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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: ADVILLAFAN on August 13, 2014, 11:50:26 AM
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The League Cup 2nd Round draw is tonight after the evening matches have finished (live on Sky). We should be seeded, so would imagine we'll get a League One or Two side.
Who do you want us to draw?
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The League Cup 2nd Round draw is tonight after the evening matches have finished (live on Sky). We should be seeded, so would imagine we'll get a League One or Two side.
Who do you want us to draw?
Small Heath, please
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I'd prefer us to win by full-time. Avoids extra-time and penalties.
Walsall at VP.
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The lowest team possible left in the Cup as they'll play their reserves.
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The League Cup 2nd Round draw is tonight after the evening matches have finished (live on Sky). We should be seeded, so would imagine we'll get a League One or Two side.
Who do you want us to draw?
Small Heath, please
A million times, no.
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We'll get Chesterfield away. It's the law that once you've done a ground for an irrelevant match you get sent back there immediately.
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I'd like an away ground I haven't been to, someone like Leyton Orient away, as London is usually fun to go to.
Coventry at home would be interesting too.
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Small Heath at Small Heath as well.
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Small Heath at Small Heath as well.
Bumper payday for them.
Make it Villa Park instead.
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Coventry away, I can't remember the last time we played them and their temporary ground is quite easy to get to for me.
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Crawley Town away
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I'd like an away ground I haven't been to, someone like Leyton Orient away, as London is usually fun to go to.
Coventry at home would be interesting too.
I would go Coventry at home too. Bigger crowd and better atmosphere than most games against lower league opposition at this stage in the cup.
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Coventry away, I can't remember the last time we played them and their temporary ground is quite easy to get to for me.
Must have been the 3-2 win at home against them, after trailing 2-0 at half-time. About 2001.
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Small Heath or Walsall at home please.
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Blackburn :(
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Coventry away, I can't remember the last time we played them and their temporary ground is quite easy to get to for me.
Must have been the 3-2 win at home against them, after trailing 2-0 at half-time. About 2001.
:)
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(http://sentfromcoventry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/we-be-back1.jpg)
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Crawley Town away
suits me, I work right next to the ground!
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Leeds at home.
With the amount of claret around Villa Park, the crazy Leeds president will implode.
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Man City away.
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(http://sentfromcoventry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/we-be-back1.jpg)
Jesus's early followers said the same. Then again more chance of him returning than Cov to the Premiership I suppose.
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Dop you think he ripped that striaght from the wall and today this day is staring at the blank void desperately waiting for his words to bear fruit?
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Blackburn :(
They went out last night.
Bournemouth at home or Port Vale away is my prediction.
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Blackburn :(
Christ I'm crap, anyone who has NOT been eliminated already.....
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(http://sentfromcoventry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/we-be-back1.jpg)
Yea, when hell freezes over you bitter sods!
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Sheffield Wednesday.
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(http://sentfromcoventry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/we-be-back1.jpg)
Yea, when hell freezes over you bitter sods!
It is a very classy banner though. It looks like the really expensive double thick kitchen roll.
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I would like Burton Albion for obvious reasons :) \_/
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derby a way
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(http://sentfromcoventry.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/we-be-back1.jpg)
Yea, when hell freezes over you bitter sods!
It is a very classy banner though. It looks like the really expensive double thick kitchen roll.
Yes, so it can help soak up those tears.
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We'll get Chesterfield away. It's the law that once you've done a ground for an irrelevant match you get sent back there immediately.
I'd welcome the opportunity to spend more time in that pub.
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http://t.co/RzzhMdtcQw
League Cup seeds and numbers!
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So here is the list of teams we can play
Birmingham City
Bradford City
Brentford
Burton Albion
Charlton Athletic
Crawley Town
Crewe Alexandra
Doncaster Rovers
Gillingham
Huddersfield Town
Leyton Orient
Millwall
Milton Keynes Dons
Northampton Town
Oxford United
Port Vale
Portsmouth
Preston North End
Rotherham United
Scunthorpe United
Shrewsbury Town
Swindon Town
Walsall
Sheffield United / Mansfield Town
Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City**
** If Coventry City beat Cardiff City, Sheffield Wednesday are added to the SEEDED list.
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Cmon Crewe
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
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I'd like an away ground I haven't been to, someone like Leyton Orient away, as London is usually fun to go to.
Coventry at home would be interesting too.
The 'O's have the best Supporters Club boozer in the country. Great Real Ales at very realistic prices. Then it is in the middle of nowhere and having a great pub in the ground is just as well. Getting home legless is another prob!
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
I do hope we don't run into Man City's Blazin Squad any time soon.
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
I do hope we don't run into Man City's Blazin Squad any time soon.
True. They'd ballad you into submission.
