Gerard Houllier

[olaftab]

To those that don't care about todays result over League survival, well I don't know actually, i'm probably mad, but I'd love to see us win the FA Cup - i'm a bit old skool like that.

The league is the league, we are never going to win it with the current set up I do know that and the holy grail of Champs League has well and truly gone. 

I've seen us relegated, then gain promotion (enormous fun to those you can't remember) and other than the barbed comments of Blose and Olbiyun fans I don't fear it as much as some - perhaps it's the distance, or the realisation that we are now fighting in the 'best of the rest league', or just that whatever happens, we are Aston Villa, we are special and ,unlike our unwashed neighbours, we always will be to scholars of the game.

But if I had the choice of just one trophy i'd like to see the Villa win before I croke it would be the FA Cup.   

Exactly my position and thanks OzVilla for saving me having to write it.

[ozzjim]

To those that don't care about todays result over League survival, well I don't know actually, i'm probably mad, but I'd love to see us win the FA Cup - i'm a bit old skool like that.

The league is the league, we are never going to win it with the current set up I do know that and the holy grail of Champs League has well and truly gone. 

I've seen us relegated, then gain promotion (enormous fun to those you can't remember) and other than the barbed comments of Blose and Olbiyun fans I don't fear it as much as some - perhaps it's the distance, or the realisation that we are now fighting in the 'best of the rest league', or just that whatever happens, we are Aston Villa, we are special and ,unlike our unwashed neighbours, we always will be to scholars of the game.

But if I had the choice of just one trophy i'd like to see the Villa win before I croke it would be the FA Cup.   

Exactly my position and thanks OzVilla for saving me having to write it.

I would take winning the FA Cup and going down tomorrow. Winning something goes down in the history books and would be a great achievement.

[Risso]

Being relegated also goes down in the history books!

[TheSandman]

To those that don't care about todays result over League survival, well I don't know actually, i'm probably mad, but I'd love to see us win the FA Cup - i'm a bit old skool like that.

The league is the league, we are never going to win it with the current set up I do know that and the holy grail of Champs League has well and truly gone. 

I've seen us relegated, then gain promotion (enormous fun to those you can't remember) and other than the barbed comments of Blose and Olbiyun fans I don't fear it as much as some - perhaps it's the distance, or the realisation that we are now fighting in the 'best of the rest league', or just that whatever happens, we are Aston Villa, we are special and ,unlike our unwashed neighbours, we always will be to scholars of the game.

But if I had the choice of just one trophy i'd like to see the Villa win before I croke it would be the FA Cup.   

Exactly my position and thanks OzVilla for saving me having to write it.

I would take winning the FA Cup and going down tomorrow. Winning something goes down in the history books and would be a great achievement.

Me too. I want us to win the FA cup more than anything.

[TopDeck113]

We will win today. 3-1.

Did you put any money on the result?

[Holtenderinthesky]

To those that don't care about todays result over League survival, well I don't know actually, i'm probably mad, but I'd love to see us win the FA Cup - i'm a bit old skool like that.

The league is the league, we are never going to win it with the current set up I do know that and the holy grail of Champs League has well and truly gone. 

I've seen us relegated, then gain promotion (enormous fun to those you can't remember) and other than the barbed comments of Blose and Olbiyun fans I don't fear it as much as some - perhaps it's the distance, or the realisation that we are now fighting in the 'best of the rest league', or just that whatever happens, we are Aston Villa, we are special and ,unlike our unwashed neighbours, we always will be to scholars of the game.

But if I had the choice of just one trophy i'd like to see the Villa win before I croke it would be the FA Cup.   

Exactly my position and thanks OzVilla for saving me having to write it.

I would take winning the FA Cup and going down tomorrow. Winning something goes down in the history books and would be a great achievement.

What?  Seriously?  No way.  That is madness.

[not3bad]

But if I had the choice of just one trophy i'd like to see the Villa win before I croke it would be the FA Cup.

[ozzjim]

Seriously, there are people that would take 17th and survival in the sky league over winning the FA Cup? Seriously? Winning a major trophy, that we have not won for over half a century or staying up? Feck that. Win the cup and enjoy watching us better some teams in the coca cola league for a season. Can't believe it would even be a discussion.

[TonyD]

Still a nimpty.

[PaulWinch again]

Whilst in theory I'd love to see us with the FA cup, I think the club's future could be in big trouble if we get relegated. I wouldn't stake the future of the club on the FA cup.

[john e]

if you support a club, not a glory hunting club but one of the other 87 or 88 in the fotball league,

and someone says to you 'in your lifetime you will see good times and bad, ups and downs, promotions and relegations, but i can gurantee that you will see your team win EVERY major honour there is to win, before you die'

you would snap his hand of, how many supporters of other clubs will be able to say that before they go,

well i'm an FA cup short of that,
 so you know what my answer is re FA cup or relegation,
unfortunatley its totaly hypothetical, so we just got to keep on hopeing

[ozzjim]

The club would do just what Newcastle did. Sell lots of the high earners, keep a few that will help us get back up and work with the kids, loans etc. The chairman will not see us go into ruin, and the club will survive. And winning the cup would be awesome.

It is all hypothetical anyway. We won't be relegated, and we won't win the cup.

[philsheard]

....bollocks to sky and its big four premiership, give me an eighth fa cup and massive away followings and full houses at every championship ground if the mighty villa roll into town (minus Young and that stupid snood)!! Now that would be fun. More fun than this season has been no doubt.

If I'm honest I'm bored with the way football has gone in the premiership because of sky, the "champions (and 3 runners up) league" and overpaid and underworked so called superstars. In fact in a perverse way I would probably prefer the Championship unless of course we kept sinking or never got out.......then it may get a bit frustrating

[Shrek]

Yesturday at the Sheffield game I met Marc Albrighton's dad.

He was a really nice bloke, who was happy when I informed him Marc was starting.

I asked him for any gossip but he said he doesn't know anything. I asked him if Marc likes Houllier and he said yeah he really enjoys working with him.

He said the training was really bad under Martin but is alot better under Gerrard.

He also said that if we think Marc, Barry and Clark are good, just wait till we see Gary Gardner play, he said he is a real talent.

That was all he would say, but it was great meet someone soo normal and too tell him how great we all think Marc is.

[pav]

Nice little story shrek, hope Gary recovers well from his injury and don't turn to the dark side