Bolton Wanderers v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[TheSandman]

1-1

Downing and Sturridge

[Holtenderinthesky]

Loss. 2-1 to them and watch it all kick off

One saving grace might be that they will have their eye on the cup quarters the following week as they have a very good chance of mamking the semis with only the inbreds standing in their way...

Are you suggesting it would be prudent for a mid table Prem team to keep an eye on the greatest cup tournament in the world as they have a real chance to reach Wembley?  Imagine......

Anyway, we must win this, we simply have to.

2-0 Bolton then.  Sturridge and Davies.

[lovejoy]

We'll lose and it'll serve us fncking right.

[atomicjam]

2-1 win to us. Bent & A Young.

[The Left Side]

1-1 draw for me, once again we will look decent up until we get to the final third and then we'll lose the ball.

Davies for them and Bent for us!

[Jimbo]

Dunne ruled out.

[paulcomben]

Ah is there an ounce of perspective apart from Chris anywhere at the moment!? If Houllier was going to go it would have been around Christmas, not after losing at a top 3 side away against a team that smashed our first 11 by 4 at their place before Christmas and had the luxury of taking a 25 million forward off for a 30 million forward.

As Chris says, we would have clearly won according to the pitch fork crew last night, so I am fully expecting them to be vindicated with a 41-0 win and it then being not good enough as it should have happened last night...,


2-2 for me. They are not brilliant at the back, I think Cahill is not positionally that good, Knight always loses his man etc... we will score goals, just depends if we can defend. Cafu will come back in at right back though, while Kaka and Gullit are coming back into the midfield so we may not need to.

Knight is injured until late March.

[brontebilly]

Cant see how Cuellar will be back that quickly from a hamstring injury either.

Friedel
Walker, Collins, Clark, Baker
Downing, Reo Coker, Bradley, Delph, Young
Bent

More likely that Young will be in the hole with Albrighton coming in for Bradley. Reo Coker and Delph should be combative in midfield and will need to be against Muamba and Holden. If Cuellar is back, Id move Clark back to the left for this one.

[paulcomben]

Those of you posting stuff like City would beat any Villa team and Houllier is getting unfair flak because of the Blues winning the Carling Cup are deluded.  It is a question of degree.  Trying as hard as you can and managing within scarce resources is necessary in any aspect of life. Chucking in the towel with lunacy like: Herd at right back, Delph at left back, Fonz on the right wing and Donskey as the 'goalscorer' is utterly taking the piss.

[paulcomben]

Bradley was appalling against City. Gradually break him in to FAPL life for sure, but not with a starting place at Bolton, a really tough fixture where any points will help the relegation battle a lot.

[pauliewalnuts]

Cant see how Cuellar will be back that quickly from a hamstring injury either.

Friedel
Walker, Collins, Clark, Baker
Downing, Reo Coker, Bradley, Delph, Young
Bent

More likely that Young will be in the hole with Albrighton coming in for Bradley. Reo Coker and Delph should be combative in midfield and will need to be against Muamba and Holden. If Cuellar is back, Id move Clark back to the left for this one.

Isn't Collins injured?

I also didn't see anything from Bradley that made me want him to start on Saturday.

[Pete3206]

3-1 win. We're not a bad side these days.

Houllier's lunacy, sorry rotation policy will be fully vindicated throwing the GH happy clappers into a frenzy.

[brontebilly]

Cant see how Cuellar will be back that quickly from a hamstring injury either.

Friedel
Walker, Collins, Clark, Baker
Downing, Reo Coker, Bradley, Delph, Young
Bent

More likely that Young will be in the hole with Albrighton coming in for Bradley. Reo Coker and Delph should be combative in midfield and will need to be against Muamba and Holden. If Cuellar is back, Id move Clark back to the left for this one.

Isn't Collins injured?

I also didn't see anything from Bradley that made me want him to start on Saturday.

It was mentioned on other threads that Collins will be back.

Im willing to give Bradley another chance. If he isnt doing the business then Bannan can come on instead. Though knowing Houllier, Pires will start in the centre again.

[Hookeysmith]

I do find it almost funny that

MON - never uses subs and will not use squad rotation

GH - how refreshing that he knows how to use subs at the right time

GH - Great to see his giving youngsters as game

GH - Squad rotation and strength is good

GH - fucking numbnuts swapping the team around all the time

Maybe he just cannot win sometimes?

[WikiVilla]

Dunne ruled out.

Where you getting this from ?