Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: UK Redsox on April 19, 2016, 11:52:42 AM
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Villa v Southampton
Barclays Premier League
Villa Park
Saturday April 23
Kick-off: 3pm
Away from the news of resignations and Nitrus Oxide, there's another game to get excited about.
The first of 50 league games before Villa return to the top flight.
Easy away win
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It's hard to care any more. I'm more interested in how my fantasy team does.
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I haven't cared for weeks. I feel like a Villa player.
I'm only going to boo the fuck out of the ****** on the pitch and give some air to my feelings towards Lerner.
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I can see the posters now:
"Come and cheer on your already relegated team (featuring fan favourites such as Leandro Bacuna, Joleon Lescott and Kieron Richardson) against a team who have also sold all their best players over the past couple of seasons yet somehow managed to finish way above us".
Saying that, I'll be there. Could we see a crowd below 25,000?
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We still have to play games?
Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.
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Prediction: boooo
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Not worthy of a sticky. Let it fall.
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is the R after our name the same as when the Queen signs her name Elizabeth R?
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Not worthy of a sticky. Let it fall.
My sentiments exactly.
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No. In our case the R is for Rogered.
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What happens on the pitch this Satyrday and every Saturday going forward is irrelevant while Lerner remains owner.
It's in the boardroom the game needs to be fought and won.
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Other than voting for an away win, without having to even give it any consideration, I really couldn't give a shit anymore. Considering what's being allowed to happen to our great Club, the remaining matches are totally pointless.
As being at Villa Park would would only make my blood boil for 90 minutes, I won't be using my season ticket and, have decided to go and watch a real football match, where the players actually give a damn, AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Godalming Town (I used to live in Rushden many moons ago). Glory hunter??-maybe!!
As for next season, as things were moving along with the new board, I had decided I would renew my season ticket but, after yesterday's resignations, I'm not giving another penny to this charlatan leader (more like rudderless!!)of OUR Club.
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Same thrashing as last season. Don't care really - after yesterday's resignations I'm just about done with Lerner's Villa.
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Other than voting for an away win, without having to even give it any consideration, I really couldn't give a shit anymore. Considering what's being allowed to happen to our great Club, the remaining matches are totally pointless.
As being at Villa Park would would only make my blood boil for 90 minutes, I won't be using my season ticket and, have decided to go and watch a real football match, where the players actually give a damn, AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Godalming Town (I used to live in Rushden many moons ago). Glory hunter??-maybe!!
As for next season, as things were moving along with the new board, I had decided I would renew my season ticket but, after yesterday's resignations, I'm not giving another penny to this charlatan leader (more like rudderless!!)of OUR Club.
I'm with Skerra. I have major reservations about renewing unless we see major changes for the better in both Boardroom and on the pitch.
As regards the Saints match, 0 - something.
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I don't know why but i get the sneaking feeling that this game may not be a sell-out.
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Boo the fuck out of the lot of them with particular ire aimed at one P.Rielly who still has a place in this ship of fools
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The crowd will be announced at 32,000 of which 7,000 will be empty seats. In addition to which there will be 10,000 real empty seats.
On the field will be a group of "empty heads" wearing our club colours and the latter will attempt to give the impression that they have a remote idea of what they are doing.
Every now again the Blind Man will stumble across the right path and so who knows we may even score a goal on Saturday.
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2-0 Southampton.
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We'll almost certainly lose. I'm going to go and watch Bromsgrove Sporting instead.
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It was bad enough Bournemouth taking pity on us but if Southampton start taking the piss. Having said that I hope our excellent support will spend the 90 minutes taking the piss and expressing their anger.
A defeat despite 'the lads' turning in a 'great performance for the fans'.
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Has there ever been such a poll result for a home game before?
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Has there ever been such a poll result for a home game before?
What, you mean with someone actually thinking Villa will win ? ;)
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It was bad enough Bournemouth taking pity on us but if Southampton start taking the piss. Having said that I hope our excellent support will spend the 90 minutes taking the piss and expressing their anger.
A defeat despite 'the lads' turning in a 'great performance for the fans'.
If the players do turn in a good performance, they deserve even more booing than if they're just as crap as normal.
Playing well when it doesn't matter is nothing for them to be proud of or for us to celebrate. Basically, these are four glorified pre-season friendlies for a Villa point of view.
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If I wasn't taking my son down to see his grand parents I would boycott this.
