Pre-Season Friendlies 2012

[villa `cross the mersey]

Gabby and Nathan looked really sharp................not !!

Only saw the second half - and it was only Burton - good to see us passing the ball around - Holman was busy and took his chance well.

[Chipsticks]

Full Time.

2-1 win to Villa.

Thanks for the updates, sounds like a good start to the Lambert era!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Only 2-1  against Burton..... Lambert out :-)

Agreed. Burton are in the 4th division and we should be stuffing them a minimum 6-0.
They might have 4th division teams where he comes from who get 50,000 every home game, but not down here.
F**kin Norwich W**ker.

[VillaAlways]

avtv working for me now. Thanks for the tip about the ticket office. Why couldn't the idiot who was sending me mails from AVTV tell me that. Anyway it's working now , thanks for your help

we're not looking too bad - Lambert in!

Glad you got it sorted

[mr-villa]

The mosy refreshing thing to see across the ninety minutes was the amount of time the ball spent on the deck when being moved between Villa's players.  The only player that I noticed hoofing the ball was Collins in the second half, even he only did it a few times and a couple of those were long diagonals looking for Gabby or Holman in the channel.  All in all a good workout I thought with Al Ahmadi the pick of those on show today.  He was composed assured and in control of the football throughout the first half, looks a very good signing on that first sighting today.

[Karl Bridges]

All the new boys looked good, KAE ran the game in the first half, Bannan did exactly the same in the second. Holman took his goal well and never stopped running. They looked like they were trying to play it out from the back and both KAE & BB were always dropping deep to get off the CB's.

[Toronto Villa]

Effective workout. Tried to play football the right way but that is a project that will take some time and better players to come to together properly. Given, Makoun and Dunne to come back and this will have given Lambert a first impression. Liked Enda Stevens and El Ahmadi, and Holman looked busy and tidy. The kids will be asked to play a bigger role this year also so looking forward to seeing how they come on.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Burton Albion match report up first.

http://www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10950~2849389,00.html#continue

[Singapore Villa]

Where was Ireland?  Is he injured?

[damon loves JT]

I love football, but seeing reports of pre-season friendlies on Sky Sports makes me feel a little bit sick.

[Chipsticks]

I love football, but seeing reports of pre-season friendlies on Sky Sports makes me feel a little bit sick.

Why? It's the only thing fending off my withdrawal symptoms.

[SoccerHQ]

How did N'zogbia play?

[damon loves JT]

I love football, but seeing reports of pre-season friendlies on Sky Sports makes me feel a little bit sick.

Why? It's the only thing fending off my withdrawal symptoms.

It's the middle of July. Kids haven't broken up from school. John Terry not in prison

[Chipsticks]

I love football, but seeing reports of pre-season friendlies on Sky Sports makes me feel a little bit sick.

Why? It's the only thing fending off my withdrawal symptoms.

It's the middle of July. Kids haven't broken up from school. John Terry not in prison

Blues never went bust

[placeforparks]

I love football, but seeing reports of pre-season friendlies on Sky Sports makes me feel a little bit sick.

Why? It's the only thing fending off my withdrawal symptoms.

It's the middle of July. Kids haven't broken up from school. John Terry not in prison

I was in WH Smith a couple of weeks ago, they've got the Back to School stuff out already!