KSV Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 We wont lose again this season lads. Premier league here we come. 3 in a row.. go for one more.. Sorry i have been drinking early this evening. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wilko154 Posted March 7, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 7, 2017 For everyone saying... we should be winning this, its just Huddersfield... they are 3rd in the league, currently they are a better footballing side than us. Can't understand this 'we're Aston Villa we should be beating everybody' attitude We are where we are because we have been poor for the last few years and the remaining squad is now a Championship side (whether its just an average Championship side or a great Championship side remains to be seen next season) As for the game, its going to be an interesting one as it now gives us a chance to show what we can really do against one of the top sides. A win here would give us massive confidence going into Saturday's game at home against Wednesday. Momentum is now the key to next season and this would be fantastic for it. 1-0 Kodjia nicking it late on will do me! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Take it isn't on Sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Due to injuries the team pretty much picks itself. Keeper, back four, midfield three will stay the same as last three games with Amavi coming in wide left, Adomah right and Kodjia up top. I think that continuity in the team can only be a good thing. Be interesting to see which youngsters make the bench. As for the game it is a tough one but it may well play into our hands if Huddersfiled come at us and we can catch them by breaking quickly. A win here and we can definitely say a corner has been turned. I think we will sneak it by the odd goal either 0-1 or 1-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted March 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 7, 2017 Huddersfield have injuries as well. Pressure's off, a settled-ish team and formation, Kodjia on form, Hourihane on form, and I saw a stat on Twatter yesterday that said every game Chester, Baker and Jedi have started we have either won or drawn (can't be feckered to fact check that though). I tink we'll draw this one 2-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nigel Posted March 7, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 7, 2017 I think the powers that be should try to get another game into the weekly Callander. There's a nice slot on Thursday night to stop this lazing around for 4 days. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Hoping we can nick the points tonight, if we perform to our best then anything is possible. I can see a 1-2 victory with Hourihane and Kodjia scoring. It will be a real test that's for sure. UTV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 2-1 Villa. Lansbury and Baker goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted March 7, 2017 Visiting Supporter Share Posted March 7, 2017 With Thor's injury probably ruling him out for the rest of the season and Amavi replacing him this is probably going to be the team that most Villa fans wanted to see on the pitch. Bar further injuries it will be interesting to see how this better balanced side imo does tonight and Saturday against two of the best teams in the Championship? Bruce may just have stumbled via injuries on his best team? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Big game tonight - would be a big win for us and a real step in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 7, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2017 17 hours ago, pacbuddies said: As a Villa fan did you ever in your life imagine that one day you would be uttering those words? It's not a comparitive statement though. Huddersfield would still be at the level they're at no matter where we are. With Villa top of the Premier League or bottom of the Championship, the statement 'Huddersfield are good' would be equally as valid. It's credit to Wagner. On a relate note, I do wonder are his detractors still calling him flavour of the month or are we allowed to contemplate yet that he might be a good manager? I'd hate to jump the gun on that 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 35 minutes ago, BOF said: It's not a comparitive statement though. Huddersfield would still be at the level they're at no matter where we are. With Villa top of the Premier League or bottom of the Championship, the statement 'Huddersfield are good' would be equally as valid. It's credit to Wagner. On a relate note, I do wonder are his detractors still calling him flavour of the month or are we allowed to contemplate yet that he might be a good manager? I'd hate to jump the gun on that Probably not, as he's continued doing well with Huddersfield. Gary Rowett is mentioned nowhere as much anymore, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 1 hour ago, striker said: With Thor's injury probably ruling him out for the rest of the season and Amavi replacing him this is probably going to be the team that most Villa fans wanted to see on the pitch. Bar further injuries it will be interesting to see how this better balanced side imo does tonight and Saturday against two of the best teams in the Championship? Bruce may just have stumbled via injuries on his best team? The dark side of me whispers in my own ear. Imagine the injuries forcing his hand earlier Hindsight also whispers to me that we have a lucky manager rather than the manager who suits us 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 1 minute ago, Grasshopper said: The dark side of me whispers in my own ear. Imagine the injuries forcing his hand earlier Hindsight also whispers to me that we have a lucky manager rather