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
I do hope we don't run into Man City's Blazin Squad any time soon.
That Citeh lad was a prat. Banned from football and still talks on tv about what he gets up to etc. And I thought he was in his 30s, he's an old looking 24!
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
I do hope we don't run into Man City's Blazin Squad any time soon.
True. They'd ballad you into submission.
Would we meet them at the crossroads?
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Small heath or Coventry please
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Small heath or Coventry please
Sod that. Make them a pot of money in a no win situation for us. Although it would be interesting to see how many Coventry fans continued their boycott of home games if we rolled up there.
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I don't think there's much to gain playing SHA ? Why would anyone want that ?
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A decent local team like Walsall or Burton Albion will do.
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Blues at home, we all need cheering up
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Somebody we've got a good recent record against...
Bradford?
Sheff Utd?
Millwall?
Sunderland?
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Sheffield United away. Revenge.
Plus it means I can have a beer or two and walk home.
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I've changed my mind. Any London/SE club away. O's would be good.
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Hose ?
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Bury away so we can meet them lads off the documentary
I do hope we don't run into Man City's Blazin Squad any time soon.
That Citeh lad was a prat. Banned from football and still talks on tv about what he gets up to etc. And I thought he was in his 30s, he's an old looking 24!
I thought that too. Looks a bit nawty in Ireland too.
That 17 year old strip of piss made me laugh. He claims to have run the Noses mind!
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Which documentary is this?
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Which documentary is this?
Here you go
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04drl7b/football-fight-club
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Which documentary is this?
One about Yoofs and their pavement dancing.
I quite liked watching the one lads realisation that it was a load of old shit while he was sat in the pub with his loser mate.
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Dear me. Let's play 'Spot the Braincell'.
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Which documentary is this?
Here you go
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04drl7b/football-fight-club
Ta
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Which documentary is this?
One about Yoofs and their pavement dancing.
I quite liked watching the one lads realisation that it was a load of old shit while he was sat in the pub with his loser mate.
"I work, I do drugs, I fuck and I fight" making out he had some great life. The fat Bury lad was quite likable.
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Which documentary is this?
One about Yoofs and their pavement dancing.
I quite liked watching the one lads realisation that it was a load of old shit while he was sat in the pub with his loser mate.
"I work, I do drugs, I fuck and I fight" making out he had some great life. The fat Bury lad was quite likable.
He was. The fat one kind of looks at him after he has said all that and it seems to me that moment is when the penny drops.
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Sheffield Weds or the strongest opposition. Cups runs hurt relegation battlers. The sooner we are out the better.
Sorry to be a wet blanket but we do not need the distraction this season.
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Which documentary is this?
One about Yoofs and their pavement dancing.
I quite liked watching the one lads realisation that it was a load of old shit while he was sat in the pub with his loser mate.
"I work, I do drugs, I fuck and I fight" making out he had some great life. The fat Bury lad was quite likable.
He was. The fat one kind of looks at him after he has said all that and it seems to me that moment is when the penny drops.
I did like the one line said by the bloke hosting it. 'Football violence normally occurs before or after the match'. Yes, thanks for that.
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I can't make my mind up whether spurs Dante looked hard or just a fat chav. The bit of him "working out" in the woods was very odd.
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Poor performance from Brighton last night in a dull game 2-0 flattened them. But they are through now, and I can dream of them drawing the Villa as long as they don't beat us that is ;)
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I bet it won't finish 6-6 if we get Brentford.
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I bet it won't finish 6-6 if we get Brentford.
off course it won't. We'll only score 5
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AFC Wimbledon away
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AFC Wimbledon away
Think they went out to MK Dons last night.
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Shrewsbury home or away
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Walsall please. We never draw Walsall, do we?
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
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Small Heath or those hideous Sky Blues
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
We can't get them or any top flight club in this round due to seeding.
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AFC Wimbledon away
Think they went out to MK Dons last night.
Didn't this cause a rip in the space/time continuum?
Isn't it like travelling back in time and killing your great granddad?
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"seeding"
Just sounds a bit, y'know, funny dunnit? In a weird way.
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I can't really see why anyone wants to play Small Heath. It would be like fighting a tramp, if the rules were that he wins, he gets to take your house and all your possessions, you win and you get his sick-stained jacket and a stench of piss that won't go away.
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
Yep - absolutely nailed on - Utd away
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
Yep - absolutely nailed on - Utd away
Can't happen. Yet.
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
Yep - absolutely nailed on - Utd away
Even though we can't be drawn against them this round?
