Aston Villa v MartinO'Neill'sSunderland Pre-Match Thread

[VillaAlways]

Well at the moment we only have 3 players like to be out ,be it 3 of our main players Dunne ,Bent and Petrov so the lack of options isn't really an excuse for this match.

Don't worry Alex will find another one

[pedro25]

I thought Jenas and Delph were still injured also?

[usav]

Well at the moment we only have 3 players like to be out ,be it 3 of our main players Dunne ,Bent and Petrov so the lack of options isn't really an excuse for this match.

Don't worry Alex will find another one

To be fair to him he hasn't used thelarge injury list as an excuse.

[David_Nab]

Jenas I forgot about  (easily done ) and Delph is back in full traning

[VillaAlways]

Well at the moment we only have 3 players like to be out ,be it 3 of our main players Dunne ,Bent and Petrov so the lack of options isn't really an excuse for this match.

Don't worry Alex will find another one

To be fair to him he hasn't used thelarge injury list as an excuse.

I'm pretty sure he has

[Clampy]

Well at the moment we only have 3 players like to be out ,be it 3 of our main players Dunne ,Bent and Petrov so the lack of options isn't really an excuse for this match.

Don't worry Alex will find another one

To be fair to him he hasn't used thelarge injury list as an excuse.

I'm pretty sure he has

Yes he has, which is fair enough because most managers would, but he could'nt get the best out of his full strength squad when it was available so it's not washed with a lot of fans.

[pedro25]

Says a lot when he had nearly a full squad available and he picked a midfield of Heskey Herd Petrov and Hutton, when Albrighton, Bannan, Ireland, N'Zogbia and Clark were all available.  Also letting Makoun leave with no claw back was real clever leaving us with just Delph, Petrov and Jenas as genuine central midfield options from the start of the season.  Thank God Herd, Clark and Gardner have stepped up to varying degrees.

[pauliewalnuts]

Says a lot when he had nearly a full squad available and he picked a midfield of Heskey Herd Petrov and Hutton, when Albrighton, Bannan, Ireland, N'Zogbia and Clark were all available.  Also letting Makoun leave with no claw back was real clever leaving us with just Delph, Petrov and Jenas as genuine central midfield options from the start of the season.  Thank God Herd, Clark and Gardner have stepped up to varying degrees.

Absolutely.

The main reason we are down where we are is not because we've had to field untried kids and they've let us down.

It is because when we had pretty much no injuries, we were so feeble so frequently, and as a result didn't collect too many points while we could.

[pooligan]

A game between two sides managed by two managers who play boring negative football,has 0-0 writen all over it .

[CJ]

Still think we'll win. If Cattermole is between bans and eligible to play he'll get sent off, so most of the game will be against 10 men.

[Concrete John]

Lawro has us down for a win, so I guess we're pretty much fucked!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17769281

[Vanilla]

Well at the moment we only have 3 players like to be out ,be it 3 of our main players Dunne ,Bent and Petrov so the lack of options isn't really an excuse for this match.

Don't worry Alex will find another one

He's going to blame Ashley Young for diving.

[Matt Collins]

I really do pity anyone going tomorrow. I plan to be in the pub with my friends, at most catching the occasional iPhone update.

I find that watching villa invariably puts me in a bad mood for about 4 hours and I'm really starting to resent that sort of impact on my weekends. It's just not a sensible thing to be doing is it?

[Villanation]

Think we have to win this, after the Wigan game and what could happen with other results tomorrow this is a massive football day for Villa, we have to win, we can't wait for Bolton as a banker.

Lose this tomorrow and other relegation battlers pick up points and we are bang in there, no easy way out and I would hate to bet on us beating Bolton, fly on the wall at Bolton and my guess is they are saying "our best bet for 3 points is Villa".

[Des Little]

Just one win, that's all we need.  One fcuking poxy win.