Best Villa moments of the season

[Pete3206]

As above, I truly lost myself with both Lowton's and Benteke's goals at the Temple of Dull. So many hugs with complete strangers.

[Dave Cooper please]

Not a particular moment, just a feeling I had after the 8-0.

Even after the horrific defeat at Chelsea and the January Horriblilis, I still somehow knew Plumbutt would get us out of this. What some of you took as embarrassing mumbling and utter cluelessness I saw as a manager who still trusted his players and had faith they would turn it around. He was hurting as much as we were and it showed.

[Dave Cooper please]

Oh , and Benteke's backheel, Lowton's screamer and Gabby's winner against Norwich for true orgasmic moments!

[RossLeach]

Being drawn against Bradford in the semi final. Only one outcome 

[Dave Cooper please]

Oh again, and doesn't that show something when we have such a big thread already for great moments in a season where we only just escaped relegation? There's a big, big future in this club under this manager.

[Matt C]

Best moment? Believing again.

[SoccerHQ]

Lowton's goal against Stoke.

A very enjoyable trip back via a few pubs in Stone afterwards aswell.

[DeKuip]

I have to agree with PWS on an earlier page and say it has been the most enjoyable season for me for a long, long time.

Best moment has to be the 4-1 cup win at Norwich in December. Cracking end-to-end game, cracking goals and the incredible noise in the away section that night will live with me for a long time. It was the game the team really showed the football they are capable of and the first time in claret and blue that Fabian Delph looked one hell of a player.

[robbo1874]

One of our goals at Reading was preceeded by a 30 pass move, before the ball went in the air off a Reading defender and (I think) Gabby scored.

I must have rewatched that on the Sky+ box about a dozen times.

This for me too. Cheers, I remembered the goal, but couldn't recall who it was against. As a team goal I would challenge any supporter from any other club in the league to come up with a better one. Marvellous possession football with an end product.

Lowton's volley was spectacular and the goals at Liverpool and Norwich in the cup also, but the reading goal typified what we are about now and has my vote for goal of the season.

[pauliewalnuts]

The actual points difference between this year and last won't be significant, and we attained safety earlier last year than this year, but I will happily buy the season review DVD this year, whereas I wanted to forget the entirety of last season the minute it finished.

[curiousorange]

This season is the closest i've been to bipolar disorder. Horrible patches of black punctured by stupidly vivid highs. My favourite actual moment was that last goal against Stoke, because WM completely underplayed Lowton's stunner, in that it was both indescribable and because WM aren't very good. The moment i knew the game was safe i ran up and down my hall yelping my head off, slippers flying.

But overall it has to be the Liverpool game that gave me most pleasure. I had to be coherent as I was meeting my other half's best friends but i was exploding with every update. My most hated team, at their place...every neutral i knew telling me what a team we'd got, every Liverpool fan i knew sick as a dog.

[joe_c]

The actual points difference between this year and last won't be significant, and we attained safety earlier last year than this year, but I will happily buy the season review DVD this year, whereas I wanted to forget the entirety of last season the minute it finished.

I have just had a quick scroll through last year's fixtures and it really was staggeringly unmemorable. So many games I can't remember being at, so many goals I can't remember us scoring.

I remember thinking after the Swansea game this season that we were going to see more bad than good. I didn't think the bad would outweigh the good quite so heavily however but what has been good has been exceptionally so, the hard fought wins over QPR, Stoke and Norwich, the annihilation of Sunderland and the way we looked as if we might take three points from Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea all give great cause for optimism.

[PeterWithesShin]

Difference for me is I couldn't wait for last season to end. By January I was bored watching us. By March, for the first time in my life I stopped enjoying going to games, it became a chore and I was starting to hate watching us. I even started hoping i'd get the sniffles before a game so as I had an excuse to swerve the match.

This season i'm gutted the season is nearly over. Even when we had that really really shite run, I still looked forward to games. At times I felt like a kid again going to games.

And as I said earlier, for the first in a long time it feels like MY Aston Villa again.

[Brazilian Villain]

The kids winning the NextGen Series.

[Percy McCarthy]

All of Gabby's goals (I enjoy his more than anyone's).

The second half against Sunderland. It felt like years since we could actually relax in a league game.

 Weimann's at Liverpool.

N'Zog's free-kick, when I realised that maybe we would win a league game again after all.

In my local after the Spurs home game,  it nearly went off between me and a b-loser who was certain we'd go down as we were in a worse position at Christmas than they were the last time the went down. It all got a bit heated and I said to him 'but you went down because you're B-lose - that's what you do. We'll stay up because we're Villa'. Then we lost to Wigan, Bradford, Southampton, Newcastle and Millwall, and hardly changed things re:transfers and I thought that b-loser was going to be right. But as they know, we always have the last laugh. Always. So another highlight will be seeing that fucking clown again.