I think we should put out an understrength team so we can rest the players for the preseason friendly against Walsall.
Quote from: morrisseybentybenty on April 05, 2011, 10:57:59 PMI think we should put out an understrength team so we can rest the players for the preseason friendly against Walsall.What a ridiculous statement. Shouldnt we be concentrating our resources on our defence of the Peace Cup at that time ?
Here you go, mindless optimism and all that but I seriously wouldn't be surprised if, by the time we play them, if we beat them, we could finish near to them, maybe not above, but neat.I know it sounds poppycock, but I honestly think we will have a good end of season.3 against Newcastle , Wigan, West Ham and Stoke, 1 against WBA, 0 Arsenal - beat Liverpool - 50 pointsI think we may have turned the corner, we looked better on Saturday, lets face it, our best player since January - Walker, had a mare, hopefully he won't again. Now the club have actually realised that Young is a winger - Downing is back in form, and Dazza is starting to bang em in again - I don't even think we will be close to relegation.Prediction9th
The Holte's Last Stand vs Liverpool was interesting firstly, it was a good comeback against them, but more than that there were a few 'entertaining moments'. The massive Villa flag that was paraded at Wembley for the CCCF was outed again at the start of the game only to be torn to pieces by the top left of the Holte. That admittedly was not entertaining for a few people (and caused a flurry to write in to The Evening Mail) but was something to experience having been underneath it. Not behind it! Then at the end of the game, efforts were made to stop the Holte getting on the pitch. By the last 15 minutes the rear of the stand had converged to the middle and lower sections. So at full time a cordon of coppers and stewards formed a horizontal line and it was working until someone in the cordon broke free and legged it halfway up the pitch. It looked like a supporter had been in the cordon disguise donning a yellow jacket and had waited for his moment. I do have a photo of that somewhere actually! But did anyone else see that?Then afterwards Big Ron came out with the trophy (and Mic) and people were just singing Big Ron, Big Ron Atkinson (to the tune of Go West).There were people gathering bits of the Holte End for commemorative reasons and i did wonder at the time what the bloke with an authentic Holte End bog seat was gonna do with it, moreover who he would impress with it.Also, the issue of H&V for that day was excellent and remains the best one i have ever read.So far...
Quote from: Zhong Yi on April 06, 2011, 09:13:21 AMThe Holte's Last Stand vs Liverpool was interesting firstly, it was a good comeback against them, but more than that there were a few 'entertaining moments'. The massive Villa flag that was paraded at Wembley for the CCCF was outed again at the start of the game only to be torn to pieces by the top left of the Holte. That admittedly was not entertaining for a few people (and caused a flurry to write in to The Evening Mail) but was something to experience having been underneath it. Not behind it! Then at the end of the game, efforts were made to stop the Holte getting on the pitch. By the last 15 minutes the rear of the stand had converged to the middle and lower sections. So at full time a cordon of coppers and stewards formed a horizontal line and it was working until someone in the cordon broke free and legged it halfway up the pitch. It looked like a supporter had been in the cordon disguise donning a yellow jacket and had waited for his moment. I do have a photo of that somewhere actually! But did anyone else see that?Then afterwards Big Ron came out with the trophy (and Mic) and people were just singing Big Ron, Big Ron Atkinson (to the tune of Go West).There were people gathering bits of the Holte End for commemorative reasons and i did wonder at the time what the bloke with an authentic Holte End bog seat was gonna do with it, moreover who he would impress with it.Also, the issue of H&V for that day was excellent and remains the best one i have ever read.So far...Without turning this thread into "all our yesterdays", that day remains one of my finest memories. I hope this years home fixture against the same oppostion is unremarkable in every way.
I think they'll seal our relegation, then Houllier will run into the Liverpool crowd to magically disappear like at the end of Escape to Victory.