John Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Fulham have only reached a Wembley final once before. They lost that one. No doubt they will enjoy their big day out again 43 years later. By the way, John Terry has fond memories of playing them already having scored the winner against them in the 2002 semi final at Villa Park of all places. Anyway enough of Fulham, we have a game to win tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 15, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2018 19 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: To those worried about fulham look at the side we fielded that day. If we beat boro injuries permitting it will be a completely different side. We respect them- butfear ?no way. In fairness, about 8 of those names would be in most of our ideal starting line ups. However I agree that Grealish, Grabban and hopefully an inform Adomah would massively improve that side. We were playing Snodgrass on the left that day I think, that really didn’t help us. Missing Jack and Albert that day did leave us disjointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post terrytini Posted May 15, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2018 I was just wondering if anyone had a link to the various Media condemnations of the appalling scenes that followed Fulham’s Win last night ? Ive not been able to find any, yet I know the6 must be there because it was like a return to the dark days of football. And is Linekar on holiday as he’s not mentioned it. And no, I will never let it lie ! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sexbelowsound Posted May 15, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2018 Let's get through Boro first before we start trembling in our boots at the fear of little old Villa and our shit squad, tactics and manager coming up against the mighty Fulham and their Barcelona style of play. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Fulham players will be back to their thinking they’re invincible and will see Wembley as their home turf. Suits us down to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Demitri_C Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 52 minutes ago, Jareth said: Fulham players will be back to their thinking they’re invincible and will see Wembley as their home turf. Suits us down to the ground. Why would they? That's like saying of the game was at molieneux it woukd be home turf for us. They will feel confident and if we get there I think we would have learned alot from the game at the cottage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Transfer window opens this Thursday, Can we chuck Daniel Levy a bag of cash and get spurs to buy sessegnon this week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Why would they? That's like saying of the game was at molieneux it woukd be home turf for us. They will feel confident and if we get there I think we would have learned alot from the game at the cottage Well if the national stadium was in Birmingham, it would feel quite homely I'd imagine. Also, heard one of their players on the radio this morning, sounds like the Derby tie wasn't a big deal and that they expect to beat anybody on the day. Contrasted with messaging coming out of Villa, the win will come from hard work etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 15, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2018 (edited) I can't see how anyone can say they "can't see us beating Fulham". Look, if we turn up and play shit then of course they'll beat us. They're a good team. But we're a **** good team too. If we get to Wembley and we are on our game on the day then we've got an amazing chance at promotion. I'm not massively confident, but I think as long as the players are up for it then we'll be right in it. Edited May 15, 2018 by Stevo985 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 16 hours ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: Outside of the top six/seven it’s one big relegation scrap with teams purely existing to secure their Premier League status. As someone pointed out: a decent chunk of games are pretty much lost before a ball is kicked. You’re mostly hoping to just not get thrashed against the top six, or at best to nick a rare draw/win if you’ve caught one of them on a bad day. We’ve already experienced what a season upon season struggle against relegation feels like and we’re trying to win the chance to be back there again. It’s a miserable existence. It leaves a club like ours in limbo. We’re too big to be down here but not rich enough to challenge in the Premier League. Here are a few results from this season: Watford 3-3 Liverpool Chelsea 2-3 Burnley Stoke 1-0 Arsenal Man City 1-1 Everton Spurs 1-1 Burnley Stoke 2-2 Man Utd Liverpool 1-1 Burnley Spurs 0-0 Swansea Newcastle 1-1 Liverpool Crystal Palace 2-1 Chelsea Watford 2-1 Arsenal Huddersfield 2-1 Man Utd Spurs 1-1 West Brom Leicester 2-1 Spurs Watford 1-1 Spurs West Ham 1-0 Chelsea Southampton 1-1 Arsenal Liverpool 1-1 Everton West Ham 0-0 Arsenal Liverpool 0-0 West Brom Everton 