Aston Villa v Small Heath Alliance Pre-Match Thread

[Newquay_AVFC]

What the hell is wrong with people, your making it sound like were playing Real Madrid! WE WILL WIN!

[remy]

Just say Emile Heskey scores on Sunday, does he join an elite group of players that have played for both major rivals of a city AND scored in both?

[Georgee94]

It's the first derby in ages , that im scared of lol , ill say we'll scrape a 1-0 (Downing) if we play at our best 

[eastie]

Very interesting beds villan- collins as a defensive midfielder could work on a temporary basis, would be better option than playing sidwell- I don't know if Collins has played that role before though?

[Lambert and Payne]

Im standing by the 3-0 win, goals will flow! Ivanhoe will score! Downings on fire and Ash will be well up for this i think. The players always seem to turn up for this and with our defensive form i think we've got a great chance. They had their best chance last year, and they did nothing. Cant believe the negativity of people on here. Were playing SHA not Barcelona!

[manic-road]

1-0 Heskey to continue his goalscoring exploits.

[The Man With A Stick]

4-0

Heskey, Ireland, Collins, Ridgewell

[Rigadon]

I'm more nervous about this one than in recent years due to injuries.  I think last night showed how much we miss Petrov's calming influence in the middle and Gabby is such a great player in derbies.  So difficult to predict. 

We certainly wouldn't want to lose anymore ground on the teams above us when playing a team of Blues standard at home, that said this game is all about passion and who takes their chances (please let this be the game that we start to take ours).  As somebody else said, the first goal will be important.

Head 0-0, heart 3-0. 

[JJ-AV]

Friedel
Beye - Collins - Dunne - Warnock
Sidwell - NRC
Young - Ireland - Downing
Heskey

1-1

Sidwell and a Dunne error giving them an equaliser.

[TheSandman]

               Friedel
Beye    Clark  Cuellar  Warnock
          Collins  NRC
   Young   Ireland  Downing
               Heskey

I'll go with that.

I shall refrain from making a prediction on the result. I am bricking it but I always am.

As someone said the other week: 'Twice per year we have to avoid treading on Blues' They are not as good as us and they don't have the right to dirty our crisp white boots but the potential is always there to get your boots covered in shit.

[Shrek]

I'd seriously play Collins in midfield next to Reo, Sidwell is a liability and I'd play Delfouneso on the right.

[charlie659]

Carr red carded at some stage, waved off the field by 40,000 w@nk@ signs & a last minute Stevie Ireland winner - Superman pants and all!

[The Situation]

What was Sidwell doing right last Saturday against Sunderland?

[Salsa Party Animal]

Villa 4 Small Heath 0

Sidwell, Reo Coker, Ireland and then Heskey.

[avfc_1874]

Think they'll sneak this 1-0. We have no strikers and they will bore us into submission.