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I think Southampton will sneak this and I may have 25p on it.
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Who thinks we'll win?!!
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It'll get worse. Easy Saints victory.
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We still have to play games?
Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.
Isn't it an automatic 3-0 loss is we forfeit a game? That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - same result but we wouldn't have to wash any kit afterwards
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A result to question the very description 'football'. Widely recognised as the most abject display of 11 professionals ever recorded. A display fit for the owner.
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We still have to play games?
Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.
Isn't it an automatic 3-0 loss is we forfeit a game? That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - same result but we wouldn't have to wash any kit afterwards
We have a duty to all the other teams to uphold the competitive integrity of the League. Losing by a couple of goals or getting stuffed out of sight 6 or 7 may have a bearing on their final positions. What would Mr McGregor say ?
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He'd say "pay players illegally. And if the opposition get a penalty at the end of a game, kick the ball away as far as possible so as they can't take it and the ref will blow for full time." Or at least until the FA get wise to it and invent injury time because we did that.
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We still have to play games?
Really? Can't we just forfeit the remaining matches? Might as well do, the result will be the same.
Isn't it an automatic 3-0 loss is we forfeit a game? That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - same result but we wouldn't have to wash any kit afterwards
We have a duty to all the other teams to uphold the competitive integrity of the League. Losing by a couple of goals or getting stuffed out of sight 6 or 7 may have a bearing on their final positions. What would Mr McGregor say ?
I'd like to think he'd have some sort of gallows humour about him and recognise an attempted joke when he sees it. And he'd probably say "fuck the other teams, I only care about Villa ( and Queens Park)"
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" I beg to tender the following suggestion as a means of getting over the difficulty. Disband the league system and go back to just arranging friendly fixtures. Whatever was I thinking ? Bloody silly idea ! "
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" I beg to tender the following suggestion as a means of getting over the difficulty. Disband the league system and go back to just arranging friendly fixtures. Whatever was I thinking ? Bloody silly idea ! "
That's it. It's liberating when we can laugh at ourselves.
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The only use for this game is it's another chance to protest against the little coward.
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I can't believe they're still making us play.
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Southampton will be bricking it. If they don't beat us they will be a laughing stock. The pressure is on them.
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I can't believe they're still making us play.
We should leave now.
I'm siding with AVEXIT
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Southampton and Newcastle are the only sides could end the season having not beaten us in the league, although Saints did us in the LC. Imagine the shame if either fail to beat us. They'll probably be forced to disband because of the humiliation.
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Villa to give Southampton a good thrashing, after all Joleon said the pressures off and we can expect better performances.
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I see we've started printing 'we hope you enjoy the match' on the bottom of home tickets.
Possibly the most ridiculous line I've ever seen.
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Do they print 'we know you'll enjoy the match`on away tickets ?
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Isn't this printed on the envelopes they send tickets in?
(https://copelandcommunications.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tumblr_ld54q6z8dc1qe4biho1_500.jpeg)
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The phrase "going through the Motions" spring to mind - isn't "motion" a posh euphemism for "shit" - very appropriate.
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Couldn't give a shit. I hope they stick another game on the big screen. Queens Park v Clyde, ideally.
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They're lucky any of us care anymore
Our giant blubbering man-baby of an owner clearly doesn't seem to care about next season, let alone the arse end of this one
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They're lucky any of us care anymore
Our giant blubbering man-baby of an owner clearly doesn't seem to care about next season, let alone the arse end of this one
That's the best reason for playing the kids - they're the only ones who have anything to play for.
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I haven't cared for weeks. I feel like a Villa player.
I'm only going to boo the fuck out of the c***s on the pitch and give some air to my feelings towards Lerner.
Since I won't be there, would you be kind enough to give those aforementioned tossers a right coating from me too please. Cheers bab.
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Villa 3 Saints 0
Well, we are playing free of expectation now and can express ourselves...according to Captain Marvel
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I'm looking forward to seeing Lescott and co give us the performance 'we deserve' now the weight has been lifted from their shoulders.
4-0 Saints
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0-1
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I'm taking my little lad so I just want to see a win, for his sake.
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Club are going to suspend flabbys suspension and play him in goal for the game.
He is large enough to block any shots and he doesn't have to run very far.
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My season ticket won't be getting used for this, literally cannot muster the enthusiasm to waste my Saturday afternoon. I suspect there will be less than 25k actually in the ground, despite what they will announce.
