Everton v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[phantom limb]

There's no way that Moyles is going to let us win this, or even draw. 3-0 is my guess.

Is Chris Moyles playing?

I wish he was. The big, fat Leeds loving arsehole.

Richard Dunne could sit on him.

[ClarrieBlue]

Have just got in so forgive me if I'm going over old ground. All we've heard since Christmas in the press are totally positive managerial statements about the unity, the determination and the fact that we will win trophies at sometime in the future. This is against a background of poor results with one or two exceptions and apparent turmoil in the background. So tomorrow the chips are down. No messing about now. Without doubt we could easily be relegated. A bad set of results tomorrow could put us in the bottom three I should think. That means tomorrow we need a good performance at Goodison from a team playing the right players in their right positions. C'mon you Villa Boys UTV

[ClarrieBlue]

For the more seasoned (ie old) Villa Boys amongst you, I can remember going to watch Villa play Everton at VP in the mid-Sixties when we more or less needed a win to stay up. A young Everton boy called Jimmy Husband tore us to pieces and Fred Pickering got a hat trick I think. Final Score 4-something (maybe 2) to Everton. I remember I was stood by the players tunnel and at half time our centre half, John Sleeuwenhoek looked absolutely knackered. He had been run ragged. We lost the next game 6 nil away to Southampton at The Dell and went down. That's just a bad memory though !

[adrenachrome]

For the more seasoned (ie old) Villa Boys amongst you, I can remember going to watch Villa play Everton at VP in the mid-Sixties when we more or less needed a win to stay up. A young Everton boy called Jimmy Husband tore us to pieces and Fred Pickering got a hat trick I think. Final Score 4-something (maybe 2) to Everton. I remember I was stood by the players tunnel and at half time our centre half, John Sleeuwenhoek looked absolutely knackered. He had been run ragged. We lost the next game 6 nil away to Southampton at The Dell and went down. That's just a bad memory though !

You can stick your Trevor Hockey and your Pickering
Cos you don't know where they've been

[wombat]

Off out for my morning run... Then off up to Liverpool. 3 of us and it's our first away game of the season. I don't expect much, at least we will have a good laugh though! UTV

[cheltenhamlion]

Its tough to call. Play like we did against the Wolves and it will be a thumping. With confident lads back from internationals then we might be pleasantly surprised. So I will sit on the fence and say a draw.

[TopDeck113]

I've woken up with a bit of optimism.  I can't remember the last time I actually attended four defeats in a row, so I'm going for a 1-1 draw. 

[Arsey]

If we don't at least get a point with the team Everton will have to put out then we are going down.

Saha, Yak, Vaughan all out, only Beckford is available who can play up front.

Arteta, Fellaini both definitely out, Cahill and Rodwell both likely to be out, they sold Pienaar, so no midfield either.

Hopefully, the Internationals will have brought back some confidence to our team.

I hope we go 4-3-3 and go after them; unfortunately, our manager has probably already packed his white flag.

[Holtenderinthesky]

If we don't at least get a point with the team Everton will have to put out then we are going down.

Erm......  What if the teams below us don't win their games?  Why are we going down if we don't beat Everton when we are not even in the relegation zone and there are 7 more games?  1 game is just 1 game, how many times have we lost games that we were expecting to win and then won games we thought we wouldn't?  Did you think we'd beat Man City after we lost at home to Sunderland?  I agree with the sentiment but fuckin hell, we might lose 5-0 today and then beat Newcastle and go on a run that could see us finish in the top half.  Nothing will be decided today, either way.

[ozzjim]

Could be a massive win if we manage it as the teams around us barring Blues also have tough games this weekend. Would be great to get a little bit of breathing space.

[koreanmeatballs]

Does Houllier think we are good enough to beat Everton?!?

A heavy 4 - 0 loss and the final nail in GHou and GMac fooking awful time here.

[VillaAlways]

A heavy 4 - 0 loss and the final nail in GHou and GMac fooking awful time here.

That's the spirit

[Villa'Zawg]

Like it or not, they're all must win games until we get another 10-12 points on the board.

I'm not feeling confident today, so will be happy if we can get anything at all from this one.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

For the more seasoned (ie old) Villa Boys amongst you, I can remember going to watch Villa play Everton at VP in the mid-Sixties when we more or less needed a win to stay up. A young Everton boy called Jimmy Husband tore us to pieces and Fred Pickering got a hat trick I think. Final Score 4-something (maybe 2) to Everton. I remember I was stood by the players tunnel and at half time our centre half, John Sleeuwenhoek looked absolutely knackered. He had been run ragged. We lost the next game 6 nil away to Southampton at The Dell and went down. That's just a bad memory though !

It was 4-2 and we were relegated that day. We were in the Witton Lane stand and I remember our Dad going spare at Alan Ball near the end because he came over to take a corner and Dad thought it was disrespectful when he wiped his nose on the corner flag.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I'm not feeling confident today, so will be happy if we can get anything at all from this one.

My feeling as well.

I'd be grateful for a draw.