Call yourselves supporters?

[silhillvilla]

WBA on 19th could be very messy what with that ridiculous KO time, who came up with that bright idea ?

[MonsXI]

WBA on 19th could be very messy what with that ridiculous KO time, who came up with that bright idea ?

The money men!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I stopped reading after the first line

Why's that then? Please explain.

It's understandable. He's only up to the Ladybird 'Peter and Jane' 3b.

[paulcomben]

There are dickheads everywhere. Not that it makes it Ok.

I had a half season ticket in the lower holte once, row J.

We played Arsenal around Xmas time and this older dude (late 50's) spent the whole game calling every black Arsenal player a "golly wog" or a "nig nog". I called the club and they moved my ticket. Don't know if anything was done about the bloke. Generally a few of the people around him thought it was funny.

He is now in his 60s and running race relations at Chelsea FC.

[Fasth56]

The supporters that caused the damage, were fighting and hurling abuse are season ticket holders that have attended previous away games this season. I got my ticket on the first day of general season ticket sale without an away game history. There were 180 tickets left at that point and they sold out by 09:15 on that day. We were seated in G block, arrived at the ground at about 6.30 had a couple of pints and made our way very comfortably upto the seat at gone 7.30. No hassle no crush. There was the usual posturing between the two groups of fans but nothing serious. I left straight after the game before the little bit of trouble out by the coaches. Saw nothing of what other people have reported as dangerous situations.

Went to the toilet at the end of half time and you couldn't see the wall because of the smoke and the crush was because people were having a fag and snorting drugs whilst blocking access to the urinals. The funny thing was, with the atmosphere thick with smoke like a Friday night in a seventies pub bar, a steward walks in and asks if anyone has been smoking.

[Pete3206]

However most of our fans were fantastic and good humoured.

That's better. Can't be doing with wasting time on our scumbag minority.

[AV82EC]

We were in Block C and there were no issues, the odd bit of bad language and of course the utter frustration but nobody seemed to be overly drunk or overly annoying.

People are right though, big allocation for a Cup away game and we attract a small minority of utter dickheads who seem to think getting smashed and paralytic and giving it large is "a top day/night out". 

I had to laugh ta that lot who got thrown out of the Queens by the station though, we turned up as thye were being loaded onto a single decker bus by Plod and they were all jumping up and down so much I thought the axles would break.  Onlooking Plod were pissing themselves laughing.

[DeKuip]

The abuse Bennett got throughout the 2nd half down around us wouldnt have helped his performance, or confidence. Then at full-time the same people were giving him and Bannan abuse for not applauding fans who had spent the last 45 minutes laying into them.
The main reason i dont fancy us getting through in the 2nd leg is I can see our "supporters" turning on the team if we don't score early.

[Kingthing]

will get you only one thing, a bad fucking name.

yeah, lets leave that to the players.

[Pete3206]

The abuse Bennett got throughout the 2nd half down around us wouldnt have helped his performance, or confidence. Then at full-time the same people were giving him and Bannan abuse for not applauding fans who had spent the last 45 minutes laying into them.
The main reason i dont fancy us getting through in the 2nd leg is I can see our "supporters" turning on the team if we don't score early.

Bennett did applaud the fans, along with Lowton.

[villajk]

The abuse Bennett got throughout the 2nd half down around us wouldnt have helped his performance, or confidence. Then at full-time the same people were giving him and Bannan abuse for not applauding fans who had spent the last 45 minutes laying into them.
The main reason i dont fancy us getting through in the 2nd leg is I can see our "supporters" turning on the team if we don't score early.

Bennett did applaud the fans, along with Lowton.

He did indeed and as posted earlier he got a lot of abuse but kept on applauding.  Fair play to him for that.

[hawkeye]

The abuse Bennett got throughout the 2nd half down around us wouldnt have helped his performance, or confidence. Then at full-time the same people were giving him and Bannan abuse for not applauding fans who had spent the last 45 minutes laying into them.
The main reason i dont fancy us getting through in the 2nd leg is I can see our "supporters" turning on the team if we don't score early.

Bennett did applaud the fans, along with Lowton.

He did indeed and as posted earlier he got a lot of abuse but kept on applauding.  Fair play to him for that.

He should have been handing them money after that performance he was truly awful, in fact one of the worst individual performances I have seen by a Villa player-useless

[Lee]

Very moody both inside and after the game by the coaches last night. Flares were cracked off and thrown at Police cordon at the top end by the coaches. That was the way that I was going back to my car.

Police held off for a long time, but was only a matter of time before they had a go back

[Drummond]

He's 22 years old. In essence he's an inexperienced young man who has gone up a division, in a new team, new players who at the moment are suffering badly. Quite what 'supporters' are doing giving him dog's abuse during a cup semi-final is anyone's guess.

We can't expect players like Bennett to be amazing, the problem is that he doesn't have anyone around him to encourage him; that his own 'supporters' turn on him is bizarre.

Think about when you were 22. How would you have coped? And before anyone throws the money/wages yhing about, it's irrelevant. Blame the manager for picking him, blame the owner but please leave the kid alone.

[richsvilla]

I don't agree with people breaking seats and fighting but in my opinion after the performance of some of the players last night they deserved some of the stick that came there way. Ok granted people shouldn't bring been Scottish in to it etc because that has nothing to do with it but stick for the abysmal show put in by certain players deserved stick.

I think it was just a hugely frustrating night for the fans and some people show there passion in different ways to other's.