Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers Pre-Match Thread

[manic-road]

3-1 to Villa.

Bent x2
Downing

[alanclare]

If we don't win this one the writing's good and truly on the wall.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

We have got to bring Albrighton back. He makes more chances than anyone. And Bent will be on the end of a lot of them. 2-1 Villa .....

[andyh]

Is this the 3rd game of the 'winnable 11 ?'

We ain't won one yet, and desperately need to win this one.
I'm going for a nervy 2-1 to give us a boost before smashing the shit out of Citeh on Wednesday. 

[Phil from the upper holte]

Villa 5-0 Bent hatrick Downing & Agnonlahor

[Mazrim]

If we don't win this one the writing's good and truly on the wall.

What writing would that be, "I am alanclare,  Exaggerator to the Queen."?

[Holtenderinthesky]

If we don't win this one the writing's good and truly on the wall.

What writing would that be, "I am alanclare,  Exaggerator to the Queen."?

I don't think we will win this game as Blackburn are a good side and can expose or weakness at dealing with crosses into the box from set-pieces rather well.  I don't, however, think that it will mean a great deal in the context of our run in if we don't win as there are a few other more winnable games left than one against a team who have beaten us in the last 3 attempts  (2nd string cup matches apart).  I desperately hope for 3 points but it will not be the end of the world if take just 1, the teams below us are there for a reason and are unlkely to all win.

[Chris Smith]

Blackburn are a good side

Are they?

They're a below average side I'd say, and their away form in particular is nothing to write home about. Not saying that we'll definitely win but there are at least a dozen teams I'd be more worried about than Blackburn.

[Michel Sibble]

Should be a 1-0 win, with multiple coronaries between the 65th minutes and full time.

Downing (25").

[The Situation]

It's another one of these 'type' of games.

Each game gets bigger and bigger, we can start to breathe ever so slightly more easily if we get the 3 points on Saturday.

We've really got to start pushing on instead of making things difficult for ourselves.

[koreanmeatballs]

If we don't win this one the writing's good and truly on the wall.

What writing would that be, "I am alanclare,  Exaggerator to the Queen."?

I don't think we will win this game as Blackburn are a good side and can expose or weakness at dealing with crosses into the box from set-pieces rather well.  I don't, however, think that it will mean a great deal in the context of our run in if we don't win as there are a few other more winnable games left than one against a team who have beaten us in the last 3 attempts  (2nd string cup matches apart).  I desperately hope for 3 points but it will not be the end of the world if take just 1, the teams below us are there for a reason and are unlkely to all win.

Who are these teams?

Wolves/ West Ham/ West Brom/ Wigan - Will be much harder to play as they will throw everything into the games. Plus they seem to have the bottle to pull some results out.

Stoke seem to find a way of f**king us over. If Blackburn can expose our weakness so can Stoke.

This is about the easiest fixture we have left (maybe Newcastle) so if we don't win this then were in serious shit, it's not an exaggeration.

[eastie]

An early goal would settle the nerves somewhat, this really is a game we should win and I think we will win 3-1. Blackburn are not a good side but a very average side away from home and I expect albrighton and Bradley to start and look forward to a decent result.

[TonyD]

Heart say Villa win.  Head says score draw.

[Dave]

Blackburn are a good side

Are they?

They're a below average side I'd say

A below average team that are still above us in the league.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Blackburn are a good side

Are they?

there are at least a dozen teams I'd be more worried about than Blackburn.

And there are 14 teams above us that Blackburn fans could say the same about.