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So here is the list of teams we can play
Birmingham City
Bradford City
Brentford
Burton Albion
Charlton Athletic
Crawley Town
Crewe Alexandra
Doncaster Rovers
Gillingham
Huddersfield Town
Leyton Orient
Millwall
Milton Keynes Dons
Northampton Town
Oxford United
Port Vale
Portsmouth
Preston North End
Rotherham United
Scunthorpe United
Shrewsbury Town
Swindon Town
Walsall
Sheffield United / Mansfield Town
Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City**
** If Coventry City beat Cardiff City, Sheffield Wednesday are added to the SEEDED list.
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I reckon we'll draw Man U.
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I reckon we'll draw Man U.
Piss orf!
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"seeding"
Just sounds a bit, y'know, funny dunnit? In a weird way.
Good I like it and it's the only way minnows like Small Heath can be guaranteed a tie against a big club like ermmm Stoke City!
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
Yep - absolutely nailed on - Utd away
Even though we can't be drawn against them this round?
No probs - next round for certain - if we make it through.
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Anyone at home.
Just actually realised Man. United are in this stage for the first time since the ice age due to no europe so you know what's going to happen!
Yep - absolutely nailed on - Utd away
Even though we can't be drawn against them this round?
No probs - next round for certain - if we make it through.
If THEY make it through you mean.
We're Aston Villa. We don't lose cup games to lower-league dross.
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It's OUR year.
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Nailed on we will win a cup as me and Leeg don't have a ST.
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Absolutely nailed on, we'll be drawn away to some drose team and smash them. don't wake me up.
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Our new boy Aly is making up 5% of the crowd at Coventry's new stadium. Ergo, even millionaire footballers have to wait frickin' ages for a Sky engineer to come out to connect them in their new home.
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Have a funny feeling we'll get Blose away
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Shrewsbury home or away
Away would be good.
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Shrewsbury home or away
Away would be good.
I agree. I'd quite fancy a trip to Wales.
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Is the draw soon?
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Well it won't be Cov *snigger*
Draw is in a few mins.
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We are no 2
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We are no 2
There's a joke in there but let's not go there.
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We are no 2
There's a joke in there but let's not go there.
:)
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What a shit way of doing the draw.
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They've fucked this up.
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And they fuck up the draw.
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What happened?
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Draw messed up by Sky. Back on track, but weird. Presenter missed out a draw, probably.
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What's going on?
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Blues v Mackems
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Home to Leyton Orient.
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Orient at home.
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Leyton Orient at home
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Crap draw. Should breeze through.
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That'll do pig, that'll do.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
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It's our year isn't it.
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Tickets £10, £5 for juniors, attendance c. 15,000. Predicted.
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When is it?
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I've never seen us play Orient so as long as the pricing is right i'll be along for that.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
Likewise.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
Same here
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Shame its not away, they are rumoured to have a pretty good supporters club bar.
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We will win easily as we generally do at this stage,
Even Stephen Ireland will score.
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Not counting any chickens (sad to say), but that's quite decent isn't it.
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When is it?
Fortnight.
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Crap draw. Should breeze through.
Like Bradford, Millwall and Sheffield United??
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Tickets £10, £5 for juniors, attendance c. 15,000. Predicted.
22k
Don't forget little clubs like them always take 3 or 4k to a big night out
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When is it?
Fortnight.
Ta.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
Well how could you Orient is a long way to the east. I think we will beat them as they will have jet lag.
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Tickets £10, £5 for juniors, attendance c. 15,000. Predicted.
I reckon it'll be £15 for Witton/Trinity uppers
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I hope the O's youth aren't animals like Bury's.
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Draw favours the Midlands clubs with home advantage: Villa, Blues, Albion, Walsall, Stoke, Port Vale, Crewe, Burton, Derby and Leicester all at home!
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Nice thread over there............
Aston villa is the easiest prem team!
Posted by Snowman » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:14 pm
Can't score atall and will be relegated this year for sure...
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Nice thread over there............
Aston villa is the easiest prem team!
Posted by Snowman » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:14 pm
Can't score atall and will be relegated this year for sure...
They've been looking at one of our fora (presumably Villatalk) which is full of similar stuff in reverse.
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Ha even O's fans have us rumbled.
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Ha even O's fans have us rumbled.
You, maybe.
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Nice thread over there............
Aston villa is the easiest prem team!
Posted by Snowman » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:14 pm
Can't score atall and will be relegated this year for sure...
Link it lets all have a laugh
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Nice thread over there............
Aston villa is the easiest prem team!
Posted by Snowman » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:14 pm
Can't score atall and will be relegated this year for sure...
They've been looking at one of our fora (presumably Villatalk) which is full of similar stuff in reverse.
One 4-0 comment was hardly full of. I was more curious why them blowing up in the play-offs made a Villa fan's season.
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Shame its not away, they are rumoured to have a pretty good supporters club bar.
It'd have to be the best bar in the World. In East London. On a Tuesday or Wednesday night. With apalling transport links.
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Ha even O's fans have us rumbled.