than the manager who suits us Is the game not 50% luck? I never used to believe in it, thought you made your own luck in football. But it has been our saviour and our destroyer on so many occasions. Maybe he'd have gotten something else to work, who knows. He has said that they decided to go back to what worked previous regardless of the injuries. You can call bullshit on that if you like, it doesn't really matter in the end. Onwards and upwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) 51 minutes ago, BOF said: On a relate note, I do wonder are his detractors still calling him flavour of the month or are we allowed to contemplate yet that he might be a good manager? I'd hate to jump the gun on that I was one. It is clear I was wrong. He never wanted to come here anyway so it's by the by. Would I and others have been so forgiving of him if he'd taken a while to get going? If he'd needed a bit of 'luck' on the way? Who knows. Edited March 7, 2017 by dont_do_it_doug. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 4 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Is the game not 50% luck? I never used to believe in it, thought you made your own luck in football. But it has been our saviour and our destroyer on so many occasions. 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will. 5% pleasure, 50% pain, 100% reason to remember the name... Aston Villa. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 7 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Is the game not 50% luck? I never used to believe in it, thought you made your own luck in football. But it has been our saviour and our destroyer on so many occasions. Maybe he'd have gotten something else to work, who knows. He has said that they decided to go back to what worked previous regardless of the injuries. You can call bullshit on that if you like, it doesn't really matter in the end. Onwards and upwards. I think it was Fergie who once explained that if the ball is in the oppositions penalty area pinging around and you have a pack of hungry wolves (hungrier than your opposition) hunting the ball down luck has a choice 50/50 either it falls for you or them. Now the actuality of that is when the ball keeps going in the oppositions box one of those 50/50's that is your luck eventually comes. The more you force it the more the luck is likely - hence Fergie time. This is the main reason why I detest sitting back, letting the opposition have the initiative to eventually cash in on their luck. Add the fact that we've had a very dodgy keeper since Jan. Gollini before him prone to mistakes, our defence being shaky be it through Hutton, Elphick, Amavi or Chester/Baker catching the chicken-pox. Very little protection from either no Jedi or a MF containing Westwood, Gardner and Bacuna (before Jan) Then the LAST tactic we should be employing is to sit back. Add the fact that we had a bundle of talent up front the master stroke would have been to try our luck up front rather than sit back and hang on Disclaimer - The RDM theory of only 1 or at times NO MF not being what I mean as the alternative 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 @Grasshopper Absolutely agree that sitting back has done us very little good over the past couple of months. It has been my biggest bug bear, we've not tried to take the game by the balls often enough. However, I look at say the Brentford game. I was there and for the first 20 minutes we were all over them, we had 2 or 3 good chances. Ball in and around the box. We didn't take advantage, they scored and the heads dropped. Why did their heads drop so suddenly and irretrievably? I don't know. As the man in charge, a large proportion of the blame goes on the manager, but he hasn't had that 'luck' we speak of at times either. It took him a long time to turn that around, though we are STILL struggling to take advantage in the box. I was at Rotherham too, we should have been 5 up at half time. Poor finishing let us down, again. So, if you ask me his luck has balanced out. 35 points from 23 games, or whatever it is, isn't good enough I know. But hopefully it's enough to give them a boost moving forward. Tonight is hopefully another step in the right direction. Even if we lose the game, we need to keep showing that desire to be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Man for man we're probably better than them of course we all know it doesn't work like that. Just hope we want it as much as they definitely will tonight because in terms of the league table we're kinda in no mans land so easy to just tune out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 1 hour ago, BOF said: On a relate note, I do wonder are his detractors still calling him flavour of the month or are we allowed to contemplate yet that he might be a good manager? I'd hate to jump the gun on that I am still not convinced he’d have been ready to come here. Managing Aston Villa with the expectation and pressure that comes with it is a million miles away from managing Huddersfield. He has done a fantastic job there this season but it is a still a relatively short period to judge him on. We have seen other managers over the years do what he is doing at present, and more, at similar sized clubs. Managers like Paul Jewell, Owen Coyle etc. That is not to say he couldn’t have done well here but it would have been a gamble and I think we were right to go for the safer pair of hands. One of the areas Bruce has really impressed me is during our dire run under him he stayed calm and assured and never wavered in his belief that we would turn things around. I am not so sure an inexperienced manager would have handled that pressure so well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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