Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers F.A. Cup 4th Round Pre-Match Thread

[Lambert and Payne]

Villa 2-0 t'rovers
Heskey
The Fonz

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Villa 2 - 0 Heskey Gabby

[VillaZogmariner]

With the Man Utd game coming up on Tuesday I think we'll see a bit of a mix/match side for this match

--------------------Friedel------------------
---Lichaj---Cuellar---Collins---Baker---
-------------Petrov---Makoun-------------
---Albrighton----Bannan--------Pires---
--------------------Heskey-----------------

Marshall
Dunne
Walker
Reo-Coker
Downing
Young
Agbonlahor

That line up would be enough to win in my opinion

Aston Villa 2-1 Blackeye

Heskey 32
Agbonlahor 78

Samba 67

[*shellac*]

Us 2 - 1 Them

Gabby-Ash partnership strikes again.

Kalinic for them.
 

[Greg N'Ash]

gotta say a win. 1-0

[Simon Ward]

Hopefully a win (2-1) as I am bringing two of my sons down for this one. I'm ashamed to say it is the first FA Cup tie they will have seen in the flesh, so to speak.

[pedro25]

Will Delph, L Young, Clark, Walker and Ireland be fit for this one?  Will Warnock be considered.  Have Beye, Davies, Bannan and Lichaj dropped right down the pecking order or are they injured?  Makoun has Salifou's no. 17 jersey, has Sailfou been released?  Assuming no one returns from injury I'd go:-
Friedel
Cuellar Dunne Collins Baker
Albrighton Petrov Makoun Downing
Gabby Heskey
Subs:- A Young, Reo Coker, Marshall, Delfouneso, Pires, Herd, Johnson

2-1 Gabby x 2

[Dave P]

I'm going for a win as well.  3-1.  Heskey, Gabby and Carlos for us.  Hoylett for them.

[The Situation]

As usual it's going to be our year...

We know what Blackburn are like, we know what to expect... I'm going for 2-0 hopefully.

[Phil from the upper holte]

2-1, I'd like to see players in right positions,

Young left, Albrighton right, Makoun & Petrov in the middle and Agbonlahor up front with The Fonz

[The Situation]

The thing is, knowing Makoun isn't fully match fit, do we really want him to knock himself out which will see him using the oxygen mask before we play United?

Does anyone think it might be too much too ask our new signing to play 3 games in a week? Obviously I want us to win on Saturday but at the same time I don't want to see Makoun not playing next week because of tiredness etc...

[N'ZMAV]

I'd go

Friedel

Walker
Cuellar
Clark
Baker

Albrighton
Makoun
Bannan
A Young

Heskey
Delfouneso

[fredm]

As usual it's going to be our year...

We know what Blackburn are like, we know what to expect... I'm going for 2-0 hopefully.

I think you will find that the present Blackburn are not the long ball version of Big Sam's days.  I am told that the new fella is gradually weaning them off that and with the introduction of Santa Cruz up front are playing it around much more.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Watched them against West Brom. Very lucky. Pen not Given and two world class saves from Robinson ..........2-0 Gabby Heskey ..

[cdbearsfan]

They win the league games, we win the cup games. They better fucking keep their end of the deal up after we surrendered at Ewood Park this year, otherwise sue them for breach of promise.