carew_villa

How can Paul Robinson and Kevin Davies both be the best player at Bolton?

I would have thought Lee would be their best player on stats, I wouldn't mind having him at Villa actually, better than Downing, good work rate and only 22. Would also raise our profile in South Korea.

Your stadium looks really good!

It's good to see a team other than Porto win the Portugese league.

Villa have recently been linked with Falcao, how much d'ya reckon it will take for Porto to accept a bid?

good

I heard it might be East End Foods

Is that a joke?

The apple talk just came about because some people were saying that it'd look good on our shirt.

I'd like Apple but I know it won't happen.

As long as we get a lot of money, I'm not too fussed about who the company is, just as long as it doesn't ruin the new villa top

Does anyone know when the club usually announces the sponsor for next season?

I can't remember when they announce the Acorns partnership or the 32red sponsorship.

I thought we were definitely playing Manchester United in the play offs.

Liverpool have 4 games to play on 29 points and Man U have 2 games to play on 38 points. Surely Liverpool can't win the league.

Marc Wilson is a CB, and it's Aaron Mokoena not Mckenna

Sowa I don't know.

That's a better team than I thought they'd put out.

Friedel

Young-Cuellar-Collins-Warnock

Downing-Petrov-Delph-Young

Gabby-Carew

Have Milner to come on if needs be. Oh and Heskey if we need a goal

My view, which will an all likelihood get abused as it usually does on here after we play you

Draw was probably just about a fair result in my eyes, but I am angry and disappointed that we couldn't hold out again. We spurned too many good situations and it cost us in the end.

Of course, you are all moaning about our "injuries", I think they were genuinely hurt (they dont go down and stay down often you know...), as you see Heitinga had to go off with an injury (he was a huge loss) and Pienaar got a hefty whack on his nuts from Young, which from my view looked very deliberate and nasty.

Ref was bad, I'm saying no more on that because I always end up talking about them.

Thought you would of learnt to mark Cahill after the 1st goal at least, one of the best attacking headers of the ball in the game (imo) and you give him 2 gifts like that! 2 more assists from Baines, doing himself no harm for a place at the WC.

I have literally just seen the foul for the first goal again, and it's a foul, he touches the ball with his knee but he's already brought Osman down.

Yakubu was crap, when he wants to be he is a quality player but tonight...horrible...Saha looked a lot more dangerous when he came on.

You'll probably jump on me for this too but can't help feel what might have been had either Arteta or Fellaini played, 2 hugely influential players (no doutbs I will get something about Fellaini only making us "even more dirty" ) who I feel would have made a real difference for us today.

Anyways, as I say, disappointed with the draw after being up, but in the end it is probably a fair reflection of the game.

Oh and your 2 goals were poor from our point of view, very defendable if we had got our act together. Howard made some good saves though.

You say the goals Everton conceded were bad, but the goals we conceded were terrible.

I didn't mind Everton before this game but I now hate them. Horrible, cheating, time-wasting bastards. Especially Baines and Neville who took about 2 minutes to take each throw in they had.

Oh and I didn't realise how much Pienaar dives. I remember Everton fans complaining about Young diving but Pienaar is just as bad. Very hypocritical.

By the way, I did the BBC predictor thing and even if we win all of our remaining games, we'll lose out on 4th spot on goal difference.

I know its only the predictor and it won't happen but I'm just saying

Milner was outstanding as usual

He was all over the pitch for 90 minutes

I thought Cuellar played very well. Was decent going forward and did well defensively. (He's not exactly going to be amazing going forward so I don't expect too much but he has improved going forward.) I think Cuellar playing right back has improved him a lot as a player. I think he's better technically now.

Does anyone else kind of think that there's not much point in going to Wembley as the refs are always going to be against us. Of course we should still try next season but when I saw the penalty and Terry's tackle on the TV, I instantly knew that the ref would play on and that Terry wouldn't get a red. It's just so obvious and the FA need to change their principles.

I'm proud of the team as we played Chelsea off the park for most of the game and is the ref had some balls, we probably would have gone through to the final to face Pompey (where we would have been favourites to win).

I've also lost all respect for Chelsea and their players. For some reason they were my favourite top 4 team but with Terry as their captain I hate them from now on.

The sooner Jagielka or Lescott replaces Terry in the England team the better. Terry is the reason why I don't support the England team and I think most of the country are in the same position.

Rant over, UTV

The villa website said that MK Dons had a player sent off after 20 mins so that's why we won by so much.

For the semi-final, can you turn up on the day and buy tickets at VP or do you have to order the tickets online?

i think someone should do a poll to see which pubs the villa fans will be going to so people can choose the pub that they're going to. If that makes sense.

But I don't know how to do that

did anyone go to the torch on the carling cup final?

I'm thinking either going the green man, the greyhound or the torch.

Anyone know which one is better? And know the prices of a pint? etc..

ive been wanting to know that for ages paulmcgrath.

Im sure there are allotted dates but i cant remember

I definitely don't want to see Cuellar playing at RB because Wilshere play left wing for Bolton.

I'm not sure whether Clark should play because Kevin Davies will just pick on him and win everything. He did the exact same thing to Tomkins the other week when they won West Ham.

I doubt e-on could sponsor us because they sponsor the FA Cup and the football league now

A gambling company would be boring. Seems like half of the Premier League teams have gambling companies sponsoring them these days.

As has been said, you don't need to worry about that. Randy is no fan of gambling companies.

I suspect one of our other partners might step into the breach. Seat? Cisco Systems was a popular one a while back, do we still have ties with them?

Randy is no fan of gambling companies?

So why have we had two different "official betting partners" in the last two years?

Watch this space, you might be surprised.

ITK?

I'm a director of an online gambling company.

Last month one of my business partners was in Hong Kong at a conference dealing with, amongst other things, sports sponsorship.

He was told by a couple of people who work in precisely that area that Villa's shirt sponsorship was being actively touted around online gambling companies - complete with price tag.

To suggest Randy has some ethical objection to gambling companies just doesn't stack up. For a start, his fortune came from the credit card industry upon which the entire online gambling industry relies. He's not going to be a stranger to that field.

Furthermore, as I said, we have had three official gambling partners since Randy has been here - 32 Red, Boylesports, and now 188 Bet. Boylesports had an AVFC branded portal to their sportsbook.

If there were an ethical objection, I am sure Randy would not have done either of the Boyles or 188 deals.

do you know how much Villa would get from a shirt sponsorship then? As an approximate figure?

A gambling company would be boring. Seems like half of the Premier League teams have gambling companies sponsoring them these days.

As has been said, you don't need to worry about that. Randy is no fan of gambling companies.

I suspect one of our other partners might step into the breach. Seat? Cisco Systems was a popular one a while back, do we still have ties with them?

Randy is no fan of gambling companies?

So why have we had two different "official betting partners" in the last two years?

Watch this space, you might be surprised.

ITK?

i think guzan should play actually. Get a bit of confidence after getting dropped from the final.

Also, i haven't really been impressed with Friedel.

squads dont actually mean anything.

yes, man city and spurs do have the strongest squads, but I am confident that we could beat any of them.

Agree with 4serious

What has happened to Warnock?

Beye looked good and up for it against Chelsea.

My team for Bolton would be....

Friedel

Beye - Dunne - Collins - Young

Downing - Milner - Petrov - Young

Carew - Gabby/Fonz

We should rest Warnock and Cuellar. I think Warnock especially needs one.

Would be delighted with a win but I think we'll draw as we never seem to win at the Reebok stadium