Condimentalist Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I think they'll be tough to break down tomorrow. It's going to be a gritty game, low quality but high intensity. I have a feeling Mr. Carew could have a big say in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swollef Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 butterflies anyone? Butterflies!!! Ive got f**k*n Bob Howlers ,flying around in my stomach More alcohol required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 That sky side is ridiculous. MON giving 3 defenders their debut in the same game? No chance. Cuellar back to RB? No chance. Dropping NRC? ha. Gotta be ------------Brad Beye--Cuellar--Dunne--Warnock ------------NRC Milner--Sidwell--Petrov--Young ----------Gabby Heskey and Carew in case we need a goal after an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I'm at work tomorrow when the game is on, it is going to be unbearable. I'm going to sky plus the game and avoid all football websites, radio and TV or any other possible way of knowing the score. In fact, that means I will need to ignore the phone too. Kickoff is at 5PM for me. All day is going to be like eating a doughnut and not licking my lips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 12, 2009 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2009 14 hours until the ref lets the boys at them.... hope Carew leads the charge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattP Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Obviously I want another 5-1 rout, however, not a chance. As many have said derby games can be levellers, and I cant see many goals...but I do fail to see where the Alliance's goal threat is coming from?? Should we be worried about this Choo Choo fella? (Although he's yet to play in a Villa shirt, Im slightly worried that Dunne has a clumsy streak to his game.) Having said all that, hard to see them scoring. 1-0 to us, maybe 2-0 if our front boys click. COME ON YOU LIONS!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndunse Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Dunne's 50/1 to score first......unlikely, but worth a fiver - can see us getting a fair few free kicks/corners! Up the Villa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Aston Villa will struggle to finish in top half says Lee Carsley Published 23:24 12/09/09 By Ciaran O Raghallaigh and Ralph Ellis Recommend Lee Carsley has taunted Aston Villa ahead of today’s Second City derby by claiming they may struggle to finish in the top half of the Premier League. Villa have finished sixth in the last two seasons and Birmingham star Carsley said: “They’ve done OK. “But the amount of money they’ve spent overall is not so different to a lot of the clubs in the Premiership. “You have to spend huge money just to finish in the top half and unless you’re Manchester City that’s not a guarantee. “They may be good enough for the top half, but not the top six. “Realistically there are a lot of teams ahead of Villa – and it may be difficult enough for them to finish in the top half.” Birmingham’s hopes of victory today will be boosted by the presence in their squad of 36-year-old derby destroyer Kevin Phillips. The goal poacher has come alive in local clashes all through his career, scoring in every one of them that he’s been involved in. And Blues boss Alex McLeish is ready to give him a shot at another bit of history today – the chance to be the only modern player to hit the target on both sides of the Second City derby. Phillips grabbed the only goal for Villa as they won at St Andrews three years ago – and McLeish reckons he can put the boot on the other foot today. Birmingham’s boss plans to use him as a derby day supersub, and said: “Kevin got some vital goals that got us promoted last season and while he’s 36 he fully deserves his place in a Premier League squad. “We had a chat at the beginning of the season, and I told him I felt his best role now would be as an impact player, and he agreed with that. “It’s unlikely he’ll start in a lot of games, although I would not rule it out, but if we need a goal when defences are tired you couldn’t ask for anybody better. “He might not be at the levels of six or seven years ago but he’s still as fit as a fiddle. When you look along the bench at your options it’s so reassuring because you know he’s the best finisher in the club. You know what he has got in his locker. “If we get a team under pressure, and can’t get a goal, then I don’t see anybody better than Phillips to come on.” Phillips’s record includes scoring for Sunderland against Newcastle and Middlesbrough, for Southampton against Portsmouth as well as for Villa against Birmingham. And with McLeish planning to keep today’s game tight, the stage is set for him to keep that run going. Birmingham’s boss got badly burned in his previous Second City derby, when a 5-1 Villa Park thumping all but sealed relegation two seasons ago. McLeish said: “I went there very open and played the players who were in form, and in hindsight that was a mistake. “I think that this time I’ve got players who are better able to give me a more balanced team.” Cheers Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanky Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I'm glad our players have said nothing put it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Yep, thanks Lee. Somebody always has to go and open their big fat trap don't they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom_Wren Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Dunne's 50/1 to score first......unlikely, but worth a fiver - can see us getting a fair few free kicks/corners! Up the Villa! Go on mate! hes my prediction for 1st at those odds, cheeky scuba diver is well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinity_Road_Andy_K Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Hope MON sticks Carsley's words on the wall of the dressing room tomorrow. Twit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMarlon Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I've avoided this thread all week and tried to do as much as possible to take my mind off the game. But right now I am absolutely shitting it. Living in a Bluenose area, and working in a predominately SHA office, the thought of losing is unbearable! Come On Villa!