Pre-match thread - Newcastle United v Aston Villa

[Risso]

0-2 Villa
 
Barton's moustache to get even more ridiculous.

[toplad4u]

bit too early yet isn't it haven't played tonight yet.

Going for 2-0 tho Ireland and Dunne

[UK Redsox]

Total annihilation please. I hate Newcastle with a passion that I cannot explain

[Toronto Villa]

Without aiming to jinx anything, they looked awful the ther day. I know it was Man U, but it'not like the past where they had some very good players mixed in with the dross. There really isn't one standout player in that team, and if we can win against Rapid tonight, a bit more confidence, plus our rested players coming back we should have too much for them. We have to be wary of the first home game back scenario, but I'm going for 3-1 to us.

[Concrete John]

Didn't see them against Man U, but I think we're comfortably the better side man-for-man.  Don't like predictions before we play tonight, but I'll be looking to see if K-Mac can maintain the excellent away record we had under the previous manager.

[BILL DE VALL]

we will beat them comfortably if we play anything like we played against the hammers
also with certain players rested for the Vienna game we should be fresh
they took a bit of a beating from man U but they will look at our performance and quake!

[Monty]

Total annihilation please. I hate Newcastle with a passion that I cannot explain

Maybe this will explain it. From an article about the day we sent them down in the Newcastle Chronicle:

"That day Villa fans unfurled some unsavoury banners reading “Sob On The Tyne” and “Whose Your Next Messiah, Ant or Dec?” as Brummie fans, surprisingly, took terrace banter too far for some."

They take themselves so unbelievably seriously, and they really believe that it's a crime for other clubs' fans not to love them for their "passion" which, as far as I can tell, consists of being really fat and really stupid. It's so irritating you could just spit.

[BILL DE VALL]

tut tut
geordies not having a sense of humour re the downfall of their beloved club
i have no axe to grind with them
but they will persist in delusional fantasies, keegan/shearer the messiah etc

[Monty]

It's more the lack of self-awareness, Bill. If they insist on using words like "Messiah", how can they possibly complain when people use that against them? Don't they know how pompous they sound?

[TaxDodger]

1-1. Carroll 29, Carew 76.

[nicardinho]

Martin Atkinson is the man in charge on Sunday.

In his last match, between Liverpool and Arsenal, he showed 2 red cards.

Dean Mohareb (chequered flag) and Paddy Keane (yellow flag) are his assistants, while Stuart Attwell is 4th official.

[Ger Regan]

Unsavoury? What delicate little flowers they are.

[darren woolley]

I am going for a villa win 2-1 with gabby and young scoring.

[luke25]

They used to be irritating but now they're just a complete joke of a club, they really seem to dislike us for putting the final nail in their relegation coffing two years back, conveniently forgetting how appauling they were for the rest of that season, suppose its easier to blame others than to just admit that they were shit, having said all that they'll be well up for this and i can see a 1-1, hope im wrong and we annihilate them though

[The Situation]

Hopefully Ireland starts for us in this game. Would be nice to see the same formation we thrashed West Ham with... gotta include Albrighton again.

This is a game we really should be winnning on paper, and we know the cartoons are pretty bad, but we've still got to be 100% up for this as I don't think we'll win as easily as most think, but I still predict a Villa win - maybe 0-1 or 1-2.