Chavski date announced

[Monty]

We'll smash Arsenal, lose at Chelsea and draw 1-1 with Liverpool. Or lose 2-1.

Switch Arsenal and Liverpool around, I think. Liverpool are not going to be that good this year, especially if the racist goes to Arsenal.

[eamonn]

No one, possibly even Lambert, knows what half of our first choice team is, so resting them is a moot point at this stage.

[villan from luton]

They get a break soon after ffs, hate the thought of going into a game thinking we will lose

[AVH87]

It seems people are letting their hatred of Chelsea get in the way of looking at the game objectively.

It's 3 days after we'll have put our all in to a no doubt tough game at Arsenal. If we go with a full strength eleven for the second time in 4 days, it may well be a close affair where we fight to the end, give the old '110%' but most likely will end up with nothing.

This then leaves us at less than 100% going into a very winnable home game against Liverpool 3 days later, where they will have no Luis Suarez.

I'd much rather see us fully fresh for the Liverpool game and get 3 points there. If we go into it at 80-90%, I'd fancy us to only get a point max, leaving us with 0-1 points after 3 games.

[olaftab]

I can't see us losing any of the first 3 games.

[Toronto Villa]

If you are going to play any of these sides it is better to play them early before they really get going. Not saying it evens the playing field but it's just a little less predictable. The first couple of months of the season always provides the odd upset and we have a chance to do that at Arsenal or Chelsea. We should have beaten Liverpool at home last season so I'm not including them in any way as an overly daunting game. It will be a good test for either side.

[Clampy]

I don't think it's beyond us to get decent results against Arsenal and Liverpool. Chelsea will be tough whenever we play them.

[richard moore]

It seems people are letting their hatred of Chelsea get in the way of looking at the game objectively.

It's 3 days after we'll have put our all in to a no doubt tough game at Arsenal. If we go with a full strength eleven for the second time in 4 days, it may well be a close affair where we fight to the end, give the old '110%' but most likely will end up with nothing.

This then leaves us at less than 100% going into a very winnable home game against Liverpool 3 days later, where they will have no Luis Suarez.

I'd much rather see us fully fresh for the Liverpool game and get 3 points there. If we go into it at 80-90%, I'd fancy us to only get a point max, leaving us with 0-1 points after 3 games.

With respect ,you've already written this load of cobblers once. Do you really have to repeat it all? It's nothing to do with hating that despicable bunch of scum no class tossers and everything to do with the fact that we are Aston Villa. And we don't take that mentality into any game against any team. The Arsenal game will be as tough for them as it is for us and the day I fear us playing Millwall with money is the day I give up following football

[PeterWithesShin]

If we send out a weakened team for a league game, we may as well fucking give up.

[richard moore]

If we send out a weakened team for a league game, we may as well fucking give up.

Second game in as well. Not like some crappy little team on the verge of relegation who send out the reserve team at the Theatre of Shit because they're playing someone else in the relegation zone at home the following week at the end of the season and need 3 points to stay up....

[LeeB]

In 95-96, we had Man Utd home, Spurs away and then Leeds away, and nobody thought we'd have a point.

We took six, and I think we'll do the same this time, for the season too.

[Lastfootstamper]

I can't see us losing any of the first 3 games.

I've never envisaged us losing any game, ever.

I have learnt to live with the ensuing incessant disappointment.

[AVH87]

It seems people are letting their hatred of Chelsea get in the way of looking at the game objectively.

It's 3 days after we'll have put our all in to a no doubt tough game at Arsenal. If we go with a full strength eleven for the second time in 4 days, it may well be a close affair where we fight to the end, give the old '110%' but most likely will end up with nothing.

This then leaves us at less than 100% going into a very winnable home game against Liverpool 3 days later, where they will have no Luis Suarez.

I'd much rather see us fully fresh for the Liverpool game and get 3 points there. If we go into it at 80-90%, I'd fancy us to only get a point max, leaving us with 0-1 points after 3 games.

With respect ,you've already written this load of cobblers once. Do you really have to repeat it all? It's nothing to do with hating that despicable bunch of scum no class tossers and everything to do with the fact that we are Aston Villa. And we don't take that mentality into any game against any team. The Arsenal game will be as tough for them as it is for us and the day I fear us playing Millwall with money is the day I give up following football

Ha ha, the post that starts 'with respect' and is then with no respect at all.

Think you'll find in my first post I posted one line after I said I'd rest players against Chelsea, my latest post I gave the full reasoning as to why.

Hadn't you already posted your load of cobblers about 'Millwall with money' once already? We are talking about a team here with the 5th highest average attendance overall in English football. You may wish to kid yourself that we are bigger or better because we won a load of league titles before they had even formed but I prefer to view things without the claret and blue specs permanently on.

[dave.woodhall]

It seems people are letting their hatred of Chelsea get in the way of looking at the game objectively.

It's 3 days after we'll have put our all in to a no doubt tough game at Arsenal. If we go with a full strength eleven for the second time in 4 days, it may well be a close affair where we fight to the end, give the old '110%' but most likely will end up with nothing.

This then leaves us at less than 100% going into a very winnable home game against Liverpool 3 days later, where they will have no Luis Suarez.

I'd much rather see us fully fresh for the Liverpool game and get 3 points there. If we go into it at 80-90%, I'd fancy us to only get a point max, leaving us with 0-1 points after 3 games.

With respect ,you've already written this load of cobblers once. Do you really have to repeat it all? It's nothing to do with hating that despicable bunch of scum no class tossers and everything to do with the fact that we are Aston Villa. And we don't take that mentality into any game against any team. The Arsenal game will be as tough for them as it is for us and the day I fear us playing Millwall with money is the day I give up following football

Ha ha, the post that starts 'with respect' and is then with no respect at all.

Think you'll find in my first post I posted one line after I said I'd rest players against Chelsea, my latest post I gave the full reasoning as to why.

Hadn't you already posted your load of cobblers about 'Millwall with money' once already? We are talking about a team here with the 5th highest average attendance overall in English football. You may wish to kid yourself that we are bigger or better because we won a load of league titles before they had even formed but I prefer to view things without the claret and blue specs permanently on.

I don't think you're in much of a position to talk about respect.

[Goldie.7]

So in the space of 7 days we play Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool? How kind.

wonder what the odds would be for us getting 3 clean sheets,
 a billion to one ?

Odds would be relatively high for 1 clean sheet right about now.