Aston Villa v Bolton Wanderers Pre-Match Thread

[gervilla]

Villa 3 Bolton 1
Gabby (2)
Hesk.....Only kidding.
Young.A
Elmander for them.

[olaftab]

GHOUL's first selction:

Friedel

Young Cuellar Collins  Anyone but Warnock (Downing)

Young Reo-Coker  Ireland  Albrighton

 Agbonlahor  Carew

Team to walk away with 3-0

[villa1]

AVFC 4 Bolton 1

Its my Birthday weekend and they will not let me down!!

It's my birthday weekend too! No excuse for letting us down now.

I reckon they'll score a goal for each year i've been on the planet.

Us 32 - 0 them.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

2-0 Collins Gabby

[atomicjam]

A nervous 3-2 Villa win. Gabby, Ashley and Dunne.

[eamonn]

I feel bad about saying it but I really don't have any confidence in KMac - to pick the right team, to make the right substitutions and to gee-up/bollock the players when need be.

The imbalance in the midfield will continue and Warnock and Dunne are not at their best at the moment. I would gladly take a scrappy 1-0 win, Houllier cannot come in soon enough.

I'll be in a mountain-village in the south of Italy when this is on, it'll be a nervous text home on Saturday evening to see how we've fared.

Very tempted to go for an away win but I'll say 1-1.
Which reminds me, the pools seem to have turned against us after the Newcastle thumping. They had us down to lose against Everton and now to draw against Bolton despite the fact we've thumped them at home in recent seasons and that geezer in the Sunday Times always bangs on about previous encounters as if they're hugely indicative in his pools column.

[JUAN PABLO]

             

GHOUL's first selction:

Friedel

Young Cuellar Collins  Anyone but Warnock (Downing)

Young Reo-Coker  Ireland  Albrighton

 Agbonlahor  Carew

Team to walk away with 3-0

midfield is so soft...  we badly need a hard nasty basta**d general in midfield....   We would be well sorted then and obviously a striker....     

[PaulTheVillan]

..................Friedel

Young Dunne Collins Warnock

.............NRC  Ireland
Albrighton.....Young.....Downing

.................Flabby

[PaulTheVillan]

Woah! That's funky.

I doubt Petrov would be dropped, but I think NRC and Ireland need a chance to play together.

[sfx412]

I don't think KM is now picking the team.
I hope the new manager principle works from Bolton onwards until at least Chelsea, too. we might be in with a top 4 chance then

[nick harper]

I would hope Houllier's presence in the stand will galvanise them sufficiently to see off Bolton assuming McDonald picks the right side - for me the same as Stoke but with Ireland for Albrighton and Young back out wide.

9 points from 5 games would be a decent base to work from.

[Walmley_Villa]

Would love to see Ireland behind Gabby and young back wide but expecting same side as Monday. We'll make hardwork of it but will scrape the win 2-1

[TimTheVillain]

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2155722,00.html

Happy days !

[Ads]

We always smash Bolton at home.

[jembob]

I've just taken up the club on a current deal and got a ticket in the Holte for £10 for this game!

3-1 to us. A bit like Monday's game with us playing great football in patches and looking clueless in others. We could make it more comfortable for ourselves if Brad stops hoofing it up the field at every opportunity and conceding possession but we won't. Expect us to be under more pressure than necessary, as usual, and hope that Houllier can sort out this part of our game in due course.

We would have walked Monday's game if we had been smarter about keeping the ball, but that's probably a hangover from MON's days. Keep the ball lads and we'll do fine.