birmingham and/or the club. there must be a good ozzy / sabbath tune out there that would be appropriate?! i think one of the members of 5IVE was a villa fan too...

is £18mil too much for darren bent? of course...is it my money? no...is it too much to spend on premiership survival...HELL NO! welcome darren keep us up son and get us back into europe again!

When you phone up on the 19th, say you want 4 and all have attended 3 away games. They tend to check the first accounts history but not the rest so you could get all 4 on the 19th. I've just succesfully got an extra ticket by doing it And im 18, i asked for an u19 ticket to find out the is no such thing, apparently a typo on the OS, and its actually u18 very often this is the case but for my blackpool tickets they checked the history of every ref as i tried to sneak one on a ref that only had 4 aways

he doesnt help his cause much though. if he had bought bannan and albrighton on after 10mins of 2nd half and we had still lost a lot of the blame would have been shifted to the players.

unchanged line up please good to see gyan is a doubt

so close!

admititly an element of sarcasm in the thread title...

i know it is these odds for a very good reason but i honesly have never seen odds that long for outright winner of any premiership game. well i thought it was worth a tenner anyway...probably be saying 'what was i thinking' at 3.30pm tomorrow

this may well get locked but i personally it deserves its own thread, as i've just seen that we are a ridiculous 14/1 just for the win tomorrow. i say that again, FOURTEEN TO ONE! yes i know people are going to say that odds are that long for a reason but personally i think that is a massive piss take against us. the lower league teams wouldnt have odds that long when they play prem teams in the cups. with this in mind as a big 2 fingers up to william hill, i have put down a tenner on it...stranger things have happened. whos with me??

by the way anyone concerned about their away history and not being able to get a ticket, i had the 5 required but my mate didnt. also know others with less aways that managed to get tickets...some of them dont check your history. give it a go, you might get lucky

not surprising...i know several people who vowed never to again after last time