You, maybe.
? Bitchy
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As far as I can tell we have only drawn them in the cup once before. That was at home and finished 0-0. Anybody want to guess the score in the replay at their place ?
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As far as I can tell we have only drawn them in the cup once before. That was at home and finished 0-0. Anybody want to guess the score in the replay at their place ?
8-0.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
I was a ballboy at Gay Meadow vs them in 1989. That's right, be jealous.
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5-4 to Villa.
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Tickets £10, £5 for juniors, attendance c. 15,000. Predicted.
depends on orient
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Ah, PWS was right.
Full head-to-head record:
League Results
English Division Two (old)
22.03.1975 Leyton Orient 1-0 Aston Villa
07.09.1974 Aston Villa 3-1 Leyton Orient
03.05.1974 Leyton Orient 1-1 Aston Villa
22.09.1973 Aston Villa 2-2 Leyton Orient
24.02.1973 Leyton Orient 4-0 Aston Villa
16.12.1972 Aston Villa 1-0 Leyton Orient
English Division One (old)
09.03.1963 Leyton Orient 0-2 Aston Villa
20.10.1962 Aston Villa 1-0 Leyton Orient
English Division Two (old)
13.02.1960 Leyton Orient 0-0 Aston Villa
26.09.1959 Aston Villa 1-0 Leyton Orient
Cup Results
English FA Cup
31.01.1929 r4r Leyton Orient 0-8 Aston Villa
26.01.1929 r4 Aston Villa 0-0 Leyton Orient
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When is it?
Fortnight.
probably weds 28th
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I bet it's not on Wednesday 28th.
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I bet it's not on Wednesday 28th.
So do I.
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I bet it's not on Wednesday 28th.
Tuesday the 27th then maybe
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
I was a ballboy at Gay Meadow vs them in 1989. That's right, be jealous.
I know someone who used to be a ballboy at Stenhousemuir in the late 1960s. Beat that !
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BBC have Villa, Blues and Albion all down for the Tuesday. I doubt that'll prove correct.
Sunderland have a game on the Sunday before the midweek cup games so, objectively, it might make more chance to have Small Heath vs Sunderland on Wednesday and Villa on Tuesday.
I prefer Wednesday games though so hope not.
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I bet it's not on Wednesday 28th.
Tuesday the 27th then maybe
It won't be that either.
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Spangley, in the bottom right of your screen you'll find the time and date.
Click on it, and it'll bring up a calendar.
;-)
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2 predictions:
I am not going.
Nor will many others.
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2 predictions:
I am not going.
Nor will many others.
This needs a poll. I'd be more inclined to go to this than the barcodes match.
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Uh-oh lower league opposition, I am sure we will be fine.
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Spangley, in the bottom right of your screen you'll find the time and date.
Click on it, and it'll bring up a calendar.
;-)
Unless you're using a mac, of course.
(http://i.imgur.com/D8NCLyf.gif)
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Why would he be wearing a coat? Is his laptop outside?
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
I was a ballboy at Gay Meadow vs them in 1989. That's right, be jealous.
Bloody obscene that is!
Mods!
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Might go to this one, dead cheap tickets depending of course. Never seen Orient play.
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Be nice if we could do £10 lower tiers, £15 upper, assuming Orient would agree to it.
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Must've seen the games in the 70s, but no recollection whatsoever.
My godson has my programme collection so can't even look them up from that source!
Looking forward to it in a "here we go again, lower level team with nothing to lose, they're bound to score at least one and the way things have been over the last few seasons the fu**ers'll beat us and create massive humiliating headlines in the morning" kinda way.
Ever the optimist!
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I went to all three of the 70's Division Two home games, when they were just called 'Orient'; never been to their ground.
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I went to all three of the 70's Division Two home games, when they were just called 'Orient'; never been to their ground.
Never been there either BC - let's hope we don't get the opportunity this time...
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We won't. No replays in the League Cup.
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It will be interesting to see what they do with the prices bearing in mind the attendance for the Parma Game.
Aren't Leyton Orient one of the richer clubs down in the lower leagues?
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Bollocks, just realised that I'll be on holiday when we play this match, wanted to see Leyton Orient play, would be a team I've never seen before.
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I don't think I've ever seen Orient play. Happy enough with that.
I was a ballboy at Gay Meadow vs them in 1989. That's right, be jealous.
Yes that Shrewsbury v Orient must have been some occasion!
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So the match is scheduled between Arsenal at home and Chelsea away. I can predict Lambert's team selection and emphasis now.
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So the match is scheduled between Arsenal at home and Chelsea away. I can predict Lambert's team selection and emphasis now.
Isn't it between the Newcastle and Hull games?
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So the match is scheduled between Arsenal at home and Chelsea away. I can predict Lambert's team selection and emphasis now.