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I'm taking my little lad so I just want to see a win, for his sake.
What kind of a sadist are you?
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It's hard to care any more. I'm more interested in how my fantasy team does.
A few weeks back I triple captained Aguero against us and was pissed off when he missed the pen. Not giving a shit is nice, I can see how the players do it now.
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My season ticket won't be getting used for this, literally cannot muster the enthusiasm to waste my Saturday afternoon. I suspect there will be less than 25k actually in the ground, despite what they will announce.
like they did for the bournemouth game, that was around 26k
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My season ticket won't be getting used for this, literally cannot muster the enthusiasm to waste my Saturday afternoon. I suspect there will be less than 25k actually in the ground, despite what they will announce.
like they did for the bournemouth game, that was around 26k
Like they do for every game, like every club does.
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
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I can't see that rabble of incompetent buffons getting another point this season.
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
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It's a weird feeling when with relegation done and dusted and all the off pitch antics going on day after day, that I had actually completely forgotten we have a game on Saturday and just feel "meh" towards the rest of the playing season....
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
Its a bit unfair of McCafu (and to a lesser extent Pointy & Aly) to lump him in with that lot.
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Sinclair hasn't done a lot wrong, or a lot at all.
I think he'll be one who may do well next year, if we can afford to keep paying him.
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Long hat-trick. Get your house on it.
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We should just play the kids
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Another defeat. Really don't think we'll get another point in the last four games.
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If Southampton can be bothered they could reach double figures.
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If I wasn't a season ticket holder I wouldn't go near the place. Seeing how I have already paid, and it is at 3pm on a Saturday, I shall be there.
A few in The Bartons beforehand and then slinging abuse at the players and owner. Once I get bored of that I will go home.
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I've actually agreed to go shopping with the missus on Saturday. They have definitely broken me.
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Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
I would love it (absolutely love it) if that line up played - one last opportunity to give 90 minutes of unfettered feedback to the leeches masquerading as footballers and robbing us of our hard-earned for so long. Add Randy as manager so he has to appear as well
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We should embrace these last two home games as it could be the last chance we get to formally 'thank' the likes of Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Richardson, Bacuna (and the currently absent Gabby and Charles) in person for their outstanding contribution to Aston Villa Football Club... we will never forget them, that's for sure
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
Its a bit unfair of McCafu (and to a lesser extent Pointy & Aly) to lump him in with that lot.
Hutton, Westwood and Cissokho are in there to make the numbers up really. Their main fault is simply not being good enough, which I guess they can't help really.
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
Its a bit unfair of McCafu (and to a lesser extent Pointy & Aly) to lump him in with that lot.
Hutton, Westwood and Cissokho are in there to make the numbers up really. Their main fault is simply not being good enough, which I guess they can't help really.
Well it has balance
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They have broken me as well as I'd rather spend an afternoon scraping woodchip wallpaper off my dining room ceiling than use my season ticket.
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For the third week running I will be watching Saracens in the pub and following the game on the match thread. Still means I'm putting more effort in than our two captains.
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There's a selection of players who should get nowhere near the team now. Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Richardson (no problem with his attitude but his legs have gone and he's out of contract soon. Pointless playing him), Bacuna and Gabby (who I can't see appearing again this season).
Guzan is done with. Lescott and Richards have poor attitudes. Bacuna? I typed his name in a text the other day and my auto-correct changed it to Vagina. That pretty much sums him up for me. And he's got a fuck poor attitude to boot.
I'd probably consider dropping Gana out of the plans too after his agent's shite.. He's going to jump ship. Veretout has kept quiet but he'll be gone too. Maybe give him a run though.
I want to see more from Grealish, Adama, Green, Lyden and a few more from the U21's in the last few games. Rushian, Abdo? A few more.
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There's a selection of players who should get nowhere near the team now. Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Richardson (no problem with his attitude but his legs have gone and he's out of contract soon. Pointless playing him), Bacuna and Gabby (who I can't see appearing again this season).
Guzan is done with. Lescott and Richards have poor attitudes. Bacuna? I typed his name in a text the other day and my auto-correct changed it to Vagina. That pretty much sums him up for me. And he's got a fuck poor attitude to boot.
I'd probably consider dropping Gana out of the plans too after his agent's shite.. He's going to jump ship. Veretout has kept quiet but he'll be gone too. Maybe give him a run though.
