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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on March 28, 2019, 03:17:42 AM
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We go again. Aiming for 5 straight. I expect to see one change to the side that beat Boro with Hourihane replacing Whelan. Will be good to see AT back on the bench also. In time I expect to see him at CB next to Mings with Hause back at LB where he was doing well.
I’m looking forward to us continuing our form so will go for a 3-1 win.
Abraham, Anwar and Grealish for us.
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I fear Banana Skin 1 1 Adomah
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I am feeling and being positive.
3 -0 Villla and the juggernaut rolls on.
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I fear Banana Skin 1 1 Adomah
No time for slip ups! Blackburn are comfortable in mid table with nothing much to play for, and an early goal will see us dominate the game. We should leap frog Boro into 5th this weekend, and we can be hopeful of a couple of results going away with truly banana skin games for Derby and Preston.
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Onwards!
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Biggest home scorers against biggest away conceders.
They've got some defenders back, but I suspect they'll be a bit more open than Boro and try and play in the front a bit more via Dack. On that basis I think we'll have more chance to counter them.
Same team as Boro for me.
3-0 Vills.
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Is Lenihan back for them? He's a good defender.
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Logic dictates we should win this comfortably, but this is Villa so I'm extremely nervous. An early goal or two would go down very, very nicely.
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Form, stats, and the likely teams suggests a big home win, I'm going to join with people saying 3-0 but I really wouldn't be surprised if it's more than that. If we play our game and are sensible this should be a routine home win. It's also worth noting that they run out of steam, nearly half the goals they've conceded all season have been after 75minutes so we shouldn't get nervous if the first hour or so doesn't go to plan.
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I hope Dean doesn't take this lightly, everything points to a home win but I think we need to put this to one side and ensure maximum effort and concentration, given that we should prevail.
2-0
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2-0 home win and the momentum resumes
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Feeling very confident which is a bit of a worry.
4-1 villa
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Three one Villa.
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I feel so positive after the run before the International break and the game management we showed. I may regret it, but 4-1 to us. Tammy, Grealish, Anwar and Mings.
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No banana skin. Same team as against Boro, same attitude, same or better result. 4-0 Villa
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Compete for every ball. Win no matter how. Nothing big headed.
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Villa win and another clean sheet 2-0.
UP THE VILLA
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1-1
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Referee: ROBERT JONES
Assistants: Nick Hopton and Adam Matthews
Fourth Official: David Webb
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5-0 Villa win.
Rovers are crap away and have conceded 16 in their last 5 away games. They all seem pretty resigned to a hammering on the Rovers forums. Lovely comment about Sid (who also played for them) on there though:
Never seen 25 and 30 yard passes with so much backspin before or since. Balls hit so they stopped in the path of the winger.
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3-1. We continue our unlikely quest for play-off glory.
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5-0 Villa win.
Rovers are crap away and have conceded 16 in their last 5 away games. They all seem pretty resigned to a hammering on the Rovers forums. Lovely comment about Sid (who also played for them) on there though:
Never seen 25 and 30 yard passes with so much backspin before or since. Balls hit so they stopped in the path of the winger.
And they could buy whoever they wanted at that time.
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Win, win, win, please Villa win, I am starting to believe 👍
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5-0 Villa win.
Rovers are crap away and have conceded 16 in their last 5 away games. They all seem pretty resigned to a hammering on the Rovers forums. Lovely comment about Sid (who also played for them) on there though:
Never seen 25 and 30 yard passes with so much backspin before or since. Balls hit so they stopped in the path of the winger.
And they could buy whoever they wanted at that time.
And he was quite a way past his best, but still looked like their best midfielder.
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Coming up to this one with a friend who's a Rovers fan, so id advise the gamblers to lump on a nil nil.
On a side note, last time I was up, I ate in the Caribbean place by New St, Turtle Bay, are there any recommended independent Caribbean places central for a sit down ?
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Heard good things about 24 Carat Bistro in the Jewellery Quarter.
https://www.24caratbistro.co.uk/
Devon House is the other in the JQ that's been recommended.
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Massive game.
Eight cup finals, eleven cup finals potentially.
Every one of them a banana skin of two halves.
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Massive game.
Eight cup finals, eleven cup finals potentially.
Every one of them a banana skin of two halves.
When SHA played Millwall not long ago, I told a Blue Nose mate that it was an 18 pointer, anticipating a 12 point deduction for financial shenanigans.
A lot of things would have to go wrong for us not to get a result in this one.
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Heard good things about 24 Carat Bistro in the Jewellery Quarter.
https://www.24caratbistro.co.uk/
Devon House is the other in the JQ that's been recommended.