Its August, not September
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So 3 home games in a week. Could be a low attendance for the O's . Should do kids for a quid.
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Aha thanks .... OK that's better but same approach I presume.
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Yes for those who also go to the two home league games!
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Aha thanks .... OK that's better but same approach I presume.
What approach is that?
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Yes for those who also go to the two home league games!
Basically ST holders then. Does anyone know how many STs have sold this year ? Normally it's about 22k
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14k-17k depending on who you ask.
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14k-17k depending on who you ask.
Not if you ask me.
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Aha thanks .... OK that's better but same approach I presume.
What approach is that?
The League games are more important even though the season is 3 games old so play reserves approach.
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14k-17k depending on who you ask.
Not if you ask me.
However if you ask me I would say 35K based on no facts whatsoever.
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Aha thanks .... OK that's better but same approach I presume.
What approach is that?
The League games are more important even though the season is 3 games old so play reserves approach.
To be fair he didn't play the reserves last year, we were just cack when Sheffield United knocked us out.
They also had a bit of luck, scoring the only time they had possession in our half with a tame deflected effort.
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Aha thanks .... OK that's better but same approach I presume.
What approach is that?
The League games are more important even though the season is 3 games old so play reserves approach.
He didn't do that last season.
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I live half a mile from Brisbane rd, an away draw would have suited me just fine. Doh!
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I live half a mile from Brisbane rd, an away draw would have suited me just fine. Doh!
In other news today a Leyton Orient supporting resident of Gravelly Hill said `Would you Adam and Eve it ! I can almost see the ground from me Tommy Trinder. I wont even have to use the Jam Jar to get to this. I reckon we will get a couple of sausage rolls against them too ! `
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JD will be happy.
Shame it isn't away as I'd liked to have gone there being a croydon boy soon.
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I'm glad to get the chance to watch a team I haven't seen us play before. The first person I thought of when I heard the draw was Harvey Moon from Shine On Harvey Moon. I remember he used to support them when they were called Clapton Orient.
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Whenever I hear of Leyton Orient I think of a 4-0 away defeat around 1972-3 when Ian Ross broke his leg. After that game I think Vic Crowe mandated the wearing of shinpads for Villa players. There was even a photo of Ross on the treatment table in the next home match programme (IIRC).
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Whenever I hear of Leyton Orient I think of a 4-0 away defeat around 1972-3 when Ian Ross broke his leg. After that game I think Vic Crowe mandated the wearing of shinpads for Villa players. There was even a photo of Ross on the treatment table in the next home match programme (IIRC).
Ah, the classic old seventies football photo of an injured player with his leg in plaster. Usually holding a cup of tea in one hand and putting his thumb up to the camera with his other hand.
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Whenever I hear of Leyton Orient I think of a 4-0 away defeat around 1972-3 when Ian Ross broke his leg. After that game I think Vic Crowe mandated the wearing of shinpads for Villa players. There was even a photo of Ross on the treatment table in the next home match programme (IIRC).
Ah, the classic old seventies football photo of an injured player with his leg in plaster. Usually holding a cup of tea in one hand and putting his thumb up to the camera with his other hand.
70s players also always looked at least ten years older than they actually were.
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Whenever I hear of Leyton Orient I think of a 4-0 away defeat around 1972-3 when Ian Ross broke his leg. After that game I think Vic Crowe mandated the wearing of shinpads for Villa players. There was even a photo of Ross on the treatment table in the next home match programme (IIRC).
Ah, the classic old seventies football photo of an injured player with his leg in plaster. Usually holding a cup of tea in one hand and putting his thumb up to the camera with his other hand.
70s players also always looked at least ten years older than they actually were.
I got hooked on watching old 3-2-1 shows with Ted Rogers at midnight on Challenge TV a few weeks back. All of the contestants look middle aged but I realised a lot of them were probably in their twenties or early thirties. A lot of seventies footballers look older than me and I'm 43. I think moustaches and beards might have played some part in it. Apart from Movember the classic footballers moustache has died out. In fact moustaches in general have died out, although my dad still proudly flies the flag.
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In about 1998 I ended up staying with my parents for a couple of months. My younger brother was still living there and the two of us developed exactly the same 3-2-1 thing, watching repeats on a Challenge style satellite channel till about 2am.
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They obviously show random shows from different years but in the series with the round where two couples go head for a place in the final by playing that old TV console game (which is also given as a consolation prize to the losers) is fantastically mad. Was it called 'Pong' or something like that? My uncle had one and gave it to me one Christmas when he had got bored with it. Football, Tennis and Pelota! A choice of two speeds and big bats/players or small ones. I loved the one where Ted Rogers was describing all of the things that 'one of these new video recording machines' could do.
