Pre-Season Friendlies 2012

[olaftab]

Wow what a great connection. Add me To the log roll for Timber fans.

[Hookeysmith]

When they get transported to VP and the sprinklers are on at night - the muppet in orange by the tunnel

Its me   

[Legion]

Superb. A new team to follow.

[supertom]

One more Timbers fan right here! Wouldn't it be great if they signed up JPA?

[Brend'Watkins]

Willie Anderson eh.  One of my first heroes.  Could never understand why a lot of the crowd gave him stick.

His goal against Preston away where we won 1 - 0 first match of the season after winning the 3rd division the previous is embedded in my memory.  It was my first ever away game.  It seemed like we took over the whole ground.

[Toronto Villa]

Count me in for sure. I started following Toronto FC for obvious reasons when they were formed a few years back but as ever with Toronto teams they are utterly gash. However, there's a solid historical reason to follow the Timbers and they have arguably the best and most vocal fan base in the league. As a Villa fan there is no reason to have an interest in any other MLS team.

[astonvillan]

VT, regarding Forest away:

just rang the ticket office to get tickets for this.

talked to a lovely lady who said there were only 60 tickets remaining for the game out of the allocation we've currently got. i then asked her to confirm what our allocation was for the game and how many we'd sold. she told me we could have anything up to 5000, and that so far we'd sold 2730 tickets.

[Meanwood Villa]

VT, regarding Forest away:

just rang the ticket office to get tickets for this.

talked to a lovely lady who said there were only 60 tickets remaining for the game out of the allocation we've currently got. i then asked her to confirm what our allocation was for the game and how many we'd sold. she told me we could have anything up to 5000, and that so far we'd sold 2730 tickets.

Like the sound of that! Booked mine yesterday, looking forward to it. Never been to Nottingham before.

[DeKuip]

A few other Villa-related articles on the Portland Timbers website including this one...

With tomorrow's international friendly against Aston Villa (7:30pm PT, webstream at PortlandTimbers.com, 750 AM The Game / La Pantera 940), we asked Joseph Gallivan, a writer and native of Birmingham, England, to give us some insight into the culture of growing up Villa. Gallivan has contributed to The London Independent, The New York Post, The Portland Tribune, and PortlandTimbers.com.

http://www.portlandtimbers.com/news/2012/07/englishman-portland-aston-villa-fan-remembers

and this (although by my maths it 40 years, not 30)

http://www.portlandtimbers.com/news/2012/07/shared-history-portlands-ties-aston-villa-go-back-thirty-years

[Eugene Fraxby]

Hi guys, new here.

Cycled past Worcester City earlier and noticed they're playing an Aston Villa XI. Obviously the 1st team are in US but can anyone give me any idea of what sort of team to expect if (when!) I go?

Cheers

[The Left Side]

Hi guys, new here.

Cycled past Worcester City earlier and noticed they're playing an Aston Villa XI. Obviously the 1st team are in US but can anyone give me any idea of what sort of team to expect if (when!) I go?

Cheers

I think there is something on the Villa website about it

[Eugene Fraxby]

Hi guys, new here.

Cycled past Worcester City earlier and noticed they're playing an Aston Villa XI. Obviously the 1st team are in US but can anyone give me any idea of what sort of team to expect if (when!) I go?

Cheers

I think there is something on the Villa website about it

So there is. Thanks

[not3bad]

Squad against Worcester City:

Barrett, Watkins, Devine, Donacien, Watkins-Clark, Kinsella, Lewis, Stevenson, Grealish, Cameron, Melvin, Ward, Barton, Nelson, Drennan, Burke, Eminoglu, Williams.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm heading down there so I'll keep y'all posted.

[Damo70]

Squad against Worcester City:

Barrett, Watkins, Devine, Donacien, Watkins-Clark, Kinsella, Lewis, Stevenson, Grealish, Cameron, Melvin, Ward, Barton, Nelson, Drennan, Burke, Eminoglu, Williams.

Kinsella, Nelson, Burke and Williams. Sounds like a mix of youngsters and old stars. Or more accurately a mix of youngsters, old stars and Mark Burke.