Nice one Rudy, I'm staying in the Jewellery quarter as it goes.
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3-1 to us.
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Just got my tickets and it looks like there are only about 250 left, all in the Upper Trinity. Amazing effort!
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Fixtures for us to keep an eye on tomorrow:
Reading vs Preston (Preston level on pts)
Sheff Utd vs Bristol (Bristol 2 games in hand)
Derby vs Rotherham (Derby 1 game in hand)
Boro vs Norwich (Boro 1 game in hand)
...and some less so:
Stoke vs Sheff Weds
Forest vs Swansea
Preston and Derby have potential banana skins against 2 teams fighting relegation, where as wins for Norwich and Sheff Utd would be most helpful towards us securing a playoff spot.
We need to stay focused, one game at a time, and make sure we take 3pts tomorrow...a 3-0 win with an early goal would do nicely.
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Just got my tickets and it looks like there are only about 250 left, all in the Upper Trinity. Amazing effort!
Bizarrely there are 10 available in lower DOUG Ellis in blocks normally for away ??
Also all 3 blocks in upper tier now on sale to home fans . Not seen that happen for a good long while
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Oh, and Deano, nice to have Axel and Lansbury for bench but not too much tinkering please . I’m happy with back four of late but think he may opt for axel alongside Minga with Hause going to LB
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Just got my tickets and it looks like there are only about 250 left, all in the Upper Trinity. Amazing effort!
Bizarrely there are 10 available in lower DOUG Ellis in blocks normally for away ??
Also all 3 blocks in upper tier now on sale to home fans . Not seen that happen for a good long while
A quick tot-up on the AVFC app shows 700+ still available in the UT, with mere smatterings around the rest of the ground, plus those 3 blocks released to us in the Upper Doug. I don't think it'll sell out, but there's a good chance we'll be nudging 40k.
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Has Tammy been pictured in training? Papers said he was major doubt.
If he dosen't make it I reckon DS would start Davis ahead of Kodj.
Will go for 3-1 win. We always had a brilliant winning record v Blackburn in the premier league.
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Sky Sports News preview from one hour ago says he's fit
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Strangely optimistic for this one. That is a bad thing, right?
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Another home win, this time 3-1
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Just need to get a commanding lead as soon as possible then get Jack off to protect him for the run in.
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Fixtures for us to keep an eye on tomorrow:
Reading vs Preston (Preston level on pts)
Sheff Utd vs Bristol (Bristol 2 games in hand)
Derby vs Rotherham (Derby 1 game in hand)
Boro vs Norwich (Boro 1 game in hand)
...and some less so:
Stoke vs Sheff Weds
Forest vs Swansea
Preston and Derby have potential banana skins against 2 teams fighting relegation, where as wins for Norwich and Sheff Utd would be most helpful towards us securing a playoff spot.
We need to stay focused, one game at a time, and make sure we take 3pts tomorrow...a 3-0 win with an early goal would do nicely.
Preston to win at Reading
Sheffield United to beat Bristol City
Derby to beat Rotherham
Norwich to win at Boro
Stoke v Sheffield Wednesday is a tough one to call as Stoke have under performed all season and Wednesday are in decent form but I will go for Stoke to win.
I think Forest will beat Swansea.
Villa will beat Blackburn.
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I'm hoping at least one of Reading and Rotherham will pick up an unexpected win or at least a draw. Sheff Weds and Forest dropping points to push them out of the picture wouldn't be a bad thing either.
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I'm going to say 2-1 reasonably comfortable win. Early pressure to get a goal hopefully. Good to have options from the bench as well - Lansbury to play more than 10 minutes of competitive football without injury.
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Has Tammy been pictured in training? Papers said he was major doubt.
If he dosen't make it I reckon DS would start Davis ahead of Kodj.
Will go for 3-1 win. We always had a brilliant winning record v Blackburn in the premier league.
DS said that Tammy is fit in his pre match conference - said he'd not played in the internationals but that Tammy had received treatment on his calf (and groin?) whilst away. Said he was good for Blackburn.
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1-0 will do.
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Apparently at HT tomorrow Martin Laursen and JPA introduced to the crowd.
Certainly one pint not being bought tomorrow as i stay in my seat for this.
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Has Tammy been pictured in training? Papers said he was major doubt.
If he dosen't make it I reckon DS would start Davis ahead of Kodj.
Will go for 3-1 win. We always had a brilliant winning record v Blackburn in the premier league.
This should help on Tammy. From Tuesday. Young Keinan though may be a doubt after this.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/03/27/yannick-bolasie-jack-grealish-respond-to-tammy-abraham-on-instag/
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Apparently at HT tomorrow Martin Laursen and JPA introduced to the crowd.
