Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa first 11 fans into the ground Pre-Match Thread

[manic-road]

Needs a bit of tweaking:

So the team so far

Bannan

The McGregor statue
Richards
Elphick
Legion

Topless Lad from yesterday
other lad from yesterday
Mad turnstile operator woman in the North Stand
My 7 year-old

Cam
Wolfie

Can we fill in the blanks to make sure we pick a team fit for the game and the occasion?

I like the look of that team apart from Richards and Elphick, they would be an embarrassment to the shirt.

[ktvillan]

Ashley Westwood's imaginary friend should get a game.  The one he always used to point at and pass to.  And I think some of our celeb fans could do a job.  David Cameron on the right wing,  Spizz and Nigel Kennedy left field, John Taylor on Bass, Tom Hanks can be the BIG man at the back,  Future King Billy as Andy Lochead and Mervyn King as the keeper of the goal.

[Villa Lew]

This is such an historic fixture, it would be lovely to remember the heroes of yesteryear.  How about we find the 11 oldest surviving former Aston Villa players, and play them. 

Do they have to have survived? There's enough discrimination in this world without starting on the dead.

Looking back through the records On 19 October 1889 we managed to lose 7-0. So I'd go with.......
James Warner
Jimmy Cowan
Albert Aldridge
Gershon Cox
Thomas Clarkson
Harry Devey
Albert Allen
Albert Brown
William Dickson
Archie Hunter
Dennis Hodgetts.

The manager must have been useless lose 7 nil and he never put a sub on!

[Legion]

Can't play Cam. We'd win.

[andyh]

Dr Tony has a 'raffle' for fans to sit in the directors box with him when he is here.
Why not run a similar rafffle for a place in the starting line up on Saturday?

11 winning places, 50p a ticket.

[OzVilla]

My Nan is 97 and never kicked a football in her life. The Villa team coach will have to pick her up from Kings Norton and the coach will need to have a stairlift installed but despite this she'd  be delighted to play centre half.

[TaxDodger]

Saturday might involve the most passionate support a Blackburn side has ever witnessed with 7000 away fans cheering them on..

[montague]

My Nan is 97 and never kicked a football in her life. The Villa team coach will have to pick her up from Kings Norton and the coach will need to have a stairlift installed but despite this she'd  be delighted to play centre half.

Or we could just pick Tommy Elphick!

[four fornicholl]

saw Peter withe and Charlie Aitken at the game yesterday, should be good for a game.

So you want us to win then?

[ChicagoLion]

I saw Lionel Blair on that Real Marigold Hotel program,(yes he has a bit of a belly on him now) but
This is the sort of no nonsense ball winning centre half we need for a game like this.

[OzVilla]

I saw Lionel Blair on that Real Marigold Hotel program,(yes he has a bit of a belly on him now) but
This is the sort of no nonsense ball winning centre half we need for a game like this.

Fucking awesome, our Nan loved Give Us A Clue. A partnership made in heaven.

[phantom limb]

Can we get Lescott back for these last two games and revive his central defensive partnership with Micah Richards? I think they both deserve another crack at it.

[Tony Erdington]

saw Peter withe and Charlie Aitken at the game yesterday, should be good for a game.

So you want us to win then?

I love both of them, Charlie is pretty fit and im sure could do a job, but Peter With can hardle walk, oh yes I see what your saying, NO. maybe we could emergency loan that twat robinson from the noses.

[Hookeysmith]

Saturday might involve the most passionate support a Blackburn side has ever witnessed with 7000 away fans cheering them on..

This could be one of the funniest things ever

I remember Man city where we fucked about, conceded a goal and then Curle had to catch the thing to give us a pen

And the City fans cheered us on that day - brilliant

[QuintonVilla]

Come on Blackburn, don't let us down.