Mantis

Nothing like a Leeds win tomorrow to completely demoralise Spuds and their fans.

I hate this club with a passion. I hate it, its manager and everything to do with it, perhaps more so than virtually any other club in the league. There is nothing more I would like than a win for us against these .

(for my fans out there) unfortunately I can only see a defeat

Why? From what I can remember you said the same about Arsenal and we almost won. We rarely ever lose. We draw a lot I'll give you that but I doubt we'll lose. Why the unwarranted pessimism?

Gabby deserve's special mention for mocking Fat Frank's goal celebration after the first goal. I did chuckle at that!

I thought he was doing that but wasn't 100% sure at the time. Good banter.

I hope that weren't the reason! He does that celebration mainly because of his mother who died.

Although alot of others do it, so it's a fine celebration and take the mick out, as long as it's not because the reason you've stated which I'm sure it isn't. Messi etc...does it too.

Dunne isnt far behind him though, he's really excellent. As is Collins. And Cuellar. Davies isnt bad either.

I don't think there's any reason why we can't win this. We attacked well in the first half yesterday and defended well in the second. Now that Gabby has netted two goals in one game after that long dry spell hopefully he can go on to score more. I'm predicting either a 1 or 2-0 win.

If we'd lost or had a no score draw yesterday I think things would be very different.

Anyone know the name of the song played at the beginning of half time?

Let's hope he can carry on finishing well.

Am I the only one here who took a good few seconds to react to the first goal?

Dunne is half the reason why we have such a good defensive record this season.

I have one question - the woman sat in row T, block P6, seat 131, who came on her own, she was stunning. I didn't have the balls to even talk to her

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You guys were making quite a racket over there. There was me sitting in P2 wishing I was over there with you.

We had to put up with a bunch of Fulham fans sitting three rows behind us shouting "rider boy". Don't know what that was all about. It's ok, they shut up once we scored.

I was hoping she was a poster on here.....

Didn't think we were as loud as we usually are and there were a few spare seats dotted around.

You lot were very good though. From what I could hear you were louder than the entire Fulham end!

I have one question - the woman sat in row T, block P6, seat 131, who came on her own, she was stunning. I didn't have the balls to even talk to her

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We had to put up with a bunch of Fulham fans sitting three rows behind us shouting "rider boy". Don't know what that was all about. It's ok, they shut up once we scored.

Very good game. Good to see Gabby score again. Kind of weird actually because I predicted he would get a hat-trick today and he almost did! I knew I should of placed a bet on us winning and Gabby scoring.

Some Fulham fans in front of us got up at half time and left. Very odd. Also it's a shame there weren't very many Villa fans in the neutral section.

Very worrying if those 2 were injured. :shock:

Time to unleash...

THE FONZ.

Gabby to net a hat-trick.

I'm going for a Villa win in normal time. Really don't see why people are saying all they can see is a United win. We've beaten them once this season. I admit that if we hadn't beaten them in December things might've been slightly more grim for us.

Perhaps a 4 premier league game streak of no goals scored will convince MON to dip into the transfer market? It's obviously too late now but he better do it in the summer.

Didn't see much of it but I think 0-0 is a good result. I'm going up to Fulham on Saturday and I did NOT want us going into that on a loss.

Have a bad feeling we'll get mullered tonight and it'll be doom and gloom on here tomorrow!

I hope the players don't go out there tonight with a pessimistic attitude. I know we are the underdogs in this tie and Arsenal are indeed a very strong side but this is football - anything can happen. Of course, this doesn't mean I think things should be left to fate but I'm confident in the players and MON.

Does MON use 4-5-1 very often?

Looking forward to this game as I think this is the real litmus test of whether we can compete for 4th this season or not. Can't help but think both teams would take a draw. Hopefully I can get a good stream

I am thinking 0-2 :-(

I don't know what to think about this game. A part of me thinks we're destined to lose, going by the last game against Arsenal and our recent poor league run, but on the other hand I think we may be in for a chance. We're at home and still on a high from last Wednesday night. I think it'll either be a draw or a close Villa win.

Also, Friedel will be in goal so I don't think we'll let in as many as we did in the cups, if any.