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Waking up at 7:40 on a Sunday morning, it just aint normal, not looking forward to this at all. Come on you Lions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undesirable Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 This is far too early to be awake on a sunday. Hangover-check ticket to the sty-check SOTC! UTV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 13, 2009 Moderator Share Posted September 13, 2009 Been awake since 5am up since 6am and will be waiting outside the pub for it to open, I hope we smash them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1986 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 There will be a solitary Brummie on either side, but Lee Carsley contends that today's Second City derby between Birmingham City and Aston Villa at St Andrew's will be as fiercely contested as ever, making it an occasion for ice in the veins as well as fire in the heart. Carsley, the Birmingham mid- fielder who hails from "just down the road in Sheldon", and the Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor, from Erdington, are the only locally-born players likely to be involved in a contest studded with Americans and Bulgarians, Ecuadorians and Scots. Yet the 35-year-old, steeped in derby combat following his six years with Everton, needs no reminding about what the match means to Birmingham fans still living down the 5-1 drubbing Alex McLeish's side suffered in the last meeting, 18 months ago. "There's no need to tell the foreign lads how important it is because wherever they're from, there isn't a player here that won't have played in some sort of derby," said Carsley, who signed for McLeish soon after the Villa Park humiliation and the ensuing relegation. "I'm not a Scouser but when I played in the Merseyside derby, I was still passionate about Everton getting the right result against Liverpool. That goes for all the non-Brummies here." Despite growing up in a Birmingham-supporting family, the demands of his own career and what was often a chasm in status between Birmingham and Villa mean Carsley has never seen the rivals play one another, let alone appeared in the fixture. He is aware, however, that recent meetings have been combustible affairs. Memories remain vivid of the pitch invader who slapped Peter Enckelman, the Villa keeper, in the face, and of Villa's Dion Dublin butting Robbie Savage. Only a fortnight ago, Savage was caught up in controversy in another bitter parochial confrontation when he objected to a provocative celebration by Nottingham Forest's Nathan Tyson. "There's a way of showing your emotions. I wouldn't necessarily say waving a corner flag in front of the opposing fans is the way to do it," Carsley reflected. "The crowd like to see players showing passion, but it's important to do it the right way. But these are tense encounters and if you took the passion away, you would take something out of the game." During Birmingham's run to promotion last spring, Carsley was sent off for a reckless challenge on Wolves' Chris Iwelumo. "I actually had a cool head that night, to be honest," he said, laughing at how his protestation must sound. "That was just one of those things. This derby is more important than Blues-Wolves because of the history surrounding us and Villa." The proud scorer of Everton's winner against Liverpool five years ago in the 200th derby, Carsley would later voice his team-mates' contempt for Rafael Benitez's churlish claim that Liverpool's neighbours were "a small club". Did he feel Villa viewed Birmingham as poor relations? "There is a bit of looking down on Blues, though I'd say the majority of Brummies are Blues fans – the People's Club! But Villa have spent a lot more money and it has helped with them playing in the Premier League as long as they have." Carsley will captain Birmingham if he starts, although he has not appeared in either home game, which produced four points, while playing at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane, both of which they lost narrowly. "I'm at a different stage of my career to a lot of the lads, so it perhaps suits me better away from home, when the gaffer changes the system. But like everybody, I want to play in this one." more from Carlsey love the bit about them being the peoples club of birmingham! more the knuckledraggers clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 This is too early to be awake. I didn't get to sleep til 3! Cmon the Villa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 13, 2009 Moderator Share Posted September 13, 2009 How do they come up with this shite and actually believe it? 'Peoples club'? they won't even have enough people to fill their ground today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 13, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 13, 2009 Not-many-people's Club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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