0-0 Chelsea Leicester 2-2 Man Utd Man Utd 2-2 Burnley Man Utd 0-0 Southampton Crystal Palace 0-0 Man City West Brom 1-1 Arsenal Spurs 1-1 West Ham Chelsea 0-0 Leicester Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal Southampton 1-1 Spurs Swansea 1-0 Liverpool Chelsea 0-3 Bournemouth Burnley 1-1 Man City Watford 4-1 Chelsea Newcastle 1-0 Man Utd Brighton 2-1 Arsenal Everton 0-0 Liverpool Chelsea 1-1 West Ham Newcastle 2-1 Arsenal Man Utd 0-1 West Brom Brighton 1-1 Spurs West Brom 2-2 Liverpool Liverpool 0-0 Stoke Brighton 1-0 Man Utd West Brom 1-0 Spurs Man City 0-0 Huddersfield Leicester 3-1 Arsenal Chelsea 1-1 Huddersfield West Ham 0-0 Man Utd Newcastle 3-0 Chelsea I looked at your post and tended to agree, but I wonder whether our years of constantly battling relegation, cost-cutting, bargain-hunting and changing manager has given us a worse opinion of the Prem. Not to mention that any of us who know Baggies fans will have seen and heard about them doing a similar thing (but to a lesser extent) in the past few seasons. Looking at the above results, and seeing some of the wins/draws that dross like West Brom, Huddersfield and Swansea got, the league can’t be as difficult as we seem to think. A bit of managerial consistency, a few decent signings and a team pulling together and I think we’ll be able to enjoy the Premier league again, even if it means we’ll be hoping to enjoy a scraped 1-0 win over Man Utd like we did back under O’Neill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Johnnyp Posted May 15, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2018 Christ lads seriously. We play boro, middlesbrough tonight. Get on point! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 17 hours ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: As someone pointed out: a decent chunk of games are pretty much lost before a ball is kicked That is quite literally not true, and if you believe it, why watch football in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 As I said in another thread, if we play like we did in the second half on Saturday we could well become undone. Boro have literally nothing to lose and some very capable players at this level: Traore can be very dangerous on his day, Bamford and Assombalonga can score at this level and I think Besic is very good (again at this level). It's not a foregone conclusion and we will have to be aggressive and positive on the ball. I'm sure we will do it but we can't really look beyond tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Deisler123 Posted May 15, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 15, 2018 Will have a half day off from work today after lunch. Ordered a villa scarf and arrived yesterday. Will wear it for the whole match when watching it in front of TV. Big match. Super excited and nervous. Com'on Villa. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted May 15, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2018 4 hours ago, terrytini said: I was just wondering if anyone had a link to the various Media condemnations of the appalling scenes that followed Fulham’s Win last night ? Ive not been able to find any, yet I know the6 must be there because it was like a return to the dark days of football. And is Linekar on holiday as he’s not mentioned it. And no, I will never let it lie ! in fairness in the cold light of day, i'm sure they would take those comments back if they could Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 The only team I fear is ourselves. We are so inconsistent. Smash Wolves then lose to QPR and Bolton. Play Reading off the park, then lose to Norwich etc. You just don't know which Villa will turn up on the day. Which is why I'm not even fully confident about tonight, let alone the final. All I know is that if we play to our potential, we shouldn't fear anyone...not even Fulhalona. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 I can understand the nerves but at least we now know what we have to do. Ask me at the start of the season if we had to beat 'Boro and Fulham for promotion in the last 2 games and I'd have bitten your arm off. Come on Villa, we can do this. And come on all my claret and blue bleeding bretheren, it's time for unwavering support, hope and glory, a massive end to this rollercoaster season. This is why we do this isn't it! UTV VTID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 1 minute ago, VILLAMARV said: And come on all my claret and blue bleeding bretheren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 3 hours ago, Jareth said: Well if the national stadium was in Birmingham, it would feel quite homely I'd imagine. Also, heard one of their players on the radio this morning, sounds like the Derby tie wasn't a big deal and that they expect to beat anybody on the day. Contrasted with messaging coming out of Villa, the win will come from hard work etc. Let them say what they want. As long as we get there they can under estimate us at their own risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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