I want to see more from Grealish, Adama, Green, Lyden and a few more from the U21's in the last few games. Rushian, Abdo? A few more.
Fuck knows what Management will do though? I expect to hear the usual bleating re: professionals before seeing the same shower of shite run out onto the field.
I fucking hate every one of them, the ******.
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They have broken me as well as I'd rather spend an afternoon scraping woodchip wallpaper off my dining room ceiling than use my season ticket.
Would you like a hand
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They have broken me as well as I'd rather spend an afternoon scraping woodchip wallpaper off my dining room ceiling than use my season ticket.
Season tickets aren't really the tool for that kind of job - try your Villa credit card.
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They have broken me as well as I'd rather spend an afternoon scraping woodchip wallpaper off my dining room ceiling than use my season ticket.
Would you like a hand
If you could handle the rarefied atmosphere here in Altrincham be my guest.
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They have broken me as well as I'd rather spend an afternoon scraping woodchip wallpaper off my dining room ceiling than use my season ticket.
Would you like a hand
If you could handle the rarefied atmosphere here in Altrincham be my guest.
Alty are at home to Welling on Saturday.
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I feel sorry for any child being taken to watch us. I'm going to get on the blower to the Social and have someone on every turnstile.
Can you imagine the language if we fielded the team below:
Guzan
Hutton Richards Lescott Cissokho
Westwood
Bacuna Richardson
Sinclair Agbonlahor N'Zogbia
If that is the team tom I may actually turn up. I've got a mahoosive heap of bile to get rid of.
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Another loss and if we're not careful we'll get dragged into the relegation battle...oh.
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I can't recall beating Saints at Villa Park to often when we've had a decent team ,so no way will we get anything this weekend with Eric's claret and blue army . 0-2 to the Saints
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Well I wasn't thinking of going but now I know there is a proper H&V on sale you try and stop me!
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Dismal with outbursts of shite and scattered patheticness.
Outlook: bleak.
Michael Fish
News at Ten.
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I can't recall beating Saints at Villa Park to often when we've had a decent team ,so no way will we get anything this weekend with Eric's claret and blue army . 0-2 to the Saints
The second one will be a Matt Le Tissier screamer from about 40 yards out.
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For this I'd like us to take the protests one step further and we walk in on 74, and walk out with seven minutes to go. Much much better idea.
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I've actually agreed to go shopping with the missus on Saturday. They have definitely broken me.
Olaf, you really have been broken. I would rather stick needles in my b*"*ocks then go shopping with my missus. Then again the needles sound better than watching Villa as well.
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I'm taking my daughter to 'soft-play' instead.
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I'm taking my daughter to 'soft-play' instead.
So you are going?
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I can only confirm that the 15% that think we won't lose haven't been anywhere Villa Park for at least 3 seasons.
However, I'm going to stick my neck out here. Lescott says pressure off so they will now be able to show us exactly what the players are made off plus, EB has said valuable lessons have been learned. Obviously, with this new found optimism from them there is really only one possible result: Aston Villa NIL FC - 0 v Saints 3(at a canter!!!!)
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Break out the bunting - Richardson won't be available.
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Break out the bunting - Richardson won't be available.
Who is he going shopping with?
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Looks like Richards and Lescott as centre backs them ....... when will the first be conceded?
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Looks like Richards and Lescott as centre backs them ....... when will the first be conceded?
I rated both these players before they came to Villa.
That makes me shake my head in a sad way
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Both remind me when they play for us of that classic Homer Simpson when need Flanders is going on about God to him homers brain floats out of his body and says " you can stay but I'm off"
Oops 1-0 down
Doh
Doh
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Not looking forward to it at all, but it's my last home game of the season and I'm meeting family and friends, so I guess I'd better go. I've just written a piece for the next H&V which celebrates some of our great performances of a few years ago - stunning goals, back-to-back wins, Carew hat-tricks, that sort of thing - and it makes me feel all the more resentful about what we've been served up this season. How low our club has fallen when you say at 2.30 "I suppose we'd better be heading for the ground then. Let's get it over with. It shouldn't take long."
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Break out the bunting - Richardson won't be available.
Who is he going shopping with?
Gabby?
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I'm going, I don't know why. Sometimes when it's all going to shit I just feel drawn to the place. Plus I then found out you can get tickets for £10 in the Upper Trinity.