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I have pong on my phone
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I have pong on my phone
I have probably still got it in my parents loft! I would love to hide the PS4 and the two 3DS' and connect it up and see the kids reaction.
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I still have one of these. No idea if it still works mind.
(http://fernrocks.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/800px-donkey_kong_game_and_watch_open.jpg)
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
Sensible Soccer was amazing, playing in the El Savadorian 4th Division, or creating your own Cup competition with groups and knockouts and 128 teams in it.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
Sensible Soccer was amazing, playing in the El Savadorian 4th Division, or creating your own Cup competition with groups and knockouts and 128 teams in it.
Sensible Soccer, best football game ever. I still have a copy somewhere for the Mega Drive.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
Sensible Soccer was amazing, playing in the El Savadorian 4th Division, or creating your own Cup competition with groups and knockouts and 128 teams in it.
Sensible Soccer, best football game ever. I still have a copy somewhere for the Mega Drive.
I have a 'Plug N Play' European version. I like the fact that it only has about 4 English teams in it, but Villa are one of those teams (after the 1992/93 season), along with Manure, Arse and Norwich.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
On the contrary, there was nothing like trying to win the league in time to sell all of your best players and buy all the worst ones on football manager because the following season the best would become the worst and vice versa. Also trying to beat you own lap records at all of the F1 tracks on Chequered Flag. I could never master Jet Set f***ing Willy though. It wasn't called that, I just added the expletive because I am still bitter thirty years later.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
On the contrary, there was nothing like trying to win the league in time to sell all of your best players and buy all the worst ones on football manager because the following season the best would become the worst and vice versa. Also trying to beat you own lap records at all of the F1 tracks on Chequered Flag. I could never master Jet Set f***ing Willy though. It wasn't called that, I just added the expletive because I am still bitter thirty years later.
I don't know what any of this means.
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The first computer-related freebie I got was a disc game in 1993. The top teams on it were the Mancs, Villa, Norwich and Blackburn.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
Sensible Soccer was amazing, playing in the El Savadorian 4th Division, or creating your own Cup competition with groups and knockouts and 128 teams in it.
Sensible Soccer, best football game ever. I still have a copy somewhere for the Mega Drive.
I have a 'Plug N Play' European version. I like the fact that it only has about 4 English teams in it, but Villa are one of those teams (after the 1992/93 season), along with Manure, Arse and Norwich.
Football Manager for the Spectrum was from 1982 and so the very limited choice of players tended to be from Villa, Liverpool and Ipswich. And possibly Glenn Hoddle. One school holiday afternoon me and two mates played together as chairman, manager and coach. Not a good idea. Lots of arguments.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
On the contrary, there was nothing like trying to win the league in time to sell all of your best players and buy all the worst ones on football manager because the following season the best would become the worst and vice versa. Also trying to beat you own lap records at all of the F1 tracks on Chequered Flag. I could never master Jet Set f***ing Willy though. It wasn't called that, I just added the expletive because I am still bitter thirty years later.
I don't know what any of this means.
I pity you. You will never know the joy of trying to beat your highest score on Jelly Monsters (Pac-Man rip off) on a Vic 20 computer. It was the only thing that kept me going Christmas '82 after I had been to the sty and watched Small Heath beat us 3-0. I only got one other game with it that Christmas and it was Jupiter Lander. Admittedly, you didn't miss out on much with that one.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
On the contrary, there was nothing like trying to win the league in time to sell all of your best players and buy all the worst ones on football manager because the following season the best would become the worst and vice versa. Also trying to beat you own lap records at all of the F1 tracks on Chequered Flag. I could never master Jet Set f***ing Willy though. It wasn't called that, I just added the expletive because I am still bitter thirty years later.
I don't know what any of this means.
I pity you. You will never know the joy of trying to beat your highest score on Jelly Monsters (Pac-Man rip off) on a Vic 20 computer. It was the only thing that kept me going Christmas '82 after I had been to the sty and watched Small Heath beat us 3-0. I only got one other game with it that Christmas and it was Jupiter Lander. Admittedly, you didn't miss out on much with that one.
Christmas 1882?
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Good draw for us at this stage. Orient should still give us a few problems, and on a selfish note I would have liked it to be away as I am closer to London than Birmingham. Am happy enough though and would like us to have a bit of a run to build confidence in the early months of the season.
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The olden days must have been really boring with all these crap games and tech.
On the contrary, there was nothing like trying to win the league in time to sell all of your best players and buy all the worst ones on football manager because the following season the best would become the worst and vice versa. Also trying to beat you own lap records at all of the F1 tracks on Chequered Flag. I could never master Jet Set f***ing Willy though. It wasn't called that, I just added the expletive because I am still bitter thirty years later.
I don't know what any of this means.
