Aston Villa v Fulham Pre-Match Thread

[Clampy]

From the poll this is clearly one we're expecting to win. Fulham are improving though so I'm being cautious and going for a draw.

Having watched Fulham last night. Cannot see them getting close to us at Villa park ....

I disagree, i thought they looked quite good, Dembele in particular looks decent. It's going to be a tough game for us.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

From the poll this is clearly one we're expecting to win. Fulham are improving though so I'm being cautious and going for a draw.

Having watched Fulham last night. Cannot see them getting close to us at Villa park ....

I disagree, i thought they looked quite good, Dembele in particular looks decent. It's going to be a tough game for us.

Agree with Clampy.
I thought they looked pretty solid and quite dangerous on the break, in fact, pretty similar to us but without the same quality.
As Clampy says, it will be close.

[Ads]

I've never been overly impressed with Fulham.

They mugged us for a draw earlier in the season when Bent would have scored 5.

I think we'll brush them aside with some to spare, similar to Blackburn in the cup.

[Tom_Mc9?]

3-1 to us.

Bent, Bannan and Collins.

[TheBarneyArmy]

4-1 win, bent x3 & downing, also expecting sidwell to score for them with a 25 yarder.

[hawkeye]

They are playing well and i think they are further down the road than us in terms of organisation and style of play, a lot tougher than many on here think, i am expecting a loss or draw

[Holtenderinthesky]

4-1 win, bent x3 & downing, also expecting sidwell to score for them with a 25 yarder.

Sidwell is ineligible.  (Not just for this game but in general.    )

[VancouverLion]

3-1 Villa, Bent 31, 64,  Bannan 82.   Dempsey for them 19

37,056 crowd

[WikiVilla]

great that its 3pm on a Sat down B6, when did this last happen ??

Got 2 adult and 2 kids tickets for £42 - great deal from the Villa

[richard moore]

They are playing well and i think they are further down the road than us in terms of organisation and style of play, a lot tougher than many on here think, i am expecting a loss or draw

I think we will edge it but agree wholeheartedly with your comments, particularly as we rarely have easy games against Fulham and they have a history of doing much better at VP than anyone expects...

[Chris Smith]

They are playing well and i think they are further down the road than us in terms of organisation and style of play, a lot tougher than many on here think, i am expecting a loss or draw

Totally disagree. If they're that much further down the road how is it that they only have one more point than us? They had a good win last week but that was largely down to Spurs committing suicide in the first ten minutes.

I've seen them a few of times and they didn't look anything special. We outplayed them at their place and their away record is pretty poor. If we perform how we have been in recent games then we'll win.

[Dr Butler]

i'm really looking forward to this game, a lot harder than most predict. should of won the away match in Nov, so lets get the job done Saturday.

UTV
The Doc

[damon loves JT]

I had a dream last night that I was made redundant and the only job I could find was as a Butlin's redcoat. I don't know whether that means we'll win or lose or what.

[VillaAlways]

I had a dream last night that I was made redundant and the only job I could find was as a Butlin's redcoat. I don't know whether that means we'll win or lose or what.

It's quite difficult to become a Butlins red coat I failed and ended up working behind the chip counter for 3 months, it's very competive.Therefore it must mean a hard fought win

[WikiVilla]

I've checked and this is just our 4th 3pm Sat home game so far this season