Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Saturday afternoon.

[Andy Poole]

Villa team v Blackburn: Friedel, Walker, Dunne, Clark, Baker, Albrighton, Reo-Coker, Downing, Young, Pires, Bent. Subs: Marshall, Agbonlahor, Herd, Petrov, Bradley, Heskey, Delph

[Monty]

Friedel, Walker, Dunne, Clark, Baker, Albrighton, Reo-Coker, Downing, Young, Pires, Bent.

Subs: Marshall, Agbonlahor, Herd, Petrov, Bradley, Heskey, Delph.

So mixed. Marc back in, no Gabby on the wing, no blindly just playing out-of-form Petrov. However, Pires? No Bannan in the squad AGAIN? Seriously? Oh dear.

[TheTimVilla]

Just the four wingers

[gervilla]

Pires ? Why ?

[WikiVilla]

Pires ? Seriously WTF !

[TheSandman]

However, Pires? No Bannan in the squad AGAIN? Seriously? Oh dear.

This is starting to get ridiculous.

[eamonn]

Because Houllier promised him games when he signed him.

Hopefully he repeats his performance last time he played and we played Blackburn.

[PaulWinch again]

Come on you Villa boys, let's not start by slaughtering them eh?

[WikiVilla]

Powder puff midfield, only NRC can put a foot in
This could be a long 90 mins

[olaftab]

Off to VP now...have left it a little late today...to see if we can stop our losing sequence against BBurn. Yes that is  is correct we have lost  the last 3 league games against them!

[avfcpg]

Pires? Bizarre decision....gotta be playing our best possible side surely, and this ain't it...not looking forward to this...hope to be proven wrong..

[PaulWinch again]

We could look at it, as we are really trying to attack them.

[villa for life]

Houllier is putting his neck on the chopping block here. The only way he can carry on is with 3 points. Fingers crossed he gets it.

[Arsey]

Defence looks very inexperienced. 

Something must have happened for Bananaman to be frozen out.