I pity you. You will never know the joy of trying to beat your highest score on Jelly Monsters (Pac-Man rip off) on a Vic 20 computer. It was the only thing that kept me going Christmas '82 after I had been to the sty and watched Small Heath beat us 3-0. I only got one other game with it that Christmas and it was Jupiter Lander. Admittedly, you didn't miss out on much with that one.
Christmas 1882?
If you don't stop being a cheeky young whippersnapper I will start lecturing you about party lines on the telephone (and trust me they were nothing like that sort of thing would be these days!), eight track cartridges and V2000 video recorders. And the rule about having an Irish mum meant the Brendan Shine LP had to be at the front of the record rack. Just in front of 'Arrival' by Abba.
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I have pong on my phone
Did your phone just auto-correct that from porn?
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All those London-based Villa fans saying they wish it had been away... if you're not a season ticket holder I can't see how you'd have got a ticket? Unless you're on about going in the home end.
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I have pong on my phone
Scrub it with soap and water, you dirty bastard.
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You mum will be very upset when she reads this.
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All those London-based Villa fans saying they wish it had been away... if you're not a season ticket holder I can't see how you'd have got a ticket? Unless you're on about going in the home end.
With all due respect to Orient I don't think there will be a rush on to get tickets for this game. Another problem with this being a mid-week game I would have to book a hotel in Birmingham too.
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You mum will be very upset when she reads this.
She's too busy worrying about Sircliff.
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Any idea when tickets go on (general) sale? No news on Pravda yet.
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I guess they'll go on sale as soon as the date of the game is confirmed
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The second round clash takes place at Villa Park on Wednesday August 27 [7.45pm].
From Saturday August 16, tickets are on sale to season ticket holders to purchase their own seat or to relocate to alternative seats if they are purchasing additional tickets for friends/family.
Tickets are on sale to 2014-15 season ticket holders and Villa Cash members from Monday August 18.
From Tuesday August 19, tickets are on sale to those with any previous booking history.
Then tickets go on general sale on Wednesday August 20.
Prices are £5 for U16s and £10 for adults in the North Stand/Family Stand, £5 for U16s and £12 for adults in the Holte End and £5 for U16s and £15 for adults in the Trinity Road/Doug Ellis stands.
Please note all supporters will receive paper tickets for this fixture. Your season cards will NOT be activated.
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Thank you.
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Fair prices them.
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I'm in the cup scheme again this year so get tickets automatically. Bit of a pain having to remember to ring the ticket office yet again to get the cup scheme form for this season - you'd think they'd either include a form in the ST pack or automatically send you a form or a reminder if you were in it the previous season. Hey ho
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In my opinion, there's no point in being in the cup scheme. You can't use the Villa Cash you accrue on away tickets, but you can use it on home cup games. So unless you're gonna be going to no away games, or spending loads of Villa Cash in the club shop, it works out better to opt out of the cup scheme and use the Villa Cash towards buying individual cup tickets.
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In my opinion, there's no point in being in the cup scheme. You can't use the Villa Cash you accrue on away tickets, but you can use it on home cup games. So unless you're gonna be going to no away games, or spending loads of Villa Cash in the club shop, it works out better to opt out of the cup scheme and use the Villa Cash towards buying individual cup tickets.
Fair point but I keep my Villa Cash for tickets when my son's back in the UK over Christmas, so for me it makes sense to be in the scheme as I'd be going to the games anyway
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I nearly always use my Villa cash to buy stuff in the sales at the end of the season. Even though I don't have a ST this year I still bought a VC card. Cost a tenner with a fiver loaded on it.
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Good prices, might even try to get the day off work and turn up.
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JD will be happy.
Shame it isn't away as I'd liked to have gone there being a croydon boy soon.
Not sure I am happy about this Pete. Villa to win, but I hope the O's put up a good fight.
It's difficult this, the team I support against my old local team (only lived one mile from the ground) and the first team I ever saw live (in 1973, they beat West Brom 2-0 at Brisbane Road).
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Decent prices and hopefully the start of a long cup run.
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Just a heads up to people who renewed their Season Tickets over the phone and verbally signed up for the Cup Scheme.
Although I was told at the time that I would be put in the scheme, I have not.
Good job that I phoned up to check.
If anyone else signed up in the same way, it might be worth calling the TO.
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..........however, one advantage of not being in the Cup Scheme is that I can use my Villa Cash to buy the ticket. This makes the game in effect free.
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Just a heads up to people who renewed their Season Tickets over the phone and verbally signed up for the Cup Scheme.
Although I was told at the time that I would be put in the scheme, I have not.
Good job that I phoned up to check.
If anyone else signed up in the same way, it might be worth calling the TO.