Certainly one pint not being bought tomorrow as i stay in my seat for this.
Dry sarcasm at its finest. Or genuine super fan?
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Can't wait for tomorrow. Get into town about 11 for a few and something to eat then head to VP to watch us get 3 points....It's going to happen I tell you...Another nail biting play off final....UTV
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Fixtures for us to keep an eye on tomorrow:
Reading vs Preston (Preston level on pts)
Sheff Utd vs Bristol (Bristol 2 games in hand)
Derby vs Rotherham (Derby 1 game in hand)
Boro vs Norwich (Boro 1 game in hand)
...and some less so:
Stoke vs Sheff Weds
Forest vs Swansea
Preston and Derby have potential banana skins against 2 teams fighting relegation, where as wins for Norwich and Sheff Utd would be most helpful towards us securing a playoff spot.
We need to stay focused, one game at a time, and make sure we take 3pts tomorrow...a 3-0 win with an early goal would do nicely.
Preston to win at Reading
Sheffield United to beat Bristol City
Derby to beat Rotherham
Norwich to win at Boro
Stoke v Sheffield Wednesday is a tough one to call as Stoke have under performed all season and Wednesday are in decent form but I will go for Stoke to win.
I think Forest will beat Swansea.
Villa will beat Blackburn.
No draws? No chance.
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Juan Pablo and Martin Laursen at the game tomorrow.
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Catch up Toronto
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Has Tammy been pictured in training? Papers said he was major doubt.
If he dosen't make it I reckon DS would start Davis ahead of Kodj.
Will go for 3-1 win. We always had a brilliant winning record v Blackburn in the premier league.
This should help on Tammy. From Tuesday. Young Keinan though may be a doubt after this.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/03/27/yannick-bolasie-jack-grealish-respond-to-tammy-abraham-on-instag/
Ruptured pride, at least a month to recover.
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Catch up Toronto
Blame the time zone and age
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Apparently at HT tomorrow Martin Laursen and JPA introduced to the crowd.
Certainly one pint not being bought tomorrow as i stay in my seat for this.
That's interesting.
I was going to make the point in the Savo thread we never really seem to get any of our popular ex foreign players back for home games to come on the pitch and say hello again so good to see and sure both will get a brilliant reception.
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I'll go 5-1 villa.
McGinn x2, Grealish, Abraham pen,Adomah
Mulgrew for them
Blackburn have failed to win in 12 of 13 away matches . They have scored in their last 6 away matches and scored 2 +goals in their last 3 away matches.
I think villa can get a few goals as Blackburn have also conceded 2+ goals in their last 5 away matches and do like to concede a lot of in final 10 minutes of matches.
Up the villa !
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I expect no less than a 6-1 win tomorrow.
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Leaving in an hour. C'mon you Villa boys!
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Hope everyone enjoys the match tomorrow and we get the 3 pts.
Difficult to call it though, after the international break, and a draw wouldn’t really surprise me. A point should be enough to keep us in the hunt, if other results go our way. Would love to see us pick up where we left off though.
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Come on Villa boys, let's make it 5 out of 5! UTV!
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Up in brum and off to the game with the kids today and can’t wait. Think we will score early and control the game, a no dramas 4-0 win. Mings and Tammy x3
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Please don't QPR it Villa.
Should be a win. Apparently Mulgrew has scored 3 times direct from a corner this season, which must be a record.
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I reckon we'll start off slow after the break we've had but run out winners in the end. 3-1 to us. McGinn, Grealish and Hourihane. Colin Hendry for them.
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Ticket update: OS is no longer showing those 3 blocks upstairs in the Doug (away) as available. 195 seats available, 149 of which are in A5.
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Just hope the International break hasn't disturbed the teams rhythm, early goal could settle us, solid Villa win, 2-0 Villa.
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I’d really like us to send a message to the other teams around us - give up, we’re on a roll!! I’ve probably jinxed that now...
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Biggest home scorers against biggest away conceders.
They've got some defenders back, but I suspect they'll be a bit more open than Boro and try and play in the front a bit more via Dack. On that basis I think we'll have more chance to counter them.
Same team as Boro for me.
3-0 Vills.
With those stats, it'll probs end up being 0-0 then!
Actually, I think we'll win (again) today: so I'm going for 3-1 (& hopefully no injuries or silly cards).
UTV
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Should be a real cracker today, looking forward to this one, Boro have a difficult game, let's hope they slip up, we can take up 5th place residency, very nice indeed.
Play-offs looming,