Aston Villa v Norwich- Pre Match Thread

[Hoppo]

I'd drop Benteke to kick him up his rather large arse. Play Weimann and Gabby through the middle. We need to try something different especially at home.

[not3bad]

There's a nice symmetry in the votes at the moment.

[eastie]

I'd drop Benteke to kick him up his rather large arse. Play Weimann and Gabby through the middle. We need to try something different especially at home.

Not for me , gabby and Weimann don't carry the goal threat benteke does - benteke will be key to survival .

[Big Dick Edwards]

0-0 is written all over this one sadly. Prove me wrong Villa.

[pooligan]

Sadly i would not back Villa to beat anyone at home under this manager. I have a horrible feeling Norwich who hate the way he walked out on them will be up for this more than us. Would not be surprised to see Hoolalhan play a part in the game and get the winner.Us 1 Them 2

[Richard E]

This is a genuine question - are the supporters of the other teams in the bottom half saying the same sort of things about their clubs on their forums?

Are they all convinced they are the worst team ever too and that they are all going to lose every game?

Or is it just on here people are slitting their wrists?

[dave.woodhall]

This is a genuine question - are the supporters of the other teams in the bottom half saying the same sort of things about their clubs on their forums?

Are they all convinced they are the worst team ever too and that they are all going to lose every game?

Or is it just on here people are slitting their wrists?

Probably.
Probably.
I doubt it.

[pooligan]

I note the referee for Sunday's match is Anthony Taylor ,let's hope the score is the same as the first match of the season when he seemed to give Villa most of the decision;s

[eastie]

This is a genuine question - are the supporters of the other teams in the bottom half saying the same sort of things about their clubs on their forums?

Are they all convinced they are the worst team ever too and that they are all going to lose every game?

Or is it just on here people are slitting their wrists?

I think most teams  down there would expect to be there and survival is success - villa are too big a club to be enduring relegation battles year after year and the fans are rightly pissed off with things.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

All you can do at the moment is just hope a performance will come. One galvanising performance is all it takes, surely? West Ham got a point at Chelsea when everyone expected a drubbing - they've gone on a good run since. Norwich drew at home with City and went on to beat Spurs. And though I can't see Villa doing something like that at the moment, I couldn't see Norwich doing it three weeks ago.

Win this, hope results elsewhere go our way (as is standard these days), everyone gets a bit of a lift, and then maybe we can just safely see out another season to forget.

[eastie]

Two back to back wins would do nicely but when did we last achieve such a feat ?

[PeterWithesShin]

Two back to back wins would do nicely but when did we last achieve such a feat ?

Sunderland and Norwich at the end of last season.

[phantom limb]

The bad news is that I think Norwich are going to beat us, we'll play terribly and the crowd will really get on Lambert's case. Having lost the crowd's backing, we won't play well again for the rest of the season and will ultimately be relegated along with Fulham and Cardiff.

However, the good news is that my football predictions are almost always completely wrong. So expect us to thrash Norwich and finish 8th while West Ham, Stoke and Manchester United go down. Maybe.

[eastie]

Two back to back wins would do nicely but when did we last achieve such a feat ?

Sunderland and Norwich at the end of last season.

That's pretty poor - almost a year without 2 wins in a row .

[frank black]

There's a nice symmetry in the votes at the moment.

Looks like we are showing Lambert the middle finger..
 lol