Yeah you have to ring and ask for a form, fill it in and send it back. I suggested to the ticket office that in future they include the form with the ST pack so people don't have to remember to ring and ask for it. We'll see....
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Assume we will be very much going with a B team for this as it's sandwhiched between the Nufc and hull PL games.
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Yeah you have to ring and ask for a form, fill it in and send it back. I suggested to the ticket office that in future they include the form with the ST pack so people don't have to remember to ring and ask for it. We'll see....
They always used to include the Cup Scheme and Away Scheme forms in the ST pack but seemed to have now stopped the practice.
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Assume we will be very much going with a B team for this as it's sandwhiched between the Nufc and hull PL games.
Yes probably.
How about Given, Lowton, Clark, Okore, Bennett, Bacuna, KEA, Gardner, Grealish, Robinson, Bent.
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Seems ok but I'd swap Okore for Baker and give Steer 45 mins too.
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Steer's out on loan ain't he?
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Slight tangent, Leyton Orient was the second Villa game I ever went to, first being Fulham at Craven Cottage which we won 2-0 incidentally.
We lost the game at Brisbane Road 1-0, we did get an equaliser in the 94th minute, but a bit like that famous World Cup goal that was disallowed because the ref (Thomas) blew his whistle before the ball crossed the line, our equaliser was also ruled out.
Back on topic.
I do hope this gets treated with some respect and we field a decent side, I don't think I can bear another cup exit to a third tier team.
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I'd only make limited changes and get the game won...
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I'd only make limited changes and get the game won...
This. There's a fortnight's international break looming, we're not gonna lose that many players to it, give the first team some game time.
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For me, Okore needs games and I wouldn't pair up Clark and Baker. Ever again.
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Currently playing for U21s
@AVFCOfficial: VILLA U21 (v @stokecity): Hill, Leggett, Kinsella, Herd, Okore, Toner, Robinson, Cowans, Drennan, Cole, Grealish. #avfc
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Joe Cole as well?
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Joe Cole as well?
The Peter Pan of football. He never grows up
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Steer's out on loan ain't he?
My Doncaster colleague tells me he has played well for them so far. Though they did concede 3 goals from set pieces at the weekend.
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Villa and Blues are both down as 7.45pm kick-offs on Wednesday 27th August.
But surprised they're both playing at home on the same night, Baggies are on the Tuesday night.
Mind you, Blues will only get about 8000 people there probably, with half of them being Sunderland fans.
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Villa and Blues are both down as 7.45pm kick-offs on Wednesday 27th August.
But surprised they're both playing at home on the same night, Baggies are on the Tuesday night.
Mind you, Blues will only get about 8000 people there probably, with half of them being Sunderland fans.
They will probably change the Blues game to a Tuesday, if not the police are asking for trouble.
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With luck Dean Cox will play on the wing for The O's..Mickie Wright reincarnated! Fast lad!
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We've played a few times on the same night. If both clubs have announced those times then that is when the games will be. They won't announce them and then change them in the LC.
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Is should not be an issue. Hardly anyone will be ya small heath and I'd imagine we will be mid 20's.
If WMP can't handle that then we should be worried.
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As a kid (mainly 70s) for midweek games we were always at home on Wednesday and Blues on Tuesday. Them's the rules.
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Villa and Blues are both down as 7.45pm kick-offs on Wednesday 27th August.
But surprised they're both playing at home on the same night, Baggies are on the Tuesday night.
Mind you, Blues will only get about 8000 people there probably, with half of them being Sunderland fans.
They will probably change the Blues game to a Tuesday, if not the police are asking for trouble.
Why? How is having 20,000 Villa fans and 5,000 Blosers on opposite sides of the city to each other likely to cause trouble?
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5,000?
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We play at the same time at least once every season, and every time it happens someone predicts mayhem.
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5,000?
If it's kids for a quid and they can get parole for the evening.
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5,000?
If it's kids for a quid and they can get parole for the evening.
Midweek. Shifts, ain' it.
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5,000?
If it's kids for a quid and they can get parole for the evening.
Midweek. Shifts, ain' it.
You can't afford to turn it down these days can you Tom?
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Any chance of a Bronx hat, Tom?
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I suppose the O's may bring 3-4000 up the M1 and the Mackem's a similar number down the A1M/M1 ?
Still shouldn't be an issue should it ?
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I suppose the O's may bring 3-4000 up the M1 and the Mackem's a similar number down the A1M/M1 ?
Still shouldn't be an issue should it ?
I'd be very surprised if either club bring half of that.
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I suppose the O's may bring 3-4000 up the M1 and the Mackem's a similar number down the A1M/M1 ?
Still shouldn't be an issue should it ?
I'd be very surprised if either club bring half of that.
Sunderland will DEFINITELY bring at least that many. They always do, they say so themselves, and everyone else is shite cos they don't.