Reserves v Chelsea 21.2.11

[WikiVilla]

That pitch is not very football friendly.

potato field, why on earth are they playing at Hinckley?

[PeterWithe]

To save the VP pitch from looking like Hinkley's pitch I suppose. I thought we played a bit too long and didn't support Nathan enough. Chelsea played a lot more triangles but they didn't really have a stand out player like Bannan for us.

[Karl Bridges]

I know we need to keep VP lush but there has to be something better than Dingley fucking Dell.

[dave.woodhall]

Surely to God all the money we spend on pitch technology means Villa Park can cope with a handful of reserve games. 

[WikiVilla]

Surely our Stiffs should play at The Sty as most of them end up there

[Karl Bridges]

Why we are risking our potentially valuable players on a surface like that is beyond me.

[PeterWithe]

It was a bit of a pudding but it didn't look dangerous and was firm enough on the wings, just a bit muddy in patches. Aren't we always going on about how PL teams should do more for grass roots football? Well a thousand or so people paying gate money and tea, burgers etc must help surely.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Surely with all the money that has been spent at Bodymoor Heath they have a pitch that can be used?

[dave.woodhall]

Surely with all the money that has been spent at Bodymoor Heath they have a pitch that can be used?

There's no spectator facilities.

[cdbearsfan]

I quite like the idea of taking the games round a few grounds, but maybe we should do it mainly in the early part of the season when the pitches will still be pristine. I don't mind our youngsters roughing it a bit, but they're not going to develop into the Brummie Barcelona if they have to play hoof football every week due to the dodgy pitch.

[WikiVilla]

Why are we helping Hinckley out ? Shouldn't we be helping someone closer to home ??

[PeterWithe]

Closer to home the locals are probably all Villa fans any road, playing here stretches us into Cov & Leics territory and annoying them can never be a bad thing.

[Dave Cooper please]

The problem with Hinckley is that the ground is shared by another club (Hinckley FC), so the pitch is played on roughly twice a week, every week.

[Merv]

Have I read it wrong, or is that a couple of games that Herd has played at right back now?

[PeterWithe]

Have I read it wrong, or is that a couple of games that Herd has played at right back now?

I can see him being a crowd favourite if he makes the first team, doesn't offer much going forward but seemed to love flying into tackles.