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Don't expect any U21 players to be in the starting line-up tomorrow. I would be surprised if there are because the U21s have a Promotion Play Off semi-final against Swansea away on Monday evening.
Unlike the first team failures the U21s have something to play for.
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Doesnt really matter any more does it?
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Just got 2 tickets in the upper Holte, k4, for £20.
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1-3. Yes I think we'll score, feck knows who.
Same old lineup with the same faces who have served us so well this season.
Who cares though? Our games have been meaningless for a couple of months now.
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From his press conference Black gave all the signs of picking the same line up again. It won't stun me to see the same side that started at Man U.
Which means Kieran F Richardson yet again...
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Well I suppose a lot depends on who has actually said they are happy to play tomorrow.
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I have absolutely no doubts about what my reaction will be to our starting lineup tomorrow:
(http://img.pandawhale.com/79616-Nicolas-Cage-wtf-smile-gif-REA-yi74.gif)
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Well I suppose a lot depends on who has actually said they are happy to play tomorrow.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Well I suppose a lot depends on who has actually said they are happy to play tomorrow.
we may have to bring the goals in and play 5-a-side then.
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He doesn't need to pick Bacuna and Richardson. If he does it'll automatically create a negative atmosphere with booing and ridicule, which won't help the rest of the team and we'll most likely lose. Black is hopeless.
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Give Grealish and Traore a start. At least get the fans onside from the start.
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The Sun said the football boss at the centre of the latest story threatened them with an injunction after learning the relationship was set to be exposed.
The newspaper reported that he asked for the woman to send him pictures of herself in high heels, stockings and without underwear as a reward for his team winning an away game..
It's ok, we're in the clear.
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The atmosphere in the dressing room pre match must be pretty bad. I was thinking who we could get in to give a motivational team talk prior to going out. Perhaps one of those homeless people that rude spent some time with. They could point out how lucky these players are and should stop sitting around moaning and get on with playing the beautiful game. The lazy gobshites should count their blessings.
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My last home game today as I can't make the Newcastle game which from a footballing point of view is a bit of a relief. I just hope he puts out a bit more of an adventurous line up but I can't see it.
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I can see the posters now:
"Come and cheer on your already relegated team (featuring fan favourites such as Leandro Bacuna, Joleon Lescott and Kieron Richardson) against a team who have also sold all their best players over the past couple of seasons yet somehow managed to finish way above us".
Saying that, I'll be there. Could we see a crowd below 25,000?
Could be like "that" Southampton game we were all in the 80s.
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Easy Saints win, even if its not a thrashing I don't see them breaking much of a sweat. 0-3.
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Reckon he'll pick this line-up: Dropsy, Arsey, Whiney, Whingey, Dopey, Pointy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Flabby, Wheezy, Lazy.
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After years of it being lost, the other day I found the Bayern Munich scarf that I bought in Rotterdam. I shall wear it today as my protest at how far the club has been allowed to decline.
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The list of unplayable players gets longer by the week it seems. Surely he'll play some youngsters today.
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The list of unplayable players gets longer by the week it seems. Surely he'll play some youngsters today.
Setting off for B6 shortly. I'm fully expecting the same line up as last week or maybe a couple of changes at most. Black is proving himself to be the most clueless of the recent lot, which is some achievement.
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Somebody on Reddit spotted Richardson at the airport changing his GBP into USD so there's that silver lining :D
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Family Fun Zone is almost deserted.
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I predict:
Guzan
Hutton, Richards, Lescott, Cissokho
Gana, Sanchez, Traore, Grealish, Sinclair
Ayew
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Purely on the basis of chance plus the fact we are already mathematically down, with the extra freedom that gives the players (nothing to lose) you'd think we could quite easily get something from this.
0-4 defeat.
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I predict
Accident-waiting-to-happen c***
Aggressive c*** - Car Photo c*** - Self Entitled c*** - Incompetent Witless c***
Gana - League One Pointing c***
Too Shit For Albion c*** - Champions League c*** - Floppy Haired Piss head c***
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Moany Faced c***
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I predict
Accident-waiting-to-happen c***
Aggressive c*** - Car Photo c*** - Self Entitled c*** - Incompetent Witless c***
Gana - League One Pointing c***
Too Shit For Albion c*** - Champions League c*** - Floppy Haired Piss head c***
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Moany Faced c***
Presumably managed by C***yMcC***face